This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 1014 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1014 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In England, which fish, when caught in a river, traditionally belongs to the Sovereign? A) Shark. B) Trout. C) Sturgeon. D) Herring. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sturgeon. 2. What can 1+1 equal? A) 3. B) 11. C) 10. D) 0. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 10. 3. Which of these is used as an artificial and concentrated sweetener? A) Acesulfame potassium. B) Agave nectar. C) Maltodextrin. D) Stevia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acesulfame potassium. 4. Hudson Bay is a large inland sea in which country? A) Canada. B) Austria. C) Brazil. D) India. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Canada. 5. Which family of palaeoanthropologists is most associated with work in the Oldupai Gorge, Tanzania? A) Leakey. B) Kattwinkel. C) Masao. D) Hay. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Leakey. 6. What is a Barnes Dance? A) Type of pedestrian crossing. B) Celebration of spring. C) Community raising of a barn. D) Type of country and western dance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Type of pedestrian crossing. 7. Which mountain in the Sierra Nevada just over 13, 000 feet high was climbed in 1890 by Joseph N. Le Conte, Hubert P. Dyer, Fred S. Pheby, and C. B. Lakeman, who initially called it University Peak? A) Mount Humphreys. B) Mount Whitney. C) Mount Gould. D) Mount Lyell. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mount Gould. 8. After the game of Australian Football was formulated in the 1850s, which was the first club (formed in 1858) to introduce the Australian-made rules which developed into the country-wide rules of the game? A) Geelong Football Club. B) Melbourne Football Club. C) Victorian Football League. D) Scotch College. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Melbourne Football Club. 9. Which 20th century English playwright wrote "The Winslow Boy" and "Separate Tables" ? A) J B Priestley. B) Terence Rigby. C) Terence Rattigan. D) John Osborne. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Terence Rattigan. 10. What song plays over the closing credits of "Die Hard" (1988)? A) Let It Snow. B) We Are The Champions. C) Stand By Me. D) I Heard It On The Grapevine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Let It Snow. 11. Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929), art critic, patron and ballet impresario, founded what famous ballet company in 1909? A) Soviet State School of Ballet. B) Mariinsky Ballet. C) Ballets Russes. D) Paris Opera Ballet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ballets Russes. 12. Where or what is the Circle of Willis? A) A Colleen Callaghan braided hair style. B) A stone circle southwest of Stonehenge. C) A Fokine ballet. D) A ring of blood vessels at the base of the brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A ring of blood vessels at the base of the brain. 13. What is trona? A) A species of seaweed. B) A naturally occurring mineral form of soda ash. C) A round of the game kabaddi. D) A form of macramΓ©. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A naturally occurring mineral form of soda ash. 14. When did the British soap opera "Coronation Street" first go to air? A) 1980. B) 1950. C) 1970. D) 1960. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1960. 15. Which organisation, which has its Headquarters in Paris, was established on 16 November 1945? A) FIA. B) FAO. C) YHA. D) UNESCO. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) UNESCO. 16. What sea creature living in the Arctic has a tapering tusk, spirally grooved, 2 to 3 metres (7 to 10 feet) long? A) Narwhal. B) Beluga whale. C) Sperm whale. D) Uniwhale. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Narwhal. 17. "Million Dollar Quartet" is a stage musical by Floyd Mutrux & Colin Escott that opened on Broadway on 11 April 2010. Who are "the quartet" ? A) Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis & Carl Perkins. B) The Beatles. C) George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin & Jerome Kern. D) Muhammed Ali, Sonny Liston, George Foreman & Joe Frazier. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis & Carl Perkins. 18. Which of the core cast of the TV series "Friends" also appeared in the 2000 film "The Whole Nine Yards" with Bruce Willis? A) Matt LeBlanc. B) David Schwimmer. C) Matthew Perry. D) Lisa Kudrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Matthew Perry. 19. Which of these words does not owe its origins to an Arabic language? A) Algebra. B) Alibi. C) Alcohol. D) Alcove. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alibi. 20. The Battle of Banquan, recorded in Chinese annals written in the 1st and 2nd centuries BCE as China's first large scale battle, resulted in victory for whom? A) The State of Zheng. B) Yellow Emperor. C) The Chrysanthemum Emperor. D) Genghis Khan. 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