This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 917 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 917 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which is due north of Hawaii? A) Russia. B) Continental USA. C) Japan. D) Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Continental USA. 2. What weapon is associated with Davy Crockett? A) Light sabre. B) Hunting knife. C) Musket. D) Bow and arrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Musket. 3. Which of these countries is an island nation? A) Honduras. B) Belize. C) Dominica. D) Costa Rica. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dominica. 4. What visual effect is associated with a plane's breaking the sound barrier, or reaching supersonic speed? A) The plane appears to jump backwards. B) None. C) A ripple in the air. D) An opaque cone on its side, with the plane as a projectile emerging from the apex. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An opaque cone on its side, with the plane as a projectile emerging from the apex. 5. Who designed the jet boat? A) Sir Ernest Rutherford. B) Sir Edmund Hillary. C) Sir Russell Coutts. D) Sir William Hamilton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sir William Hamilton. 6. In 1898, an agreement was made between Britain and China for a 99 year lease for part of which colony? A) Hong Kong. B) Macau. C) Goa. D) Formosa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hong Kong. 7. What do Eurythmics, Fleetwood Mac, Bee Gees, David Bowie, Elton John, Van Morrison, Rod Stewart, Freddie Mercury, Status Quo and Queen have in common? A) Going to the London School of Economics. B) Providing the theme song for a "James Bond" film. C) Having records released by Motown records. D) Winning the "Outstanding contribution" BRIT award. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Winning the "Outstanding contribution" BRIT award. 8. The 2018 film "The Girl in the Spider's Web" is based on the book by which Swedish author? A) Jay Basu. B) Stieg Larsson. C) David Lagercrantz. D) Jo Nesbø. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) David Lagercrantz. 9. The highlights of which British General's career include the Battle of Dettingen and the Battle of Lauffeld during the War of Austrian Succession, the Battle of Falkirk and the Battle of Culloden during the Jacobite uprising, and the Battle of the Plains of Abraham at Quebec during the Seven Years War? A) Lord Nelson. B) James Wolfe. C) Prince Rupert. D) "Tiny" Freyberg. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) James Wolfe. 10. What is another term for ignoratio elenchi? A) Missing the point. B) Formal fallacy. C) Lack of knowledge of the Socratic methods of argument. D) The argument that something is true simply because it has not been proved false, or the converse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Missing the point. 11. What British town's pier was referred to in a book title by George Orwell? A) Blackpool. B) Eastbourne. C) Wigan. D) Torquay. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wigan. 12. The larvae of which insect, common worldwide, are known internationally for being good at turning vegetable and animal refuse into valuable manure, and at providing feed for farm animals, while at the same time having a minimal role in spreading disease? A) Black soldier fly. B) Tiger worm. C) Housefliy. D) Sandfly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Black soldier fly. 13. In the Roman calendar, what was the 7th day called for the months of March, May, July and October? A) Nones. B) Septimus. C) Ides. D) Plutarch's Day. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nones. 14. What is the normal diet for a pangolin? A) Ants and termites. B) Small fish. C) Toads and frogs. D) Fruit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ants and termites. 15. With the history of which country is Davy Crockett associated? A) Vietnam. B) Mexico. C) USA. D) Cuba. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) USA. 16. Multiple areas across the world of up to almost 2 billion hectares each were devastated during 2019 /2020 by sometimes months-long what? A) Forest or bush fires. B) Swarms of locusts. C) Floods. D) Volcanic eruptions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Forest or bush fires. 17. Who wrote three major operas over three years, two of which were finished and premièred within two months of one another? A) Engelbert Humperdinck. B) Richard Strauss. C) Giuseppe Verdi. D) Francis Poulenc. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Giuseppe Verdi. 18. Where would an oxbow be found? A) At an archery contest. B) Near a river. C) In the small bones of the human wrist. D) Clamping beakers in a science laboratory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Near a river. 19. In geology, what are nappe formations? A) A complex fold system of shifted sheets of rock. B) Breaks or faults in otherwise continuous sheets of rock. C) Abrupt changes in level. D) Tablerocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A complex fold system of shifted sheets of rock. 20. What forces were involved in the Battle of Omdurman 1898? A) British and the Sudanese Mahdi. B) British and Egyptian. C) Egyptian and the Sudanese Mahdi. D) British and French. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) British and the Sudanese Mahdi. ← 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