This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 670 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 670 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which American trumpeter and composer was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1997, the first time it had been awarded for a jazz recording? A) Paul Whiteman. B) Wynton Marsalis. C) "Jelly Roll" Morton. D) Benny Goodman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wynton Marsalis. 2. Harvard University is in which state of the USA? A) Rhode Island. B) Maine. C) Connecticut. D) Massachusetts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Massachusetts. 3. What does the "M" stand for in the name FOMEX, the exhibition inaugurated by Saudi Arabia in 2023 to accompany the Arab Radio and TV Festival? A) Media. B) Middle. C) Macarena. D) Muffet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Media. 4. What is an apocalypse, in its original meaning? A) Thunder. B) Destruction. C) Cataclysm. D) A revelation, or uncovering. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A revelation, or uncovering. 5. Which 2001 musical film based on the Orphean myth and on Giuseppe Verdi's opera "La Traviata" stars Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman? A) New York, New York. B) Chicago. C) Moulin Rouge!. D) Sunday in the Park with George. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Moulin Rouge!. 6. He led the Kuomintang for five decades, was born in Zhejiang on the east coast of China and died in Taipei; who was he? A) Jiang Zemin. B) Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925). C) Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975). D) Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975). 7. In what region do the Sahel droughts occur? A) Just north of the Gobi desert. B) Northern Arabian Peninsula. C) West and central Africa. D) West and south Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) West and central Africa. 8. From 1935 to 1946, the Philippines was officially called The Commonwealth of the Philippines when the country was a commonwealth of which nation? A) USA. B) Great Britain. C) France. D) Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) USA. 9. What is a Benioff, or Wadati-Benioff, zone likely to have? A) Frequent earthquakes. B) Deep ocean animal life. C) Barren high altitude areas. D) Radiation at more than 0.75 gray (75 rad). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Frequent earthquakes. 10. The Parcel de Manuel Luís Marine State Park protects a major coral reef system off what coast? A) Northern Brazil. B) Northern Portugal. C) Southeast Spain. D) Northern Ecuador. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Northern Brazil. 11. What is the next line of the 1960s hit song for the New Christy Minstrels: "Green, green, it's green they say, on the far side of the hill. Green, green, I'm going away" ? A) And climb across my windowsill. B) To where the grass is greener still. C) If I stay I will look a dill. D) And on gin I'll drink my fill. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To where the grass is greener still. 12. Who became the first woman to serve as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons, as the result of a by-election in 1919? A) Amelia Bloomer. B) Nancy Astor. C) Emmeline Pankhurst. D) Emily Davison. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nancy Astor. 13. Jim Carrey played which character in the 2004 film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" ? A) Dick Harper. B) Raymond Babbitt. C) Sam Pearl. D) Joel Barish. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Joel Barish. 14. In the 1908 Olympics, Jay Gould from the USA won a gold medal for competing in which sport? A) Golf. B) Jeu de Paume. C) High jump. D) Dominoes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jeu de Paume. 15. Which of these is the name of the 3 time Academy Award-winning anthropomorphic Tuxedo cat in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons? A) Macavity. B) Tweety. C) Garfield. D) Sylvester. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sylvester. 16. Where is the Sea of Smyth? A) In the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by ocean currents. B) Off the West coast of England. C) In Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan. D) On the Moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) On the Moon. 17. "Wild geese" was the name given to soldiers who fought as mercenaries in continental armies in the 16th to 18th centuries who were from which country? A) Scotland. B) Ireland. C) India. D) Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ireland. 18. In 1847, obstetrician James Young Simpson, head of midwifery at Edinburgh Hospital/University, first used what anaesthetic, for general anaesthesia during childbirth? A) Chloroform. B) Nitrous oxide. C) Ether, or sweet vitriol. D) Procaine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chloroform. 19. What name is given to the potential difference measured across a conductor of 1 ohm resistance when current of 1 ampere is flowing? A) Kilowatt. B) Watt. C) Volt. D) Angstrom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Volt. 20. Which of these US TV series is not based on a UK TV series? A) The Office. B) Top Chef. C) X Factor. D) Dancing With the Stars. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Top Chef. ← 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