This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 890 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 890 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Brass, one of the copper alloys, is manufactured using mainly which other metal? A) Zinc. B) Manganese. C) Mercury. D) Tungsten. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Zinc. 2. In 1953, six nations set up the International Federation of Translators (FIT) in Paris. The nations were Denmark, France, Italy, Norway, the Federal Republic of Germany and which other? A) New Zealand. B) UK. C) Turkey. D) Japan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Turkey. 3. Who released the albums "Sentimental Journey", "Goodnight Vienna", "Bad Boy", "Old Wave" and "Vertical Man" between 1970 and 1999? A) Elton John. B) Neil Diamond. C) Paul McCartney. D) Ringo Starr. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ringo Starr. 4. What is Erse? A) A Norse god. B) A figure of speech. C) A language. D) An Irish river. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A language. 5. Where do most Hutu live? A) Northern Australia. B) Borneo. C) Rwanda and Burundi. D) Lesotho. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rwanda and Burundi. 6. The saying "By three methods we may learn wisdom:First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest" is credited to whom? A) Virgil. B) Descartes. C) Socrates. D) Confucius. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Confucius. 7. Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira, was an explorer for which kingdom? A) The Netherlands. B) Spain. C) Portugal. D) Bhutan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Portugal. 8. What is the opposite of diminuendo? A) Grazioso. B) Affrettando. C) Doloroso. D) Crescendo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Crescendo. 9. Who was elected president of the southern states of the USA when they seceded from the Union in 1861? A) Abraham Lincoln. B) Benjamin Franklin. C) Jefferson Davis. D) Thomas Jefferson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jefferson Davis. 10. Which city was founded in 763, ravaged by the Mongols in 1258, taken by the Turks in 1636, and occupied by the British from 1917 to 1932? A) Nazareth. B) Cape Town. C) Beirut. D) Baghdad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Baghdad. 11. What is dichlor-diphenyl-trichlorethane used for? A) Headaches. B) Party pills. C) Insecticide. D) Preventing nappy rash. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Insecticide. 12. In 1994 the Globe Theatre on London's Shaftesbury Avenue was renamed after which actor? A) Terence Rigby. B) Ralph Richardson. C) Laurence Olivier. D) John Gielgud. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John Gielgud. 13. The River Volga runs through which capital city? A) Moscow. B) Belgrade. C) Budapest. D) Bratislava. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Moscow. 14. Wargaming in one form or another has gone through surges of use and popularity but one form is both ancient and still greatly popular; which is it? A) Warcraft. B) Ace of Aces. C) Chess. D) Tactics II. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chess. 15. How many months are there in a century? A) 1200. B) 600. C) 12000. D) 120. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1200. 16. Which of these sports has a Doubles variety? A) Biathlon. B) Snowboarding. C) Cross country skiing. D) Luge. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Luge. 17. Where was Zane Grey born, later an author, a dentist, and known for his adventure novels about the American West and frontier territory? A) Gray, Idaho. B) Zanesville, Ohio. C) Gray, Oklahoma. D) Zane, Utah. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Zanesville, Ohio. 18. J.P.R. Williams played rugby union for which country between 1969 and 1981? A) Japan. B) South Africa. C) Wales. D) Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wales. 19. The series of wars known in some places as the French and Indian Wars was fought over the late 17th and early 18th centuries in which area or areas? A) Indian Ocean. B) South East Asia and the Indian sub-continent. C) European and North American continents. D) Indonesia and Malaysia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) European and North American continents. 20. Which mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer is credited with introducing the technology of the screw in the 3rd century BCE? A) Homer. B) Hippocrates. C) Archimedes. D) Copernicus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Archimedes. ← 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