This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 717 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 717 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. With what is the expression "hey-pass" associated? A) Juggling, or work as a conjuror. B) Mud wrestling. C) Water polo. D) Whist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Juggling, or work as a conjuror. 2. Which Christian festival is celebrated on 6 January, the 12th day after Christmas, to commemorate the coming of the Magi? A) Epiphany. B) Annunciation. C) Easter. D) Rapprochement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epiphany. 3. Which of these is an American comedian who made a career in the UK as part of the alternative comedy scene in the 1980s? A) Diamond Gum. B) Ruby Wax. C) Sapphire Sticky. D) Beryl Glue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ruby Wax. 4. The 16th century was a turbulent period in many areas; which of these came first? A) Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar. B) Council of Trent. C) Elizabeth I crowned. D) The Truce of Adrianople. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Council of Trent. 5. Who wrote the song "A Fine Romance" ? A) Glenn Miller. B) Jule Styne. C) Cole Porter. D) Jerome Kern. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jerome Kern. 6. In 1978, after escaping from Iran, where was the Ayatollah Khomeini granted political asylum? A) Switzerland. B) France. C) Canada. D) USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) France. 7. Mansaf, the national dish of Jordan, is made of meat from what animal, cooked in a sauce of fermented reduced yoghurt and served with rice? A) Dog. B) Goat. C) Lamb. D) Calf. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lamb. 8. The American Yorkshire, Beijing Black, British Lop, Danish Landrace, Gloucestershire Old Spots, Iberian, Lacombe, Meishan, Mulefoot, Saddleback, Vietnamese Potbelly and Yanan are all types of what? A) Pigs. B) Sheep. C) Goat. D) Cheese. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pigs. 9. The mantilla is a type of what? A) A pasta, round in section and thicker than spaghetti. B) A dance characterized by a fast upbeat tempo. C) Poisonous spider. D) Scarf worn over the head and shoulders. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scarf worn over the head and shoulders. 10. Which is a characteristic which distinguishes the harvestman from other arachnids? A) They do not have eyes. B) Their web silk is brown. C) Their venom is extremely weak. D) They can swallow solid food. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They can swallow solid food. 11. What is the name given to the four international treaties made in 1864, 1906, 1929 and 1949 and the three "Protocols" from 1977, that concern the treatment of non-combatants and prisoners of war? A) Berne Convention. B) Hague Convention. C) Geneva Convention. D) The Treaties of Utrecht. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Geneva Convention. 12. How would a vocal ensemble singing a cappella usually be accompanied? A) By wind instruments in fugue. B) By nothing. C) By nothing, or instruments doubling one or more of the vocal lines. D) By an organ. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By nothing, or instruments doubling one or more of the vocal lines. 13. Where was gridiron football developed? A) USA. B) Canada. C) UK. D) Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) USA. 14. What is the island known until 1956 as Bedloe's Island in the USA used for? A) Zoological garden. B) Nuclear testing. C) Alcatraz prison. D) Statue of Liberty. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Statue of Liberty. 15. Whose Illustrations first brought to life the characters in "The Wind in the Willows" (1931) by Kenneth Grahame and, in 1924 and following, the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A. A. Milne? A) Maurice Sendak. B) Aubrey Beardsley. C) Quentin Blake. D) E.H.Shepard. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) E.H.Shepard. 16. The Everglades are a subtropical wetland in which U.S. state? A) Tennessee. B) Florida. C) Nebraska. D) Texas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Florida. 17. Which of these was an irregular unit of British Special Forces founded in Cairo in 1942 by Major Vladimir Peniakoff that served in the Western Desert during World War II? A) Special Air Services. B) Long Range Desert Group. C) Popski's Private Army. D) Special Boat Service. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Popski's Private Army. 18. What was highlighted in 2016 as a possible result of a pregnant woman's being infected with the zika virus? A) Restricted cranium size, and brain development, in the baby in the womb. B) Miscarriage. C) An abnormally large baby. D) A baby with a cleft palate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Restricted cranium size, and brain development, in the baby in the womb. 19. Which English rowing event is held every year on the River Thames for 5 days (Wednesday to Sunday) over the first weekend in July? A) The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. B) Henley-on-Todd Regatta. C) Henley Royal Regatta. D) Riverview Gold Cup. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Henley Royal Regatta. 20. Where is the TV series "Ally McBeal" set? A) New York. B) Los Angeles. C) Boston. D) Cincinnati. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Boston. ← 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