This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1143 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1143 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Hydrogen and oxygen and what other element make up the formula for salicylic acid? A) Nitrogen. B) Carbon. C) Sodium. D) Potassium. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carbon. 2. Who discovered, in 1895, that X Rays could be applied to medicine? A) Rontgen. B) Planck. C) Issigonis. D) Ballard. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rontgen. 3. Where in northern China does its second longest river, and the sixth longest river system in the world, rise? A) Nanling Mountains. B) The Altai Mountains. C) Bayan Har Mountains. D) The Hida Mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bayan Har Mountains. 4. Which of these is a wine from the USA? A) Texan lush. B) California blush. C) Virginian crush. D) New Mexican flush. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) California blush. 5. Who famously gatecrashed a state dinner for Indian President Manmohan Singh at the White House on 24 November 2009? A) David Letterman. B) Tareq and Michaele Salahi. C) Sarah Palin. D) Joan Collins. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tareq and Michaele Salahi. 6. Which French composer's works include the opera "Samson et Dalila" and the orchestral work "Carnaval des Animaux" ? A) Jules Massenet. B) Léo Delibes. C) Georges Bizet. D) Charles Camille Saint Saens. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Charles Camille Saint Saens. 7. What did the ringing of bells throughout the US's National Park Service areas on 19 August 2019 mark? A) The bi-centenary of the Service's founding. B) The 400th anniversary of the landing of Africans traded as slaves in English-occupied North America. C) The release of bison into the Parks again. D) Denmark rejected the suggestion that the US might purchase Greenland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The 400th anniversary of the landing of Africans traded as slaves in English-occupied North America. 8. What position represents the head of government in Germany? A) President. B) Chancellor. C) Prime Minister. D) Premier. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chancellor. 9. In what English city is the TV series "Endeavour" (first screened in 2013) set? A) London. B) Manchester. C) Oxford. D) Bristol. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxford. 10. Which film contained advice to the eponymous hero to "phone home", which then became the 15th best known quote in AFI list of top 100 quotes? A) Wall-E. B) Psycho. C) Little Women. D) E.T. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) E.T. 11. Who wrote "The Water Babies" ? A) George Frideric Handel. B) Frédéric Chopin. C) Beatrix Potter. D) Charles Kingsley. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Charles Kingsley. 12. What country hosted the inaugural World Cup tournament in 1930 organised by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), in which 13 nations took part:7 from South America, 4 from Europe and 2 from North America? A) Argentina. B) France. C) Canada. D) Uruguay. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Uruguay. 13. The White Horse Temple, established in Luoyang in 68 AD under the patronage of Emperor Ming in the Eastern Han capital Luoyang is, according to tradition, the first temple in China, of what religion? A) Christian. B) Islamic. C) Buddhist. D) Shinto. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Buddhist. 14. Which of these is an American basketball player? A) Michael Danube. B) Michael Seine. C) Michael Jordan. D) Michael Rubicon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Michael Jordan. 15. What federation of free cities who had developed trade with foreign countries, formed in the 14th century, had its headquarters in Lübeck? A) Huguenots. B) Cinque Ports. C) Hanseatic League. D) Benelux. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hanseatic League. 16. How many white stripes are there on the flag of the USA? A) 13. B) 6. C) 7. D) 52. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 6. 17. What is the second largest organ of the human body, located under the diaphragm on the right hand side? A) Liver. B) Heart. C) Spleen. D) Lung. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Liver. 18. Bigfoot, a supposedly large, hairy, bipedal humanoid which lives in forests in the Northwest of North America, is also known as what? A) Mono Grande. B) Chuchunaa. C) Sasquatch. D) Woodwose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sasquatch. 19. Which American television sitcom that ran for 7 years from 19 September 1970 spun-off three television series:Rhoda (1974-1978), Phyllis (1975-1977) and Lou Grant (1977-1982)? A) The Loretta Young Show. B) The Mary Tyler Moore Show. C) The Twilight Zone. D) Take Three Girls. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Mary Tyler Moore Show. 20. Carl Lewis won Olympic gold medals at 4 Olympic Games in 4 different events, including the 4x100m relay. He did not win gold for one of these sports. Which one? A) 100 m. B) High jump. C) 200m. D) Long jump. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) High jump. ← 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