This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 644 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 644 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which is one of the most prominent landmarks of the city of Abuja in Nigeria? A) Aso Rock. B) Aloba Arch. C) Uluru. D) Hand of Fatima. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aso Rock. 2. What connects one of the symbols of the Lillehammer Winter Olympics 1994, and two Norwegian teenagers on the island of Tro, Norway, in 2016? A) Their mother designed the symbol while living on the island. B) They defaced 5, 000 year old carvings on the island, one of which inspired the symbol. C) They were performing tableaux vivants of Olympic symbols. D) They found the original sketches for the symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They defaced 5, 000 year old carvings on the island, one of which inspired the symbol. 3. What is a small ceramic dish used for baking an individual portion? A) Roulade. B) Ramekin. C) Raclette. D) Roustabout. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ramekin. 4. In 1990 the World Weightlifting Championships were run separately for men and women for the last time. Where were they held? A) Budapest, Hungary, and Sarajevo, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. B) Athens, Greece and Manchester, United Kingdom. C) Ostrava, Slovenia and Florida, United States. D) SΓΆdertΓ€lje, Sweden, and Sofia, Bulgaria. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Budapest, Hungary, and Sarajevo, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. 5. Malagasy is the language spoken by the indigenous people of what country? A) Madagascar. B) Malawi. C) Mali. D) The Maldives. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Madagascar. 6. Founded in 914 CE by the Vikings who built on the banks of the River Suir, and with Reginald's Tower as its most recognisable landmark, what is the oldest city in the Republic of Ireland? A) Waterford. B) Cork. C) Galway. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Waterford. 7. In cartography, the method by which a spherical shape is represented as a rectangle was invented by whom? A) Gerardus Mercator. B) Isaac Newton. C) Francis Drake. D) Erasmus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gerardus Mercator. 8. An internationally recognised activist for freedom of information, is Julian who? A) Of Norwich. B) Savea. C) Lloyd Webber. D) Assange. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assange. 9. Which physicist wrote "A Brief History of Time" ? A) Isaac Asimov. B) Lord Rutherford. C) Stephen Hawking. D) Patrick Moore. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stephen Hawking. 10. The wreck of which warship, one of the largest in the English navy of King Henry VIII in the first half of the 16th century, was rediscovered in 1971 and salvaged in October 1982? A) Andrea Doria. B) Marie Celeste. C) Mary Rose. D) Queen Elizabeth I. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mary Rose. 11. What is the shortest-serving capital in the current states of the USA? A) Juneau. B) Providence. C) Oklahoma City. D) Sacramento. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oklahoma City. 12. What was the name of the Liverpool club where the Beatles played in the early 1960s? A) Abyss. B) Trench. C) Hole. D) Cavern. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cavern. 13. What is the name of the stadium in The Bronx in New York City which was the home baseball park of the New York Yankees from 1923 to 2008? A) The Cake Tin. B) Yankee Stadium. C) Lords. D) The New York Met. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yankee Stadium. 14. What field is Albert Einstein best known for working in? A) Physics. B) Geology. C) Brewing. D) Painting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Physics. 15. Which of these, sporting large backward-curving horns, is a bearded mountain goat from Eurasia and northern Africa? A) Saiga. B) Ibex. C) Mountain Nyala. D) Eland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ibex. 16. Which Irish artist was lead singer of an Irish rock band from 1990 to 2003 when the band dissolved for the first time? A) Andrea Corr. B) Dolores O'Riordan. C) Fearghal McKee. D) Shane MacGowan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dolores O'Riordan. 17. Which world leaders shared fish and chips in a London pub in 2003? A) John Howard & Vladimir Putin. B) Tony Blair & George W Bush. C) Nelson Mandela & Silvio Berlusconi. D) Nicolas Sarkozy & Helen Clark. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tony Blair & George W Bush. 18. To what does the term "radiology" refer? A) Radar. B) X Rays. C) Broadcasting. D) Ship to shore communication. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) X Rays. 19. What does the "A" stand for in the abbreviation "PDA", that refers to a small computer that has the ability to connect to the internet? A) Aid. B) Acronym. C) Advisor. D) Assistant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assistant. 20. Which Irish-born philanthropist founded over 112 institutions for deprived children in the last half of the 19th century? A) St Vincent de Paul. B) Dr Thomas Barnardo. C) Sir Truby King. D) General William Booth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dr Thomas Barnardo. 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