This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 540 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 540 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who is the main character in a thinly veiled allegory, written while its author was in prison, released in 1678, and still in print? A) Pantagruel. B) Christian. C) Candide. D) Don Juan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Christian. 2. What acid is found in tea? A) Tannic. B) Sorbic. C) Malic. D) Citric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tannic. 3. As what were the first Paralympic Games originally known? A) Wheelchair Games. B) The Guttmann Games. C) The Stoke Mandeville Games. D) The Disabled Games. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Stoke Mandeville Games. 4. Which of these is an instrument for recording electrical discharges associated with mental activity? A) Electroencephalograph. B) Electrocardiograph. C) Electromagnet. D) Encephalophone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Electroencephalograph. 5. What caused the death of American professional ice hockey forward Adam Johnson during a match in 2023? A) A punch during a dispute with onlookers. B) A heart attack. C) Blood loss after a skate blade cut his neck during a collision. D) He was shot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blood loss after a skate blade cut his neck during a collision. 6. What is the Spanish equivalent of the word "mister" ? A) Monsieur. B) Herr. C) Señor. D) Señorita. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Señor. 7. Of what were He Kexin, Jiang Yuyuan, Yang Yilin and Deng Linlin accused at the 2008 Olympic Games? A) They had colluded to pass a drug test. B) They had colluded to ensure that He Kexin won a medal. C) They were under-age. D) They were wearing a type of unauthorised shoe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They were under-age. 8. What long-running US TV series from the 1980s returned in June 2012, after a 21 year break? A) Bewitched. B) Gunsmoke. C) Hill Street Blues. D) Dallas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dallas. 9. Alidade, for example, a rotary dial for angular positioning on an astrolabe, is a term borrowed from which language? A) Italian. B) Greek. C) Arabic. D) Chinese. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arabic. 10. Who began as a Broadway actor, made his Hollywood debut in 1935, and had lead roles in "The Grapes of Wrath", "The Ox-Bow Incident", "Mister Roberts" and "12 Angry Men" ? A) Kirk Douglas. B) James Stewart. C) Clark Gable. D) Henry Fonda. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Henry Fonda. 11. Which of these historic buildings is in Dublin? A) Alcatraz. B) Mountjoy prison. C) Bastille. D) The Dom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mountjoy prison. 12. Windsurfing equipment includes ..... ? A) A compass. B) An anemometer. C) A sail. D) Scuba gear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A sail. 13. In "Through the Looking Glass", Alice uses a mirror to read which poem? A) The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner. B) Jabberwocky. C) Paradise Lost. D) Hiawatha. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jabberwocky. 14. What does antepenultimate mean? A) Last. B) 2nd to last. C) 3rd to last. D) First. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3rd to last. 15. Which of these is a nickname that is often given to the flag of the USA? A) Old Faithful. B) Old Glory. C) Old Magnificent. D) Old Sam. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Old Glory. 16. The main characters in James Goldman's play "The Lion in Winter" are Henry II, his sons John, Geoffrey & Richard, his mistress Alais Capet, and which other? A) Queen Victoria. B) Romeo. C) Moses. D) Eleanor of Aquitaine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eleanor of Aquitaine. 17. What was the first film made especially as a musical comedy, which included the songs "The Wedding of the Painted Doll" and "You Were Made For Me", by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed? A) The Jazz Singer. B) The Broadway Melody. C) A Chorus Line. D) Don Juan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Broadway Melody. 18. The large, white, wood-eating larvae of the cossid moth have been a staple food for which of these peoples? A) Aboriginal Australians. B) Mayans. C) The Chinchorro. D) The Masai. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aboriginal Australians. 19. What is another name for the throw, or toe, line in a darts game? A) Doche. B) Oche. C) Pooch. D) Cloche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oche. 20. The numbers 111, 222, 333, 444, 555, 666, 777, 888 and 999 are all multiples of what number? A) 47. B) 37. C) 57. D) 67. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 37. ← 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