This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1160 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1160 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these is not a common name for the "puma concolor" ? A) Mountain lion. B) Cougar. C) Puma. D) Leopard. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Leopard. 2. What film character was created by Paul Hogan? A) Crocodile Dundee. B) Alligator Glasgow. C) Wombat Stirling. D) Platypus Dumbarton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Crocodile Dundee. 3. Which city is associated with the XXIV Olympic Winter Games? A) Sochi, Russia. B) Pyeongchang, South Korea. C) Beijing, People's Republic of China. D) Vancouver, Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beijing, People's Republic of China. 4. What is the name of a book where photographs or stamps are kept? A) Almanac. B) Atlas. C) Album. D) Albumen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Album. 5. Who was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement who was assassinated on 4 April 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee? A) Robert Kennedy. B) Martin Luther King, Jr. C) James Brown. D) Rosa Parks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Martin Luther King, Jr. 6. The home of the drink called "bourbon" is Bourbon County. What state of the USA is it in? A) Kentucky. B) Tennessee. C) Arkansas. D) Louisiana. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kentucky. 7. The Tuareg and the Berber inhabit which desert? A) Atacama. B) Gobi. C) Sahara. D) Taramosalata. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sahara. 8. What is the most accurate description of the words "of" and "from" in, respectively, the expressions "comprised of" and "from whence" ? A) Conjunctions. B) Oxymorons. C) Redundant. D) Affirmative. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Redundant. 9. In which city was the Reichstag burnt down in 1933? A) Ankara. B) Amsterdam. C) Berlin. D) Moscow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Berlin. 10. How many US states do not border another US state? A) 2. B) 1. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2. 11. What name is given to the murder of 7 people as part of a Prohibition Era conflict between the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone and the North Side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran in Chicago, Illinois, in 1929? A) The Saint Valentine's Day massacre. B) Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. C) Bloody Sunday. D) Black Friday. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Saint Valentine's Day massacre. 12. John Sublett (1902-1986), stage name John W. Bubbles, was famous as what? A) Opera singer. B) Film director. C) Aerialist. D) Tap dancer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tap dancer. 13. What was the composer Wolfgang Mozart's middle name? A) Seth. B) Sisyphus. C) Amadeus. D) Charles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amadeus. 14. Which play and film was adapted from a story by Christopher Isherwood and later adapted as the musical and film "Cabaret" ? A) The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. B) I Am A Camera. C) A Small Town in Germany. D) The Glass Menagerie. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I Am A Camera. 15. The name of which animal means "man of the forest" ? A) Capuchin. B) Orangutan. C) Chimpanzee. D) Gorilla. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Orangutan. 16. The debut album, released in 1996, of which group is the best-selling album by a female group in history? A) The Spice Girls. B) TLC. C) Destiny's Child. D) Salt-N-Pepa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Spice Girls. 17. The Grand Canyon in the USA lies between which two mountain ranges? A) Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada. B) Sierra Madre Oriental and Sierra Madre Occidental. C) Appalachians and Rocky Mountains. D) Brooks Range and Alaskan Range. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada. 18. The island cities of Ceuta and Melilla claimed by Spain are on the coast of what country? A) Libya. B) France. C) Portugal. D) Morocco. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Morocco. 19. What were the first names of author D H Lawrence? A) Darwin Haversham. B) Dennis Harold. C) Darren Hurst. D) David Herbert. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) David Herbert. 20. Which German was deprived of his nationality in 1938 mainly for writing "All Quiet On The Western Front" and "The Road Back" ? A) Hermann Hesse. B) Erich Maria Remarque. C) John Steinbeck. D) Thomas Mann. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Erich Maria Remarque. ← 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