This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 756 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 756 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is a terrifying and disturbing dream? A) Nightshade. B) Nightlight. C) Nightmare. D) Nightmove. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nightmare. 2. The term "tessellated" refers to what type of art? A) Gouache. B) Mosaic. C) Classical sculpture. D) Opera singing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mosaic. 3. Which country contains the most large lakes in the world? A) Canada. B) New Zealand. C) Afghanistan. D) Antarctica. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Canada. 4. Over 40% of the population of the US state of Alaska live in which city? A) Seattle. B) Anchorage. C) Juneau. D) Fairbanks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anchorage. 5. What was the occupation of Anna Lindh, who was assassinated in 2003 while shopping in the ladies' department at the Nordiska Kompaniet store in Stockholm? A) Politician. B) Journalist. C) Nuclear physicist. D) Arms dealer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Politician. 6. Which province of Canada has the longest border with the USA? A) Alberta. B) Ontario. C) Manitoba. D) Saskatchewan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ontario. 7. Which Shakespearean play is the basis for films directed by Orson Welles in 1948, Roman Polanski (1971), Geoffrey Wright (2006), Akira Kurosawa (1958), Billy Morrissette (2001), and Vishal Bharadwaj (2004)? A) Romeo and Juliet. B) Macbeth. C) Hamlet. D) Much Ado About Nothing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Macbeth. 8. What title, meaning "general", was held by Japan's military commanders from 1192 to 1867? A) Shogun. B) Dojo. C) Mikado. D) Samurai. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shogun. 9. Which author famously upset her publisher by beginning a book with "I am quite tired of making goody goody books about nice people" ? A) Enid Blyton. B) Beatrix Potter. C) Agatha Christie. D) Jane Austen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beatrix Potter. 10. Brucellosis is what kind of disease? A) Zoonotic. B) Viral. C) Only transmitted sexually. D) Non-febrile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Zoonotic. 11. The Wallace Line in Indonesia, characterised by particularly deep water e.g. between the islands of Borneo and Sulawesi, is also characterised by what? A) Difference in fauna either side of the line. B) Concentrated manta ray population. C) Volcanic activity. D) Turbulent wave action. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Difference in fauna either side of the line. 12. Who includes in his repertoire since 2009 films as different as "Fantastic Mr Fox", "The Men Who Stare At Goats", "The Ides of March", and "Gravity" ? A) George Clooney. B) Ewan McGregor. C) Bill Murray. D) Ryan Gosling. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) George Clooney. 13. In the nursery rhyme, what is the ladybird told to do? A) Don't sleep in the subway. B) Hide, hide, the cow's outside. C) Run, run, run. D) Fly away, fly away, fly away home. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fly away, fly away, fly away home. 14. Which of these countries does not administer part of the area known as Kashmir? A) Afghanistan. B) India. C) Pakistan. D) China. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Afghanistan. 15. One of the most endangered mammals lives only in 2 square kilometres of remnant rainforest on Hainan Island in the South China Sea. Which animal is it? A) The red slender loris (Loris tardigradus). B) Sibree's dwarf lemur (Cheirogaleus sibreei). C) The large-antlered muntjac (Muntiacus vuquangensis). D) The Hainan black crested gibbon (Nomascus hainanus). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Hainan black crested gibbon (Nomascus hainanus). 16. In what profession did "The It Girl" of the 1920s and 1930s work? A) Film actress. B) Professional model. C) Secretary. D) Nurse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Film actress. 17. Easter Island belongs to which country? A) Chile. B) Argentina. C) USA. D) Mexico. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chile. 18. The lowest point in Africa and the second lowest in the world is in which country? A) Djibouti. B) Ethiopia. C) Egypt. D) Mali. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Djibouti. 19. What is featured on the flag of Mexico? A) An eagle eating a snake. B) A wheel. C) A lion rampant. D) A duck. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An eagle eating a snake. 20. Which of these was a 1981 hit for Bananarama? A) Mercury. B) Pluto. C) Mars. D) Venus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Venus. ← PreviousNext →Related 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 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books