This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1089 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1089 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Appenzeller, Bündner Bergkäse. Casalina, Crava, Dorset Blue Vinney, Giglio Sardo, Labneh. Piave, Sage Derby and Strica are all types of what? A) Mushroom. B) Cheese. C) Cattle. D) Wine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cheese. 2. What physical adaptation particularly distinguishes the large and critically endangered Titicaca water frog (Telmatobius culeus)? A) Lack of lungs. B) Lack of webbing between its toes. C) Multiple thin skin flaps. D) Its eggs are hatched in pouches on its back. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Multiple thin skin flaps. 3. Who is the maker of the Xbox? A) Nintendo. B) Microsoft. C) Apple. D) Sony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Microsoft. 4. Which of these people is best known for their work as a photographer? A) Robert Mapplethorpe. B) Gustav Doré. C) Francis Bacon. D) Ai Weiwei. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robert Mapplethorpe. 5. What is another name for the "Aurora Borealis" ? A) Solar eclipse. B) Southern lights. C) Northern lights. D) St Elmo's Fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Northern lights. 6. Which drink was originally made from the Smilax ornata plant? A) Creaming soda. B) Coca Cola. C) Sarsaparilla. D) Birch beer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sarsaparilla. 7. Sweeney Todd was the demon barber of what street? A) Morse. B) Swift. C) Pace. D) Fleet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fleet. 8. In British history, what "House" ruled after the House of Hanover? A) Plantagenet. B) Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. C) Stuart. D) Tudor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. 9. Where is Lantau Island? A) Singapore. B) Hong Kong. C) The Philippines. D) Indonesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hong Kong. 10. What is an essential in rotisserie cooking? A) A spit. B) A skewer. C) A cradle. D) Tripods. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A spit. 11. Hideki Yukawa, the first to postulate the existence of particles in an atom of less mass than a proton and greater mass than an electron, was the first Japanese person to do what in 1949? A) Walk across the continental USA. B) Appear on the "Fear Factor" TV series. C) Fly an aeroplane through the sound barrier. D) Win a Nobel Prize. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Win a Nobel Prize. 12. Which of these was an educator, scientist, physician, philosopher, feminist, and humanitarian, and the first early childhood educator to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize? A) Keri Hulme. B) Maria Montessori. C) Annie Lennox. D) Jacqueline du Pré. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Maria Montessori. 13. Ivan Galamian has had world-wide influence as a teacher of what? A) High jump. B) Violin. C) Economics. D) Computer programming techniques. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Violin. 14. Which of these explorers was apprenticed as a young boy to a grocer and haberdasher? A) Samuel Baker. B) James Cook. C) Friar Francisco Garcés. D) McDouall Stuart. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) James Cook. 15. Which of these is a musical film that featured Doris Day? A) Crisis Joan. B) Disaster Jenny. C) Calamity Jane. D) Misadventure Jack. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Calamity Jane. 16. Which of these is a preparation of coffee which contains chocolate? A) Cappuccino. B) Mocha. C) Latte. D) Américano. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mocha. 17. What is the name for the unit of work done by a force of 1 dyne moving through a distance of 1 centimetre? A) Watt. B) Erg. C) Therblig. D) Horsepower. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Erg. 18. Which is the highest military decoration awarded by the USA? A) Medal of Honour. B) Distinguished Service Medal. C) Purple Heart. D) Distinguished Service Cross. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Medal of Honour. 19. What was the business of the painter Edvard Munch's home and studio, Ekely, before he acquired it in 1916? A) Flour mill. B) Power station. C) Plant nursery. D) Tavern. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plant nursery. 20. What real life matter did Lucy Prebble's play, "A Very Expensive Poison" (2019), deal with? A) The murder in the UK of Alexander Litvinenko. B) The suspected poisoning of Emperor Claudius. C) Cantarella, the poison said to have been used by the Borgias. D) Mercury, at one time used to cure syphilis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The murder in the UK of Alexander Litvinenko. ← 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