This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 986 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 986 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the Latin for "therefore" ? A) In situ. B) Etcetera. C) Ergo. D) In vino veritas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ergo. 2. The music of which band finally became available for download from iTunes in November 2010? A) The Grateful Dead. B) The Rolling Stones. C) The Beatles. D) Aerosmith. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Beatles. 3. What is the name for the highly viscous layer of the earth that is about 2, 890 km (1, 800 miles) thick and makes up about 84 percent of Earth's volume? A) Crust. B) Mantle. C) Core. D) Lithosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mantle. 4. When Lieut Thomas E Selfridge became the first death in a crash of a powered airplane in 1908, who was the pilot? A) Charles Lindberg. B) John Alcock. C) Orville Wright. D) Wilbur Wright. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Orville Wright. 5. A novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first published in "All-Story Magazine" in October 1912, was "Tarzan of the ..... '' what? A) Grapes. B) Apes. C) Tapes. D) Capes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apes. 6. Where would you find a Tablehopper? A) On the internet, with a review of eating places. B) On beach picnic tables. C) In a chess competition. D) In bar dancing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) On the internet, with a review of eating places. 7. In what context would the term "satrap" be used? A) Geophysics. B) Cooking. C) Gamekeeping. D) Government. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Government. 8. Where was Genghis Khan born (and later buried)? A) Southern China. B) Japan. C) Western Russia. D) Mongolia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mongolia. 9. Which of these is a pioneer in photography? A) Henry Kodak. B) George Eastman. C) Friedrich Bayer. D) Peter Revson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) George Eastman. 10. What is "the Shinkansen" ? A) Centre for training Sumo wrestlers. B) Historic Shinto shrine. C) The Japanese bullet train. D) Japanese national holiday. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Japanese bullet train. 11. According to the Bible, Ham, Shem and Japheth were whose sons? A) St Peter. B) Jesus. C) Noah. D) St Mark. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Noah. 12. Where did the car manufacturer Fiat originate? A) Sweden. B) Italy. C) France. D) Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Italy. 13. Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann was talking about what when he said "I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be. ''? A) Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). B) Polythene. C) Teflon. D) Tobacco. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). 14. What is a halyard used for? A) To make a basket. B) To moor a ship. C) To hoist or lower something. D) To hatch an egg. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To hoist or lower something. 15. In the original version of the "Donkey Kong" computer game, the hero, Mario, attempted to rescue his girlfriend. What was her name? A) Charmaine. B) Madeleine. C) Pauline. D) Kylie. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pauline. 16. What, in Norse mythology, is a series of major events, that includes the death of a number of major gods, a great flood, and the repopulation of the world by two human survivors? A) Ragarock. B) Ragnarök. C) Ayers Rock. D) Punk Rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ragnarök. 17. France administers which of these Pacific territories? A) Philippines. B) New Caledonia. C) Papua-New Guinea. D) Fiji. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) New Caledonia. 18. Where is a roadstead found? A) In a trading post. B) Where ships seek anchor close to shore but other than in a harbour. C) Close to junctions on a main highway. D) In rough country, in place of a formed road. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Where ships seek anchor close to shore but other than in a harbour. 19. Which of these is one of the activities with which Coretta Scott King was associated? A) Civil Rights Movement. B) Egyptian archaeology. C) Underwater exploration. D) Aviation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Civil Rights Movement. 20. Two wars fought in 1880-1881 and then in 1899-1902 in South Africa are known as what? A) Wars of the Oranges. B) Burmese-Siamese Wars. C) Boxer Rebellion. D) Boer Wars. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Boer Wars. ← 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