This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 493 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 493 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these is entitled to use the country code top level domain ".gf" ? A) The Gabon. B) French Guiana. C) Guinea-Bissau. D) Réunion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) French Guiana. 2. Until they were cancelled, the 1916 Olympics were to have been held where? A) Berlin. B) Brussels. C) Vienna. D) Warsaw. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Berlin. 3. The Greek tragedians Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides wrote dramas dealing with which legendary woman? A) Electra. B) Gaseus. C) Venus. D) Lepidoptera. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Electra. 4. What is the primary intelligence agency of Albania that was created in 1991? A) Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND). B) The State Intelligence Service (SHISH). C) Agencja Wywiadu (AW). D) The Public Security Intelligence Agency. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The State Intelligence Service (SHISH). 5. Malick Sidibé chronicled what period of awakening consciousness? A) The 1980s in Zimbabwe. B) The 8th to the 13th centuries in the Arab-Islamic world. C) 1990s in Europe. D) 1960s and 1970s in Bamako, Mali. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1960s and 1970s in Bamako, Mali. 6. The Bale, or Urgoma, Mountains are in which country? A) Australia. B) Switzerland. C) Turkey. D) Ethiopia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ethiopia. 7. Which of these people was tasked by the Nazi Party to oversee the purging of "Degenerate art" made by German modern artists? A) Adolf Ziegler. B) Albert Speer. C) M C Escher. D) Joseph Goebbels. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adolf Ziegler. 8. Jessica Simpson appeared as Daisy in which 2005 film? A) Driving Miss Daisy. B) Li'l Abner. C) Charlies Angels:Full Throttle. D) The Dukes of Hazzard. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Dukes of Hazzard. 9. Egg-based painting medium is known as what? A) Tempera. B) Tempura. C) Tempora. D) Temporary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tempera. 10. What is an old European lawn game, still played in parts of England and Wales, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, from which ten-pin bowling, duckpin bowling, and candlepin bowling in the USA, and five-pin bowling in Canada are descended? A) Skittles. B) Quoits. C) Curling. D) Petanque. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skittles. 11. Who were the main figures involved in the introduction in 1892 of 35 mm film for still photography and motion pictures? A) Alexander Graham Bell & George Kodak. B) William Dickson, Thomas Edison & George Eastman. C) Thomas Dolby & Vincent Vista. D) Samuel Goldwyn & Louis B. Mayer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Dickson, Thomas Edison & George Eastman. 12. Which of these wines comes from Portugal? A) Champagne. B) Mateus Rosé. C) Asti Spumanti. D) Sémillon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mateus Rosé. 13. The main ingredients of advocaat (or advokat), a rich and creamy liqueur with a smooth, custard-like flavour, are sugar, brandy and what else? A) Orange. B) Eggs. C) Nutmeg. D) Pomegranate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eggs. 14. The film, "The Room" (2003) written, partly directed by, and starring, Tommy Wiseau was widely described by audience, critics and academia as what? A) A manual for architects. B) A film for the new millennium. C) One of the worst films ever made. D) A classic psychological masterpiece. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) One of the worst films ever made. 15. Adjustment of layers of iridophore cells in some animals accounts for what? A) Moulting in spring. B) Changes in eyes to limit light intrusion. C) Changes in colour and brightness of the animal's eyes. D) Ability to change skin colour and patterns. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ability to change skin colour and patterns. 16. In which country are members of parliament known, not as MPs, but TDs? A) Iran. B) India. C) Israel. D) Ireland. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ireland. 17. For which painting was Edouard Manet condemned as incompetent and subversive by critics, which damaged his reputation for years? A) Head of Victorine Meurent. B) The Spanish Guitarist. C) Olympia. D) Concert in the Tuileries Gardens. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Olympia. 18. Who, in Formula One, between 2006 and 2010, was the youngest Formula One driver to:drive at a Grand Prix meeting, score points, lead a race, secure pole position, win a race and win the championship? A) Jenson Button. B) Lewis Hamilton. C) Sebastian Vettel. D) Fernando Alonso. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sebastian Vettel. 19. What professional sport is Arthur Ashe known in? A) Cricket. B) Tennis. C) Synchronised swimming. D) Formula One. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tennis. 20. Which of these is in the city of Prague? A) The tomb of Napoleon II. B) King Wenceslas Square. C) The birthplace of Franz Liszt. D) The Bridge of Sighs. 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