This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 770 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 770 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What do the writings-by historian Sima Qian 2nd century BCE in the "Shiji"; by Saint Augustine in "Confessions" about 400 CE; in "The Book of Margery Kempe" 1438; by Enea Silvio Piccolomini (then Pope Pius II) in "Commentarii" 1458-1464-have in common? A) They contain historical research. B) They are autobiographical. C) They are writings of theological dissent. D) They include fantasy or fables. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They are autobiographical. 2. For which of these is vodka the basis? A) Margarita. B) Bloody Mary. C) Piña colada. D) Spritzer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bloody Mary. 3. Which of these wine regions is in Italy? A) Burgundy. B) Piedmont. C) Rhone Valley. D) Bordeaux. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Piedmont. 4. Which horse won the inaugural Epsom Derby horse race in the UK in 1780? A) Diomed. B) Bridget. C) Young Eclipse. D) Saltram. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diomed. 5. Which of the Hindu Trimurti is "The Creator" ? A) Vida. B) Vishnu. C) Shiva. D) Brahma. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brahma. 6. Which literary character started the popularisation of the phrase "hoist with one's own petard" ? A) Richard III. B) Gargantua. C) Don Quixote. D) Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hamlet. 7. What is the name given to a bone fracture when the bone bends and splinters rather than breaks in two? A) Comminuted. B) Compound. C) Simple. D) Greenstick. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Greenstick. 8. Which film actress was born in Germany in 1904, went to America after appearing in the film "Blue Angel", and became an American citizen in 1937? A) Bette Davis. B) Greta Garbo. C) Mary Pickford. D) Marlene Dietrich. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Marlene Dietrich. 9. What is the name of the son of American musicians Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, who was born in November 2008? A) Brooklyn Friday. B) Bronx Mowgli. C) Queens Kim. D) Manhattan Simba. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bronx Mowgli. 10. Haiti and which other country entered the Winter Olympics for the first time in 2022? A) Dominican Republic. B) Vatican City. C) Saudi Arabia. D) Zimbabwe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Saudi Arabia. 11. Robbie Coltrane played a psychologist in which British TV series? A) Waterbiscuit. B) Cracker. C) Yulelog. D) Plumpudding. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cracker. 12. Who is the only president of the USA to have been elected four times? A) George Bush. B) Theodore Roosevelt. C) Franklin D Roosevelt. D) Bill Clinton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Franklin D Roosevelt. 13. Which international philanthropist has included independent media and open society as a focus of their funds? A) George Soros. B) Li Ka-shing. C) Warren Buffett. D) MacKenzie Scott. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) George Soros. 14. What word is the plural of "sheep" ? A) Sheeps. B) Sheep. C) Flock. D) Sheepish. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sheep. 15. In October 2003, which cricketer, playing in a Test series against Zimbabwe, scored a record 380 not out? A) Justin Langer. B) Matthew Hayden. C) Gordon Greenidge. D) Shane Warne. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Matthew Hayden. 16. When the US Domestic Parcel Post, set up to handle large parcels, was initiated by the controversial new Postmaster General A.S. Burleson in 1913, what unexpected items were sometimes posted during the first decade of its existence? A) Giraffes. B) Babies and children. C) Railway carriage bogies. D) Decorated Christmas pine trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Babies and children. 17. What is George W Bush's middle name? A) Wallis. B) William. C) Walker. D) Wilberforce. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Walker. 18. Which of these is a salad made mainly with walnuts, celery and apples? A) Ritz salad. B) Hilton salad. C) Dorchester salad. D) Waldorf salad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Waldorf salad. 19. In the New Zealand road movie "Goodbye Pork Pie" (1981) the main non-human character was what? A) A railway station. B) A hat. C) A Mini. D) A 2CV. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A Mini. 20. What is the name of the vinegar made from Trebbiano grapes? A) Balzac. B) Balsamic vinegar. C) Balsa. D) Basamum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Balsamic vinegar. ← 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