This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1139 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1139 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is spoor? A) The track or scent which an animal leaves. B) Traces of insect work. C) A mirror. D) Fossilised bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The track or scent which an animal leaves. 2. What name did Pol Pot give to the ideology that he forced on the people of Democratic Kampuchea? A) Velvet Revolution. B) Cultural Revolution. C) The Third Reich. D) Year Zero. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Year Zero. 3. Which of these functions is centred in The Hague? A) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). B) United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). C) The International Court of Justice. D) International Labour Organization (ILO). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The International Court of Justice. 4. Which of these countries is closest to France? A) Zimbabwe. B) China. C) Denmark. D) Pakistan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Denmark. 5. Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger played what unlikely pair in a 1988 film? A) Mother and daughter. B) Sisters. C) Father and son. D) Twins. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Twins. 6. What have George Etheridge, William Wycherley, Thomas Shadwell, Thomas Otway Colby Ciber and William Congreve in common? A) They composed what is termed "early music". B) They discovered moons in the solar system. C) They formulated the modern atomic table. D) They wrote Restoration Comedies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They wrote Restoration Comedies. 7. In Michelangelo's painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, whose hand extends to the hand of Adam? A) Abraham. B) Moses. C) God. D) Noah. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) God. 8. Where is Tabasco Sauce produced? A) From Avery Island, Louisiana, USA. B) New Orleans. C) Mexico. D) Suriname. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) From Avery Island, Louisiana, USA. 9. Which US television series, first screened in 2009, stars the first person to win an Oscar portraying a character of the opposite sex? A) The Good Wife. B) Misfits. C) Castle. D) NCIS:Los Angeles. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) NCIS:Los Angeles. 10. In 1958, the Dodgers baseball team moved to Los Angeles from where? A) Brooklyn, New York. B) Cincinnati, Ohio. C) Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. D) Washington, DC. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brooklyn, New York. 11. The Dunnart, Bandicoot, Cuscus and Potoroo are native to which country? A) Canada. B) Brazil. C) South Africa. D) Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Australia. 12. Where digital computers deal in bits what do quantum computers involve? A) Bobs. B) Cubits. C) Cubbyholes. D) Qubits. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Qubits. 13. What is the title of a detective crime novel by Robert B. Parker, written as an authorised sequel to "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler? A) Perchance to Dream. B) Shuffled off this Mortal Coil. C) Nobler in the Mind. D) Outrageous Fortune. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Perchance to Dream. 14. Seoul is the capital of which country? A) Egypt. B) Japan. C) Thailand. D) South Korea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) South Korea. 15. Anthony Wilding, who won the Wimbledon men's singles from 1910 to 1913, was from what country? A) New Zealand. B) England. C) USA. D) Ireland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) New Zealand. 16. What is the golden ratio, divine proportion or golden mean in mathematical terms? A) Two:one. B) A ratio where two quantities have the same ratio as their sum is to the larger of the two. C) Pi:1. D) 4:3. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A ratio where two quantities have the same ratio as their sum is to the larger of the two. 17. Who said "I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back" ? A) Zsa Zsa Gabor. B) Ethel Merman. C) Elizabeth Taylor. D) Diana Dors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Zsa Zsa Gabor. 18. Who is the author of the 2009 political memoir "Going Rogue" ? A) Sarah Jessica Parker. B) Sarah Vaughan. C) Sarah Brightman. D) Sarah Palin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sarah Palin. 19. What British motor car manufacturer, founded in 1909 by H.F.S. Morgan and run by him until 1959 when his son Peter Morgan took over until 1999, is currently run by Peter's son, Charles Morgan? A) The Morgan Motor Company. B) Healey Motors. C) Jowett Motor Manufacturing Company. D) Proton Holdings. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Morgan Motor Company. 20. What was Melanie Brown's nickname when she was in the Spice Girls? A) Terrible. B) Awful. C) Scary. D) Horrible. 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