This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 977 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 977 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these is a lizard with a telescopic tongue, viscid lips, eyeballs that move independently, opposible toes and a prehensile tail? A) Salamander. B) Chameleon. C) Dobermann. D) Komodo Dragon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chameleon. 2. In the sentence "Wherever he went, he carried the scratching cat, his eyes red", what part of speech is "Wherever he went" ? A) Dependent clause. B) Phrase. C) Adjective. D) Preposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dependent clause. 3. In 1799, who discovered nitrous oxide, that made patients insensible to pain, the first true anaesthetic? A) Sir Humphrey Davy. B) Alexander Fleming. C) William Harvey. D) Henry Gray. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sir Humphrey Davy. 4. A Blue Ringtail is a type of what? A) Monkey. B) Possum. C) Horse engine. D) Damselfly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Damselfly. 5. What is the name collectively given to several groups of people in Zimbabwe and southern Mozambique, originally known as the Karanga? A) Shona. B) Karen. C) Maureen. D) Kylie. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shona. 6. Which strategy game uses a hexagonal board representing an island which settlers (the players) aim to settle? A) Catan. B) Runewars. C) Eclipse. D) Nexus Ops. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Catan. 7. Who is the only NBA player to score 100 points? A) David Robinson. B) Michael Jordan. C) Kobe Bryant. D) Wilt Chamberlain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wilt Chamberlain. 8. How did the outstanding soldier, comrade in arms of Joan of Arc, knight and lord from Brittany, Anjou and Poitou, Gilles de Rais (1405-1440) die? A) He was hanged and burned. B) He died of an apoplexy. C) He drowned in a maritime battle. D) In a duel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was hanged and burned. 9. At the southern end of the Paraguaná peninsula in Venezuela lies which UNESCO World Heritage site? A) Ciudad Bolívar. B) Caracas. C) Lake Maracaibo. D) The city of Coro and its port, La Vela. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The city of Coro and its port, La Vela. 10. Where is Lebanon? A) South America. B) Europe. C) North America. D) Asia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Asia. 11. What is not mentioned in George and Ira Gershwin's song "Summertime" ? A) Fish are jumping. B) The living is easy. C) A little brown maverick. D) The cotton is high. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A little brown maverick. 12. Who was the first Republican president of the USA? A) Herbert Hoover. B) Bill Clinton. C) Theodore Roosevelt. D) Abraham Lincoln. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Abraham Lincoln. 13. Which of these is the fear of fire? A) Xenophobia. B) Claustrophobia. C) Agoraphobia. D) Pyrophobia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pyrophobia. 14. What is the last in the series that begins:St. Louis, Oklahoma City, Amarillo, Gallup (New Mexico), Flagstaff (Arizona)? A) San Bernardino. B) Barstow. C) Joplin. D) Kingman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) San Bernardino. 15. In statistics, what term is applied to techniques for modeling and analysing several variables to understand how the typical value of the dependent variable changes when one of the independent variables is varied, and the other variables are fixed? A) Econometrics. B) Standard deviation. C) Regression analysis. D) Binomial Theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Regression analysis. 16. Which of these names is most associated with scientific discoveries? A) Imrie. B) Curie. C) Faerie. D) Barrie. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Curie. 17. Andrew Clutterbuck has played lead in two acclaimed TV series in the UK and the USA which deal in supernatural phenomena, under what name? A) Andrew Bartle. B) Andrew Garfield. C) Andrew McCarthy. D) Andrew Lincoln. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Andrew Lincoln. 18. Which of these games is played in 81 squares? A) Scrabble. B) Chess. C) Draughts. D) Sudoku. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sudoku. 19. Which animal can, after reaching full maturity, revert completely to sexual immaturity and begin again, thereby being technically capable of immortality? A) Diploria strigosa (brain coral). B) Amoeba proteus. C) Green sulphur bacterium. D) Turritopsis dohrnii (a jellyfish). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Turritopsis dohrnii (a jellyfish). 20. Six "Brandenburg Concertos" were written by which composer? A) J S Bach. B) Brahms. C) Beethoven. D) Berlioz. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) J S Bach. ← 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