This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 633 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 633 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these would you NOT find associated with "mimsy" ? A) Farmer. B) South Park. C) Alice in Wonderland. D) Porpington. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alice in Wonderland. 2. What caused the eventual sinking of the Italian ship, MS Achille Lauro, hijacked in 1985 by four members of the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)? A) A fierce storm when it was returning to Italy from Egypt after the hijack. B) Scuttled by the hijackers as they escaped. C) Mined by the US military after an American passenger was killed in the hijack negotiations. D) A fire in the engine room nine years later, in 1994, when one of the boilers exploded. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A fire in the engine room nine years later, in 1994, when one of the boilers exploded. 3. Which of these came to the English throne as a result of The "Glorious Revolution" that occurred in Britain in 1688? A) James II. B) Mary I and Philip. C) William III and Mary II. D) Anne. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William III and Mary II. 4. Apart from a meaning of "criminal" or "malefactor", what is a felon? A) An abscess in the deep tissues of the flat inner surface of a human fingertip. B) A strawberry runner. C) A farm animal which consistently escapes. D) An abnormal kink in an animal's tail. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An abscess in the deep tissues of the flat inner surface of a human fingertip. 5. Where were the 1976 Winter Olympics held? A) Innsbruck, Austria. B) Montreal, Canada. C) Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. D) Sapporo, Japan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Innsbruck, Austria. 6. What is an average grid for the strings in an average tennis racquet? A) 16 down and 19 across. B) 10 down and 14 across. C) 18 down and 20 across. D) 24 down and 27 across. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 16 down and 19 across. 7. When and where were association football games first played under floodlights? A) 1930s, Highbury, UK. B) 1878, Sheffield, UK. C) 1950, Southampton, UK. D) 1955, Wembley, UK. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1878, Sheffield, UK. 8. Who won the Women's Cricket World Cup played at Sydney, Australia, in 2009? A) Australia. B) New Zealand. C) England. D) India. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) England. 9. Who was the Roman goddess of poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, weaving, crafts, magic, and the inventor of music? A) Minerva. B) Pomfrey. C) Voldemort. D) Hagrid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Minerva. 10. Who was the only person, until Bob Dylan in 2016, to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize for Literature? A) Harold Pinter. B) George Bernard Shaw. C) John Steinbeck. D) John Lennon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) George Bernard Shaw. 11. Which of these affects the human stomach? A) Lateral epicondylitis. B) Gingivitis. C) Tinea. D) Peritonitis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Peritonitis. 12. Marlon Brando played Colonel Kurtz in which 1979 film? A) Cross of Iron. B) Full Metal Jacket. C) Apocalypse Now. D) Platoon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apocalypse Now. 13. Which child film star later went on to be United States Ambassador to Ghana, Chief of Protocol of the United States, and United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia? A) Mickey Rooney. B) Shirley Temple. C) Lindsay Lohan. D) JarosΕaw KaczyΕski. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shirley Temple. 14. What was the title of John Wayne's last movie, made in 1976? A) The Shootist. B) Unforgiven. C) High Noon. D) Stagecoach. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Shootist. 15. The term "checkmate" is based on a phrase from which language? A) German. B) Dutch. C) Persian. D) Indian. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Persian. 16. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, "Easy Rider", "Bonnie and Clyde" and "The Graduate" helped to begin what film-making phase? A) New Hollywood. B) New Wave. C) B-Budget. D) Independent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) New Hollywood. 17. In 1973 the Paris Peace Accords were held in an attempt to end which war? A) Arab-Israeli. B) Korean. C) Vietnam. D) "Desert Storm". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vietnam. 18. What phrase refers to an archaic method of excommunication for one who had committed a particularly grievous sin? A) Bell, book and candle. B) Blood, sweat and tears. C) Hook, line and sinker. D) Lock, stock and barrel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bell, book and candle. 19. The sea birds known as boobies are closely related to what? A) Petrels. B) Puffins. C) Albatross. D) Gannets. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gannets. 20. What is the word for a document issued by a political party before an election that sets out party policies? A) Electoral Roll. B) Embargo. C) Proclamation. D) Manifesto. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Manifesto. 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