This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 722 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 722 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A high quality soft warm goat's wool was first made famous in the 14th century in what mountainous region, where the goats were farmed? A) Pashmi, Iran. B) Kashmir, northern India region. C) Alpachiri, Argentina. D) Ankara, Turkey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kashmir, northern India region. 2. What is a legal defence for being somewhere other than at the scene of a crime? A) Truancy. B) Alias. C) Absenteeism. D) Alibi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alibi. 3. Which planet is named after the primordial Greek god of the sky? A) Jupiter. B) Mars. C) Uranus. D) Saturn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Uranus. 4. The names for the satellites of which planet are chosen from characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope? A) Uranus. B) Saturn. C) Neptune. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Uranus. 5. Which two Gibb brothers in the Bee Gees were twins? A) Robin and Maurice. B) Andy and Barry. C) Barry and Maurice. D) Barry and Robin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robin and Maurice. 6. Which of these is not a noble gas? A) Krypton. B) Xenon. C) Hydrogen. D) Helium. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hydrogen. 7. Alberto Vargas specialised in painting what subjects? A) Cars. B) Horses. C) Politicians. D) Pin up girls. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pin up girls. 8. Charente, France, is famous for its production of what? A) Silk. B) Hats. C) Lace making. D) Slippers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Slippers. 9. The trial in September 1929 of Myrtle Adkins Bennett, a Kansas City housewife, for the murder of her husband John G. Bennett cited what as the immediate cause of the killing? A) Accident. B) Long term spousal abuse. C) Disagreements during a game of contract bridge. D) She did not care for the colour and style of his cravat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Disagreements during a game of contract bridge. 10. Who was the first English actor to be knighted? A) Edmund Kean. B) Laurence Olivier. C) Henry Irving. D) Charles Kemble. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Henry Irving. 11. In the first 3 years of competition for the American Football World Cup (also known as the IFAF World Cup and Gridiron World Cup), which country won twice and was runner up once? A) Japan. B) USA. C) Mexico. D) Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Japan. 12. Which Russian revolutionary became Foreign Commissar, lost the battle for leadership to Stalin, was expelled from the Communist Party and lived in exile thereafter? A) Joseph Stalin. B) Leon Trotsky. C) Vladimir Lenin. D) Karl Marx. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Leon Trotsky. 13. Where was BBC presenter and journalist Ade Adepitan born? A) London, UK. B) Lagos, Nigeria. C) Accra, Ghana. D) Quebec, Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lagos, Nigeria. 14. Yuánzhùmín is a term applied to what people? A) People of Tierra del Fuego. B) Settlers of western Siberia. C) Aboriginal inhabitants of Taiwan. D) People of the Kermadecs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aboriginal inhabitants of Taiwan. 15. What element, an essential plant nutrient, is used in the semiconductor industry? A) Flouron. B) Boron. C) Capon. D) Baguette. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Boron. 16. What do the letters R and A stand for in the name of the world's oldest golf club? A) Royal and Ancient. B) Royal and Allcock. C) Riverside and Allchurch. D) River and Amberside. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Royal and Ancient. 17. What is the chemical symbol for phosphorus? A) Ph. B) P. C) K. D) Pb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) P. 18. What are the elements needed for a Christian Eucharist? A) A bowl of consecrated water. B) Scented incense and a censer. C) Consecrated bread and wine (or grape juice). D) Consecrated oil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consecrated bread and wine (or grape juice). 19. What does the abbreviation RRP commonly mean? A) Retailer Recommended Product. B) Recommended Retail Price. C) Revised, renewed and prettier. D) Ready, rolling and performing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Recommended Retail Price. 20. Cardiac surgeon and South African MP, Marius Barnard, brother of Christiaan Barnard the surgeon known for pioneering heart transplant surgery, was also known for what? A) Managing the first multi-racial democratic elections in South Africa. B) Olympic gold medals in rowing. C) Inventing critical illness, or trauma, insurance. D) A pioneering exercise programme for heart health. 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