This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge โ Quiz 750 ๐ Homepage ๐ Download PDF Books ๐ Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 750 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which are usually made from plastic, bamboo, wood or stainless steel? A) Oven dishes. B) Serving knives. C) Chopsticks. D) Woks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chopsticks. 2. Ban Ki Moon retired in 2016, as his elected term ended, from which internationally known position? A) Dalai Lama. B) Pope of the Catholic Church. C) Head of Formula One. D) Secretary-General of the United Nations. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Secretary-General of the United Nations. 3. What hit song of 1987 included the line "We come in peace, Shoot to kill" A) Star Trekkin'. B) God Save The Queen. C) (It's A) Wonderful World. D) Imagine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Star Trekkin'. 4. Where is the Flavian Amphitheatre? A) Chicago. B) Flavia. C) Rome. D) Near Berwick on Tweed, England. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rome. 5. What type of art would you be making if you glued macaroni onto a surface? A) Topiary. B) Macramรฉ. C) Cloisonnรฉ. D) Collage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Collage. 6. Who married music producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange on December 28, 1993? A) Sandy Shore. B) Marianne Faithful. C) Shania Twain. D) Faith Hill. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shania Twain. 7. Which country has hosted the greatest number of world curling championships (of any kind:men's, women's and mixed championships) between 1959 and 2015? A) Scotland. B) Canada. C) Switzerland. D) USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Canada. 8. In the early 21st century the word "lockdown" became associated internationally with what? A) A worldwide surge in theft. B) A new style of clothing. C) Trying to deal with SARS-CoV-2 and the disease it causes, COVID-19. D) Increasing psychoses resulting in acute withdrawal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trying to deal with SARS-CoV-2 and the disease it causes, COVID-19. 9. If you were to fly due east from the southernmost point of the Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego what is the next land mass, bigger than the island you set out from, which you would meet? A) The South Island of New Zealand. B) Tierra del Fuego. C) Falkland Islands, or Islas Malvinas. D) The Antarctic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tierra del Fuego. 10. When the 1992 Maastricht Treaty established the European Union and led to a common currency in Europe, what was the currency called? A) Eural. B) Eumark. C) Euro. D) Eudol. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Euro. 11. Which of these is essential to the production of glass, rayon and cellophane, soaps, detergents, dyeing textiles, water softeners, most photographic film developing agents, and in toothpaste? A) Calcium fluoride. B) Soda ash. C) Caustic soda. D) Ferrous carbonate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Soda ash. 12. What is the product of a score and a baker's dozen? A) 260. B) 130. C) 240. D) 33. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 260. 13. In May 1987, perhaps 4, 000 sq. miles (10, 000 sq. km) of timber was destroyed in the Greater Khingan, or Da Hinggan, Range in eastern Mongolia. What caused the devastation? A) Meteorite strike. B) Fire. C) Landslides after monsoon rain. D) Bulldozing following a health scare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fire. 14. Oberon is a moon of which planet? A) Neptune. B) Saturn. C) Uranus. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Uranus. 15. What was the Russian Osip Mandelstam known for? A) As a discus world champion. B) Theoretical physics. C) Chess strategy. D) Poetry and essays. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poetry and essays. 16. Which cricketer has scored the most first class centuries in history? A) Sachin Tendulkar. B) Jack Hobbs. C) Michael Slater. D) Ricky Ponting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jack Hobbs. 17. In what field are the Peabody Awards known? A) Television, radio, and online media. B) Architecture. C) Fiction literature. D) Medicine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Television, radio, and online media. 18. Which musical term means "sustained", and occasionally also implies "a slowing of tempo" ? A) Fugato. B) Dolce. C) Sostenuto. D) Lento. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sostenuto. 19. A typical harvest from Spain and Greece is what? A) Apples. B) Grapes. C) Cheese. D) Olives. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Olives. 20. What was the stated motive behind a bombing in Centennial Park during the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, USA? A) To protest globalisation. B) To protest abortion on demand. C) To distract from a jewel theft over the other side of the city. D) To demonstrate solidarity with Palestinians. 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