This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 711 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 711 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The US Masters golf tournament started in 1934. How many left handers won in the first 70 tournaments? A) 4. B) 3. C) None. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2. 2. Which of these was viewed as an antidote to poison, and a general panacea? A) Theriaca, or Venice Treacle. B) A mixture of mercury, sulphur and arsenic. C) Gazelle dung. D) Anemone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theriaca, or Venice Treacle. 3. Which is true of the volcano Cayambe in Ecuador? A) Holds the highest glacier. B) It has the highest summit, 6, 893 m (22, 615 ft), of any volcano. C) It holds the highest navigable lake, at 3, 812 m (12, 507 ft). D) Its summit is the fastest point on Earth, i.e. the point furthest from Earth's rotational axis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Its summit is the fastest point on Earth, i.e. the point furthest from Earth's rotational axis. 4. In nursery rhymes, Tommy Tucker and Jack Horner are both referred to as what? A) Old. B) Crooked. C) Contrary. D) Little. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Little. 5. An aviary is a place to keep ..... what? A) Bees. B) Birds. C) Bears. D) Beers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Birds. 6. In Savigny in France in 1457, a mother and her 6 offspring were tried for the murder of a child, and the mother convicted and executed. Who was she? A) The local publican. B) A pig. C) The housekeeper of the local priest. D) The wife of the Duke who owned the land. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A pig. 7. Which country has the largest oil reserves in the world? A) Venezuela. B) Saudi Arabia. C) Iran. D) Kuwait. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Venezuela. 8. International opera singers Heather Begg, Donald McIntyre, Kiri Te Kanawa and Malvina Major were born in which country? A) New Zealand. B) England. C) USA. D) Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) New Zealand. 9. The word "ternary" refers to what? A) The number 3. B) Birds. C) Queueing Theory. D) Agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The number 3. 10. What London establishment was created in 1826 by Sir Stamford Raffles? A) The British Museum. B) London Zoo, Regent's Park. C) The National Portrait Gallery. D) The Royal Society. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) London Zoo, Regent's Park. 11. At 2.78 million square kilometres, what is the largest country in Africa? A) Egypt. B) Algeria. C) Sudan. D) Libya. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Algeria. 12. The "Historia Ierosolimitana", an account of the events of the First Crusade (1095-99) to defend Christendom in Turkey and further East, and "a clarification of their miraculous meaning", was written ca 1105 by an abbot of Bourgueil named what? A) Percy. B) Edmund. C) Richard. D) Baldric. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Baldric. 13. Which theatre in Dublin, built in 1904 where George Bernard Shaw, W B Yeats, Padraic Colum, and Sean O'Casey premiered many of their plays, was severely damaged by fire in 1951? A) Grand Opera House. B) Ardhowen Theatre. C) Abbey Theatre. D) Riverside Theatre. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abbey Theatre. 14. In 1954, in a television adaptation of a book by Ian Fleming, Barry Nelson was the first person to appear on a screen as which fictional character? A) James Bond. B) Caractacus Potts. C) Batman. D) Hercule Poirot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) James Bond. 15. What is the name of the counter-terrorism specialist who is the lead character in the TV series "24" ? A) Mallory Keaton. B) Steve McGarrett. C) Richard Kimble. D) Jack Bauer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jack Bauer. 16. Strictly speaking what does the word "alibi" mean? A) Not at the scene of the crime. B) Elsewhere. C) Proof of innocence. D) Not me. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elsewhere. 17. Who is remembered in the name for the "cold rain" process, the process by which precipitation starts in a mixed cloud with a temperature below freezing, e.g. how ice crystals grow at the expense of liquid cloud droplets within the cloud? A) Jonathan E. Pleim. B) Bert Holtslag and Byron Boville. C) Robert C. Gilliam. D) Tor Bergeron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tor Bergeron. 18. What is one thing which the following cities have in common:New Delhi, Yangon, Adelaide, Bengaluru, Darwin, Kolkata, and Tehran? A) They are all in Asia. B) They are in time zones offset from Universal Time by half an hour. C) The populations of the cities are all over 5 million. D) They are all established in mountain areas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They are in time zones offset from Universal Time by half an hour. 19. In 1949, who became the youngest player to represent England in test cricket? A) Raymond Illingworth. B) Geoffrey Boycott. C) Brian Close. D) Brian Lara. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brian Close. 20. Which of these is not a component of the Japanese writing system? A) Katakana. B) Hiragana. C) Masala. D) Kanji. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Masala. ← PreviousNext →Related 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 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books