This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 785 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 785 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Where would one most usually find a wishbone boom? A) Specialist fireworks. B) Jet boats. C) Windsurfing equipment. D) Sound equipment used for windy outdoor events. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Windsurfing equipment. 2. What 1949 film about racial prejudice in the USA by Clarence Brown, from a novel by William Faulkner, involved a black boy, a white boy and an old woman assisting a black man accused of murder? A) Pinky. B) Home Of The Brave. C) Lost Boundaries. D) Intruder In The Dust. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Intruder In The Dust. 3. Which South American country counts at least 5, 000 islands (larger than 100, 000 m2 (1, 100, 000 sq ft)) in its territory? A) Chile. B) Peruvians. C) Argentina. D) Venezuela. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chile. 4. What major sporting event was held, also in London, shortly after the London 2012 Summer Olympics? A) 2012 Summer Paralympics. B) Sport Relief 2012. C) 2012 Cricket County Championship. D) Bandy World Championship 2012. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2012 Summer Paralympics. 5. On what day in 1066 was William I crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey? A) Easter Sunday. B) Midsummer's Day. C) Christmas Day. D) His birthday. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Christmas Day. 6. What were antimacassars used for? A) To protect the upholstery on chair backs from hair oil. B) To protect varnished or oiled surfaces from hot cups and plates. C) To repel insects. D) To protect riding boots from horse hair and oil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To protect the upholstery on chair backs from hair oil. 7. Which of these is a restaurant? A) Antimacassar. B) Bandana. C) Dinah. D) Trattoria. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trattoria. 8. What is Teeline? A) A system to remove trapped air bubbles from water in a cooling system. B) A railway in San Francisco. C) A form of shorthand. D) A tabard. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A form of shorthand. 9. What are the first names of comedians French and Saunders? A) Thelma and Louise. B) Patsy and Edina. C) Venus and Serena. D) Dawn and Jennifer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dawn and Jennifer. 10. When C.B.C. Sales Film Corporation changed its name in 1924 to Columbia Pictures, what did the logo they developed show? A) A Roman soldier with a wreath on her head, a shield, and in her right hand an ear of wheat. B) A woman wearing a headdress, draped Roman dress and US flag, and carrying a torch. C) A woman in draperies on a pedestal, with a torch but without headdress and flag. D) A sunburst. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A Roman soldier with a wreath on her head, a shield, and in her right hand an ear of wheat. 11. Which of these is not a prison in the state of New York, USA? A) Wormwood Scrubs. B) Rikers Island. C) Sing Sing. D) Attica. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wormwood Scrubs. 12. Which US President was assassinated by Leon Frank Czolgosz at the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York? A) William McKinley. B) Abraham Lincoln. C) William Henry Harrison. D) John F Kennedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William McKinley. 13. In September 2009 the wife of which newly-elected Prime Minister made international news because of her claims to have been abducted to Venus by aliens? A) Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir of Iceland. B) Silvio Berlusconi of Italy. C) Yulio Hatoyama of Japan. D) François Fillon of France. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Yulio Hatoyama of Japan. 14. The mountain massif called Maxwell Montes contains the highest point on the surface of which planet? A) Saturn. B) Mars. C) Venus. D) Neptune. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Venus. 15. Where did Harold of England fight William of Normandy in 1066? A) Hastings. B) Hustings. C) Hurryings. D) Hostings. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hastings. 16. Marcel Duchamp, whose work was associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements, abandoned his successful career as an artist in the later part of his life to do what? A) Play chess. B) Grow tulips. C) Breed horses. D) Become a politician. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Play chess. 17. What is a group of rooks called? A) Pride. B) Parliament. C) Population. D) Committee meeting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parliament. 18. With what country is the sombrero associated? A) Indonesia. B) Kenya. C) Mexico. D) China. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mexico. 19. Who, in 1919, achieved the first nuclear disintegrations by bombarding nitrogen with alpha particles? A) Albert Einstein. B) Pierre and Marie Curie. C) Ernest Rutherford. D) J Robert Oppenheimer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ernest Rutherford. 20. The constellation Volpecula means what? A) Elephant. B) Amphibian. C) She wolf. D) Little fox. 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