This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 836 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 836 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the world governing body WFFA, founded in 2017, concerned with? A) Freestyle figure skating. B) Freestyle football. C) Foil fencing. D) Fine fretwork. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Freestyle football. 2. Where is Denmark Strait? A) Between Greenland and Iceland. B) Between Denmark and Sweden. C) Between Denmark and Finland. D) Between Scotland and Ireland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Between Greenland and Iceland. 3. Which cup was originally known as the "Royal Yacht Squadron Cup" , the "RYS Cup for One Hundred Sovereigns" , the "One Hundred Guinea(s) Cup" and the "Queen's Cup" ? A) The America's Cup. B) The Borg Warner Trophy. C) The Webb Ellis Trophy. D) Jules Rimet Trophy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The America's Cup. 4. What weapons is Xingtian, or Hsing T'ien, a hero of Chinese classical mythology, usually shown wielding? A) Bow and arrow. B) Curved sword. C) Axe and shield. D) Sabre and lance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Axe and shield. 5. What is the wine-tasting term for the aroma, smell or bouquet of a wine? A) Nose. B) Eyes. C) Ears. D) Throat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nose. 6. In 2016 which country invaded northern Syria, and continued to occupy the territory it took? A) Iran. B) Israel. C) Iraq. D) Turkey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Turkey. 7. Calvin Klein is associated with which of these brands? A) Polo. B) Red Label. C) DKNY. D) The Khaki Collection. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Khaki Collection. 8. Which of these became the highest-placed British dressage rider in the Olympics in 1984 with the horse Wily Trout, won the team gold medal at the 1997 European Championships with the British Event Team, and won the Badminton Horse Trials in 1998 with Word Perfect? A) Andrew Bartle. B) Christopher Bartle. C) Shane Bartle. D) Robert G Bartle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Christopher Bartle. 9. Which is one of the matters that marked 2003 of the basketball programme in Baylor University, a private Baptist Christian research university in Waco, Texas? A) The start of a 20 year period of competition wins. B) Investigations into drug use and improper payments. C) Cancellation after the team resigned. D) Conversion into a netball programme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Investigations into drug use and improper payments. 10. Following August 1945 Mongolia gained its independence from the Republic of China as a result of what? A) A vote. B) A birthday party for Chiang Kai-shek's son. C) A meteor strike. D) Growing friendship. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A vote. 11. Redfoo and Sky Blu were members of which electronic rock band? A) LMFAO. B) Simply Red. C) Blue Sky Blues. D) Deep Purple. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) LMFAO. 12. The early kings of Scotland are buried on which island? A) Anglesey. B) Skye. C) Mull of Kintyre. D) Iona. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Iona. 13. When the Chinese Nationalist Party lost the civil war to the Communist Party in 1949, it relocated to which island and established Taipei as the Republic Of China's provisional capital? A) Myanmar. B) South Korea. C) Taiwan. D) Thailand. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Taiwan. 14. The book "Dirty Sexy Politics", released in 2010, was about whose US presidential campaign? A) John McCain. B) Sarah Palin. C) Barack Obama. D) Joe Biden. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John McCain. 15. The Bombay duck or bummalo is what type of creature? A) Salamander. B) Mandarin Duck. C) Lizardfish. D) Sooty Shearwater. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lizardfish. 16. Which of these was a US DJ who was famously disciplined in February 2004 for producing a show described by his boss as "offensive and insulting to anyone with a sense of common decency" ? A) John Peel. B) Casey Kasem. C) Dr John. D) Howard Stern. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Howard Stern. 17. What is a "billet doux" ? A) Ballet move. B) Love letter. C) Waistcoat. D) Return ticket. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Love letter. 18. What colour is closest to picallili? A) Black. B) Red. C) Green. D) Yellow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Yellow. 19. Sarah Radclyffe and who else was behind the 1983 formation of Working Films, which was the company behind films such as "My Beautiful Laundrette", "Four Weddings and a Funeral", "The Big Lebowski", "The Theory of Everything" and "The Danish Girl" ? A) Liza Chasin. B) Eric Fellner. C) Tim Bevan. D) Natascha Wharton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tim Bevan. 20. Which birds from around Papua New Guinea and brought to Europe were believed never to land and to be kept aloft by their plumes, because native traders had removed the wings and feet from the specimens? A) Hornbill. B) Hooded Pitohui. C) Cassowary. D) Bird of Paradise. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bird of Paradise. ← 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