This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 116 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 116 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which town in Lincolnshire, UK, is the birthplace of Margaret Thatcher, and has connections with Isaac Newton, Nicholas Parsons and Richard Todd? A) Grantham. B) Grimsby. C) Mablethorpe. D) Scunthorpe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grantham. 2. What colour is lapis lazuli? A) Clear. B) Green. C) Brown. D) Blue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blue. 3. In what board game do players compete to acquire wealth through buying, renting, and trading properties, with the object of bankrupting the other players? A) Trivial Pursuit. B) Monopoly. C) Scrabble. D) Cluedo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monopoly. 4. A NICAD battery has a nickel anode and a cathode made of what? A) Cadmium. B) Calcium oxide. C) Carbon dioxide. D) Calcium carbonate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cadmium. 5. Sweyn Forkbeard rebelled against his father, who was killed in 985 or 986 in the battles with his son, and took over rule of what kingdom? A) Finland. B) Denmark. C) Germany. D) England. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denmark. 6. What reason did the Republic of Maldives give for withdrawing from the Commonwealth of Nations in 2016? A) It has other alliances, inconsistent with the Commonwealth, which it values more. B) Protest at international criticism of its record on corruption and human rights. C) Protest at the re-inclusion of the Republic of Fiji into the Commonwealth in 2014. D) It wanted to align with fundamentalist and anti-West policies. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Protest at international criticism of its record on corruption and human rights. 7. By what name is Italian sculptor and painter Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi better known? A) Tintoretto. B) Donatello. C) Vaporetto. D) Michelangelo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Donatello. 8. A matrix can also be described as a what? A) Gigabyte. B) Graph. C) Grid. D) Gradient. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grid. 9. Which American singer-songwriter's debut album won Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best New Artist and Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) at the 1981 Grammy Awards, and who also received an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his work with film music? A) John Mayer. B) Christopher Cross. C) John Lennon. D) Sheena Easton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Christopher Cross. 10. What is the name of the architectural style which marks some ancient and mediaeval structures, one notable one being the columns of the Parthenon? A) Chryselephantine. B) Entasis. C) Trabeation. D) Tholoi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Entasis. 11. Which of these cars hasn't changed its basic shape and concept throughout its evolution and has been made continuously from 1963 into the 21st century? A) Volkswagen Beetle. B) The Mini. C) Porsche 911. D) CitroΓ«n DS. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Porsche 911. 12. Which cartoonist, whose caricatures of public figures were published in "Private Eye" in the 1960s and 1970s, worked for Pink Floyd on "The Wall" album (1979) and movie (1982)? A) Gerald Scarfe. B) Christopher Wood. C) Andy Warhol. D) Albert Uderzo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gerald Scarfe. 13. Mexican, bow and shock can be all be types of what? A) Cuisine. B) Beauty treatment. C) Wave. D) Ammunition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wave. 14. Born in Australia in 1898, Walter Lindrum was one of the greatest practitioners of what sport? A) Billiards. B) Table tennis. C) Darts. D) Bowls. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Billiards. 15. Professional sidekick Dick Grayson is better known as who? A) Hutch. B) Dr Watson. C) Robin. D) Dano. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Robin. 16. Which adapted international athletic competition started to become particularly popular in the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic? A) Running, or rowing. B) Kite sailing. C) Field archery. D) Elephant polo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Running, or rowing. 17. Which of these words is NOT a contraction? A) Gonna. B) Shan't. C) List'ning. D) Sitcom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) List'ning. 18. Where is a lammergeier most likely to be found? A) On an operating table. B) In the garage. C) In mountains. D) On the catwalk. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In mountains. 19. Where in the human body is a meniscus found? A) At the elbow. B) At the base of a fingernail. C) In the roof of the mouth. D) Between two parts of a joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Between two parts of a joint. 20. Scarpia is a character in which opera? A) Tosca. B) La BohΓ¨me. C) Don Giovanni. D) Hamilton. 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