This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 514 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 514 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who was the (subsequently) Pulitzer-Prize-winning American playwright who wrote "The Odd Couple" ? A) Tennessee Williams. B) Arthur Miller. C) Mel Brooks. D) Neil Simon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neil Simon. 2. What is known most usually in the UK as "The Sport of Kings" ? A) Billiards. B) Darts. C) Rugby Union. D) Horse racing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Horse racing. 3. What colours are on the flag used to signify the finish of a Formula One motor race? A) Yellow. B) Yellow and red. C) Green. D) Black and white. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Black and white. 4. Which of these is in Scotland? A) Lake Geneva. B) Blackpool Tower. C) Sears Tower. D) Loch Lomond. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Loch Lomond. 5. Which of these songs started as a number for the 1934 musical film "Hollywood Party" ? A) Purple Rain. B) Green Door. C) Yellow Submarine. D) Blue Moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blue Moon. 6. A band in Stalybridge, Manchester, England, is possibly what? A) The first civilian brass band in the world. B) The only band in the UK whose membership is the entire town which it represents. C) The first English band to use only electronic instruments. D) The only band to use just musical instruments, e.g. water, rustling paper, not recognised as such. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The first civilian brass band in the world. 7. Where is the strait of Strelasund? A) Baltic Sea. B) Arctic Ocean. C) Caspian Sea. D) Tasman Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Baltic Sea. 8. To which of these clubs does "gridiron" not refer? A) An elite journalistic club in Washington, D.C., USA. B) A club at Oxford University, UK. C) A club for adherents of St Stephen in Wellington, NZ. D) A football club in Louisiana, USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A club for adherents of St Stephen in Wellington, NZ. 9. What is the only process known to manufacture helium? A) Nuclear fusion in stars. B) Nuclear fission. C) Bombarding atoms together. D) Bombarding an atom with neutrons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nuclear fusion in stars. 10. Who, co-founders of the Spartacist League in January 1916, were executed in Berlin in January 1919? A) Bonny Parker and Clyde Barrow. B) Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. C) Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx. D) John Profumo and Christine Keeler. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. 11. Which author, in his 2006 graphic novel series, put Marvel icons including Spider-Man, the X-Men, Nick Fury, Doctor Strange, Captain America, Daredevil, Doctor Doom, Magneto and more into the context of an Elizabethan London in 1602? A) Daniel Lieske. B) Neil Gaiman. C) Art Spiegel. D) Philip Pullman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neil Gaiman. 12. What honorific is applied to the Brian Cox who features in TV series such as "Einstein's Shadow", "The Infinite Monkey Cage", "The Planets" and "Postman Pat" ? A) Esquire. B) Mister. C) Ms. D) Professor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Professor. 13. Which country was under the influence of the USSR immediately following World War II until 1990 when Wojciech Jaruzelski resigned as president and was succeeded by Lech Wałęsa? A) China. B) Poland. C) Japan. D) The Philippines. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poland. 14. The northernmost USA state on the eastern seaboard lies partly north of its neighbouring Canadian territory. Which is the state? A) Rhode Island. B) Maine. C) Washington. D) Alaska. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Maine. 15. What was the last engineering work completed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel? A) Royal Albert Bridge over the Tamar River. B) Great Eastern steamship. C) Paddington Station for the Great Western Railway. D) Clifton Suspension Bridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Great Eastern steamship. 16. By what other name is Ecuador's Archipiélago de Colón known? A) Galápagos Islands. B) Falkland Islands (Malvinas). C) Virgin Islands. D) Mascarene Islands. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Galápagos Islands. 17. Where does Winnie-the-Pooh live? A) 100 Acre Wood. B) Never Never Land. C) Lilliput. D) Japan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 100 Acre Wood. 18. Which of these was the cause of 8.5 million refugees and half a million deaths between August and December 1947? A) The eruption of Mt Pinatubo in the Philippines. B) The long march in China. C) The partition of India. D) Hurricane Alfred in the Caribbean. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The partition of India. 19. What is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended recipient, suspects the existence of the message? A) Stenography. B) Steganography. C) Cryptonomy. D) Cryptosporidiosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Steganography. 20. Who was ousted as Panama's leader after a 1989 US invasion ordered by President George H.W. Bush, was convicted of drug racketeering and related charges in 1992, and was extradited to France at the end of April 2010 on charges of laundering around US$ 3 million in drug proceeds by buying luxury apartments in Paris? A) Daniel Ortega. B) Fulgencio Batista. C) Augusto Pinochet. D) Manuel Noriega. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Manuel Noriega. ← 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