This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 716 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 716 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Where, in 1961, did US-supported Cuban exiles invade Cuba? A) Bay of Pigs. B) Triggerfish Reefs. C) Havana. D) Hicacos Peninsula. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bay of Pigs. 2. Which of these is a breed of horse? A) Dark horse. B) Part horse. C) Quarter horse. D) One horse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quarter horse. 3. During performances of which musical were the audience encouraged to join in with the performance by bringing with them (and throwing them onto the stage at the appropriate times) Bounty Bars, Kit Kats, rice, party poppers, water pistols, torches, toilet paper and confetti? A) Rocky Horror Show. B) Little Shop of Horrors. C) Billy Elliot the Musical. D) The Secret Garden. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rocky Horror Show. 4. What colour is a male Eurasian blackbird's beak? A) Yellow. B) Green. C) Red. D) Brown. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yellow. 5. Colombia's shores are in the Caribbean Sea and which other body of water? A) Pacific Ocean. B) Indian Ocean. C) Mediterranean Sea. D) Tasman Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pacific Ocean. 6. In the 2021 SailGP tournament the Spanish boat was given the first what in the league? A) Automatic promotion to the match final. B) Black flag. C) Change of skipper mid-tournament. D) Change of boat mid-tournament. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Black flag. 7. Walt Disney's animated film "Bambi" (1942) drawn from Austrian Felix Salten's 1923 book had been shelved for five years mainly for what reason or reasons? A) Prejudice against German books. B) Protests from hunters and sportsmen. C) Lack of finance. D) The adult and sombre nature of the book, and challenges in animal animation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The adult and sombre nature of the book, and challenges in animal animation. 8. What is the term for the greenish oxide formed on copper? A) Gravel. B) Rust. C) Verdigris. D) Grease. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verdigris. 9. What is the dominant vegetation in central Siberia? A) Grasses. B) Snow forest. C) Dwarf shrubs, sedges, mosses, and lichens. D) Broadleaf tree and mixed coniferous forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Snow forest. 10. Between 1905 and 1907 a bloody interethnic clash continued in European Asia between what peoples? A) Russians and Germans. B) Armenians and Caucasian Tatars. C) Turks and Greeks. D) Russians and Chechens. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Armenians and Caucasian Tatars. 11. The book "What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character" (1988) records reminiscences of a Nobel Prize winner who was widely known for his popularising of what? A) Poetry. B) Physics. C) Chemistry. D) Economics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Physics. 12. In mathematics, what is the meaning of a triple bar, an equal sign with another bar above? A) Modular congruence. B) Congruent or identical. C) All of these, depending on context. D) The same as. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All of these, depending on context. 13. Where is the most easterly point in South America? A) Brazil. B) Suriname. C) Uruguay. D) Argentina. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brazil. 14. Key Largo, Key West, Plantation Key and Big Pine Key are part of which US state? A) Alaska. B) Texas. C) North Dakota. D) Florida. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Florida. 15. A serf in mediaeval Europe was bound for life to a plot of land and to his landlord, and was bought and sold with the land. What was the last date it was legally abolished within continental Europe, from Poland and the Carpathians westwards? A) 1918. B) 1574. C) 14th century. D) 19th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1918. 16. What are Luk Thep, or Angel Children? A) Deceased children. B) Top scholars in their class at school. C) Life-size baby dolls. D) Blonde children. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Life-size baby dolls. 17. Who was the founder and vocalist for the band Simple Minds? A) David Byrne. B) Jim Kerr. C) Chris Martin. D) Hank Marvin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jim Kerr. 18. Which city, originally a monastic settlement founded by Saint Finbarr in the 6th century, built on the River Lee, became a major point of Irish emigration to North America after the Great Irish Famine in the 1840s? A) Stoppa. B) Cork. C) Khap. D) Bungh. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cork. 19. Stand-up comedian, writer and film-maker Elliott Spencer is also known as what? A) A basketball player and sportscaster. B) A multi-talented USA ex-Black Ops soldier, a character in the TV series "Leverage" (2008-2012). C) A pop musician. D) The husband of comedian, writer, presenter, film and TV and theatre actor, and activist Stephen Fry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The husband of comedian, writer, presenter, film and TV and theatre actor, and activist Stephen Fry. 20. In 2023 news media cameras were distracted by views of pop star Taylor Swift at games in which sports franchise? A) Baseball. B) American football. C) Football (soccer). D) Basketball. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) American football. ← 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