This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1156 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1156 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Alaric I was the King of which group who sacked Rome in 410AD? A) Huns. B) Ostrogoths. C) Visigoths. D) Vandals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Visigoths. 2. Which of these is a pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument commonly used in Middle Eastern music? A) Sackbut. B) Crumhorn. C) Shawm. D) Oud. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oud. 3. The rules for which sport were originally drawn up by the Knickerbocker Club in New York in 1843? A) American Football. B) Basketball. C) Ice hockey. D) Baseball. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Baseball. 4. What was the purpose of the English "Navigation Act" of 1651? A) To build a canal network throughout England and Wales. B) To effectively close the English Channel / La Manche to all but English ships. C) To prevent import of goods except in English ships, or in ships of the country of origin. D) To ensure that English naval captains were properly qualified. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To prevent import of goods except in English ships, or in ships of the country of origin. 5. "Chicken Little", Disney's first fully computer-animated feature film, centres on a young rooster who cries wolf, is shunned by his community, and makes friends who include an ugly duckling, a cowardly pig and who else? A) Tom Thumb. B) A lamb in wolf's clothing. C) A little mermaid. D) A fish who wears a helmet full of tap water. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A fish who wears a helmet full of tap water. 6. Tegucigalpa and Comayagüela together form the seat of government and the national capital of which country? A) Republic of El Salvador. B) Republic of Guatemala. C) Republic of Honduras. D) Republic of Colombia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Republic of Honduras. 7. Who composed the 1768 one act comic opera "Bastien und Bastienne" ? A) Ludwig van Beethoven. B) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. C) Joseph Haydn. D) Richard Wagner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 8. Who became a member of The Beach Boys in December 1964, substituting on stage for Brian Wilson by playing bass guitar and singing falsetto harmonies and playing guitar on the "Pet Sounds" album, until April 1965 when he concentrated on his solo career? A) Stephen Stills. B) Glen Campbell. C) Neil Young. D) Bruce Johnston. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Glen Campbell. 9. Canadian Crystal Pite, CM, who leads a company called Kidd Pivot, works in what field? A) Helping young offenders to recover after prison. B) Supporting young people with cancer. C) Dance. D) Performance poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dance. 10. Which author, born in Boston Massachusetts, wrote "Nature", "Representative Men" and "English Treats" ? A) Ralph Vaughan Williams. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. D) Ernest Hemingway. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 11. Who is Yusuf Islam? A) A cricketer who captained the Pakistan team from 1982 to 1992. B) An entertainer who had his first hit record in 1966. C) The head of the Hizbollah government. D) The first person to die in prison at Guantanamo Bay. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An entertainer who had his first hit record in 1966. 12. A book by Ernest Hemingway is "The Snows of ..... '' where? A) Everest. B) Kilimanjaro. C) Fujiyama. D) Mont Blanc. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kilimanjaro. 13. What fishing method involves pulling a large fishing net through the water behind one or more boats? A) Casting. B) Trolling. C) Trawling. D) Dragging. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trawling. 14. Which is a satellite system, used mainly for monitoring crops, vegetation and forest, land cover change, inland waters, glaciers and others, and for observation of coastal areas (marine environmental monitoring, and mapping sampling from coastal areas)? A) MODIS. B) LANDSAT. C) Sentinel-2. D) SPOT. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sentinel-2. 15. Linus Torvalds is known for originating what in 1991? A) The Klingon language. B) Very small pianos. C) Linux computer operating system. D) International X Games. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Linux computer operating system. 16. In a popular children's story, what is the name of the young tugboat that saves an ocean liner? A) Prince Charming. B) Flick. C) Winnie the Pooh. D) Little Toot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Little Toot. 17. Who played "Sandy" in the 1975 film "Grease" ? A) John Travolta. B) Olivia Newton-John. C) Kate Bush. D) Robbie Williams. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Olivia Newton-John. 18. A non-violent resistance group formed in 1942 in Nazi Germany by students and academics at the University of Munich was known as what? A) White Rose. B) The Carnations. C) White Star. D) The Daisies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) White Rose. 19. Michael Flatley, flautist and choreographer and internationally well-known for his Irish dancing, was born and grew up where? A) Manchester, England. B) Dublin, Ireland. C) Chicago, Illinois, USA. D) Edinburgh, Scotland. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chicago, Illinois, USA. 20. Where is there a 2 metre high statue of Popeye, which was unveiled during the annual Spinach Festival in 1937? A) Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. B) Phoenix, Arizona, USA. C) Crystal City, Texas, USA. D) Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. 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