This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 669 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 669 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How many different countries does the 4, 370 km (2, 715 mi) Congo River run through or border? A) 2. B) 10. C) 14. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 10. 2. Which Bob Dylan song begins "You got a lotta nerveTo say you are my friend. When I was down, You just stood there grinning" ? A) From a Buick 6. B) Positively 4th Street. C) Like a Rolling Stone. D) Subterranean Homesick Blues. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Positively 4th Street. 3. Which of these is north of the equator? A) Peru. B) Easter Island. C) Ivory Coast. D) Paraguay. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ivory Coast. 4. When was the first road speed limit set in the UK for powered vehicles? A) 1878. B) 1903. C) 1861. D) 1920. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1861. 5. The "A" in "AGM" stands for what sort of General Meeting? A) Aggravating. B) Agonising. C) Annual. D) Argumentative. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Annual. 6. The first European scientific observation of a transit of Venus (when Venus passes between the Sun and Earth, and can be seen as a small black disk moving across the face of the Sun) was made by Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree in England in what year? A) 1639. B) 1751. C) 1867. D) 1769. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1639. 7. Which British long running (27 years) police TV drama that began in 1983 ended in 2010? A) EastEnders. B) Spooks. C) The Bill. D) Coronation Street. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Bill. 8. From 1985 onwards, Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the policies of "glasnost" and "perestroika" in an attempt to modernise the country. What do these two words mean? A) Fat and Happy. B) Peace and Love. C) Openness and Restructuring. D) Death and Glory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Openness and Restructuring. 9. Since 14 November 2007, from where do "Eurostar" trains leave London for Paris? A) Kings Cross. B) St Pancras. C) Victoria. D) Waterloo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) St Pancras. 10. Where did the family live who were at the heart of the first book written and illustrated by English writer and illustrator Eve Garnett (1900-1991)? A) Near the fictional 'Great Northern and Southern Railway' in Yorkshire, England. B) One End Street. C) Bloomsbury, London, England. D) In the Lake District, England. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) One End Street. 11. What mathematical tabular system was developed and promoted in 1614 by John Napier that changes calculations of, for example, multiplication and finding square roots to addition and division respectively? A) Algebra. B) Calculus. C) Logarithms. D) Geometric progression. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logarithms. 12. What can polygonal number theory apply to? A) Transcendental number theory. B) Probability theory. C) Partition theory. D) Integral calculus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Partition theory. 13. What play was recommended by the Pulitzer Prize committee for the Best Play in 1963, but rejected by the Pulitzer board due to the play's perceived vulgarity? A) Irma la Douce. B) Twelve Angry Men. C) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. D) Bye Bye Birdie. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. 14. What is ice shinny? A) Cracking as the ice thins. B) A cocktail mixing style. C) Informal ice hockey, or pond hockey. D) Burns from contact with something extremely cold. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Informal ice hockey, or pond hockey. 15. Where are St. Peter's Basilica and the Sistine Chapel? A) Florence. B) Vatican City. C) Rome. D) Turin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vatican City. 16. What name was given to the statues dating from 210 BCE, which include warriors, chariots, horses, officials, acrobats, strongmen, and musicians belonging to Qin Shi Huang the First Emperor of China, discovered in 1974 by local farmers near Xi'an? A) The Plastic Crowd. B) The Terracotta Army. C) The China Mob. D) The Tea Set. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Terracotta Army. 17. Netflix's 2022 true crime documentary "The Tinder Swindler" centres on what? A) Double-charging for apps. B) A hack which stole personal details of over 20 million people from Tinder records. C) False profiles of celebrities and influencers placed on Tinder. D) Women who tell of losing their money and trust to a swindler. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Women who tell of losing their money and trust to a swindler. 18. Which of these is a tropical fruit? A) Pawpaw. B) Richrich. C) Footfoot. D) Homelesstoe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pawpaw. 19. What is the currency in Nicaragua? A) The córdoba. B) The pound. C) The Nicaraguan dollar. D) The lek. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The córdoba. 20. What scale is used for rating tornado intensity, based on the damage tornadoes inflict on human-built structures and vegetation? A) The Torino Scale. B) The Fujita scale. C) The Beaufort Scale. D) The Richter Scale. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Fujita scale. ← 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