This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 745 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 745 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these cities is not a port? A) Buenos Aires. B) Montevideo. C) Brasília. D) Cape Town. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brasília. 2. Muslin and chenille are two what? A) Santa's reindeer. B) Computer viruses. C) Fabrics. D) Religions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fabrics. 3. Where did the early 19th century art movement which reacted against Neoclassicism, the academy system and virtuosity in art, take shape? A) Vienna. B) Paris. C) Edinburgh. D) Amsterdam. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vienna. 4. What kind of event is the Welsh word Eisteddfod applied to? A) An arts festival. B) A game of Gaelic football. C) A New Year's Eve party. D) An auction of motor vehicles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An arts festival. 5. Which of these US states is the furthest south? A) Wyoming. B) South Dakota. C) West Virginia. D) North Carolina. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) North Carolina. 6. Harry Osborn is the offsider to which comic book superhero? A) Wonder Woman. B) Superman. C) Batman. D) Spider-Man. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spider-Man. 7. The ice field which contains the world's third largest reserve of fresh water and is the world's second largest contiguous extrapolar ice field, lies across which two countries? A) Russia and Mongolia. B) Norway and Finland. C) Canada and the US. D) Chile and Argentina. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chile and Argentina. 8. In 1919, Rev Philip (Tubby) Clayton founded which organisation as a club and church for returned soldiers? A) Returned Servicemen's Association. B) Toc H. C) Chelsea pensioners. D) British Legion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Toc H. 9. Which book of the Bible contains the story of the visit of the Queen of Sheba to the court of King Solomon? A) 1 Kings. B) Numbers. C) Romans. D) Acts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1 Kings. 10. Which American abolitionist was one of a group who seized the Arsenal at Harper's Ferry in October 1859, was wounded, captured and, in December, hanged at Charleston? A) Capability Brown. B) John Brown. C) Davy Crockett. D) Lorna Doone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Brown. 11. Where are the islands of Mayotte, a French overseas department and region, and single territorial collectivity? A) East of New Caledonia. B) North of the Canary Islands. C) The north of the Mozambique Channel. D) Off the western coast of India. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The north of the Mozambique Channel. 12. What did the non-violent resistance group known as White Rose target? A) General Francisco Franco. B) The Russian Bolsheviks. C) Benito Mussolini. D) The Nazi regime. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Nazi regime. 13. Who wrote "Farewell To Arms" (published 1929), "For Whom The Bell Tolls" (1940), and received a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize for Literature for "The Old Man And The Sea" (1952)? A) John Steinbeck. B) Ernest Hemingway. C) William Faulkner. D) Pearl S. Buck. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ernest Hemingway. 14. What vitamin is thiamine? A) B1. B) B3. C) B2. D) A. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) B1. 15. What word was used by poets and nineteenth-century Irish nationalists in English as a romantic name for Ireland, that is the name sometimes given to the female personification of Ireland? A) Erin. B) Hibernia. C) Venus. D) Tootsie. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Erin. 16. Which of these golfers was born in Scotland? A) Mark James. B) Nick Faldo. C) Ian Woosnam. D) Colin Montgomerie. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Colin Montgomerie. 17. The "Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests In The Atmosphere, In Outer Space And Under Water", known as the "Partial Test Ban Treaty", "Limited Test Ban Treaty" and "Nuclear Test Ban Treaty", introduced in 1963, was signed by a number of countries including the UK, the USA and which other? A) North Korea. B) China. C) France. D) USSR. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) USSR. 18. What time did the Everly Brothers wake up in the movie theatre in the song "Wake Up Little Suzie" ? A) 4 o'clock. B) 10 o'clock. C) Midnight. D) 1 o'clock. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4 o'clock. 19. What cooking technique involves frying quickly in a small quantity of hot grease? A) Coddle. B) Sauté. C) Broil. D) Simmer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sauté. 20. Which Beatle wrote the music for the film "The Family Way", starring Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett, released in 1967? A) John Lennon. B) Paul McCartney. C) Ringo Starr. D) George Harrison. 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