This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1128 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1128 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Sir George Benjamin's 2018 opera "Lessons in Love and Violence" follows the story and fallout of a relationship between whom? A) Oscar Wilde and Bosie Douglas. B) Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I. C) Charlemagne and Roland. D) Edward II of England and Piers Gaveston. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Edward II of England and Piers Gaveston. 2. Gene Kelly played Tommy Allbright in which 1954 film musical? A) Brigadoon. B) Singin' in the Rain. C) On the Town. D) An American in Paris. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brigadoon. 3. Memphis, Tennessee, lies in the river valley of which river? A) Mississippi. B) Hudson. C) Ottawa. D) Colorado. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mississippi. 4. Which alternative rock band was co-founded in 1989 in Limerick, Ireland, by lead singer Niall Quinn with brothers Mike and Noel Hogan and Fergal Lawler? A) Fox Jaw. B) Tigwara. C) The Cranberries. D) MynameisjOhn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Cranberries. 5. When were referees first recorded as officially called for in the written rules in a game of football (soccer)? A) 1847. B) 1863. C) 1581. D) 1841. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1847. 6. Which bird became extinct in the 17th century? A) Liverpool Pigeon. B) Great Auk. C) Colombian Grebe. D) Dodo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dodo. 7. What tree and its fruit is also known as the butter pear and alligator pear? A) Banana. B) Chinese Gooseberry (or Kiwi). C) Peach. D) Avocado. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Avocado. 8. The men travelling as whose crew were the first known humans to reach and cross the Antarctic Circle in 1773? A) Cabot. B) Magellan. C) Captain James Cook. D) Columbus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Captain James Cook. 9. Which island nation with a population in 2023 of just over 565, 000 adheres to Islam as its state religion? A) The Maldives. B) Malta. C) The Comoros. D) Trinidad and Tobago. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Maldives. 10. What is the next in this series:St. Devote, Massenet, Casino Square, Mirabeau, Loews ..... ? A) Virage Antony Noghes. B) Portier. C) Piscine. D) Tabac. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Portier. 11. "Five card brag" is a simplified version of what game? A) Backgammon. B) Bridge. C) Poker. D) Pontoon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poker. 12. What was the effect of the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki? A) To end the Second Sino-Japanese War. B) To end the Russo-Japanese War. C) To end the First Sino-Japanese War. D) To end the Boshin War. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To end the First Sino-Japanese War. 13. Which of these regions houses one of the largest wetland areas in Europe? A) Northern Finland, Sweden and Norway. B) Central Ukraine. C) Eastern Poland, southern Belarus, northern Ukraine, western Russia. D) Northern Greece, southern Albania, southern North Macedonia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eastern Poland, southern Belarus, northern Ukraine, western Russia. 14. A holiday on 25 March in Greece celebrates the final recognition of Greece as an independent nation following the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire. What year did this happen? A) 1932. B) 1923. C) 1948. D) 1832. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1832. 15. In the 1956 film "The Ten Commandments", who played Moses? A) Burt Lancaster. B) Charlton Heston. C) John Mills. D) Robert Mitchum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charlton Heston. 16. Rachel Heyhoe Flint captained which English team from 1966 to 1978? A) Netball. B) Cricket. C) Equestrian. D) Soccer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cricket. 17. Where do the Puelche winds blow? A) South-central Andes, Chile. B) Across central Mexico. C) In south-western Spain. D) In Tierra del Fuego. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) South-central Andes, Chile. 18. The city of St Petersburg is close to which of these? A) The Gulf of Ob. B) The Barents Sea. C) The Gulf of Finland. D) The Sea of Okhotsk. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Gulf of Finland. 19. What forces or countries were involved in the War of the Pacific? A) The Allies and Japan in the Solomon Islands during World War II. B) France and the indigenous peoples of Noumea. C) Japan and China. D) Chile, Bolivia and Peru. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chile, Bolivia and Peru. 20. What does Voltaire's high-born character Cunégonde become in the course of his book "Candide" ? A) The wife of an Emperor. B) A prostitute and a slave. C) A giant-killer. D) A bear. 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