Global MCQ Practice

🌐 Total MCQ
🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books

General Knowledge Quiz 323 (60 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

Select an option to see the correct answer instantly.

1. What equipment is essential to the international championship known as WindGames?
2. What pigment found in plant leaves uses energy from sunlight to provide food?
3. What is a tisane?
4. Where is Yoruba mostly spoken as a native language?
5. What is the first line of "Walk on the Wild Side" by Lou Reed, released as a single in 1972?
6. What is the term "standard gauge" usually applied to?
7. Which of these ingredients can be used to make a "White Russian" ?
8. Which British stage director won an Oscar for his feature-film directing debut, which starred Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, and Thora Birch?
9. Which ragtime pianist, between 1894 and 1915, composed tunes such as "The Entertainer" that became popular in 1973 after being included in the film "The Sting" ?
10. Which of these are books by Sebastian Faulks?
11. Leaders of an English scout troop are named after characters from which of these?
12. Where was a new cat-like species discovered in 2005?
13. What Christian festival is observed on the seventh Sunday after Easter?
14. What was the tagline for the 1977 film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" ?
15. The Galapagos Islands belong to which country?
16. What equation is considered to be remarkable for its "mathematical beauty", because 3 basic arithmetic operations occur exactly once each (addition, multiplication, and exponentiation), and it links five fundamental mathematical constants:(the numbers 0, 1, π, e, and i)?
17. What is dialysis intended to do?
18. By what name is Abyssinia now known?
19. Standing on the highest peak in the Andes what country or countries could you see?
20. What group finances the LIV golf tour?
21. What US state borders both Kansas and Utah?
22. Guion "Guy" Bluford, Jr. made history as what in 1983?
23. John Muir is known as the father of which US national institution?
24. Which of these was a film starring Tom Hanks about the war between the Mujahideen in Afghanistan and the USSR?
25. What were the characters Simon and Simon in the US TV series (1981-89) of the same name?
26. Which of these is an American investigative journalist and author of several best-selling unauthorised "poison pen" biographies of celebrities and politicians, including Jacqueline Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, the British Royal Family and "the Bush Dynasty" ?
27. "Coronation Street" is set in what suburb?
28. On 15 December 1940, whose remains (except for his heart, intestines and viscera) were transferred from Vienna to the dome of Les Invalides in Paris as a "gift" to France by Adolf Hitler?
29. What instrument is associated with Pablo Cassals?
30. The Snake River runs through Hells Canyon on the border of which two US states?
31. The North Atlantic Treaty was signed in Washington, D.C. in 1949 by Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, UK, US, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Canada and which other country?
32. In what country, between the 1950s and 1980, would one have found "Rusticated Youth" ?
33. What geographical feature is Bull Run, the site of a battle that was famously lost by the new Union army which included troops commanded by George Armstrong Custer, later General Custer?
34. In astronomical terms during the latter half of the 19th century what was Vulcan?
35. Who sang with the Wailers?
36. What did Scottish ultra marathon runner Joasia Zakrzewski do during the 2023 GB Ultras Manchester-to-Liverpool race which led to a one-year ban?
37. What is the Orinoco Belt?
38. Which internationally influential Brazilian architect designed both the Museum of Contemporary Art in Niterói, Brazil, (opened 1996) and much of the architecture in Brazil's capital city, Brasilia, (1956-61)?
39. Which of these African cities is the most northerly?
40. What nationality were the Mighty Handful, also known as The Five, the composers Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Balakirev, Cui and Borodin?
41. What does the "A" stand for in "UEFA" ?
42. Fictional villages with names such as Aspern Tallow, Badger's Drift, Bow Clayton, Burwood Mantle, Causton Town, Elverton-cum-Latterley, Finchmere & Fletcher's Cross are the setting for which of these British TV series?
43. What and where are the Yungas?
44. Nobel Prizes are awarded in several major fields but not in all, and several other high ranking prizes have been established to meet gaps. Which is the longest established award in mathematics?
45. Avalon was the name of the island where, according to legend, which King was buried?
46. Who was the first leader of the Soviet Union?
47. Which of these is a fork-tongued lizard found in South Africa, South Asia and Australia?
48. What defence treaty was signed by Great Britain, the USA, France, Siam, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan and the Philippines in 1954?
49. Which plant is commonly used as a herbal treatment for depression?
50. What did Little Bo Peep lose?
51. What is a "jenny" ?
52. Wind tunnels can be used to test aerodynamics by passing air over the object tested, and using what tool or tools?
53. In the USA, what name is given to an isolated hill with steep sides and a small flat top?
54. What is the Sirocco, a hot dry wind, known as in Egypt?
55. What Latin phrase means that a particular legal matter is "under trial or being considered by a judge or court", literally "under judgment" ?
56. Where in the United Kingdom would you find a statue of Anteros?
57. Which is the flattest, driest and least fertile continent inhabited by humans?
58. What investigation was a very early matter for the newly formed FBI?
59. When did sprinter and long jumper Carl Lewis win the first of his Olympic gold medals?
60. Which actor(s) died during production of "Twilight Zone:The Movie" in 1982?
🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books