This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge โ Quiz 647 ๐ Homepage ๐ Download PDF Books ๐ Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 647 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which cartoon series relies on the voices of Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Segall Adlon, Brittany Murphy, Johnny Hardwick, Stephen Root & Toby Huss? A) The Simpsons. B) Family Guy. C) The Flintstones. D) King of the Hill. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) King of the Hill. 2. What sport, when it was first played in 1902, was called immoral and "a monster that spreads its claws to all sides" ? A) Lacrosse. B) Korfball. C) Netball. D) Beach volleyball. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Korfball. 3. Which new category was introduced In 2017 into the Dakar Rally? A) UTV. B) Quads. C) Trucks. D) Motorbikes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) UTV. 4. Table tennis, or ping-pong as it was called then, was delighting the upper class English in the 1880s. It was played with an odd assortment of equipment; which of these was not recorded as one of them? A) Cigar box lids. B) Champagne corks. C) Books. D) Ladies' veils. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ladies' veils. 5. The Balfour Declaration, made by Lord Balfour on behalf of the British Government in 1917, was a promise to do what after World War I? A) Act as the co-ordinators for a "League of Nations". B) Provide money to France to erect a defensive line along the French-German border. C) Make Palestine into a "national home" for Jews. D) Scuttle the British navy as an incentive for world disarmament. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Make Palestine into a "national home" for Jews. 6. What is the next in this series:3.1, 95, 98, 98SE, ..... A) 2000. B) 2005. C) 98XP. D) 100GT. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2000. 7. What is the name for partially decayed vegetable matter that is dug up and used for fuel? A) Offal. B) Slag. C) Peat. D) Gravel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peat. 8. Noam Chomsky thought, lectured and wrote on many subjects, including which of these? A) First Nations customs and culture. B) Linguistics. C) Boat design. D) Economics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Linguistics. 9. The premier rugby union tournament known as the Currie Cup since 1892 is held in which country? A) South Africa. B) Zimbabwe (initially Rhodesia). C) Australia. D) New Zealand. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) South Africa. 10. Juneau, Alaska is the most northern of the US state capitals. What is the second-most northern? A) Olympia, Washington. B) Bismarck, North Dakota. C) Helena, Montana. D) Saint Paul, Minnesota. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Olympia, Washington. 11. Which British TV series, of a total of 82 episodes between 1991 and the end of 1997, was set variously in the UK, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Germany, Cyprus, Australia and South Africa? A) Soldier Soldier. B) The Life of Birds. C) Challenge Anneka. D) After Dark. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Soldier Soldier. 12. Who are the Leopold and Loeb of the 2003 musical "Thrill Me:the Leopold and Loeb Story" ? A) Musicians. B) Killers. C) Mountaineers. D) Stuntmen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Killers. 13. Which 1972 film, set in the 1930s, involved American Sally Bowles dreaming of becoming a movie star while working at "The Kit Kat" in Berlin? A) I Am A Camera. B) Cabaret. C) The Blue Angel. D) The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cabaret. 14. What is the name of the French national flag adopted during the French Revolution, consisting of three equal vertical bands of red, white and blue? A) Marianne. B) Marseillaise. C) Tricolore. D) Chaplain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tricolore. 15. An adventurous mouse called Anatole who lives outside Paris, France, and a mouse called Basil of Baker Street who lives in Victorian London, UK, were created by a writer who lived where? A) Northern Ireland. B) France. C) England. D) USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) USA. 16. Which composer was publicly denounced by his country's Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, as an "atonal noisemaker", and whose music was banned in 1936 and then included in the 1938 exhibition of Degenerate Music? A) Paul Hindemith. B) Zoltรกn Kodรกly. C) Arthur Honegger. D) Robert Kahn. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paul Hindemith. 17. What word can be applied to someone who devotes their life to pleasure? A) Faunist. B) Sybarite. C) Bacchante. D) Fauvist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sybarite. 18. Which winter sport was contested as an Olympic sport only once, at the 1908 Summer Olympics? A) Women's ski slalom. B) Special figures figure skating. C) Solo synchronised swimming. D) Softball. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Special figures figure skating. 19. When was the first recorded ascent of Mount Fuji by someone who is not Japanese? A) 1869. B) 663. C) 1868. D) 1575. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1868. 20. For a real or complex number In mathematics, its distance from zero is termed its absolute value or what? A) Modem. B) Modifier. C) Modulus. D) Modicum. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Modulus. โ PreviousNext โRelated 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 ๐ Back to Homepage ๐ Download PDF Books ๐ Premium PDF Books