This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 879 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 879 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these countries was never a member of The League of Nations, which was created by the Treaty of Versailles after World War I? A) The Dominican Republic. B) Egypt. C) USA. D) The Soviet Union. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) USA. 2. Tony Hawk won 9 gold medals at what annual event between 1995 and 2002? A) World Bowls Championship. B) Surfing World Championships. C) Summer X-Games. D) World Indoor Archery Championships. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Summer X-Games. 3. What name is given to an over-theatrical actor? A) Ham. B) Beef. C) Mutton. D) Pork. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ham. 4. Which London landmark was designed by Sir Christopher Wren to commemorate the Great Fire of London? A) Cleopatra's Needle. B) Nelson's Column. C) The Monument. D) Lincoln Memorial. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Monument. 5. What is the name for a group of lines that is repeated throughout a poem or song? A) Trope. B) Refrain. C) Epigram. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refrain. 6. An endomorph has what physical characteristic? A) Ability to change into a different shape. B) Thinness. C) Fatness. D) No heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fatness. 7. The film "The African Queen", starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, was set during which war? A) World War II. B) World War I. C) Korean War. D) American Civil War. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) World War I. 8. Which of these has the highest annual alcohol consumption per capita? A) Germany. B) United Kingdom. C) Ireland. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ireland. 9. Why was Swedish wrestler Ara Abrahamian disqualified by the IOC from his medal for the men's 84kg Greco-Roman wrestling event at the 2008 Olympics? A) He had kicked a referee in the face. B) He was found to have used the banned substance propranolol. C) He threw his medal on the floor at the medal ceremony. D) He was found to be overweight. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He threw his medal on the floor at the medal ceremony. 10. What was the name of the otter, the subject of a novel by Henry Williamson that was first published in 1927? A) Tarka. B) Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. C) Loki. D) Olly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tarka. 11. What is the background of the character Kim in the 1901 book of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling? A) An Afghan warrior. B) A tiger cub. C) A Pakistani farmer. D) An orphan vagabond during the British Raj in India. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An orphan vagabond during the British Raj in India. 12. Who is the main protagonist in the action-adventure game series, "The Legend of Zelda" ? A) Hyrule. B) Link. C) Endor. D) Edith Finch. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Link. 13. Which country in 1990 had the first female Prime Minister to give birth to a child while in office? A) Pakistan. B) New Zealand. C) Israel. D) UK. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pakistan. 14. Which of these has the highest heart rate? A) Bumblebee bat. B) Pygmy shrews and hummingbirds in the Americas. C) Etruscan pygmy shrew. D) African pygmy mouse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Etruscan pygmy shrew. 15. When was the scourge known in England as the "harrying of the north" carried out? A) 980-1016. B) 793-4. C) 1069-70. D) 460-65. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1069-70. 16. On television, who was the father of Meadow and Anthony Junior? A) Tony Soprano. B) Fred Flinstone. C) Wyatt Earp. D) Bill Cosby. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tony Soprano. 17. Before the Battle of Copenhagen, what is Nelson said to have put to his blind eye? A) Stethoscope. B) Periscope. C) Microscope. D) Telescope. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Telescope. 18. When they played together between 1966 and 1968, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker & Eric Clapton were known as what band? A) The Bluesbreakers. B) Derek and the Dominos. C) Blind Faith. D) Cream. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cream. 19. What is the world's richest horse race in 2023? A) Coronation Cup. B) Grand Prix de Paris. C) Saudi Cup. D) Dubai World Cup. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Saudi Cup. 20. In music, what word means increasing the loudness of the tone? A) Glissando. B) Crescendo. C) Rallentando. D) Obbligato. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crescendo. ← 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