This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1044 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1044 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What device did French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville patent in 1857? A) Graphophone. B) Biophongraph. C) Phonautograph. D) Phonograph. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Phonautograph. 2. In what sport is a crown green sometimes used? A) Bowls. B) Cricket. C) Javelin-throwing. D) Billiards. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bowls. 3. What liner was destroyed in Hong Kong harbour while undergoing renovations in 1972? A) Ocean Star. B) Queen Mary. C) Queen Elizabeth. D) Britannia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Queen Elizabeth. 4. The Galapagos Islands are subject to continuing volcanic activity, and are situated where in relation to tectonic plates? A) On the Cocos Plate. B) At the Galapagos Triple Junction. C) On the eastern edge of the Pacific Plate. D) On the western edge of the South American Plate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) At the Galapagos Triple Junction. 5. In the words of a 1973 hit song by Vicki Lawrence, where did the lights go out? A) Refrigerator. B) The bathroom. C) San Francisco. D) Georgia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Georgia. 6. What is the last US federal holiday in a calendar year? A) Memorial Day. B) Thanksgiving. C) Independence Day. D) Christmas Day. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Christmas Day. 7. In which state of Australia would you find the area known as the Katherine Region? A) Queensland. B) South Australia. C) Western Australia. D) Northern Territory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Northern Territory. 8. Who was the first man sent into space, in 1961? A) Yura Silliman. B) Yuri Gagarin. C) Gentleman Gaga. D) Dadoo Runrin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yuri Gagarin. 9. The term Panthalassa is applied to what? A) The waters surrounding Greece. B) One of the prehistoric supercontinents. C) A prehistoric superocean. D) The totality of the Greek land masses. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A prehistoric superocean. 10. Who was King of Hungary from 1000 to 1038, changed his name from Wajk on becoming Christian, and is Hungary's patron saint? A) Stephen. B) Christopher. C) Wenceslas. D) Richard. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stephen. 11. What was the name given to regulations governing import tariffs designed to protect the prices of cereal crops prices in Britain against competition from less expensive foreign imports between 1815 and 1846? A) The Act of Succession. B) The Cat and Mouse Act. C) The Act of Union. D) The Corn Laws. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Corn Laws. 12. What does gavage entail? A) Preparing a canvas for oil paints. B) Washing skin with disinfectant. C) Washing out the stomach. D) Forcefeeding food or medicine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Forcefeeding food or medicine. 13. Mexican Independence Day, September 16, remembers a day in which year? A) 1503. B) 1912. C) 1810. D) 1962. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1810. 14. Where do the Wombles live? A) Dartmoor. B) Hampstead Heath. C) Kew Gardens. D) Wimbledon Common. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wimbledon Common. 15. What is the typical rock in an inselberg? A) Granite. B) Sandstone. C) Schist. D) Greywacke. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Granite. 16. Which of these Hitchcock films is mainly set on a train? A) Rear Window. B) Psycho. C) Vertigo. D) The Lady Vanishes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Lady Vanishes. 17. What could best describe misleading someone over a length of time? A) Stringing someone along. B) Diddling the dupe. C) Playing the fool. D) Entrapping. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stringing someone along. 18. Acapulco sits in the foothills of which mountain range? A) Sierra Madre Occidental. B) Sierra Madre del Sur. C) Sierra Nevada. D) Andes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sierra Madre del Sur. 19. What would one do with a "snood" ? A) Kick it. B) Eat it. C) Wear it. D) Sit on it. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wear it. 20. Say that smoothly with thy beauty's silent music and "murmuring of innumerable bees" are examples of ..... what? A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Simile. D) Anagram. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. ← 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