This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 690 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 690 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does the classification "K-1" mean in canoe competition? A) Kayak with a V-shaped hull. B) The longest kayak allowed by the rules of the competition. C) Kayak holding one person. D) Kayak with a symmetrical hull profile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kayak holding one person. 2. What is a set of table top games simulating team sports such as soccer, cricket, both rugby and hockey, and closely associated with soccer, which for many years was marketed as "the replica of Association Football" ? A) Subbuteo. B) Sususulio. C) Bushido. D) Hokkaidō. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subbuteo. 3. Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook and Matthew Macfadyen are part of the ensemble cast of what award-winning US TV series, first aired in 2018? A) When They See Us. B) Lodge 49. C) Succession. D) Russian Doll. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Succession. 4. What character did Sharon Stone play in the 1992 film "Basic Instinct" ? A) Rosemary. B) Margaret. C) Catherine. D) Elizabeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Catherine. 5. What is used in paper or textile making, and to form a protective coating on a canvas or other surface to be used for some art techniques? A) Filler. B) Volume. C) Size. D) Varnish. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Size. 6. The Vistula is the longest river in which country? A) Kazakhstan. B) Bulgaria. C) Portugal. D) Poland. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poland. 7. Which species of shark is the largest fish in the world? A) Whale shark. B) Thresher shark. C) Great White Shark. D) Hammerhead shark. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Whale shark. 8. Which art movement, founded in a Zurich café during World War I and consolidated at a meeting held in Paris in 1920, was led by Tristan Tzara? A) Surrealism. B) Cubism. C) Impressionism. D) Dadaism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dadaism. 9. In the late 1950s the American Medical Association publicised, and commissioned research on, what? A) Problems from leprosy. B) The potentially harmful effects of the use of drugs in sport. C) The need for a vaccine for smallpox. D) A virus, which they named Conficker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The potentially harmful effects of the use of drugs in sport. 10. How did ex-South African cricket team captain Hansie Cronje die in 2002? A) Plane crash, when flying from Johannesburg to George. B) Shot in a hotel room in Pretoria. C) Trampled in a riot in Soweto. D) Street robbery in New York. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plane crash, when flying from Johannesburg to George. 11. What is the real name of the artist known as Fatboy Slim? A) Gordon Jackson. B) Roger Waters. C) Norman Cook. D) Mike McGear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Norman Cook. 12. Which festival in honour of a Roman god was forbidden in Rome in 186 BC? A) Woodstock. B) Donnybrooke. C) Glastonbury. D) Bacchanalia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bacchanalia. 13. What effect does an analgaesic have? A) Wart cure. B) High blood pressure. C) Lubrication. D) Relief from pain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Relief from pain. 14. Which sculptor is famous for his work "The Thinker" ? A) Strodin. B) Walkdin. C) Rodin. D) Hoppedin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rodin. 15. Which of these words describes plaster made from 3 or 4 parts sand and 1 part hydraulic lime that can be applied to the walls of buildings? A) Stucco. B) Enamel. C) Siding. D) Pueblo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stucco. 16. What is the literal meaning of the Latin legal expression "habeas corpus" ? A) Case closed. B) Suspended sentence. C) For the common good. D) You must have the body. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) You must have the body. 17. To travel in a direct line from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine in the USA how many major mountain ranges would need to be crossed? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 18. Collections of drawings by Santō Kyōden (1761-1816) and ukiyo-e artist Hokusai (1760-1849) were described as being in what genre? A) Nihonha. B) Anime. C) Manga. D) Shodō. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Manga. 19. Who developed the live attenuated polio vaccine which has led to hopes of global eradication of the virus? A) Albert Sabin. B) Alexander Fleming. C) Jonas Salk. D) Louis Pasteur. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Albert Sabin. 20. Which of these was famous as a jazz drummer in the mid 20th century? A) Glenn Miller. B) Gene Krupa. C) Alexis Korner. D) Acker Bilk. 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