This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 818 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 818 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Before taking office, both US president George W Bush and his vice president Dick Chaney had been convicted of what? A) Failing to file an annual company return. B) Tax evasion. C) Insurance fraud. D) Drink driving. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Drink driving. 2. A social experiment conducted with a hoax film star in a shopping mall in Virginia, USA, in April 2012 and posted online, concerned what? A) Speed and reach of social media contacts. B) People apply different standards of behaviour to film stars. C) Mass suggestibility, particularly as it relates to celebrities. D) Techniques of crowd control. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mass suggestibility, particularly as it relates to celebrities. 3. Which trophy is affectionately called the "Auld Mug" ? A) Borg Warner Trophy. B) The America's Cup. C) The Rose Bowl. D) Intercontinental Cup. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The America's Cup. 4. What 1939 film, set during the American Civil War, starring Clark Gable and Vivienne Leigh, was based on a book by Margaret Mitchell? A) Spartacus. B) Ben Hur. C) Gone With The Wind. D) Wait Until Dark. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gone With The Wind. 5. After the STASI, together with its foreign-intelligence service HVA, was dissolved in December 1989 what became the final home of the vast remnants of its even vaster records? A) The Stasi Records Agency. B) Das Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archives). C) Deutsche National Bibliothek (German National Library). D) The Stasi Museum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Das Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archives). 6. What is the third planet from the sun? A) Uranus. B) Saturn. C) Earth. D) Neptune. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Earth. 7. What was the first name of Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement? A) Mahatma. B) Mohandas. C) Bapu. D) Goosey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mohandas. 8. "He's got this dream about buyin' some land. He's gonna give up the booze and the one night stands. And then he'll settle down, there's a quiet little town, and forget about everything" is a line from which hit song of the 1970s? A) Born to Run. B) Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. C) Relax. D) Baker Street. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Baker Street. 9. If you travelled down the Missouri River from Bismarck, North Dakota, which city would you be in when you reached the ocean? A) Dallas. B) San Francisco. C) New Orleans. D) Chicago. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) New Orleans. 10. In the history of the Iberian Peninsula in the 11th to 13th centuries, what was a "taifa" ? A) A building for worship. B) An independent Muslim-ruled principality. C) A type of sword. D) A farm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An independent Muslim-ruled principality. 11. What name is given to the activities of the specially constituted group of British, American, Russian and French judges that tried NAZI Party leaders and German military commanders after World War II? A) Geneva Convention. B) Berlin Assizes. C) Hague Tribunal. D) Nuremberg Trials. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nuremberg Trials. 12. Who is the next in this series:Nelson Rockefeller, Walter Mondale, George H. W. Bush, Dan Quayle, Al Gore ..... ? A) Dick Cheney. B) Joe Biden. C) Spiro Agnew. D) Gerald Ford. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dick Cheney. 13. When was the first Super Bowl for American football held? A) 1937. B) 1957. C) 1947. D) 1967. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1967. 14. Which of these is not a type of pipe? A) Panatella. B) Corncob. C) Meerschaum. D) Calumet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Panatella. 15. According to Arthurian legend, who was the father of Galahad? A) Lancelot. B) Mordred. C) The Green Knight. D) Bors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lancelot. 16. Of these which is North Korea's nearest neighbour? A) Japan. B) People's Republic of China. C) Socialist Republic of Vietnam. D) Mongolia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) People's Republic of China. 17. One of the stresses that causes a metal object to break is called metal what? A) Tiredness. B) Fatigue. C) Listlessness. D) Ennui. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fatigue. 18. One US gallon is equal to how many pints? A) 2. B) 6. C) 4. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 8. 19. Where have Luk Thep, or Angel Children, been popular? A) Hong Kong. B) Thailand. C) Laos. D) Cambodia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thailand. 20. What was the result of the internationally noted 1956 Treason Trial, which tried 156 men for treason and lasted about 5 years? A) The verdict was "Not Proven". B) All 156 defendants were acquitted. C) The 156 defendants were found guilty in absentia, and sentenced to death. D) The defendants were sentenced to be flogged and then stoned to death, commuted to 50 years in prison. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All 156 defendants were acquitted. ← 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