This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1104 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1104 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. After the murder of his children's nanny, Sandra Rivett, Richard John Bingham disappeared on 8 November 1974, was presumed deceased on 11 December 1992 and declared legally dead in October 1999. By what name is he better known? A) Lord Lucan. B) Duke Ellington. C) Prince. D) Michael Jackson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lord Lucan. 2. The theatres for which war included North Africa, the Philippines, Italy, Germany and Crete? A) World War I. B) American Civil War. C) Korean War. D) World War II. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) World War II. 3. What was broadcast in 2012 on Fox News Channel's Studio B which caused it to issue an on-air apology almost immediately afterwards? A) A "wardrobe malfunction". B) Live broadcast of the suicide of the object of a police pursuit in Arizona. C) Swearing in the studio caught on a microphone inadvertently left live. D) A 3-second section of a snuff movie being used in a court case. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Live broadcast of the suicide of the object of a police pursuit in Arizona. 4. What was the name of the spacecraft which created history on 12 November 2014 and landed a probe on a comet? A) Curiosity. B) Philae. C) Roxanne. D) Rosetta. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rosetta. 5. Which one of these fungi might be safe to eat without ill effect? A) Little White Mushroom. B) Death Cap. C) Destroying Angel. D) Trumpet of Death. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trumpet of Death. 6. Which of earth's oceans holds the most water? A) The Arctic Ocean. B) The Atlantic Ocean. C) The Indian Ocean. D) The Pacific Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Pacific Ocean. 7. As which part of a meal is panna cotta more likely to be eaten? A) Apéritif. B) Sweet. C) Antipasto. D) Savoury. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sweet. 8. Which of these is a model who was born in New Zealand? A) Miranda Kerr. B) Rachel Hunter. C) Marisa Miller. D) Christie Brinkley. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rachel Hunter. 9. In England, what is commonly known as "The Old Bailey" ? A) A brand of cream liqueur. B) The Central Criminal Court. C) The London Metropolitan Police. D) One's wife (in cockney slang). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Central Criminal Court. 10. Which English King assented to the Magna Carta at Runnymede, Surrey, England, in 1215? A) King Elton. B) King John. C) King Paul. D) King Ringo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) King John. 11. What 1966 Broadway musical was based on Fellini's film "Nights of Cabiria" ? A) Sweet Charity. B) Hair. C) Cabaret. D) Annie Get Your Gun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sweet Charity. 12. What is the radius of a circle whose area is 154 square inches? A) 22 inches. B) 7 inches. C) 44 inches. D) 5 inches. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 7 inches. 13. Who is the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated? A) Spencer Perceval. B) Winston Churchill. C) William Pitt the Younger. D) Charles Grey. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spencer Perceval. 14. Breadcrumbs are the outermost layer of which dish? A) Waldorf salad. B) Veal Marengo. C) Steak Tartare. D) Chicken Kiev. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chicken Kiev. 15. Where is air hockey played? A) During international flights. B) While skydiving. C) On a basketball court. D) On a table. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) On a table. 16. The name My Lai was associated in 1968 with what? A) A popular new dress style. B) A Vietnamese dancer. C) A massacre by American troops during the Vietnam War. D) The theft of a large diamond. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A massacre by American troops during the Vietnam War. 17. Who was defence counsel at the Oz conspiracy trial in 1971 and defended the Sex Pistols in a 1977 obscenity trial over the title of their album "Never Mind The Bollocks" ? A) Jerry Hayes. B) Roger Bushell. C) John Mortimer. D) Simon Tolkien. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Mortimer. 18. When was the Warsaw Pact formed? A) January 1946. B) April 1949. C) May 1955. D) August 1961. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) May 1955. 19. After years of protest demanding a separate state for Marathi-speaking people in India, with the argument that they had a distinct language, culture and history, Bombay State was split into two new states, one being Maharashtra. When did this happen? A) 1960. B) 1956. C) 1933. D) 1970. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1960. 20. In England, the Estates of the Realm are the Clergy, the Lords and the Commons. What is known as the "Fourth Estate" ? A) The farmers. B) The voters. C) The businessmen. D) The press. 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