This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 368 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 368 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What instrument is played by blues artists Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter, Charlie Musselwhite and Junior Wells? A) Guitar. B) Harmonica. C) Bass. D) Saxophone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Harmonica. 2. The most successful tennis player to date, with 8 singles titles and 11 doubles titles, in the WTA Tour Championships was originally a citizen of which country? A) USA. B) UK. C) Czechoslovakia. D) Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Czechoslovakia. 3. When did the self-governing Dominions of the British Empire achieve the right to have legislative independence from the United Kingdom? A) 1899. B) 1945. C) 1931. D) 1960. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1931. 4. Besides being a composer, philosopher, poet, artist and printmaker, John Cage was a leading authority on what? A) Automatic weapons. B) Alligators. C) Wine. D) Mushrooms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mushrooms. 5. Who has the line "Is this a dagger which I see before me" in a Shakespearean play? A) Othello. B) Portia. C) Juliet. D) Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Macbeth. 6. What dish consists of chicken pan-fried in a skillet and covered tightly after the initial browning so that the chicken steams as well as frying, with milk or cream added to the pan juices to create a white cream gravy? A) Chicken Pennsylvania. B) Chicken Maryland. C) Chicken Florida. D) Chicken Maine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chicken Maryland. 7. In the early 20th century a French chef developed a soup he called Vichyssoise and placed it on the menu of which restaurant? A) Ritz-Carlton, New York, USA. B) Jockey-Club de Paris, Paris, France. C) Ritz, London, UK. D) Le Cochon Bourgeois, Berlin, Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ritz-Carlton, New York, USA. 8. Which of these UK TV series does not include a real life husband and wife among its lead actors? A) Dr Who-the 2008 episode of the Dr's daughter. B) New Tricks (2003-now). C) The Borrowers (1993). D) Afterlife (2005-6). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Afterlife (2005-6). 9. Where are the ports of Buenaventura, Tumaco, Santa Marta, Cartagena and Barranquilla? A) Brazil. B) Mexico. C) Venezuela. D) Colombia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Colombia. 10. Who played Dorothy in the 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz" ? A) Hattie Jacques. B) Mary Pickford. C) Diana Dors. D) Judy Garland. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Judy Garland. 11. What organisation, formed by Reverend John Flynn and based in Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia, began in 1928?. A) Seventh Day Adventist Church. B) Salvation Army. C) Society for the Protection of Australian Marsupials. D) Royal Flying Doctor Service. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Royal Flying Doctor Service. 12. Which of these is a Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire and founded the city of Lima? A) Ferdinand Magellan. B) HernΓ‘n CortΓ©s. C) Francisco Pizarro. D) Don Quixote. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Francisco Pizarro. 13. Who did Venus Williams defeat in 2001 to win her second consecutive US Open tennis title? A) Martina Hingis. B) Monica Seles. C) Steffi Graf. D) Serena Williams. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Serena Williams. 14. The Baltic Sea is along the shores of the Baltic States, Sweden and which other country? A) Finland. B) Scotland. C) France. D) Switzerland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Finland. 15. Who was Vice President to US President Ronald Reagan during his terms from 1981 to 1989? A) Henry Kissinger. B) Dan Quayle. C) George H W Bush. D) Al Gore. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) George H W Bush. 16. Kathleen Brennan produced albums for which musician, starting with his 1983 album "Swordfishtrombones" ? A) James Taylor. B) Iggy Pop. C) Tom Waits. D) Neil Young. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tom Waits. 17. Which Stoke City, Blackpool and England player was the first European Footballer of the Year in 1956? A) Tom Finney. B) Stanley Matthews. C) Bobby Charlton. D) Billy Wright. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanley Matthews. 18. P L Travers wrote the story on which of these films was based? A) Dr Doolittle. B) Mary Poppins. C) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. D) Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mary Poppins. 19. What ballroom dance, recognised by the World Dance Council in the category of "International Latin", comes from Brazil? A) Tango. B) Samba. C) Reggae. D) Flamenco. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Samba. 20. What is the generic title of a series of French comic strips that first appeared in French in the magazine Pilote on 29 October 1959? A) The Adventures of Asterix. B) Lucky Luke. C) Blueberry. D) Gaston. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Adventures of Asterix. 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