This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 1031 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1031 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How old was Tiger Woods when he won the US Masters in 1997? A) 25. B) 18. C) 21. D) 30. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 21. 2. Surinen are the indigenous people of what present-day country? A) Kazakhstan. B) Syria. C) Sri Lanka. D) Suriname. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Suriname. 3. Who was behind the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, a failed attempt to overthrow the government? A) Francisco Franco. B) Benito Mussolini. C) Adolf Hitler. D) Mao Tse Tung. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adolf Hitler. 4. Which of these games has 100 squares on a standard board? A) Fours. B) Snakes and Ladders. C) Noughts and Crosses. D) Hop-scotch. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Snakes and Ladders. 5. How are the fields of study of myrmecology, isopterology and melittology similar? A) They relate to Cretaceous reptiles. B) They are studies of various metals. C) They all relate to insects. D) They are studies of fish parasites. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They all relate to insects. 6. What is regolith? A) Striated rock layers. B) Ground rock left after the passage of glaciers. C) Loose unconsolidated broken rock and dust that sits on a layer of bedrock. D) Rock in which fine-grained clay forms flakes in planes perpendicular to the metamorphic compression. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Loose unconsolidated broken rock and dust that sits on a layer of bedrock. 7. Which of these represents waltz time? A) 3/4. B) 3/8. C) 4/4. D) 5/8. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3/4. 8. In Celtic mythology, who was the god or goddess of sacred lakes and springs? A) Sulis. B) Coventina. C) Veteris. D) Nerthus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sulis. 9. Prior to Kermit the Frog another Kermit was well-known, who accompanied his father on an expedition in Brazil during which the Rio Kermit was named in his honour; what was his family name? A) Roosevelt. B) Grenouille. C) Galvin. D) Γ la Bromeliad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Roosevelt. 10. The Andaman Sea is closest to which other body of water? A) Tasman Sea. B) Indian Ocean. C) Pacific Ocean. D) Sargasso Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indian Ocean. 11. What appears on the edges of medals awarded at the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea? A) Nothing, the edges are smooth. B) The incised design of the relevant mascot. C) A hologram of the Olympic rings. D) Raised letters of the Hangul alphabet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Raised letters of the Hangul alphabet. 12. According to the old saying, what doesn't change its spots? A) Teenager. B) Leotard. C) Leonard. D) Leopard. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Leopard. 13. At Turin (2006), who became the first Canadian to win five medals in one Olympic Games? A) Danielle Goyette. B) Eric Heiden. C) GaΓ©tan Boucher. D) Cindy Klassen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cindy Klassen. 14. What do Viva la Vida, No Line on the Horizon, Spore and the Sirocco have in common? A) Brian Eno. B) Dolby 7.1. C) Coldplay. D) U2. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brian Eno. 15. Which pair of films starred Uma Thurman as "the bride", Daryl Hannah as her arch-nemesis and Lucy Liu as "Cottonmouth" ? A) The French Connection. B) Charlies Angels. C) Kill Bill. D) The Madness of King George. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kill Bill. 16. The character of Atticus Finch was created by which author? A) James Fenimore Cooper. B) John Steinbeck. C) Mark Twain. D) Harper Lee. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Harper Lee. 17. The prefix Nano-used in the metric system denoting a factor of 10 to the power of-9 or 0.000000001 is derived from a Greek word meaning what? A) Small. B) Mouse. C) Dot. D) Dwarf. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dwarf. 18. Which board game, the objective of which is world domination, was invented by Albert Lamorisse in 1957? A) Minishogi. B) Civilisation. C) Risk. D) Warcraft. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Risk. 19. A resolution passed at the 7th Lambeth Conference of bishops of the Anglican Communion in 1930 provided for what? A) Rejection of Christian Science. B) Ordination of female clerics. C) Acceptance of open homosexuality in clerics. D) Acceptance of methods other than abstinence to limit or avoid parenthood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Acceptance of methods other than abstinence to limit or avoid parenthood. 20. Which of these did not receive a British knighthood? A) Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), chemist & physicist. B) Joseph Banks (1743-1820), naturalist & botanist. C) Humphry Davy (1778-1829), chemist & inventor. D) Charles Darwin (1809-1882), naturalist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Charles Darwin (1809-1882), naturalist. β PreviousNext βRelated 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 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books