This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 920 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 920 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does a CD player use to read a CD? A) Magnet. B) Needle. C) Laser. D) Air pressure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Laser. 2. In the 18th century, Carl Linnaeus laid the foundations for what system, still in use today? A) Measurement of earthquakes. B) Quadratic equations. C) Describing and categorising organisms. D) The periodic table of elements. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Describing and categorising organisms. 3. What is the family name of the rulers of Monaco? A) Bourbon. B) Medici. C) Hapsburg. D) Grimaldi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grimaldi. 4. What name was given to the predominant type of 20th-century battleship, with an 'all-big-gun' armament & steam turbine propulsion, that was named after the first of the kind, launched by the Royal Navy in 1906? A) Frayed-knot. B) Fearnowt. C) Whistlenow. D) Dreadnought. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dreadnought. 5. A car bomb which was detonated in 2002 in Karachi, one of a series of attacks believed to be directed at Westerners, caused the cancellation of what national event in Pakistan? A) National kite-flying contest. B) Commissioning of Pakistan's new Agosta 90B-class submarine. C) Mourning for the dead in a major earthquake in northern Pakistan. D) A tour by the New Zealand national cricket team. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A tour by the New Zealand national cricket team. 6. What instruments, respectively, did jazz virtuosos Stéphane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt play in their collaborations? A) Piano and guitar. B) Violin and saxophone. C) Violin and guitar. D) Violin and violin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Violin and guitar. 7. What is the connection between the sport of Badminton and the Duke of Beaufort? A) Badminton was the name of his wife. B) Badminton was the name of his horse. C) Badminton was the name of his home. D) Badminton was the name of his dog. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Badminton was the name of his home. 8. From the 1904 Olympic Games, when diving was first introduced, until the 2020 Games which country holds the highest tally of both gold medals and medals overall? A) USA. B) China. C) Sweden. D) Russia and the USSR. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) USA. 9. What is present name of the city which gave its original name to the famous Angostura bitters? A) Londrina, Brazil. B) Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. C) Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela. D) Cali, Colombia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela. 10. Which US TV show, where the star appeared as a fictionalised version of himself with his friends George Costanza, Elaine Benes and Cosmo Kramer, ran for 9 seasons? A) Letterman. B) Frasier. C) The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. D) Seinfeld. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Seinfeld. 11. The Bering Sea is named after what or whom? A) Vitus Bering, a Danish navigator in Russian service, the first European to explore it. B) A misspelling of "bear", after the large colony of bears who lived on the Alaskan shores. C) An experimental bee farm on its islands, which failed because of difficulties with climate. D) To distinguish it from Barents Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vitus Bering, a Danish navigator in Russian service, the first European to explore it. 12. What is the Song of Songs part of? A) The Jewish and Christian Bible. B) "Jesus Christ Superstar". C) The Lord of the Rings trilogy. D) The Epic of Gilgamesh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Jewish and Christian Bible. 13. What was Scottish inventor James Watt interested in? A) Electricity. B) Steam power. C) Mechanical spinning of wool. D) Splitting the atom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Steam power. 14. Where was the Brazilian driver who won three Formula One world championships for McLaren killed in 1994? A) Falling a ladder while cleaning the eaves on his house. B) Testing in the Indy 500. C) Crossing the street while shopping in San Marino. D) Driving in the San Marino Grand Prix. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Driving in the San Marino Grand Prix. 15. What was the instrument of US jazzman Charles Mingus? A) Double bass. B) Piano. C) Drums. D) Bass guitar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Double bass. 16. A "fingerplate" is a piece of metal used to deter fingermarks appearing on what? A) Paintings. B) Glasses. C) Books. D) Doors. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Doors. 17. Where in the USA is the Golden Gate bridge? A) Chicago, Illinois. B) New York City, New York. C) San Francisco Bay, California. D) New Orleans, Louisiana. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) San Francisco Bay, California. 18. Anders Behring Breivik is known for what? A) Travelling to the North Pole with a team of Arctic foxes harnessed to his sledge. B) Developing an internationally acclaimed Pinot Gris wine. C) Murdering 77 people in Norway. D) Writing the lyrics for a Eurovision Song Contest winner. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Murdering 77 people in Norway. 19. Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and Joan Baez are associated with what style of music? A) Opera. B) Heavy metal. C) Acid jazz. D) Folk. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Folk. 20. What birds are found in quantity on the red-tinged, shallow salty waters of Laguna Colorado, Bolivia? A) Loons. B) Bar-tailed godwit. C) Canada geese. D) Flamingos. 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