This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 310 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 310 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Jane and Michael were the two children who featured in which of these? A) Peter Pan. B) The Railway Children. C) Mary Poppins. D) The Sound of Music. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mary Poppins. 2. Where is the Sea of Serenity? A) In the book "Pilgrim's Progress" by John Bunyan. B) On the Moon. C) Around the islands of Tonga. D) Off the east coast of Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) On the Moon. 3. The word "renal" refers to which part of the body? A) Skin. B) Base of the spine. C) Kidneys. D) Head. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kidneys. 4. When was the first charter granted to what became The East India Company? A) 1892. B) 1600. C) 1900. D) 1300. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1600. 5. Which two countries between them have won every Netball World Championship since its inception in 1963 and as at 2019 are unbeaten? A) Jamaica and Egypt. B) England and Zimbabwe. C) Australia and New Zealand. D) South Africa and Kazakhstan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Australia and New Zealand. 6. Which of these would be found at a racetrack? A) Multiplier. B) Totalisator. C) Cyclotron. D) Van Der Graf Generator. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Totalisator. 7. Where was the first "Surf Bathers' Life-Saving Club" founded? A) Malibu, California, USA. B) Bondi, Sydney, Australia. C) Waikiki, Oahu, Hawaii, USA. D) Clam Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bondi, Sydney, Australia. 8. What name is given to the giving up of food, often for religious reasons? A) Rapid. B) Quick. C) Fast. D) Speedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fast. 9. Which Swiss theologian, philosopher, author, organist and medical missionary won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1952? A) Albert Schweitzer. B) Charles de Gaulle. C) Lucia di Lammermoor. D) Berthold Brecht. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Albert Schweitzer. 10. When was the first IHF World Women's Handball Championship held? A) 1930. B) 1957. C) 1949. D) 1925. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1949. 11. What role, first established in May 1947 with the appointment of Walter Winterbottom, was filled in 2008 by Fabio Capello, who replaced Steve McClaren? A) Chancellor of the Exchequer. B) England national football team manager. C) Black Rod. D) Poet Laureate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) England national football team manager. 12. Queen Elizabeth I of England was from which Royal House? A) Stuart. B) Tudor. C) Windsor. D) Lancaster. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tudor. 13. 19th century French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps, having supervised the construction of the Suez canal, was later famously tried and convicted for what? A) Murdering his wife. B) Embezzling government funds. C) Mismanagement of the construction of the Panama Canal. D) Employing engineers who were not French. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mismanagement of the construction of the Panama Canal. 14. Where is the Great Green Wall project designed to happen? A) Across the width of Africa, in the region of the Sahara. B) Between some parts of Mexico and the USA. C) Across the north Tibetan plains. D) Along the southern border of Algeria. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Across the width of Africa, in the region of the Sahara. 15. What type of creature can be called earth, round, flat, butt, arrow, jaw, horsehair, ribbon, velvet, horseshoe, peanut and tape? A) Worm. B) Cricket. C) Beetle. D) Fly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Worm. 16. Which fictional rock band was previously called "The Originals", "The New Originals", "The Originals" again, and the "The Thamesmen" ? A) Spinal Tap. B) The Whom. C) The Rutles. D) The Folksmen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spinal Tap. 17. "The Same Sky", the 2017 Netflix series based on a "Romeo" operation in East Germany in the 1970s, is a co-production between the UK, Germany and which other country? A) The Czech Republic. B) France. C) Poland. D) Lithuania. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Czech Republic. 18. Crimea, over which multiple wars have been fought, was annexed from Ukraine in 2014 by which country? A) Russia. B) Poland. C) Slovakia. D) Belarus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Russia. 19. Who was the ringmaster in the UK TV series "QI" from its inception in 2003 until the end of 2015? A) Dara O Briain. B) Stephen Fry. C) Michael McIntyre. D) Peter Cook. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stephen Fry. 20. The centre of the Somali tectonic plate is approximately where? A) Yemen. B) Somalia. C) Kenya. D) Madagascar. 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