This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 440 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 440 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is a French word meaning false or fake? A) Faux. B) Adieu. C) Vert. D) Royale. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Faux. 2. A truant is someone who stays away from what? A) Church. B) School. C) Chocolate. D) Fights. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) School. 3. Why did John Malkovich, Steven Spielberg, Kevin Bacon, Larry King, Mort Zuckerman, Senator Frank Lautenberg and co-owner of the NY Mets, Saul Katz, all form part of the same news item in 2009? A) They were victims of Bernard Madoff's swindles. B) They attended the bedside of Natasha Richardson. C) They invested in the film "Tintin", to be produced by Peter Jackson. D) They were passengers in a plane that crashed onto the Hudson River, New York. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They were victims of Bernard Madoff's swindles. 4. Which of these is the odd person out? A) Anne of Cleves. B) Jane Seymour. C) Anne Boleyn. D) Catherine Parr. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anne of Cleves. 5. A novel by Frederick Forsythe was "The (what) of War" ? A) Dogs. B) Men. C) Guns. D) Sheep. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dogs. 6. Which of these died last? A) Jimi Hendrix. B) Jim Morrison. C) Brian Jones. D) Janis Joplin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jim Morrison. 7. Which of these names is applied to a large prize in a lottery? A) Jillpan. B) Jackpot. C) Marybowl. D) Tomtureen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jackpot. 8. Which of these composers composed a set of rhapsodies and named them after his home country? A) Franz Liszt. B) Alexander Borodin. C) Béla Bartók. D) Joseph Haydn. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Franz Liszt. 9. Which film shot in the Nauvhal and Nafe languages won the Audience Award (Venice International Film Festival), Best Foreign Film (African-American Film Critics Association), and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2017 Academy Awards? A) Tanna. B) Land of Mine. C) The Salesman. D) Watani:My Homeland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tanna. 10. What are Palogue, Adar, Fula and Unity? A) Peaks in the Drakensberg mountain range. B) Caves in the Atlas Mountains. C) Oilfields in South Sudan. D) Breeds of fish native to the channel between Mozambique and Madagascar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oilfields in South Sudan. 11. Which of these islands is the furthest south? A) Ireland. B) Sri Lanka. C) Madagascar. D) Tasmania. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tasmania. 12. Near Lubumbashi (once named Élisabethville), third largest city of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the dark conical slag mountain which has been celebrated on a bank note was originally formed from nearly 70 years of mining for what? A) Tin. B) Cobalt. C) Copper. D) Tantalum. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Copper. 13. What was entertainment promoter Bill Graham's rock palace in operation from 1968 to July 1971, at Market Street and South Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco, California? A) CBGB. B) Blind Pig. C) Fillmore East. D) Fillmore West. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fillmore West. 14. Which railway has the highest line in South America and the second highest in the world, second only to the one which connects Qinghai in China and Lhasa in Tibet? A) Tren a las Nubes, Argentina. B) Ferrovías Central, Peru. C) Trans-Andean Railway, Ecuador. D) Ferrocarril de Girardot, Colombia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ferrovías Central, Peru. 15. What is the capital of the US state of Idaho? A) Cheyenne. B) Toledo. C) Salem. D) Boise. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Boise. 16. In which country is the Arab Spring recognised as first taking hold? A) Egypt. B) Yemen. C) Tunisia. D) Libya. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tunisia. 17. What empire is the subject of Dr Shashi Taroor's 2017 book "Inglorious Empire" ? A) The Mongol Empire. B) The Ottoman Empire in Greece. C) The Roman Empire in northern Africa. D) The British Empire in India. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The British Empire in India. 18. Which of these overlooks Jerusalem? A) Mount of Olives. B) Blueberry Hill. C) Mount Ararat. D) Pyramid of Gizeh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mount of Olives. 19. What is the term used in wine making for the catalyst function that turns grape juice into an alcoholic beverage when yeast interacts with sugars in the juice to create ethanol and carbon dioxide? A) Pigmentation. B) Segmentation. C) Permutation. D) Fermentation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fermentation. 20. If water is described as "brackish" it has a high concentration of what? A) Salt. B) Sulphur. C) Lead. D) Mud. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Salt. ← 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