This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1017 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1017 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which Pope was elected in 2005? A) Pope Urban VIII. B) Pope Benedict XVI. C) Pope Gregory XIII. D) Pope Pius VI. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pope Benedict XVI. 2. Which of these is a character in "The Tempest" ? A) Iago. B) Falstaff. C) Ophelia. D) Caliban. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Caliban. 3. When is The Sundance Film Festival, that began in 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival, held annually? A) June. B) September. C) March. D) January. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) January. 4. Which long running British police procedural television series that originated as a one-off drama, entitled "Woodentop" in August 1983 was first broadcast in 1984? A) Life on Mars. B) The Bill. C) Dixon of Dock Green. D) Z Cars. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Bill. 5. Where is the Lula (formerly the Tupi) oil field? A) Offshore southern Brazil. B) Offshore Mexico. C) Texas, USA. D) Offshore New Zealand. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Offshore southern Brazil. 6. What film was based on the book "Q and A" by Vikas Swarup? A) The Manchurian Candidate. B) The Ipcress File. C) Slumdog Millionaire. D) Love Actually. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slumdog Millionaire. 7. Relative to the sun in our solar system what does 1.30 parsecs represent? A) Distance to the sun's nearest neighbour star, Proxima Centauri. B) The speed needed to escape the sun's gravity. C) Its luminance. D) The energy emitted by the average flare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Distance to the sun's nearest neighbour star, Proxima Centauri. 8. What is the current name of the islands originally called the "Sandwich Islands" ? A) Hawaii. B) Tonga. C) Fiji. D) Aleutians. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hawaii. 9. Which of these became an independent country in 1971? A) Belgium. B) Australia. C) Bangladesh. D) Sweden. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bangladesh. 10. How did Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger B. Chaffee die in 1967? A) Crashed on the moon. B) Burned to death. C) As the result of a car accident. D) A Vietnamese mine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Burned to death. 11. What is the area 19th century Europeans called the Barbary Coast known as now? A) Alexandria. B) Tripoli. C) The Greater Maghreb. D) Yemen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Greater Maghreb. 12. In snooker, what colour ball scores 1 point? A) Blue. B) Yellow. C) Green. D) Red. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Red. 13. What is the relationship between Ukrainians Vitali Klitschko and Wladimir Klitschko, who dominated the IBF, WBO, WBC and IBO world heavyweight championships from 1999 to 2015? A) Uncle and nephew. B) Father and son. C) Cousins. D) Brothers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brothers. 14. Which of these is not a state of the USA? A) Arizona. B) Washington DC. C) Montana. D) Alaska. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Washington DC. 15. What is the name of the New Zealand national rugby team? A) All Whites. B) Black Caps. C) All Blacks. D) Tall Blacks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All Blacks. 16. Charlie Chaplin wore his tramp costume for the first time in 1914 in which film? A) The Tramp. B) Tillies Punctured Romance. C) Making A Living. D) Kid Auto Races in Venice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kid Auto Races in Venice. 17. What is the shape of a standard cricket pitch? A) Oblong. B) Round. C) Square. D) Hexagonal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oblong. 18. When Martin Luther sent a scholarly treatise to his Bishop, which later became popularised as nailing his ideas to a church door in Wittenberg, the treatise became known as what? A) The 95 Theses. B) Ten Reasons Why the Pope Cannot. C) The Lutheran Principles. D) A New Way. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The 95 Theses. 19. What is the city where the White Nile flowing north from Lake Victoria meets the Blue Nile flowing west from Ethiopia? A) Addis Ababa. B) Khartoum. C) Cairo. D) Riyadh. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Khartoum. 20. What mountains or mountain areas shade the Gobi Desert from rain? A) The Atlas Mountains. B) The Tibetan Plateau. C) The Andes. D) The Ethiopian Highlands. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Tibetan Plateau. ← 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