Global MCQ Practice

🌐 Total MCQ
🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books

General Knowledge Quiz 36 (60 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

Select an option to see the correct answer instantly.

1. Where is a strake usually found?
2. Who, in 1955 and 1956, was the first British driver to win the Mille Miglia, the British Grand Prix at Aintree and the Monaco Grand Prix?
3. The blend of tea known as Earl Grey was named after someone in what profession?
4. Where are the ancient Nazca Lines?
5. Gordonstoun School is famous mainly because of which past pupils?
6. Which company developed the 1991 video game Duke Nukem?
7. The second largest bay in the world, after Bengal Bay, relatively shallow and considered an epicontinental sea, is ..... ?
8. What name is given to the death of tissue due to failure of the blood supply?
9. Which of these is wine?
10. Which of these is a name for a dip or spread made from cooked, mashed chickpeas, blended with tahini, olive oil, lemon juice, salt and garlic?
11. The third part of trilogy of Hobbit movies, released at the end of 2014, is called what?
12. In which field has American sportsperson Allyson Felix gained medals?
13. The Danube flows into which body of water?
14. Fibrous, synovial and cartilaginous are types of what?
15. What is the official state religion in Nepal?
16. Kazakhstan was the home country of which fictional eponymous film character?
17. By the 15th century, coffee was known in the Middle East, Persia, Turkey, and northern Africa. It first arrived in Europe in the area covered by what modern day country?
18. Who is the king of the title of "The Return of the King" ?
19. Which of these is a daily British newspaper?
20. "The Fighting 69th" (1940) starring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, and George Brent centres on a regiment in which war?
21. In what number system would the statement "1 + 1 = 10" be true?
22. What mythical monster in Greek mythology with the face of a woman and the body of a vulture stole food and was an agent of punishment, abducted people and tortured them?
23. The 300 strong Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite force in the 4th century BCE Theban army, was composed of what or whom?
24. What is the capital of Mongolia, on the Tuul River?
25. When in trouble, which of these characters might successfully make a hypnotic gesture?
26. What were Operation Plumbbob, Operation Nougat, Operation Plowshare, Operation Sunbeam and Operation Dominic II?
27. Which of these words means a style of ornamentation prevailing in France during the first half of the reign of Louis XV?
28. Who voiced E.T. in the 1982 film of the same name?
29. What is a unit of spatial measurement that is 10 to the power of-9 of a meter, or one billionth of a meter?
30. Which of these was a British-born American costume designer who had a career as costumier for the Dallas Opera, and worked for Covent Garden, La Scala, the Old Vic, the Vienna State Opera, the American Ballet Theater, the Metropolitan Opera & the New York City Opera?
31. What is the name of Janet Jackson's (deceased) superstar brother?
32. According to Greek legend, which of the 9 Muses was the muse of Choral poetry?
33. What species does the orf virus commonly affect?
34. In music, which of these is the name for the fourth note of the ascending major or minor scale?
35. How is a Venetian gondola propelled?
36. "Historia Naturalis" was a major work by whom?
37. From which sport do we get the expression "Getting to first base" ?
38. Where did Jeffrey Eugenides, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Middlesex" (2002) dealing with gender identity and gene inheritance in a Greek family, grow up, an area he saw as a haunting and continuing influence?
39. What is the stringy substance used to clean between the teeth?
40. What was the name of a comic strip created by George McManus that ran from January 1913 to May 2000 about an Irishman, Jiggs, who comes into wealth in the USA but wants to live much as he used to?
41. What was the occupation of the founder of Guy's Hospital, London?
42. Wholesale trade in diamonds, and diamond cutting, is limited to few locations. Which of these is not one of them?
43. IOC President Jaques Rogge led a spontaneous one minute silence on 23 July before the opening of the 2012 Olympics to mark what?
44. Which country lies between Libya and Algeria?
45. What was the surname of "George and Mildred" ?
46. Snail fever is caused by organisms of which genus?
47. Ex-US President Richard Nixon was disqualified from what in 1976?
48. In which sport is "lock" a position?
49. Which of these people did not win one of the four major golf tournaments in 2010?
50. Dame Mary Beard, PhD, DBE, FSA, FBA, FRSL, now a respected deviser and presenter of television programmes on Ancient Rome, and "Inside Culture", first appeared on television in which of these?
51. What is the name for 40 foot (12 meters) high round forts, designed to accommodate a small garrison with cannon, constructed on the English coast and the Channel Islands at the time of threatened invasion by Napoleon?
52. Ingredients of a Big Mac include meat patties, a bun, cheese, onion, sauce, pickles and what else?
53. Who played the title role in the 1998 film "Blade" ?
54. In 1946, what did the USA offer to buy for $ 100, 000, 000?
55. "Magic" Johnson was a leading player in which sport?
56. What is the national language of Australia?
57. On which river are the coffee-coloured Kaieteur Falls?
58. The second incarnation of which organisation was formed at a meeting led by William J Simmons on the top of Stone Mountain, Georgia, in 1915?
59. Which of these was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist who did not begin his career as an artist until he was about 27 and committed suicide at the age of 37, yet produced more than 2, 000 pieces, including around 900 paintings and 1, 100 drawings and sketches, including portraits, landscapes, and sunflowers?
60. Which English composer wrote "The Planets", "Somerset Rhapsody" and the ballet "The Perfect Fool" ?
🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books