This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 400 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 400 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who are Alvin, Simon, Theodore, and Dave? A) The Roaches. B) The Beatles. C) The Chipmunks. D) The Animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Chipmunks. 2. Which Pope was carried off into France by Bonaparte's troops in 1798? A) Pius VIII. B) Clement XIV. C) Pius VI. D) Gregory XVI. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pius VI. 3. In what is "quotient" a technical term? A) Philosophy. B) Linguistics. C) Tiddlywinks. D) Mathematics. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mathematics. 4. What were the people who were part of Elvis Presley's entourage known as? A) Elvis Airheads. B) Tennessee Troubadours. C) Presley's party people. D) Memphis Mafia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Memphis Mafia. 5. Who was the English King during the US War of Independence? A) Henry VIII. B) Edward VII. C) George III. D) George II. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) George III. 6. Pilgrims visit the city of Santiago de Compostela because it is supposedly the site of the bones of which saint? A) St James. B) St Christopher. C) St Anne. D) St Anthony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) St James. 7. Who was the Iranian-US citizen who was jailed early in 2009 in Evin Prison, Teheran with an 8 year sentence for alleged spying? A) Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. B) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. C) Roxana Saberi. D) Ali Larijani. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Roxana Saberi. 8. What is the name used in the USA for the board game that the English call "draughts" ? A) Checkers. B) Chess. C) Parcheesi. D) Ludo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Checkers. 9. Under the Treaty of Breda (31 July 1667), negotiated to end the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the Dutch kept the colony of Suriname conquered from the English, and left the English with what area of land? A) Australia. B) Labrador. C) New Amsterdam. D) Malaya. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) New Amsterdam. 10. What is the name for the order of insects, such as mosquitoes, house flies and gnats, with 2 membranous, usually transparent, wings? A) Hymenoptera. B) Trichoptera. C) Lepidoptera. D) Diptera. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diptera. 11. What do the initials in the UK TV show "QI" represent? A) Quite Interesting. B) Reverse intelligence. C) Quotient of intelligence. D) Quite Intelligent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quite Interesting. 12. Who played the lead character in the surreal 1998 film "The Truman Show" ? A) Kevin Kline. B) Johnny Depp. C) Jim Carrey. D) Robin Williams. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jim Carrey. 13. Betty Lou Oliver held a long-standing Guinness World Record for what event that occurred at 9:40 a.m. on 28 July 1945? A) A fastest time in the New York marathon. B) Giving birth to the heaviest baby recorded. C) The longest survived fall in an elevator. D) Obtaining the largest payout in a New York City lottery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The longest survived fall in an elevator. 14. What river is the Aswan Dam built on? A) Nile. B) Danube. C) Yangtze. D) Limpopo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nile. 15. What is an "epiphany" ? A) Sermon. B) Morality play. C) Religious song. D) Sudden revelation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sudden revelation. 16. What are Italy's national colours? A) Green, gold and yellow. B) Red, white and blue. C) Black, gold and red. D) Green, red and white. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Green, red and white. 17. The Haast's eagle is the largest eagle known; where does it live? A) Nowhere, it is extinct. B) New Zealand. C) Western Canada. D) Kazakhstan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nowhere, it is extinct. 18. The bullseye of a dart board should be how far up from the floor? A) 1.25 metres (4 feet, 1 inch). B) 2 metres (6 feet 7 inches). C) 1.73 metres (5 feet, 8 inches). D) 2.5 metres (8 feet, 2 inches). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1.73 metres (5 feet, 8 inches). 19. Who played the joker in the 2008 film "The Dark Knight" ? A) Ethan Hawke. B) Heath Ledger. C) Elijah Wood. D) Michael Palin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Heath Ledger. 20. Which of these is a type of bat? A) Pipistrelle. B) Ptarmigan. C) Protea. D) Palomino. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pipistrelle. ← 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