This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1071 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1071 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Arapawa Island, California Red, Corriedale, East Friesian, Hampshire, Oxford, Romney, South Dorset, Swifter and Yemeni are all types of what? A) Pigs. B) Cattle. C) Sheep. D) Cheese. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sheep. 2. The first club in England was incorporated in 1872 for which sport that originated in India? A) Softball. B) Pelote. C) Squash. D) Polo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Polo. 3. Which song begins by describing what happens at "nine o'clock on a Saturday" (when the regular crowd shuffles in)? A) "Piano Man" by Billy Joel. B) "Crocodile Rock" by Elton John. C) "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen. D) "Kodachrome" by Paul Simon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Piano Man" by Billy Joel. 4. What is a use in the 21st century for gutta-percha? A) Furniture decorations. B) Golf balls. C) Insulators. D) Root canal dentistry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Root canal dentistry. 5. Who became the King of Spain on 22 November 1975, two days after the death of Francisco Franco? A) King Harald V. B) King Juan Carlos I. C) King Albert II. D) King Carl XVI Gustaf. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) King Juan Carlos I. 6. What happened on the 1 September 1923, aggravated by the days that followed, to devastate Japan's thriving economy? A) The Japanese stock market crashed. B) The Great Kantō earthquake. C) The Prime Minister and five of his Cabinet were assassinated. D) Prince Regent Hirohito was assassinated. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Great Kantō earthquake. 7. Which volcano buried the Italian city of Pompeii? A) Vesuvius. B) Etna. C) Krakatoa. D) Ruapehu. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vesuvius. 8. Which of these is not part of Richard Wagner's "Ring Cycle" ? A) Die Walküre. B) Götterdammerung. C) Das Rheingold. D) Eugene Onegin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eugene Onegin. 9. Which are the only strictly marine herbivorous mammals? A) Amazonian manatees. B) West Indian manatees. C) Steller's sea cows. D) Dugongs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dugongs. 10. Which of these would the abbreviation CBD not apply to? A) Crime Bureau of Denver. B) Central business district. C) Cannabidiol, found in some marijuana. D) Convention on Biological Diversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Crime Bureau of Denver. 11. What was Jean Harlow known as? A) Little Girl Lost. B) The Blonde Bombshell. C) The Forces Sweetheart. D) The Va Voom Girl. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Blonde Bombshell. 12. Where is the Tropic of Cancer currently? A) 66$^\circ$ 33' south of the equator. B) 23$^\circ$ 26' south of the equator. C) 66$^\circ$ 33' north of the equator. D) 23$^\circ$ 26' north of the equator. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 23$^\circ$ 26' north of the equator. 13. What attaches muscles to bone? A) Ligaments. B) Tendons. C) Marrow. D) Arteries. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tendons. 14. The works of artists De Chirico, André Breton, Miró, Magritte, Dalí and Ernst are examples of what art movement? A) Unrealism. B) Fantasyism. C) Dreamism. D) Surrealism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Surrealism. 15. The Garonne river passes through Toulouse and Bordeaux after rising where? A) The Urals. B) The Dolomites. C) The Pyrenees. D) The Alps. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Pyrenees. 16. Who was known as the shoe bomber, who in 2003 was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to destroy a commercial aircraft in-flight by detonating explosives hidden in his shoes, which led to the requirement of US airline passengers having to remove their shoes for inspection before boarding? A) Noel Maguire. B) Richard Reid. C) Jemaah Islamiyah. D) Nizar Trabelsi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Richard Reid. 17. The phrase "as green as grass" is an example of ..... what? A) Litotes. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 18. According to Charlotte Brontë, who did Jane Eyre marry? A) Mr Rochester. B) Heathcliff. C) Sir Walter Raleigh. D) Martin Chuzzlewit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mr Rochester. 19. The Tuareg are the principal inhabitants of which area? A) Australian interior. B) Amazon Basin. C) India. D) Sahara Desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sahara Desert. 20. Who has been Prime Minister of France twice and President of France once? A) Georges Pompidou. B) Jacques Chirac. C) Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. D) Alain Poher. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jacques Chirac. ← 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