This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 822 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 822 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In December 2005 a beach at Cronulla in New South Wales in Australia saw what media headline-grabbing happening? A) Five simultaneous shark attacks. B) A mass race riot targetting Lebanese Australians. C) First international Sand Yacht Grand Prix. D) A polar bear coming ashore. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A mass race riot targetting Lebanese Australians. 2. Where is the Halley Research Station? A) Peru. B) Antarctica. C) Australia. D) New Zealand. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antarctica. 3. Which American rock band from New Jersey, formed in 2001, consisting of Gerard Way, Mikey Way, Frank Iero, Ray Toro and Bob Bryar, released the albums "I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love", "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge", and "The Black Parade" ? A) My Chemical Romance. B) Your Physical Attraction. C) Our Astronomical Love. D) Their Mathematical Lust. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) My Chemical Romance. 4. Which Olympic Games were the first to be broadcast worldwide on television? A) 1972, Munich. B) 1968, Mexico City. C) 1964, Tokyo. D) 1960, Rome. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1964, Tokyo. 5. The first Oscar awarded to someone playing the opposite sex was for a role in which film? A) The Danish Girl (2015). B) Mrs Doubtfire (1993). C) Tootsie (1982). D) The Year of Living Dangerously (1982). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Year of Living Dangerously (1982). 6. Two American athletes protested during their respective medal ceremonies at the 2019 Pan American Games and were put on probation for 12 months. What sports did they represent? A) Swimming, discus. B) Hanner throw, fencing. C) Hammer throw, discus. D) 100 metres track, shot put. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hanner throw, fencing. 7. The owner and promoter of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) is also associated with what? A) The International Federation of Tiddlywinks Associations. B) The American Beekeeping Federation. C) Rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. D) The Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. 8. The "Apokalypsis Ioannou" is the Greek name for what? A) The book in the Christian Bible "The Revelation of St John the Divine". B) Horsemen of the Apocalypse. C) The film "Apocalypse Now". D) The persecution of witches by Pope John XXII. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The book in the Christian Bible "The Revelation of St John the Divine". 9. What is the word for the projection on a ship that holds a lifeboat? A) Flange. B) Divot. C) Doormat. D) Davit. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Davit. 10. What word in Australia and New Zealand has among its meanings to "undermine another's diggings, work over waste heaps for gold" ? A) Prospect. B) Trawl. C) Fossick. D) Undermine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fossick. 11. What relation is Mme Marine Le Pen to the founder of the National Front (now National Rally) in France, Jean-Marie Le Pen? A) None. B) Wife. C) Daughter-in-law. D) Daughter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Daughter. 12. Which light-heavyweight boxer won a gold medal when he competed at an Olympic Games for the first time in 1960 at Rome? A) Cassius Clay. B) Kent Green. C) Joe Frazier. D) Anthony Madigan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cassius Clay. 13. The cricket game at the Oval in London, England, on 31 August 2017 was interrupted and then called off, due to what? A) A tornado. B) Collapse of an audience barrier. C) Persistent buzzing of the players by drones. D) Firing of a crossbow bolt onto the pitch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Firing of a crossbow bolt onto the pitch. 14. Which is one of the rivers which feeds the large tidal estuary known as Lake Maracaibo? A) Orinoco. B) Catatumbo. C) Amazon. D) Apure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Catatumbo. 15. Which of these is a 1952 comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds? A) Mumbling in the Fog. B) Talking in the Snow. C) Singing in the Rain. D) Screaming in the Mist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Singing in the Rain. 16. The 2001 film "A Beautiful Mind" on the life of Nobel prize-winner John Nash was based on the book of the same name written by whom? A) Sylvia Nasar. B) Barry Morrow. C) Jane Hawking. D) Andrew Morton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sylvia Nasar. 17. What name is given to the unnatural fear of men? A) Homophobia. B) Thanatophobia. C) Androphobia. D) Xenophobia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Androphobia. 18. The "Duckworth-Lewis method" (or D/L method) is used in which sport? A) American football. B) High jump. C) Pole vault. D) Cricket. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cricket. 19. What is the usual diet of armadillos? A) Lizards. B) Insects, grubs, ants and similar. C) Roots. D) Other small mammals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Insects, grubs, ants and similar. 20. Which of these is a fashion designer? A) Donna Reed. B) Donna Karan. C) Jo Karam. D) Sister Karamazov. 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