This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 683 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 683 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which war pitted anarchists, socialists, and Communists supported by the Soviets and international volunteers, against conservatives, monarchists, nationalists and fascists, with the support of Portugal, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany? A) The Crimean War. B) The Spanish Civil War. C) The Korean War. D) The Hundred Years' War. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Spanish Civil War. 2. Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool are collectively known as which band? A) Fatboy Slim. B) Coldplay. C) Boyzone. D) Green Day. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Green Day. 3. Where was the area known as "The Spanish Main? A) Between Africa and India. B) Caribbean Sea. C) The Mediterranean Sea. D) Atlantic coast of the Iberian peninsula. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Caribbean Sea. 4. What is the specialty of a podiatrist? A) The legume "pisum sativum". B) Children. C) Small spacecraft. D) Feet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Feet. 5. Ojos del Salado on the border between Chile and Argentina is what? A) The highest historically active volcano in the world. B) An Inca city. C) The world's major source of cobalt. D) The only wild home for the critically endangered white-backed vulture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The highest historically active volcano in the world. 6. Who described "unified field theory", an attempt to unify and simplify the fundamental laws of physics, in a paper titled "On The Generalised Theory of Gravitation" in 1950? A) Isaac Newton. B) Satyendra Nath Bose. C) Max Planck. D) Albert Einstein. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Albert Einstein. 7. Who developed the men's scent "I Am King", which was first marketed in February 2009? A) Cassius Clay. B) Snoop Dogg. C) Sean Combs. D) Prince Charles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sean Combs. 8. What body of water between Israel and Jordan fed by the Jordan River has no outlet stream? A) Tyrrhenian Sea. B) Caspian Sea. C) Aegean Sea. D) Dead Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dead Sea. 9. Which of these is called a "nymph" ? A) Tadpole. B) Mature Daddy Long Legs. C) Moth's larva. D) Young dragonfly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Young dragonfly. 10. Who wrote "A Year in Provence" ? A) Bill Bryson. B) Peter Mayle. C) Helen Fielding. D) Lady Fortescue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peter Mayle. 11. What land was recorded by the American captain Benjamin Morrell of the schooner Wasp in March 1823, in the Weddell Sea area of Antarctica, the existence of which was not disproved until during Antarctic expeditions in the early 20th century? A) South Georgia. B) Van Dieman's Land. C) New South Greenland. D) Alaska. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) New South Greenland. 12. An aster is a type of what? A) Punctuation mark. B) Plant. C) Fish. D) Semi-precious stone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plant. 13. Which of these characters appeared in "My Fair Lady" ? A) Professor Challenger. B) Professor Higgins. C) Professor Plum. D) Professor Moriarty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Professor Higgins. 14. What is or are Westvleteren 12? A) A Belgian lacrosse team. B) A beer made by the Trappist monks of the Abbey of Sint Sixtus, Vleteren, Belgium. C) Graffiti by the Vleteren arts commune in Belgium. D) The 12 Michelin starred restaurants in Westhoek, Belgium. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A beer made by the Trappist monks of the Abbey of Sint Sixtus, Vleteren, Belgium. 15. The Scrabble game board is marked with what sized grid? A) 32 by 32. B) 8 by 8. C) 16 by 16. D) 15 by 15. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 15 by 15. 16. Which of these is a form of overexertion by people who used the same repetitive motion for many years, especially in their profession? A) Cauliflower ear. B) Housemaid's knee. C) Athlete's foot. D) Tennis elbow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tennis elbow. 17. In cosmological terms, what are JuMBOs? A) Extra large black holes. B) Planets with double ring systems. C) Large free floating bodies orbiting one another. D) The largest-known galaxies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Large free floating bodies orbiting one another. 18. What country has an official residence called Blair House, kept for guests of the leader of the country? A) UK. B) USA. C) Australia. D) Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) USA. 19. What was the cause of the Great Stink in London, UK, in the summer of 1858? A) A parliamentary sexual scandal. B) An exceptionally good harvest supplying too many vegetables and fruit, which rotted. C) Unusually hot weather acting on human waste and industrial effluent on the banks of the River Thames. D) A rash of roundarm bowling in cricket games. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unusually hot weather acting on human waste and industrial effluent on the banks of the River Thames. 20. Where were descendants of intermarriage between Arawak and Carib Indians and Nigerian ex-slaves originally found? A) French Guiana. B) Cuba. C) Belize. D) St Vincent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) St Vincent. ← 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