This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 916 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 916 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An "aide memoire" to know the first numbers of the constant pi can be obtained by counting the letters in each word of which of these? A) "Good day sunshine. We all shine on. Revolution number nine.". B) "This is not fun. It is silly. It annoys me.". C) "To be or not to be, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler.". D) "May I have a large container of coffee?" "Thank you" ?. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "May I have a large container of coffee?" "Thank you" ?. 2. Where is the "Day of Skulls" celebrated on 8 November? A) Mexico. B) Bolivia. C) France. D) Bosnia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bolivia. 3. Bourke's Luck Potholes and God's Window are part of what African ecoregion? A) Chizarira National Park. B) The Drakensberg. C) Halfaya Pass. D) Witwatersrand. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Drakensberg. 4. He brought back plants from Europe, the Arctic, the Levant, sailed to fight pirates, and amassed trophies of natural history, art and ethnography in "the Ark" in London which then opened as Great Britain's first public museum. Who was he? A) Capability Brown. B) John Tradescant, the Elder. C) John Evelyn. D) Thomas Fairchild. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Tradescant, the Elder. 5. Where in Europe would you go to attend the World Backgammon Championship? A) Paris. B) Monaco. C) London. D) Geneva. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monaco. 6. What is the only geometric shape that has infinite lines of symmetry? A) Dodecahedron. B) Rhombus. C) Triangle. D) Circle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Circle. 7. In 2001, which actor was re-elected president of the USA's National Rifle Association for a fourth term? A) John Wayne. B) Charlton Heston. C) Clint Eastwood. D) Steve McQueen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charlton Heston. 8. Yelena Isinbayeva broke her first World record in 2003 and continued to break records until 2009 in what sport? A) Women's Pole Vault. B) Marathon. C) Skiing. D) Surfing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Women's Pole Vault. 9. Who was the men's single sculls world champion at the World Rowing Championships every year it was competed from 2005 to 2009 and again in 2011, and gold medallist in the 2012 Summer Olympics? A) Hamish Bond. B) Alan Campbell. C) Ondrej Synek. D) Mahé Drysdale. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mahé Drysdale. 10. Léon de Lunden killed 21 of what to win his gold medal at the 1900 Olympic Games? A) Partridges. B) Pigeons. C) Rabbits. D) Gophers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pigeons. 11. In 1434, Portuguese mariner Gil Eanes made a major breakthrough to obtain a reliable trade route to Western and Eastern Africa and India by finding a route around which cape? A) Cape of Good Hope. B) Cape Bojador. C) Cape Verde. D) Cape Lopez. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cape Bojador. 12. Malcolm McLaren & Vivienne Westwood's clothing shop in Chelsea, London was called "Let It Rock" when it opened. The name was changed to "Too Fast to Live Too Young to Die" 1972, and was next called what? A) The Beat Goes On. B) Piste. C) Sex. D) Punk. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sex. 13. If something is complementary, what is it? A) Flattering or admiring. B) Free. C) Supportive or reciprocal. D) Filling. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Supportive or reciprocal. 14. How many feet are there in a fathom? A) 500. B) 100. C) 6. D) 12. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 6. 15. What is the traditional symbol for a fifth wedding anniversary? A) Crystal. B) Glass. C) Wood. D) Silver. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wood. 16. In August 2015 the Indian Government signed a Framework Agreement taking the first steps to bring peace in the independence struggle between India and which? A) Kashmiris. B) Nagaland. C) Catalans. D) Abkhazians. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nagaland. 17. What fictitious national park was the setting for the 1960s TV series "Skippy the Bush Kangaroo" ? A) Waratah. B) Murrumbidgee. C) Woomera. D) Didgeridoo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Waratah. 18. Approximately how far had the royal Swedish warship, the Vasa, sailed before she sank on 10 August 1628? A) 1, 300 m (4, 200 ft). B) 30, 000 nautical miles. C) 130, 000 nautical miles. D) 13 m (42 ft). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1, 300 m (4, 200 ft). 19. What would you expect a quidnunc to do? A) Invest money. B) Chew tobacco. C) Gossip, or spread news. D) Debate philosophical concepts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gossip, or spread news. 20. Apart from tourism, what are industries of the islands of Zanzibar? A) Spices and fine raffia. B) Coal. C) Wool. D) Beef. 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