This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 866 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 866 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Where does the water in the Okavango Delta flow? A) Into the Indian Ocean. B) Into the Atlantic Ocean. C) Into an endorheic basin of the Kalahari. D) Into the Red Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Into an endorheic basin of the Kalahari. 2. In what competition and when was the current world record set for the women's 200 meter dash? A) 2022 Commonwealth Games. B) 2022 World Athletic Championships. C) 1988 Summer Olympic Games. D) 2015 World Championships. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1988 Summer Olympic Games. 3. Whose forces were finally defeated at the Battle of Culloden? A) Rob Roy. B) Oliver Cromwell. C) Macbeth. D) Bonnie Prince Charlie. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bonnie Prince Charlie. 4. One of the current specialities of American multi-genre dancer LaTasha Barnes is in reconnecting black people with their heritage in what? A) Jazz. B) Tap. C) Voodoo. D) Morris dance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jazz. 5. The song "I Whistle A Happy Tune" is from which musical? A) The King and I. B) The Sound of Music. C) Aspects of Love. D) South Pacific. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The King and I. 6. From what language does the English word "thug" come? A) Portuguese. B) German. C) Hindi (and Sanskrit). D) Farsi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hindi (and Sanskrit). 7. Robin Hood wanted who to be on the English throne instead of King John? A) Richard the Lionheart. B) Henry II. C) John's (and Richard the Lionheart's) brother, Geoffrey. D) Louis XIV of France. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Richard the Lionheart. 8. The annual international cheese-rolling contest at the steep Cooper's Hill in England involves rolling downhill what kind and size of cheese? A) Wensleydale, 16 lb round. B) Caerphilly, 10 kg round. C) Double Gloucester, 9 lb round. D) Camembert, 9 lb round. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Double Gloucester, 9 lb round. 9. By what name was Samuel Longhorne Clements better known? A) Charles Dickens. B) Robert Louis Stevenson. C) Mark Twain. D) Jonathan Swift. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mark Twain. 10. At an auction in New York in March 2009, Vijay Mallya made international news by buying personal items belonging to whom? A) Saddam Hussein. B) Mahatma Gandhi. C) Mao Zedong. D) George Washington. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mahatma Gandhi. 11. What is changed at Buckingham Palace regularly, that is a tourist attraction? A) Minds. B) Nappies. C) The guard. D) Sheets. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The guard. 12. Welsh actress Sian Phillips was once married to which of these actors? A) Michael Caine. B) Alan Bates. C) Albert Finney. D) Peter O'Toole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Peter O'Toole. 13. When the Indonesian government in 2017 was contemplating moving its capital from Jakarta on the island of Java, what was one of the reasons published? A) The crime problem was beyond control. B) Jakarta is sinking. C) It was not possible to guard the city adequately from terrorist threat. D) The government decided Jakarta was not close enough to central in the islands. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jakarta is sinking. 14. Where was the Maguindanao massacre on 23 November 2009, when 58 victims, including a politician's wife, his two sisters, journalists, lawyers, aides, and motorists who were witnesses, were kidnapped and brutally killed? A) Ecuador. B) Philippines. C) Madagascar. D) Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Philippines. 15. How many different people were Prime Minister of Australia in the first 100 years after it became a Dominion in 1901? A) 15. B) 25. C) 20. D) 30. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 25. 16. What is the central focus of the play "Bully Boy" (2011), written by British-Danish playwright and comedian Sandi Toksvig? A) Public school education in the UK. B) Moral issues of military occupation and its effects on the mental health of serving soldiers. C) National posturing, and resulting international conflict. D) Tactics of film studios and their effect on people around them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Moral issues of military occupation and its effects on the mental health of serving soldiers. 17. Which is the main river inside Uruguay? A) River Plate. B) Rio Negro. C) Uruguay River. D) The Amazon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rio Negro. 18. Which country in Southeast Asia, and bordering Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore and Brunei, consists of 13 states and 3 Federal Territories which are separated by the South China Sea into two regions? A) Philippines. B) Cambodia. C) Malaysia. D) Laos. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Malaysia. 19. Hammurabi was an 18th century BCE ruler where? A) Ethiopia. B) Egypt. C) Libya. D) Babylon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Babylon. 20. For what were medals competed for at Olympic Games from 1912 until discontinued after the competition in 1948? A) Tug of war. B) Polo. C) Rugby union. D) Art competitions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Art competitions. ← 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