This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 744 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 744 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What body did the National Assembly of Venezuela, first elected in 2000 under President Hugo ChΓ‘vez, replace? A) Constituent National Assembly. B) Congress. C) Cortes Generales. D) Parliament. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Congress. 2. Which Greek philosopher and mathematician, born on Samos around 582BC, established a school at Crotana? A) Pythagoras. B) Isosceles. C) Plato. D) Socrates. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pythagoras. 3. What small, oily fish, of which there are 15 species, found in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Atlantic, the Baltic Sea, the North Pacific, and the Mediterranean, move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America? A) Sardines. B) Herring. C) Pilchards. D) Sprats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Herring. 4. During lockdowns designed to halt the spread of the pandemic COVID-19 in 2020, several studios chose to release films online instead of waiting for theatres to open. Which was one of these? A) The Painted Bird. B) Never Rarely Sometimes Always. C) Trolls:World Tour. D) Rebecca. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trolls:World Tour. 5. Which of these phrases is traditionally associated with a highwayman? A) Stand and Deliver. B) Howzat. C) Order, Order. D) Are You Havin' A Laugh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stand and Deliver. 6. Which legendary couple are said to be buried at Glastonbury, Somerset, England? A) David and Victoria Beckham. B) Robin and Marian. C) Anthony and Cleopatra. D) Arthur and Guinevere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Arthur and Guinevere. 7. If a criticism or a satire is described as mordant what does that mean about it? A) It is inappropriate. B) It is allegorical. C) It is sharp and biting. D) It has a delicate musical quality. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is sharp and biting. 8. What is pognophobia the fear of? A) Beards. B) Noses. C) Dogs. D) Bears. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beards. 9. Who wrote the memoirs "'Tis" and "Teacher Man" ? A) Frank McCourt. B) Seamus Heaney. C) Dermot Healy. D) Roddy Doyle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Frank McCourt. 10. "Silks" is the name used to describe the uniform of a competitor in which sport? A) Horse racing. B) Snooker. C) Polo. D) Synchronised swimming. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Horse racing. 11. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917) was the first woman in Britain to be elected to a school board, the first female mayor in Britain, and the first ..... ? A) Accredited female silversmith in Britain. B) Female member of Parliament in Britain. C) Woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon. D) Female head of a (male) university. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon. 12. The boundary of which territory, disputed by the USA and Canada, that had started between the Russian and British Empire in 1821, was resolved by arbitration in 1903? A) Alaska. B) Siberia. C) Mexico. D) Panama. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alaska. 13. What land, a British colony for 155 years, and occupied by Japan briefly in WW II, was ceded to the People's Republic of China in 1997? A) Hong Kong. B) New Zealand. C) Canada. D) Gibraltar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hong Kong. 14. A club in central London called "The Night Tripper" that opened on 23 December 1966 later changed its name to what? A) The UFO. B) The Ad Lib. C) The Marquee. D) CBGBs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The UFO. 15. Which is the nearest neighbour of the island of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States? A) Alaska. B) Texas. C) The Dominican Republic. D) Nova Scotia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Dominican Republic. 16. Where are the Yoruk people native? A) Turkey. B) Montenegro. C) Egypt. D) Afghanistan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Turkey. 17. Which of these is a short coat, either sleeveless, or with short sleeves or shoulder pieces, which was a common item of men's clothing in the Middle Ages? A) Trebuchet. B) Laird. C) Tabard. D) Ostler. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tabard. 18. The first concrete-steel composite arch bridge in the USA that links the states of Nevada and Arizona by spanning the Colorado River is near which other man-made construction? A) Golden Gate Bridge. B) Statue of Liberty. C) London Bridge, Lake Havasu City. D) Hoover Dam. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hoover Dam. 19. The federal government of Australia moved to what new, purpose-built, planned, capital city in 1927? A) Vampire. B) Lancaster. C) Mosquito. D) Canberra. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Canberra. 20. Which film featured the voices of Hugh Grant in his animated feature film debut, Martin Freeman, Imelda Staunton, and David Tennant? A) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. B) Wallace & Gromit:The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. C) Chicken Run. D) The Pirates! Band of Misfits. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Pirates! Band of Misfits. β PreviousNext βRelated 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 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books