This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 880 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 880 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these countries does not have a Pacific coastline? A) South Africa. B) New Zealand. C) Chile. D) Japan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) South Africa. 2. Who died suddenly on 14 October 1977 from a heart attack soon after a round of 18 holes of golf near Madrid (apparently his last words were "That was a great game of golf, fellas" followed a few moments later by "Let's go have a Coca-Cola")? A) Bing Crosby. B) Bill Cosby. C) Gary Player. D) Gary Oldman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bing Crosby. 3. Which of these is a republic? A) Sweden. B) Egypt. C) UK. D) Monaco. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Egypt. 4. Which of these is a book by Laurie Lee? A) Cider With Rosie. B) Gin with Gertie. C) Tea with Tessa. D) Milk with Marjorie. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cider With Rosie. 5. What is German for "ghost who makes a racket" ? A) Poltergeist. B) Casper. C) Doppelganger. D) Zeppelin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poltergeist. 6. The food of the Gods is ambrosia:what is the drink of the Gods? A) Amphora. B) Wine. C) Nectar. D) Euphoria. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nectar. 7. Trioecy-the co-occurrence of male, female and hermaphrodite-is relatively common in plants. It is also seen in what animals? A) None. B) Sea anemones and marine mussels. C) Impala. D) Hoatzin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sea anemones and marine mussels. 8. Who founded the London Symphony Orchestra Summer Pops in 1985 and served as Pops Musical Director of the San Francisco Symphony and Rochester (NY) Philharmonic in the USA? A) Acker Bilk. B) Ronnie Scott. C) John Dankworth. D) Benjamin Britten. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Dankworth. 9. Who wrote the book "The Prince and the Pauper" ? A) Rudyard Kipling. B) Mark Twain. C) Charles Dickens. D) Hans Christian Andersen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mark Twain. 10. Near what would one find an "ingle nook" ? A) Fireplace. B) Bed. C) Altar. D) Bath. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fireplace. 11. An ancient city in the Colombia's Sierra Nevada, thought to have been founded about 800 CE, is known as what? A) Machu Picchu. B) La Ciudad Perdida (alternatively Teyuna or Buritaca). C) Serra da Capivara. D) Túcume Pyramids. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) La Ciudad Perdida (alternatively Teyuna or Buritaca). 12. According to legend, what is needed to kill a werewolf? A) Silver bullet. B) Crucifix. C) Holy water. D) Stake. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Silver bullet. 13. Where are giraffes most likely to be found in the wild? A) The Arabian Peninsula. B) India. C) South America. D) Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Africa. 14. What does the "A" stand for in the insurance group AIG? A) Associated. B) American. C) Australian. D) Allied. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) American. 15. Where are China's largest natural gas reserves found? A) Gansu Province. B) Qinghai Province. C) Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. D) Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. 16. The Camel Cup, first held in 1970 in the dry bed of a river, is held where? A) The Mojave Desert, California. B) Qatar. C) Atacama Desert. D) Alice Springs, Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alice Springs, Australia. 17. Which part of the body would be treated if the patient was suffering from lumbago? A) Eyes. B) Back. C) Feet. D) Throat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Back. 18. Where is the Riigikogu the national parliament? A) Finland. B) Estonia. C) Latvia. D) Sweden. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Estonia. 19. Which country, governed by the Danish government as its colony, was made an equal part of the Danish Kingdom in 1953? A) The Faroe Islands. B) Greenland. C) Iceland. D) Danish West Indies. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Greenland. 20. What do V.S.Naipaul, Doris Lessing, John Maxwell Coetzee and Bob Dylan have in common? A) They have worked in the fishing industry. B) They were born in India. C) They have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. D) They have chosen plots, or are buried, in Père Lachaise Cemetery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. ← 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