This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1140 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1140 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Alongside the red cross and the red crescent symbols which identify relief societies for wounded soldiers, what further symbol was formally adopted in 2005? A) Red Crystal. B) Red Rocket. C) Red Gull (flying). D) Red Wheel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Red Crystal. 2. When Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won the 1983 World Figure Skating Championship with the world's first perfect scores and the routine "Barnum", who was a third member of their team? A) Brian Blessed. B) Jim Dale. C) Michael Crawford. D) Andrew Lloyd Webber. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Michael Crawford. 3. What is the cube root of 64? A) 4. B) 3. C) 5. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4. 4. What was the surname of 20th century authors Victoria and Edward, who were brother and sister? A) Sackville-West. B) Woolf. C) Bronte. D) Amis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sackville-West. 5. Which of these is the name for a group of magpies? A) Talent. B) Thatch. C) Tidings. D) Terror. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tidings. 6. When was the repeal of the US federal law called the "Chinese Exclusion Act" (1882) which banned Chinese immigration? A) 1943. B) 1890. C) 1901. D) 1925. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1943. 7. What does the "e" stand for in Einstein's famous equation? A) Exodus. B) Edible mushrooms. C) Elections. D) Energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Energy. 8. The national flag of which of these countries has a lion on it? A) Fiji. B) Ethiopia. C) Egypt. D) Ghana. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fiji. 9. Which war ended as a result of peace negotiations at Panmunjom, completed on 27 July 1953? A) Korean War. B) Singapore Crisis. C) Crimean War. D) Russo-Japanese War. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Korean War. 10. According to the legend, Peeping Tom was looking at whom? A) Princess Diana. B) Queen Victoria. C) Lady Godiva. D) Queen Guinevere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lady Godiva. 11. Plato and Xenophon are the most famous pupils of which Greek philosopher? A) Euclid. B) Xenophon. C) Socrates. D) Pythagoras. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Socrates. 12. What is a form, sett, drey or nide? A) A kind of artist's brush. B) A building tool. C) A nest. D) An animal track. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A nest. 13. In what year did Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reach the South Pole, the first known to do so? A) 1859. B) 1911. C) 1922. D) 1762. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1911. 14. What does "bona fides" mean? A) Good dogs. B) Good faith. C) Something dogs chew on. D) Human bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Good faith. 15. Hawaii is in which ocean? A) Atlantic. B) Pacific. C) Arctic. D) Indian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pacific. 16. Which country, the capital of which is Monrovia, was founded by the American Colonisation Society in 1820 as a home for freed slaves? A) Nigeria. B) Ghana. C) Liberia. D) Kampuchea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Liberia. 17. Whose wife, Elin, gave birth to his son, Charlie, early in 2009? A) Samuel L Jackson. B) Lewis Hamilton. C) Brad Pitt. D) Tiger Woods. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tiger Woods. 18. In which state or states of Australia would you find the Nullarbor Plain? A) South Australia and Western Australia. B) Northern Territory. C) Queensland. D) Tasmania. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) South Australia and Western Australia. 19. What name was given to a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005? A) The War of the Roses. B) The Velvet Revolution. C) The Southall Riots. D) The Orange Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Orange Revolution. 20. Jean Louis is associated with what activity? A) Architecture. B) Cooking. C) Wine making. D) Costume design. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Costume design. ← 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