This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1117 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1117 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What metal marks a 10th wedding anniversary? A) Copper. B) Tin. C) Bronze. D) Silver. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tin. 2. A series of science fiction books by American writer Anne McCaffrey follows a population which lives with dragons and their riders on a planet called by the acronym "Pern" . What does the "n" stand for? A) Nova. B) Neutron. C) Negligible. D) Neutral. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Negligible. 3. Prithvi Narayan, Jung Bahadur Rana, King Mahendra, King Birendra, and King Gyanendra were all political leaders of which country? A) Laos. B) China. C) Thailand. D) Nepal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nepal. 4. Where was the sporting code known as rugby league started? A) England. B) Australia. C) South Africa. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) England. 5. Which of these is a precious stone made of pure carbon? A) Garnet. B) Diamond. C) Opal. D) Pearl. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diamond. 6. Who makes casks and barrels? A) Cooper. B) Farrier. C) Tunner. D) Turner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cooper. 7. Who wrote the music for the musical (and later, film) "Cabaret" ? A) Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. B) John Kander and Fred Ebb. C) Harold Arlen and E Y Harburg. D) Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Kander and Fred Ebb. 8. Who wrote the music for the ballet "Swan Lake" ? A) Rimsky-Korsakov. B) Tchaikovsky. C) Prokofiev. D) Stravinsky. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tchaikovsky. 9. Which New Zealand-born and New York-based artist, known for his kinetic sculpture produced between 1950 and 1980, also made films, applying dyes, stencils, air-brushes and other objects directly to celluloid? A) Andy Warhol. B) Peter Jackson. C) Jackson Pollock. D) Len Lye. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Len Lye. 10. What card game, played usually between 2 players or teams who try to build up collections of cards of the same value, uses 2 packs with 2 additional jokers? A) Canasta. B) Euchre. C) Bridge. D) Whist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Canasta. 11. The formula for World Rally Championship cars changed for the 2011 championship, with engines limited to how many litres? A) 1.6. B) 2. C) 1. D) 2.5. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1.6. 12. Which of these is a work by Dante? A) The Star-crossed Melodrama. B) The Astral Tragedy. C) The Heavenly Romance. D) The Divine Comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Divine Comedy. 13. Mahatma Gandhi led Indians in protesting the British-imposed salt tax with what 400 km (249 mile) journey in 1930? A) March To The Sea. B) The Long March. C) The Green March. D) Dandi Salt March. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dandi Salt March. 14. What type of opera is Puccini's Gianni Schicchi? A) Tragedy. B) Comedy. C) Historical drama. D) Documentary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Comedy. 15. Between 1966 and 1974 France had a stronger than usual link with Mururoa Atoll and Fangataufa in French Polynesia. What was it? A) They were temporary home to the Académie Française outreach programme. B) They were the training grounds of the elite French defence forces. C) They had direct representation in the French Parliament. D) It conducted 46 atmospheric nuclear tests there, including detonating bombs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It conducted 46 atmospheric nuclear tests there, including detonating bombs. 16. Which of these people was born first? A) James Cook. B) Captain Scott. C) Marco Polo. D) Christopher Columbus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Marco Polo. 17. If a uranium or similar target is bombarded, what is a term for the neutrons which it ejects? A) Popcorn. B) Flux. C) Refracts. D) Spall. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spall. 18. What device is used to regulate a person's heart rate? A) Metronome. B) Running hare. C) Pacemaker. D) Treadmill. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pacemaker. 19. By what name was Rocco Francis Marchegiano, heavyweight boxing world champion from September 1952 to April, 1956 better known? A) Rocky Nelson. B) Rocky Romero. C) Rocky Raccoon. D) Rocky Marciano. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rocky Marciano. 20. What is Wade-Giles? A) A romanisation system for Mandarin Chinese. B) An 1864 proposal for the Reconstruction of the South by two Radical Republicans. C) A park near Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA. D) Civil rights demonstrations in 1959 and 1963 to desegregate beaches in the Mississippi Gulf. 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