This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 109 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 109 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the national language of Australia? A) English. B) French. C) Spanish. D) Portuguese. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) English. 2. On which river are the coffee-coloured Kaieteur Falls? A) Yangtze River, China. B) Limpopo River, southern Africa. C) River Rhine, Switzerland and Germany. D) Potaro River, Guyana. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Potaro River, Guyana. 3. The second incarnation of which organisation was formed at a meeting led by William J Simmons on the top of Stone Mountain, Georgia, in 1915? A) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. B) Ku Klux Klan. C) Knights of the White Camellia. D) Knights of Mary Phagan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ku Klux Klan. 4. Which of these was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist who did not begin his career as an artist until he was about 27 and committed suicide at the age of 37, yet produced more than 2, 000 pieces, including around 900 paintings and 1, 100 drawings and sketches, including portraits, landscapes, and sunflowers? A) Van Morrison. B) Vincent van Gogh. C) Van Halen. D) Van Dyke Parks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vincent van Gogh. 5. Which English composer wrote "The Planets", "Somerset Rhapsody" and the ballet "The Perfect Fool" ? A) Ralph Vaughan Williams. B) George Handel. C) Franz Joseph Haydn. D) Gustav Holst. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gustav Holst. 6. What territory was sold by Russia under Tsar Alexander II in 1867, for about 1.9Β’ per acre ($ 4.74/km2), a total of US$ 7.2 million? A) Romania. B) Mongolia. C) Poland. D) Alaska. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alaska. 7. Which of these is one of the 7 letters used by the Romans to signify numbers? A) E. B) L. C) Y. D) N. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) L. 8. The Olympic torch travelled within South Korea in the 2018 Winter Olympics by ways including sailboat, marine cable car, zip-wire, steam train, marine rail bike, yacht and a replica of what specialised antique warship? A) Typhoon. B) Tiger. C) Turtle. D) Monkey. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Turtle. 9. US baseball player Pete Rose was accused in 1989 of (and he confessed in 2004 to) what, that has made him ineligible to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame? A) Feigning illness during games. B) Deliberately losing games. C) Betting on baseball. D) Throwing wide of bases. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Betting on baseball. 10. Thomas Hughes wrote about the schooldays of which of the Browns? A) Paddington. B) John. C) Sam. D) Tom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tom. 11. A full moon or a new moon at or close to its perigee (the closest that the Moon comes to the Earth in its elliptic orbit) is often called what? A) A waxing moon. B) A gibbous moon. C) A supermoon. D) A lover's moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A supermoon. 12. Which of these is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source? A) Mushroom. B) Sloshplace. C) Bogarage. D) Brothsalon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mushroom. 13. Who wrote the 6 "Brandenburg Concertos" ? A) Borodin. B) Beethoven. C) Berlioz. D) Bach. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bach. 14. Where was the TV series Stargate-SG1 filmed? A) Los Angeles, USA. B) Vancouver, Canada. C) Monterey, USA. D) Elstree, UK. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vancouver, Canada. 15. In astronomy, what is the word applied to the alignment of three or more celestial bodies in the same gravitational system along a straight line? A) Stellaroptimisation. B) Wysiwyg. C) Diecast. D) Syzygy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Syzygy. 16. Tofu is made by coagulating what, and compacting the resulting curds into blocks? A) Sheep's milk. B) Goat's milk. C) Cow's milk. D) Soy milk. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Soy milk. 17. In which sport is the Currie Cup offered? A) Tennis. B) Football (soccer). C) Rugby Union. D) Swimming. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rugby Union. 18. Which of these is a master woodcarver, famous for his work with Christopher Wren? A) Jack Coutu. B) Advent Hunstone. C) Grinling Gibbons. D) Werburgh Welch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grinling Gibbons. 19. At the 1992 Winter Olympic Games, New Zealand skier Annelise Coberger became the first what? A) Woman to record a faster slalom time than a man. B) Winter Olympics medallist from the southern hemisphere. C) Skier to win more than 8 medals in a Games. D) Person to win using borrowed skis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Winter Olympics medallist from the southern hemisphere. 20. The name of Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula commemorates a landing in 1915 by what or who? A) The catch of a giant pearl by Russian divers. B) A fishing vessel donated by the people of Anzio in Italy. C) A descendant of JosΓ© Antonio AnzoΓ‘tegui, a hero of Venezuela's independence. D) An army corps of Australian and New Zealand soldiers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An army corps of Australian and New Zealand soldiers. 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