This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1003 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1003 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What artificial stretch of water in Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens London was made by order of Queen Caroline in 1730? A) Rotten Row. B) The Thames. C) The Serpentine. D) Lake Windermere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Serpentine. 2. "Fanny and Alexander", a Swedish/French/German co-production classic about a Swedish family in Uppsala released in 1982, was directed by whom? A) Steven Spielberg. B) Rainer Werner Fassbinder. C) Ingmar Bergman. D) George Lucas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ingmar Bergman. 3. Which of these comes closest to the usually accepted meaning of a piece of theatre? A) A football scissor kick. B) A musical play. C) An election speech. D) A proposal of marriage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A musical play. 4. What is a nickname for Australia? A) Up n under. B) Down under. C) Kingswood Downs. D) The Netherlands. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Down under. 5. What is a dewlap? A) A fold of skin round a dewclaw. B) A flap of skin beneath the neck or jaw. C) A spring wildflower in Britain. D) A particular morning dew. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A flap of skin beneath the neck or jaw. 6. Under what name was American actress, dancer, and producer Margarita Carmen Cansino known in her celebrated performance in the 1946 film noir "Gilda" ? A) Hedy Lamarr. B) Rita Hayworth. C) Ginger Rogers. D) Ingrid Bergman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rita Hayworth. 7. Where did Horatio Nelson lose his right arm? A) Copenhagen. B) Trafalgar. C) Calvi, Corsica. D) Santa Cruz. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Santa Cruz. 8. What is the fate of "Carmen" in Bizet's opera? A) She died of consumption. B) She was strangled by her husband. C) She jumped to her death. D) She was stabbed to death by her lover. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She was stabbed to death by her lover. 9. What has parts to which the terms escapement and tourbillon can apply? A) Microwave. B) Mill. C) Hot air balloon. D) Clock or watch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Clock or watch. 10. Before 1066 when William the Conqueror was crowned, what body counselled the English king? A) Kurultai. B) The Althing. C) The Great Council. D) The Witan, or the Witenagemot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Witan, or the Witenagemot. 11. What is a sagittal plane? A) The apparent plane of the constellation Sagittarius. B) An aircraft capable of travelling at supersonic speed. C) A plane perpendicular to the arc described by the flight of an arrow. D) A line dividing the body into left and right halves. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A line dividing the body into left and right halves. 12. What group did the UK join in 1973? A) EEC. B) NATO. C) UN. D) SEATO. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) EEC. 13. Which instruments are placed to the conductor's left in a symphony orchestra? A) Trumpets. B) Violas. C) First violins. D) Woodwind. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) First violins. 14. Which American novelist wrote over 30 books, including "The Pathfinder", "The Deerslayer" and "The Last of the Mohicans" ? A) Benjamin Franklin. B) James Kirke Paulding. C) Mark Twain. D) James Fenimore Cooper. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) James Fenimore Cooper. 15. What is the iron-containing oxygen-transport metalloprotein in the red blood cells of vertebrates? A) Plasma. B) Glucose. C) Platelets. D) Haemoglobin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Haemoglobin. 16. Who won an Oscar for directing "Slumdog Millionaire", which also won an Oscar for Best Picture? A) Danny Boyle. B) Mahatma Gandhi. C) Clint Eastwood. D) Jawaharlal Nehru. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Danny Boyle. 17. France has officially been an Empire under two people from which family? A) Bonaparte. B) Bourbon. C) Daniels. D) Rye. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bonaparte. 18. Which kingdom, established by King Wickramabahu in the 14th century, repelled invasions by the Portuguese and the Dutch in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries and the British in the 19th century, until the signing of a treaty with the British in March 1815? A) Burma. B) Goa. C) Kandy. D) Siam. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kandy. 19. During the Second World War much of the population of Gibraltar was evacuated to where? A) Johannesburg, South Africa. B) Madrid, Spain. C) London, UK. D) Auckland, New Zealand. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) London, UK. 20. Which newspaper, established in 1917, expressed the official views of the Soviet government and continued after the collapse of the Soviet Union? A) The Guardian. B) Associated Press. C) Izvestia. D) TASS. 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