This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 936 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 936 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. From which game do we get the expression "On a roll" ? A) NASCAR racing. B) Rugby Union. C) Cricket. D) Craps. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Craps. 2. What is the greatest distance between a capital and one of its territories? A) Moscow to Kunashir Island. B) London to Pitcairn Islands. C) Washington, DC to Attu Island. D) Paris to New Caledonia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paris to New Caledonia. 3. What sign of the zodiac is represented by a crab? A) Sagittarius. B) Cancer. C) Leo. D) Capricorn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cancer. 4. What name is given to a spasm of the diaphragm muscle caused by indigestion, intoxication or some forms of pleurisy? A) Nervous tic. B) Hay fever. C) Hiccough. D) Palsy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hiccough. 5. The flower heads of which of these are commonly eaten? A) Broccoli. B) Potato. C) Carrot. D) Pea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Broccoli. 6. Who won gold for the individual pursuit at the Track Cycling World Championships in 2009? A) Alison Roe. B) Alison Shanks. C) Mary St Leger. D) Annabelle Philips. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alison Shanks. 7. Which military decoration is awarded to recognize people "being wounded or killed in any action against an enemy of the United States or as a result of an act of any such enemy or opposing armed forces" ? A) Purple Heart. B) Red Liver. C) Green Kidney. D) Yellow Spleen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Purple Heart. 8. Which video game, released in 2009, is based on a "summoner" and a "champion", and aims to destroy a "Nexus" ? A) Resident Evil 5. B) Call of Duty. C) League of Legends. D) Myst. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) League of Legends. 9. Who wrote the text on which the musical "Cats" was based? A) E e cummings. B) Tim Rice. C) Bernie Taupin. D) T S Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) T S Eliot. 10. On 30 November 2021 what country, with the blessing of its previous ruler, became a republic? A) Northern Cyprus. B) Transnistria. C) Bermuda. D) Barbados. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Barbados. 11. What is the subject of the song "Breakin' Dishes", recorded by Rihanna and released on her 2007 album "Good Girl Gone Bad" ? A) A clumsy waitress. B) A faulty dishwasher. C) A woman getting revenge on her cheating husband. D) A Greek wedding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A woman getting revenge on her cheating husband. 12. What do the pika who live on the high dry cold Tibetan plains most closely resemble? A) Rabbits or hares. B) Bison. C) Antelopes. D) Lemmings. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rabbits or hares. 13. What large peninsula lies between Iran in Asia, and Egypt and Sudan in Africa? A) Coromandel. B) Sinai. C) Arabian. D) Langue de Barbarie. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arabian. 14. It has been a boy's name, is usually a girl's name, and is well known as the name of Peter Pan's friend in a J.M. Barrie play. What is it? A) Wendy. B) Wanda. C) Guinevere. D) Gwen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wendy. 15. What do the terms lordosis and kyphosis refer to? A) Flexion of the human foot. B) Actions of the oesophagus. C) The human spine. D) Stages of asthmatic distress. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The human spine. 16. In August 2009, Britain's largest jewel robbery took place at which store? A) H. Samuel's, Market Street, Manchester. B) Graff Diamonds, Mayfair, London. C) Tiffany & Co., Old Kent Road, London. D) House of FabergΓ©, Carnaby Street, London. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Graff Diamonds, Mayfair, London. 17. What country in North Africa, bordered by Tunisia, Libya, Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Western Sahara, Morocco and the Mediterranean Sea, is the largest country on the Mediterranean, on the African continent and in the Arab world? A) Algeria. B) Sudan. C) Somalia. D) Egypt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Algeria. 18. In the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson which celebrated the charge of the Light Brigade in 1854, what kind of enemy fire surrounded the brigade? A) Muskets. B) Cannon. C) Arrows. D) Rockets. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cannon. 19. Which 19th century Russian's compositions include 8 operas, the ballets "Swan Lake", "The Nutcracker" and "The Sleeping Beauty", 6 symphonies and 3 piano concertos? A) Fyodor Dostoyevsky. B) Igor Stravinsky. C) Modest Mussorgsky. D) Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. 20. Why were the 1940 and 1944 Olympic Games not held? A) World War II was being fought. B) Money was in short supply. C) No countries applied to hold them. D) Russia demanded that the Games be abolished. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) World War II was being fought. β PreviousNext βRelated 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 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books