This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1118 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1118 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What name for an army unit composed of New Zealand and Australian troops was applied to them in World War I? A) Tommies. B) Antipodean Army. C) ANZACs. D) Ockers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) ANZACs. 2. Which of these is native to South America? A) Tiger. B) Anaconda. C) Chimpanzee. D) Lemur. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaconda. 3. What is next in the sequence:Lima, Quito, Bogota ..... ? A) Caractacus. B) Caracas. C) Caracal. D) Caricature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Caracas. 4. As at 2022, who has won the most medals in Olympic Games since the modern Olympics began in 1896? A) Pierre de Coubertin. B) Michael Phelps. C) Juan Antonio Samaranch. D) Tiger Woods. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Michael Phelps. 5. Which wars, from 1839 to 1842 and 1856 to 1860, were due to Britain smuggling goods from India into China in defiance of China's laws? A) The Boxer Rebellion. B) The Chino-Anglo Dispute. C) The Yangtse Incident. D) The Opium Wars. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Opium Wars. 6. What organisation financed Henry Hudson's voyage when he explored much of what is now Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay in 1610? A) Muscovy Company. B) Hudson's Bay Company. C) Virginia Company with the British East India Company. D) Dutch East India Company. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Virginia Company with the British East India Company. 7. What is apiphobia the fear of? A) Bunions. B) Birds. C) Bears. D) Bees. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bees. 8. Who wrote "A History of Richard III" and "Utopia" ? A) Geoffrey Chaucer. B) Richard Burton. C) Malory. D) Sir Thomas More. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sir Thomas More. 9. In 2016 Dubai, UAE, hosted the first international Grand Prix in what discipline? A) Hawk and eagle slalom racing. B) Land yacht racing. C) Solar powered car racing. D) Drone racing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Drone racing. 10. Taiko are used in music of what kind? A) String quartets. B) Drumming. C) Flute solos. D) Gamelan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Drumming. 11. The semi-autobiographical Canadian French language films "1981, or the year I became a liar", "1987" and "1991" trace events in the life of the director from the age of 11. Who is he? A) Atom Egoyan. B) Denis Villeneuve. C) David Cronenberg. D) Ricardo Trogi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ricardo Trogi. 12. Where would a catafalque be used? A) In a mediaeval battlefield. B) At the bow of a river barge. C) As an awning or shade. D) To support a coffin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To support a coffin. 13. How many languages does Bolivia recognise as official languages? A) 38. B) 2. C) 5. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 38. 14. What type of show is the US/Canada TV series Stargate SG-1? A) Documentary. B) Situation comedy. C) Educational. D) Scifi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scifi. 15. In 1991 talks between North and South Korea resulted in what? A) The kidnapping of the South Korean opposition leader. B) The attempted assassination of the South Korean President. C) The Joint Declaration of the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. D) The first reunion of separated families. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Joint Declaration of the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. 16. Fashion designer Ozwald Boateng specialises in what? A) Suits. B) Hats. C) Handbags. D) Shoes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Suits. 17. The 2014 Man Booker Prize, the first to be open to any full length novel written in the English language and not just to those from the UK Commonwealth, Republic of Ireland or Zimbabwe, was awarded in October to which writer? A) Richard Flanagan, Tasmania, Australia. B) Karen Joy Fowler, USA. C) Howard Jacobson, UK. D) Neel Mukherjee, UK. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Richard Flanagan, Tasmania, Australia. 18. What was entertainment promoter Bill Graham's rock palace in operation from March 1968 to June 1971 at Second Avenue at East Sixth Street, New York City, New York, in the East Village area of the borough of Manhattan? A) Fillmore East. B) Blind Pig. C) Fillmore West. D) CBGB. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fillmore East. 19. In 2015 pop artist Taylor Swift won a disagreement over pay with what organisation? A) Peach. B) Plum. C) Inland Revenue. D) Apple. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Apple. 20. African and Indian elephants have a different number of nails on their feet. Respectively, they are ..... ? A) 18 and 16. B) 16 and 18. C) 14 and 16. D) 14 and 18. 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