This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1096 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1096 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Emperor Quetzalcoatl ruled which ancient people in Mexico in the 10th century CE? A) Toltecs. B) Aztecs. C) Safesecs. D) Pygmies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Toltecs. 2. Why was Korean short-track speedskater Kim Dong-Sung disqualified from the men's 1500 metre final at the 2000 Olympics? A) Assaulting an official. B) Using the drug darbepoetin. C) Cross-tracking. D) Making obscene gestures. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cross-tracking. 3. Treeshrews, colugos, hyraxes, some primates and some African antelopes have a special physical adaptation, mainly used for grooming and referred to as what? A) Grooming vertebra. B) Sticky tongue. C) Toothcomb. D) Sticky pouch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Toothcomb. 4. Which of these is a form of clay used in the production of oil paint pigments, the name for which derives from the most notable Renaissance location for it, a city in Tuscany, Italy? A) Tuscan. B) Sienna. C) Imola. D) Bari. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sienna. 5. What is the name of the cross-pieces on a guitar fingerboard? A) Disquiets. B) Worries. C) Frets. D) Struts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frets. 6. Who reigned earliest in Scotland? A) Malcolm I. B) Macbeth. C) Robert the Bruce. D) Mary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Malcolm I. 7. Which character in the comic strip "Peanuts" often carries a cat with her? A) Lucy. B) Marcie. C) Violet. D) Frieda. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Frieda. 8. There are 296 steps from where to where? A) The floor of St Paul's Cathedral, London, UK, to the Whispering Gallery inside the dome. B) Ground level to the top of the Empire State Building, New York, USA. C) To the top of the Leaning Tower, Pisa, Italy from ground level. D) The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, New York, USA, to the crown. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To the top of the Leaning Tower, Pisa, Italy from ground level. 9. Mike Tyson and Peter McNeeley met in the boxing ring in 1995 in Tyson's first professional match after being released from a prison term. The purse for Tyson was US$ 25 million. How long did the fight last? A) 12 rounds. B) 8 rounds. C) 89 seconds. D) 1 round. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 89 seconds. 10. Constantinople became the capital of which empire in 1457? A) Aztec. B) Persian. C) Holy Roman. D) Ottoman. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ottoman. 11. On 14 November 1910, Eugene Burton Ely was the first to do what in an aeroplane? A) Take off from a ship. B) Fly upside down. C) Land on a wet concrete runway. D) Fly over 1, 000 miles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Take off from a ship. 12. An invasion of Great Britain was planned by France in 1744 shortly after the declaration of war between them as part of the War of the Austrian Succession. Why did the invasion not happen? A) The Kings of the two countries decided to go hunting instead. B) Violent storms wrecked the fleet and drove it back to port. C) The crews fell ill with measles. D) An earthquake, which was seen as an adverse sign. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Violent storms wrecked the fleet and drove it back to port. 13. The first Winter Olympics was held in conjunction with 1924 Olympic Games and was originally called what? A) The Ice and Snow Competitions. B) Winter Olympics. C) The Week of Winter Sports. D) Fire and Ice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Week of Winter Sports. 14. Who wrote under the pseudonym Alcofribas Nasier? A) Molière. B) François Rabelais. C) Geoffrey Chaucer. D) Thomas Malory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) François Rabelais. 15. A road system running down the west coast of the Americas, apart from a short gap across the south part of Central America, from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Argentina, is called what? A) Route 66. B) The Pan-American Highway. C) The Americas Trail. D) The Yellow Brick Road. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Pan-American Highway. 16. What is the present and original, name of the Cuban bay briefly called Puerto Grande, and then Cumberland Bay? A) Half Moon Bay. B) Bay of Pigs. C) Frenchman's Cove. D) Guantánamo Bay. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Guantánamo Bay. 17. Spain and Andorra (in the Pyrenees between Spain and France) share what distinction? A) Both have Catalan as their official language. B) The US's CIA does not classify either as part of Western Europe. C) Their flags show a vertical tricolour of blue, yellow, and red. D) Both ratified signing the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change within less than 6 months. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The US's CIA does not classify either as part of Western Europe. 18. What strait connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf Of Oman? A) Strait of Tartary. B) Kanmon Straits. C) Bashi Channel. D) Hormuz. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hormuz. 19. Until 1599 (in Sweden, Norway and Denmark), 1600 (in Scotland ), 1725 (in Russia), and 1752 (in England, Wales, Ireland and Britain's American colonies) what did those countries observe as New Year's Day? A) 1 May. B) 1 April. C) 25 March. D) 22 March. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 25 March. 20. Which TV series concentrated on the death of Laura Palmer? A) Double Exposure. B) Twin Peaks. C) Two for the Price of One. D) A Couple of Mountains. 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