This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 258 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 258 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In the James Bond film "The World Is Not Enough" who played Bond girl Elektra King? A) Sophie Marceau. B) Michelle Yeoh. C) Izabella Scorupco. D) Carey Lowell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sophie Marceau. 2. The game of pinochle uses what? A) 60 counters. B) Two bats and a ball. C) Cards from two decks. D) 4 pogo sticks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cards from two decks. 3. The 2023 Esports World Championship included eFootball, Dota 2, Tekken 7, CS:GO, PUBG Mobile and which other? A) Mobile Legends:Bang Bang. B) League of Legends. C) Valorant. D) Splatoon 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mobile Legends:Bang Bang. 4. Which direction does the biggest river in South America flow? A) East north east. B) West south west. C) East south east. D) West north west. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) East north east. 5. What is a specialized linear-beam vacuum tube used as amplifiers at microwave and radio frequencies to produce both low-power reference signals for superheterodyne radar receivers and to produce high-power carrier waves for communications and the driving force for modern particle accelerators? A) Krypton. B) Klystron. C) Kardashian. D) Knightrider. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Klystron. 6. The MacRobertson Shield international competition, hosted in New Zealand in 2013-14, in the US in 2017 and in Australia in 2022, was in what sport? A) Cricket. B) Croquet. C) Bowls. D) Boules. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Croquet. 7. Which of these is a Welsh retired soccer star who made a career in film with his debut in "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" ? A) David Beckham. B) Vinnie Jones. C) David Seaman. D) Ronaldinho. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vinnie Jones. 8. What is one of the terms for a type of mediaeval base coin made elsewhere but circulating in England, and made illegal there in 1299 CE? A) Base Florin. B) Double Eagle Omega. C) Henning Nickel. D) Pollard. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pollard. 9. Which one of these scripts was not written or co-written by Harold Pinter? A) An Officer And A Gentleman. B) The Dumb Waiter. C) Look Back In Anger. D) Victoria Station. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Look Back In Anger. 10. What are the Yeoman Warders, who have guarded the Tower of London since 1485, commonly called? A) Vealeaters. B) Muttoneaters. C) Beefeaters. D) Porkeaters. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beefeaters. 11. What is the name of the surface used to play a game of curling? A) Pitch. B) Bed. C) Field. D) Sheet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sheet. 12. To which of these places would you go to buy wine in Spain? A) Prado. B) Bodega. C) Corrida. D) Toreador. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bodega. 13. Playwright Athol Fugard, multi-award-winning honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, is best-known for what theme in his works? A) Tension between Muslim and non-Muslim belief systems. B) Destruction caused by class distinction. C) Slavery, and the struggle against ethnic discrimination in the USA. D) Opposing the South African system of apartheid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Opposing the South African system of apartheid. 14. Which of these is not a drupe? A) Peach. B) Olive. C) Fig. D) Mango. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fig. 15. It is believed that which building stands on the site of temples built successively by Micah, Zerubbabel and Herod in Jerusalem? A) The Good Shepherd Hotel. B) The Mosque of Omar. C) Basilica of the Knights Templar. D) Ibn Marwan Mosque. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Mosque of Omar. 16. What bird is nicknamed "man of war" because it steals food from other birds in the air? A) Vulture. B) Cormorant. C) Frigate bird. D) Black-backed Gull. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frigate bird. 17. A Duesenberg was a make of what? A) Pipe. B) Rifle. C) Car. D) Watch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Car. 18. In 1932 the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd unified with the regions of Al-Hasa and Qatif to form which country? A) Somalia. B) Ethiopia. C) The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. D) Republic of the Congo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 19. What does a draper traditionally sell? A) Blinds. B) Sewing materials and fabric for clothing. C) Coffin covers. D) Weaving looms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sewing materials and fabric for clothing. 20. Ludwig Leichhardt was a Prussian naturalist and explorer of what area between 1842 and 1848? A) South Pacific. B) Central Africa. C) China. D) Northern and central Australia. 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