This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 980 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 980 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who wrote and performed the song "Rehab" that won the 2007 Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song, and Grammy Awards in 2008 for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance? A) Ivy Doghouse. B) Amy Winehouse. C) Ira Porterhouse. D) Ian Waterhouse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Amy Winehouse. 2. Who was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis? A) Leonid Brezhnev. B) Kliment Voroshilov. C) Nikita Khrushchev. D) Anastas Mikoyan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nikita Khrushchev. 3. In 1997 Bougainville gained autonomy within Papua New Guinea, after negotiations brokered by what country? A) New Zealand. B) Australia. C) France. D) USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) New Zealand. 4. Which of these words best describes Wales? A) Republic. B) Kingdom. C) Principality. D) County. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Principality. 5. An imam is an authority figure in which religion? A) Judaism. B) Shinto. C) Christianity. D) Islam. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Islam. 6. The American Civil War was fought in which decade? A) 1860s. B) 1850s. C) 1840s. D) 1830s. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1860s. 7. Who is the parrot perch in Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" ? A) Bluebeard. B) Captain Flint. C) Long John Silver. D) Red Rackham. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Long John Silver. 8. Which of these is a member of the European Union? A) Belarus. B) Switzerland. C) Greenland. D) Bulgaria. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bulgaria. 9. Which country is Papua New Guinea part of? A) Indonesia. B) None, it is independent. C) Australia. D) Malaysia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) None, it is independent. 10. Where is the Sea of Tranquillity? A) Due west of Finland. B) Around the islands of Tonga. C) Near Salt Lake City, Utah. D) On the Moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) On the Moon. 11. A species of elk is named after which of these US presidents? A) John Kennedy. B) Theodore Roosevelt. C) Jimmy Carter. D) Abraham Lincoln. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theodore Roosevelt. 12. With what do artists working in oils wash their brushes? A) Oil. B) Water. C) Petrol. D) Turpentine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Turpentine. 13. The Massacre of Aleppo in 1850 in Syria was carried out during which rule? A) Ottoman Empire. B) Janissaries. C) British Empire. D) Kingdom of Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ottoman Empire. 14. Which countries hosted the first three American Football World Cup (also known as the IFAF World Cup and Gridiron World Cup) contests in 1999, 2003 and 2007? A) Italy, Germany & Japan. B) USA, Mexico & Italy. C) France, Sweden & USA. D) England, France & Japan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Italy, Germany & Japan. 15. From 1920, when the first World Championship in Ice Hockey was decided, until 2019 which has won the most gold medals? A) USA. B) Canada. C) Sweden. D) Russia and the Soviet Union. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Russia and the Soviet Union. 16. Which of these best describes the location in Italy of Mt Vesuvius, which erupted and buried Pompeii in 79AD? A) Near the border with Austria. B) On the west coast near Bari. C) Above the bay of Naples. D) Near the headwaters of the Po River. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Above the bay of Naples. 17. What is 40-40 in tennis? A) Vater. B) Deuce. C) Tee. D) Koffee. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deuce. 18. Roland, a military commander in the late 8th century in the army of Charlemagne, King of the Franks and Lombards and eventually Holy Roman Emperor, died at the Pass of Roncesvalles in the Pyrenees. According to Charlemagne's biography who killed him? A) Angevins. B) Spanish Moors. C) Basques. D) His stepfather, Ganelon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Basques. 19. Which is the highest mountain in Africa? A) Mount Kilimanjaro. B) Mount Kenya. C) Mount Speke. D) Mount Karisimbi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mount Kilimanjaro. 20. Which video game, the music for which was composed specially for the game, features composition by Nobuo Uematsu and includes work by Masashi Hamauzu, Hitoshi Sakimoto and Yoko Shimomura? A) EverQuest. B) World of Warcraft. C) Final Fantasy. D) Portal 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Final Fantasy. ← 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