This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1144 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1144 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Wimbledon tennis tournament is held at which tennis club in London? A) The All England Club. B) The Oval. C) Henley Tennis Club. D) Hyde Park Rangers Club. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The All England Club. 2. What is porcini? A) Make of car. B) Piglet. C) Music. D) Mushroom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mushroom. 3. Comhdháil na Múinteoirí le Rincí Gaelacha, An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha, and WIDA independently run three of six annual world championships in what discipline? A) Irish dance. B) Gaelic football. C) Ploughing. D) Hot air balloon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irish dance. 4. Someone who is litigious does what? A) Takes legal action as a regular way of settling disputes. B) Trains as a lawyer. C) Teaches law. D) Quotes in Latin from laws. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Takes legal action as a regular way of settling disputes. 5. US basketballer LeBron James caused headlines in 2010 and 2014 by first leaving and then returning to what team? A) San Antonio Spurs. B) Miami Heat. C) Oklahoma City Thunder. D) Cleveland Cavaliers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cleveland Cavaliers. 6. What is embouchure? A) A plant used to feed cattle and other livestock in winter. B) Combined action of the lips, tongue, and teeth in playing a wind instrument. C) A series of moves used in ballet choreography. D) A type of quiche made mainly with grated cheese, tomato and ham. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Combined action of the lips, tongue, and teeth in playing a wind instrument. 7. When was astronomy accepted by the Nobel Prize Committee as part of the discipline of physics, thereby making astronomers eligible for a Nobel Prize? A) 1967, to accommodate a prize for Hans Bethe. B) Shortly after astronomer Edwin Hubble's death in September 1953. C) 1919, in recognition of Albert Einstein's multi-disciplinary achievements. D) 1970, with the prize for Hannes Alfvén. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shortly after astronomer Edwin Hubble's death in September 1953. 8. Charlotte was the queen of which British king? A) Edward VIII. B) William IV. C) Charles I. D) George III. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) George III. 9. In August 1830, the audience were so stirred by a performance of Auber's "La Muette de Portici" at their capital's opera house, that it led to what successful fight for independence? A) The Belgian Revolution. B) The French Revolution. C) The American Revolution. D) The Russian Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Belgian Revolution. 10. Dick Francis wrote novels based in what environment? A) Spies working in enemy territory. B) Formula One racing. C) Gambling casinos. D) Horse racing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Horse racing. 11. Alongside management of fish stocks what is a main reason for the Kingdom of Oman to restrict commercial fishing off its coasts? A) To protect local traditional fishermen. B) To keep commercial fishing vessels away from its main tourist spots. C) Pressure from the USA. D) To protect whale and dolphin numbers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To protect whale and dolphin numbers. 12. Which of these Islamic organisations or associations is based in Lebanon? A) Hezbollah. B) Hamas. C) Alawites. D) Al-Nusra. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hezbollah. 13. What is the name of the Temple built to Pallas Athene around 480 BC, from which marble friezes and statues were removed by Lord Elgin in 1812? A) Parthenon. B) Sphinx. C) Taj Mahal. D) Hippodrome. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parthenon. 14. Who wrote the 1955 novel "The Quiet American" ? A) Graham Greene. B) W Somerset Maugham. C) Neville Shute. D) John LeCarré. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Graham Greene. 15. To which of these meanings would it not be appropriate to apply the word "leave" ? A) If. B) Permission. C) Raise. D) Apart from. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Raise. 16. Which of the Great Lakes is the furthest east? A) Erie. B) Ontario. C) Michigan. D) Huron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ontario. 17. How many lungs should a human have? A) 4. B) 1. C) 2. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2. 18. The poem "Last Letter" was found and published twelve years after the death of the poet and 49 years after the events of the poem. Who was it written about? A) Hunter S Thompson. B) Percy Bysshe Shelley. C) Sylvia Plath. D) Virginia Woolf. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sylvia Plath. 19. Who were the parents of 5 girls and a boy, born between 1932 and 1940, who were killed by their mother in Berlin on 1 May 1945, before both parents committed suicide? A) Joseph & Magda Goebbels. B) Adolph and Eva Hitler. C) Nicholas and Alexandra Romanov. D) Benito and Donna Mussolini. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Joseph & Magda Goebbels. 20. The world's first passenger railway operated between which two stations? A) Stockton & Darlington. B) Settle & Carlisle. C) Paddington & Bristol. D) London & York. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stockton & Darlington. ← 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