This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 856 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 856 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What purpose would groats NOT serve or have served? A) Making wholemeal bread. B) Filling between kitchen or bathroom tiles. C) To buy something. D) Part of the name of a northern tip of Scotland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Filling between kitchen or bathroom tiles. 2. Revolutions in February and October in 1917 are remembered in what country? A) France. B) Australia. C) Russia. D) Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Russia. 3. The period of the French Revolution when the Girondists were guillotined, which ended with the guillotining of Robespierre, was known as what? A) The Inquisition. B) Reign of Terror. C) The Black Hole of Calcutta. D) The Dark Ages. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reign of Terror. 4. What sport is played in the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup Final, that has been held since 1914? A) Baseball. B) Ice Hockey. C) Lacrosse. D) Soccer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Soccer. 5. Which musical was written by Tim Rice with two ex-members of ABBA? A) Mamma Mia!. B) Chess. C) The Beautiful Game. D) Starlight Express. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chess. 6. What painting has the alternative name of "La Gioconda" ? A) The Peasant Wedding. B) The Birth of Venus. C) Madonna and Child. D) Mona Lisa. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mona Lisa. 7. What is the name given to an unidentified serial killer who was active in the Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London, England, in late 1888? A) Dick Turpin. B) Machine Gun Kelly. C) Billy The Kid. D) Jack the Ripper. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jack the Ripper. 8. What is the current established official length of one metre? A) The length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during 1/299 792 458 of a second. B) The length of a pendulum having a half-period of one second. C) One ten-millionth of the length of the earth's meridian along a quadrant through Paris. D) 1, 650, 763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red emission line in the spectrum of krypton-86 in a vacuum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during 1/299 792 458 of a second. 9. What electricity voltage is provided as mains power in the USA? A) 50 Volts. B) 230 Volts. C) 460 Volts. D) 120 Volts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 120 Volts. 10. She was only the second woman to receive a science doctorate from the Vienna University, and was one of three scientists to identify the splitting of the uranium atom, Who was she? A) Rosalind Franklin. B) Lise Meitner. C) Mary Fairfax Somerville. D) Caroline Herschel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lise Meitner. 11. Which of these sports is competed in the World Games? A) Trampolining. B) Ski orienteering. C) Taekwondo. D) Triathlon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ski orienteering. 12. Who created the cartoon series called "Stanley the Palaeolithic Hero", "Bruce the Barbarian", "All the King's Comrades" and "Footrot Flats" ? A) Murray Ball. B) Ronald Searle. C) "Giles". D) Jim Davis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Murray Ball. 13. Which author created the character of C. Auguste Dupin, one of the first literary sleuths? A) Victor Hugo. B) Mark Twain. C) Edgar Allan Poe. D) Georges Simenon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Edgar Allan Poe. 14. In 1957, Walter Frederick Morrison sold the manufacturing right to what product, which is now known as the "Frisbee" ? A) Flying Saucer. B) Swizzle. C) Whirling Dervish. D) Pluto Platter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pluto Platter. 15. Which of these is a specialist wine-growing area in Italy? A) Kumeu. B) Barossa Valley. C) Elgin. D) Barolo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Barolo. 16. Which of these is a position in soccer? A) Striker. B) Silly mid-on. C) Lock. D) Goal Attack. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Striker. 17. The state flag of the Kyrgyz Republic, or Kyrgyzstan, contains a sun with how many rays? A) 7. B) 6. C) 12. D) 40. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 40. 18. Who served in the Crimean War (1853-56), was responsible for suppressing the Taiping rebellion in China in 1860, was governor of the Sudan 1877-79, and died there? A) Sir Henry Havelock. B) Earl of Sandwich. C) Duke of York. D) General Charles Gordon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) General Charles Gordon. 19. How many ways can a batsman be dismissed in cricket? A) 12. B) 5. C) 10. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 10. 20. For what is the town of St. Moritz in Switzerland particularly known? A) Ice and snow sports. B) Wine making. C) As the birthplace of William Tell. D) The largest windmill farm in Europe. 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