This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 699 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 699 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Where was naumachy carried out? A) On water. B) In darkened rooms as part of a sΓ©ance. C) As part of the ancient Olympic Games. D) In childbirth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) On water. 2. Who is the next in this series:Jersey Joe Walcott, Rocky Marciano, Floyd Patterson, Ingemar Johansson, Floyd Patterson, ..... ? A) Ezzard Charles. B) Sonny Liston. C) Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali). D) Joe Louis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sonny Liston. 3. Where was the Treaty of Waitangi signed in 1840? A) Hawaii. B) Australia. C) Fiji. D) New Zealand. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) New Zealand. 4. What is entombed in a cenotaph? A) Nothing. B) The unknown soldier. C) Army personnel killed in a local battle. D) Animals killed in warfare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nothing. 5. A sound change within a word that indicates grammatical information is known as what? A) Apophony. B) Vowel grading. C) Root modulation. D) Morphing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apophony. 6. What is the name of the bird in the Peanuts comic strip? A) Wingle. B) Flapper. C) Woodstock. D) Sammy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Woodstock. 7. In 1930, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina began a thirty-one year dictatorship of where? A) Honduras. B) Nicaragua. C) Dominican Republic. D) Guatemala. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dominican Republic. 8. The inaugural day-night cricket test game played at the Oval, Adelaide, Australia, in November 2015 was played between Australia and which other country? A) New Zealand. B) England. C) Sri Lanka. D) India. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) New Zealand. 9. Which of these is not considered a true desert? A) Sahara. B) Kalahari. C) Namib. D) Gobi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kalahari. 10. What river runs through Memphis, Tennessee, USA? A) Ohio River. B) Platte River. C) Salt River. D) Mississippi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mississippi. 11. Three Americans, artist Samuel F. B. Morse, physicist Joseph Henry, and machinist and inventor Alfred Vail, developed what in the 1830s? A) An electrical telegraph system. B) A type of chair for cinemas. C) A stockbroker's code. D) A ball for basketball. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An electrical telegraph system. 12. Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey were involved with the launch of what computer application? A) Facebook. B) Yahoo!. C) Google. D) Twitter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Twitter. 13. What organisation, set up to encourage scientific research, was founded in 1648 and obtained a charter from King Charles II in 1660? A) Newton Committee. B) National Geographic. C) Royal Society. D) Naked Science. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Royal Society. 14. The World Championships in which sport are held both indoors (first held in 1979, competed annually) and outdoors (first held in 1966, competed every four years)? A) Bowls. B) Real tennis. C) Croquet. D) E-Sports. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bowls. 15. What is the name of the place where water comes out of the ground? A) Autumn. B) Summer. C) Spring. D) Winter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spring. 16. In ancient, mediaeval, and Renaissance Europe what was a trencher? A) A soldier who specialised in negotiating moats in a siege. B) A tool for digging peat. C) A platter to eat food from. D) A two-pronged fork. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A platter to eat food from. 17. An oil used in cosmetics is produced in the seed of which shrub? A) Safflower. B) Joshua tree. C) Jojoba. D) Amaranth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jojoba. 18. Erik Akkersdijk set a world record of 7.08 seconds at the Czech Open in 2008 ..... for what? A) Checkmate in a chess game. B) Solving a Rubik Cube. C) Swimming 50 yards. D) Eating 50 hot dogs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Solving a Rubik Cube. 19. When was the Heian period in Japan, named after the imperial city at the time (modern Kyoto)? A) 1192-1333 CE. B) 270-530 CE. C) 794-1185 CE. D) 660-98 BCE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 794-1185 CE. 20. Fingerprints come in three basic patterns. Which of these is not one of them? A) Arches. B) Loops. C) Whorls. D) Turns. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Turns. β PreviousNext βRelated 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 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books