This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1055 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1055 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these is a fortified wine, flavoured with aromatic herbs and spices such as cardamom, cinnamon, marjoram and chamomile? A) Daiquiri. B) Bacardi. C) Vermouth. D) Absinthe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vermouth. 2. In terms of high altitude landscapes, what are penitentes? A) Small plains of broken, unweathered, sharp rocks. B) Ice caves. C) Groups of elongated, thin blades of hardened snow or ice. D) Places where the sun never reaches. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Groups of elongated, thin blades of hardened snow or ice. 3. Chris Martin is the singer for which band? A) REM. B) Radiohead. C) Coldplay. D) Poison. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coldplay. 4. Which of these sports has 9 players per side scoring from an area of 90 feet square? A) Ice hockey. B) Basketball. C) Baseball. D) American Football. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Baseball. 5. In the second of the 2018 five-match Test series between England and India, during what was a rare series of cricket tournaments between the two teams on UK soil, England was not able to field team member, Ben Stokes, because he was on trial for what? A) Affray. B) Grievous bodily harm. C) Actual bodily harm. D) Match fixing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Affray. 6. Which of these banking organisations has been the subject of several books, such as "Unholy Trinity:How the Vatican's Nazi Networks Betrayed Western Intelligence to the Soviets", "Genocide in Satellite Croatia 1941-1945" and "The Vatican's Holocaust", which appeared during the 1980s and 1990s? A) The Institute for Works of Religion. B) Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See. C) Deutsche Bank. D) Banco Ambrosiano. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Institute for Works of Religion. 7. Which Corsican, as Emperor of the French, used their armies to dominate continental Europe until his Grande Armée was so badly damaged in the invasion of Russia in 1812 that in 1813 he was forced to abdicate, and was exiled to the island of Elba? A) Ivan the Terrible. B) Benito Mussolini. C) Adolph Hitler. D) Napoleon Bonaparte. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Napoleon Bonaparte. 8. Which play by Alan Bennett, set in Cutlers' Grammar School, Sheffield, in the early 1980s that follows a group of pupils preparing for examinations, premièred in London in 2004? A) Crowther's Schooldays. B) Sheffield Steelers. C) Hector, Irwin and Lintott. D) The History Boys. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The History Boys. 9. What has the types Tawny, Colheita, Garrafeira, Ruby, Pink, White and Crusted? A) Port wine. B) Clairol hair colourings. C) Pine trees. D) Lions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Port wine. 10. What has been defined as a man "who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger" . A) A dead man. B) Somebody who is deaf. C) An intellectual. D) A child. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An intellectual. 11. When US President William Harrison died in April 1841 what record(s) did he set? A) All of these. B) The first US head of state to have his photograph taken. C) The longest presidential inaugural address. D) The first president to die in office. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All of these. 12. The longest winning streak by any nation at an event in the Olympic Games was set by the USA, between 1896 and 1968. What was the event? A) 1, 000 metres. B) Pole vault. C) Shot put. D) Javelin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pole vault. 13. What was the Allegheny Time System designed for? A) Community Service sentences available to the Allegheny County Courts. B) Timing of astronomical observations at the Allegheny Observatory. C) Standard time on the early Pennsylvania Central Railroad. D) Clockwork mechanisms in the Pennsylvania town clocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Standard time on the early Pennsylvania Central Railroad. 14. What is the original meaning of "check" in the chess terms "check" and "checkmate" ? A) Cheek. B) Stop. C) Shah, or Sheikh. D) Seek. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shah, or Sheikh. 15. What is the name for an area of land, of which there are about 310 in the USA, managed by a Native American tribe under the US Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs? A) Indian reservation. B) Ghost town. C) Ghetto. D) Internment camp. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Indian reservation. 16. Who were the two Aikens in the Jamaican netball team in 2009? A) Suzie and Marie. B) Venus and Serena. C) Milly and Mandy. D) Romelda and Nicole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Romelda and Nicole. 17. Canada and the USA have been the exclusive winners of the World Championship for men since it started in 1967 in what sport? A) Badminton. B) Baseball. C) Lacrosse. D) Basketball. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lacrosse. 18. Sylvester Stallone was married to which of these women? A) Madonna. B) Brigitte Neilsen. C) Shania Twain. D) Rachel Hunter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brigitte Neilsen. 19. Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton was the first US-born citizen of the USA to what? A) Be made a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. B) Be a First Lady. C) Orbit the earth in a Russian spacecraft. D) Win an Olympic gold medal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Be made a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. 20. If a survey is topographical, what is it surveying? A) Types of geology in the survey area. B) Use of memes in social media in a selected group. C) Height of features in the survey area. D) Soil type in the survey area. 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