This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 900 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 900 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In classical Rome the use of "Dis" referred to what? A) Disrespect for the speaker. B) Groups of more than 500. C) The ruler of the Underworld. D) Secretary of the Senate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The ruler of the Underworld. 2. In 1966, Germany and England played in the World Cup final for which sport? A) Soccer. B) Baseball. C) Squash. D) Ice Hockey. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Soccer. 3. Which of these is German wine? A) Liebfrauenmünster. B) Liebfrauenkapelle. C) Liebfraumilch. D) Leiber und Stoller. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Liebfraumilch. 4. What do members of the Gideon Society leave in hotel bedrooms? A) Shower caps. B) Bibles. C) Sewing kits. D) Plastic flowers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bibles. 5. What is on the northern border of South Dakota? A) New York. B) Texas. C) Florida. D) North Dakota. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) North Dakota. 6. Which of the countries on the South American continent has the most extreme ratio of length north-south to breadth east-west? A) Uruguay. B) Chile. C) Brazil. D) Venezuela. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chile. 7. Matt Damon played which role in a trilogy of films about an amnesiac who also suffers from PTSD who is attempting to discover his true identity amidst a clandestine conspiracy within the CIA to track him down and arrest or kill him? A) Gandhi. B) Jason Bourne. C) Corporal Klinger. D) Roger Rabbit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jason Bourne. 8. What colour is a velella's upper structure? A) Orange. B) Vivid dark blue. C) Scarlet. D) Grass-green. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vivid dark blue. 9. Which English King was married to Eleanor of Aquitaine? A) Richard I. B) Henry I. C) Henry V. D) Henry II. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Henry II. 10. When was the majority of the present Great Wall of China constructed? A) In the Paleolithic Era. B) 20th century. C) 1st century BCE. D) 14th to 16th century (Ming dynasty). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 14th to 16th century (Ming dynasty). 11. Who is the present wife of golfer Greg Norman? A) Interior decorator Kirsten Kutner. B) Squash star Susan Devoy. C) Tennis star Chris Evert. D) Flight attendant Laura Andrassy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Interior decorator Kirsten Kutner. 12. In Canada, although women had a limited right by 1884 to vote in governmental elections they did not have full voting rights until when? A) 1919 for all Canada except Quebec (1940). B) 1925. C) 1960. D) 1942. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1919 for all Canada except Quebec (1940). 13. In the 1988 Winter Olympics, freestyle skiing, disabled alpine and Nordic skiing, and freestyle short track speed skating were competed as demonstration sports. What was the fourth demonstration sport at the Games? A) Winter pentathlon (men). B) Bandy (men). C) Curling. D) Freestyle skiing-aerials and ski ballet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Curling. 14. Which flowers are "in the hospital", according to a 1993 hit by the Manic Street Preachers? A) Poppies. B) Lilies. C) Carnations. D) Roses. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Roses. 15. On what is the length of a nautical mile based? A) A land-measured mile. B) The length of 10 imperial Roman warships. C) The distance the Dutch royal flagship in 1500 CE could travel in one hour in calm seas. D) The circumference of the Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The circumference of the Earth. 16. Which of these are "root vegetables" ? A) Carrots and turnips. B) Onions and leeks. C) Cabbage and sprouts. D) Peas and beans. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carrots and turnips. 17. What organisation was initially behind the first Geneva Convention signed in 1864? A) The Nightingale Institution. B) International Committee for Relief to the Wounded in War. C) The World Alliance of YMCAs. D) The Russian government. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) International Committee for Relief to the Wounded in War. 18. Toxicology is the study of the effects of what? A) Gunshot wounds. B) Drugs and poisons. C) Different flights on arrows. D) Low gravity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Drugs and poisons. 19. Cambodia, which over the course of 1841 to 1953 was under the joint suzerainty of Thailand and Vietnam then was a monarchy under the protection of France which included an occupation by Japan, was steered to independence in 1953 by whom? A) General Lon Nol. B) King Norodom I. C) King Norodom Sihanouk. D) Pol Pot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) King Norodom Sihanouk. 20. What does the line on a map called an isobar show? A) Moisture content of the air at that point. B) Direction of air flow. C) Cloud formation. D) Surface air pressure at those points. 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