This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 761 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 761 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Cambodia is better known in Asia as, and its official name was changed in 1975 temporarily to, what? A) Burkina Faso. B) Myanmar. C) Formosa. D) Kampuchea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kampuchea. 2. In England, what form of punishment was abolished by the Criminal Justice Act of 1948? A) Execution by firing squad. B) Hanging. C) Hard labour. D) Beheading. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hard labour. 3. In 1827 which two great figures of the Romantic Age died in Europe? A) FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. B) Francisco Goya and J. M. W. Turner. C) William Blake and Ludwig van Beethoven. D) Victor Hugo and Felix Mendelssohn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Blake and Ludwig van Beethoven. 4. Which of these films was directed by Stanley Kubrick with Ryan O'Neal in the title role? A) Master and Commander. B) Barry Lyndon. C) The Pink Panther. D) Spartacus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Barry Lyndon. 5. Which of these countries has the longest coastline? A) New Zealand. B) Russia. C) Australia. D) Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Canada. 6. At which city was Kai Tak airport replaced by Chek Lap Kok in 1998? A) Hong Kong. B) Mumbai. C) Singapore. D) Tokyo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hong Kong. 7. What device removes a pilot from an aircraft in an emergency? A) Spring stool. B) Propelled bench. C) Shot chair. D) Ejector seat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ejector seat. 8. "Powder one's nose" is what, in relation to someone's use of a latrine? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Euphemism. D) Euphuism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Euphemism. 9. What sport involves pockets, spots and rests? A) Snooker. B) Dominoes. C) Darts. D) Bowls. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Snooker. 10. Who or what are Matilda and Sherman? A) Heroes of a children's book by Roald Dahl. B) Military tanks. C) Badgers in Whipsnade Zoo. D) Breeds of lily. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Military tanks. 11. To what gauge pressure, when measured by the referees, do the official rules of the National Football League require footballs to be inflated? A) Between 8.5 and 15.6 psi. B) Between 8 and 9 pounds per square inch (psi). C) Between 12.5 and 13.5 pounds per square inch (psi). D) Between 10.5 and 12.5 pounds per square inch (psi). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Between 12.5 and 13.5 pounds per square inch (psi). 12. The diet of a Portia, a genus of jumping spider, focusses on what food? A) Small rodents. B) Other spiders. C) Ants. D) Locusts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Other spiders. 13. Musician Nigel Kennedy caught the eye of an international public with the 1989 release of him as violin soloist in which piece of music? A) The Swimming Hour by Andrew Bird. B) Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach. C) Radioactive by Imagine Dragons. D) The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi. 14. How many countries compete in the World Series? A) Usually over 36. B) Up to 10. C) Unlimited. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2. 15. Which of these is a dance? A) Postillion. B) Cotillion. C) Partition. D) Derision. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cotillion. 16. Where is the sacred city of Anuradhapura, established around a cutting from the 'tree of enlightenment', the Buddha's fig tree, brought there in the 3rd century BCE? A) Myanmar. B) Bhutan. C) Sri Lanka. D) India. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sri Lanka. 17. Who won the 2010 Boston Marathon with a time of 2:05:52, easily breaking the course record of 2:07:14? A) Tekeste Kebede. B) Deriba Merga. C) Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot. D) Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot. 18. Which automobile racing award was first given in 1900 in France and awarded annually until 1905? A) The Borg Warner Trophy. B) The Gordon Bennett Cup. C) Grand Prix de Paris. D) LΓ©gion d'honneur. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Gordon Bennett Cup. 19. Which 21st century film featured a pig as one its central characters? A) Pig. B) Babe. C) Okja. D) Disco Pigs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Okja. 20. Which subsequently top tennis champion, still No 4 during 2017, was No 1 as a junior at the end of 1998? A) Roger Federer. B) Stan Wawrinka. C) Rafael Nadal. D) Djokovic, Novak. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Roger Federer. 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