This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 896 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 896 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. After twelve men met in his bedroom in 1844, what was founded by Sir George Williams? A) Salvation Army. B) Pink Triangle. C) Boy Scout movement. D) YMCA. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) YMCA. 2. The Ländler is a traditional dance from where? A) France. B) Austria. C) Italy. D) Romania. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Austria. 3. Actress Nicole Kidman married which country singer in 2006? A) Kris Kristofferson. B) Glenn Campbell. C) Keith Urban. D) Kenny Rogers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Keith Urban. 4. What is the Chinese name for the Yellow River? A) Huang Ho. B) Mekong. C) Yangtze. D) Xiaoqing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Huang Ho. 5. Which Russian-born ballet choreographer co-founded the New York City Ballet in 1948? A) Martha Graham. B) Jerome Robbins. C) Isadora Duncan. D) George Balanchine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) George Balanchine. 6. Idris el Senussi, Emir or Cyrenu, was made the first king of what "United Kingdom" on 24 December 1951? A) Ethiopia. B) Libya. C) Egypt. D) Morocco. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Libya. 7. Which song, published in 1915 by Francis, Day & Hunter, and popularised by Marie Lloyd, became one of the best-known of its era? A) A Little of What You Fancy Does You Good. B) T's a Long Way to Tipperary. C) Keep the Home Fires Burning. D) The White Cliffs of Dover. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A Little of What You Fancy Does You Good. 8. There have been many peace walls built in Northern Ireland, some 60 of which remain in the 2020s; when were most of them built? A) 1795. B) 1920-30. C) 1990-7. D) 1969 and afterwards. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1969 and afterwards. 9. The Grand Canyon is in which US state? A) Idaho. B) Colorado. C) Arizona. D) Iowa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arizona. 10. In books by A A Milne, which of the main characters was usually depressed? A) Tigger. B) Piglet. C) Kanga. D) Eeyore. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eeyore. 11. What is the result of the calculation (a + b)(a-b), if a=7 and b = 7? A) 0. B) 14. C) 21. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 0. 12. What is a term for an event where a body of water contained in a glacier overflows its bounds? A) Jökulhlaup. B) Inselberg. C) Bergy Seltzer. D) Disarticulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jökulhlaup. 13. A deficiency of iodine in the human body is likely to cause what? A) Fibromyalgia. B) Swollen lymph nodes. C) Goitre. D) Ankylosing Spondylitis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Goitre. 14. What was the first name of Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes's assistant? A) Patrick. B) Dennis. C) Robert. D) John. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John. 15. On 2 February 2015 who became the youngest person to be ranked No 1 in professional golf? A) Lydia Ko. B) Inbee Park. C) Stacy Lewis. D) Jordan Spieth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lydia Ko. 16. "Trigger" was the name of the horse belonging to which film cowboy? A) Lone Ranger. B) Gene Autry. C) Roy Rogers. D) Billy the Kid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Roy Rogers. 17. In 1982 which group had a hit with music designed as the theme to a Yorkshire Television production depicting The Troubles in Northern Ireland? A) U2. B) Clannad. C) The Cranberries. D) The Pogues. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Clannad. 18. The annual Roskilde Festival, first held in 1971, takes place in what country? A) Spain. B) Denmark. C) UK. D) Japan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denmark. 19. Which 2018 American murder-mystery novel entwines two storylines, one from the marsh, one from the swamp? A) A Place For Us. B) Where the Crawdads Sing. C) There There. D) Godsend. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Where the Crawdads Sing. 20. Vert skating, included in X Games, uses what equipment? A) Blade skates. B) Roller skates. C) In-line skates. D) Skateboards. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In-line skates. ← 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