This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 737 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 737 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The 10 national CONMEBOL teams come from Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and which other? A) Bolivia. B) Suriname. C) French Guiana. D) Guyana. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bolivia. 2. Which poison is also an element on the periodic table? A) Cyanide. B) Strychnine. C) Hemlock. D) Arsenic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Arsenic. 3. Where did Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple Inc., unveil the first iPhone? A) Macworld Conference & Expo, Moscone West, San Francisco, USA. B) In a newsmedia release. C) Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, USA. D) Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas, USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Macworld Conference & Expo, Moscone West, San Francisco, USA. 4. What British royal couple separated in 1989 after 16 years of marriage? A) Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones. B) Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales. C) Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. D) Princess Anne and Mark Phillips. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Princess Anne and Mark Phillips. 5. MC Kenzie and MC Reaper were members of which group? A) Party Dark. B) So Solid Crew. C) Big Brovaz. D) Blazin Squad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blazin Squad. 6. Where is a ricer most likely to be used? A) In the kitchen. B) In the paddy fields. C) At the dinner table. D) In rice processing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In the kitchen. 7. What name is given to the HQ of the USA's Department of Defence? A) The Rhombus. B) The Pentagon. C) The Square. D) The Triangle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Pentagon. 8. Who composed the music for the operetta in which the song "Make Our Garden Grow" appears? A) Irving Berlin. B) Samuel Barber. C) Stephen Sondheim. D) Leonard Bernstein. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Leonard Bernstein. 9. During the reign of Ashurbanipal who reigned in the seventh century BC, the Susa-Babylon highway became the first recorded example of what? A) Road with posts for "staged" horses. B) Trade route. C) Toll road. D) Concrete road. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Toll road. 10. Which TV series followed the exploits of Father Ted Crilly, Father Dougal McGuire and the retired Father Jack Hackett, who preside over a parish on Craggy Island? A) Ballykissangel. B) Father Ted. C) All Gas and Gaiters. D) Oh, Father!. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Father Ted. 11. What characterises a codex? A) The text is a system of laws or codes of conduct. B) Tabulations. C) Folded sheets sewn along one edge and read vertically. D) Lack of illustrations. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Folded sheets sewn along one edge and read vertically. 12. Which of these sports fields the highest number in each team? A) American Football. B) Australian Rules Football. C) Association Football. D) Gaelic Football. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Australian Rules Football. 13. Fanta Four are one of what country's top hip hop bands? A) UK. B) Belgium. C) Austria. D) Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Germany. 14. "The Pohutukawa Tree" and "The End of the Golden Weather" are plays by whom? A) Gore Vidal. B) Greg McGee. C) Patrick White. D) Bruce Mason. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bruce Mason. 15. Canadian Florence Nightingale Graham dropped out of nursing school in Toronto and joined her elder brother in New York City, working as a bookkeeper for the E.R. Squibb Pharmaceuticals Company. By what name is she better known? A) Florence Nightingale. B) Helena Rubinstein. C) Elizabeth Arden. D) Estée Lauder. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elizabeth Arden. 16. Which TV family lived on North Cemetery Ridge? A) Huxtables. B) Cunninghams. C) Munsters. D) Addams. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Addams. 17. What is a good idea not to do in public if you want to keep secrets private? A) Hoist one's petard. B) Wash one's dirty linen. C) Hum. D) Do the light fandango. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wash one's dirty linen. 18. Why did Captain James Cook give the name "The Sandwich Islands" to the Hawaiian Islands on his discovery of them on 18 January 1778? A) They were first sighted by Jim Sandwich, the crewman on watch. B) He was eating lunch on the forecastle. C) On the horizon, they looked like a sandwich. D) He named them for John Montagu. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He named them for John Montagu. 19. What is the title of a 2004 book co-written by Paris Hilton and Merle Ginsberg? A) Me, myself and I. B) Confessions of an Airhead. C) Pretentious? Moi?. D) Confessions of an Heiress. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Confessions of an Heiress. 20. Olympic gold medallists Ian Thorpe, Stephanie Rice, Lisbeth Trickett, Mike Wenden and John Henricks represented which country? A) Sweden. 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