This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 414 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 414 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the name of a music-hating attack force in a landmark animated 1968 film? A) The Blue Meanies. B) The Blue Mounties. C) The Azraelis. D) The Gargazurs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Blue Meanies. 2. What is a "full plaid" ? A) A piece of tartan fabric, worn over the shoulder as part of full highland dress uniform. B) Cloth with a very busy checked pattern. C) 100 bagpipers in parade formation. D) Bunting put out at Edinburgh Castle on special ocassions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A piece of tartan fabric, worn over the shoulder as part of full highland dress uniform. 3. Where is the Locrian Mode found? A) Music. B) Poetry. C) Architecture. D) Oratory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Music. 4. What performer, a spokeswoman for Autism Speaks and the American Heart Association, named her children Denham and Diesel? A) Toni Braxton. B) Beyoncé. C) Madonna. D) Angelina Jolie. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Toni Braxton. 5. In 1948 Australia and New Zealand both enacted legislation formally defining and establishing what? A) Rights of returning World War II servicemen and women. B) Citizenship. C) A professional joint fire service. D) Free trade in sheep. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Citizenship. 6. Where is the traditional Bantu kingdom of Busoga? A) Tanzania. B) Uganda. C) Rwanda. D) Kenya. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Uganda. 7. Which of these lines is from Coldplay's song "Viva La Vida" ? A) A single string for a lonely puppet, me. B) It was the windy wild wickedness. C) I sleep alone, sweep the streets I used to roam. D) I know St Michael will call again. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I sleep alone, sweep the streets I used to roam. 8. A sculpture, mechanical, steam-snorting, mostly aluminium, and labelled "The Raging ..... (what)", was led into the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham, UK? A) Sailing ship. B) Teapot. C) Dragon. D) Bull. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bull. 9. What area borders the south-west of Mongolia? A) Russia. B) The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. C) Kazakhstan. D) Korea. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. 10. In the 2020 Masters Tournament, what was one of the notable facts about the golfer's winning score? A) The winner broke the record of "18-under-par" by 2 shots. B) Most of one round was played following lengthy spells of heavy rain and on a nearly sodden course. C) The winner was 2-over-par. D) The winner was 20 shots ahead of his nearest rival. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The winner broke the record of "18-under-par" by 2 shots. 11. Near the end of August 2009, Australia lost to England by 197 runs in what sport? A) Cricket. B) Pétanque. C) Field hockey. D) Knucklebones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cricket. 12. The so-called "Bridge of Spies" in Europe connects what? A) The Danish island of Lolland and the German island of Fehmarn. B) The villages of Mörsdorf and Sosberg. C) The cities of Potsdam and Berlin. D) The cities of Heilbronn and Nuremberg. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The cities of Potsdam and Berlin. 13. Which of these is a type of stroke used in swimming? A) Backstroke. B) Legstroke. C) Buttockstroke. D) Calfstroke. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Backstroke. 14. The national flag of which of these countries has a sheep on it? A) The Falkland Islands. B) New Zealand. C) Australia. D) Fiji. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Falkland Islands. 15. A spinoff from the BBC TV series In the Thick of It was which 2009 film, also starring Peter Capaldi? A) In the Loop. B) The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. C) Up in the Air. D) Lovely Bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In the Loop. 16. The characters Viola and Sebastian are NOT in which of these plays? A) Twelfth Night. B) As You Like It. C) She's the Man. D) Your Own Thing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) As You Like It. 17. General Franco, the Spanish military general, was head of state of Spain from October 1936 following the Spanish Civil War, until when? A) 1991. B) 1938. C) 2001. D) 1975. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1975. 18. Where are The Kerguelen Islands, a territory of France, also known as Desolation Island? A) Pacific Ocean. B) Atlantic Ocean. C) Indian Ocean. D) Arctic Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Indian Ocean. 19. What is the title of George W Bush's political memoir, published in 2010? A) Dreams From My Father. B) My Life. C) The Audacity of Hope. D) Decision Points. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Decision Points. 20. All Scrabble tournament (and most club) games are played with a game clock and a set time control. Typically how long does each player have in which to make all plays? A) 1 hour. B) 15 minutes. C) 45 minutes. D) 25 minutes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 25 minutes. ← 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