This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 79 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 79 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these is a type of crane? A) Graham. B) Rodger. C) Roderick. D) Derrick. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Derrick. 2. Immediately after leaving his band Roxy Music in 1973, Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, more usually known as Brian Eno, released which solo album? A) (No Pussyfooting). B) Another Green World. C) Here Come the Warm Jets. D) Discreet Music. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Here Come the Warm Jets. 3. Where is Wrangel Island Reserve? A) Above the Arctic Circle, Russia. B) Northern Pacific Ocean. C) Mediterranean Sea. D) Scotland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Above the Arctic Circle, Russia. 4. Patrick Swayze headed a cast including Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn and Vincent Schiavelli, in what 1990 fantasy film? A) Dragonheart. B) Edward Scissorhands. C) The Mask. D) Ghost. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ghost. 5. What name is given to the ancient preserved dead bodies found in Egypt? A) Grandpas. B) Daddies. C) Kiddies. D) Mummies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mummies. 6. Which opera singer, and oratorio and concert soloist with the New York Philharmonic, London Symphony and Israel Philharmonic orchestras is even better known for dubbing the singing in films of musicals including for Margaret O'Brien in "The Secret Garden" (1949) and for singing roles on Broadway in 2000-2003? A) Marni Nixon. B) Debbie Burton. C) Andrea Guasch. D) Martha Mears. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Marni Nixon. 7. Jane Horrocks plays which role in the TV series "Absolutely Fabulous" ? A) Squeak. B) Bubble. C) Edina. D) Margaret. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bubble. 8. Which of these is a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean? A) New Zealand. B) Novaya Zemlya. C) New Caledonia. D) Falkland Islands. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Novaya Zemlya. 9. What does the Chandrasekhar limit relate to? A) Theory of radiative transfer. B) The mass of a white dwarf. C) Aphelions of planets from their sun. D) The later evolutionary stages of black holes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The mass of a white dwarf. 10. The author of the 16th century treatise, "Spiritual Exercises", simple meditations, prayers, and other mental exercises, was which career Spanish Basque soldier, courtier and later university student? A) Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar. B) Miguel de Cervantes. C) Francisco de Aguirre. D) Saint Ignatius de Loyola. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Saint Ignatius de Loyola. 11. Who was the central figure in the 2015 film "Amy" ? A) Amy Dickinson. B) Amy Adams. C) Amy Belle. D) Amy Winehouse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Amy Winehouse. 12. Where is the Gulf of Ob? A) Barents Sea. B) Sea of Okhotsk. C) Lake Balkhash. D) Kara Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kara Sea. 13. Which of these is a graph of a function showing smooth repetitive oscillation? A) Parabola. B) Wave equation. C) Hyperbolic partial differential. D) Sine wave. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sine wave. 14. Tamerlane was a 14th-century conqueror of Western, South and Central Asia, founder of which empire? A) The Byzantine Empire. B) The Mongol Empire. C) The Ottoman Empire. D) The Timurid Empire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Timurid Empire. 15. "The Year of Three Popes", involving Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul I and Pope John Paul II, is the name given to which year? A) 1605. B) 1590. C) 1978. D) 766. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1978. 16. Which Caribbean country, consisting of two main islands, is the smallest nation in the Western hemisphere? A) Antigua. B) St Kitts and Nevis. C) Jamaica. D) Cuba. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) St Kitts and Nevis. 17. What sport was competed in the Home Nations Championship, now the Six Nations Championship? A) Soccer (football). B) Golf. C) Swimming. D) Rugby Union. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rugby Union. 18. The Battle of Khafji was the first major ground engagement in which war? A) The Gulf War, 1991. B) The invasion of Kuwait, 1990. C) The Iraq War, 2003. D) The Battle of Leyte Gulf, 1944. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Gulf War, 1991. 19. The ancient sport of Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu involves riding or taming what? A) Pigs. B) Horses. C) Goats. D) Bulls. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bulls. 20. What was the favourite vegetable of Catherine de Medici, who, when she left Florence to marry the king of France, brought her own cooks, who could prepare it in the ways that she especially liked? A) Potatoes. B) Onions. C) Spinach. D) Turnips. 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