This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1095 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1095 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Severn Tunnel connects which two British cities? A) Bath and Swansea. B) Bristol and Cardiff. C) Glasgow and Edinburgh. D) London and Cambridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bristol and Cardiff. 2. Which English king was removed from the throne in 1399? A) Henry II. B) Richard II. C) George II. D) William II. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Richard II. 3. Which of these is an alternative name for the area that the Germans call "Bodensee" ? A) Lake Constance. B) Baltic Sea. C) Denmark Strait. D) Caspian Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lake Constance. 4. What is the capital of Sudan? A) Kinshasa. B) Tripoli. C) Addis Ababa. D) Khartoum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Khartoum. 5. Which of these was an outcome of the sinking of Greenpeace's ship the "Rainbow Warrior" by French intelligence service (DGSE) agents in New Zealand in 1985? A) All of the DGSE agents were caught. B) The French minister of defence, Charles Hernu, resigned. C) The convicted DGSE agents served their full prison terms. D) The New Zealand public weakened their "nuclear free" philosophy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The French minister of defence, Charles Hernu, resigned. 6. Which English explorer and writer founded the first (unsuccessful) colony in Virginia in 1584? A) Captain Fry Hudson. B) Sir Francis Drake. C) Captain James Cook. D) Sir Walter Raleigh. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sir Walter Raleigh. 7. Stephen Sondheim's musical "Sunday in the Park With George" was inspired by a painting by whom? A) Monet. B) Pissarro. C) Toulouse-Lautrec. D) Seurat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Seurat. 8. The island of Madagascar is off the coast of which African mainland country? A) South Africa. B) Mozambique. C) Namibia. D) Kenya. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mozambique. 9. American saxophonist and clarinettist Lester Young was famously a partner, as a close friend and in recordings, with which singer? A) Tommy Dorsey. B) Hank Williams. C) Billie Holiday. D) Josephine Baker. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Billie Holiday. 10. Which Hollywood star married baseball hero Joe DiMaggio? A) Lana Turner. B) Marilyn Monroe. C) Ava Gardiner. D) Bette Davis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Marilyn Monroe. 11. The 2005 British Open Golf Tournament was held where? A) Skye. B) Turnberry. C) Troon. D) St Andrews. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) St Andrews. 12. Which is the preposition in the sentence "Mary put her dog in the basket" ? A) Put. B) Her. C) In. D) The. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In. 13. Which of these is an indication of approval? A) Foot down. B) Thumbs up. C) Crossed arms. D) Heads down. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thumbs up. 14. Which of these Shakespeare plays is set in Verona? A) Troilus and Cressida. B) Romeo and Juliet. C) Hamlet. D) King Lear. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romeo and Juliet. 15. What comics series, created by writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières, first published in the magazine "Pilote" in 1967, reached its final instalment in 2010? A) Tintin. B) Asterix. C) Valérian and Laureline. D) Emmeline. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Valérian and Laureline. 16. Pierre de Coubertin who founded the modern Olympic Games thought competing in art was an essential part of the movement; medals in various arts were awarded from 1912 until when? A) 1956. B) 1936. C) 1948. D) 1928. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1948. 17. In, or based on, what language was Dante Alighieri's "The Divine Comedy" written? A) Latin. B) Tuscan. C) Occitan. D) Sicilian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tuscan. 18. Where did the Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel carry out his ground-breaking and seminal experiments in genetics? A) In part of Russia now part of the Ukraine. B) Boston, USA. C) Paris, France. D) In part of Austria now a part of the Czech Republic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In part of Austria now a part of the Czech Republic. 19. Up to 31 December 2009, which of these was the last to have a solo number one hit on the English charts? A) Melanie C (from the Spice Girls). B) Robbie Williams (from Take That). C) Gary Barlow (from Take That). D) Geri Halliwell (from the Spice Girls). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Melanie C (from the Spice Girls). 20. Who played opposite Gene Kelly in "Singin' in the Rain" ? A) Audrey Hepburn. B) Doris Day. C) Debbie Reynolds. D) Leslie Caron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Debbie Reynolds. ← 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