This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1059 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1059 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these is a medical term for coughing up blood, associated with lung and heart disease? A) Haemoptysis. B) Haemophilia. C) Hiccough. D) Haemorrhoids. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haemoptysis. 2. What is the longest running emergency medical drama series in the world, and the second-longest-running medical drama in the world behind America's "General Hospital" ? A) Dr Finlay's Casebook. B) Silent Witness. C) Casualty. D) Hospital. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Casualty. 3. Louis Goldenberg and Alva J. Fisher have been credited with the invention of what device? A) Dishwasher. B) Electric washing machine. C) Microwave oven. D) Vacuum cleaner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Electric washing machine. 4. After Sir William Herschel observed Uranus on 13 March 1781 while in the garden of his house in Bath, England, he reported it as a what? A) Asteroid. B) Star. C) Comet. D) Planet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Comet. 5. Alderney is one of which group of islands? A) Hawaiian Islands. B) Canary Islands. C) Friendly Islands. D) Channel Islands. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Channel Islands. 6. Which of these is an alternative name for blacklead? A) Lumbago. B) Plumbago. C) Plumb-bob. D) Strychnine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plumbago. 7. "General Sherman" in California, USA, is the name of what? A) A tree. B) A mountain. C) A waterfall. D) A rock formation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A tree. 8. Sunday Rose are the names of the daughter of Nicole Kidman and whom? A) Keith Urban. B) Richard Gere. C) Heath Ledger. D) Robbie Williams. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Keith Urban. 9. Why did Charles de Gaulle and his wife Yvonne establish a foundation in 1945 for people who have Down's Syndrome? A) Their daughter had Down's Syndrome. B) Yvonne de Gaulle's brother had Down's Syndrome. C) A previous foundation was destroyed in bombing and the people there killed by Nazis. D) It matched one just established by the Vichy government. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Their daughter had Down's Syndrome. 10. Which of these was not written by Oscar Wilde? A) The Little Match Girl. B) The Ballad of Reading Gaol. C) The Picture of Dorian Gray. D) The Happy Prince. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Little Match Girl. 11. Who released an album in 2005 called "Confessions on a Dance Floor" ? A) Tori Amos. B) Katie Perry. C) Madonna. D) Pink. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Madonna. 12. The following is an extract from what work? "Lo! where the Giant on the mountain stands, His blood-red tresses deep'ning in the sun, With death-shot glowing in his fiery hands, And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon" . A) "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" by Lord Byron. B) "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare. C) "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray. D) "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"by J. K. Rowling. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" by Lord Byron. 13. The asteroid belt is a series of rocks that orbit the sun between Mars and which other planet? A) Venus. B) Earth. C) Jupiter. D) Saturn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jupiter. 14. "Prediction is hazardous, especially about the future" is attributed to where? A) Storm P. B) Danish proverb. C) Nostradamus. D) Confucius. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Danish proverb. 15. What is the name for a mixture of clay, sand and silt? A) Peat. B) Loam. C) Gravel. D) Sludge. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Loam. 16. After golfer Tiger Woods won the Masters in 2019, which of these could be said? A) All of these. B) It was his first major championship win in eleven years. C) He was the second oldest golfer to win the Masters. D) It was his 5th win in the Masters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All of these. 17. What US TV sitcom that ran for 7 years to 19 March 1977 was the first to have an independent career woman, Mary Richards, as the central character? A) The Loretta Young Show. B) The Mary Tyler Moore Show. C) The Twilight Zone. D) Take Three Girls. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Mary Tyler Moore Show. 18. In art, what is the term used for the process of producing an effect by means of dots or small marks with brush or pencil? A) Pistol. B) Spittle. C) Toggle. D) Stipple. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stipple. 19. Where was the first motor race to regularly carry the name Grand Prix, the first of which took place in 1906 on a circuit roughly triangular in shape, each lap covering 105 kilometres (65 miles)? A) Goodwood. B) Le Mans. C) Brooklands. D) Spa Francorchamps. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Le Mans. 20. What word means to watch other people play a game? A) Twitch. B) Kibitz. C) Surveille. D) Audit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Twitch. ← 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