This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1159 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1159 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Nankey Poo, Poo Bah and Pish Tush are characters in which show? A) Miss Saigon. B) Madam Butterfly. C) The Mikado. D) The King and I. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Mikado. 2. What do the areas of Uberwald, Llamedos, and Ankh Morpork share? A) Extensive mining systems. B) Desert. C) Tropical rainforest. D) Alpine glaciers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extensive mining systems. 3. From the 1850s up to WW I, passport requirements effectively disappeared in the UK and Europe. What is understood to have led to this? A) Use of an alternate system based on the developing science of fingerprint ID. B) Increasing moves towards Entente Cordiale. C) Increasing affluence from industry led to a more mobile middle class which demanded ease of movement. D) Rapid expansion of railway travel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rapid expansion of railway travel. 4. What role did Laurence Olivier play in the 1960 film "Spartacus" ? A) Crassus. B) Spartacus. C) Vercingetorix. D) Attila the Hun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Crassus. 5. In 1911 the Australian Army's officer training establishment, the Royal Military College, was established where? A) Jervis Bay. B) Gordonstoun. C) Portsea. D) Duntroon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Duntroon. 6. Where do the warm Agulhas and the cold Benguela ocean currents contact one another? A) Near and west of the southern tip of Africa. B) West of the Galapagos Islands. C) South of New Zealand. D) Between Tierra del Fuego and the mainland of South America. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Near and west of the southern tip of Africa. 7. What word best describes a triangle where one angle is greater than 90 degrees? A) Oblique. B) Obtuse. C) Equilateral. D) Acute. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Obtuse. 8. Who was the English prison reformer from 1817 to 1840 whose husband was a big name in the cocoa business? A) Jane Hudson. B) Elizabeth Fry. C) Mary Cadbury. D) Kitty Bournevita. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elizabeth Fry. 9. Players form scrums in which sport? A) Tennis. B) Rugby (either Union or League). C) Golf. D) Discus throwing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rugby (either Union or League). 10. Who lived in the Lateran Palace from the fourth to the fourteenth centuries? A) Bavarian Kings. B) Roman emperors. C) Popes. D) Prisoners. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Popes. 11. For blind runners competing in Paralympic races, how is their guide linked with them? A) Augmented hearing aid worn by the runner on the side where the guide is running. B) No physical attachment, they speak with one another. C) Shorts worn by the runner are sensitive to position of the guide. D) With a tether, or a band, attached to both at the hand or on the arm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) With a tether, or a band, attached to both at the hand or on the arm. 12. The song "Love To Love You Baby" was banned by the BBC in 1975. Who was the artist? A) Diana Ross. B) Cilla Black. C) Dusty Springfield. D) Donna Summer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Donna Summer. 13. Which story serves as a background to the musical "Wicked" ? A) The Witches. B) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. C) The Snow Queen. D) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. 14. What is bathophobia? A) Fear of depths. B) Fear of swimming. C) Fear of bats. D) Fear of bath time. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fear of depths. 15. The melody of the song "Happy Birthday to You" dates from when? A) 1893. B) 1920. C) Not known (traditional). D) 1793. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1893. 16. In 1972, when Ceylon became a republic within the Commonwealth, the name was changed to Sri Lanka. What does "Sri Lanka" mean in Sanskrit? A) Water all around. B) Little country. C) Sacred island. D) South of India. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sacred island. 17. Where in New York city are the Zoo, the largest metropolitan zoo in the United States and among the largest in the world, and the New York Botanical Garden? A) Riverside Park. B) Central Park. C) Bronx Park. D) Pelham Bay Park. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bronx Park. 18. What genre best describes the 1967-72 UK TV series Callan? A) Romcom. B) Spy. C) Medical drama. D) Documentary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spy. 19. Who had a number 1 hit in 1990 with "Opposites Attract" ? A) Whitney Houston. B) Madonna. C) Alannah Myles. D) Paula Abdul. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paula Abdul. 20. Who nailed a paper with 95 theses as a basis for debate with Friar John Tetzel to a church door at Wittenberg on 31 October 1517? A) John Wesley. B) John Paul Sartre. C) Martin Luther. D) Joseph Goebbels. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Martin Luther. ← 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