This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1057 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1057 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What large bottle holds 16 standard bottles of wine? A) Balthazar. B) Nebuchadnezzar. C) Rehoboam. D) Magnum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Balthazar. 2. Which of these teaches:that the religions of the world come from the same source and are in essence successive chapters of one religion from God, and there is need to find a unifying vision of the future of society and of the nature and purpose of life? A) The Girl Guide Movement. B) Freemasons. C) The Bahá'í faith. D) Sikhism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Bahá'í faith. 3. What was the scene of the final defeat of the Jacobites under Charles Edward Stuart by forces under the command of the Duke of Cumberland on 16 April 1746? A) Runnymede. B) Bannockburn. C) Culloden. D) Marston Moor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Culloden. 4. Whose alter egos have included Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane and "The Thin White Duke" ? A) Elton John. B) David Bowie. C) John Lennon. D) Len Elwood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) David Bowie. 5. What are "The Gorbals" ? A) An area in Glasgow. B) An Irish folk group. C) A breed of pig. D) Mythical man-eating animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An area in Glasgow. 6. Which of these was a horse that won the British Grand National three times, in 1973, 1974 and 1977? A) Green Gin. B) Red Rum. C) Black Whisky. D) Yellow Bacardi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Red Rum. 7. On 12 June 2009, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected as president of which country? A) Bangladesh. B) Sri Lanka. C) Pakistan. D) Iran. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Iran. 8. Which American novelist, poet and painter, a major figure of the Beat Generation who affected popular culture as well as literature, shot his wife in Mexico in 1951? A) Allen Ginsberg. B) Jack Kerouac. C) William Burroughs. D) Brion Gysin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Burroughs. 9. Where is the Maasai Mara? A) Kenya. B) Tanzania. C) The Gambia. D) Namibia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kenya. 10. Which UK playwright wrote the 2014 plays "Glasshouse" and "Hopelessly Devoted" ? A) Bola Agbaye. B) Alan Ayckbourn. C) Caryl Churchill. D) Kate Tempest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kate Tempest. 11. The name for the vegetable okra in some Bantu languages is thought to be the origin of the name of what dish? A) Akara, or koose. B) Egusi Soup. C) Yassa. D) Gumbo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gumbo. 12. Abraham Ortelius, a Flemish cartographer and geographer, is generally recognised as the creator of the first what in 1570? A) Modern atlas. B) Internal combustion engine. C) Radio telescope. D) Machine gun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Modern atlas. 13. What word describes a retail dealer in special supplies or equipment for ships? A) Ostler. B) Haberdasher. C) Milliner. D) Chandler. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chandler. 14. According to Celtic legend, where did heroes go to die? A) Avalon. B) Valhalla. C) Nirvana. D) Necropolis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Avalon. 15. Where is the Cotahausi Canyon, one of the deepest canyons in the world and over twice as deep, at its deepest point, as the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA? A) Peru. B) Spain. C) New Zealand. D) Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Peru. 16. The film "Jaws" was set in which town? A) Miami, Florida. B) Kingston, Jamaica. C) Amity, Long Island, USA. D) New York, New York. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amity, Long Island, USA. 17. Which of these events occurred first? A) Last public performance of ABBA. B) First test tube baby born. C) The capture of Saigon by North Vietnamese army ends the Vietnam War. D) The film "2001:A Space Odyssey" premières. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The film "2001:A Space Odyssey" premières. 18. Who wrote the song to which Miley Cyrus famously twerked in 2013? A) J. Dash. B) Flo Rida. C) The Finatticz. D) Carly Rae Jepsen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) J. Dash. 19. Which of these starred in the television series "Kojak" ? A) Telly Savalas. B) Peter Falk. C) Raymond Burr. D) James Garner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Telly Savalas. 20. How did Shakespeare in his play "Cymbeline" end the line, "Golden lads and girls all must as chimneysweepers come to ..... "? A) Rest. B) Rust. C) Dust. D) Ash. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dust. ← 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