This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 982 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 982 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Whit Monday (also known as Pentecost Monday, "the second day of Pentecost" or "the second Whitsun") observed in most European countries and some former British colonies, especially in the Pacific, commemorates what type of event? A) Famous battle. B) Religious event. C) Birth of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. D) Signing of a treaty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Religious event. 2. The Hindu Kush separates Central Asia from where? A) South Asia. B) Europe. C) The Arctic. D) The Pacific Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) South Asia. 3. What is the prevailing climate in the city of Archangel (Arkhangelsk) in Russia? A) Subarctic. B) Humid continental. C) Temperate. D) Oceanic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subarctic. 4. What is the correct spelling for a sign on a female toilet? A) Ladie's toilet. B) Ladies' toilet. C) Ladys' Toilet. D) Ladeys toilet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ladies' toilet. 5. What is Chan Chan in Peru? A) A vineyard. B) An ancient city. C) A funicular railway. D) A game. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An ancient city. 6. Which of these peoples are indigenous to Ecuador? A) Huaorani, Waorani, or Waodani, or the Waos. B) Guaraní. C) Lokono. D) Wounaan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Huaorani, Waorani, or Waodani, or the Waos. 7. Where is the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale based? A) Paris, France. B) Lausanne, Switzerland. C) Brussels, Belgium. D) New York, USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lausanne, Switzerland. 8. Old English fragments of poem known as "Waldere" are heroic texts concerning whom? A) Widsith. B) Weland, smith. C) Wotan. D) Walter of Aquitaine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Walter of Aquitaine. 9. Since 1991 what is "OPM" most often used to mean? A) Organised project management. B) Office of Personal Management. C) Optional prices mode. D) Other people's money. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Other people's money. 10. What language does the word "chutney" come from? A) Hindi. B) French. C) Yiddish. D) Farsi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hindi. 11. As at 2012, according to FAOSTAT (the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database), which of these countries produces the most tomatoes? A) USA. B) Italy. C) China. D) Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) China. 12. A number of medical treatments and terminologies have been named after which German surgeon, son of a philosopher and philologist, father and grandfather of also well-known pharmacologists, and from 1895 surgeon-in-chief at the University of Leipzig? A) Friedrich Lange (1849-1927). B) Albert Fraenkel (1848-1916). C) Friedrich Trendelenburg (1844-1924). D) Paul Dahlke (1865-1928). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Friedrich Trendelenburg (1844-1924). 13. What instrument was played most frequently by composer Frederic Chopin? A) Piano. B) Balalaika. C) Violin. D) Kazoo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Piano. 14. Which British comedy-drama series (1979 to 1994) starred George Cole as Arthur Daley, an unscrupulous importer-exporter, wholesaler, and used-car salesman and Dennis Waterman as Terry McCann, his bodyguard? A) Yes, Minister. B) Only Fools and Horses. C) Minder. D) Law & Order | UK. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Minder. 15. What is a nickname or a fancy name of a person, group or place which is familiar enough to be used instead of a real name without the need of explanation? A) Tanqueray. B) Tourniquet. C) Soubriquet. D) Cabernet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Soubriquet. 16. Which of these is the earliest opera or stage musical composition performed? A) Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell. B) Venus and Adonis by John Blow. C) Orpheus and Eurydice by Christoph Willibald von Gluck. D) Semele by John Eccles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Venus and Adonis by John Blow. 17. Which of these is a variety of tea? A) Canelloni. B) Lapsang souchon. C) Nasi goreng. D) Compote. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lapsang souchon. 18. Which of the following films was NOT based on a book by Ian Fleming? A) Moonraker. B) Licence to Kill. C) You Only Live Twice. D) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Licence to Kill. 19. What was the name of the hotel opened by street artist Banksy in 2017 in Bethlehem in the West Bank, Palestine, next to the Israeli wall? A) Putt on the Ritz. B) A Part Ite. C) Walled Off. D) Planted Inn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Walled Off. 20. Which vehicle maker has marketed models called HiLux, Surf, Starlet, HiAce, Prado and Echo? A) Subaru. B) Mitsubishi. C) Honda. D) Toyota. 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