This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 399 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 399 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is a cwm? A) A rounded glaciated valley. B) The saddle between two mountain peaks. C) A crow. D) A braided river. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A rounded glaciated valley. 2. What is an antirrhinum? A) A household medicine. B) Deep pit. C) Snapdragon. D) Umbrella. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Snapdragon. 3. Which play by Arthur Miller used events from early US history to mirror Senator McCarthy's communist witch hunts in the 1950s? A) All My Sons. B) The Crucible. C) View From A Bridge. D) After The Fall. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Crucible. 4. What was the setting for "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas", a 2008 film directed by Mark Herman starring Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, David Thewlis, and Vera Farmiga, based on the book by John Boyne? A) Bedroom. B) Concentration camp. C) Hospital. D) Zoo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Concentration camp. 5. What game involving reptiles is based on the Indian game called Vaikuntapaoli or Paramapada Sopanam? A) Checkers. B) Parchisi. C) Snakes and Ladders. D) Darts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Snakes and Ladders. 6. Which mountain range runs through the US states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico? A) The Craggy Mountains. B) The Stony Mountains. C) The Pebbly Mountains. D) The Rocky Mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Rocky Mountains. 7. Which of these is the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding? A) Ramen. B) Origami. C) Sushi. D) Karate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Origami. 8. The Italian cheese called dolcelatte translates into English as what? A) Hard holes. B) Smelly feet. C) Sweet milk. D) Toy cream. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sweet milk. 9. Although well-known for the dance styles he popularised, which singer, equally known for his music, released as his first single "The Class" which demonstrated his singing in multiple styles? A) Chubby Checker. B) Elvis Presley. C) Ray Barretto. D) James Brown. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chubby Checker. 10. Who was known as "The Godfather of Soul" ? A) Bing Crosby. B) Smokey Robinson. C) BB King. D) James Brown. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) James Brown. 11. Alberta is one of two Canadian provinces that is land-locked. What is the other? A) Saskatchewan. B) Quebec. C) Ontario. D) Manitoba. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Saskatchewan. 12. What is the name of the daughter of Ginger Spice (Geri Halliwell), born in 2006? A) Lady Madonna. B) Bluebell Madonna. C) Bluetooth Madder. D) Bluebell Railway. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bluebell Madonna. 13. What letters of the modern basic Latin alphabet do not occur in the Turkish alphabet? A) Q, W and X. B) S, T and W. C) N, Q and X. D) S, W and Z. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Q, W and X. 14. Who recorded his ground-breaking research on the properties of magnetic iron ore, the Earth's magnetism, and static "electricus" in the book "On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on the Great Magnet the Earth" (published 1600)? A) Robert Boyle. B) Dr William Gilbert. C) Robert Hooke. D) John Locke. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dr William Gilbert. 15. "April is in my mistress' face, And July in her eyes hath place" are the first two lines of what popular work in Britain? A) Dialogue by Fontenelle. B) Cantata by Purcell. C) Madrigal by Morley. D) Opera by Gluck. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Madrigal by Morley. 16. Most of Yellowstone National Park is in which state? A) Maine. B) Nevada. C) Montana. D) Wyoming. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wyoming. 17. Which endangered large sea duck winters over exclusively in polynyas in the Arctic? A) Common merganser. B) Barrow's goldeneye. C) White-winged scoter. D) Spectacled Eider. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spectacled Eider. 18. In August 2005 the robotic rover Spirit explored the surface of what? A) Saturn. B) The Moon. C) Venus. D) Mars. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mars. 19. Which medieval work of literature, sometimes called the world's first novel, is still available today? A) The Tale of Genji. B) Wild Swans. C) Morte d'Arthur. D) Canterbury Tales. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Tale of Genji. 20. Who was the 2005 European Eventing Champion? A) Peter Phillips. B) Zara Phillips. C) Princess Anne. D) Mark Phillips. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Zara Phillips. ← 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