This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 721 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 721 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these would you expect to be served for a meal? A) Lox. B) Lek. C) LOK. D) Lux. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lox. 2. Brazil is the world's biggest coffee producer. What country is the second biggest? A) India. B) Indonesia. C) Vietnam. D) Guatemala. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vietnam. 3. What is the name for an intermittent hot spring, characterised by violent explosive eruptions of steam and boiling water, alternating with quiet periods? A) Moraine. B) Lava. C) Geyser. D) Sulphur. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Geyser. 4. Pepys, Wesley, Evelyn and Greville have what famous items in common? A) Diaries. B) Battles. C) Scientific discoveries. D) Speed records. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diaries. 5. Vigna unguiculata, sesquipedalis, which is part of traditional Suriname dishes is more commonly known in Suriname as what? A) Kouseband. B) Telo. C) Roti. D) Dhal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kouseband. 6. Which of these, among many other things, was directly affected by the 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku, Japan? A) The time references in computer systems across Tokyo. B) The Northern Lights. C) Bird migration patterns in New Zealand. D) Reactors at Fukushima nuclear power plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reactors at Fukushima nuclear power plants. 7. What country separates the city of Dandong and Dochon-ri village? A) Mongolia. B) North Korea. C) Kazakhstan. D) Japan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) North Korea. 8. Which country became a short-lived theocracy in 1911? A) Thailand. B) Bhutan. C) Nepal. D) Mongolia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mongolia. 9. What do the JuJuy, San Juan, Mendoza and Rio Negro areas in Argentina share in common? A) They are coastal sugar-producing regions. B) They are wine producing regions. C) They are subject to prolonged and frequent drought. D) They surround the wetlands of the Pantanal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They are wine producing regions. 10. "Patriotism is not enough. I must have no bitterness or hatred towards anyone" was said on what occasion? A) By Mahatma Gandhi while protest fasting in Yerwada Jail. B) By Joan of Arc before being burnt at the stake in Rouen. C) By Robert Falcon Scott just before dying in the Antarctic. D) By Nurse Edith Cavell before her execution in World War I. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) By Nurse Edith Cavell before her execution in World War I. 11. Who wrote "The Coming of the Fairies" (1921) which shows he was apparently convinced of the veracity of photographs of fairies, in which he theorised about the nature and existence of fairies and spirits? A) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. B) T S Eliot. C) Noël Coward. D) Oscar Wilde. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 12. Two areas with the highest vertical tide ranges in the world are both in Canada and separate the Canadian mainland from what? A) Nova Scotia; Baffin Island. B) Victoria Island; Baffin Island. C) Prince Edward Island; Read Island. D) Kodak Island:Queen Charlotte Islands. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nova Scotia; Baffin Island. 13. George H. W. Bush was vice president to whom? A) Carter. B) Clinton. C) Reagan. D) Ford. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reagan. 14. A philosophy which explores whether everything you can touch/smell/taste/see/hear, i.e. perceive it, really exists except to the extent you perceive it, is one advanced by whom? A) Dr John Locke FRS (1632-1704). B) René Descartes (1596-1650). C) Aristotle (384-322 BCE). D) Bishop of Cloyne (1685-1753). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bishop of Cloyne (1685-1753). 15. Which of these opera composers wrote in the 18th century? A) Claudio Monteverdi. B) Henry Purcell. C) Sir Arthur Sullivan. D) Christoph Willibald Gluck. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Christoph Willibald Gluck. 16. For 17 years, until 1815, Switzerland was under the control of what country? A) Italy. B) Germany. C) France. D) Great Britain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) France. 17. The opening ceremony of the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp was marked by what? A) No spectators came because the date and time had not been publicised. B) A protest by Budapest. C) Part of the (unfinished) stadium fell down. D) The release of doves. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The release of doves. 18. Which American legal TV drama-comedy (2004 to 2008), a spin-off of "The Practice", followed the exploits of attorneys at Crane, Poole & Schmidt? A) Boston Public. B) Boston Legal. C) LA Law. D) Law & Order. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Boston Legal. 19. Who was the manager of the English national football team from 1963 until he was sacked in 1974? A) Walter Winterbottom. B) Alf Ramsey. C) Joe Mercer. D) Kevin Keegan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alf Ramsey. 20. What is the affectionate Spanish language diminutive that María Eva Duarte de Perón, the second wife of President Juan Domingo Perón of Argentina, was known by? A) Peronita. B) Marietta. C) Marionette. D) Evita. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Evita. ← 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