This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 332 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 332 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these cities on the mainland of the Americas is Cuba closest to? A) Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. B) Miami, USA. C) Maracaibo, Venezuela. D) Cancun, Mexico. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cancun, Mexico. 2. What is the meaning of "agnate" or "agnatic" ? A) Like a lamb. B) Related through male descent or on the father's side. C) Connected. D) Descent through any combination of male and female ancestor, or a system of bilateral kinship. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Related through male descent or on the father's side. 3. Who was the only woman in Lenin's government, played a major role in organising mass movements of working-class women and peasants, was the second leader of Zhenotdel, and was the author of much of the social legislation of the early Soviet republic? A) Nadezhda Krupskaia. B) Inessa Armand. C) Nina Khrushchev. D) Alexandra Kollontai. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alexandra Kollontai. 4. Who, through his company, owns copyright to all the songs written by Buddy Holly, and publishing rights to the musicals "Guys and Dolls", "A Chorus Line" and "Grease" ? A) Andrew Lloyd Webber. B) Stephen Sondheim. C) Paul McCartney. D) Tim Rica. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paul McCartney. 5. In 2007, the largest known specimen of what, weighing 495 kg (1, 091 lb) and measuring 4.2 m (14 ft) in length, was caught in the Ross Sea? A) Colossal Squid. B) Pygmy Blue Whale. C) Conger eel. D) Hammer-head shark. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Colossal Squid. 6. Where do the short-period comets observed in Earth's sky originate from? A) Other galaxies. B) Saturn's rings. C) The Kuiper Belt. D) The Alpha Centauri system. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Kuiper Belt. 7. What separates Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side of the Niagara Falls and American Falls on the American side? A) Grand Island. B) Luna Island. C) Goat Island. D) Navy Island. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Goat Island. 8. Where is the Australian parliament based? A) Canberra. B) Perth. C) Melbourne. D) Sydney. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Canberra. 9. The fictional town of Hartley in Lancashire was the setting for which of these British TV series? A) Midsomer Murders. B) Inspector Morse. C) A Touch of Frost. D) Juliet Bravo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Juliet Bravo. 10. What is the next in the series:Calgary, Canada; Albertville, France; Lillehammer, Norway; Nagano, Japan? A) Vancouver, Canada. B) Torino, Italy. C) Salt Lake City, United States. D) Sochi, Russia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Salt Lake City, United States. 11. What has been a state religion in Japan? A) Confucianism. B) Buddhism. C) Shintoism. D) Islam. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shintoism. 12. At the end of March 1949, Newfoundland did what? A) Joined the United Nations. B) Declared full independence from the UK. C) Joined Canada as a province. D) Declared itself nuclear-free. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Joined Canada as a province. 13. In which area in Egypt was the tomb of Tutankhamun discovered? A) The Valley of the Kings in ancient Thebes. B) The Great Pyramid, Giza. C) The Pyramid of Mendaure. D) The Plain of Tombs, Saqqarah. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Valley of the Kings in ancient Thebes. 14. What kind of music does Simon Cowell's group Il Divo perform? A) Skiffle. B) Gospel. C) Classical crossover. D) Country. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Classical crossover. 15. Who starred in the silent film "The General" ? A) Peter Sellers. B) Buster Keaton. C) Michael Caine. D) Jerry Lewis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Buster Keaton. 16. What moth eats only cloudberry leaves? A) Hjortronsäckma, or Coleophora thulea. B) White Witch moth. C) Luna moth. D) Codling moth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hjortronsäckma, or Coleophora thulea. 17. The German bandwurm word "rindfleischetikettierungsuberwachungsaufgabenubertragungsgesetz" became famous in early June 2013 for what reason? A) It was officially removed from the German language. B) It was officially recognised as the longest German word in current use. C) It was banned for internet use because it was too long. D) It was hailed as the German word of the year. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It was officially removed from the German language. 18. What is the name for a musical work written for nine instruments? A) Nonet. B) Nonny nonny. C) Octet. D) Ninuette. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nonet. 19. Which well-known author wrote, about a quintessential upper-class English sport: "The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun" ? A) Truman Capote. B) Oscar Wilde. C) Sir Pelham G.Wodehouse. D) Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sir Pelham G.Wodehouse. 20. Which of these words means a bad dream? A) Nightstallion. B) Nightmare. C) Nightstud. D) Nightgelding. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nightmare. ← 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