This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1170 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1170 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Georgian Nodar Kumaritashvili was killed during a training run on the course for the 2010 Winter Olympics. He was a competitor in what sport? A) Bobsleigh. B) Skeleton. C) Luge. D) Curling. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Luge. 2. Which cricket ground was the home ground of the Manchester Cricket Club from 1856 until it became the home of the Lancashire County Cricket Club when that was founded in 1864? A) Twickenham. B) Lords. C) Old Trafford. D) Wembley Stadium. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Old Trafford. 3. In what present day countries did the federation of Hausa kingdoms flourish in the 14th to 19th centuries? A) Mongolia and China. B) Turkey and Iraq. C) India and Bangladesh. D) Niger and Chad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Niger and Chad. 4. What sporting event did one round of Double Gloucestershire cheese feature in during 2019? A) Bylong annual Mouse Racing Event. B) Annual international cheese rolling contest at Cooper's Hill, Gloucestershire. C) Liquid City:Cheese Expo. D) Salon du Fromage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Annual international cheese rolling contest at Cooper's Hill, Gloucestershire. 5. Where in Paris would you go to stand under the Eiffel Tower? A) Champs de Mars. B) Champs Elysees. C) Moulin Rouge. D) Montmartre. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Champs de Mars. 6. Remains of what is thought to be some of the last surviving Neanderthals, from around 43, 000 years ago, were found where? A) The North Caucasus. B) Hokkaido. C) Sichuan. D) Alborz Mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The North Caucasus. 7. What nationality were the first European settlers in Brooklyn, New York City? A) French. B) English. C) Spanish. D) Dutch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dutch. 8. Women took part in wrestling events at an Olympic Games for the first time in what year? A) 1960 Rome, Italy. B) 1904 St. Louis, USA. C) 2004 Athens, Greece. D) 1988 Seoul, South Korea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2004 Athens, Greece. 9. The more than 800 works of which 15th and 16th century artist include "Rhinoceros", the botanical study "Great Piece of Turf", "Young Hare", "Praying Hands", "The Feast of the Rosary" as well as portraits and studies of buildings? A) Albrecht Dürer. B) Artemisia Gentileschi. C) Pieter Bruegel the Elder. D) El Greco. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Albrecht Dürer. 10. Which English folk song has been popular since Tudor times? A) Blackdoublet. B) Bluepantaloons. C) Greensleeves. D) Whitejerkin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Greensleeves. 11. What links Samarkand, Tashkent, and Bukhara (or Bokhara)? A) Their names all mean "big city". B) They are major exporters of natural gas. C) They are cities on the old central Asian silk route. D) They all now exist only as archaeological excavations. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They are cities on the old central Asian silk route. 12. What function does a clothlet serve in the visual arts? A) To transport pigments. B) To clean paint brushes. C) To polish statuary highlights. D) Backing for small tapestries. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To transport pigments. 13. Which chemical process is involved in changing ethyl chloride to ethyl alcohol? A) Osmosis. B) Hydrolysis. C) Electrolysis. D) Hydrostatics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hydrolysis. 14. How does the film "Lawrence of Arabia" begin? A) A Bedouin is killed by Sherif Ali for drinking from a well. B) In Cairo during World War I, where Lawrence is a lieutenant. C) Lawrence's death in a motorcycle accident. D) A train is blown up on the Hejaz Railway. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lawrence's death in a motorcycle accident. 15. Who ran for the Democratic nomination in the 1980 presidential election by launching a campaign against the incumbent, Jimmy Carter, a member of his own party? A) Richard Nixon. B) Edward Kennedy. C) Gerald Ford. D) George H W Bush. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Edward Kennedy. 16. What is physiognomy? A) Contacting spirits by a seance. B) Determining character from bumps on the head. C) Determining character from facial features. D) Exercising on a treadmill. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Determining character from facial features. 17. What can be a term for food served with, or featuring, potatoes? A) Pommelier. B) Spudian. C) Parmentier. D) Au gratin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parmentier. 18. On one of the cliffs which tower over Death Valley in the USA there is a marker showing what? A) The highest recorded flood level. B) Sea level. C) The site of caves with works of prehistoric art. D) Symbols of the indigenous tribes of the area. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sea level. 19. What would you do with an ottoman? A) Throw it. B) Eat it. C) Drive it. D) Sit on it. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sit on it. 20. Which river has its source in the Fuente de García, Aragon, near the Mediterranean and flows after 626 miles (1, 007 km) across Spain and Portugal into the Atlantic? A) Danube. B) Volga. C) Rhine. D) Tagus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tagus. ← 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