This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1135 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1135 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which film which stars John Hurt, Richard Burton (in his last film role) and Suzanna Hamilton is based on a book by George Orwell? A) The Midwich Cuckoos. B) 2001:a Space Odyssey. C) 1984. D) 1812. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1984. 2. Riot Games hosts an annual esports World Championship for players of what? A) Mobile Legends:Bang Bang. B) League of Legends. C) Chess. D) Robot fights. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) League of Legends. 3. What is the next in this series:Liesl, Friedrich, Louisa, Kurt, Brigitta, Marta, and ..... ? A) Maria. B) Hans. C) Gretl. D) Franz. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gretl. 4. What discipline was sportsman Peyton Manning, who retired in 2016, best known for? A) Swimming. B) Baseball. C) NFL (American football). D) Lacrosse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) NFL (American football). 5. What is a guppy? A) Mast on a yacht. B) Golf club. C) Fish. D) First year student. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fish. 6. In Norse myths who or what is Baldur? A) The serpent twined round the tree of life. B) A god, loved by many. C) A hero. D) A hammer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A god, loved by many. 7. Which Scottish poet and novelist is famous for the poem "The Lady Of The Lake", and the novels "Heart of Midlothian", "Ivanhoe" and the "Waverley" novels? A) Charles Kingsley. B) Robert Burns. C) Robert Louis Stevenson. D) Sir Walter Scott. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sir Walter Scott. 8. What does the "R" stand for in the "RLIF" World Rankings? A) Rugby. B) Racing. C) Ringette. D) Real. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rugby. 9. Whose novel "Wives and Daughters", about Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a doctor in a provincial English town in the 1830s, was completed by Frederick Greenwood when the author died suddenly in 1865? A) Elizabeth Barrett Browning. B) Barbara Cartland. C) Elizabeth Gaskell. D) Frances Hodgson Burnett. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elizabeth Gaskell. 10. Founded in London in 1766, what activity are "Christie, Manson and Woods" involved in? A) Toy making. B) Furniture manufacture. C) Woollen mills. D) Auctioneering. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Auctioneering. 11. Who wrote "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" ? A) Lawrence of Arabia. B) Mohandas Gandhi. C) Plato. D) Winston Churchill. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lawrence of Arabia. 12. Which of these is usually worn on the shoulders? A) Tennis shoes. B) Epaulettes. C) Argyle socks. D) Negligee. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epaulettes. 13. Who wrote "It Takes a Village:And Other Lessons Children Teach Us", a book published in 1996 that focuses on the impact individuals and groups outside the family have on a child's well-being? A) Michael Jackson. B) Dr. Benjamin Spock. C) Dr. Margaret Mead. D) Hillary Rodham Clinton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hillary Rodham Clinton. 14. How many degrees are in the internal angles of a regular hexagon? A) 180. B) 90. C) 120. D) 135. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 120. 15. The phrase "Mountain Standard Time" refers to what mountains? A) Andes. B) Urals. C) Appalachians. D) Rockies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rockies. 16. Slogans such as "The Truth Is Out There", "Trust No One" and "I Want to Believe" that became part of pop culture in the 1990s were from which TV series? A) The X-Files. B) Stargate SG-1. C) Friends. D) Tales of the Unexpected. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The X-Files. 17. According to John Aubrey in "Brief Lives", Sir Francis Bacon's death was caused after he contracted a fatal case of pneumonia after an experiment to do what? A) Find a foolproof way to keep a hat on. B) Ski downhill. C) Use snow to preserve meat. D) Make a waterproof material from latex. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Use snow to preserve meat. 18. Which of these is a position in netball? A) Goal Attack. B) Silly mid-on. C) Striker. D) Lock. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Goal Attack. 19. What bodily process breaks food down into nutrients? A) Genuflection. B) Respiration. C) Digestion. D) Desperation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Digestion. 20. History can be called what? A) Anything which is not the present or future. B) The body of knowledge about past events, their reasons and effects. C) The body of knowledge about anything which somebody remembers. D) Things which happened in the distant past. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The body of knowledge about past events, their reasons and effects. ← 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