This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1051 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1051 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What series of toys, aimed at little girls, was released by Hasbro in 1983? A) Cabbage Patch Kids. B) Furby. C) My Little Pony. D) My Pretty Pony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) My Little Pony. 2. What originated as a French folk dance, notated in 4/4 or 2/2 time at moderate tempo, with a distinctive rhythmic feature, as phrases begin in the middle of the bar (on the third quarter note), creating a half-measure upbeat? A) Camelot. B) Garrotte. C) Guillemot. D) Gavotte. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gavotte. 3. The television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997-2003), "Firefly" (2002) and which other series were created or co-created by screenwriter, director, producer, comic book writer, and composer Joss Whedon? A) Dollhouse (2009-10). B) All of these. C) Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (from 2013). D) Angel (1999-2004). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All of these. 4. The discovery that determined the amino acid sequence of insulin and numerous other proteins was made in what decade? A) 1950s. B) 1970s. C) 1940s. D) 1980s. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1950s. 5. The game Ticket to Ride involves what kind of transport? A) Submarine. B) Horse. C) Pedestrian. D) Rail. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rail. 6. Which first-person interactive long-form game, designed for VR, explores a morally ambiguous organization as two individuals from contrasting perspectives? A) The Climb. B) The Assembly. C) Statik. D) Wayward Sky. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Assembly. 7. What was one of the effects of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in 1939? A) The USSR and Germany joined forces against Western Europe. B) The Soviet and German leaders agreed to share weapon technology. C) What became the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic was ceded to the USSR. D) Oil supply was established from the USSR to Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) What became the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic was ceded to the USSR. 8. For what is the CPSA the governing body? A) Criminal Prosecution Service. B) The New Zealand Public Service. C) Chess in South Australia. D) English clay pigeon shooting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) English clay pigeon shooting. 9. In what field is the term "obduction" usually used? A) Criminology. B) Geology. C) Painting. D) Linguistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geology. 10. How did competitors dress in early classical Olympic Games? A) Nude. B) Loincloth only. C) Toga. D) Leotard. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nude. 11. Which of these palaces has the largest floor area? A) Palace of Versailles. B) Apostolic Palace, Vatican City. C) Buckingham Palace, London. D) Grand Kremlin Palace, Moscow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apostolic Palace, Vatican City. 12. Where is the Mose Project, construction work on which began in 2003, being carried out? A) Boston, USA. B) Alexandria, Egypt. C) Venice, Italy. D) Vanuatu. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Venice, Italy. 13. What programme would feature James May, Richard Hammond, and Jeremy Clarkson as presenters? A) Tie Your Mother Down. B) What Not to Wear. C) Embarrassing Bodies. D) Top Gear. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Top Gear. 14. Which driver won the most races in the A1GP championship in its first 3 years (2005-06, 2006-07 & 2007-08)? A) Neel Jani (Switzerland). B) Alexandre Premat (France). C) Jonny Reid (New Zealand). D) Nico Hülkenberg (Germany). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nico Hülkenberg (Germany). 15. The 1912 invention of the mechanical or artificial what, triggered development of the commercial form of a highly popular sport which happens on what are usually oval tracks? A) Duck. B) Hare. C) Cockerel. D) Goat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hare. 16. What does "anadromous" describe? A) A camel with an unusually small hump. B) Fresh water fish migrating to salt water to spawn. C) Fish migrating up rivers from salt water to spawn. D) A genus of Australian prehistoric flightless bird. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fish migrating up rivers from salt water to spawn. 17. Which could be the name of a dish whose ingredients are powdered grain, processed cow blood, undeveloped bird embryo and fluid, rain, and ground various meats in (sometimes mock) intestines, which is baked in adipose tissue from a pig? A) Pirozhki. B) Scotch Egg. C) Pigs in a Blanket. D) Toad in the Hole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Toad in the Hole. 18. The "artisanal know-how and culture of baguette bread" was included in November 2022 by UNESCO in its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage. "Baguette" also means which? A) Necklet. B) Flagstaff. C) Knick knack. D) Chopstick. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chopstick. 19. What was the name of the Roman road that stretched from Dover, Kent, almost to Shrewsbury, Shropshire, a distance of 322 km (200 miles)? A) Appian Way. B) Watling Street. C) Fosse Way. D) Via Misericordia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Watling Street. 20. The South African artist William Kentridge articulates concerns of post-Apartheid South Africa using what media? A) Wood sculpture. B) Drawing, printmaking and stop-motion film of evolving charcoal drawings. C) Graphic novels, light installations. D) Stained glass, found object sculpture. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Drawing, printmaking and stop-motion film of evolving charcoal drawings. ← 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