This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 199 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 199 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In June 2008, Duran Duran played as part of a fundraising effort for building restoration at a venue that had not allowed a rock concert there before. What was the venue? A) Central Park, New York. B) The Louvre, Paris. C) Hyde Park, London. D) The steps of the Sydney Opera House. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Louvre, Paris. 2. What do toucans eat? A) Fruit. B) Fish. C) Insects. D) Small animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fruit. 3. Between the beginning of the 16th century to the end of the 18th century Egypt was ruled by whom or what? A) The Turkish Ottoman Empire. B) The Kush Pharaohs. C) The Roman Empire. D) The British Empire. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Turkish Ottoman Empire. 4. Where was the 2012 annual G8 leaders summit held? A) Brazil. B) China. C) USA. D) South Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) USA. 5. Mr. Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch and the Thing are members of which fictional group? A) The Jetsons. B) X-Men. C) Power Rangers. D) Fantastic Four. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fantastic Four. 6. What is a kinkajou? A) Small cat-size animal from Central and South America. B) Bird that migrates between north and south Africa. C) Tree growing mostly in Asia. D) Ancient Chinese instrument of torture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Small cat-size animal from Central and South America. 7. Which of these philosophers would come closest to being considered an explorer of solipsism? A) Bertrand Russell. B) Plato. C) RenΓ© Descartes. D) St Augustine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) RenΓ© Descartes. 8. What is the capital of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada? A) Sydney. B) Halifax. C) Glace Bay. D) St John's. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Halifax. 9. Who opened a clothing shop together at 430 King's Road, Chelsea, London in 1971? A) Jean & Chrissie Shrimpton. B) John Lennon & Yoko Ono. C) Coco Chanel & Cecil Beaton. D) Malcolm McLaren & Vivienne Westwood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Malcolm McLaren & Vivienne Westwood. 10. The full name of the city of Quito, capital of Ecuador, refers to which saint? A) Bartholomew. B) Peter. C) Francis. D) Stephen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Francis. 11. Which was the first Olympic Games at which an athlete won a gold medal when competing as an individual athlete and under the Olympic flag, rather than the flag of a country? A) 2016. B) 1992. C) 2018. D) 2014. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2016. 12. The record (not broken until 2024) for the most years between winning gold medals was set by AladΓ‘r Gerevich (Hungary) in 1960. His first gold had been won in 1932. What sport did he compete in? A) Marathon. B) Fencing. C) Shooting. D) Weightlifting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fencing. 13. Who was expelled from the Surrealist movement due to his views on the Spanish Civil War? A) Gertrude Stein. B) Pablo Picasso. C) Frida Kahlo. D) Salvador Dali. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Salvador Dali. 14. What region covers most of the "toe" of "the boot of Italy" ? A) Tuscany. B) Lombardy. C) Calabria. D) Apulia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Calabria. 15. What international organisation did the Ottawa Declaration of 19 September 1996 establish? A) The International Criminal Court. B) The International Council on Systems Engineering. C) The Arctic Council. D) The Centre for Development and the Environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Arctic Council. 16. When was the Fifth, and current, Republic established in France? A) 1946. B) 1870. C) 1958. D) 1940. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1958. 17. Which of these numbers is not a square? A) 169. B) 186. C) 144. D) 225. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 186. 18. "Total Eclipse of the Heart" was a hit single for which of these singers? A) Tony Bennett. B) Helena Bonham Carter. C) Bonnie Tyler. D) Dolly Parton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bonnie Tyler. 19. Which province, state or borough in the Americas consists of a peninsula and close to 4, 000 islands? A) Prince Edward. B) Tierra del Fuego. C) Nova Scotia. D) Juneau. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nova Scotia. 20. "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" is the seventh studio album, released in 1988, by which English heavy metal band? A) Witchfinder General. B) Black Sabbath. C) Iron Maiden. D) Metallica. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iron Maiden. β PreviousNext βRelated 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 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books