This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 928 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 928 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. On July 13 2005 remote controlled robotic jockeys were raced for the first time on the backs of what? A) Cockerels. B) Horses. C) Greyhounds. D) Camels. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Camels. 2. US basketball's "Dream Team" first appeared at which Olympic Games? A) 2000 Sydney. B) 1996 Atlanta. C) 1992 Barcelona. D) 1976 Montreal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1992 Barcelona. 3. If someone has defrayed something what have they done? A) Taken it fraudulently. B) Made it ragged. C) Satisfied or appeased it. D) Stopped it turning into a fight. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Satisfied or appeased it. 4. Which of these won Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series for 1994 to 1998 inclusive? A) Crane Fly. B) Joe Frasier. C) Doctor Who?. D) Frasier. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Frasier. 5. What is usually needed In order to decrypt a cipher? A) A key. B) A clef. C) A cam. D) A lever. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A key. 6. In chess, what piece is allowed to jump over other pieces? A) Burgomaster. B) Squire. C) Mayor. D) Knight. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Knight. 7. What military rank and historical title for Hereditary Commanders of Armies in Japan ended when Tokugawa Yoshinobu relinquished the office in 1867? A) Mikado. B) Tenno. C) Shōgun. D) Kotei. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shōgun. 8. The American TV series "How the West Was Won" (1976-79) was started with a full length television film called what? A) The Macahans. B) How the West Was Won. C) The Rivers and Plains. D) The Rawlings. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Macahans. 9. Where did McDonald's decide to introduce Georgie Pies into its menu in 2013, after having bought the Georgie Pie fast food chain and closed its outlets over 15 years earlier? A) Japan. B) UK. C) Sweden. D) New Zealand. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) New Zealand. 10. In 1642, Cardinal Mazarin succeeded whom as Chief Minister of France? A) Philippe II, Duke of Orléans. B) Cardinal Dubois. C) Cardinal Richelieu. D) Louis Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Bourbon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cardinal Richelieu. 11. The 12th century group of texts dealing with women's illnesses, treatments, cosmetics and gynaecological matters, which was extremely popular and respected over several hundred years in Europe, is known as what? A) Trotula. B) The Canon of Medicine. C) Bald's Leechbook. D) Ex herbis femininis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trotula. 12. One of the largest countries in Africa derived its food wealth for thousands of years from the regular flooding of which river? A) Rhine. B) Nile. C) Limpopo. D) Ganges. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nile. 13. What name was given to a series of confrontations in the 1950s and 1970s between the UK and Iceland? A) Cod Wars. B) The North Atlantic Crises. C) The Siege of Reykjavík. D) The Dogger Bank Incident. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cod Wars. 14. What was the result of the 1688 "Glorious Revolution" in Britain? A) The deposing of the king. B) Extension of the vote to every man of 21 and older, who was of sound mind with no criminal record. C) Use of the Spinning Jenny became a legal requirement. D) Women acquired the right to divorce. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The deposing of the king. 15. Which of these events in English history came first? A) The Profumo Affair. B) The Great Train Robbery. C) "She Loves You" by The Beatles is released. D) Queen Elizabeth II gives birth to Edward. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Profumo Affair. 16. Which of these cities is closest to Paris, France? A) Quebec. B) Perth. C) San Francisco. D) London. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) London. 17. Hamlet's thought: "The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of ..... "? A) The referees. B) Arts funding bodies. C) The king. D) My girlfriend. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The king. 18. Which of these is not a line from "I Won't Go Home Without You" by Maroon 5? A) Just give me one more chance to make it right. B) Every night you cry yourself to sleep. C) It's not over tonight. D) That dress it makes you look a fright. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) That dress it makes you look a fright. 19. How is an acciaccatura written in music? A) As a vertical wavy line. B) As small size semiquavers. C) As a wave sign with a vertical stroke through it. D) With a stroke through the tail of the acciaccatura quaver. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) With a stroke through the tail of the acciaccatura quaver. 20. Who had hit records with "Long Tall Sally" and "Good Golly Miss Molly" ? A) Bo Diddley. B) Jerry Lee Lewis. C) Chuck Berry. D) Little Richard. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Little Richard. ← 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