This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 115 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 115 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Argentina became the world champions in Taekwondo at the World Championships in Argentina in 2009. Which country came second? A) Germany. B) South Korea. C) Netherlands. D) New Zealand. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) New Zealand. 2. Who is M's secretary in the James Bond series? A) Mrs Currency. B) Miss Fortune. C) Miss Moneypenny. D) Miss Stipend. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Miss Moneypenny. 3. What phrase refers to a bathroom directly connected to a bedroom? A) En masse. B) En face. C) En suite. D) En route. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) En suite. 4. What does catabatic, or katabatic, refer to? A) A monsoon. B) An avalanche. C) Wind. D) A glacier. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wind. 5. What is the Mile High Tree in Denver, Colorado? A) A Scotch Pine planted in 1776. B) An ancient sequoia. C) An artificial Christmas tree made of lights. D) A sculpture celebrating Denver's nickname. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An artificial Christmas tree made of lights. 6. Which of these is a fruit grown on a small tree, 8 to 12 m tall, with a trunk up to 40 cm diameter and a dense, spreading canopy? A) Tomato. B) Apricot. C) Grape. D) Potato. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apricot. 7. Where is Mount Logan, the tallest mountain in its country and the second tallest in its continent? A) Wales. B) USA. C) Canada. D) Belize. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Canada. 8. In the 1968 feature film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, of what country is Baron Bomburst the tyrant ruler? A) Gotham. B) Lilliput. C) Utopia. D) Vulgaria. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vulgaria. 9. What name was used for two forests in J. R. R. Tolkien's "Hobbit"/ "Lord of the Rings" saga, the first under Morgoth's control, and the second under the influence of Sauron? A) Collingwood. B) Sherwood. C) Mirkwood. D) Forest of Dean. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mirkwood. 10. Who was born in Cowley, Oxfordshire, and in Oxford built and sold bicycles, motorcycles and, in 1912, his first car, the Morris Oxford? A) Sir Herbert Austin. B) Johnny Morris. C) Lord Nuffield. D) Cardinal Wolsely. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lord Nuffield. 11. After which legendary mountains is the private university at Fort Portal, Western Uganda, named? A) Mount Olympus. B) The Atlas Mountains. C) The Mountains of the Moon. D) Portal Peaks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Mountains of the Moon. 12. When Gerald Ford was president of the USA, who was his vice president? A) Richard Nixon. B) Nelson A Rockefeller. C) Al Gore. D) Lyndon B Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nelson A Rockefeller. 13. What is a kilderkin? A) A volume measurement for beer or ale, or the cask to hold it. B) An Irish water sprite. C) A child's kilt. D) A short Alpine horn. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A volume measurement for beer or ale, or the cask to hold it. 14. Of up to 20 major extinction events identified in Earth's history, which is considered to have caused the greatest loss of species? A) Triassic-Jurassic 200 mya. B) Pre-Cambrian 542 mya. C) Cretaceous 66 mya. D) Permian-Triassic at the end of the Permian period 251 mya. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Permian-Triassic at the end of the Permian period 251 mya. 15. As used in author Rudyard Kipling's "Puck of Pook's Hill" and by author T.H. White, what is "gramarye" ? A) An isle, of magic, or mystical learning. B) An ancient spelling of "grammar". C) Learning. D) A grain storehouse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An isle, of magic, or mystical learning. 16. Where is the Yasuni National Park? A) Central Brazil. B) Eastern Alaska. C) Southern Chile. D) Eastern Ecuador. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eastern Ecuador. 17. Which 17th century French philosopher, mathematician, scientist and writer developed the Cartesian coordinate system, thus founding analytic geometry, the bridge between algebra and geometry and crucial to the invention of calculus? A) Nicholas Mercator. B) Isaac Newton. C) Johannes Kepler. D) René Descartes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) René Descartes. 18. What 17th century French playwright is still celebrated and popular for his witty satires, among them The School for Wives, The School for Husbands and The Imaginary Invalid? A) Ibsen. B) Molière. C) Marlowe. D) Mamet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Molière. 19. Romansch is an official language of which country? A) Sweden. B) France. C) Luxembourg. D) Switzerland. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Switzerland. 20. Which country became a separate state in 1890 after having been, since 1443, part of Burgundy, Spain, Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands? A) Luxembourg. B) Andorra. C) Liechtenstein. D) Poland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Luxembourg. ← 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