This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge โ Quiz 1105 ๐ Homepage ๐ Download PDF Books ๐ Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1105 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In a lonely hearts advertisement, what does "GSOH" mean? A) Great spacious opulent house. B) Good sense of humour. C) Gracious, stable, open-minded, honest. D) Government shows over-enthusiastic hope. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Good sense of humour. 2. What is another term for an "ecological community of commensal, symbiotic and pathogenic microorganisms" ? A) Holistic organism. B) Multibionta. C) Mutualist symbiota. D) Microbiota. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Microbiota. 3. Interference patterns produced when an opaque ruled pattern with transparent gaps is overlaid on another similar pattern, are called what? A) Distal. B) Two point source. C) Stutter. D) Moirรฉ. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Moirรฉ. 4. Most of which of these games is spent handling "tiles" ? A) Parcheesi. B) Monopoly. C) Scrabble. D) Ludo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scrabble. 5. Who directed Heath Ledger's last film? A) Terry Gilliam. B) Christopher Nolan. C) Todd Haynes. D) Neil Armfield. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Terry Gilliam. 6. To play craps, players need an appropriately marked up board, chips and what else? A) Specially printed money. B) Letter dice. C) Farkle cup. D) Spotted dice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spotted dice. 7. Between 1987 and 2006, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, Mahendra Chaudhry, Laisenia Qarase, Lieutenant Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka, George Speight and Ratu Josefa Iloilo were involved in the politics of which country? A) The Republic of Kiribati. B) Burkina Faso. C) Fiji. D) The People's Republic of Benin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fiji. 8. Rugby union was included in 4 Olympic Games between 1900 and 1924. Which team won the most gold medals for it in that period? A) Australia. B) Great Britain. C) France. D) USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) USA. 9. Until the introduction of the Euro on 1 January 2002, which country had the lira as its basic currency unit? A) Italy. B) Belgium. C) France. D) The Netherlands. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Italy. 10. Which is another name for the game variously called taca taca, kicker, baby-foot, langirt and futillo? A) Polo. B) Gridiron. C) Foosball. D) Tennis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foosball. 11. In the 1880s Georges Seurat and Paul Signac pioneered what meticulous and precise method of painting? A) Dadaism. B) Pointillism. C) Cubism. D) Fauvism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pointillism. 12. What are the traditional words used to vote in the British House of Lords? A) Let it be / Let it not be. B) Aye / No. C) Yes / No. D) Content / Non content. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Content / Non content. 13. Since the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World Tour Masters 1000 was introduced in 1990 until 2021 which former world number 1 held the record for the most titles, with 36? A) Rafael Palmeiro. B) Rafael Trujillo. C) Rafael Benรญtez. D) Rafael Nadal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rafael Nadal. 14. "Without the freedom to criticise, there is no flattering praise" is the motto of which daily newspaper? A) HuffPost. B) The Guardian. C) Der Bild. D) Le Figaro. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Le Figaro. 15. Who was the first Pope to be born in the 20th century? A) Paul VI, 21 June 1963 to 6 August 1978. B) John Paul II, 16 October 1978 to 2 April 2005. C) John XXIII, 28 October 1958 to 3 June 1963. D) John Paul I, 26 August 1978 to 28 September 1978. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John Paul I, 26 August 1978 to 28 September 1978. 16. Which of these is a play based on the story of Thomas More, the 16th-century Chancellor of England, by Robert Bolt? A) The Fall Guy. B) A Chap For Summer. C) A Winter's Tail. D) A Man For All Seasons. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A Man For All Seasons. 17. The line "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" is spoken by which Shakespearean character? A) The Earl of Gloucester in "King Lear". B) Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream". C) Macbeth in "Macbeth". D) Portia in "The Merchant of Venice". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream". 18. Where did an icthyosaurus live? A) Sea. B) Air. C) Trees. D) Burrows. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sea. 19. Which of these was a singer and band leader who died at the Emory Crawford Long Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia on 25 December 2006 from congestive heart failure resulting from complications of pneumonia? A) Jim Morrison. B) Janis Joplin. C) James Brown. D) Jimi Hendrix. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) James Brown. 20. What is the name of the island of land in the East End of London that is bounded on three sides by one of the largest meanders in the River Thames, with the West India Docks to the north? A) Canvey Island. B) Cowes. C) Isle of Dogs. D) Eel Pie Island. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Isle of Dogs. โ PreviousNext โRelated 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 ๐ Back to Homepage ๐ Download PDF Books ๐ Premium PDF Books