This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1025 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1025 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Where would a fuzzy cognitive map be found? A) In a low resolution digital camera. B) In a search engine. C) In an Alzheimer's patient. D) After an overdose of alcohol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In a search engine. 2. What is the most populous city in Canada, the provincial capital of Ontario, which is on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario? A) Toronto. B) Ottawa. C) Quebec. D) Vancouver. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Toronto. 3. What did the explorer Karl Mauch discover in 1871 while looking for King Solomon's mines and the biblical land of Ophir? A) Great Zimbabwe, a great ruined walled city in the southeastern hills of Zimbabwe. B) The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. C) Malapa Fossil Site, now part of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site. D) Meroe, one of the wealthiest cities of the ancient Kingdom of Kush. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Great Zimbabwe, a great ruined walled city in the southeastern hills of Zimbabwe. 4. What is the least number of shots that a competitor can take to complete 18 holes of golf? A) 9. B) 18. C) 36. D) 45. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 18. 5. What member of the music and comedy duo "The Flight of the Conchords" was recently seen, under heavy disguise, as the Boris the Animal in the film "Men in Black 3" ? A) Rhys Darby. B) Bret McKenzie. C) Jemaine Clement. D) Stephen Merchant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jemaine Clement. 6. Geoffrey Rush won an Oscar for Best Actor in 1996 for which of these films? A) Shine. B) The People vs. Larry Flynt. C) Jerry Maguire. D) The English Patient. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shine. 7. Which of these was the name of two Aztec emperors in the 15th and 16th centuries? A) Tripoli. B) Montezuma. C) Titicaca. D) Mexico. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Montezuma. 8. How did Faisal Shahzad make the news in May 2010? A) A Jamaican drug lord, the cause of riots in Kingston. B) Pilot of a plane that crashed near Mangalore, India. C) Became King of Saudi Arabia. D) As the "Times Square bomber". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) As the "Times Square bomber". 9. Which of these was a co-owner of the Miss Universe franchise? A) Donald Trump. B) Richard Branson. C) Michael Jackson. D) Paul McCartney. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Donald Trump. 10. Among animals, what is a cob? A) An adult male swan. B) A small stocky horse. C) Any of these. D) A gull. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Any of these. 11. In 1945, which of these joined the British "Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service" as a Second Subaltern, trained as a driver and mechanic, drove a military truck, and rose to the rank of Junior Commander? A) Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth. B) Lady Astor. C) Clementine Churchill. D) Florence Nightingale. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth. 12. Which of these is a character created by Charlie Chaplin, and played by him in films from 1914? A) Tiny Tim. B) The Big Cheese. C) The Fat Controller. D) The Little Tramp. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Little Tramp. 13. Who abdicated on 30 April 1980, the day of her 71st birthday, and was succeeded by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands? A) Queen Märtha. B) Queen Margrethe II. C) Queen Juliana. D) Queen Victoria. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Queen Juliana. 14. Which overweight knight from three Shakespearean plays was the subject of an opera by Verdi? A) Sir Thomas Melchett. B) Sir Walter Raleigh. C) Sir John Falstaff. D) Sir Edmund Hillary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sir John Falstaff. 15. In 1834 Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais won against Alexander McDonnell in a famous series in what discipline? A) Fencing. B) Chess. C) Real tennis. D) Faro. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chess. 16. Why, in the 2022 Winter Olympics, did the Swedish team ask that races be moved to earlier in the day? A) The events in which their athletes were competing were short-changed in TV coverage. B) To protect athletes from the bitter cold in late afternoon and early evening events. C) The angle of reflection of the sunlight later in the day was blinding athletes. D) They had been scheduled alongside their traditional rivals, Finland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To protect athletes from the bitter cold in late afternoon and early evening events. 17. Where are gabions likely to be found? A) In the bed of a river or stream. B) As part of clerical vestments. C) In support structures for roads or landscaping. D) In cuisine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In support structures for roads or landscaping. 18. The states now called North and South Carolina were originally one province, Carolina. Why was it so named? A) After Queen Caroline of the Netherlands. B) After Princess Caroline of Monaco. C) After Carol, the mistress of Oliver Cromwell. D) After Charles I of England. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) After Charles I of England. 19. Double vision, the perception of two images from a single object, is properly called what? A) Diplopia. B) Dipsomania. C) Diploma. D) Diphthong. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diplopia. 20. In a court case in Toronto in October 1978, whose defence counsel compared him to Sylvia Plath, Vincent Van Gogh, Aldous Huxley, Judy Garland and F Scott Fitzgerald? A) Jack Kerouac. B) Keith Richards. C) Pierre Trudeau. D) Bob Dylan. 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