This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 484 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 484 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Where did Stradivari, the famous violin maker, live and work? A) Italy. B) Poland. C) England. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Italy. 2. The Caspian Sea is bordered by how many countries? A) 3. B) 5. C) 8. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5. 3. Which country ceded Guam to the US in December 1898? A) Portugal. B) Spain. C) Japan. D) China. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spain. 4. How many US states share a land border with Canada? A) 6. B) 12. C) 10. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 10. 5. During World War I and II the US army maintained a unit whose task was the training and use of what, for communication and reconnaissance purposes? A) Pigeons. B) Children under 10. C) Female photographers. D) Rats. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pigeons. 6. Who worked on the film scripts for "Barbarella", "Dr Strangelove ..... ", "Easy Rider", "Candy" and "The Magic Christian" ? A) Alun Owen. B) Terry Pratchett. C) Terry Southern. D) Harold Pinter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Terry Southern. 7. What term applies to an engine comprising two banks of four cylinders inclined towards each other, with a common crankshaft? A) ABS. B) DOHC-EFI. C) Diesel. D) V8. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) V8. 8. Which of these Canadian provinces is the furthest west? A) Nova Scotia. B) Quebec. C) Ontario. D) British Columbia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) British Columbia. 9. What does the French word "croissant" mean? A) Crescent. B) Bread. C) Sickle. D) Sheep. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Crescent. 10. Where are the Shikmona and Mers a-Matruh gyres? A) In the sea on Africa's north-eastern Mediterranean coast. B) Off the coast of Madagascar. C) At the tip of the Cape of Good Hope. D) Down the coast of Somalia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In the sea on Africa's north-eastern Mediterranean coast. 11. What is the name for the area of the Atlantic Ocean south east of Bermuda distinguished by the mass of brown seaweed that floats there? A) The Roaring Forties. B) The Maelstrom. C) Sargasso Sea. D) The Painted Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sargasso Sea. 12. Colin Meads, nicknamed 'Pinetree', a former rugby union footballer who played 55 test matches for his national team from 1957 until 1971 and was named his country's Player of the Century, represented which country? A) New Zealand. B) China. C) Sri Lanka. D) England. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) New Zealand. 13. Who captained the Nautilus in "20, 000 Leagues Under The Sea" ? A) Hook. B) Ahab. C) Kirk. D) Nemo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nemo. 14. What is expected of a recidivist? A) Old fashioned interior design. B) To fence stolen property. C) To be receptive and a good listener. D) Relapse into previous, often undesirable, behaviour. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Relapse into previous, often undesirable, behaviour. 15. Where is Guanabara Bay? A) Cuba. B) Brazil. C) Venezuela. D) Colombia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brazil. 16. Who was the All Black (New Zealand rugby) captain to have been inducted into the IRB Hall of Fame (now the World Rugby Hall of Fame) in 2007, the year after the Hall was established? A) Wilson Whineray. B) George Nepia. C) Jonah Lomu. D) Colin Meads. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wilson Whineray. 17. Which shipping passage was closed from 1967 to 1975? A) Kiel Canal. B) Panama Canal. C) Birmingham Canal. D) Suez Canal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Suez Canal. 18. What was the cause of the sinking of the German battleship the "Admiral Graf Spee" ? A) A single shell from the British ship "Ajax". B) Her captain sank her. C) An aerial torpedo attack launched from land. D) It ran aground on a submerged reef. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Her captain sank her. 19. The photographer and photo reporter Oliviero Toscani became known world-wide in association with what or whom? A) Benetton. B) Movimento Italiano Genitori. C) Burberry. D) Rod Stewart. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Benetton. 20. Pankaj Advani has won multiple World Championships in which two disciplines? A) High jump, and long jump. B) Chess, and Bridge. C) English billiards, and snooker. D) Kayak, and canoe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) English billiards, and snooker. ← 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