This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 639 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 639 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these people is known for dance? A) Aretha Franklin. B) Martha Stewart. C) Martha Graham. D) Adele Adkins. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Martha Graham. 2. What were the logo and mascots for the Winter Olympics 2010 in Vancouver, Canada, inspired by? A) Winter sports popular in Canada. B) Traditional creatures and a landmark of significance to First Nations peoples. C) Different forms of frozen water (snow, ice, snowflake). D) Canadian lakes and fish. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Traditional creatures and a landmark of significance to First Nations peoples. 3. Who is the next in this series:Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, Max Schmeling, Jack Sharkey, Primo Carnera, ..... ? A) Max Baer. B) Joe Louis. C) James J. Braddock. D) Rocky Marciano. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Max Baer. 4. Which member of the UK Parliament and member of the IRA died on hunger strike while in prison at The Maze near Belfast in 1981? A) John Sinclair. B) Medgar Evers. C) Steve Biko. D) Bobby Sands. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bobby Sands. 5. King Harold was killed at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 when an arrow went into what part of his body? A) Chest. B) Foot. C) Eye. D) Hand. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eye. 6. What are muons? A) The force that binds protons and neutrons. B) Short-lived negatively charged particles, similar to electrons but 207 times heavier. C) Positively charged ions. D) A form of neutrino. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Short-lived negatively charged particles, similar to electrons but 207 times heavier. 7. What tag does the actor who plays Claire, high school student Alex's initial romantic interest in "Alex Strangelove" (2018), have attached to her entry in Wikipedia? A) "Her birth name actually is Alex Truelove". B) "She won an Obie Award in 1995". C) "She is not related to Harvey Weinstein". D) "She is profoundly deaf". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "She is not related to Harvey Weinstein". 8. In which form of fencing contest do the competitors wear a sleeveless lamé? A) Foil. B) Epée. C) Sabre. D) Cutlass. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foil. 9. What is the official language in Guyana, on the South America mainland and on the southern limits of the Caribbean? A) French. B) English. C) German. D) Russian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) English. 10. In which country was the first 24 hour race for motor cars held on a closed course, in 1907? A) Germany. B) France. C) Belgium. D) England. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) England. 11. Where is the Macaronesia Region? A) In the western Pacific Ocean. B) In the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of northern West Africa and Europe. C) In the Black Sea. D) In the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of South America. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of northern West Africa and Europe. 12. In Victorian England, what was a "reticule" ? A) Bag. B) Desk. C) Carriage. D) Hat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bag. 13. When was the 1 mile running race discontinued at the Olympic Games? A) 1960. B) It was never an Olympic distance. C) 1904. D) 1952. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It was never an Olympic distance. 14. Which Australian city do the natives call "Freo" ? A) Darwin. B) Sydney. C) Melbourne. D) Fremantle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fremantle. 15. Applying a glue preparation or gesso to a canvas before painting is known as what? A) Rendering. B) Undercoating. C) Sizing. D) Pasting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sizing. 16. Which common household omnivore is known to eat book bindings, carpet, clothing, coffee, dandruff, glue, hair, some paints, paper, photos, plaster, sugar, wallpaper paste, cotton, dead insects, linen, silk, and their own moulted skins? A) Moth larva. B) Cockroach. C) Ant. D) Silverfish. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Silverfish. 17. When was the gambling casino, Monte Carlo, first opened in Monaco? A) 1878. B) 1863. C) 1881. D) 1856. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1856. 18. Which of these is the only vertebrate to have been discovered so far to have lungs but no windpipe (trachea)? A) A brackish water fish called calamoichthys. B) A freshwater fish genus called polypterus. C) A freshwater fish called lungfish. D) A seawater fish called coelacanth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A freshwater fish genus called polypterus. 19. What 1936 film, starring, written, directed and scored by Charlie Chaplin, comments on the desperate employment and fiscal conditions many people faced during the Great Depression? A) Metropolis. B) The Gold Rush. C) The Great Dictator. D) Modern Times. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Modern Times. 20. What is the next in the series:Antwerp; Paris; Amsterdam; Los Angeles? A) Berlin. B) London. C) Helsinki. D) Melbourne. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Berlin. ← 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