This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 763 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 763 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How many members of a netball team are allowed to shoot at goal? A) 4. B) 2. C) 3. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 2. When did Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam and others found the militant movement, Al-Qaeda? A) 2008. B) 1948. C) 1988. D) 1888. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1988. 3. For which of these would the term "breeze" not be appropriate? A) A type of building block. B) A type of gun. C) A gadfly. D) A light wind. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A type of gun. 4. Which of these motor vehicle manufacturers is not based in South Korea? A) Toyota. B) Kia Motors. C) SsangYong Motor Company. D) Hyundai Motor Company. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Toyota. 5. Poets Sarah Holland-Batt, Libby Hart, David Musgrave, Kathryn Lomer and Bronwyn Lea are from which country? A) UK. B) USA. C) Australia. D) South Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Australia. 6. In which country were 29 miners killed after 2 explosions in the Pike River Mine in November 2010, making it the most-deadly mining disaster there in 96 years? A) Brazil. B) China. C) Chile. D) New Zealand. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) New Zealand. 7. Teammates and vigorous competitors, Formula One drivers Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton, both drove for which team until 2016? A) Mercedes AMG Petronas. B) Vodafone McLaren Mercedes. C) AT & T Williams. D) Red Bull Racing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mercedes AMG Petronas. 8. After the signing of the Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913, Mubarak Al-Sabah was recognised by the Ottomans and British as the ruler of the autonomous caza of which city and its hinterlands? A) Kuwait. B) Qatar. C) Dubai. D) Saudi Arabia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kuwait. 9. Which of these points of a horse are at the highest point when it is standing up? A) Hock. B) Gaskin. C) Chestnut. D) Croup. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Croup. 10. At his untimely death in 2002, ex-captain of the South African cricket team Hansie Cronje had been banned from any involvement in cricket for life. What was the reason? A) His role in a match-fixing scandal. B) Allegations of drug use. C) Persistent rude gestures towards opposing players. D) Refusing to honour the national anthem at matches. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His role in a match-fixing scandal. 11. When were the Thames Embankments in London, UK, built? A) 1850s to 1880s. B) 1750s and 1780s. C) 1610s and 1620s. D) 1580s to 1590s. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1850s to 1880s. 12. The "Don't Make a Wave Committee" founded in the early 1970s by Jim & Marie Bohlen, Irving & Dorothy Stowe, Paul Cote and Robert & Bobbi Hunter grew into what organisation? A) Oxfam. B) Amnesty International. C) Mensa. D) Greenpeace. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Greenpeace. 13. The terms patois and argot refer to what? A) Informal language used by people in a particular locality. B) Types of ship. C) Ancient Greek tribes. D) Musical rhythms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Informal language used by people in a particular locality. 14. According to the Christian and Jewish Bible, who turned into a pillar of salt when she looked back at the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah? A) Salome. B) Lot's wife. C) Ruth. D) Janice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lot's wife. 15. With which sport are Rodney Eyles, Peter Nicol, Susan Devoy and Cassie Campion associated? A) Badminton. B) Table Tennis. C) Tennis. D) Squash. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Squash. 16. A Global Seed vault has been established to maintain global genetic diversity of food crop plants; where is it sited? A) Little Diomede Island, Alaska, USA. B) An island in the Svalbard archipelago, Norway. C) Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territory, Canada. D) The Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An island in the Svalbard archipelago, Norway. 17. In the Christian calendar, what is the week before Easter, historically a time of abstinence from eating flesh, drinking wine and carrying on business? A) Ramadan. B) Annunciation. C) Lent. D) Holy Week. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Holy Week. 18. Superman spent his adult life in which city? A) Forest Hills, New York. B) Gotham City. C) Metropolis. D) Keystone City. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metropolis. 19. In the 1990 film "Dick Tracy", which starred Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, Glenne Headly and Charlie Korsmo, who played the role of "Breathless Mahoney", an entertainer at Club Ritz who tries to steal Tracy from Tess Trueheart? A) Britney Spears. B) Madonna. C) Paris Hilton. D) Demi Moore. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Madonna. 20. There were a number of firsts during which cricketing team's tour of NZ in 2020, including rare whitewashes and the first cricketer to play 100 matches in all three international formats of the sport? A) England. B) Sri Lanka. C) India. D) Pakistan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) India. ← 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