This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge โ Quiz 641 ๐ Homepage ๐ Download PDF Books ๐ Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 641 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which event in late 2022 devastated the Cayman Islands, Cuba and south east USA? A) Magnitude 9 earthquake. B) Category 4 hurricane. C) Hit from a Russian long-distance ballistic missile. D) Locust plague. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Category 4 hurricane. 2. In the USA in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt formed the Progressive Party when he lost the Republican nomination to William Howard Taft. What was the party also known as? A) Bull Moose Party. B) Bull Donkey Party. C) Bull Elephant Party. D) Bull Bear Party. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bull Moose Party. 3. Which Jewish festival, celebrated over the 14th and 15th of the Hebrew month of Adar (approximately March in the Gregorian calendar), is to commemorate the preservation of the Jews in Persia from the destruction threatened by Haman? A) Purim. B) Passover. C) Hanukkah. D) Ramadan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Purim. 4. The island of Rรฉunion, in the Mascarene Islands and an overseas department and region of France, is closest to which other country to its west? A) Brazil. B) Sri Lanka. C) Madagascar. D) The Philippines. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Madagascar. 5. What would munition normally be? A) War materiel. B) Warning. C) Canvas for painting. D) Payment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) War materiel. 6. What is the word for a literary work that imitates another style or artist? A) Smother. B) Plagiarism. C) Forgery. D) Pastiche. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pastiche. 7. What are Toyosu in Tokyo, La Nueva Viga in Mexico, Mercamadrid in Spain, and Feskekรดrka in Sweden? A) Stock markets. B) Theatres. C) Fish markets. D) Rivers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fish markets. 8. A "tip off" is the start of each game in which sport? A) Cricket. B) Field hockey. C) Baseball. D) Basketball. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Basketball. 9. What were the championships known as USSR vs. Rest of the World in 1970 and 1984? A) Chess. B) Gymnastics. C) Rugby. D) Marksmanship. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chess. 10. What is a trug usually used for? A) As part of a wheel assembly. B) To open jars. C) To carry flowers, garden vegetables or garden tools. D) To hold a horse's bit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To carry flowers, garden vegetables or garden tools. 11. Who coined the expression "portmanteau words" for words made from combinations of other words, such as "brunch" ? A) James Boswell. B) Marcel Proust. C) A A Milne. D) Lewis Carroll. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lewis Carroll. 12. What are krugerrands made of? A) Gold. B) Silver. C) Iron. D) Nickel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gold. 13. Who composed the 1723 suite for wind instruments known as the Water Music? A) George Frideric Handel. B) Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. C) Georg Philipp Telemann. D) Christoph Willibald Gluck. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Georg Philipp Telemann. 14. What did the 1985 Accord signed by the US and four other nations at the Plaza Hotel in New York City in November apply to? A) Cyber security. B) Free trade. C) Nuclear weapons. D) Control of currencies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Control of currencies. 15. Where is the term "gongoozler" most often used? A) Roadworks. B) Canals or other narrow waterways. C) Factories. D) Agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Canals or other narrow waterways. 16. Henry Croft, an orphan street sweeper who collected money for charity, is associated with what organised charitable tradition of working class culture in London, England? A) St Vincent de Paul Society. B) Oxfam. C) Pearly Kings and Queens. D) Dr Barnardo's Homes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pearly Kings and Queens. 17. Ninette de Valois was involved professionally in what activity? A) Sculpture. B) Ballet. C) Dress design. D) Film making. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ballet. 18. What is a "chapman" ? A) Someone who makes things from leather. B) A hatmaker. C) An itinerant merchant in medieval Britain. D) A horse wrangler at an inn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An itinerant merchant in medieval Britain. 19. Which partly fictional book published in the late nineteenth century is based on a two-week holiday on an English river? A) Swallows and Amazons. B) Three Men In a Boat. C) The Polyglots. D) The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Three Men In a Boat. 20. What state, earlier known as the Bohemian Kingdom and part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time of the Empire's dissolution at the end of World War I, was formed in 1918? A) Poland. B) Czechoslovakia. C) Lithuania. D) Hungary. 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