This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 692 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 692 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The earliest known example of what was built by Micah, according to Judges 17, verse 5? A) Court house. B) Pyramid. C) Jewish Temple. D) Royal dynasty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jewish Temple. 2. Ash from what volcano, when it erupted in June 2011, grounded flights in Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay and disrupted air traffic over Australia and New Zealand? A) Turrialba, Costa Rica. B) Puyehue, southern Chile. C) Planchon-Peteroa, Argentina. D) Galeras, Colombia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Puyehue, southern Chile. 3. Which company won a formative case in UK labour law that held that a union taking strike action could be liable for loss of profits to an employer? A) Glasgow City Council. B) Bryant and May Factory, Bow, London. C) Naval Colliery Company. D) Taff Vale Railway Company. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Taff Vale Railway Company. 4. Which of these countries produces the greatest quantity of crude oil? A) Iran. B) China. C) Saudi Arabia. D) Mexico. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Saudi Arabia. 5. A brief and vicious rebellion in India in 1857-8 led to what? A) Criminalisation of Hindu suttee (burning widows alive when their husband died). B) Defeat of the Rajah of Kashmir. C) Nationalisation of the British East India Company. D) The Company introduced rifle cartridges which were supposedly greased with pork and cow fat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nationalisation of the British East India Company. 6. When athlete Simone Biles took a break from competition after the Summer Olympics in 2021, lasting until 2023, she ascribed it to difficulties with what? A) Her coach. B) Tiredness. C) The "twisties". D) Her bone density. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The "twisties". 7. The rock musical "Rent", about a group of artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side under the shadow of AIDS, is based on which Puccini opera? A) Madama Butterfly. B) La BohΓ¨me. C) Tosca. D) Turandot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) La BohΓ¨me. 8. How, it is generally agreed, did John Wilkes Booth (who assassinated Abraham Lincoln) die? A) He was killed by soldiers in northern Virginia. B) He was hanged in Washington, D.C., on 7 July 1865. C) He was run over by a stagecoach. D) He drowned at sea while escaping to Cuba. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was killed by soldiers in northern Virginia. 9. Which film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat, begins and ends with public performances by The Memory Man in a London music hall? A) Strangers On A Train. B) Vertigo. C) The Thirty-Nine Steps. D) Mr and Mrs Smith. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Thirty-Nine Steps. 10. Who was the Philistine warrior, famous for his battle with David, the future king of Israel, as described in the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament and, more briefly, in the Quran? A) The Hulk. B) Titan. C) Goliath. D) The Joker. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Goliath. 11. David Seaman and David Beckham are connected with which sport? A) Baseball. B) Soccer. C) Ice hockey. D) Rugby League. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Soccer. 12. Which of the following actors has never played the title role in the British science fiction drama "Doctor Who", in its TV series or on film, radio or the internet? A) Peter Cushing. B) Ian Holm. C) William Hartnell. D) Tom Baker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ian Holm. 13. Which country has Nukualofa, on the island of Tonjatabu, as its capital? A) Federated States of Micronesia. B) Tonga. C) Kiribati. D) Vanuatu. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tonga. 14. Who was the first recipient of the Pierre de Coubertin World Fair Play Trophy, awarded since 1965 to honour an athlete or a team for an act of fair play that cost, or could have cost, them victory, or could have downgraded their sport performance? A) Luz Long, 1936 Olympics. B) Emil Zatopek, 1952 Olympics. C) Eugenio Monti, 1964 Winter Olympics. D) Franz Jonas, 1969. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eugenio Monti, 1964 Winter Olympics. 15. In 1815 a fund was set up for 'securing provisions to widows, sisters and other females', which now includes a bank, life assurance, income and critical illness insurance, annuities fund and more; what name is it known under? A) Widows and Orphans Fund. B) 1st for Women. C) Scottish Widows. D) St Barnardo's. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scottish Widows. 16. Stylets are a feature of tardigrades, diptera, aphids and some invertebrates. What purpose do they serve? A) Piercing cell walls and channelling nutrients to the animal. B) Generating camouflage. C) Sensing smell. D) Defence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Piercing cell walls and channelling nutrients to the animal. 17. The 1996 record "Macarena" was by which artist? A) Alicia Keys. B) Los Lobos. C) Enya. D) Los Del Rio. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Los Del Rio. 18. What was the capital of Yugoslavia from 1918-2006? A) Sarajevo. B) Belgrade. C) Budapest. D) Istanbul. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Belgrade. 19. What was the name of the first commercial spacecraft to transport people to a space station? A) Falcon 9. B) Crew Dragon. C) Tesladactyl. D) Pegasus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crew Dragon. 20. What name is applied to the general stiffening of the muscles caused by a coagulation of the muscle-plasma? A) Corpus Christi. B) Ipso facto. C) Corpus delicti. D) Rigor mortis. 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