This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 966 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 966 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is another name for bilharzia? A) Tuberculosis. B) Dengue fever. C) Cholera. D) Snail fever. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Snail fever. 2. What is a term for the grinding surface of a tooth? A) Mensa. B) Masticum. C) Brussel. D) Radulum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mensa. 3. The largest river in China and among the largest in the world, it is variously known over its length as Ulan Moron, Dangqu, Tongtian, Jinsha, Sichuan, Jing and Dajiang, and has been called the Kiang and the Blue River. By what name is it now most often known outside China? A) Pearl River. B) Yellow River. C) Ob. D) Yangtze. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Yangtze. 4. Where is the home of kulintang? A) India and Sri Lanka. B) Regions of the Eastern Malay Archipelago. C) Vietnam. D) Mongolia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Regions of the Eastern Malay Archipelago. 5. In which country did the USA provide information to a 1963 coup, against General Abd al-Karim Qasim the then Prime Minister of the country? A) Libya. B) Iraq. C) Egypt. D) Somalia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iraq. 6. Which English-born sculptor is best known for his abstract monumental bronze sculptures, usually depicting mother-and-child or reclining figures, that are pierced or contain hollow spaces? A) Alexander Calder. B) Sir Jacob Epstein. C) David Smith. D) Henry Moore. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Henry Moore. 7. What city was chosen for the 2022 Pokémon World Championships? A) San Diego, California, USA. B) Washington, DC, USA. C) London, UK. D) Orlando, Florida, USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) London, UK. 8. Which of these is a puzzle frequently found in magazines and newspapers? A) Madclause. B) Angryphrase. C) Crossword. D) Wildsentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Crossword. 9. Which Italian nobel prize winner (1934) wrote novels such as "Mal Gioconda" and switched to writing plays in 1910? A) Risotto. B) Tintoretto. C) Michelangelo. D) Pirandello. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pirandello. 10. In 1679 the French physicist, priest and plant physiologist Edme Mariotte independently discovered a law just previously published by an Anglo-Irish scientist; it is known in English speaking science primarily as what? A) Hooke's Law. B) Boyle's Law. C) Halley's Theory. D) Newton's Second Law. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Boyle's Law. 11. What is the minimum number of points needed to win a tiebreak in tennis, such as in the Hopman Cup for mixed doubles, on the ATP and WTA tours for doubles and sometimes in USTA league play? A) 5. B) 6. C) 10. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 10. 12. Which entrepreneur founded Harvey Films (also known as Harvey Entertainment, The Harvey Entertainment Company or just Harvey) in 1957? A) Alfred Harvey. B) Harvey Weinstein. C) Harvey Keitel. D) Harvey Specter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alfred Harvey. 13. What tectonic plate sits underneath the Atlantic Ocean immediately east of the continent of South America? A) Nazca Plate. B) African Plate. C) South American Plate. D) Caribbean Plate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) South American Plate. 14. What term is applied to the situation when a woman has more than one husband? A) Pluralism. B) Monogamy. C) Polyandry. D) Monetarism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Polyandry. 15. When one whole number is divided by another smaller one, anything over is termed the what? A) Left overs. B) Rest. C) Remainder. D) Extras. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Remainder. 16. Which UK TV series was screened first? A) The Good Life. B) Sherlock. C) Twenty Twelve. D) Dr Who. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dr Who. 17. What does coprology deal in? A) Techniques used in the police force. B) Copper. C) Faeces, or the "unclean" in literature and art. D) A genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Faeces, or the "unclean" in literature and art. 18. In the phrase "Leaving is such sweet sorrow, it's not top of the agenda" what is the grammatical term for the word "leaving" ? A) Verb. B) Gerundive. C) Participle. D) Gerund. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gerund. 19. Which UK TV series, developed from a radio show, ran from 1988 to 1999 presented by Clive Andersen and later was taken up in the USA and, in 2016, in Australia? A) Whose Line Is It Anyway?. B) I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. C) Wait Wait Don't Tell Me!. D) Win, Lose or Draw. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Whose Line Is It Anyway?. 20. Who would use an inkblot or Rorschach Test? A) Chemist. B) Butcher. C) Psychologist. D) Astronomer. 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