This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 940 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 940 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which English general medical practitioner is known to have killed at least 218 of his patients, and was caught when he became unexpectedly a beneficiary in the will of Kathleen Grundy? A) Mark Chapman. B) George Chapman. C) Robert Maudsley. D) Harold Shipman. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Harold Shipman. 2. Which US president was in office at the start of the Korean War? A) Kennedy. B) Truman. C) Eisenhower. D) Carter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Truman. 3. Gordon Banks (1937-2019) and Gordon Banks (1958 on) are both notable, on either side of the Atlantic, in what field? A) Water polo. B) Football. C) Sculpture. D) Stand-up comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Football. 4. What is the technical term for the order to which wasps and ants belong? A) Hymenoptera. B) Coleoptera. C) Diptera. D) Orthoptera. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hymenoptera. 5. Who wrote the stage play "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice" ? A) Fred Ebb. B) Jez Butterworth. C) Willy Russell. D) Jim Cartwright. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jim Cartwright. 6. What innovation was introduced to Britain by Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger in 1798? A) Licensing hours for hotels. B) Duty on liquor. C) Income tax. D) Parking meters. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Income tax. 7. If you were watching a game between the Red Sox and the Yankees, what sport would they be playing? A) Baseball. B) Cricket. C) Snooker. D) Rugby Union. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Baseball. 8. In the episode of Coronation Street that aired in Britain on 3 March 2008, who pushed Gail Platt down the stairs, leaving her hospitalised and suffering short term amnesia? A) David Platt. B) Ken Barlow. C) Tina McIntyre. D) Joe McIntyre. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) David Platt. 9. Singer-songwriter sensation, New Zealand-born Lorde, who first attracted international attention in 2013 at the age of 16 has a parent who is also celebrated. Who is that, and for what? A) Lynne Yelich, politician. B) Richard O'Connor, judge. C) Christian Yelich, baseball player. D) Sonja Yelich, poet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sonja Yelich, poet. 10. What does "differential" measure in the mathematical discipline of calculus? A) Steps in an equation. B) Difference between two known quantities. C) Rate of increase. D) A tiny or infinitesimal change in the value of a variable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A tiny or infinitesimal change in the value of a variable. 11. Who was the first Chancellor of West Germany from 1949-1963, who retired at age 87? A) Kurt Georg Kiesinger. B) Willy Brandt. C) Ludwig Erhard. D) Konrad Adenauer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Konrad Adenauer. 12. Where was the Battle of Salamis fought in 480 BCE? A) On the river flats at the foot of Mt. Cithaeron. B) At the pass of Thermopylae. C) The Saronic Gulf of the Aegean Sea. D) In marshes on the Attic Peninsula. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Saronic Gulf of the Aegean Sea. 13. John F Kennedy's father Joe was US ambassador to which country? A) Belgium. B) France. C) Germany. D) Britain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Britain. 14. What is the subject of "The Georgics", the long 1st century BCE poem by the Roman poet, Virgil? A) A study of bees. B) A mix of politics and eroticism. C) Countryside, care of land and farm creatures, hard work. D) Country peace and pleasure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Countryside, care of land and farm creatures, hard work. 15. Which venue has hosted the Ryder Cup the most times since 1980? A) The K Club-Palmer Course, Straffan, County Kildare, Ireland. B) Valhalla Golf Club, Louisville, Kentucky. C) The Belfry, Wishaw, Warwickshire, England. D) Oakland Hills Country Club, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Belfry, Wishaw, Warwickshire, England. 16. The 1976 Summer Olympics were boycotted by a number of African nations, for what reason? A) New Zealand was included, and had recently toured its rugby team in apartheid South Africa. B) To support Taiwan's boycott when told it could not compete under the title Republic of China. C) Some were not allowed to compete under separate identities. D) Severe economic hardship and droughts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) New Zealand was included, and had recently toured its rugby team in apartheid South Africa. 17. A law prior to 1920 regulating the speed of vehicles on the road in the UK required somebody to do what in addition? A) Walk beside the vehicle to warn horses. B) Install a speedometer. C) Carry a red flag or lantern ahead of the vehicle. D) Install windscreen wipers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carry a red flag or lantern ahead of the vehicle. 18. What is another name for horizontal roll vortices? A) Low-étage. B) Strato-cumulus cloud. C) Cloud streets. D) Downward-growing nimbostratus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cloud streets. 19. Who composed "Air on the G String" ? A) George Gershwin. B) Georges Bizet. C) Mstislav Rostropovich. D) Johann Sebastian Bach. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Johann Sebastian Bach. 20. What word refers to traditional physical and mental disciplines originating in India, which are associated with meditative practices in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism? A) Toga. B) Yoga. C) Riga. D) Beta. 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