This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 915 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 915 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How are coffee beans harvested? A) Plucked from a tree like apples. B) Dug up from the ground like potatoes. C) Threshed from stalks like wheat. D) Picked up from the ground like cabbages. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plucked from a tree like apples. 2. Which of these is not one of South Africa's three capital cities? A) Durban. B) Cape Town. C) Pretoria. D) Bloemfontein. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Durban. 3. Which of these marks an increasing break between the African and the Arabian tectonic plates? A) The Red Sea. B) The Great Rift Valley, east Africa. C) Persian Gulf. D) The Dead Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Red Sea. 4. Who was the "Angela" whose ashes Frank McCourt included in the title of his memoir (publ. 1996)? A) His mother. B) His sister. C) His neighbour. D) His daughter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His mother. 5. As who is Naruhito, son of Akihito, always known in Japan? A) The Emperor of Reiwa. B) His Majesty Emperor Naruhito. C) His Majesty, His Majesty the Emperor, or The Reigning Emperor. D) His Majesty Emperor Michiko. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His Majesty, His Majesty the Emperor, or The Reigning Emperor. 6. Which of these is a 600-mile (1, 000 km) strip of land on the Pacific coast of South America, that is believed to be the driest desert in the world outside Antarctica? A) Great Victoria Desert. B) Kalahari Desert. C) The Atacama Desert. D) Sahara. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Atacama Desert. 7. In which country is the area called "the Algarve" ? A) Portugal. B) France. C) Spain. D) Andorra. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Portugal. 8. What is the "Uroclub", invented by Floyd E Seskin of Florida, which looks like a big-handled golf club? A) Putter designed and made in Europe. B) Portable urinal. C) An iron with changeable heads. D) Portable folding seat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Portable urinal. 9. Several unexpected and late participants in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, came from which country? A) Syria. B) North Korea. C) Yemen. D) Siberia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) North Korea. 10. Which musical term means "sweetly" ? A) Dolce. B) Sostenuto. C) Fugato. D) Lento. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dolce. 11. Who or what is the centre of the 1983 film "Let's Spend the Night Together" directed by Hal Ashby? A) Teenagers who meet hiking an Appalachian trail. B) A couple drawn from diametrically different social backgrounds. C) The Rolling Stones. D) Survivors of a plane crash in the Rockies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Rolling Stones. 12. What is K-pop? A) Cartoons for children. B) A breakfast cereal. C) Korean pop music. D) Kangaroo boxing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Korean pop music. 13. The practice of divining and prophesying the future through dreams is known as what? A) Scrying. B) Precognition. C) Oneiromancy. D) Omphalomancy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oneiromancy. 14. What is the name of the short bar with weights at each end that is sometimes used by bodybuilders? A) Dumb-bell. B) Dumb-show. C) Dum-dum. D) Dumb-found. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dumb-bell. 15. The developing Great East-West Schism between the eastern and western arms of the Christian church was marked in 1054 by which watershed event between the leaders of the two arms? A) They refused to recognise one another when they met. B) They officially adopted differing holy books. C) They publicly spat at one another. D) They ex-communicated one another. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They ex-communicated one another. 16. Where, in 1934, was land distributed to peasants, church property nationalised, the railway taken over by its employees and, in 1938, the property of US and British oil companies confiscated? A) Iran. B) Mexico. C) Portugal. D) Egypt. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mexico. 17. What type of drink is "scrumpy" ? A) Cider. B) Beer. C) Wine. D) Whisky. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cider. 18. Who was the Greek goddess of victory daughter of Pallas represented as a winged figure wreathed or palm bearing sometimes guiding victors' horses? A) Adidas. B) Nike. C) Diana. D) Venus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nike. 19. Who or what took the Great Trek which started in 1836? A) American bison. B) Boers. C) Followers of Gandhi. D) Alaskan indigenous tribes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Boers. 20. What was the name given to a type of xylophone consisting of large stones, dating from 2, 500-4, 000 BC found in China? A) Petrophone. B) Stonophone. C) Lithophone. D) Rockaphone. 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