This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge โ Quiz 524 ๐ Homepage ๐ Download PDF Books ๐ Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 524 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who are Anne Valerie Hash, Stephanie Rolland, Alexis Mabille, Rebecca Taylor, Marc Jacobs and John Galliano? A) Portrait painters. B) The B-52's. C) Golf professionals. D) Fashion designers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fashion designers. 2. What military strategy involves destroying anything that might be useful to the enemy while passing through an area, first used by the Scythians against King Darius the Great of Persia around 500 BCE, and known for its use by both sides when Germany attacked and then retreated from the USSR in World War II? A) Boiled water. B) Burnt ground. C) Scorched earth. D) Fired land. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scorched earth. 3. Greenland and the Faroe Islands are within the realm of which European nation? A) Norway. B) Sweden. C) Denmark. D) Finland. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Denmark. 4. Which of these is not an alternative name for a wolverine? A) Skunk bear. B) Glutton. C) Capybara. D) Carcajou. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Capybara. 5. In mid 1949, barely 4 years after the end of World War II, the UK's Ealing Studios released the comedies "Passport to Pimlico", "Whisky Galore!" and which other film (included in 2005 in Time's list of the top 100 films since 1923)? A) Shaun of the Dead. B) Kind Hearts and Coronets. C) St Trinian's. D) The Lavender Hill Mob. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kind Hearts and Coronets. 6. Who created the characters of Tom Wingfield, Blanche Dubois, Big Daddy Pollitt and T Lawrence Shannon? A) Arthur Miller. B) Tennessee Williams. C) Edward Albee. D) Sam Shepard. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tennessee Williams. 7. A 1993 film starring Tom Hanks was "Sleepless in ..... '' where? A) Seattle. B) Semolina. C) Swansea. D) Somalia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Seattle. 8. What is the motto of the Invictus Games? A) Down But Not Out. B) For Our Warriors. C) Mithras Forever. D) I AM. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) I AM. 9. How were Plรกcido Domingo, Josรฉ Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti known collectively? A) Three men in a boat. B) Three little pigs. C) Fiddlers three. D) Three tenors. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Three tenors. 10. "Facebook" was launched in what year? A) 1994. B) 2004. C) 2009. D) 1990. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2004. 11. Parametricism is a tool and style within which of these fields? A) Aeronautical engineering. B) Glass sculpture. C) Quantum physics. D) Architecture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Architecture. 12. Which is a 1959 book by Nobel Prize-winning German author Gรผnter Grass? A) The Tin Drum. B) The Tin Man. C) Tintinnabulations. D) The Tinder Swindler. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Tin Drum. 13. Which of these Mexican cities is closest to the Gulf of Mexico? A) Les Machis. B) Colma. C) Mazatlan. D) Veracruz. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Veracruz. 14. What is a kittiwake? A) An alert cat. B) A species of gull. C) Anne Frank's affectionate name for an imaginary friend. D) A central pool of cards or cash in a game. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A species of gull. 15. What is the overtly female version of the "Mr. Men" series? A) Miss Chief. B) Ms. C) Little Miss. D) Mrs Man. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Little Miss. 16. Which of these people is a poet? A) Daniel Ton. B) Isaac Stone. C) Jacob Gram. D) Ezra Pound. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ezra Pound. 17. What was the last battle where a British monarch led troops into battle? A) The Somme, 1916. B) Copenhagen, 1807. C) Agincourt, 1415. D) Dettingen, 1743. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dettingen, 1743. 18. What does the "B" stand for in the name of the computer language called "BASIC" ? A) Basic. B) Beginner's. C) Boolean. D) British. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beginner's. 19. In geological terms, what are Rodinia and Pannotia? A) Cave systems in Croatia. B) Types of rock formation. C) Ancient supercontinents. D) Types of oil-bearing shale. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ancient supercontinents. 20. Which country launched the space station "Skylab" in 1973? A) USA. B) France. C) Great Britain. D) USSR. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) USA. โ PreviousNext โRelated 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 ๐ Back to Homepage ๐ Download PDF Books ๐ Premium PDF Books