This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 865 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 865 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the French name for Lake Geneva? A) Lac Leman. B) Lake Geneva. C) Lac du Suisse. D) Clermont-Ferrand. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lac Leman. 2. The Java War 1825-30 was between the Dutch colonial force in Java and which other force? A) Japanese. B) French. C) Javanese. D) German. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Javanese. 3. Where will the Paralympics be held in 2020? A) Tokyo. B) Osaka. C) Beijing. D) Sydney. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tokyo. 4. Which of these is famous in the field of dance? A) Damien Hurst. B) Gianni Versace. C) Sylvie Guillem. D) Michael Stipe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sylvie Guillem. 5. When was the Domesday Book compiled? A) 1085-6. B) 1179. C) 1066-86. D) 881-890. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1085-6. 6. What was the only single by ABBA to reach number 1 on the US "Billboard" charts? A) The Winner Takes It All. B) Waterloo. C) Take a Chance on Me. D) Dancing Queen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dancing Queen. 7. In which country is the town of Passchendaele? A) Germany. B) France. C) Denmark. D) Belgium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Belgium. 8. What distinguishes the islands of Laguna Colorado in Bolivia? A) They are crusted with red salt. B) There are none. C) They contain small hot pools. D) They are borax. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They are borax. 9. Which actor, at the request of his son and wife, was buried when he died in 1956 wrapped in the costume of his famous film role, Dracula's cloak? A) Richard Burton. B) Christopher Plummer. C) Bela Lugosi. D) David Bowie. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bela Lugosi. 10. Which of these towns or villages has not set up closer links with the others? A) Dull, Perthshire, Scotland. B) Bland, New South Wales, Australia. C) No Name, Colorado, USA. D) Boring, Oregon, USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) No Name, Colorado, USA. 11. Complete the title of this James Bond film: "The Man With the ..... ''? A) Golden Gun. B) Wooden Leg. C) Loud Wife. D) Hat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Golden Gun. 12. Barred, pinwheel and super-luminous are types of what? A) Spiral galaxy. B) Biscuit. C) Sea snail. D) Moss. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spiral galaxy. 13. Which modern country was part of Ottoman Empire from the early 1500s until 1918, when its old area was divided between the British and the French, the new country becoming French until the mandate ended officially in 1946 when it became independent? A) Syria. B) Lebanon. C) Greece. D) Montenegro. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Syria. 14. Where did the car manufacturer Saab originate? A) Germany. B) France. C) Sweden. D) Italy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sweden. 15. Which of these are characters from the TV series Dallas? A) J.R., Bobby, Sue Ellen, Pamela, Jock, "Miss Ellie" & Lucy. B) Eric and Ernie. C) Jiggs and Maggie. D) Leonard, Sheldon and Penny. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) J.R., Bobby, Sue Ellen, Pamela, Jock, "Miss Ellie" & Lucy. 16. Which of these is next to the Louvre? A) The Folies BergΓ¨re. B) Eiffel Tower. C) Tuilleries Gardens. D) Montmartre. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tuilleries Gardens. 17. A 7-line rhyming system which was introduced into English poetry in the 14th century and which became widely used, is known as what? A) Monorhyme. B) Rhyme, or rime, royal. C) Sonnet. D) Villanelle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme, or rime, royal. 18. Where is it possible to have a fresh water dive between two tectonic plates? A) Silfra Fissure, Thingvellir National Park, Iceland. B) Pet Cemetery, Tulum, Mexico. C) GrΓΌner See, Tragoess, Austria. D) Ewens Ponds, Mount Gambier, Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Silfra Fissure, Thingvellir National Park, Iceland. 19. What scale initially related wind conditions to their effects on the sails of a man of war, from "sufficient for steerage" to "which canvas sails couldn't withstand." A) Carvill Index. B) Richter scale. C) Mercalli scale. D) Beaufort scale. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Beaufort scale. 20. Which of these was a star of the 1998 to 2006 TV series "Will and Grace" ? A) Jane Leeves. B) Calista Flockhart. C) Debra Messing. D) Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Debra Messing. β PreviousNext βRelated 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 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books