This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 957 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 957 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Where are the cliff villages of the Dogon and the burial caves of the Tellem? A) Bandiagara Escarpment. B) Drakensberg Escarpment. C) Lincoln Cliff. D) Mesa Verde. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bandiagara Escarpment. 2. In popular tales what bowler famously caught the eye of Elizabeth I of England when the Spanish Armada was sighted off the British coast? A) Sir Francis Drake. B) Francis Bacon. C) Sir Francis Walsingham. D) Frances Gumm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sir Francis Drake. 3. Where are the Minoan ruins of Knossus? A) Corfu. B) Crete. C) Kazakhstan. D) Kenya. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crete. 4. In 1972, who became the youngest Formula One Champion Racing Driver at the age of 25? A) Ayrton Senna. B) Niki Lauda. C) Jim Clark. D) Emerson Fittipaldi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Emerson Fittipaldi. 5. What is the order of which Anders Behring Breivik claimed to be a justiciar? A) Al-Qaeda. B) Knights Templar Europe. C) Boko Haram. D) Opus Dei. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Knights Templar Europe. 6. Which of these films was set in Turkey? A) The Sugarland Express. B) Von Ryan's Express. C) Midnight Express. D) Pineapple Express. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Midnight Express. 7. Zonker, Boopsie and Roland Hedley appear in which comic strip? A) Doonesbury. B) Garfield. C) Archie. D) Wizard of Id. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Doonesbury. 8. Who was the daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, later Pope Alexander VI, and Vannozza dei Cattanei, one of his many mistresses? A) Madame du Barry. B) Madame de Pompadour. C) Lucrezia Borgia. D) Catherine Grand. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lucrezia Borgia. 9. Based on a UK political drama TV series of the same name, the US version featuring the actor Kevin Spacey is called "House ..... " what? A) Of Cards. B) Of the Rising Sun. C) On the Hill. D) Of Ill Repute. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Of Cards. 10. Speleology is the study of what? A) Oratory. B) Caves. C) Propaganda. D) Grammar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Caves. 11. Who wrote "Little Lord Fauntleroy", published in 1886? A) Beatrix Potter. B) Frances Hodgson Burnett. C) Susan Fenimore Cooper. D) Louisa May Alcott. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Frances Hodgson Burnett. 12. In an octal, or base 8, mathematical system, how is the result of squaring 3 written? A) 33. B) 9. C) 11. D) 19. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 11. 13. What is the name for the change of direction when a ray of light passes from one medium (e.g. water) to another (e.g. air)? A) Reflation. B) Reflection. C) Refraction. D) Referendum. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Refraction. 14. Which of these contains the largest number of inland areas which lie below mean sea level? A) Western China, south of Mongolia. B) Africa, particularly North Africa. C) Southwestern Asia. D) South America, particularly Argentina. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Africa, particularly North Africa. 15. What is a highly magnetized, rotating, neutron star emitting a beam of electromagnetic radiation that can only be observed when the beam of emission is pointing towards the Earth (known as the lighthouse effect)? A) Nebula. B) Pulsar. C) Nova. D) Red Dwarf. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pulsar. 16. What is the name for the study of light and the principles underlying light and vision? A) Strabismus. B) Braille. C) Optics. D) Myopia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Optics. 17. What is the small plain plastic or metal sheath on each end of a shoelace, cord or drawstring to stop the fibres from unraveling, and to make it easier to hold and feed through the guides? A) Aglet. B) Pig. C) Deubré. D) Aiguillette. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aglet. 18. What book was published by Florence Nightingale in 1860? A) The Electric Light Brigade. B) Notes on Nursing. C) The Illustrated Fauna of the Crimea. D) The Father Brown Omnibus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Notes on Nursing. 19. What does a "Paludarium" simulate? A) Paddy fields. B) Living conditions for freshwater snails and gastropod molluscs. C) A rain forest or swamp. D) Hydroponic biospheres. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A rain forest or swamp. 20. After digestion, food passes from the stomach through the pylorus to where? A) Bastille. B) Duodenum. C) Liver. D) Gall bladder. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Duodenum. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGeneral QuizzesGeneral Knowledge Quiz 1General Knowledge Quiz 2General Knowledge Quiz 3General Knowledge Quiz 4General Knowledge Quiz 5General Knowledge Quiz 6General Knowledge Quiz 7General Knowledge Quiz 8General Knowledge Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books