This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 393 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 393 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these cities is on the Mississippi River? A) New Orleans. B) San Francisco. C) Boston. D) Chicago. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) New Orleans. 2. What type of animal is the world's largest reptile? A) Salamander. B) Lizard. C) Crocodile. D) Tortoise. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Crocodile. 3. In geological terms where is a graben found? A) On the fringes of a desert. B) Down the slopes of a steep mountain. C) On the flat top of a tableland. D) Between parallel faults. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Between parallel faults. 4. What is a guitar-based instrumental composed by Peter Green, released as a single by Fleetwood Mac in 1969, later featuring on the compilation albums The Pious Bird of Good Omen (UK) and English Rose (USA)? A) Cormorant. B) Seagull. C) Vulture. D) Albatross. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Albatross. 5. What name was given to both of the Acts that united the parliaments of England and Scotland in 1707, and those of Britain and Ireland in 1800? A) Sovereignty Act. B) Parliament Act. C) United Kingdom Act. D) Act of Union. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Act of Union. 6. What is the first line of the speech by the 3 witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth that ends "toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble" ? A) Double bubble. B) Bubble bubble. C) Double double. D) Double trouble. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Double double. 7. The "loop of Henle" is found where in the human body? A) Heart. B) Kidney. C) Liver. D) Lung. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kidney. 8. Where is the Marsh of Decay? A) On the Moon. B) In the film "Labyrinth" (1986). C) On Mars. D) Ilkley Moor, England. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) On the Moon. 9. The International Pageant of Pulchritude, held from 1926 to 1932, was the forerunner of what modern event? A) Glyndebourne Festival of Opera. B) The Paralympic Games. C) The New York Marathon. D) Miss Universe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Miss Universe. 10. Which of these is not one of the six states of Australia? A) Tasmania. B) Queensland. C) Australian Capital Territory. D) Victoria. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Australian Capital Territory. 11. Which Indycar racing driver married American actress Ashley Judd in 2001 at Skibo Castle near Dornoch, Scotland? A) Scott Dixon. B) Dario Franchitti. C) Marco Andretti. D) Tony Kanaan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dario Franchitti. 12. Which of these did not audition for the TV series "The Monkees" ? A) Davy Jones. B) Stephen Stills. C) Danny Hutton. D) David Bowie. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) David Bowie. 13. Which Spanish monarch was deposed in 1868 after 35 years of reigning, and finally abdicated in 1870? A) Queen Isabella II. B) King Philip I. C) King Felipe VI. D) King Juan Carlos I. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Queen Isabella II. 14. What American TV serial, first broadcast between April 1990 and June 1991, followed an investigation headed by Special Agent Dale Cooper? A) NCIS. B) NYPD Blue. C) Twin Peaks. D) Law & Order. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Twin Peaks. 15. Who fought the first world title fight between two undefeated world heavyweight champions? A) Muhammad Ali & Joe Frazier. B) Lennox Lewis & Frank Bruno. C) Evander Holyfield & Mike Tyson. D) Jack Dempsey & Tommy Gibbons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Muhammad Ali & Joe Frazier. 16. Although Maximilien Robespierre is most associated with the creating of the French Revolution, he was known for a number of other advocacies; which of these was not one of them? A) Abolition of the death penalty. B) Social welfare for the poor. C) Abolition of slavery. D) Universal suffrage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Social welfare for the poor. 17. Which South American country extends the furthest east? A) Argentina. B) Brazil. C) Uruguay. D) Bolivia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brazil. 18. What is the next in this series:Sarajevo, Calgary, Albertville ..... A) Salt Lake City. B) Nagano. C) Lillehammer. D) Turin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lillehammer. 19. What is the maximum score in a game of ten-pin bowling? A) 300. B) 1, 000. C) 10. D) 50. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 300. 20. In which literary work does the character of Mrs Malaprop appear? A) Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing". B) Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". C) Sheridan's "The Rivals". D) Wycherley's "The Farmer's Wife". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sheridan's "The Rivals". ← 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