This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 726 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 726 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The English sovereigns Henry VII and Mary I were members of which Royal House? A) Tudor. B) Stuart. C) Hanover. D) Windsor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tudor. 2. The only middle weight boxer to win the World Heavyweight Championship was who? A) Daniel Mendoza (1764-1836), England. B) Gentleman Jackson (1769-1845), England. C) Jack "Nonpareil" Dempsey (1862-1895), Ireland. D) Floyd Patterson (1935-2006), USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Daniel Mendoza (1764-1836), England. 3. Who, in 1960, made international news for banging his shoe on a table in the UN? A) John F Kennedy. B) Nikita Khruschev. C) John Lennon. D) Bob Hope. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nikita Khruschev. 4. Which of these was a nickname for the actor John Wayne? A) The Duke. B) Duke of Earl. C) The Count. D) The Baron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Duke. 5. When the Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant Abel Tasman set sail in 1642 under instructions from the Dutch East India Company, what places (as they are now known) did he record as having visited and having been the first European to do so? A) New York. B) New Zealand. C) New Guinea. D) New Brunswick. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) New Zealand. 6. Who is the subject of "The Future Is Unwritten" , a film by Julien Temple? A) Warren Zevon. B) Tom Waits. C) Jerry Lee Lewis. D) Joe Strummer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Joe Strummer. 7. The basic sound and a few words of the Klingon language as spoken by the fictional Klingons in the Star Trek universe, was devised by which actor for "Star Trek:The Motion Picture" ? A) DeForest Kelley (Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy). B) James Doohan (Montgomery "Scotty" Scott). C) Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov). D) Nichelle Nichols (Uhura). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) James Doohan (Montgomery "Scotty" Scott). 8. Which of these is a British sea captain, whose achievements included circumnavigating the globe? A) Peacock. B) Gander. C) Drake. D) Sparrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Drake. 9. Which of these gospels is last in the Christian New Testament? A) John. B) Matthew. C) Mark. D) Luke. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John. 10. Where was the word "ghetto" first introduced to describe segregated and restricted areas where Jews were forced to live? A) Spain. B) Mantua. C) Rome. D) Venice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Venice. 11. In what decade was the oral vaccine against polio developed? A) 1950s. B) 1960s. C) 1940s. D) 1970s. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1950s. 12. Which American is famous for her photographs of John Lennon and Yoko Ono taken the day of Lennon's death, Demi Moore nude when 7 months pregnant, and, later, nude with a suit painted on her body? A) Annie Liebowitz. B) Diane Arbus. C) Barbara Nitke. D) Lisolette Gilcrest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Annie Liebowitz. 13. Suu Kyi, who was sentenced to home detention for six years in 2003, is the Leader of the Opposition in which country? A) Myanmar. B) Indonesia. C) Singapore. D) Cambodia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Myanmar. 14. Which sport, originated by native Americans and introduced to England in 1867, is played with a stick with a net on one end by 12 players per side on a field around 100 to 150 yards long? A) Lacrosse. B) Quoits. C) Petanque. D) Skittles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lacrosse. 15. Where are more than half of the known mud volcanoes found? A) Indonesia. B) Along the Alpine-Himalaya belt from the Mediterranean Sea to China and the western Pacific Ocean. C) Pakistan. D) Alaska and the Aleutian Trench. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Along the Alpine-Himalaya belt from the Mediterranean Sea to China and the western Pacific Ocean. 16. Established in New York in 1999, what is the High Line? A) A high level high speed commuter train. B) The official maximum building height. C) An establishment offering the widest range of legal drugs. D) A public park built on an old freight rail line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A public park built on an old freight rail line. 17. What is the monetary unit of Cambodia? A) Kip. B) Dong. C) Baht. D) Riel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Riel. 18. Lavalava is a word common in the South Pacific. What does it mean? A) A drumming technique. B) Much volcanic activity. C) An alcoholic drink. D) A rectangular cloth worn as a skirt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A rectangular cloth worn as a skirt. 19. What town is the setting for the film "It's a Wonderful Life" ? A) Bedford Falls. B) Gosford Park. C) Sleepy Hollow. D) Bangor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bedford Falls. 20. Which way is it likely that the head of the successor of Queen Elizabeth II will face on a British coin? A) Three quarter right. B) Right. C) Full face. D) Left. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Left. ← 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