This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 718 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 718 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is a cord of wood? A) Firewood cut to lengths less than .5 metres long. B) An untrimmed branch. C) A tree trunk less than 10 years old. D) 3.6 cubic metres. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3.6 cubic metres. 2. What is the official language of Suriname? A) English. B) French. C) Dutch. D) Portuguese. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dutch. 3. Who, if any, of these could, if they had chosen, have met Christopher Columbus? A) None. B) King Edward IV of England. C) Tamerlane. D) Louis XIV of France. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) King Edward IV of England. 4. Where or how is riprap used? A) As a pattern infill in graphics. B) As a drone and a rhythm element in street music. C) To assist farmers in tail docking. D) In shorelines to protect against water erosion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In shorelines to protect against water erosion. 5. What Roman road, which began to be constructed in 312 BC, connected Rome to Brindisi in southeast Italy? A) Main Street. B) Watling Street. C) Via Dolorosa. D) Appian Way. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Appian Way. 6. Which of these was a journalist whose investigation into the drug trade in Dublin led to her murder in 1996, the subject of a 2003 film starring Cate Blanchett? A) Veronica Guerin. B) Vera Drake. C) Erin Brockovich. D) Rosebud. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Veronica Guerin. 7. Which 20th century Irish playwright wrote "Juno and the Paycock", "The Plough and the Stars", "Silver Tassie" and "Within the Gates" ? A) Sean O'Casey. B) George Bernard Shaw. C) Oscar Wilde. D) Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sean O'Casey. 8. The 2020 winner of France's prestigious Prix Goncourt was author Hervé Le Tellier for what book? A) L'Anomalie (The Anomaly). B) Atlas Inutilis. C) Winter Journeys. D) All Happy Families. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) L'Anomalie (The Anomaly). 9. Which of these is not a solid at normal room temperature? A) Lunar caustic. B) Silver sulphide. C) Quicksilver. D) Horn silver. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quicksilver. 10. The Canary Islands are an autonomous dependency of what country? A) Tunisia. B) Morocco. C) Spain. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spain. 11. Which author used the pseudonym of "Nicholas Blake" ? A) Charles Lamb. B) David Beckham. C) C Day-Lewis. D) Marion Evans. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) C Day-Lewis. 12. Which of these was not one of the "Three Fates" (or "Parcae") in Roman mythology? A) Morta. B) Nona. C) Decima. D) Portia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Portia. 13. What is the Heimlich Manoeuvre designed to do? A) Relocate a dislocated shoulder joint. B) Make someone vomit. C) Expel an obstruction from someone's upper airway. D) Put an unconscious person in the recovery position. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Expel an obstruction from someone's upper airway. 14. In November 2009 at Pointe Magnin in New Caledonia, Bruna Kajiya beat Gisela Pulido to become women's freestyle World Champion in which sport? A) Free diving. B) Cliff diving. C) Kitesurfing. D) Freestyle BMX. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kitesurfing. 15. What is "A" in the International Radio Alphabet? A) Adam. B) Apple. C) Alpha. D) Aardvark. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alpha. 16. When did the first of the three, subsequently internationally famous, ballets Igor Stravinsky composed for Sergei Diaghilev première? A) 1910. B) 1925. C) 1913. D) 1915. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1910. 17. What is described as the main focus of social philosophy or sociology? A) Conferencing. B) The effects of the exercise of power. C) The ability of people to communicate. D) Social identities, relations, structures and changes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Social identities, relations, structures and changes. 18. The Khedive of Egypt commissioned Giuseppe Verdi to write which opera to commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal? A) Il Trovatore. B) La Traviata. C) Rigoletto. D) Aida. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aida. 19. A substance that attracts water molecules from the environment through either absorption or adsorption is called what? A) Hygroscopic. B) Hydraulic. C) Hypnotic. D) Hippocratic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hygroscopic. 20. The 4 main divisions of a symphony orchestra do not include which of these? A) Percussion. B) Strings. C) Woodwinds. D) Horns. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Horns. ← 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