This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 979 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 979 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Balsamic vinegar is traditionally made from fermented what? A) Apples. B) Plums. C) Prunes. D) Grapes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grapes. 2. Where is the submarine Agulhas Plateau? A) Off the south coast of South Africa. B) Off the west coast of Portugal. C) Off the Atlantic coast of Venezuela. D) Off the coast of Uruguay. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Off the south coast of South Africa. 3. Ilmenite is the most commercially important ore of what element? A) Aluminium. B) Zirconium. C) Chromium. D) Titanium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Titanium. 4. What is or are Eton Fives, first known in the late 19th century? A) A style of boater hat. B) A boxing glove. C) The top five places annually for scholarship pupils at Eton College. D) A handball game. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A handball game. 5. Who was the first serving U.S. President to survive being shot in an assassination attempt? A) Ronald Reagan. B) Gerald Ford. C) Richard Nixon. D) George W Bush. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ronald Reagan. 6. Which painter, who was born in Paris, France in 1848 and died in 1903 at Atuona, Hiva 'Oa, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, had lived at various times in Lima (Peru), Orléans (France), Copenhagen (Denmark), Panama, Saint Pierre (Martinique), Pont-Aven (France), Arles (France), Mataiea Village (Tahiti), Punaauia (Tahiti)? A) Paul Gauguin. B) Francisco Goya. C) El Greco. D) Henri Rousseau. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paul Gauguin. 7. Where would "SCRAM" be used? A) To deter a streaker on a sports field. B) In monitoring of alcohol offenders. C) In an 18th century slave market. D) To deploy fighter aircraft rapidly to meet an incoming threat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In monitoring of alcohol offenders. 8. Which of these novelists was born in Sri Lanka? A) Bryce Courtenay. B) J. M. Coetzee. C) Michael Ondaatje. D) Peter Carey. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Michael Ondaatje. 9. When Queen Elizabeth II, head of the Commonwealth, opened the 2002 Commonwealth Games in July in Manchester, UK, what was she also celebrating? A) A new outfit. B) Her birthday. C) The summer solstice. D) Her Golden Jubilee year. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Her Golden Jubilee year. 10. Which of these animals has the longest average life span? A) Dog. B) Rabbit. C) Hamster. D) Horse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Horse. 11. Who wrote the musical "Give My Regards To Broadstreet" ? A) Paul McCartney. B) John Lennon. C) Ringo Starr. D) George Harrison. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paul McCartney. 12. What is the last element, and the one with highest atomic number, so far identified? A) Caesium. B) Francium. C) Oganesson. D) Radon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oganesson. 13. Which of these is a type of dinosaur whose fossils were first discovered in 1877 by S. W. Williston? A) Ridiculous. B) Diplodocus. C) Michaelmas. D) Sisyphus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diplodocus. 14. In Britain, when was the Football Association formed to draw up the rules of Association Football (soccer)? A) 1863. B) 1756. C) 1793. D) 1824. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1863. 15. What brand of beer is popular in the "Simpsons" ? A) Duff. B) Stella Artois. C) Waikato Draught. D) Fosters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Duff. 16. What is a "verso" in a book? A) The inside face of the front cover. B) The inside face of the back cover. C) The left hand page, or the back of a leaf. D) The inside of the spine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The left hand page, or the back of a leaf. 17. What Roman road in England linked Exeter in South West England to Lincoln in the East Midlands, via Ilchester, Bath, Cirencester and Leicester? A) Stane Street. B) Dere Street. C) Fosse Way. D) The Portway. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fosse Way. 18. Which of these is a French woodwind reed instrument whose design originates in the early Baroque period in France, with a sound that is similar in sound to an oversize oboe? A) Cromorne. B) Clavichord. C) Cetra. D) Corbusier. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cromorne. 19. 17th century French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully was celebrated for which of these? A) Composing oratorios. B) Instrument making. C) Diplomacy. D) Composing court ballets. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Composing court ballets. 20. Which company declared bankruptcy in 2001 despite winning the title of America's most innovative company annually from 1996 to 2001? A) Pan American Airlines. B) Barings Bank. C) Paramount Pictures. D) Enron. 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