This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1078 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1078 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. By what 1803 agreement did the USA buy 828, 000 square miles (2.14 million km²), approximately a third of all present mainland USA territory-and doubling its territory at the time-stretching diagonally from Montana in the north to New Orleans in the south? A) Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. B) Seward's Folly. C) Louisiana Purchase. D) Treaty with Choctaws and Chickasaws. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Louisiana Purchase. 2. What title was held by Edward VIII after his abdication? A) Duke of Buckingham. B) Duke of Edinburgh. C) Duke of Windsor. D) Duke of Balmoral. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Duke of Windsor. 3. What sort of animal was "Bambi", the main role in a Walt Disney cartoon released in 1942? A) Dog. B) Chipmunk. C) Elephant. D) Deer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Deer. 4. Where is the tendon known as the hamstring? A) In the foot. B) In the shoulder. C) Behind the tongue. D) Behind the knee. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Behind the knee. 5. Under what name are the participants in the UK TV series "QI" currently known? A) WordBirds. B) Aunt Sallies. C) Whack-a-moles. D) Bantermeisters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bantermeisters. 6. When was the first train run on the route known as the Orient Express? A) 1883. B) 1683. C) 1783. D) 1583. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1883. 7. What fictional football club was the centre for the UK TV series "Footballers' Wives" ? A) Earl's Park. B) Tottenham Rangers. C) Manchester Wanderers. D) Chiswick. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Earl's Park. 8. The abacus was designed as a what? A) Colour chart. B) Children's toy. C) Type of curtain. D) Mathematical tool. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mathematical tool. 9. Which was one of the longest running characters in a British TV series, from 1979 to 1994, who never appears on screen? A) ' Er indoors. B) She who must be obeyed. C) Little Cousin Scampi. D) Basil Brush. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ' Er indoors. 10. What nationality is Jason Wynyard, who gained his fourteenth world championship title in woodchopping and sawing at the world Timbersports championships in Norway in 2017? A) Madagascan. B) Polish. C) French. D) New Zealander. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) New Zealander. 11. How did the theme song for the TV show "The Monkees" begin? A) Hey hey we're the Monkees. B) Here we come. C) Everyone we meet. D) Help, we need somebody. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Here we come. 12. What is the next in this series:largo, lento, adagio, andante, moderato, allegretto, allegro ..... ? A) Rallentando. B) Presto. C) Accelerissimo. D) Arpeggio. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Presto. 13. How many broad categories of marine ecosystem are there? A) 12. B) 20. C) 3. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 14. American Richard Fosbury was lucky to have what, when he was developing the technique which is named after him? A) An asthma inhaler. B) Cork cross bars. C) Lycra shorts. D) Foam rubber. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foam rubber. 15. In the UK, the Ordnance Survey is an executive agency of government that is one of the world's largest producers of what? A) Weather reports. B) Maps. C) Star charts. D) Tide tables. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Maps. 16. In 1947 what statues were unveiled on either side of the Mandraki Harbour entrance, Rhodes? A) A stag and a doe. B) A reconstruction of the ancient Colossus, but straddling the entrance. C) Heracleia and Apollonius. D) Urania (the Muse of Astronomy) and Boreas (god of the North wind). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A stag and a doe. 17. Which is the smallest European carnivore by weight? A) Weasel. B) Otter. C) Stoat. D) Hedgehog. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Weasel. 18. The biography by Sir Ranulph Fiennes published in 2003 was about which Captain? A) Blood. B) Cook. C) Scott. D) Bligh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scott. 19. What does the internet term "thread" refer to? A) A series of linked messages. B) A self replicating virus. C) A category of browser. D) A common fault in display devices. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A series of linked messages. 20. When is the original version of the statue Mannekin Pis thought to have been built? A) 1619. B) 1388. C) 1965. D) 1820. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1388. ← 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