This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 794 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 794 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which composer wrote "Night and Day", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!" and "I've Got You Under My Skin" ? A) Brick Shifter. B) Cole Porter. C) Butcher's Carrier. D) Pipe Mover. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cole Porter. 2. What did the oceanographer and racing boat captain Charles J. Moore see when he was returning from a race in 1997? A) A deep sea frilled shark. B) The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. C) A coelacanth. D) A Ginkgo Biloba tree growing on a raft of vegetation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. 3. What can be a description of such expressions as "from whence", "cling onto", "continue on", or "comprised of"/ A) Oxymorons. B) Redundant. C) Adjectival. D) Participial. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Redundant. 4. Which plant has leaves and flowers (each of which consists of 5 or 6 small yellow flower heads surrounded by leaflets in star form that bloom between July and September) that are covered with white hairs and appear woolly? A) Gladioli. B) Rose. C) Daisy. D) Edelweiss. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Edelweiss. 5. "Black Cherry" and "Supernature" are albums by which band? A) Faithless. B) Goldfrapp. C) Madness. D) Everyone But The Girl. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Goldfrapp. 6. What kind of game or sport does the word "faro" refer to? A) Billiards. B) Board game. C) Pole vault. D) Cards. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cards. 7. What river rises in the Black Forest and travels 1, 775 miles to empty into the Black Sea? A) Danube. B) Volga. C) Rhine. D) Seine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Danube. 8. What name is given to a molecule or atom in which the total number of electrons is not equal to the number of protons? A) Ion. B) Neutron. C) Black hole. D) Cyclotron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ion. 9. The crosses of how many saints make up the British flag, the Union Jack? A) 5. B) 4. C) 2. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3. 10. France's largest international airport and one of the world principal aviation centres, also known as Roissy, is usually known by the name of what historical figure? A) Charles de Gaulle. B) Vercingetorix. C) Bonaparte. D) Louis XIV-the Sun King. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Charles de Gaulle. 11. The Colorado beetle destroys what kind of crop? A) Wheat. B) Potato. C) Coffee. D) Grapes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Potato. 12. What was the last of these Star Wars films to be released? A) Attack of the Clones. B) Revenge of the Sith. C) The Phantom Menace. D) A New Hope. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Revenge of the Sith. 13. "Easter Parade", the highest grossing musical film of 1948, starred which retired dancer and prominent entertainer? A) Sammy Davis, Jr. B) Gene Kelly. C) Fred Astaire. D) Donald O'Connor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fred Astaire. 14. What was the profession of the person who invented the mechanism of the door lock for London toilets operated by payment of a coin, initially one penny? A) Fairground operator. B) Engineer. C) Clockmaker. D) Stage magician. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stage magician. 15. The song "Consider Yourself" is from what musical? A) Oliver!. B) Oklahoma!. C) South Pacific. D) Annie. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oliver!. 16. Which country held its first democratic elections in 1990, and retired its title as "People's Republic of ..... " in February 1992? A) Afghanistan. B) Congo. C) Mongolia. D) Nepal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mongolia. 17. In the 1920s and 1930s, Bessie Smith was known as what? A) Ol' Red Eyes. B) Empress of the Blues. C) The Last of the Big Mommas. D) Tootie Frutti. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Empress of the Blues. 18. In the 2015 World Rowing Championships which country was not in the top four medal winners? A) USA. B) New Zealand. C) Great Britain. D) Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) USA. 19. What does "pernickety" mean? A) Spiky. B) Overly fussy. C) Sticky. D) Moving in random directions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Overly fussy. 20. The colourless, odourless, sweet-tasting and non-toxic compound glycerine, or glycerin, is or can be an ingredient in which of these? A) Wound and burn treatment. B) To achieve a painterly quality in photo developing. C) Making an explosive. D) All of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of them. ← 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