This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 688 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 688 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Czechoslovakian composer Anton Dvorák was most proficient in which instrument? A) Zither. B) Violin. C) Trombone. D) Piccolo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Violin. 2. What was the Second League of Armed Neutrality (or the League of the North) formed in 1800 or 1801, designed to do? A) Protect fishing rights in Scandinavian waters. B) Protect free trade with France against British policy to restrict it. C) To ring fence northern countries against involvement in impending British naval wars. D) To ring fence northern countries against involvement in impending Central American wars. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Protect free trade with France against British policy to restrict it. 3. To refer to a venture or investment as copper-bottomed means what? A) It is sound, can be completely trusted. B) There may be hidden snags. C) Some of it may degrade long-term. D) It will withstand attack evenly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is sound, can be completely trusted. 4. Which of these islands is a territory of Australia? A) Madagascar. B) Easter Island. C) Christmas Island. D) Madeira. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Christmas Island. 5. The second largest river, by discharge, runs mainly through which country? A) People's Republic of China. B) The Democratic Republic of the Congo. C) The Republic of India. D) The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Democratic Republic of the Congo. 6. What is meant by "vox populi" ? A) The voice of the people. B) Chatter about nothing in particular. C) Song currently on the pop charts. D) List of people in a play. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The voice of the people. 7. To the northern end of the Great Rift Valley in Africa lies Lake Tanganyika, to the southern end is ..... ? A) Lake Russell. B) Lake Victoria. C) Lake Chad. D) Lake Malawi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lake Malawi. 8. What is the word for a male swan? A) Hob. B) Gob. C) Slob. D) Cob. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cob. 9. What is the title of Geri Halliwell's 1999 autobiography? A) And Then There Was One. B) If Only. C) Pretentious? Moi?. D) So What!. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) If Only. 10. Adriano De Souza, Joel Parkinson, Adam Robertson, Bobby Martinez, Kelly Slater, Damien Hobgood, Mick Fanning, Dane Reynolds, Bede Durbidge, Chris Davidson & Taj Burrow are or have been international competitors in what sport? A) Basketball. B) Golf. C) Tennis. D) Surfing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Surfing. 11. Sudan's neighbours are South Sudan, Central African Republic, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Libya and which other country? A) Mali. B) Egypt. C) Kenya. D) Tunisia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Egypt. 12. Who wrote "The Prince and the Pauper" and "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" ? A) Mark Twain. B) Franz Kafka. C) Edgar Allen Poe. D) Robert Louis Stephenson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mark Twain. 13. Which of these US states does not have coastline directly facing the Atlantic Ocean? A) North Carolina. B) Delaware. C) Maine. D) West Virginia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) West Virginia. 14. Who created the work "A Thousand Years", consisting of a cow's head, maggots and an insect electrocutor? A) Damien Hirst. B) Salvador Dali. C) David Hockney. D) Barbara Hepworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Damien Hirst. 15. In various languages, they are gatitos, gatinhos, gattini, chatons and katzchen. What are they in English? A) Revolvers. B) Cocktails. C) Doors. D) Kittens. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kittens. 16. "The World Series" has been the annual championship series of the highest level of professional players of which sport in the USA and Canada since 1903? A) Swimming. B) Soccer. C) Cricket. D) Baseball. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Baseball. 17. An experiment set up in 1927 by Professor Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and still current in 2014 was designed to demonstrate what? A) The number of years dormant seeds will remain viable. B) The durability of an electric battery. C) That some substances which appear solid are actually highly viscous fluids. D) The effects of temperature and atmospheric pressure variation on a clock mechanism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) That some substances which appear solid are actually highly viscous fluids. 18. What does the US television series "Elementary" centre on? A) Particle physics. B) Crime detection. C) Primary schools. D) Digestive systems. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crime detection. 19. What word means staying in one place and electrical interference? A) Inert. B) Stationary. C) Static. D) Ohmage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Static. 20. The Kalahari Desert in Africa stretches across South Africa, Botswana and which other country? A) Tanzania. B) Namibia. C) Egypt. D) Algeria. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Namibia. ← 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