This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 990 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 990 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What comes before Zeta in the Greek alphabet? A) Epsilon. B) Kappa. C) Pi. D) Gamma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epsilon. 2. What is a paronomasia? A) A pun. B) A stutter. C) A flower. D) A bump on the head. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A pun. 3. Which are found in books? A) Stems. B) Tendrils. C) Leaves. D) Buds. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Leaves. 4. Motorcycle speedway riders compete over how many anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit? A) 10. B) 6. C) 4. D) 12. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 4. 5. Which one of these means to raise or semi-raise one's hat? A) Tilt one's head. B) Dip one's lid. C) Raise one's hackles. D) Hoist one's petard. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dip one's lid. 6. Who printed his own translations of a French romance "The Recwyell of the Historyes of Troy" and "The Game and Plays of the Chesse" in Bruges in 1474? A) Thomas Malory. B) Richard Burton. C) Charles Dickens. D) William Caxton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Caxton. 7. The greater part of Lake Maggiore is in which country? A) England. B) Italy. C) Canada. D) India. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Italy. 8. The Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods, about 252 to 66 million years ago, are collectively known as what era? A) Mesozoic. B) Quaternary. C) Cenozoic. D) Mesoproterozoic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mesozoic. 9. The islands of Kos, Leros, Nisyros, Patmos and Rhodes are in what sea? A) Caribbean. B) Caspian. C) North. D) Mediterranean. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mediterranean. 10. In cloth weaving, both the warp and the weft threads may be visible, but in tapestry, all the warp threads are hidden in the completed work. What is this type of weaving called? A) Weft-faced weaving. B) Warp-faced weaving. C) Warp-backed weaving. D) Weft-backed weaving. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Weft-faced weaving. 11. Which is most usually associated with the word "sakura" ? A) Tatami. B) Seppuku. C) Bonenkai. D) Hanami. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hanami. 12. In depictions of the Hindu God Rama, he is famously holding what in his right hand? A) Child. B) Sword. C) Bow and arrow. D) Flower. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bow and arrow. 13. "The Glass Universe" (2016) by Dava Sobel chronicles what scientific work, or workers? A) The work of Marie Curie. B) Glass blowers in the industrial revolution in Sweden. C) Women at the US's Harvard College Observatory in the 19-20th century who analysed images of stars. D) Developing accurate measurement of longitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Women at the US's Harvard College Observatory in the 19-20th century who analysed images of stars. 14. In Botticelli's painting "The Birth of Venus", what is she standing on? A) A shell. B) A bed. C) A carpet square. D) A Persian rug. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A shell. 15. The online computer game Build With Chrome combines Lego and what? A) Google Maps. B) Tetris. C) Riven. D) The Sims. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Google Maps. 16. The genus of beautiful and venomous marine fish called Pterois, which is invading and dominating the west Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Mediterranean Sea, is native to where? A) Bay of Biscay. B) The Philippines. C) Sri Lanka. D) Across the Indo-Pacific region. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Across the Indo-Pacific region. 17. Which English pop group became known for the 1982 No.1 hit "Come On Eileen", a single from their album Too-Rye-Ay? A) Culture Club. B) Dexy's Midnight Runners. C) Bucks Fizz. D) Duran Duran. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dexy's Midnight Runners. 18. Who was the president of France and Co-Prince of Andorra from 2012 to 2017? A) Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte. B) Charles de Gaulle. C) Marine Le Pen. D) François Hollande. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) François Hollande. 19. What is the surname of the film director whose first names are Francis Ford? A) Coppola. B) Scorsese. C) Spielberg. D) Lucas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coppola. 20. What name is given to the area above the stage into which scenery can be raised? A) Spiders. B) Grasshoppers. C) Gnats. D) Flies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flies. ← 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