This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 939 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 939 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In the open-source server-side web application framework known as ASP NET, what does the "P" stand for? A) Provider. B) Protocol. C) Prove. D) Pages. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pages. 2. What substance is Uluru / Ayers Rock in Australia made of? A) Hardened mud. B) Granite. C) Sandstone, abundant in feldspar. D) Slate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sandstone, abundant in feldspar. 3. Britain's largest suspension bridge crosses which river? A) Thames. B) Severn. C) Humber. D) Tay. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Humber. 4. Which Hungarian-born actor acted in films from 1917 to his death in 1956, and is best known for playing the title role in the 1931 film "Dracula" ? A) Lon Chaney. B) Vincent Price. C) Bela Lugosi. D) Boris Karloff. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bela Lugosi. 5. What is the world's largest inland body of water? A) Lake Baikal. B) Mediterranean Sea. C) Caspian Sea. D) Garabogazköl Aylagy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Caspian Sea. 6. Which of these is the cleaner most likely successfully to decontaminate surfaces exposed to a norovirus? A) Sunlight. B) Vinegar. C) Soap. D) Bleach. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bleach. 7. In 1968, who was the first African American woman to be elected to the US Congress? A) Angela Davis. B) Condoleezza Rice. C) Rosa Parks. D) Shirley Chisholm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shirley Chisholm. 8. What does "savoir faire" mean? A) Ability to act appropriately in social situations. B) A magnificent effort. C) Newly rich. D) Taking over a government. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ability to act appropriately in social situations. 9. In 1983 British athlete Ayodele (Daley) Thompson simultaneously held Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth Games titles in what sport? A) Shot put. B) Long jump. C) Decathlon. D) Pentathlon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Decathlon. 10. The plot of the 1959 film "Some Like It Hot", starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, is triggered by what event? A) The end of World War II. B) Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. C) The Saint Valentine's Day massacre. D) Elvis Presley appears on the Ed Sullivan Show. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Saint Valentine's Day massacre. 11. Which French composer wrote a large number of works including over 90 songs and the opera "Pénélope" ? A) Elie Fauré. B) Gabriel Fauré. C) François Fauré. D) Georges Bizet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gabriel Fauré. 12. Who was the last English monarch of the Plantagenet dynasty? A) James I. B) Henry VI. C) Richard III. D) Elizabeth I. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Richard III. 13. What are the bottom-most 3 to 5 fused vertebra of the backbone called? A) Lumbar. B) Thoracic. C) Coccygeal. D) Sacral. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coccygeal. 14. What was the first mission that returned lunar samples from the Moon to Earth? A) Sputnik I. B) Apollo 13. C) Luna 16. D) Apollo 11. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Apollo 11. 15. What continent is described as having a Horn? A) Asia. B) Australia. C) Africa. D) South America. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Africa. 16. The Jake Gaudaur Veterans' Trophy, presented annually to the Canadian Football League player "who best demonstrates the attributes of Canada's veterans in times of war, peace and military conflict", was first awarded in 2010 to Mike McCullough who played for which team? A) Winnipeg Blue Bombers. B) Saskatchewan Roughriders. C) Calgary Stampeders. D) Edmonton Eskimos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Saskatchewan Roughriders. 17. What holds the records as the world's longest-running science fiction television show? A) Star Trek. B) Dr Who. C) Blake's 7. D) The X Files. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dr Who. 18. Which one of these films did director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, and photographer Stanley Kubrick NOT direct? A) A Clockwork Orange (1971). B) Spartacus (1960). C) Sons and Lovers (1960). D) Lolita (1962). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sons and Lovers (1960). 19. Which trophy, damaged by Benjamin Peri Nathan with a sledgehammer in March 1997, was restored to its original condition, free of charge, by London silversmiths Garrard & Co., who had made it in 1848? A) The Borg-Warner Trophy. B) The America's Cup. C) The William Webb Ellis Trophy. D) The Ranfurly Shield. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The America's Cup. 20. The first Olympic flag, presented to the IOC at the 1920 Olympics by the city of Antwerp, Belgium, was lost until 1977. Where had it been? A) In a basement of the Antwerp Olympic stadium. B) In the bottom of a competitor's suitcase. C) In the attic of the IOC HQ at Lausanne, Switzerland. D) Hanging in the foyer of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In the bottom of a competitor's suitcase. ← 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