This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 1125 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1125 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The creator of TV personality Alan Partridge and the TV comedian who is creator of the "small-man-in-a-box", toured together in a country of continental Europe in which UK TV series? A) Bored to Death (2009-2011):Stockholm Syndrome. B) Paris (2008). C) Roman Holiday (1953). D) The Trip to Italy (2014). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Trip to Italy (2014). 2. At the end of the 20th century Macau was returned to China by which country? A) Russia. B) Spain. C) The UK. D) Portugal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Portugal. 3. Which British economist who advocated interventionist government policy died on 21 April 1946? A) Milton Keynes. B) John Maynard Keynes. C) John Neville Keynes. D) Richard Darwin Keynes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Maynard Keynes. 4. What colour does blue litmus paper turn when in contact with acid? A) Black. B) Red. C) Green. D) Amber. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Red. 5. Who is the only person to receive 2 Oscars for the same role? A) Harold Russell. B) Clint Eastwood. C) Charlie Chaplin. D) Samuel Goldwyn. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Harold Russell. 6. What is the medical description of the loss of hair from the head or body, sometimes to the extent of baldness? A) Alopecia. B) Epilepsy. C) Diphtheria. D) Aneurism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alopecia. 7. The Sibe, or Xibu, people are some of the early and still present peoples of an area now known as what? A) Xinjiang, China. B) Lesotho. C) Hokkaido, Japan. D) Northwest Siberia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Xinjiang, China. 8. Which of these musical terms means the loudest? A) Mezzo forte. B) Mezzo piano. C) Forte. D) Piano. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Forte. 9. What is the maximum number of players allowed on the field during a game of Rugby Sevens? A) 20. B) 14. C) 30. D) 22. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 14. 10. In early 2008, Yang Yun, an artistic gymnast who won two bronze medals at the 2000 Olympics, admitted on Chinese state-run television what fact about herself that interested the international press? A) She had passed a drug test, though she had been taking stanozolol. B) She had been pregnant when she had competed. C) She was 14 when she had competed. D) Her father was the coach of the team from the Republic of China. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She was 14 when she had competed. 11. On 1 May 2010, where was a car bomb in a Nissan Pathfinder, which failed to ignite properly, disarmed with no casualties? A) Times Square, New York City. B) Leicester Square, London. C) Sunset Strip, Los Angeles. D) Champs-ΓlysΓ©es, Paris. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Times Square, New York City. 12. In 1997, who was appointed the first female US Secretary of State? A) Madeleine Albright. B) Condoleezza Rice. C) Hillary Clinton. D) Geraldine Ferraro. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Madeleine Albright. 13. In Greek mythology, Croesus was known for what? A) Wisdom. B) Fables. C) Adventuring. D) Wealth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wealth. 14. Which of these is NOT a "stem" ? A) A part connecting a bicycle's handlebars to its steering tube. B) Organisms more closely related to the crown group than to any other. C) Wine glass. D) The upright member mounted on the forward end of a vessel's keel, to which the strakes are attached. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wine glass. 15. Which animal, exclusively carnivorous, mostly nocturnal, with eyeballs each the same size as its brain, lives only on the islands of south east Asia? A) Aye-aye. B) Bushbaby. C) Potto. D) Tarsier. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tarsier. 16. Angela Grisanti Vecchio, Stanley Zbornak, Clayton Hollingsworth and Salvadore Petrillo are characters in what US television series? A) Echo Beach. B) Dallas. C) No Soap, Radio. D) Golden Girls. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Golden Girls. 17. Which revered world figure celebrated his 95th birthday, in hospital, in July 2013? A) The Dalai Lama. B) Nelson Mandela. C) Ban Ki Moon. D) Pope Francis I. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nelson Mandela. 18. Who became Roman emperor after the murder of Caligula, and, after the death of his wife, married his niece Agrippina, who poisoned him? A) Titus Andronicus. B) Nero. C) Augustus. D) Claudius. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Claudius. 19. What is a fixed time of prayer of the Divine Office of almost all the traditional Christian liturgies that consists mainly of psalms and is said at noon? A) Sext. B) Int. C) Thet. D) Ctit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sext. 20. Cobol, Basic and Fortran are types of what? A) Egyptian gods. B) Man made fibres. 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