This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 371 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 371 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What did the "V" used by Albert Einstein in early papers on relativity stand for? A) Gravity. B) The speed of light. C) Speed. D) Increase. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The speed of light. 2. Who was the defending champion, and champion agaikn, in the 2014 World Chess Championship? A) Magnus Carlsen, from Norway. B) Viswanathan Anand, from India. C) Anatoly Karpov, from Russia. D) Anna Ushenina, from Ukraine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Magnus Carlsen, from Norway. 3. Which US film actress married and divorced both Orson Welles and Prince Aly Khan? A) Olivia de Havilland. B) Jean Harlow. C) Marilyn Munro. D) Rita Hayworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rita Hayworth. 4. On 25 April 1945, in which city did a group of nations begin to draft the Charter of the United Nations? A) Strasbourg. B) New York. C) Geneva. D) San Francisco. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) San Francisco. 5. The line "It's the only thing that there's just too little of" is from which song? A) "What the World Needs Now is Love" by Burt Bacharach & Hal David. B) "Love and Marriage" by Sammy Cahn & Jimmy Van Heusen. C) "I Don't Like Mondays" by Bob Geldof. D) "Joy to the World" by Hoyt Axton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "What the World Needs Now is Love" by Burt Bacharach & Hal David. 6. Which Irish art director and production designer, who worked in America for Edison and Goldwyn film studios, and then for MGM from 1924 to 1956, was one of the original 36 founding members of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences? A) Gemma Jackson. B) John Barry. C) Wilfred Buckland. D) Cedric Gibbons. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cedric Gibbons. 7. What international organisation was created in 1958 to bring about economic integration between European nations? A) EEC. B) BOAC. C) FBI. D) TGIF. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) EEC. 8. What are the topmost 7 vertebrae of the backbone called? A) Cervical. B) Thoracic. C) Lumbar. D) Sacral. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cervical. 9. Measured in 2012, which of these countries had the highest population numbers? A) Japan. B) Bangladesh. C) Nigeria. D) Singapore. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nigeria. 10. Which of these can be a definition of "miner" ? A) Something not significant. B) Someone under the legal age for a specific activity. C) A variation of a major scale, with lowered or altered 3rd, 6th, and 7th scale degrees. D) A worker who extracts materials from the ground. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A worker who extracts materials from the ground. 11. What was the name that US President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to his package of economic programmes in the mid 1930s with the goals of "the 3 R's":Relief to the unemployed & farmers, Reform of business and financial practices, and Recovery of the economy? A) Depression delights. B) The New Deal. C) Peace and Love. D) Watergate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The New Deal. 12. What was the first known contact by Europeans with the people of the islands known at one time as New Hebrides? A) Martinique trader Peter Dillon in 1825. B) British explorer James Cook in 1774. C) French explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville in 1768. D) Portuguese explorer Pedro Fernandes de Queirós in 1606. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Portuguese explorer Pedro Fernandes de Queirós in 1606. 13. Six Korfball World Championships were held last century, the first in 1978. Which country won them the most times? A) Netherlands. B) Belgium. C) India. D) Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Netherlands. 14. What is the southern-most Australian state capital? A) Hobart. B) Darwin. C) Brisbane. D) Perth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hobart. 15. Which tennis player held the top ranking for 160 consecutive weeks from July 1974, to August 1977, and an additional eight times during his career (a total of 268 weeks), winning 8 Grand Slam singles titles and two Grand Slam doubles titles (with Ilie Năstase)? A) Jimmy Connors. B) Andre Agassi. C) Rafael Nadal. D) Roger Federer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jimmy Connors. 16. Which of these was a famous British artist? A) Tapper. B) Lathe. C) Caster. D) Turner. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Turner. 17. What is one thing which distinguishes narwhals from dolphins and most other whales? A) They have teeth. B) Their neck vertebrae are jointed, not fused. C) They have no dorsal fin. D) They are Antarctic predators. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Their neck vertebrae are jointed, not fused. 18. The initial slogan for the American War of Independence was "No taxation without ..... " what? A) Protestation. B) Representation. C) Application. D) Aggravation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Representation. 19. Which is the only butterfly known to overwinter in its adult form? A) Monarch. B) Emperor. C) Cabbage White. D) Swallowtail. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monarch. 20. The people of which country are the majority in the eastern foothills of the Annamese Cordillera? A) Laos. B) Vietnam. C) Russia. D) Kazakhstan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vietnam. ← 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