This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 706 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 706 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Where was ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair born? A) Canada. B) Switzerland. C) Scotland. D) South Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scotland. 2. After whom are the four main spectator stands at the Roland Garros named? A) The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. B) The Four Seasons. C) The Four Musketeers. D) Founders of four major media institutions in Paris, France. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Four Musketeers. 3. Which speeds up chemical reactions? A) Catalyst. B) Catafalque. C) Cataclysm. D) Catacomb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Catalyst. 4. The TV series first broadcast between 1978 and 1982, which had the short title of "WKRP", was set in what city? A) Minneapolis. B) Cincinnati. C) Boston. D) Scranton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cincinnati. 5. Who produced the film "12 Angry Men", which was scripted by Reginald Rose, starred Henry Fonda and was directed by Sidney Lumet? A) Arthur Krim. B) Henry Fonda. C) Bob Benjamin. D) Samuel Goldwyn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Henry Fonda. 6. If you travelled along the line of latitude from New York on the east coast of the USA to Eureka, California, on the west what would you pass through? A) Hudson Bay. B) Lake Ontario. C) The Great Salt Lake. D) Lake Titicaca. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Great Salt Lake. 7. As well as Woodstock, New York, made famous by the 1969 music festival held nearby there are Woodstocks in several other places in North America; which of these is not one? A) Vermont. B) Ontario. C) New Brunswick. D) Pennsylvania. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pennsylvania. 8. In the Brothers Grimm story, a dog, cat, rooster and a donkey run away to go to Bremen to become what? A) Zoo keepers. B) Soldiers. C) Vegetarian chefs. D) Musicians. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Musicians. 9. "Hobson-Jobson" is the short title of a book written by Henry Yule and Arthur C. Burnell, first published in 1886, that contains what? A) Anglo-Indian words and terms. B) Biographies of people called Hobson and Jobson. C) A detailed atlas showing the expeditions of Hobson and Jobson. D) A manual on how to sail a particularly obscure boat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anglo-Indian words and terms. 10. The Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the US Constitution came about after what event? A) American Civil War. B) American War of Independence. C) USA entering World War I. D) The assassination of president John F Kennedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) American Civil War. 11. Who played Vyvyan, a psychotic punk metal medical student with orange-dyed & spiked hair and four metal stars embedded in his forehead, in the UK TV series "The Young Ones" ? A) Nigel Planer. B) Rik Mayall. C) Adrian Edmondson. D) Christopher Ryan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adrian Edmondson. 12. Who is reflected in the name for the Philippines? A) Philippa Middleton. B) Philip of Macedonia. C) Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. D) King Philip II of Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) King Philip II of Spain. 13. In which year did the South African government lift the ban on the African National Congress, the Pan Africanist Congress, the South African Communist Party and the United Democratic Front, and release Nelson Mandela from prison? A) 1970. B) 1980. C) 2000. D) 1990. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1990. 14. Who was the first female gymnast from outside Eastern Europe to win the Olympic all-around title? A) Carly Patterson. B) Mary Lou Retton. C) Hong Un Jong. D) Γmilie Le Pennec. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mary Lou Retton. 15. In December 2009, Massimo Tartaglia attacked Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi with what? A) A framed picture of the Pope. B) His shoes. C) An AK-47. D) A model of Milan Cathedral. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A model of Milan Cathedral. 16. Starz created what 2021 roadtrip TV series? A) Heels. B) Blindspotting. C) Men in Kilts:A Roadtrip with Sam and Graham. D) Run the World. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Men in Kilts:A Roadtrip with Sam and Graham. 17. What year did Jean-Francois Champollion publish the first correct translation of Egyptian hieroglyphs from the Rosetta Stone, the Roman Catholic Church take Galileo Galilei's "Dialogue" off their list of banned books, and Britain repeal the death penalty for over 100 crimes? A) 1922. B) 1622. C) 1822. D) 1422. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1822. 18. Which American serial drama TV series, first broadcast in 2004, follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a Pacific island after a plane crash? A) Cannibals. B) Lost. C) Lonely Planet. D) Bite Me. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lost. 19. An international treaty supported by 122 nation states and passed on 7 July 2017 in the United Nations aimed to do what? A) Strengthen measures and international cooperation to combat trafficking in human organs. B) Tackle illicit trafficking in wildlife. C) Consolidate gains and accelerate efforts to control and eliminate malaria in developing countries. D) Prohibit nuclear weapons. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prohibit nuclear weapons. 20. The hammerbeam roof, a mediaeval type of stepped wooden architecture designed for spanning wide spaces, is a feature of which ancient English building? A) Kensington Palace, London. B) Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh. C) Westminster Hall, London. D) The Tower of London. 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