This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1153 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1153 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Awarded since 1955, what is the name of the highest prize for competing films at the Cannes Film Festival? A) The Palme d'Or. B) Oscar Magnifique. C) The Carney. D) Plat de Cinématographie. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Palme d'Or. 2. In 1698 findings were published by the Royal Society, Britain, from the discovery near Llandeilo in Wales of fossils of what, the first recorded publication on the subject? A) Plesiosaurs. B) Nautiloids. C) Anomalocaris. D) Trilobites. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trilobites. 3. Which is a legal or statutory provision enacted in USA states between 1895 and 1910 to deny suffrage to African Americans but ensure suffrage to whites however poor and illiterate? A) Voting Rights. B) Prohibition of Mixed Marriages. C) Grandfather clause. D) Eight Box Law. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grandfather clause. 4. The term "Hispanic" means relating to what country? A) France. B) Spain. C) Germany. D) Norway. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spain. 5. What is a localised, blood-filled dilation of a blood vessel caused by disease or weakening of the vessel wall, which most commonly occurs in arteries at the base of the brain and in the aorta? A) Aneurism. B) Eczema. C) Allergy. D) Alopecia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aneurism. 6. How many pairs of strings are there on a mandoline? A) 5. B) 8. C) 3. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 5. 7. As what is Mikhail Baryshnikov internationally known? A) Chemical engineer. B) Poet. C) Aviator. D) Dancer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dancer. 8. Which novelist, born in Bombay in 1865, was awarded the Nobel prize for Literature in 1907? A) Evelyn Waugh. B) Charles Kingsley. C) Henry Longfellow. D) Rudyard Kipling. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rudyard Kipling. 9. What are Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium and Caesium? A) Metalloids. B) Halogens. C) Inert gases. D) Alkali metals. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alkali metals. 10. In November 2010, Genoveva Añonma and sisters Bilguissa Simporé and Salimata Simporé of which national women's soccer team were accused by newspapers in Nigeria and Cameroon of being men, not women? A) Ghana. B) Equatorial Guinea. C) Egypt. D) Democratic Republic of the Congo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Equatorial Guinea. 11. What was the title of Walt Disney's first full length animated feature, released in 1937? A) Steamboat Willie. B) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. C) Fantasia. D) The Lady And The Tramp. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. 12. Haughton impact crater, at latitude 75 degrees north one of the most northerly impact craters known, is located where? A) Novaya Zemlya, Russia. B) Hammerfest, Finland. C) Devon Island, Canada. D) Wrangel Island, Russia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Devon Island, Canada. 13. In Britain, what was the name given to the M4 Medium Tank that was produced by the US from World War II until the end of the Korean War? A) Sherman. B) Matilda. C) Stuart. D) Centurion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sherman. 14. Which Europeans have been proved to have reached North America before Christopher Columbus? A) Portuguese. B) Vikings. C) Phoenicians. D) Spanish. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vikings. 15. Who divorced her husband in 1978 after sixteen years of marriage, accusing him of years of severe spousal abuse and rampant drug addiction in her autobiography "I, Tina" (which was later adapted for the film "What's Love Got to Do with It"), and left semi-retirement in 2008 to embark on her "Tina!:50th Anniversary Tour" ? A) Tina Fey. B) Tina Turner. C) Tina Weymouth. D) Tina Pisnik. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tina Turner. 16. Which of these was never the name of a prison in the USA? A) Folsom. B) Brixton. C) San Quentin. D) Joliet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brixton. 17. The 1906 Treaty of Limits established the border between what country and a then-Dutch colony? A) USA. B) UK. C) France. D) Brazil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brazil. 18. In 2009 it was announced that the Summer Olympic Games 2016 would be held where? A) London, UK. B) Pyeongchang, South Korea. C) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. D) Sochi, Russia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 19. At the end of The War of 1812, the USA held Canadian territory near Detroit, and the British held parts of which Eastern state? A) New Hampshire. B) Maine. C) Vermont. D) New Jersey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Maine. 20. The TV series "Indian Summers", which premièred in 2015, deals with summers where? A) Simla, India, in the foothills of the Himalayas. B) On the banks of the Avon River, England. C) Jamaica. D) Singapore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simla, India, in the foothills of the Himalayas. ← 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