This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 197 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 197 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The "New Model Army" was formed to fight in which war? A) Hundred Years' War. B) Korean War. C) World War I. D) English Civil War. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) English Civil War. 2. Mary Baker Eddy founded which religion? A) Apostolic Church. B) Salvation Army. C) Seventh Day Adventist. D) Christian Science. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Christian Science. 3. Where is the Yenisei one of the major rivers? A) Siberia. B) China. C) Vietnam. D) Korea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Siberia. 4. What is the southernmost point of the African continent? A) Cape Point. B) Cape of Good Hope. C) Cape Agulhas. D) Cape Peninsula. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cape Agulhas. 5. Who, when he took on the position, was the second-youngest US president to take office, the first US president born in the 20th century and, at age 43, the youngest elected to the office? A) Grover Cleveland. B) Theodore Roosevelt. C) John F Kennedy. D) Ulysses S. Grant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John F Kennedy. 6. Who was a member of the band Buffalo Springfield, and formed his own backing band called Crazy Horse? A) Bob Marley. B) Robbie Williams. C) Frank Sinatra. D) Neil Young. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neil Young. 7. Which 2001 horror film, written, scored and directed by Spanish and Chilean director Alejandro Amenábar, was given the Best Film Award at the Goyas (Spain's national film awards) despite containing no Spanish dialogue? A) The Others. B) Open Your Eyes. C) Agora. D) The Sea Inside. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Others. 8. As at 2017 what time is the men's wheelchair marathon world record (the ablebodied record holder's time is 2h 02m 57s, average 5.72 metres per second)? A) 2h 22m 16s, average 4.94 metres per second. B) 1hr 18m 27s (average 8.96 metres per second). C) 2h 15m 25s, average 5.19 metres per second. D) 3hr 10m 27s (average 3.69 metres per second). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1hr 18m 27s (average 8.96 metres per second). 9. What is something Abelard and Héloïse, Oscar Wilde, Sarah Bernhardt, Honoré de Balzac, Georges Bizet and Jim Morrison have in common? A) They had only one son, who died before reaching the age of 10. B) They are buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France. C) They composed a number of Christmas songs. D) They tried (and failed) to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They are buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France. 10. In 1992 Bratislava become the capital of which country? A) Republic of Serbia. B) Republic of Croatia. C) Republic of Slovenia. D) The Slovak Republic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Slovak Republic. 11. In 1949 the first what was brought to New York, USA, but failed to attract interest and was labelled by the chairman of the company which made it as not having a future in the country? A) The hamburger. B) Volkswagen Beetle. C) Barbie doll. D) Aerosol hair spray. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Volkswagen Beetle. 12. What language does "kayak" come from? A) Ourdu. B) Eskimo-Aleut. C) Guarani. D) Japanese. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eskimo-Aleut. 13. Dr Dian Fossey, Dame Jane Goodall and Dr Birutė Galdikas are known for study of what? A) Hydraulics. B) Quantum physics. C) Primates. D) Etymology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Primates. 14. A commercial power plant which opened in late 2015 in Albertville, Savoie, France uses what as a fuel? A) Steam from nuclear power plants. B) Animal dung. C) Old grape vines. D) A by product of cheesemaking. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A by product of cheesemaking. 15. Who has won the Women's Singles title at Australia's premier tennis tournament, with 10 wins? A) Billie Jean King. B) Margaret Court. C) Evonne Goolagong Cawley. D) Martina Navrátilová. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Margaret Court. 16. The terms systolic and diastolic are used in the measurement of which of these? A) Volcanic activity. B) Earthquakes. C) Blood pressure. D) Wind strength. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blood pressure. 17. Which conductor of the Worcester Glee Club from 1879 to 1889, went on to write "The Enigma Variations" and "The Dream of Gerontius" ? A) Ralph Vaughan Williams. B) Benjamin Britten. C) Edward Elgar. D) Eric Coates. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Edward Elgar. 18. The leaf of what tree appears on the Canadian national flag? A) Oak. B) Coolibah. C) Maple. D) Pine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Maple. 19. In the course of which hostilities did Rome suffer what is seen as its greatest defeat? A) The second Punic War. B) The third Servile War. C) The second Samnite War. D) The Battle of Allia River. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The second Punic War. 20. Which of these is a Russian billionaire living in the UK, who, in March 2009, had a net worth of US$ 8.5 billion, and is the owner of Chelsea Football Club? A) Leonid Brezhnev. B) Vladimir Putin. C) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. D) Roman Abramovich. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Roman Abramovich. ← 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