This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 523 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 523 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the subject of the collection of 12 archaic Greek poems known as The Epic Cycle? A) The rulers and heroes of Mesopotamia. B) The exploits of Alexander the Great. C) The story of the world from the Creation to the Trojan War. D) The hero known as Gilgamesh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The story of the world from the Creation to the Trojan War. 2. Which of these states of the USA is the largest wheat producer? A) Florida. B) Nevada. C) New Mexico. D) Kansas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kansas. 3. In her "Adventures in Wonderland", Alice said which of these phrases frequently? A) Off with his head. B) Elementary, my dear. C) Are you havin' a laugh?. D) Curiouser and curiouser. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Curiouser and curiouser. 4. The inability or near inability in colour blindness to differentiate between some colours is, in the most common form of it, between red and which other colour? A) Yellow. B) Blue. C) Green. D) Brown. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Green. 5. The River Tiber runs through which capital city? A) Lisbon. B) Rome. C) Washington DC. D) Paris. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rome. 6. Which organisation, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, was established as an agency of the League of Nations in the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and became a specialised agency of the United Nations after the demise of the League in 1946? A) UNESCO. B) ILO. C) FAO. D) FIFA. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ILO. 7. Kanukai Jackson represented England at the 2002 Commonwealth Games at what sport? A) Gymnastics. B) Taekwondo. C) Darts. D) Tiddlywinks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gymnastics. 8. What are IFC, Epix, HBO and AMC? A) Makes of golf club. B) Football clubs. C) Cable and television networks. D) Wineries. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cable and television networks. 9. Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter starred in what 1999 film where a large part of the action concerns an expanding group of people who stage fights? A) Dazed and Confused. B) Goodfellas. C) Fight Club. D) Reservoir Dogs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fight Club. 10. When Metro Pictures took over two other companies to form MGM, MGM adopted the former Goldwyn mascot "Leo the Lion" and what Goldwyn corporate motto? A) Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense. B) Ars Gratia Artis. C) Ich Dien. D) Ad Augusta Per Angusta. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ars Gratia Artis. 11. When was the first FIA Formula E championship held? A) 2001-02. B) 2016-17. C) 2012-13. D) 2014-15. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2014-15. 12. Why did the Roslin Institute in Scotland become known world-wide in 1996? A) Identifying the SARS virus. B) Work on victims of the Dunblane Massacre. C) Preparing for the reinstallation of the Stone of Scone in Edinburgh Castle. D) The birth of the cloned sheep, Dolly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The birth of the cloned sheep, Dolly. 13. The Quintette du Hot Club de France, one of the earliest and most significant continental groups of their kind in Europe and active from 1934 to 1948, was noted for what type of music? A) Ragtime. B) Jazz. C) Big band. D) Rock and Roll. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jazz. 14. Vila Rica, now Ouro Preto, in the large eastern inland state of Minas Gerais in Brazil was the focal point of what in the 18th century? A) Supply of rich and of delicate fabric. B) A boom in sugar trade. C) The Brazilian gold rush. D) Coffee growing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Brazilian gold rush. 15. Charcoal production requires burning of wood in conditions with substantially reduced what? A) Oxygen. B) Moisture. C) Carbon dioxide. D) Heat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxygen. 16. Which area was declared a "free territory" in 1947 and administered by the US, UK and Yugoslavia until 1954 when it was partitioned between Italy and Yugoslavia? A) Romania. B) Germany. C) Trieste. D) Serbia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trieste. 17. What nickname was given to Mary Mallon, who infected a known 53 people working as a cook in New York and, in 1907, was the first healthy typhoid carrier to be identified? A) Death Angel. B) Typhoid Mary. C) Pretty Woman. D) Mary of the Camellias. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Typhoid Mary. 18. Which of these is an English artist who became famous for his humorous drawings, especially of machines and other contraptions? A) Heath Robinson. B) Aubrey Beardsley. C) M. C. Escher. D) Henry Moore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heath Robinson. 19. Which of these is not one of the four Teletubbies? A) Dipsy. B) Tinky Winky. C) Potty. D) Laa-Laa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Potty. 20. Beatrix Potter created a character called Jemima who? A) Fisher. B) Puddleduck. C) Nutkin. D) Tiggy-Winkle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Puddleduck. ← 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