This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 503 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 503 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these is a song by Iggy Pop? A) The Passenger. B) Walk on the Wild Side. C) China Girl. D) Crocodile Rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Passenger. 2. In which of these could arugula and sirene be found together? A) In a green salad with cheese. B) On the surface of a crater on the Moon. C) In the gut of a shrimp. D) In a boned corset. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In a green salad with cheese. 3. Who headed the Zimmerwald Left in 1915 at the first of the three Zimmerwald Conferences? A) Karl Marx. B) Vladimir Lenin. C) Rosa Luxemburg. D) Albert Camus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vladimir Lenin. 4. Finding its spraint means what animal has been there? A) Raccoon. B) Otter. C) Mole. D) Eagle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Otter. 5. Which of these is a name of former Northern Rhodesia? A) Zanzibar. B) Zimbabwe. C) Zaire. D) Zambia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Zambia. 6. "A Nightmare on Elm Street", "Private Resort", "Platoon", "Cry-Baby" and "Edward Scissorhands" are the first five films starring which actor? A) Colin Firth. B) Will Smith. C) Brad Pitt. D) Johnny Depp. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Johnny Depp. 7. Which of these was a hit record for Madonna in 1986? A) Oh Mein Papa. B) Papa Was a Rollin' Stone. C) Papa Don't Preach. D) Daddy Cool. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Papa Don't Preach. 8. A popular interpretation of the name of the river "Uruguay" after which the country is named, is "River of ..... "? A) Feathered crowns. B) Plenty. C) Sweet water. D) Painted birds. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Painted birds. 9. In weaving, what are the threads running parallel to the length of the cloth called? A) Wane. B) Weft. C) Wax. D) Warp. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Warp. 10. Which dancer had success on stage with his sister Adele before achieving fame in films with Ginger Rogers? A) Bing Crosby. B) Fred Astaire. C) Gene Kelly. D) Dean Martin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fred Astaire. 11. In which 1973 film does rich Hindu eighteen year old Raja fall for and elope with the sixteen year old granddaughter of his Goan-Catholic governess? A) Black Friday. B) Swades. C) Bobby. D) Arth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bobby. 12. On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up while en route from London to New York killing 270 people on board and on the ground, and resulting in conviction for a Libyan national. Where did the explosion happen? A) At the Twin Towers, New York, USA. B) Over the Andaman Sea, Burma. C) Over Detroit, USA. D) Over Lockerbie, Scotland. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Over Lockerbie, Scotland. 13. Which of these was a famous English conductor? A) John Major. B) John Singer Sargent. C) Brian Sergent. D) Malcolm Sargent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Malcolm Sargent. 14. On April 4, 1841, William Henry Harrison became what? A) George Washington's brother-in-law. B) The ninth US President. C) The first US President to die in office. D) The first native American President. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The first US President to die in office. 15. Which of these is a breed of Australian sheep dog bred to muster livestock, primarily sheep, cattle, goats and poultry? A) Banshee. B) Nessie. C) Kelpie. D) Hooley. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kelpie. 16. Which of these people was not assassinated between 1900 and 1910? A) Boutros Ghali, Prime Minister of Egypt. B) Umberto I, King of Italy. C) Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. D) Carlos I, King of Portugal and Luiz Filipe, Crown Prince of Portugal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. 17. The phrase "spick and span" means ..... ? A) Old and gray. B) Clean and tidy. C) Fat and ugly. D) Down and out. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Clean and tidy. 18. When the Olympics was resurrected in modern times, with a Summer Olympics in 1896, where were the games held? A) Palermo, Italy. B) London, UK. C) Paris, France. D) Athens, Greece. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Athens, Greece. 19. David LaChapelle is a leading figure in what activity? A) Photography. B) Ballet. C) Astronomy. D) Painting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Photography. 20. What was the Republic of New Atlantis established by Leicester Hemingway (Ernest's brother) on July 4, 1964? A) A block of houses in Chicago. B) A small farm in north-western Spain. C) A bamboo and steel raft moored near Jamaica. D) A rock in the Strait of Gibraltar. 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