This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 282 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 282 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Where is saxifrage usually found? A) As a parasite on hardwood trees. B) Draped down rock faces. C) Underwater in estuaries. D) Growing close to the ground, often among rocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Growing close to the ground, often among rocks. 2. Which is a saying attributed to Lester B. Pearson, 14th Prime Minister of Canada and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957? A) "The best cure for the body is a quiet mind". B) "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated". C) "Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects". D) "In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects". 3. What Winter Olympics follows the 2014 Games? A) 2019. B) 2015. C) 2017. D) 2018. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2018. 4. Which English actor, the majority of whose film work was between 1944 ("Waterloo Road") and 1960 ("Tunes of Glory"), won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in "Ryan's Daughter" (1970)? A) John Mills. B) Alec Guinness. C) James Mason. D) David Niven. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Mills. 5. Which of these terms would not applied in relation to a drum? A) Trap. B) Snare. C) Noose. D) Kit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Noose. 6. The first case of AIDS was discovered in 1981 in which city? A) Kampala. B) Los Angeles. C) London. D) New York. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Los Angeles. 7. What sport did Olympic champion sprinter Usain Bolt turn his attention to when he retired from athletics in 2017? A) Ballroom dancing. B) Football (soccer). C) Rodeo. D) Speed skating. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Football (soccer). 8. Which lies farthest west? A) Madagascar. B) Nigeria. C) Somalia. D) Senegal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Senegal. 9. Who had a famous chestnut horse named "Copenhagen" ? A) Buffalo Bill. B) Roy Rogers. C) Dick Turpin. D) Duke of Wellington. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Duke of Wellington. 10. Which of these is a Spanish word for gathering cattle together, for example, for branding them? A) Velodrome. B) Roundup. C) Toreador. D) Rodeo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rodeo. 11. Which countries are the Togolese Republic's nearest neighbours? A) Ivory Coast, Ghana, Burkina Faso. B) Ghana, Benin and Burkina Faso. C) Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia. D) Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ghana, Benin and Burkina Faso. 12. What US TV series concerned a New Jersey crime family? A) The Three Tenors. B) The Coloraturas. C) The Altoes. D) The Sopranos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Sopranos. 13. Which Mediterranean island is divided politically by the Attila Line? A) Sicily. B) Crete. C) Corsica. D) Cyprus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cyprus. 14. Who was twice the prime minister of Jamaica between 1972 and 1992? A) Gough Whitlam. B) Chris Patten. C) Michael Manley. D) Ian Smith. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Michael Manley. 15. In which James Bond film does he have to defeat shipping magnate Karl Stromberg? A) Live and Let Die. B) Moonraker. C) The Spy Who Loved Me. D) Goldfinger. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Spy Who Loved Me. 16. What is the name of Sydney Harbour, NSW, Australia? A) Port Nicholson. B) Port Jackson. C) Port Banks. D) Port Wellington. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Port Jackson. 17. What kind of person would be interviewed in a vox pop? A) A native of the area. B) A specialist. C) A pop singer. D) Somebody from the general public. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Somebody from the general public. 18. Competitors from which country won the most medals at the 2010 World Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro, New Zealand? A) Great Britain. B) Germany. C) New Zealand. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Great Britain. 19. What was the title applied by the Ottoman Empire and, later, Turkey, to their viceroy of Egypt? A) Aga. B) Rajah. C) Panjandrum. D) Khedive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Khedive. 20. What is the name for a period that occurs about every 11 years when the sun's magnetic field lines are the most distorted? A) Solar years. B) Sun spots. C) Jeroboams. D) Solar maximum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Solar maximum. ← 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