This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 299 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 299 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Where would tailings normally be found? A) After lambs have been docked. B) In a tailor's cutting room. C) Associated with a mine. D) In a sculptor's studio. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Associated with a mine. 2. What is Kamchatka? A) A waterfall. B) A glacier. C) A peninsula. D) An undersea volcano. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A peninsula. 3. What is someone who makes or repairs stringed instruments called? A) Wayborne. B) Vernier. C) Travattore. D) Luthier. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Luthier. 4. Who retained his title as the World Chess Champion after a challenge from Veselin Topalov in 2010? A) Vladimir Kramnik. B) Garry Kasparov. C) Viswanathan Anand. D) Boris Gelfand. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Viswanathan Anand. 5. Neil Oliver provides archaeological and social history knowledge for, and fronts, programmes for UK TV in Britain, continental Europe and Australia, called what? A) Britain/Europe/Australia From Above. B) Coast. C) Coast to Coast. D) Coastal Watch. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coast. 6. The characters of Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, cousin Eustace and Reepicheep the warrior mouse appeared in which film released in 2010? A) The Chronicles of Narnia:The Horse and His Boy. B) The Chronicles of Narnia:Prince Caspian. C) The Chronicles of Narnia:The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. D) The Chronicles of Narnia:The Silver Chair. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Chronicles of Narnia:The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. 7. The islands Santa Ysabel, Choiseul, Guadalcanal, Malaita and San Cristóbal are in which group? A) Philippines. B) Tonga. C) Solomon Islands. D) Aleutians. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Solomon Islands. 8. What system of rule is in place in Patagonia? A) Republic. B) Monarchy. C) Combined republic and federal republic. D) Federal republic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Combined republic and federal republic. 9. What sport is featured in "The Defense", a novel by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1930? A) Chess. B) Soccer. C) American football. D) Ice hockey. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chess. 10. What does the institution ECDC do? A) Monitors infectious diseases on behalf of the EU. B) Certifies computer skills. C) Ecological research. D) Regulates international standards for electrical cable ducting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monitors infectious diseases on behalf of the EU. 11. From Bordeaux, France, which of these harbours on the other side of the Atlantic is closest to due west? A) New York. B) Montreal. C) Miami. D) Kingston, Jamaica. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Montreal. 12. Who was on the throne when Britain's first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, was appointed? A) Queen Anne. B) George I. C) William III. D) George II. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) George I. 13. What is an alchemist likely to be searching for? A) Blarney stone. B) Philosopher's stone. C) El Dorado. D) Excalibur. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Philosopher's stone. 14. In what type of music are "China type cymbals" usually played? A) Heavy metal and thrash metal. B) Gamelan. C) Country. D) Percussion ensemble. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heavy metal and thrash metal. 15. The Roman Empire was at its widest extent, including Dacia, Mesopotamia, Armenia and Assyria, under which Emperor? A) Caesar. B) Trajan. C) Coriolanus. D) Nero. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trajan. 16. Trypanosomiasis is an infectious disease spread by what? A) Mice. B) Fleas. C) Tsetse fly. D) Armadillos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tsetse fly. 17. What is a bylina? A) An old Russian photograph. B) A type of Russian pastry. C) Someone who studies the past. D) A Russian oral poem of an epic past. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A Russian oral poem of an epic past. 18. Who wrote and directed the Bafta Award winning short film "Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life" (1993)? A) Peter Jackson. B) Peter Capaldi. C) Jane Campion. D) Chen Kaige. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peter Capaldi. 19. What is the name of the official list of books prohibited to be read by the Catholic Church? A) Caeca et Obdurata Hebraeorum perfidia. B) Index Epurgatorius. C) Index Librorum Prohibitorum. D) Cum nimis absurdum. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Index Librorum Prohibitorum. 20. Which of these is the name given to a northern to north-eastern wind in the Adriatic, and in Croatia, Italy, Greece, Slovenia, and Turkey? A) Mistral. B) Bora. C) Sirocco. D) Simoom. 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