This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 336 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 336 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which calendar, introduced in 46 BC, had a regular year of 365 days divided into 12 months, and a leap day added to February every four years? A) Gregorian calendar. B) Roman calendar. C) Julian calendar. D) Lunar calendar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Julian calendar. 2. As whom did Mohammad Reza Pahlavi become better known? A) Ayatollah Khomeini. B) Shah of Iran. C) Prince. D) Cassius Clay. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shah of Iran. 3. Who is the subject of the painting by James McNeill Whistler, "Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2" (1873)? A) F.R. Leyland and his wife Frances. B) Whistler's mother. C) Cicely Alexander. D) Thomas Carlyle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thomas Carlyle. 4. The Great Rift Valley runs through Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and which of these countries? A) Japan. B) Ukraine. C) Mongolia. D) Tanzania. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tanzania. 5. New Zealand historian Michael King has specialised in what area? A) Russian Arctic exploration. B) Maori history since European settlement in New Zealand. C) Japanese earthquake research. D) Seafood recipes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Maori history since European settlement in New Zealand. 6. The Australian Open Tennis Championship is held in which city? A) Perth. B) Melbourne. C) Adelaide. D) Hobart. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Melbourne. 7. Where is the solitary Minaret of Jam? A) Azerbaijan. B) Pakistan. C) Afghanistan. D) India. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Afghanistan. 8. What activity had Afro-American Booker T Washington been involved with to be invited to dinner at the White House in 1901 by Theodore Roosevelt? A) Scientific discoveries. B) Playing jazz music. C) Farming. D) Anti-segregation activities. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anti-segregation activities. 9. Where is the mouth of the River Nile? A) Atlantic Ocean. B) Red Sea. C) Indian Ocean. D) Mediterranean Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mediterranean Sea. 10. What were Operation Torch, Operation Ichi-Go, Operation Bagration, Operation Market Garden and Operation Crossbow? A) Nuclear test series carried out in the USA. B) Military operations in World War II. C) Allied operations in World War I. D) International Boy Scout Jamborees. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Military operations in World War II. 11. The talk between activist Malcolm X, footballer Jim Brown and musician Sam Cooke which occupies the 2020 film "One Night in Miami" includes which other person? A) Little Richard. B) Martin Luther King Jr. C) Elijah Muhammad. D) Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali). 12. For a problem with hair thinning or scalp malfunction which of these would be more appropriate to consult? A) Trichomes. B) Trichinellae. C) Trichologist. D) Trichinopolist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trichologist. 13. What is the name of the Polish intelligence agency, which gathers information abroad for the Republic of Poland, that was created in 2002 from the split of UrzΔ d Ochrony PaΕstwa? A) The Public Security Intelligence Agency. B) Agencja Wywiadu (AW). C) The State Intelligence Service (SHISH). D) Kopassus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Agencja Wywiadu (AW). 14. The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company specialises in performing works by which of these? A) Rodgers and Hammerstein. B) Gilbert and Sullivan. C) Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd-Weber. D) George and Ira Gershwin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gilbert and Sullivan. 15. Which American country music singer-songwriter, born in 1934, won two Grammy Awards of 2005, (Best Country Album and Best Country Collaboration with Vocals) for her album "Van Lear Rose", which was produced by Jack White of the White Stripes? A) Dolly Parton. B) Loretta Lynn. C) Mariah Carey. D) Joni Mitchell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Loretta Lynn. 16. Which country, after the collapse of its government-owned bank and via a referendum, decided in March 2010 not to pay Great Britain and the Netherlands the β¬3.9 billion that it owed them? A) Ireland. B) Denmark. C) Germany. D) Iceland. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Iceland. 17. The national flag of which country differs from the Italian tricolour only because it contains the national coat of arms? A) Chad. B) Cyprus. C) Mexico. D) Ghana. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mexico. 18. Which spirit was highly popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but was then banned for years in the Congo, France, USA, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria-Hungary, Brazil and Switzerland? A) Tequila. B) Vodka. C) Absinthe. D) Grain alcohol bottled at 95% abv or above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Absinthe. 19. When were the first colour pictures transmitted from the surface of the planet Mars? A) 2021. B) 1971. C) 1976. D) 1997. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1976. 20. The sea which lies immediately north of Norway and Russia is known by what name? A) Barents Sea. B) North Sea. C) Arctic Ocean. D) The Baltic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Barents Sea. β PreviousNext βRelated 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 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books