This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 828 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 828 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What word game, a spin-off to Scrabble that allows proper nouns and words spelled backwards to be used and allows players to "steal" letter tiles from other players, was announced on 6 April 2010? A) Shuffle. B) Prankster. C) Trickster. D) Millennium Scrabble. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trickster. 2. What is used in the technique for opening a champagne bottle called "sabrage" ? A) Hammer. B) Sword. C) Axe. D) Screwdriver. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sword. 3. Who or what did the music hall performer mean when he sang of "my old dutch" ? A) His wife. B) His work pal. C) His crutch. D) His grandmother. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His wife. 4. The commentator for British TV series "Robot Wars" is better known as a British commentator for what? A) Football (soccer). B) Fashion shows. C) Science Expos. D) Crufts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Football (soccer). 5. What was the subject for which New Zealand scientist Alan MacDiarmid was co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry? A) The development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules. B) The discovery and development of conductive polymers. C) The development of computational methods in quantum chemistry. D) The discovery of fullerenes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The discovery and development of conductive polymers. 6. In what country is the arid scrub area known as the Great Sandy Desert and associated with Kurtal? A) Northern China. B) Western Australia. C) Central New Zealand. D) Southern Chile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Western Australia. 7. What happens when someone is defenestrated? A) They have their trousers, or skirts, pulled down. B) They have their spectacles broken. C) They are stripped of their clothing. D) They are thrown out of a window. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They are thrown out of a window. 8. "The Four Seasons" was composed for which solo instrument, with orchestra? A) Clarinet. B) Piano. C) Violin. D) French Horn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Violin. 9. In 1922 the Anglo-Irish Treaty was concluded (allowing for the Irish Free State), insulin first treated diabetes successfully, James Joyce's "Ulysses" was published, and what else? A) Theodore Roosevelt, President of the USA, died. B) Hitler's "Mein Kampf" was published. C) Krakatoa erupted. D) The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formed. 10. Which American TV sitcom, originally aired from 1974 to 1984, presented an idealized vision of life in 1950s and early 1960s America? A) American Graffiti. B) Happy Days. C) The Long Weekend. D) Back To The Future. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Happy Days. 11. What was at one time known as Van Diemen's Land is a southern area in which country? A) Chile. B) Australia. C) New Zealand. D) South Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Australia. 12. Which science fiction writer developed "The Three Laws of Robotics" ? A) Arthur C Clarke. B) Isaac Asimov. C) Edward Neumeier & Michael Miner. D) Terry Pratchett. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Isaac Asimov. 13. Paramaribo is the capital of which country? A) Costa Rica. B) Guyana. C) Suriname. D) Honduras. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Suriname. 14. The 19th century painting, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, by Edouard Manet (two men and two women) possibly drew inspiration from the 16th century The Pastoral Concert by Giorgione or Titian (three men and two women); what is a feature of the two paintings? A) The men are fully clothed and the women are nude or effectively so. B) The painting is in the Pointillist style. C) The picnic features only cheeses. D) All the characters are stroking an orangutan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The men are fully clothed and the women are nude or effectively so. 15. Kelly Slater is an American professional sportsman in what field? A) Tennis. B) Golf. C) Motor racing. D) Surfing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Surfing. 16. The warm Agulhas Current runs along what African coastline? A) Mediterranean Sea. B) The southwest Indian Ocean. C) Red Sea. D) Southeast Atlantic Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The southwest Indian Ocean. 17. Who was Emperor of Rome during the great fire of 64AD? A) Hadrian. B) Nero. C) Commodus. D) Julius Caesar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nero. 18. According to Jewish tradition, whose chair is set ready at each passover meal in case he reappears to herald the coming of the Messiah? A) Elisha. B) Elias. C) Elijah. D) Emmanuel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elijah. 19. What is the name for attacks on Jewish communities, especially those instigated by the authorities? A) Shalom. B) Ghetto. C) Pogrom. D) Rabbi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pogrom. 20. Who won the Super Bowl in 2006? A) Seattle Seahawks. B) Kansas City Chiefs. C) Pittsburgh Steelers. D) Green Bay Packers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pittsburgh Steelers. ← 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