This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1029 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1029 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Compensated Emancipation Act of 1862 in the District of Columbia freed slaves in the District, and allowed for what in respect of each freed slave? A) $ 500 to the owner. B) $ 300 to the owner, and $ 100 to the slave if he or she left the USA. C) $ 500 to the owner, and $ 100 to resettle the slave. D) $ 300 to the owner, and $ 100 to the slave if their owner applied for it. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) $ 300 to the owner, and $ 100 to the slave if he or she left the USA. 2. The film actor Julia Elizabeth Wells is better known by what name? A) Julie Andrews. B) Julia Roberts. C) Julie Christie. D) Jools Holland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Julie Andrews. 3. What was the name of Canada's first woman Prime Minister? A) Golda Meir. B) Helen Clark. C) Margaret Thatcher. D) Kim Campbell. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kim Campbell. 4. Which of these distances is the English statute mile? A) 6, 076.8 feet. B) 5, 280 feet. C) 6, 080 feet. D) 5, 000 feet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5, 280 feet. 5. What UK television programme that has been running since 1979 travels the country and provides the opportunity for people to bring along items and have them valued? A) Deal or No Deal. B) Going, Going, Gone. C) One Foot in the Grave. D) Antiques Roadshow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antiques Roadshow. 6. What is the cause of the effervescence in a bottle of real Champagne? A) It is superheated and quickly cooled before bottling. B) Gas is injected into the bottle after sealing. C) Fermentation takes place after the bottle has been sealed. D) It is cooled almost to freezing point before bottling. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fermentation takes place after the bottle has been sealed. 7. The city of Irkutsk, Russia, lies at the southern tip of which body of water? A) Sea of Okhotsk. B) Lake Baikal. C) Aral Sea. D) Lake Balkhash. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lake Baikal. 8. Which people from a currently minority and persecuted faith, having suffered genocide in World War I, and repeated massacres and hostile political regimes, as at 2015 have largely left their homeland? A) Doukhobors. B) Kurds. C) Suriani. D) Falun Gong. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Suriani. 9. Which bass guitarist, songwriter, singer, and horn player, best known as part of "The Who", died in June 2002? A) John Paul Jones. B) Keith Moon. C) Bill Wyman. D) John Entwistle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John Entwistle. 10. What is the next in the series:Chamonix, France; St. Moritz, Switzerland; Lake Placid, United States; Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany? A) Squaw Valley, United States. B) Oslo, Norway. C) Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. D) St. Moritz, Switzerland. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) St. Moritz, Switzerland. 11. When the undersea Le Havre seamount erupted in 2012 the eruption was about 10 times larger than the 2010 Eyjafjallajokull eruption in Iceland which disrupted air travel across much of Europe for some days. Where is the seamount/volcano? A) Near Raoul Island in the Kermadec Islands, Pacific Ocean. B) East southeast of Noumea, New Caledonia. C) South of Réunion in the Indian Ocean. D) Off the Kerguelen Islands in the Indian Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Near Raoul Island in the Kermadec Islands, Pacific Ocean. 12. Dido was "featured" on the song "Stan", which was written and performed by whom? A) Willow Smith. B) Jay Z. C) LL Cool J. D) Eminem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eminem. 13. Where in London is Olympic Park of 500 acres (2 km²), containing the Olympic Stadium, the Aquatics Centre, the London Velopark, the Olympic Hockey Centre, a Basketball Arena, Handball Arena, the Olympic Village, the Olympic Press and Broadcast Centres and a tennis training centre? A) Wembley. B) Stratford. C) Kensington. D) Kingston. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stratford. 14. What was the name of the policy making body of the USSR before it broke up? A) TASS. B) PRAVDA. C) Stasi. D) Politburo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Politburo. 15. Who wrote the operas "Punch and Judy" (1967), "The Mask of Orpheus" (1984), "Gawain" (1990), "The Second Mrs Kong" (1994), "The Last Supper" (2000) and "The Minotaur" (2008)? A) Steve Reich. B) Harrison Birtwistle. C) Philip Glass. D) Peter Maxwell Davies. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Harrison Birtwistle. 16. The statue of Christ the Redeemer dominates the skyline of a city in which South American country? A) Chile. B) Argentina. C) Brazil. D) Peru. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brazil. 17. The Port of Jebel Ali serves which city? A) Latakia. B) Doha. C) Dubai. D) Damietta. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dubai. 18. Which of these seas is not on the coast of Australia? A) Bering Sea. B) Tasman Sea. C) Timor Sea. D) Arafura Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bering Sea. 19. Which city, sometimes known as the City of Drizzle and having the motto "I am not led, I lead", is the capital of Brazil's wealthiest and most populous state? A) Rio de Janeiro. B) São Paulo. C) Belo Horizonte. D) Brasilia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) São Paulo. 20. English is a subsidiary official language of India:what is the main official language? A) Tamil. B) Urdu. C) Hindi. D) Hindustani. 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