This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge â Quiz 293 đ Homepage đ Download PDF Books đ Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 293 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In 17th century Europe where or as what would Polichinelle be found? A) Belgian puppetry. B) Italian politics. C) As a jester in the Austrian court. D) In plays (commedia dell'arte). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In plays (commedia dell'arte). 2. When was the last Act of amnesty passed in Great Britain? A) 1965. B) 1946. C) 1919. D) 1747. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1747. 3. On 13 November 2010, who became the first boxer to win world titles in eight different weight divisions and the first boxer to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes? A) Joshua Clottey. B) Oscar De La Hoya. C) Manny Pacquiao. D) Ricky Hatton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Manny Pacquiao. 4. What is the name of a bishop's staff that is shaped like a shepherd's crook? A) Crosier. B) Cassock. C) Marlinspike. D) Chisel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Crosier. 5. What is the baseball term coined by Henry Chadwick to collectively call the pitcher and the catcher? A) The battery. B) Primary field. C) Home platers. D) Henry fielders. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The battery. 6. On February 13 2008 the Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, delivered a formal apology to the Stolen Generations. What was he referring to? A) Descendants of people sent to Australia as convicts. B) Children who were expatriated from the UK during WW II and not returned. C) Children of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who were taken from their families 1909-1970. D) Children taken from single mothers in the 1950s and 1960s. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Children of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who were taken from their families 1909-1970. 7. What alcoholic drink carries on its label a reference to the phrase "To God, most good, most great" ? A) Benedictine. B) Chartreuse. C) Stellina. D) Westvleteren. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Benedictine. 8. What is a musical term for "slowing down" ? A) Adagio. B) Largo. C) Rallentando. D) Presto. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rallentando. 9. Who did Peter Sellers marry in 1964? A) Brigitte Bardot. B) Elke Sommer. C) Ingrid Pitt. D) Britt Ekland. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Britt Ekland. 10. How has ex-World Heavyweight boxing title holder Tyson Fury categorised himself? A) A chess master. B) A white negro. C) A gypsy. D) Modest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A gypsy. 11. In 1906 which American choreographer and dance innovator presented her first dance including one based on the milkmaid Radha who was an early consort of the Hindu god Krishna, together with such shorter pieces as The Cobra and The Incense? A) Martha Graham. B) Agnes de Mille. C) Ruth St. Denis. D) Twyla Tharp. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ruth St. Denis. 12. The United Nations Declaration was signed by 4 nations and subsequently co-signed by a further 22 in Washington DC on which two days? A) 1-2 January 1942. B) 1-2 January 1946. C) 15-16 September 1945. D) 26-27 June 1945. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1-2 January 1942. 13. What country, part of the Ottoman Empire for 500 years as the provinces of Shkodra, Manastir and Yanya, proclaimed its independence on 28 November 1912, with Ismail Qemali as its first Prime Minister? A) Botswana. B) Albania. C) Palestine. D) Israel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Albania. 14. What area of Tokyo is one of the most luxurious shopping districts in the world? A) Ginga. B) Hokkaido. C) Ginza. D) Semolina. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ginza. 15. Where is the hadal, or hadopelagic, zone in the ocean? A) The surface. B) At the deepest known ocean floor. C) Shorelines. D) From 1, 000 to 5, 000 ft below the surface. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) At the deepest known ocean floor. 16. What was the venue for the 2021 Ryder Cup? A) Whistling Straits, Wisconsin, US. B) Singing Sands, Islay, UK. C) Thunderbird, California, US. D) The Belfry, Warwickshire, UK. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Whistling Straits, Wisconsin, US. 17. Who, when campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1912, was shot by John Schrank, but continued to deliver his ninety minute speech with blood seeping into his shirt? A) William McKinley. B) James Garfield. C) Theodore Roosevelt. D) William Henry Harrison. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theodore Roosevelt. 18. The famous collection of music, "Songs from the Auvergne" arranged by Joseph Canteloube, is in what language? A) Catalan. B) Occitan. C) Gallo-Italic. D) OĂŻl. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Occitan. 19. Which of these is a film by Stanley Kubrick? A) A Solar-Powered Apple. B) An Electric Prune. C) An Automatic Banana. D) A Clockwork Orange. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A Clockwork Orange. 20. Nelson Piquet Jnr was accused of deliberately crashing at which F1 race in 2008 that paved the way for Renault's Fernando Alonso to win? A) China. B) Turkey. C) Singapore. D) Indianapolis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Singapore. â PreviousNext âRelated 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 đ Back to Homepage đ Download PDF Books đ Premium PDF Books