This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 73 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 73 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which applies to the Olympic torch carried for the 2014 Winter Olympics? A) Reached the North Pole for the first time. B) All of these. C) Travelled in space for the first time (although unlit). D) Reached Europe's highest mountain and the largest freshwater lake by volume in the world. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All of these. 2. Who was the Tannhäuser? A) A mythical water beast in German folk lore. B) A 13th century Minnesinger and travelling poet. C) A hero in Scandinavian mythology. D) Beethoven's pet dog. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A 13th century Minnesinger and travelling poet. 3. "The Mirror and the Light" is the third book in which trilogy? A) Wolf Hall. B) Gormenghast. C) The Inheritance. D) The Matrix. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wolf Hall. 4. What does FIT-IFT, founded in 1954, promote? A) Tracking of language borrowings internationally. B) International training standards for football coaches and referees. C) Professionalism by translators, interpreters and terminologists. D) Ten pin bowling. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Professionalism by translators, interpreters and terminologists. 5. "Silent Invasion" (2022) by American physician and diplomat Dr Deborah Birx, a one-time White House task force coordinator in the administration of President Donald Trump, talks about what? A) The 6 January 2021 assault on the Capitol building in Washington. B) US response in 2020-21 to the COVID-19 pandemic. C) Global warming. D) Nuclear winter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) US response in 2020-21 to the COVID-19 pandemic. 6. He played keyboard for English rock band Dare and for Northern Irish/English pop & dance group D Ream, has co-written several books including "Why does E=mc2?", and since 2005 has been widely known as a television presenter. Who is he? A) Neil deGrasse Tyson. B) Sir David Attenborough. C) Dara Ó Briain. D) Dr Brian Cox, CBE, FRS. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dr Brian Cox, CBE, FRS. 7. In which city are the Oscar statuettes made? A) New York. B) Los Angeles. C) San Francisco. D) Chicago. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) New York. 8. What is a "cere" in relation to a bird? A) The longest wing feather. B) A waxy structure at the base of the bill. C) Toenail. D) A quiff of feathers above the eye. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A waxy structure at the base of the bill. 9. Who was the last Nazi war criminal to be tried and executed? A) Josef Blösche. B) Adolf Eichmann. C) Jakob Sporrenberg. D) Feodor Fedorenko. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Feodor Fedorenko. 10. Galvanised steel is steel which has been treated with what other metal? A) Mercury. B) Zinc. C) Silver. D) Gold. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Zinc. 11. With what music is the dance style despelote associated? A) Timba. B) Funk. C) Washington go-go. D) Bebop. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Timba. 12. Which country would you go to in order to travel up the Amazon River? A) Cuba. B) Brazil. C) Panama. D) Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brazil. 13. The president of the Indian Olympic Association, Suresh Kalmadi, publicly thanked Prince Charles and Princess Diana for attending a Commonwealth Games opening ceremony. Which year was this? A) 2002. B) 2010. C) 1986. D) 1990. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2010. 14. These are the last lines of which play: "A girl has just died-on her way to the infirmary-after swallowing some disinfectant. And a Police Inspector is on his way here-to ask some-questions." A) "An Inspector Calls" by J B Priestley. B) "Twelve Angry Men" by Reginald Rose. C) "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" by Edward Albee. D) "Look Back In Anger" by John Osborne. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "An Inspector Calls" by J B Priestley. 15. What was the name of Simon Le Bon's maxi yacht, that lost her keel and capsized during the Fastnet race off Falmouth, on the southern coast of Cornwall, in 1985? A) C'est si bon. B) Bass. C) Duran. D) Drum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Drum. 16. According to some Christian tradition, who were Balthazar, Melchior and Caspar? A) The Supremes. B) Three blind mice. C) Three coins in a fountain. D) Three wise men. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Three wise men. 17. How many defensive players are on a baseball field at any one time? A) 11. B) 9. C) 18. D) 22. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 9. 18. The Atlas Mountains occupy most of the land area of which country? A) Algeria. B) Morocco. C) Romania. D) Kazakhstan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Morocco. 19. The sparkling wine called cava originated in which country? A) Japan. B) Fiji. C) Spain. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spain. 20. Tolstoy's book "War and Peace" is set when? A) 100 Years' War. B) World War I. C) Crimean War. D) Napoleonic Wars. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Napoleonic Wars. ← 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