This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 1072 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1072 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who was president of the USA during the American Civil War? A) Theodore Roosevelt. B) John F Kennedy. C) Benjamin Franklin. D) Abraham Lincoln. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Abraham Lincoln. 2. How old was New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko when she turned professional in 2013? A) 19. B) 17. C) 15. D) 16. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 16. 3. What is a "devil's coach horse" ? A) Beetle. B) Any sign of bad luck. C) Gathering storm clouds. D) Typhoon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beetle. 4. Apart from its coastline with the South China Sea, which country is completely surrounded by the state of Sarawak, Malaysia, which also divides it in two? A) Somalia. B) Yemen. C) Kuwait. D) Brunei. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brunei. 5. What is "schist" ? A) A disturbance. B) A division. C) A rock formation. D) A type of rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A type of rock. 6. The Council of Constance 1414-18 had the main purpose of ending the Three Popes Schism, and was convened by the Antipope John XXIII. John had two brothers who were sentenced to death for what? A) Heresy. B) Piracy. C) Theft. D) Duelling. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Piracy. 7. N'Djamena is a city in which country? A) Republic of Zimbabwe. B) Republic of Chad. C) Central African Republic. D) Democratic Republic of the Congo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Republic of Chad. 8. What is the title of the 41 minute film of the Beatles first US concert? A) The Beatles at Shea Stadium. B) Live at the Washington Coliseum, 1964. C) Live at the Hollywood Bowl. D) Got Live If You Want It. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Live at the Washington Coliseum, 1964. 9. What colour are Mickey Mouse's shoes? A) White. B) Yellow. C) Black market. D) Brown. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yellow. 10. Where are Southampton Island and the King George Islands? A) Tasman Sea, Australia. B) Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada. C) English Channel. D) Hudson Bay, Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hudson Bay, Canada. 11. Where is Cockaigne, or Cockayne? A) In London, UK. B) South France. C) In the Pyrenees. D) Nowhere, it is a mythical country. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nowhere, it is a mythical country. 12. What semi-autonomous unincorporated territory of New Zealand held referenda in 2006 and 2007 on self-determination? A) Tuvalu. B) Cook Islands. C) Chatham Islands. D) Tokelau. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tokelau. 13. In the equation "2 to the power of 3 = 8", 3 is the "what" of 8 to the base 2? A) Period. B) Exponent. C) Multiplier. D) Logarithm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Logarithm. 14. Goalkeeper Jens Ramme's debut for Dynamo Dresden was in the quarter-final of the 1985-86 European Cup Winners' Cup, when they were 3-1 up at half-time and he was brought on as a replacement. He let in six goals in 29 minutes:Dynamo lost. They were playing against which team? A) Bayer Uerdingen of West Germany. B) AtlΓ©tico Madrid. C) Dukla Prague. D) FK Red Star. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bayer Uerdingen of West Germany. 15. What, in 1337, caused the Hundred Years' War between France and England? A) France adopted the Salic Law concerning royal succession. B) French king Philip VI claimed the English throne. C) English king Edward III claimed the French throne. D) A dispute over trading rights. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) English king Edward III claimed the French throne. 16. What are onnagata? A) Kabuki theatre actors. B) Female asses. C) Dragon King's family. D) A type of noodle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kabuki theatre actors. 17. What was Shoemaker-Levy 9, that crashed into Jupiter in 1994? A) Unmanned module carrying scientific instruments. B) Meteor. C) Comet. D) Satellite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Comet. 18. What is the only African country that has a coastline on both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans? A) Nigeria. B) Nyasaland. C) South Africa. D) Kenya. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) South Africa. 19. What type of drink is vermouth? A) Beer. B) Wine. C) Liqueur. D) Rum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wine. 20. In 1990 a strip of land seceded from its then parent country and called itself Transnistria, or Trans-Dniester; what is the parent country? A) Ukraine. B) Moldova. C) Poland. D) Russia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Moldova. β PreviousNext βRelated 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 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books