This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 391 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 391 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these was an American author, known for the extravagant lifestyle that he lived in the 1920s with his wife Zelda? A) F Scott Fitzgerald. B) Ernest Hemingway. C) John Steinbeck. D) Tom Wolfe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) F Scott Fitzgerald. 2. What does the record industry term "A & R" stand for? A) Artists and repertoire. B) Arrangements and recording. C) Averages and reasoning. D) Advertising and repeat business. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Artists and repertoire. 3. What distinguishes a yorker in cricket? A) The bowler's hand does not rise above the level of the waist. B) The ball is bowled by flicking it between the thumb and a bent middle finger in order to impart spin. C) The ball is bowled to bounce at or near the batsman's feet. D) The ball is bowled to bounce and spin towards the right (for the batsman) away from leg. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The ball is bowled to bounce at or near the batsman's feet. 4. What is the largest inland delta? A) Niger Delta. B) Becher Point Wetlands. C) Paraná Delta. D) Okavango Delta. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Okavango Delta. 5. The flag of which South American country or organisation features a golden sun with 32 rays, 16 straight and 16 wavy, in its centre? A) Suriname. B) Uruguay. C) Argentina. D) Organization of American States. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Argentina. 6. When Olof Palme, Prime Minister of his country at the time, died in 1986 what was the cause? A) He was hit by a falling branch. B) He had a heart attack. C) He tripped over a dog and hit his head. D) He was shot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He was shot. 7. What is Le Figaro? A) An opera. B) A newspaper. C) A fruit and vegetable market. D) A hat style. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A newspaper. 8. The 2018 Winter Olympics were the first such games in which Ecuador, Eritrea, Kosovo, Malaysia and which other country or countries had participated? A) Nigeria and Singapore. B) Haiti. C) Mongolia. D) North Korea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nigeria and Singapore. 9. What does a hangdog expression imply? A) Awareness of guilt or reason for shame. B) Awareness of impending doom. C) Memory of tragedy. D) Misery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Awareness of guilt or reason for shame. 10. Benjamin Franklin founded America's first what in Philadelphia in 1736? A) University. B) Library. C) Fire-fighting company. D) Stove factory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fire-fighting company. 11. If you were to receive a floral tribute, what would you expect? A) A costume. B) A poem. C) A formal arrangement of flowers. D) An animal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A formal arrangement of flowers. 12. What is a bailiwick? A) An iron portcullis. B) A set of cricket stumps. C) A wicker hamper for baling. D) A domain governed by a bailiff. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A domain governed by a bailiff. 13. According to Greek mythology, which of these was a young man from Abydos who fell in love with a priestess of Aphrodite who dwelt in a tower in Sestos, at the edge of the Hellespont, on the other side of the strait? A) Argo. B) Hero. C) Leander. D) Jason. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Leander. 14. What is the name of the new toy round whom the action of "Toy Story 4" (2019) is centred? A) Tine-y. B) Fork Friend. C) Forky. D) Fourkey. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Forky. 15. What was the Raspberry Pi developed to be? A) A computer children would enjoy, to promote teaching basic computer science. B) A maths concept to deal with volumes of multiglobular shapes. C) A catchy name for a new line in ice creams. D) A competitor for the Blackberry smartphone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A computer children would enjoy, to promote teaching basic computer science. 16. The migration of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to the city of Medina in 622, which marked year one of the Islamic calendar, was known as what? A) Hijra, or Hegira. B) The Great Trek. C) Muharram. D) The Trail of Tears. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hijra, or Hegira. 17. If something beggars belief it is what? A) Asking to be believed. B) Beyond belief. C) Asking to be paid. D) Only partly believable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beyond belief. 18. What is the opposite side from starboard on a ship? A) Gin. B) Port. C) Whisky. D) Bourbon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Port. 19. In 1906 there was a major earthquake in which of these cities? A) New York. B) Chicago. C) San Francisco. D) Washington, DC. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) San Francisco. 20. What is the most frequent definition in mathematics of a straight line? A) A set of points obeying a linear relationship when some other fundamental concept is left undefined. B) None-it is considered a primitive (undefined) concept. C) Quantity which has only one dimension, i.e. length. D) A line which is equally extended between its points. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) None-it is considered a primitive (undefined) concept. ← 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