This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 389 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 389 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In 1987, the Fédéracion International del Volleyball arranged the first World Beach Volleyball Championships, which was played where? A) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. B) Waikiki, Honolulu. C) Santa Monica, California. D) Saint-Quay-Portrieux, France. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2. What is a common name for the Yucca Palm, Yucca brevifolia? A) Datil. B) Adam's Needle. C) Spanish Bayonet. D) Joshua Tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Joshua Tree. 3. Why is the city of Williamsburg, the capital of Virginia from 1699 to 1780, so named? A) After King William III of England. B) After William the Conqueror. C) After William Pitt, Prime Minister of England. D) After a character created by Richmal Crompton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) After King William III of England. 4. Who scored the league winning goal for Manchester City in the 2011/12 Premier League season? A) Gareth Barry. B) Mario Balotelli. C) Yaya Touré. D) Sergio Agüero. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sergio Agüero. 5. What name is given to musical lines that sound different and move independently from each other, but sound harmonious when played simultaneously? A) Cross rhythmic. B) Harmony. C) Counterpoint. D) Part songs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Counterpoint. 6. Which of these terms comes from cricket? A) Bowl out. B) Wipeout. C) Strike out. D) Flame out. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bowl out. 7. Cricketer W G Grace, who played first-class cricket from 1865 to 1908, also captained England from 1903 to 1908 in what other sport? A) Soccer. B) Rugby Union. C) Lawn bowls. D) Steeplechase. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lawn bowls. 8. Which high profile tennis star was controversially linked by the host country for the 2022 Winter Olympics to the last months of its build up to the Games? A) Kei Nishikori. B) Novak Djokovic. C) Naomi Osaka. D) Peng Shuai. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Peng Shuai. 9. What is the fictional character "Babar" ? A) A chef. B) A small monkey. C) An elephant. D) A bicycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An elephant. 10. Who won a (then) record seven gold medals at the 1972 Olympic Games at Munich? A) Mark Spitz. B) Paavo Nurmi. C) Michael Phelps. D) Olga Korbut. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mark Spitz. 11. Which river, the world's deepest on record and the second largest river in the world by discharge volume, rises in the highlands and mountains of the East African Rift? A) Niger. B) Nile. C) Congo. D) Zambezi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Congo. 12. The last line of which 1939 film, spoken by Judy Garland, is "If I ever again go looking for my heart's desire, I won't go looking any further than my own backyard" ? A) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. B) The Wizard Of Oz. C) Strike Up The Band. D) Meet Me In St Louis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Wizard Of Oz. 13. Who was England's goalkeeper when they won the soccer World Cup Final in 1966? A) Gordon Banks. B) Peter Bonetti. C) Ron Springett. D) Peter Shilton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gordon Banks. 14. What is or are the machair? A) A commune in the Somme department in Picardie in northern France. B) An indigenous tribe in south-west Ecuador. C) Calcareous, fertile, dune grasslands unique to northern Scotland and Ireland. D) A type of pear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Calcareous, fertile, dune grasslands unique to northern Scotland and Ireland. 15. The Mérida Initiative agreed in 2008 to combat the threats of drug trafficking, transnational organised crime and money laundering is an agreement for co-operation between which countries? A) USA, and Mexico and the countries of Central America. B) USA and the European Union. C) Indonesia, the Philippines and Australia. D) USA and Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) USA, and Mexico and the countries of Central America. 16. In the song "Paint It Black" by the Rolling Stones, what words follow the line "I see the girls walk by" ? A) It happens every day. B) I quickly look away. C) Dressed in their summer clothes. D) Until the darkness goes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dressed in their summer clothes. 17. What is "tartine" ? A) Pancakes. B) Brown sauce. C) An open sandwich. D) Mustard. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An open sandwich. 18. What is common to the Atlantis Hotel in Dubai, Kwanini The Manta Resort in Zanzibar, Hotell Utter Inn in Sweden and Subsix at Niyama in the Maldives? A) They were flattened in 2016 by earthquakes. B) They are all owned and operated by the same company. C) They feature a "sky" and "infinity" swimming pool. D) They are hotels built completely or mostly underwater. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They are hotels built completely or mostly underwater. 19. In which continent did Allan Quatermain, the explorer in H. Ryder Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines", search for the mines? A) Africa. B) Asia. C) Australia. D) South America. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Africa. 20. When did East Germany build the Berlin Wall? A) 1989. B) 1949. C) 1961. D) 1951. 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