This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge โ Quiz 1021 ๐ Homepage ๐ Download PDF Books ๐ Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1021 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Chesley Sullenberger became internationally known in 2009 as what? A) The first American to escape from capture by Islamic extremists Boko Haram. B) Prime Minister of Iceland, becoming the world's first openly lesbian head of government. C) Pilot of a plane which did an emergency landing on the Hudson River close to New York, USA. D) He announced the discovery of a fossil skeleton, the oldest remains of a human ancestor yet found. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pilot of a plane which did an emergency landing on the Hudson River close to New York, USA. 2. Which of these was opened in Derby in England in 1840, claimed as the first publicly owned facility of its kind in the country? A) Medical laboratory and pharmacy. B) Circus. C) Passenger railway. D) Arboretum and park. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Arboretum and park. 3. English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and occult philosopher Dr John Dee was an adviser to what major figure of the 16th century? A) William Shakespeare. B) King Henry VIII. C) Sir Francis Walsingham. D) Queen Elizabeth I. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Queen Elizabeth I. 4. When one well-known English author wrote about Britain's "alien and uninspiring court", which monarch replied "I may be uninspiring, but I'll be damned if I'm alien." ? A) Edward VII. B) George V. C) George VI. D) Victoria. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) George V. 5. What did British comedian Benny Hill use as his signature tune? A) The Sunny Side of the Street. B) Yakkety Sax. C) With a Little Help From My Friends. D) Thanks for the Memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yakkety Sax. 6. Where are the Sugarloaf Mountain, the Morro da Babilรดnia, the Morro da Urca, and Mount Corcovado (with its famous giant religious statue)? A) Ustroล, Poland. B) Gateshead, England. C) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. D) Manado, Indonesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 7. The flag of which country, consisting of three horizontal stripes of red, white and blue (almost identical to that of the Netherlands), was first used in 1845 and officially adopted on June 23, 1972? A) Andorra. B) Liechtenstein. C) Switzerland. D) Luxembourg. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Luxembourg. 8. To whom was the quote "Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all" first ascribed? A) Akhenaten, Pharaoh of Egypt (died 1336 or 1334 BCE). B) George Washington (1732-1799). C) Alexander the Great, of Macedon (356-323 BCE). D) Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alexander the Great, of Macedon (356-323 BCE). 9. What is the name of a figure, carved into a hill in Kent, South East England, overlooking the English terminal of the Channel Tunnel? A) Cerne Abbas giant. B) White Horse of Uffington. C) The Folkestone White Horse. D) The Whitehawk hawk. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Folkestone White Horse. 10. In what field is the Abel Prize awarded? A) Mathematics. B) Engineering. C) Computer science. D) Astronomy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mathematics. 11. Harki troops were soldiers indigenous to where? A) Argentina. B) Algeria. C) Belize. D) Morocco. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Algeria. 12. Which of these is not a "portmanteau" word? A) Napalm. B) Gerrymander. C) Tanzania. D) Smarm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Smarm. 13. The Battle of the River Plate was between the "Ajax", the "Achilles", the "Exeter" and which other ship? A) Admiral Graf Spee. B) Bismarck. C) Scharnhorst. D) Prinz Eugen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Admiral Graf Spee. 14. Whose autobiography was entitled "A Long Walk to Freedom" ? A) Mao Zedong. B) Mikhail Gorbachev. C) Nelson Mandela. D) Sitting Bull. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nelson Mandela. 15. Which of these was not a film of a Shakespearean play directed by Laurence Olivier and featuring himself, made in the 1940s and 1950s? A) Henry V. B) Hamlet. C) Richard III. D) Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Macbeth. 16. What is the Younger Futhark? A) An ancient Scandinavian runic alphabet. B) A third order programming language. C) A military commander in the mythical land of Asgard. D) A dwarf aardvark. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An ancient Scandinavian runic alphabet. 17. Who was Sven-Gรถran Eriksson? A) The head of the International Olympic Committee from 1990 to 2000. B) The leader of the Swedish Davis Cup team in 1999. C) A high jumper who held the world record for 5 years from 1995. D) The first foreign manager of the English national soccer team. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The first foreign manager of the English national soccer team. 18. What is the main subject matter of books by popular and prolific English writer Richard Jefferies (1848-1887)? A) Travel in the British Raj in India. B) Rural life and the English countryside. C) Children's stories. D) The underworld in Victorian London. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rural life and the English countryside. 19. Tadpoles of the amphibians Bufo bufo, members of the Dendrobatidae family, and Bufo marinus have what in common? A) They are carried in the female parent's mouth. B) They are raised in trees, in small pools formed in epiphytes. C) They are carried on the back of a male parent. D) They are poisonous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They are poisonous. 20. Ernesto "Che" Guevara was working as a journalist and photographer when he befriended and joined forces with whom? A) Karl Marx. B) Fidel Castro. C) Augusto Pinochet. D) Hugo Chavez. 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