This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 724 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 724 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What language or languages are the roots of the two parts of the name of the phobia, intense fear of something not usually harmful, which became current in the early 20th century called nyctophobia? A) Latin and Greek. B) Both parts Greek. C) Gaelic and Greek. D) Arabic and Greek. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Both parts Greek. 2. Who was Tycho Brahe? A) A 16th century Danish astronomer. B) The founder of the modern Olympic movement. C) The founder of the Order of Saint Benedict, ca 529. D) An American tenor and movie star in the 1940s and 1950s. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A 16th century Danish astronomer. 3. Who commissioned film-maker Leni Riefenstahl to make "Olympia" , the first documentary film on the Olympic Games at the 1936 Berlin Games? A) The British Equestrian Team. B) The Nazi Party. C) Jesse Owens. D) International Olympic Committee. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) International Olympic Committee. 4. What were the family of Chinese Communist leader, Chiang Kai Shek, known as? A) Courtiers. B) Prosperous salt merchants. C) Rice farmers. D) Fishermen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prosperous salt merchants. 5. Visors, gloves and finger spikes are worn in which Olympic sport? A) Fencing. B) Luge. C) Ski jump. D) Cycle polo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Luge. 6. Who starred as John McClane in the "Die Hard" series of films (1988-2007)? A) Earl Wild. B) Kevin Wills. C) Bruce Watson. D) Bruce Willis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bruce Willis. 7. What is an essential ingredient of Bouillabaisse? A) Ham. B) Beef. C) Fish. D) Chicken. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fish. 8. What is the name for the massacre of the French ruling class while in church by local people at Palermo in 1282 that started a revolution that spread to other parts of the country? A) The Crush of the Huguenots. B) St Valentine's Day Massacre. C) Bloody Sunday. D) Sicilian Vespers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sicilian Vespers. 9. What is the oldest city of European origin, established in 1565 by Pedro Menedesto, that still exists in what is now the USA? A) St Augustine, Florida. B) Bangor, Maine. C) Las Vegas, Nevada. D) Tombstone, Arizona. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) St Augustine, Florida. 10. The lights were turned off in the Empire State Building for 15 minutes in August 2004 to mark the death of whom? A) Naomi Watts. B) Fay Wray. C) Barbara Ann Scott. D) Rich Little. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fay Wray. 11. The Great Mosque considered by many to be the burial place of John the Baptist's head, is a landmark of which city? A) Jerusalem. B) Damascus. C) Alexandria. D) Istanbul. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Damascus. 12. Which would you have to cross in order to reach Mozambique from Madagascar? A) Red Sea. B) Atlantic Ocean. C) Mozambique Channel. D) Persian Gulf. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mozambique Channel. 13. Where is the stratovolcano called Ojos del Salado, the highest historically active volcano in the world [6, 893 m (22, 614 ft)] and the second highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere? A) In the Ahaggar Mountains, in the Sahara Desert. B) In the Pyrenees just north of Andorra. C) In the Apennine Mountains, west of Turin. D) In the Andes on the Argentina-Chile border. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In the Andes on the Argentina-Chile border. 14. In traditional English pantomime, which shrewd, witty, light-hearted character vied with Pierrot for the affection of Columbine, and was based on the Commedia Dell'Arte character Arlecchino? A) Scaramouche. B) The Captain. C) Punch. D) Harlequin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Harlequin. 15. What animal sometimes displays a dulla? A) Squid. B) Man o' War jellyfish. C) Alpaca. D) Camel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Camel. 16. The juvenile form of crane flies are called what? A) Leatherjackets. B) Glow worms. C) Caddis. D) Aphid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Leatherjackets. 17. On the Christian calendar, what is the name for the Sunday before Easter? A) Palm Sunday. B) Whitsunday. C) Mothering Sunday. D) Easter Sunday. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Palm Sunday. 18. Which of these fictional characters lived at Greenbow, Alabama? A) Rocky Balboa. B) Huckleberry Finn. C) "Dirty" Harry Callaghan. D) Forrest Gump. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Forrest Gump. 19. If the numbers from 1 to 10 are multiplied by each other, what is the last number of the result? A) 0. B) 5. C) 1. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 0. 20. Who beat Roger Federer in the men's Wimbledon final in 2008? A) Juan Martin del Potro. B) Marat Safin. C) Rafael Nadal. D) Andy Roddick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rafael Nadal. ← 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