This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 650 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 650 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Whose memoirs inspired and largely provided the basis for the UK television series "Call the Midwife" ? A) Jennifer Worth. B) Jennifer Lee. C) Jenny Agutter. D) Jennifer Browne. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jennifer Worth. 2. What British television programme starring Stephen Fry, based in a small Norfolk town (where the local pub is called the "Startled Duck"), was cancelled after 3 series? A) Commonwealth. B) Realm. C) Empire. D) Kingdom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kingdom. 3. Which National Basketball Association (NBA) team won the 2019 Championship? A) Toronto Raptors. B) Los Angeles Lakers. C) Boston Celtics. D) Golden State Warriors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Toronto Raptors. 4. Which country owns most of the main island of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego? A) Chile. B) Argentina. C) United Kingdom. D) Venezuela. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chile. 5. What does the "e" in Juice, the acronym for the mission launched on 14 April 2023 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, stand for? A) Europe. B) Explorer. C) Extension. D) Enabler. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Explorer. 6. Leo Joseph Ryan Jr., the first US congressman to be killed in the line of duty, was murdered where? A) Guyana. B) Venezuela. C) Philippines. D) Berlin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Guyana. 7. Malagasy is an official language of which country? A) Mali. B) Somalia. C) Madagascar. D) Oman. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Madagascar. 8. What was the colloquial name given to women volunteers to the US Navy during the second world war? A) WRENS. B) WAVES. C) WAAFS. D) WREKS. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) WAVES. 9. What excise levied from 1746 to 1845 in the UK resulted for a while in hollow-stemmed glasses? A) On glass smashing in toasts. B) On Beer. C) On weight of glass melted in a glasshouse. D) On lead. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) On weight of glass melted in a glasshouse. 10. Which band performed at the Australian Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne, Australia in 2009 and in the halftime show of the Super Bowl in Miami Gardens, Florida in 2010? A) The Who. B) Green Day. C) R E M. D) U2. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Who. 11. Evidence has been found in which cave, that modern man (homo sapiens) may have reached South-East Asia at least 60, 000 years ago? A) Spirit Cave, Thailand. B) Tam Pa Ling Cave, Laos. C) Tham Om Cave, Vietnam. D) Juyuan Cave, China. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tam Pa Ling Cave, Laos. 12. Which describes the climate of Sierra Leone in West Africa during most of the year? A) Temperate. B) Arid. C) Arctic. D) Humid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Humid. 13. What created fjords? A) Rivers. B) Volcanoes. C) Wind. D) Glaciers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Glaciers. 14. Who entered Studio 54 in New York City in 1977 for her 32nd birthday party on a white horse, resulting in publicity that established it as the preferred nightclub for celebrities? A) Debbie Harry. B) Madonna. C) Betty Grable. D) Bianca Jagger. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bianca Jagger. 15. Moshing refers to what? A) Crowd surfing. B) Explosive, aggressive dance in clubs, at concerts and similar. C) A slow romantic encounter. D) Finely creaming potatoes and other vegetables. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Explosive, aggressive dance in clubs, at concerts and similar. 16. A logarithmic spiral, frequently seen in natural phenomena and called spira mirabilis by Jacob Bernoulli in the 17th century, is characterised by what? A) Distances between the curves are constant. B) Its shape stays the same as its size increases. C) As the spiral increases in size the distance between its outer arms narrows until it disappears. D) It always appears in combinations of two or more spirals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Its shape stays the same as its size increases. 17. What was the first French settlement in North America? A) Vancouver. B) Quebec. C) Montreal. D) Port Royal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Port Royal. 18. In the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France, and other French venues, where is the venue for the surfing competition? A) The River Seine, Paris. B) Mont Saint-Michel. C) Tahiti. D) Brittany. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tahiti. 19. What do the initials MCC, of a sports organisation founded in England in 1787, stand for? A) Medical Council for Competition. B) Manchester City Cardinals. C) Marlborough Curling Club. D) Marylebone Cricket Club. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Marylebone Cricket Club. 20. The oldest commercial TV network in the UK is named what? A) UTV. B) ITV. C) ITV plc. 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