This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1121 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1121 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Why was the Stanley Cup, the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff champion, not awarded in the 2004-05 season? A) It was replaced by another trophy. B) It had been stolen and could not be replaced in time. C) The result was a draw. D) NHL cancelled the season. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) NHL cancelled the season. 2. Which 19th century English writer wrote "Swallows and Amazons", "Peter Duck" and "Secret Water" ? A) Lewis Carroll. B) Arthur Ransome. C) A A Milne. D) Charles Kingsley. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arthur Ransome. 3. Steel bands originated in which country? A) Mexico. B) Trinidad. C) Jamaica. D) India. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trinidad. 4. What links a type of footwear, the home of NATO, the best known military exploit of an early British Prime Minister, and the final days of freedom for a Corsican commander? A) Puss in Boots. B) Blue Suede Shoes. C) Brussels. D) The Lynx Effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brussels. 5. Ouidah on the coast of Benin, 40km (25 miles) from Benin's economic hub of Cotonou, is viewed as what? A) The main staging post in the 18th and 19th centuries for slave trade to the Americas. B) A centre for ivory crafts. C) The birthplace of Rastafarianism. D) Surf City. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The main staging post in the 18th and 19th centuries for slave trade to the Americas. 6. Who is a British fashion designer, known for her work on pop art in fashion, who opened a clothes shop called Bazaar on London's Kings Road with her husband, Alexander Plunkett-Greene, and a former solicitor, Archie McNair, in November 1955? A) Pattie Harrison. B) Jean Shrimpton. C) Twiggy. D) Mary Quant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mary Quant. 7. Maurice Sendak's book "Where the Wild Things Are" is aimed at whom? A) Botanists. B) Teenagers. C) The very old. D) Children. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Children. 8. Which of these is a famous art gallery in New York City? A) Guggenheim. B) Frankenstein. C) Googlesearch. D) Goggle-eyes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Guggenheim. 9. Olympic gold medallists Ian Fergusson and Danyon Loader represented which country? A) Finland. B) Sweden. C) New Zealand. D) Netherlands. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) New Zealand. 10. When did "addiction" first enter the English language? A) With Chaucer, in The Canterbury Tales. B) With Shakespeare, in Henry V. C) With Thomas De Quincey, in Confessions of an Opium Eater. D) With Henry Gray, in Gray's Anatomy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) With Shakespeare, in Henry V. 11. Where does "The Book of Revelation", the final book of the Christian Bible, indicate that it was written? A) The island of Iona. B) The island of Patmos. C) Bethlehem. D) Jerusalem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The island of Patmos. 12. How many nouns are in the sentence "My mother and father visited my sister in Wellington" ? A) 9. B) 1. C) 4. D) 15. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 4. 13. Which of these was a famous horse belonging to the Duke of Wellington? A) Bucephalus. B) Phar Lap. C) Red Rum. D) Copenhagen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Copenhagen. 14. Which of these can mean a list of options for a computer program? A) Manifest. B) Index. C) Agenda. D) Menu. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Menu. 15. How does one tell a potentially winning cob or conker? A) Put them in water and choose from among those that sink. B) Put them in water and choose from among those that float. C) By its colour. D) By the method and frequency with which their tree has been pruned or brutted. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Put them in water and choose from among those that sink. 16. A colon is most used in which of these contexts? A) Games such as backgammon. B) Philosophy. C) Anthropology. D) Mathematical and technical formulae. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mathematical and technical formulae. 17. The rings of which planet were first detected in 1980 but only identified in 1989 by the Voyager 2 spacecraft? . A) Neptune. B) Jupiter. C) Saturn. D) Uranus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Neptune. 18. Which film, starring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen and Donald O'Connor, told the story of a silent film ("The Dashing Cavalier") being transformed during production into a musical ("The Dancing Cavalier")? A) Hollywood Revue. B) Singin' In The Rain. C) A Star Is Born. D) A Chorus Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Singin' In The Rain. 19. The first recording sighting of the Australian mainland and landfall by a European, was in 1606 by whom? A) Arthur Phillip. B) William Dampier. C) James Cook. D) Willem Janszoon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Willem Janszoon. 20. Which of these would not be included in international contests in the disciplines of Radiosport? A) Individuals receive and correctly copy Morse code transmissions sent at very high speeds. B) Amateur radio station teams attempt to make as many two-way contacts with other stations as possible. C) Team cricket in radio studios. D) Amateur radio direction finding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Team cricket in radio studios. ← 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