This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 689 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 689 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How old was Hannah Baker, the protagonist of the Netflix-developed drama "13 Reasons Why", when she killed herself? A) 24. B) 13. C) 17. D) 45. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 17. 2. Which of these wrote under the reign of Richard II, King of England? A) Geoffrey Chaucer. B) Edmund Spenser. C) John Bunyan. D) Roger Bacon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Geoffrey Chaucer. 3. What caused difficulties for the 1928 Winter Olympics? A) Funding dried up. B) Unusually warm weather. C) A national transport strike. D) An invasion of ants. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unusually warm weather. 4. Which 15th century Portuguese navigator discovered the sea route around the Cape of Good Hope? A) Vasco Da Gama. B) Bartholomew Diaz. C) Ferdinand Magellan. D) Hernando Cortes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bartholomew Diaz. 5. In any version of the TV series "Law & Order", the opening credits start with the actors playing what parts? A) Lawyers. B) Police. C) Firemen. D) Ambulance officers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Police. 6. The northern-most point of which of these countries is the furthest north? A) Norway. B) Sweden. C) Finland. D) Iceland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Norway. 7. Ahmet Ertegun, who was born in Turkey and died in 2006 aged 83 in New York City, USA, was a founder of the New York Cosmos team of the North American Soccer League and which record label? A) Reprise. B) Atlantic. C) Apple. D) London. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Atlantic. 8. In what is a York round used in competition? A) Bowls. B) Croquet. C) Archery. D) Javelin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Archery. 9. Prague is known to its residents as what? A) The Pogue. B) Ragout. C) Praha. D) Prue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Praha. 10. What is the aim of the game played in the UK called Bingo? A) To sing accurately the largest number of music hall songs. B) To mark off a specified pattern of numbers printed on the player's ticket. C) To swap the most, different, stories with other players. D) To mark off all numbers printed in one line, or all the different numbers, on the player's ticket. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To mark off all numbers printed in one line, or all the different numbers, on the player's ticket. 11. What was first marked on 26 November 1789 in the new USA as a nation-wide celebration? A) Thanksgiving Day. B) Independence Day. C) Veterans Day. D) Labor Day. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thanksgiving Day. 12. Shove ha'penny has been a game popular in pubs and with kings. What is a ha'penny? A) A UK penny cut in half. B) What a dime used to be called. C) A UK coin no longer in circulation. D) A lucky coin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A UK coin no longer in circulation. 13. Argentina invaded UK's Falkland Islands, Israel invaded Southern Lebanon, Canada became officially independent of the UK, Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the USSR, died, all in what year? A) 1980. B) 1982. C) 1985. D) 1975. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1982. 14. Queen Margrethe II of the Kingdom of Denmark is commonly called "the queen" in Danish, which is ..... ? A) Dronningen. B) Statsrådet. C) Sundhedsbidrag. D) Folketing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dronningen. 15. What other name is given to the sea known historically by people in Greece as the Euxine? A) Black Sea. B) Aegean Sea. C) The Baltic. D) The Mediterranean. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Black Sea. 16. In 2022, the central-eastern Parana-La Plata Basin in South America is suffering its worst what since 1944? A) Drought. B) Hurricanes. C) Floods. D) Erosion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Drought. 17. Which painters aim to convey a state of mind rather than create a realistic representation, such as El Greco, Bosch, Goya, Grunewald and Munch? A) Expressionist. B) Impressionist. C) Cubist. D) Pre-Raphaelite. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Expressionist. 18. On June 23, 2016, which organisation met with the President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, in Havana? A) The Union of South American Nations. B) FARC. C) The Organisation of American States. D) Contras. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FARC. 19. Cimarron County, Texas County and Beaver County are all in the north west of which US state? A) Texas. B) Oklahoma. C) New Mexico. D) Florida. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oklahoma. 20. What is an abacus-like finger counting method used to perform basic mathematical operations, by which it is possible to display all numbers from 0 to 99 with both hands? A) Ballyhoo. B) Chisanbop. C) Conundrum. D) Neckelodeaon. 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