This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 925 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 925 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which is a bio-mass, renewable, energy resource? A) ABE. B) Jatrophin. C) Bagasse. D) Silage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bagasse. 2. Who wrote "Treasure Island", "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", "Kidnapped" and "The Master of Ballantrae" ? A) Alexandre Dumas. B) Joseph Conrad. C) Robert Louis Stevenson. D) Daniel Defoe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Robert Louis Stevenson. 3. Why did Washington cross the Delaware to Trenton on the night of 25 December 1776? A) To visit his family on Christmas night. B) To attack British troops. C) To finish his Christmas shopping. D) To retreat from British troops. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To attack British troops. 4. How many sucker-bearing arms do squids have? A) 8. B) 10. C) 6. D) 12. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 8. 5. The phrase "wardrobe malfunction" entered pop music vocabulary following a performance at the Super Bowl XXXVIII between Janet Jackson and which other singer? A) Beenie Man. B) Justin Timberlake. C) Nelly. D) Tyler Perry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Justin Timberlake. 6. English artist, writer and musician Holly Johnson is best known as the lead vocalist of which 1980s band? A) The Sex Pistols. B) Duran Duran. C) Frankie Goes to Hollywood. D) The Clash. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frankie Goes to Hollywood. 7. Which of these, a founder-member of the band Squeeze, is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, songwriter, composer, TV presenter and author? A) Bono. B) Sting. C) David Gilmour. D) Jools Holland. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jools Holland. 8. The islands of Madagascar, Mauritius, Sri Lanka and Zanzibar are in which ocean? A) Arctic. B) Pacific. C) Atlantic. D) Indian. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indian. 9. Where was the world's most powerful recorded volcanic eruption? A) Mt Aso, Kyoto, Japan. B) Krakatoa, 1883. C) Tambora, 1815. D) Thera (Santorini) around 1470 BC. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thera (Santorini) around 1470 BC. 10. Where is the Headingley Cricket Ground? A) Leeds. B) Hong Kong. C) Calcutta. D) Melbourne. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Leeds. 11. Which of these describes a widespread hedgehog behaviour? A) Pronking. B) Shedding. C) Self anointing, or anting. D) Fully retracting its claws. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Self anointing, or anting. 12. What would be found on a palette? A) Silk cloth. B) Special food. C) Oil paints. D) People sleeping. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oil paints. 13. Where was "the Maccabiah bridge collapse", the failure of a pedestrian bridge over the Yarkon River on 14 July 1997 which killed 4 and injured 60? A) Pasadena, Texas, USA. B) Cornwall, England. C) Tel Aviv, Israel. D) Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tel Aviv, Israel. 14. What is one of the deadliest pandemics in history, believed to have first reached Europe at the trading city of Caffa in the Crimea in 1347 and peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350? A) Mad Cow Disease. B) The Great Plague. C) The Black Death. D) German Measles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Black Death. 15. What is the longest river in Ireland? A) Shannon. B) Nile. C) Rhine. D) Thames. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shannon. 16. Phoebe is a moon of which planet? A) Jupiter. B) Saturn. C) Uranus. D) Mercury. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Saturn. 17. If someone is given hippocras what is being offered? A) A Turkish delicacy of a special part of the brain of an unborn lamb. B) A Bahamian dwarf seahorse. C) A speculum similar to that believed to have been used by Hippocrates. D) A sweet highly spiced wine, often used as a digestive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A sweet highly spiced wine, often used as a digestive. 18. On 10 May 1775, during the American Revolutionary War, a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold overcame and looted Fort Ticonderoga, a small British garrison, and took away cannons and other armaments to fortify which city that was under siege? A) Boston. B) Philadelphia. C) Peoria. D) Gettysburg. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Boston. 19. In 2004 it was announced that what new fixture was planned for Wimbledon's Centre Court, to be completed in 2009? A) A hard court surface. B) A retractable roof. C) A new grandstand at the South end. D) A luxury strawberry bar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A retractable roof. 20. United Artists, formed in 1919 as a reaction from commercial film companies of the time, was an alliance between actors Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks and who else? A) Actor Shirley Temple. B) Actor Lillian Gish. C) Director D.W.Griffith. D) Actor Al Jolson. 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