This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 581 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 581 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is FMT trialled for? A) Drought resistant planting. B) Fuel for space travel. C) Medical treatment. D) Earthquake-proof sewage piping. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Medical treatment. 2. Which is one of two territories which have declared themselves independent since 2008 but remain claimed by their parent country as its occupied territories? A) Abkhazia. B) Transnistria. C) Naga Self-Administered Zone. D) Mayotte. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abkhazia. 3. The Sex Pistols' initial career lasted two and a half years. How many studio albums of fresh material did they issue officially in that period? A) 2. B) 5. C) 3. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1. 4. Where would you find the river Bug? A) Spain. B) Estonia. C) Ukraine. D) Sweden. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ukraine. 5. Which composer's works include the operas "La BohΓ¨me", "Tosca", and "Madama Butterfly", and the arias "O mio babbino caro", "Che gelida manina", and "Nessun dorma" ? A) Ludwig van Beethoven. B) Giuseppe Verdi. C) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. D) Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini. 6. Haricot beans are commonly used in what common canned product? A) Spaghetti. B) Baked beans. C) Corned beef. D) Sardines. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Baked beans. 7. Where are the islands called Amherst, Bayfield, Greene, Simcoe, High Bluff, Nicholson, Waupoos and Wolfe? A) Red Sea. B) North Atlantic Ocean. C) Ionian Sea. D) Lake Ontario. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lake Ontario. 8. The caffeine-rich infused drink, mate, is prepared from a species of South American holly called what? A) Yerba. B) Christ's Thorn. C) Cassena. D) Gallberry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yerba. 9. In 1977, Hamida Djandoubi was involved in what act that was special in French history? A) He tried to assassinate the President. B) He set off a bomb that destroyed a large shopping mall in Paris. C) He was the last person to be guillotined. D) He was the first Frenchman to swim the English Channel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He was the last person to be guillotined. 10. "Chateau Snavely", "Amanda's", and "Payne" were three attempts to remake which UK TV series for the US market? A) Absolutely Fabulous. B) Only Fools And Horses. C) The Good Life. D) Fawlty Towers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fawlty Towers. 11. What is a cantaloupe? A) Dance. B) Deer. C) Melon. D) Musical instrument. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Melon. 12. What is a half-pipe used for? A) A surface for gravity-based extreme sports. B) Drainage in low rainfall areas. C) People trying to give up smoking. D) Small collages. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A surface for gravity-based extreme sports. 13. When was the island and port of Lagos, part of what is now the most populous city in Africa, ceded to Great Britain? A) June 1882. B) February 1840. C) December 1899. D) August 1861. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) August 1861. 14. Who was the first British monarch to make a Christmas broadcast to the nation? A) George I. B) George V. C) George IV. D) George III. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) George V. 15. Robert Allen Zimmerman, American singer-songwriter, author and visual artist, is better known as what? A) Bob Dylan. B) Bob Marley. C) Robert Fripp. D) Bob Geldof. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bob Dylan. 16. Miss Worlds 1999 and 2000 both represented which country? A) USA. B) Australia. C) India. D) Bermuda. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) India. 17. What shape are the 20 faces of a icosahedron? A) Squares. B) Triangles. C) Pentagons. D) Hexagons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Triangles. 18. Which polemical and lastingly influential book about writing and freedom was published in England in 1644 at the height of the English Civil War by a scholar and philosopher later known and celebrated more for poetry? A) Oroonoko. B) Some Thoughts Concerning Education. C) Leviathan. D) Areopagitica. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Areopagitica. 19. What is the name for the point on the ecliptic when the sun is at its greatest distance from the equator? A) Perineum. B) Eclipse. C) Solstice. D) Tropicality. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Solstice. 20. Which of these is a river? A) Mamba. B) Mamberamo. C) Mambo. D) Mammoth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mamberamo. β PreviousNext βRelated 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 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books