This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 628 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 628 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which building on the Γle de la CitΓ© in Paris took 300 years to build from 1163, and was one of the first to have flying buttresses? A) Bastille. B) Notre Dame. C) Palace of Versailles. D) La Sorbonne. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Notre Dame. 2. Anna Wintour is famous in what field? A) Fashion. B) Photography. C) Yachting. D) Music. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fashion. 3. How many years is Methuselah recorded as having lived? A) 25. B) 101. C) 969. D) 200. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 969. 4. Barolo, Cava, Colombard and Gamay are varieties of what? A) Cabbage. B) Vine beetle. C) Wine, or wine grape. D) Vine-growing soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wine, or wine grape. 5. Although he never bore the title of "Pope", the Catholic Church recognises which of these people as the first Pope? A) Homer. B) Niccolo Machiavelli. C) Plato. D) Peter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Peter. 6. If you were to sail directly south from Los Angeles, USA, where would you find yourself? A) Chile. B) Antarctica. C) Ecuador. D) Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antarctica. 7. The feet of which are referred to as trotters? A) Cats. B) Chickens. C) Pigs. D) Horses. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pigs. 8. Much of Egyptian faience is what colour? A) Blue-green. B) Pearly white. C) Ecru. D) Black. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blue-green. 9. What nationality was the artist, caricaturist and author Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898)? A) French. B) German. C) English. D) Russian. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) English. 10. After the Battle of Landriano, French monarch FranΓ§ois I was forced to concede defeat in which war? A) The War of the League of Burgundy. B) The War of the League of Cognac. C) The War of the League of Brandy. D) The War of the League of Champagne. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The War of the League of Cognac. 11. Which Beatles number ends with a piano chord that is over 40 seconds long? A) Rain. B) A Day In The Life. C) Michelle. D) She Loves You. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A Day In The Life. 12. Which highly contagious disease, characterised by the sudden onset of rigor, headache, delirium and fever, followed by a rash, is caused by a virus conveyed by lice? A) Typhoid fever. B) Typhus. C) Measles. D) Whooping cough. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Typhus. 13. The assassination of Salvatore Maranzano in 1931 led to a major change in what organisation? A) Boy Scouts of America. B) Italian parliament. C) United Nations. D) New York mafia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) New York mafia. 14. Which poisonous compound can be a gas, solid or liquid, the most infamous application of which was use by the Nazi regime in Germany for mass murder in some gas chambers during the Holocaust? A) Cyanide. B) Strychnine. C) Carbon monoxide. D) Arsenic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cyanide. 15. What is a function of benzotriazole? A) Topical local anaesthetic. B) To treat conditions including severe anxiety, alcohol withdrawal symptoms and muscle spasms. C) Corrosion inhibitor, particularly for copper. D) To treat acne. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Corrosion inhibitor, particularly for copper. 16. A few months after the 1984 Summer Olympics a team of athletes in which sport was disclosed as having taken blood transfusions to improve their performance? A) Weightlifting. B) Swimming. C) Marathon runners. D) Cycling. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cycling. 17. Which of these is a vegetable, one of the oldest known to have been cultivated? A) Bunion. B) Onion. C) Runyan. D) Dungeon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onion. 18. Which of these historical figures is most associated with the year 1793? A) Robert the Bruce. B) Elizabeth I. C) Marie Antoinette. D) Charles I. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Marie Antoinette. 19. The countries of Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Georgia, and Russia border which body of water? A) The Black Sea. B) The South China Sea. C) The Tasman Sea. D) The Sargasso Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Black Sea. 20. By what name is Theodor Geisel better known? A) Dr Rock. B) Dr Apock. C) Dr Phil. D) Dr Seuss. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dr Seuss. 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