This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 409 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 409 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which psychological thriller film was the first appearance for Angela Lansbury (currently in long-running US TV serial "Murder She Wrote") and won its lead actress her first Academy Award for Best Actress? A) Gaslight (1944). B) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943). C) Casablanca (1942). D) Spellbound (1945). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gaslight (1944). 2. Which English football team was both the last to win the FA Cup final at the old Wembley Stadium, and the first to win the FA Cup final at the New Wembley Stadium? A) Chelsea. B) Arsenal. C) Liverpool. D) Manchester United. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chelsea. 3. What was the capital of West Germany from 1945 to 1990? A) Bonn. B) Berlin. C) Hamburg. D) Dresden. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bonn. 4. What was one of the privileges for France in a 1536 alliance between Francis I, King of France, and Suleiman I of the Ottoman Empire? A) Marriage between the ruling families in France and the Empire. B) Free travel in inland areas of the Ottoman Empire. C) Free trade in all Ottoman ports. D) Teaching of the French language in the Ottoman Empire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free trade in all Ottoman ports. 5. The early works of which American playwright (best known for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?") reflect an "Americanisation" of the Theatre of the Absurd, a movement that found its peak in works by European playwrights such as Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett, and EugΓ¨ne Ionesco? A) Neil Simon. B) Sam Shepard. C) Tony Kushner. D) Edward Albee. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Edward Albee. 6. What is Plain Bob Minor? A) A method in bell ringing. B) A grooming technique for showing long-haired dogs. C) A coxswain's call. D) A move in playing knucklebones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A method in bell ringing. 7. What is the aim of the game "7 Wonders:Architects" ? A) To build an architectural wonder that will last through the ages. B) To build the most structurally sound buildings in a given time. C) To identify and acquire what is needed to build something. D) To preserve an architectural wonder from damage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To build an architectural wonder that will last through the ages. 8. What was the name given to the Minardi Formula One team after it was bought by Red Bull in 2005? A) Red Bull Racing. B) Midland F1. C) Scuderia Toro Rosso. D) Super Aguri-Honda. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scuderia Toro Rosso. 9. San Francisco is closest to which ocean? A) Indian. B) Atlantic. C) Pacific. D) Arctic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pacific. 10. Who created the character of Hercule Poirot? A) Agatha Christie. B) Ngaio Marsh. C) P D James. D) Georges Simenon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Agatha Christie. 11. The game of "racquets" developed into which sport? A) Baseball. B) Bowling. C) Squash. D) Rounders. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Squash. 12. What does the word "lambada" refer to? A) A make of car that used to be made in Czechoslovakia. B) A moped. C) A dance from Brazil. D) A disease of young sheep. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A dance from Brazil. 13. If the numbers from 1 to 10 are multiplied by each other, which of these numbers is nearest to the result? A) 3.5 million. B) 350, 000. C) 35 million. D) 35, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3.5 million. 14. Which of these people is a Persian astronomer, poet and mathematician who died in 1123? A) Aly Khan. B) Omar Khayyam. C) Kublai Khan. D) Ayatollah Khomeni. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Omar Khayyam. 15. What 1983 film directed by Brian De Palma, scripted by Oliver Stone and starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana, is based on Howard Hawks's 1932 biopic of Al Capone? A) Public Enemy. B) Scarface. C) Once Upon A Time in Chicago. D) The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scarface. 16. Which of these is a professional body and learned society established in 1957 and incorporated by Royal Charter in 1984, which has over 70, 000 members in over 100 countries? A) BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. B) The Royal Academy of Arts. C) The Royal Society of Chemistry. D) The Geological Society of London. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. 17. What are Kali Gandaki, Yarlung Zangbo and Charyn? A) Ports on the East China Sea. B) Major Mongolian rivers. C) Mountain peaks in western China. D) Grand canyons. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grand canyons. 18. In thinking about the singularity at the base of the Big Bang which sparked the present universe, some theories about what in turn formed that singularity include ..... ? A) Cold Big Bang. B) String theory. C) Steady-state model. D) Big Freeze. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) String theory. 19. The Dakar Rally, formerly known as "The Paris-Dakar", an annual off-road automobile race that began in 1978, has usually been held from Paris, France to Dakar, Senegal. Due to political instability in Africa, the 2009 rally was run where? A) Madagascar. B) Kenya and Tanzania. C) Argentina and Chile. D) The Czech Republic and Hungary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Argentina and Chile. 20. Which 16th century Venetian, born Jacopo Robusti, studied under Titian and painted "St George and the Dragon", "Belshazzar's Feast", "The Last Supper" and "Paradise" ? A) Dali. B) Tintoretto. C) Rigoletto. D) Caravaggio. 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