This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 269 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 269 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is mixed with beer to make a shandy? A) Wine. B) Ginger. C) Prune juice. D) Lemonade. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lemonade. 2. Product, divisor, differential and quotient are terms in operations in what branch of science? A) Marine biology. B) Botany. C) Mathematics. D) Astronomy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mathematics. 3. With what is Babel magazine, published in the UK, concerned? A) Translation jobs. B) Architecture. C) Religious movements. D) Language and linguistics across the globe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Language and linguistics across the globe. 4. The three mascots for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics were a polar bear, a snow leopard and what other animal? A) Arctic fox. B) Blue frog. C) Snow hare. D) Marmot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Snow hare. 5. She was a painter, sister and aunt to two famous art collectors of the 20th century; what was her name? A) Georgia O'Keeffe. B) Margaret MacDonald. C) Cornelia Gurlitt. D) Sydney Kemp. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cornelia Gurlitt. 6. The French and what other nation sent colonists to New Zealand in the 1830s? A) China. B) Russia. C) Great Britain. D) Japan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Great Britain. 7. Where are most of the volcanoes in South America? A) Along the west (Pacific) coast. B) In or close to Tierra del Fuego. C) In the northern countries. D) Along the equator. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Along the west (Pacific) coast. 8. In snooker, what coloured ball scores 3 points? A) Red. B) Green. C) Yellow. D) Grey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Green. 9. The single "Sara" was from Fleetwood Mac's 12th studio album (that followed the album "Rumours"), released in 1979. What was the album? A) Elephant. B) Tusk. C) Big Foot. D) Sasquatch. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tusk. 10. The "Dome of Discovery" was built on London's South Bank for which occasion? A) Festival of Britain, 1951. B) Millennium Celebrations, 2000. C) The Great Exhibition, 1851. D) Olympic Games, 1948. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Festival of Britain, 1951. 11. What contagious behaviour has been observed between many animals and across species? A) Scratching. B) Smiling. C) Hopping. D) Yawning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Yawning. 12. In 1858 Rowland Macy established a new store named "R. H. Macy & Company", where it stayed on the same site for nearly forty years, in which city? A) Paris. B) London. C) San Francisco. D) New York. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) New York. 13. An endangered bromeliad, the tallest and largest of its family, is found almost exclusively where? A) Atacama Desert in Chile. B) Rainforest in Congo. C) Andes mountain range, in Bolivia and Peru. D) On Mount Kinabalu in Borneo in Malaysia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Andes mountain range, in Bolivia and Peru. 14. In the 21st century where is a pagne usually found? A) Nouméa. B) Madagascar. C) Africa, particularly in central areas. D) Monaco. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Africa, particularly in central areas. 15. Which entertainer uses various names, including "Puff Daddy", "P. Diddy" and "Diddy" ? A) Shawn Corey Carter. B) Sean Combs. C) Sam Rhansum. D) Snoop Dogg. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sean Combs. 16. Which of the following is an alloy of copper and zinc, sometimes containing lead, tin or iron? A) Brass. B) Bronze. C) Aluminium. D) Tungsten. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brass. 17. What is an informal name for the drug "E" ? A) Exciting. B) Ecstasy. C) Excellence. D) Enlivening. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecstasy. 18. Which of these is the largest? A) Earth. B) Earth's Moon. C) Venus. D) Jupiter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jupiter. 19. In 1483, who was appointed the first grand inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition? A) Savonarola. B) Torquemada. C) Rasputin. D) Saladin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Torquemada. 20. Who is the next in this series:Rajiv Gandhi, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Chandra Shekhar Singh, P. V. Narasimha Rao, Atal Bihari Vajpayee ..... ? A) H. D. Deve Gowda. B) Inder Kumar Gujral. C) Atal Bihari Vajpayee. D) Dr. Manmohan Singh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) H. D. Deve Gowda. ← 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