This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 749 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 749 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In the TV series of P.G.Wodehouse's "Jeeves and Wooster", Bertie Wooster is most known for playing what musical instrument? A) Saxophone. B) Piano. C) Cornet. D) Banjo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Piano. 2. Outside a fictional presence in films and books, what is the definition of a muggle? A) Sweetheart. B) Joint of marijuana. C) All of these. D) Fish tail. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All of these. 3. Intense rabbinical debate in New York circles in the summer of 2004, led to some observant Jews installing what? A) Water filters. B) Rain water tanks. C) Solar panels. D) Bidets. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Water filters. 4. Which Wonder of the Ancient World begun in 356 BC at Ephesus under the direction of Dinocrates took over a century to build? A) Lighthouse at Alexandria. B) Sphinx. C) Colossus of Rhodes. D) Temple of Diana. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Temple of Diana. 5. Which continent has the world's highest waterfall, largest river by volume, longest mountain range, driest non-polar place, largest rainforest, highest capital city, and highest commercially navigable lake? A) Asia. B) North America. C) South America. D) Europe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) South America. 6. What is the former name of Helsinki, Finland? A) Helsingfors. B) Elsinor. C) Helsingor. D) Eleanor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Helsingfors. 7. A player from which nation or nations is the 2016 World Champion of the board game Diplomacy? A) Australia. B) Canada and the UK. C) USA. D) France and Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Canada and the UK. 8. Which British golfer won the US Masters in 1989, 1990 & 1996? A) Tony Jacklin. B) Percy Alliss. C) Nick Faldo. D) Lee Westwood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nick Faldo. 9. The aim of which board game, which is based on one created in India around 500 BC, is to move pawns from the "nest" to "home" ? A) Snakes and Ladders. B) Ludo. C) Parcheesi. D) Draughts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parcheesi. 10. Where is the Sea of Fertility? A) In the high mountain area of Peru. B) On the Moon. C) Round the Maldives. D) Due north of Sweden. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) On the Moon. 11. What drink originating from India is made from yoghurt, water, salt, pepper, ice and spices and sometimes cumin, sugar, honey, turmeric powder, rosewater, lemon, mango, strawberry, cream, ice cream, pistachio nuts or a liquid derivative of cannabis? A) Tot. B) Rintinti. C) Lassi. D) Snow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lassi. 12. Where in the body is Waldeyer's ring? A) Circling the patella. B) Towards the end of the sigmoid colon. C) At the back of the eyes. D) At the back of the throat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) At the back of the throat. 13. "The Blockheads" released a new album in 2009 after nine years' silence. Who used to be their frontman? A) Eric Clapton. B) David Bowie. C) J J Cale. D) Ian Dury. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ian Dury. 14. Marius Petipa is particularly well-known for his work in what? A) Sports therapy. B) Medicine. C) Dance. D) Training race horses. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dance. 15. In 2018 which country is the world's leading producer of fresh dates? A) Egypt. B) Morocco. C) India. D) Mongolia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Egypt. 16. Who was the subject of the 2007 film "La Vie En Rose" ? A) Edith Piaf. B) Celine Dion. C) Marie Antoinette. D) Marina Navritalova. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Edith Piaf. 17. Where are the Straits of Magellan? A) Between Tierra del Fuego and Chile. B) Between Japan and Taiwan. C) Between Scotland and the Orkney Islands. D) Between Sakhalin Island and the Russian mainland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Between Tierra del Fuego and Chile. 18. What word means skill or dexterity in the sense of cunning, deceit and trickery? A) Skulduggery. B) Prestidigitation. C) Duplicity. D) Sleight. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sleight. 19. New Zealand first won medals in shot put in the Olympic Games in 2008; this was in women's shot put with Valerie Adams (now Vili) winning gold (2008 and 2012) and silver (2016). When did it win in the men's shot put? A) 1980. B) 2008. C) 1904. D) 2016. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2016. 20. Credits for originally writing which song are ascribed to Fred Glickman and Ellis "Buz" Butler, who in 1947 was the first to record it, and also ascribed to Fred Glickman, Johnny Lange, Hy Heath, and Ramblin' Tommy Scott? A) The Return of the Wayfaring Stranger. B) Mule Train. C) Merry Christmas. D) Cruising Down the River. 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