This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1061 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1061 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The word "horror" comes from a Latin word meaning what? A) Bristle. B) Be overwhelmed with dread. C) Blind terror. D) Recoil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bristle. 2. Which is the largest area? A) Three 1 metre squares. B) 3 metres square. C) 3 square metres. D) 3 metres. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3 metres square. 3. Where is the longest railway tunnel, opened in 2016? A) Tasman Sea. B) Rocky Mountains. C) Urals. D) Swiss Alps. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Swiss Alps. 4. What is the term given to the tilt of an aeroplane about its longitudinal axis? A) Bank. B) Dive. C) Dip. D) Pan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bank. 5. In "Five Minute Stories" by Laura Richards, who was said to dance "Oh, high and disposedly, Tips-of-her-toesedly, ..... "? A) Royal Elizabeth. B) Pretty Polly. C) Nellie the Elephant. D) Queen Mab. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Royal Elizabeth. 6. What is the sum of the digits of the product of any number between 1 & 9 multiplied by 9? A) 9. B) 10. C) 6. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 9. 7. Africa is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean and which other major body of water? A) The Red Sea. B) The Pacific Ocean. C) The Black Sea. D) The White Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Red Sea. 8. The many hundreds of islands in the western Pacific region known as Micronesia includes five sovereign nations, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands and Nauru and which two others? A) Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia. B) Northern Mariana Islands, Wake Island. C) Palau, Wake Island. D) Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia. 9. If someone is urged to give something some welly, what are they being invited to do? A) Be extravagantly creative. B) Put on extra heavy duty wet weather boots. C) Look cheerful. D) Put power or extra effort into what they are doing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Put power or extra effort into what they are doing. 10. What multi-user adventure game was developed from 1978 by Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle from 1980, students at Essex University in the UK, that revolved around gaining points till one achieved the wizard rank, giving the player immortality and certain powers over mortals? A) Zork. B) MUD (Multi-User Dungeon). C) Adventure. D) The Temple of Doom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) MUD (Multi-User Dungeon). 11. An English physicist in 1913 demonstrated the first justification from physical laws of the previous empirical and chemical concept of what? A) Composition of the Sun. B) Protons. C) Stellar nucleosynthesis. D) Atomic number. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Atomic number. 12. Which of these is famous for dancing in the rain with an umbrella in a film? A) John Wayne. B) Fred Astaire. C) Gene Kelly. D) Cary Grant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gene Kelly. 13. What is a heterodyne? A) A radiotelegraph signal. B) A signal frequency created by combining or mixing two other frequencies. C) An oscillator. D) A beep. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A signal frequency created by combining or mixing two other frequencies. 14. What is a Tasmanian Devil? A) Four legged animal. B) Whirlwind. C) Tree. D) Snake. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Four legged animal. 15. In which film directed by Fred Zinnemann does a US Army officer in Germany (Montgomery Clift) look after a homeless boy (Ian Jandl) until he is returned to his mother (Jarmila Novotna)? A) Shoe Shine. B) The Search. C) Forbidden Games. D) Red River. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Search. 16. At the opening ceremony of every Olympic Games when the athletes parade into the stadium, what is traditionally the first nation to enter? A) Australia. B) Zimbabwe. C) Greece. D) Denmark. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Greece. 17. Who was one of the first female movie stars, called "The First Lady of the Silent Screen", who was the only star from the silent era to receive the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award, and who received a Special Academy Award in 1971? A) Greta Garbo. B) Mary Pickford. C) Helen Hayes. D) Lillian Gish. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lillian Gish. 18. The US TV series "Sex and the City" was based on a book adapted from a newspaper sex column by which writer? A) Carolyn Hax. B) Candace Bushnell. C) Anka Radakovich. D) Meghan Bainum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Candace Bushnell. 19. What name is given to art that depicts inanimate (typically commonplace) objects, either natural (e.g. food, flowers, plants, rocks & shells) or man-made (e.g. drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins & pipes) in an artificial setting? A) Landscape. B) Still life. C) Abstract. D) Portrait. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Still life. 20. Which definition of a number does NOT apply to the mathematical constant pi (π) A) Irrational. B) Real. C) Common fraction. D) Transcendental. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Common fraction. ← 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