This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 974 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 974 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Where in the United Kingdom would you find a statue of Anteros? A) Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow, Scotland. B) Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. C) Piccadilly, London, England. D) Cardiff City Hall, Wales. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Piccadilly, London, England. 2. Which is the flattest, driest and least fertile continent inhabited by humans? A) Africa. B) The Arctic. C) Asia. D) Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Australia. 3. What investigation was a very early matter for the newly formed FBI? A) The Oregon land fraud scandal. B) The Osage Indian murders 1921 to 1925. C) Surveillance on Japanese Americans after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941. D) Surveys of houses of prostitution in preparation for the "White Slave Traffic Act" or Mann Act 1910. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Osage Indian murders 1921 to 1925. 4. When did sprinter and long jumper Carl Lewis win the first of his Olympic gold medals? A) 1960. B) 1984. C) 2012. D) 1976. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1984. 5. Which actor(s) died during production of "Twilight Zone:The Movie" in 1982? A) Brandon Lee. B) H.B. Halicki. C) Heath Ledger. D) Vic Morrow and two child actors, Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vic Morrow and two child actors, Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen. 6. The duo Nappytabs are known for what? A) Children's shows. B) Puppetry. C) Choreography. D) Advertising jingles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Choreography. 7. Which of these is a Chinese philosophical system based on writings by Lao-tzu in the 6th century, which developed into a religion? A) Confuscianism. B) Taoism. C) Buddhism. D) Shintoism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Taoism. 8. Who wrote the symphonic suite "Scheherazade" ? A) Stravinsky. B) Prokofiev. C) Rimsky-Korsakov. D) Tchaikovsky. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rimsky-Korsakov. 9. Which heavenly body was discovered by astronomer Clyde W Tombaugh on 18 February 1930? A) Saturn. B) Pluto. C) Venus. D) Mars. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pluto. 10. What relationship does the central character in the 1996 film "Jerry Maguire" have to sports? A) His son is a tennis coach. B) He is a synchronised swimmer. C) He is a sports agent. D) He makes chess pieces. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He is a sports agent. 11. What is the name of the international cricket ground in Brisbane, Australia? A) The Gabba. B) Lords. C) Abbafield. D) The Oval. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Gabba. 12. The Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont appear in a work by which writer? A) Choderlos de Laclos. B) Denis Diderot. C) Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (Molière). D) Madame de Lafayette. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Choderlos de Laclos. 13. Lieutenant Colonel George Malcolm was the first producer of what event inspired by a 1949 show in a park called "Something About a Soldier" ? A) The Basel Tattoo. B) Hamina Tattoo. C) The Royal Tournament. D) Edinburgh Tattoo (now the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Edinburgh Tattoo (now the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo). 14. Who built La Ciudad Encantada (The Enchanted City) in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain? A) No-one, it is a natural phenomenon. B) Isabella I and Ferdinand V. C) El Cid. D) Abd ar-Rahman I. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No-one, it is a natural phenomenon. 15. Which is the largest river in Guyana? A) Paraná. B) Orinoco. C) Essequibo. D) Juruá. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Essequibo. 16. Which city is built on both sides of the Tigris, 200 miles from the Persian Gulf? A) Nazareth. B) Babylon. C) Beirut. D) Baghdad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Baghdad. 17. What is the biological term for T H Huxley's theory that all living cells and organisms orginate from pre-existing living matter, not as the result of spontaneous generation? A) Biogenesis. B) Little Bang theory. C) Devolution. D) Evolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biogenesis. 18. What do custard, paint, melted butter and shampoo have in common? A) They have a magnetic field of at least 20 milliGauss. B) They contain starch. C) They are based on egg-white. D) They are non-Newtonian fluids. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They are non-Newtonian fluids. 19. What was unique about the yacht "Alinghi" which won the America's Cup in 2003? A) It had dual hulls. B) No New Zealanders were involved. C) It was sailed for a landlocked country, the first to win the race. D) It was the non-American craft to win. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It was sailed for a landlocked country, the first to win the race. 20. What is another name for eggplant? A) Zucchini. B) Aubergine. C) Courgette. D) Avocado. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aubergine. ← 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