This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 798 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 798 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How many books are there in the "Harry Potter" series by J K Rowling? A) 10. B) 5. C) 7. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 7. 2. Which of these characters was created by Enid Blyton? A) Mrs Marple. B) Anne of Green Gables. C) Noddy. D) William. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Noddy. 3. ABBA named a song after which battle? A) Nile. B) Bosworth Field. C) Trafalgar. D) Waterloo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Waterloo. 4. Who established the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw in 1807? A) Maréchal Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte. B) Jozef Poniatowski. C) Napoléon I. D) Generalfeldmarschall von Blücher. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Napoléon I. 5. Paediatrics is concerned with what? A) Reproduction. B) Feet. C) Infants, children, and adolescents. D) Radiation therapy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Infants, children, and adolescents. 6. Loch Long, in the Loch Lomond area of Scotland, UK, sometimes hosts which of these? A) A rare fish known as powan. B) Humpback whales. C) The freshwater seal known as nerpa. D) The freshwater eel, Anguilla anguilla. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humpback whales. 7. Benjamin Franklin is usually credited with the creation of the first pair of what items of optical equipment in the early 1760s? A) Opera glasses. B) Binoculars. C) Monocles. D) Bifocals. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bifocals. 8. Which book was published in 2015 but written before, and seen as a preliminary to, the author's only other book, a prize-winning work published in 1960? A) The Witches:Salem, 1692. B) The Green Road. C) The Road to Character. D) Go Set a Watchman. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Go Set a Watchman. 9. What is the title of the first album by Susan Boyle? A) A Kiss to Build a Dream On. B) I Have a Dream. C) I Dreamed a Dream. D) Lend Me the Pillow That You Dream On. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I Dreamed a Dream. 10. The "rig veda" is a collection of scriptures sacred to which religion? A) Hinduism. B) Shintoism. C) Buddhism. D) Taoism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hinduism. 11. Where did the ancient city state known now as Palenque or Lakamha flourish? A) What is now Guatemala. B) What is now Chiapas state, Mexico. C) What is now southern Texas, USA. D) What is now Atlántida department, Honduras. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) What is now Chiapas state, Mexico. 12. To what did the light-heavyweight boxer Cassius Clay change his name? A) Sirimavo Bandaranaike. B) Yusuf Islam. C) Don Stephen Senanayake. D) Muhammad Ali. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Muhammad Ali. 13. Alevism shares many beliefs with what religion? A) Zoroastrianism. B) Baha'i. C) Sikh. D) Muslim. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Muslim. 14. A time signature in music which contains two minims per measure with a beat on both, is called what? A) At the double. B) All up. C) All round. D) Alla breve. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alla breve. 15. Which is a name for a thin slice of meat? A) Escargot. B) Escalope. C) Escarpment. D) Envelope. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Escalope. 16. When South Sudan was established as an country independent of Sudan in 2011 how was this done? A) By referendum. B) A truce between warring factions. C) Military action overseen by the East African Community. D) By edict from the religious leader of Sudan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) By referendum. 17. Which film, directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Hermione Gingold and Louis Jourdan, had been a Broadway play based on a story by Colette? A) Le Képi. B) Gaby. C) Gigi. D) Love in the Afternoon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gigi. 18. Who wrote the poem called "The New Colossus" that is inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty? A) Emma Lazarus. B) Robert Frost. C) Emily Dickinson. D) Walt Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emma Lazarus. 19. What does scroggin usually include? A) Nuts. B) Dried shrimp. C) Whipped cream. D) Boiled eggs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nuts. 20. On 1 July 1867 which of these happened in Canada? A) The National Council of Women of Canada is founded. B) Alexander Graham Bell displays his new invention, the telephone, to his family. C) "O Canada" is first performed. D) Colonies are united as a confederate state to become the Dominion of Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Colonies are united as a confederate state to become the Dominion of Canada. ← 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