This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1130 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1130 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which English civil engineer's most famous project was the construction of Tower Bridge over the River Thames in London? A) Sir Christopher Wren. B) Sir John Wolfe-Barry. C) Isambard Kingdom Brunel. D) Thomas Telford. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sir John Wolfe-Barry. 2. Which country would you go to in order to find the main headwaters of the Amazon River? A) Mexico. B) Peru. C) USA. D) Uruguay. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peru. 3. Which of these countries has the largest land area? A) Fiji. B) United Kingdom. C) Tonga. D) New Zealand. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) New Zealand. 4. Christian Bale was born in what country? A) Canada. B) USA. C) England. D) Wales. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wales. 5. Which of these lies between the Andes and the Chilean Coast Range? A) The Altiplano. B) Lake Titicaca. C) Atacama Desert. D) Arizaro Salt flat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Atacama Desert. 6. Which of these flags does not have stars on it? A) New Zealand. B) Australia. C) Greece. D) USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Greece. 7. Which film, directed by David Lean and starring John Mills, opens with an escaped convict grabbing hold of a boy in a graveyard? A) Brief Encounter. B) The Blair Witch Project. C) Dances With Wolves. D) Great Expectations. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Great Expectations. 8. Which of these is a bone in the wrist? A) Trapezium. B) Patella. C) Clavicle. D) Sternum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trapezium. 9. Which of these was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, and author of the largest-selling economics textbook of all time: "Economics:An Introductory Analysis", first published in 1948, that explained the principles of Keynesian economics? A) Milton Friedman. B) Sam Paulson. C) Milton Keynes. D) Paul Samuelson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paul Samuelson. 10. The 1966 anthology of caricatures "World of Hirschfeld" includes a drawing called "Nina's Revenge" which contains what? A) A concealed portrait of Mao Tze Tung. B) A concealed spacecraft. C) The concealed words "AL" and "DOLLY". D) A concealed portrait of Indira Gandhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The concealed words "AL" and "DOLLY". 11. What was the "job" referred to in the UK TV series "No Job For a Lady" (1990-92 ), in which Dame Penelope Keith starred with Mark Kingston and Nigel Humphreys? A) Member of Parliament. B) Chess championship organiser. C) Manager of a sewage works. D) Astronaut. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Member of Parliament. 12. Where would a tympanum, anvil and hammer be found together? A) Rock and roll band instruments. B) The percussion section of a classical orchestra. C) In a human ear. D) In a blacksmith's forge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In a human ear. 13. Mary Quant became famous in the 1960s for designing what? A) Computer systems. B) Buildings. C) Clothes. D) Theatre sets. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Clothes. 14. What is unusual about the flag of Nepal? A) It is not quadrilateral in shape. B) It has only one colour. C) It uses over 16 colours. D) It is the same as the flag of Japan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is not quadrilateral in shape. 15. Hunchun in China has what trading advantage? A) A network of high speed rail links. B) A particularly deep sea port. C) An ample supply of hydro power. D) It is on the borders of both North Korea and Russia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It is on the borders of both North Korea and Russia. 16. Celadon is a shade of what colour? A) Yellow. B) Blue. C) Red. D) Green. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Green. 17. In what year did a woman first qualify and race in the Indianapolis 500? A) 1999. B) 1982. C) 1965. D) 1977. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1977. 18. Where does the mite that causes demodicosis lodge in the mammal it affects? A) In the hair follicles. B) Under the skin. C) In the ear. D) Under the nails. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In the hair follicles. 19. In the Bible, who was the apostle chosen by the remaining 11 to replace Judas Iscariot following his betrayal of Jesus and suicide? A) Andrew. B) Sebastian. C) Christopher. D) Matthias. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Matthias. 20. The peacock belongs to which family of birds? A) Pigeon. B) Penguin. C) Parrot. D) Pheasant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pheasant. ← 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