This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 679 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 679 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A form of verb in the English language that expresses something probable, possible or wished for, is ..... ? A) Prepositional. B) Conjunctive. C) Adjunctive. D) Subjunctive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Subjunctive. 2. Of the 8 Summer Olympics between 1896 and 1952 inclusive, how many were held outside of Europe? A) 3. B) 2. C) 4. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 3. Which (prolific) author shaped books around characters called, among other things, Fauntleroy, Sara, Mary, Dickon and Colin? A) Roald Dahl. B) Frances Hodgson Burnett. C) Laura Ingalls Wilder. D) Lucy Maud Montgomery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Frances Hodgson Burnett. 4. Where is Shangdu, sometimes known as Xanadu? A) Japan. B) China. C) Bolivia. D) India. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) China. 5. Which of these was a novel by Thomas Hardy? A) Moll Flanders. B) The Mill on the Floss. C) Tristram Shandy. D) Jude the Obscure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jude the Obscure. 6. When did Polish codebreakers first break the code of the Enigma Machines used by German military? A) 1962. B) 1950. C) 1932. D) 1910. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1932. 7. "Whispering" Ted Lowe was associated with which sport? A) Formula One. B) Cricket. C) Snooker. D) Bridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Snooker. 8. In online gaming, what is the term for a multi-user real-time virtual world described in text that combines elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, interactive fiction, and online chat that were the forerunners of modern games like World of Warcraft, and social virtual worlds such as Second Life? A) PIT. B) BOG. C) MUD. D) MARSH. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) MUD. 9. What describes "went" in the phrase "he went" ? A) Participle. B) Periphrasis. C) Inflected. D) Vocative. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inflected. 10. What is the main surface type in the Gobi Desert? A) Gravel. B) Sand. C) Silicate clay. D) Gypsum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gravel. 11. The Eddystone Rocks are 14 miles from which part of the UK? A) Plymouth. B) Margate. C) Torquay. D) Southampton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plymouth. 12. What is the world's longest mountain range, that lies as a continuous chain of highland along the western coast of South America? A) Urals. B) Alps. C) Caucasus. D) Andes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Andes. 13. The TT on the Isle of Man, first run in 1907, is for what? A) Cars with drivers who don't drink alcohol. B) Motorcycles. C) Table top model train races. D) Visa processing services for European travel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Motorcycles. 14. In which country was there a civil war between 1936 and 1939, which was won by General Franco's forces? A) Russia. B) England. C) France. D) Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spain. 15. Who was King of England when Daniel Defoe published "Robinson Crusoe" and Jonathan Swift published "Gulliver's Travels" ? A) George III. B) George II. C) George I. D) George IV. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) George I. 16. Along with peaches, Peach Melba consists of what flavour of ice cream and what type of sauce? A) Vanilla and raspberry. B) Chocolate and tomato. C) Neapolitan and Worcestershire. D) Raspberry and Chocolate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vanilla and raspberry. 17. When did blind black singer/composers Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles lose their sight? A) Charles was blind at birth, Wonder went blind in childhood. B) Both were blind at birth. C) Both went blind in childhood. D) Wonder was blind at birth, Charles went blind in childhood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wonder was blind at birth, Charles went blind in childhood. 18. Where is a clef indicated in a piece of modern written Western music? A) Above each stave. B) At the left of, and on, each stave. C) At the left of, and on, the first set of staves. D) On the right of each stave. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) At the left of, and on, each stave. 19. Sun Myung Moon is known as the founder of what movement? A) Scientology. B) Unification Church. C) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. D) Confucianism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unification Church. 20. Who won the 1975 Wimbledon men's singles title? A) Björn Borg. B) Jimmy Connors. C) John McEnroe. D) Arthur Ashe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Arthur Ashe. ← 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