This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 113 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 113 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Its name means "Mother of the Gods" in the indigenous language of the area, it is home to the National Institute of Amazonian Research, it was a host city of the 2014 World Cup, as well as subsections of the 2016 Summer Olympics. Which city is it? A) Brasilia. B) Manaus. C) GoiΓ’nia. D) Rio de Janeiro. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Manaus. 2. What is the name given to a distinguishing device stamped into the substance of a sheet of paper when it is wet? A) Watermark. B) Embossing. C) Etching. D) Threading. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Watermark. 3. Making a U-turn results in a change of direction of how many degrees? A) 180. B) 360. C) 90. D) 270. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 180. 4. What are the two holes called which are cut into the body of a violin, viola, cello, and double bass? A) S-cuts. B) C-bouts. C) F-holes. D) Loop holes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) F-holes. 5. Which of these is a Mexican painter, many of whose works are self-portraits, who used vibrant colours in a style influenced by indigenous cultures of Mexico with European influences including Realism, Symbolism and Surrealism? A) Diego Rivera. B) Frida Kahlo. C) Sancho Panza. D) Che Guevara. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Frida Kahlo. 6. When did St Francis of Assisi found the Order of the Friars Minor? A) 1306. B) 1206. C) 1106. D) 1006. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1206. 7. What film, sub-titled "The Story of Christy Brown", is a 1989 drama directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker, Fiona Shaw, Julie Hale, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan, Declan Croghan, Eanna MacLiam, Marie Conmee and Cyril Cusack, that tells the true story of an Irishman born with cerebral palsy? A) Your Right Hand. B) My Left Foot. C) His Left Nostril. D) Her Right Ear. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) My Left Foot. 8. What is an essential ingredient in the dessert known as a Chantilly Basket? A) Spun sugar. B) Cream. C) Meringue. D) Glazed fruit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cream. 9. Which of these structures is the most recent? A) Salisbury Cathedral, England. B) Chartres Cathedral, France. C) Taj Mahal, India. D) Westminster Abbey, England. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Taj Mahal, India. 10. Who is most likely to edit the problem page in a magazine or newspaper? A) Monstrous Mother. B) Unpleasant Uncle. C) Agony Aunt. D) Fearsome Father. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Agony Aunt. 11. What does Fermat's Last Theorem relate to? A) Pathology. B) Trigonometry. C) Sociology. D) Number Theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Number Theory. 12. What concept was described and highlighted in a 1983 book edited by European-British historian Eric Hobsbawm and British Africanist Terence Ranger? A) Pizza effect. B) Invented tradition. C) Imagined community. D) Folklorismus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Invented tradition. 13. The embroidered linen mural, the Bayeux Tapestry, tells one side of what military story? A) The Norman Conquest of England in 1066. B) The Trojan War. C) The Battle of Agincourt. D) The sack of Carthage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Norman Conquest of England in 1066. 14. Tinikling is a popular Philippine what? A) Body decoration. B) Variety of rice. C) Music. D) Folk dance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Folk dance. 15. For what was the first " ..... For Dummies" book, released in 1991, intended to provide beginner-friendly instruction? A) C++. B) Windows. C) Basic. D) DOS. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) DOS. 16. Which outdoor game played by 2 to 4 persons with balls and mallets was introduced to England from France in the 1850s? A) Polo. B) Boules. C) Rounders. D) Croquet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Croquet. 17. What is the colloquial name for the trefoil plant? A) Shamrock. B) Gladioli. C) Orchid. D) Cabbage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shamrock. 18. Who plays the role of Hagrid in the Harry Potter series of films? A) Maggie Smith. B) Brian Blessed. C) Robbie Coltrane. D) Ian McKellen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Robbie Coltrane. 19. Complete the title of this James Bond film: "From Russia With ..... '' A) Love. B) Cocaine. C) A Lada. D) Chicken pox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Love. 20. What is the greatest distance between the capitals of two sovereign countries that share a border? A) Beijing, People's Republic of China and Hanoi, Vietnam. B) Paris, France, and Madrid, Spain. C) Pyongyang, North Korea and Moscow, Russia. D) Buenos Aires, Argentina and BrasΓlia, Brazil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pyongyang, North Korea and Moscow, Russia. β PreviousNext βRelated 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 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books