This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 222 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 222 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Author and cartoonist Theodor Seuss Geisel published his more than 60 books under what name? A) A Non. B) Giesel. C) Ted Hughes. D) Dr Seuss. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dr Seuss. 2. Aethelred the Unroed, his son Edmund Ironside, and Cnut (or Canute) ruled England in succession in what year? A) 1035. B) 1016. C) 978. D) 948. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1016. 3. What term is used to describe a light bodied white wine with noticeable acidity that is balanced with enough fruit structure so as not to taste overly acidic? A) George. B) Bungle. C) Zippy. D) Georgina. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Zippy. 4. How do Grand Prix motorcycles differ from motorcycles used in the Superbike World Championships and the Isle of Man TT races? A) They are twice the size. B) They are purpose-built and can't be bought by the general public nor ridden legally on public roads. C) They have fewer gears. D) They don't. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They are purpose-built and can't be bought by the general public nor ridden legally on public roads. 5. Throughout his early years in Indonesia, who was known to his playmates and at school as "Barry Soetoro" ? A) Barack Obama. B) Tony Blair. C) Brian Lara. D) Barry Humphries. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Barack Obama. 6. In the late 1950s North Korea instituted a measure called the Ch'Εllima ( "Flying Horse" ) movement, that was patterned on a similar movement in what country? A) Vietnam. B) Russia. C) China. D) Cambodia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) China. 7. Which of these forms the boundary between Colombia and Venezuela? A) Orinoco River. B) Atlas Mountains. C) The Nile. D) The Appalachians. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Orinoco River. 8. Which of these planets is understood to have the smallest number of moons? A) Saturn. B) Venus. C) Earth. D) Neptune. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Venus. 9. What treaty was signed in Paris in 1815 after the overthrow of Napoleon, whereby Alexander I of Russia, Francis II of Austria and Frederick William II of Prussia agreed to apply Christian principles to the government of their countries? A) Holy Alliance. B) Christian Principle. C) Treaty of Jesus. D) Golden Rule. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Holy Alliance. 10. What is a frog before it matures? A) Cygnet. B) Tadpole. C) Gosling. D) Coney. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tadpole. 11. Guitarist Brian Rankin is better known as who? A) Eric Clapton. B) Hank Marvin. C) Pete Townsend. D) Jimmy Page. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hank Marvin. 12. In 2002 Swiss International Air Lines Flight 850 landed on a runway in Germany in a way that caused the plane to be written off, for what reason? A) It cartwheeled down the runway. B) It struck an earth bank. C) It slid off the end of the runway into a sewage pond. D) It braked too hard and tipped on its nose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It struck an earth bank. 13. The Serbian physicist, Mileva MariΔ, was married to which other scientist from 1903 to 1919? A) Thomas Edison. B) Guglielmo Marconi. C) Alexander Fleming. D) Albert Einstein. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Albert Einstein. 14. Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F major (Op. 68) is known as what? A) The Pastoral Symphony. B) Choral. C) The Eroica. D) Ode to Joy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Pastoral Symphony. 15. Who wrote numerous short stories and plays and the novels "Of Human Bondage", "The Moon And Sixpence" and "Cakes And Ale" ? A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. B) Graham Greene. C) Edgar Allen Poe. D) Somerset Maugham. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Somerset Maugham. 16. Who was the third wife of Henry VIII? A) Joan Collins. B) Jane Seymour. C) Minnie Driver. D) Kate Winslet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jane Seymour. 17. What natural ice 1, 212.5 metre (3, 978 ft) long racing sled run in the Swiss town of St. Moritz, based on a river, was built in 1884? A) Cresta Run. B) Tour de Corse. C) Le Douze Kilometres. D) Donington. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cresta Run. 18. What is a melisma? A) An arching phrase of music. B) Several notes and pitches sung to one syllable of text. C) A played musical decorative phrase. D) A rising octave. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Several notes and pitches sung to one syllable of text. 19. One of the influential and well-known findings of physicist and musician Ernst Chladni (1756-1827) related to what? A) The speed on sound on the air. B) Nonlinear standing waves on liquids enclosed by a vibrating receptacle. C) A way to show various modes of vibration of a rigid surface. D) Sound radiation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A way to show various modes of vibration of a rigid surface. 20. What was the name of NASA spacecraft that were metallised balloon satellites acting as a passive reflector of microwave signals, the first successful launch of which was on 12 August 1960? A) Echo. B) Sonar. C) Hottie. D) Sputnik I. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Echo. 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