This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 677 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 677 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these is an inlet in the East Coast of North America? A) Gulf of Carpentaria. B) Ganges Delta. C) Galway Bay. D) Chesapeake Bay. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chesapeake Bay. 2. In 1960, who became the first film star to receive $ 1 million for a single picture? A) Julia Roberts. B) Elizabeth Taylor. C) Judy Garland. D) Jean Harlow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elizabeth Taylor. 3. The flag of which of these countries consists only of horizontal bars? A) USA. B) Great Britain. C) Canada. D) Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Germany. 4. Which is one of the causes of auroras (polar lights)? A) Solar radio emission. B) Solar radiation. C) Solar cycles. D) Solar wind. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Solar wind. 5. What shape are the standard pieces in a Chinese Checkers game? A) Square. B) Round and flat. C) Flat rounded oval. D) Domed on top of a peg. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Domed on top of a peg. 6. Where is the Sea of William Henry Smyth? A) Near London, England. B) On the Moon. C) Off the coast of Queensland, Australia. D) Due north of Moscow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) On the Moon. 7. In what sport does one "play the ball" by rolling it back to a dummy half? A) Basketball. B) Rugby league. C) Rugby union. D) Polo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rugby league. 8. What sport does Jo-Wilfried Tsonga specialise in? A) Water polo. B) Soccer (football). C) Handball. D) Tennis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tennis. 9. Thomas de Torquemada is famous for his part in what? A) Seven Years War. B) French Revolution. C) Spanish Inquisition. D) Argentinian Independence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spanish Inquisition. 10. Which of these phrases means "wealthy" ? A) Well heeled. B) Big boned. C) Fat headed. D) Pointy elbowed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Well heeled. 11. An opthalmologist treats disorders of what part of the body? A) Eyes. B) Ears. C) Nose. D) Throat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eyes. 12. What most immediately inspired the Commission, set up in 1953, which produced the immense Delta Works project? A) A North Sea flood on the last night of January of that year. B) The Great Smog of 1952 in London. C) The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in the UK. D) A season of devastating hurricanes in the Caribbean. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A North Sea flood on the last night of January of that year. 13. What alloy is made of 12% tin and 88% copper? A) Bronze. B) Steel. C) Brass. D) Pewter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bronze. 14. Where is the Laccadive, or Lakshadweep, Sea? A) At the entrance of the Red Sea. B) Between Madagascar and the African mainland. C) Between the Maldives, the Indian mainland and Sri Lanka. D) Between the island of Ireland and Wales. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Between the Maldives, the Indian mainland and Sri Lanka. 15. Which American rock, folk, and alt-country singer/songwriter, a three-time Grammy Award winner, was named "America's best songwriter" by TIME magazine in 2002? A) Lucinda Williams. B) Shania Twain. C) Tracy Chapman. D) Eva Cassidy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lucinda Williams. 16. Which British sitcom was retitled "Good Neighbors" when it played in the United States? A) Man About The House. B) To The Manor Born. C) The Goodies. D) The Good Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Good Life. 17. Who wrote the novel "Guy Mannering or The Astrologer", which, though published anonymously in 1815, sold out the first edition on the first day of publication? A) Jules Verne. B) Charles Dickens. C) Mark Twain. D) Sir Walter Scott. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sir Walter Scott. 18. When was Berlin's Tegel Airport first given its time-saving hexagonal terminal complex, and substantially increased in capacity, function, international use and runway length? A) 1948. B) 1974. C) 1919. D) 1925. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1948. 19. Who backed Jimi Hendrix in The Jimi Hendrix Experience as bassist and drummer? A) Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell. B) Roger Glover and Ian Paice. C) Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts. D) Pete Quaife and Mick Avory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell. 20. What is the nickname of Apsley House, the former London residence of the Dukes of Wellington, that stands alone at Hyde Park Corner on the south-east corner of Hyde Park? A) Waterloo. B) Buck Palace. C) Arden House. D) Number One, London. 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