This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 110 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 110 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Ramón Emeterio Betances, Segundo Ruiz Belvis and Francisco Ramírez Medina were revolutionaries who attempted to free Puerto Rico from rule by which country? A) England. B) USA. C) Portugal. D) Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spain. 2. What was the favourite food of Jiggs, one of the lead characters in the comic strip "Bringing Up Father" that was created by George McManus and ran from January 1913 to May 2000? A) Corned beef and cabbage. B) Lasagne. C) Toad in the Hole. D) Angels on Horseback. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Corned beef and cabbage. 3. Which English poet, dramatist, and art historian, a pioneer in the European study of Far Eastern painting wrote the memorial ode to dead soldiers of World War I, "For the Fallen" (1914) A) Vera Brittain. B) Wilfred Owen. C) Siegfried Sassoon. D) Laurence Binyon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Laurence Binyon. 4. The song "Love is All Around" by Wet Wet Wet featured on the soundtrack for which 1994 film? A) The Shawshank Redemption. B) Pulp Fiction. C) Four Weddings and a Funeral. D) Forrest Gump. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Four Weddings and a Funeral. 5. George Gershwin wrote a piece of music called "Rhapsody in ..... " what? A) Blue. B) Bed. C) Paris. D) The afternoon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blue. 6. What does large-scale thermohaline circulation drive? A) Mine pumps. B) Trade winds. C) Deep-ocean currents. D) Lava lamps. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deep-ocean currents. 7. What sort of animal is a salamander? A) Amphibian. B) Fish. C) Bird. D) Mammal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amphibian. 8. What does the parotid gland produce? A) Adrenaline. B) Saliva. C) Masseter stimulants. D) Paraotic discharge. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Saliva. 9. The first Summer Olympics to be held in Canada were held in what city? A) Toronto. B) Vancouver. C) Montréal. D) Calgary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Montréal. 10. What sent back the first pictures of the moon's surface by video? A) Venus Express. B) Sputnik 1. C) Ranger 7. D) Apollo 13. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ranger 7. 11. What object, containing 14 lines of hieroglyphs, 32 of demotic and 54 of Greek, was a key to deciphering writing from ancient Egypt? A) Dead Sea Scrolls. B) Runic Cube. C) Rosetta Stone. D) Parchment Farm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rosetta Stone. 12. What nickname was given to German Chancellor Otto Van Bismarck? A) The Iron Chancellor. B) The Steel Chancellor. C) The Granite Chancellor. D) The Tin Chancellor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Iron Chancellor. 13. Which fermented liquid condiment used for flavouring, especially of grilled meats (and also used as an ingredient in cocktails and drinks) was first made by two dispensing chemists, John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins? A) Tomato sauce. B) Tabasco sauce. C) Worcestershire sauce. D) Mayonnaise. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Worcestershire sauce. 14. Who wrote the music for the musical "Cats" ? A) Andrew Lloyd Webber. B) Irving Berlin. C) John Kander. D) Elton John. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Andrew Lloyd Webber. 15. In "Psycho", who played the character of Marion Crane? A) Eva Marie Saint. B) Grace Kelly. C) Janet Leigh. D) Tippi Hedren. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Janet Leigh. 16. Who, after splitting from a long term girlfriend in 2008, briefly dated actress Kate Hudson, and in 2012 was dating Serbian tennis star Ana Ivanovic? A) Richard Branson. B) Roger Federer. C) Adam Scott. D) Silvio Berlusconi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adam Scott. 17. Nicotine is named after the tobacco plant Nicotiana tabacum. Who did the plant get its name from? A) Saint Nicholas. B) Jean Nicot de Villemain. C) Nico (Christa Päffgen). D) Tsar Nicholas I. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jean Nicot de Villemain. 18. Which of these cities is furthest south? A) Ciudad del Motor de Aragón. B) Ciudad del Este. C) Ciudad Juárez. D) Ciudad Bolivar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ciudad del Este. 19. If A = 1, B = 2 and so on, what number would represent BEECH? A) 24436. B) 25527. C) 25538. D) 2537. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 25538. 20. The semi-arid region called the Sahel separates what from the rest of southern Africa? A) Natal. B) The Limpopo River. C) The Serengeti Plain. D) The south of the Sahara Desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The south of the Sahara Desert. ← 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