This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1120 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1120 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How many feet (metres) above sea level is the great saline lake known as Salton Sea in California, USA? A) None, it is 234 ft (71.3 m) below sea level. B) 2, 900 ft (880 m). C) 5, 004 ft (1525 m). D) It is at sea level. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) None, it is 234 ft (71.3 m) below sea level. 2. The Montreal Biodome in Montreal allows visitors to walk through replicas of four ecosystems found in the Americas. What was the building originally constructed for? A) Town Hall. B) Catholic cathedral. C) Basketball stadium. D) The velodrome for the 1976 Olympic Games. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The velodrome for the 1976 Olympic Games. 3. Who compiled the 5 volume "The Canon of Medicine", completed in 1025 and still in use as a standard medical textbook through the 18th century in Europe? A) Hippocrates. B) Galen. C) Aristotle. D) Ibn Sina, or (in the West) Avicenna. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ibn Sina, or (in the West) Avicenna. 4. Canaletto is famous for his 18th century paintings of which city? A) Turin. B) Rome. C) Venice. D) Florence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Venice. 5. What sort of fish is in the Scandinavian dish called gravlax? A) Salmon. B) Cod. C) Shark. D) Sprats. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Salmon. 6. Which of these places is furthest from Chicago, Illinois, USA? A) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. B) San Francisco, California, USA. C) Mexico City, Mexico. D) Montreal, Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 7. What are most corals formed from? A) Efflorescence from rocks. B) Sea anemone larvae. C) Calcium carbonate-excreting plants. D) Colonies of coral polyps. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Colonies of coral polyps. 8. What are the symbols on a standard playing card, the number of which show the value of the card, called? A) Pips. B) Stones. C) Cartouches. D) Counters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pips. 9. What song contains the lyrics "Steak Knife, Caro Shark, Con Job, Boot Cut ", "Dog Town, Blood Bath, Rib Cage, Soft Tail", "Black Jack, Dope Dick, Pawn Shop, Quick Pick" and "Song Bird, Main Line, Cash Back, Hard top" ? A) "Trouble" by Coldplay. B) "Aerials" by System of a Down. C) "By The Way" by Red Hot Chili Peppers. D) "Everybody Hurts" by R.E.M. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "By The Way" by Red Hot Chili Peppers. 10. Which of these is an ethnic group primarily associated with Hungary? A) Hungars. B) Magyars. C) Tyroleans. D) Helvetians. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Magyars. 11. What is the name of the calms and light baffling winds in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans? A) Sargasso. B) Doldrums. C) Ennui. D) Status Quo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Doldrums. 12. What is the feature on the Moon which is named after the first spacecraft to reach the surface of the Moon, and the first human-made object to make contact with another celestial body? A) Grail Impact. B) Lunik Bay. C) Bay of Success. D) Korolev Valley. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lunik Bay. 13. When in 680 CE a part of a nomadic warrior people moved to the northeastern Balkans, defeated the Byzantine army and secured recognition from the Byzantine Empire, that began what? A) First Bulgarian Empire, or Bulgaria. B) Principality of Hungary. C) Samo's Empire. D) The Sasanian Empire. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First Bulgarian Empire, or Bulgaria. 14. The Jewish King Solomon was the son of whom? A) Saul and Ahinoam. B) Ahab and Jezebel. C) Rehoboam and Maacah. D) David and Bathsheba. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) David and Bathsheba. 15. Isaac Kwame Amuah, who in December 2010 turned himself in to South African police to face extradition charges in relation to accusations of rape from 1993 while he was a lecturer in the US, has what connection to Nelson Mandela? A) Biographer. B) Public relations manager. C) Personal secretary. D) Son in law. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Son in law. 16. What was the nickname of Lawrence Peter Berra, a former Major League Baseball player and manager who played almost his entire career for the New York Yankees and was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame in 1972? A) Teddy. B) Boo Boo. C) Winnie. D) Yogi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Yogi. 17. What is often shouted by the first person to have a full card in a game of bingo? A) Chalet. B) House. C) Shed. D) Bungalow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) House. 18. Which of these firms, founded in 1835, is a prestigious maker of hand-made sporting rifles and shotguns, based in London, England? A) Bang & Olufsen. B) Holland and Holland. C) Browning Arms Company. D) David Lloyd & Co. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Holland and Holland. 19. Which English village, which grew from a tiny fishing hamlet in 1864, was completely drowned due to coastal erosion by 1921? A) Southend-on-Sea. B) Torquay. C) Hampton-on-Sea. D) Redruth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hampton-on-Sea. 20. What term is applied to an animal or plant produced by crossing two different varieties? A) Albino. B) Hybrid. C) Mulatto. D) Dingo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hybrid. ← 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