This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1115 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1115 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When the Amazon River flows across Brazil, where does it do so? A) Across the centre. B) Across the north. C) Across the south. D) Along the border with Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Across the north. 2. The Nobel Peace Prize winner for 2010 lived in which country? A) China. B) Myanmar. C) Syria. D) Afghanistan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) China. 3. By what nickname was Janis Joplin known? A) Emerald. B) Beryl. C) Pearl. D) Sapphire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pearl. 4. Björn Frantzén, at one time a footballer, now an entrepreneur, fends off occasional international comparisons with a character from which internationally famous TV series? A) Black Mirror. B) Sex and the City. C) Game of Thrones. D) The Muppet Show. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Muppet Show. 5. To traduce someone is to do what? A) Deeply injure them by speaking ill of them. B) Betray them. C) Lead them astray. D) Mislead them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deeply injure them by speaking ill of them. 6. At the 1963 Oscars, Best Picture winner Tom Jones became the only film in history to do which of these? A) Have 3 nominations for Best Supporting Actress. B) Won all of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress. C) Won Best Actor and Best Actress. D) Be nominated for over 20 awards and win none. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Have 3 nominations for Best Supporting Actress. 7. What traditional sport was banned in Britain in 2004? A) Tossing the caber. B) Cage fighting. C) Gaelic football. D) Fox hunting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fox hunting. 8. What is the capital of San Marino? A) The Vatican. B) Rome. C) The City of San Marino. D) Vaduz. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The City of San Marino. 9. Who escaped to the Isle of Skye, assisted by Flora MacDonald? A) Mary, Queen of Scots. B) Rob Roy. C) Robert the Bruce. D) Bonnie Prince Charlie. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bonnie Prince Charlie. 10. The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis culminated on 11 November with the removal of which Australian Labour Party Prime Minister by Governor-General Sir John Kerr, and the appointment of the Leader of the Opposition, Malcolm Fraser, as caretaker Prime Minister? A) Paul Keating. B) Bob Hawke. C) Gough Whitlam. D) William McMahon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gough Whitlam. 11. The testimony of midwives specifically is sought by the Roman Catholic Church to establish what? A) Accuracy of a doctor's assessment of point of death of a newborn child. B) Viability of conception. C) Viability of a foetus. D) Non-consummation of marriage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Non-consummation of marriage. 12. Who, it is said, did similar deals with Dr Faustus, Robert Johnson and Niccolò Paganini? A) David Lloyd George. B) The devil. C) Theodore Roosevelt. D) Archangel Gabriel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The devil. 13. Who won the 2010 Nobel prize for chemistry for their work in the 1960s & 1970s to find ways to bond carbon atoms (such as palladium-catalysed cross coupling)? A) James D. Watson, Francis Crick & Maurice Wilkins. B) Brian Jones, Mick Taylor and Ron Wood. C) Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi & Akira Suzuki. D) Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Robert Plant & John Bonham. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi & Akira Suzuki. 14. What sport is featured in "Invictus", a 2009 film directed by Clint Eastwood? A) Hockey. B) Soccer. C) Baseball. D) Rugby. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rugby. 15. Which of these is an American motorcycle manufacturer founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the first decade of the 20th century? A) Buell. B) Indian. C) Harley Davidson. D) KTM. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Harley Davidson. 16. Who wrote "Puck Of Pooks Hill", "Soldiers Three", the "Just So Stories" and "Stalky & Co" ? A) Charles Kingsley. B) C S Forrester. C) Robert Louis Stevenson. D) Rudyard Kipling. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rudyard Kipling. 17. Which painter, born in Delft, produced works including "The Woman With A Water Jug", "The Pianist" and "The Lacemaker" ? A) Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. B) Carel Fabritius. C) Jan Vermeer. D) Vincent van Gogh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jan Vermeer. 18. Which set of 19 piano pieces based on folk themes were composed by Franz Liszt between 1846 and 1885 and named after his homeland? A) The German Sonatas. B) The Brazilian Cantatas. C) The Hungarian Rhapsodies. D) The Egyptian Etudes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Hungarian Rhapsodies. 19. What is the name for a person who works in a science laboratory testing in pre-and post-analytic phases and preparing samples or specimens? A) Essential. B) Assistant or technician. C) Um. D) Sampler. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assistant or technician. 20. Direct rule by the British Crown in India from 1858 to 1947 was preceded by the dissolution of what? A) The Mughal Empire. B) The British Raj. C) The East India Company. D) The Indian National Congress. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The East India Company. ← 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