This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 328 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 328 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which classic film is the story of a US marshal who cannot get help from anyone (including his new quaker wife) to face a gunfight with a criminal and his three henchmen? A) Stagecoach. B) Gunfight at The OK Corral. C) The Tin Star. D) High Noon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) High Noon. 2. Which is almost exclusively the food of the caterpillar of the Monarch Butterfly? A) Moth Vine. B) Pumpkin. C) Hoya. D) A swan plant or a milkweed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A swan plant or a milkweed. 3. The International Skating Union (ISU) was formed in Scheveningen in the Netherlands in 1892 to govern speed skating and figure skating, and hosted its first Championship in Saint Petersburg in 1896. How many skaters competed? A) 1. B) 4. C) 50. D) 650. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 4. 4. The Berber confederation known as the Almoravids, puritanical and military Islamic fundamentalists, gained control during 1053 to 1147 of which area or areas? A) Egypt and Libya. B) Syria. C) Mali and Senegal. D) The west Maghreb and southern Spain and Portugal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The west Maghreb and southern Spain and Portugal. 5. Who was President of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972, who had opposed professionalism in the Olympics and the politicisation of sport, and had proposed eliminating team sports from the Summer Olympics? A) Lord Killanin. B) Avery Brundage. C) Henri de Baillet-Latour. D) Sigfrid Edström. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Avery Brundage. 6. The play "Saint Joan" by George Bernard Shaw centres on whom? A) Joan of Lestonnac (1556-1640). B) Joan, Princess of Wales, The Fair Maid of Kent (1328-1385). C) Joan of Arc (1412-1431). D) Joan, Lady of Wales (188-1237). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Joan of Arc (1412-1431). 7. Which of these fictional characters was created by Ruth Rendell? A) Superintendent Jack Meadows. B) Chief Inspector Dreyfus. C) Inspector Morse. D) Detective Inspector Wexford. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Detective Inspector Wexford. 8. Which of these speeds up chemical reactions? A) Accelerator pedal. B) Conglomerate. C) Farrier. D) Catalyst. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Catalyst. 9. What type of creature is a taipan? A) Bird. B) Frog. C) Snake. D) Monkey. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Snake. 10. Which of these is a landlocked republic in the Apennine Mountains? A) Liechtenstein. B) Andorra. C) San Marino. D) Luxembourg. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) San Marino. 11. What is the name of the killer rat that features in the 1971 film "Willard" ? A) Pip. B) Rod. C) Jim. D) Ben. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ben. 12. In air, at 20 $^\circ$C (68 $^\circ$F), how much faster than the speed of sound is the speed of light? A) Just over 874, 000 times. B) 500 times. C) 500, 000 times. D) 1.2 million times. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Just over 874, 000 times. 13. A mellotron is what kind of musical instrument? A) String. B) Woodwind. C) Keyboard. D) Brass. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Keyboard. 14. The US TV mini-series "Hatfields & McCoys" (2012) was shot in Transylvania against the backdrop of the Carpathian mountains to represent what mountain range? A) Appalachians. B) Rockies. C) Andes. D) The Blue Mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Appalachians. 15. Which of these is a one act comic opera by Mozart? A) The Coffee Cantata. B) Scipio's Dream. C) The Impresario. D) Zaide. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Impresario. 16. Grime music grew from what place? A) East London. B) The Bronx. C) Glasgow. D) Berlin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) East London. 17. What word is used in mathematics to mean "if and only if" ? A) Ifif. B) If*. C) *if*. D) Iff. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Iff. 18. In 1844 China signed the Treaty of Wangxia with what country? A) UK. B) Japan. C) USA. D) Russia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) USA. 19. Which 15th century Italian painted "The Adoration of the Magi" and "The Birth of Venus" ? A) Hieronymus Bosch. B) Sandro Botticelli. C) Titian. D) Vincente Minnelli. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sandro Botticelli. 20. What was the name of eleven rulers of the 19th and 20th Egyptian dynasties? A) Pharos. B) Osiris. C) Tutankhamen. D) Ramesses. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ramesses. ← 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