This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 1177 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1177 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the setting for George Orwell's book "Animal Farm" ? A) Manor Farm. B) Barchester Towers. C) Grange Hill. D) Home Farm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Manor Farm. 2. In which 1988 film does a weapons expert eat a jewel thief's favourite pet to force him to tell him where the jewels are? A) A Fish Called Wanda. B) Who Framed Roger Rabbit. C) Midnight Run. D) Grave of the Fireflies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A Fish Called Wanda. 3. In the 1960s Raymond Davis Jr. set up a deep underground laboratory. Under what was the laboratory built? A) The Mammoth Site near Hot Springs, South Dakota, USA. B) Henderson Mine near Empire, Colorado, USA. C) The Black Hills, South Dakota, USA. D) Homestake gold mine, South Dakota, USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Homestake gold mine, South Dakota, USA. 4. What is equivalent to 4 quavers? A) Breve. B) Minim. C) Quaver. D) Crotchet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Minim. 5. For the type of bet called a "Trifecta", how many horses are picked? A) 4. B) 3. C) 5. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3. 6. Who was the British engineer who designed and in 1926 publicly demonstrated the first television system suitable for broadcast transmission? A) John Logie Baird. B) John Yogi Bear. C) London Weekend. D) B.B. King. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Logie Baird. 7. What was the expressed purpose of the law Russia enacted in 2013, which caused concern in relation to the 2014 Winter Olympic Games at Sochi? A) Forbidding the sale of souvenirs at the Games. B) Criminalising any protest at or before the Games by Circassian organisations. C) Providing amnesty for any officials accused of corruption in relation to the Games. D) "Protecting Children from Information Advocating for a Denial of Traditional Family Values". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "Protecting Children from Information Advocating for a Denial of Traditional Family Values". 8. Which of these is the eastern part of a non-collegiate Christian church, sometimes known as the choir, usually separated from the nave by a screen or railing? A) Ingle nook. B) Vestry. C) Appice. D) Chancel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chancel. 9. British actor and award-winning playwright Lolita Chakrabarti OBE-as well as writing the lauded play version of the 2020 film "The Life of Pi" among her many other works-is married to which decorated and award-winning actor, writer and director? A) Ewan McGregor, OBE. B) Jim Carter, OBE. C) Adrian Lester, CBE. D) Benedict Cumberbatch, CBE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adrian Lester, CBE. 10. Which sport, that involves running through an obstacle track 253.5 metres long, has major competitions held in SonkajΓ€rvi (Finland) and in the USA in Monona and Minocqua (both in Wisconsin) and Marquette (Michigan)? A) High jump. B) Wife carrying. C) Nordic skiing. D) Luge. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wife carrying. 11. Which of these means "that is" ? A) I.e. B) E.g. C) N.b. D) A.d. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I.e. 12. Which city or cites have hosted both a Winter Olympic Games and a Winter Youth Olympic Games? A) Lillehammer, Norway, and Innsbruck, Austria. B) Beijing, China. C) Los Angeles, USA. D) Lausanne, Switzerland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lillehammer, Norway, and Innsbruck, Austria. 13. Who shot the most famous film of the assassination of John F Kennedy? A) Phil Abraham. B) Larry Boelens. C) D. W. Griffith. D) Abraham Zapruder. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Abraham Zapruder. 14. Where were the first Winter Youth Olympic Games held? A) Lillehammer, Norway. B) Singapore. C) Innsbruck, Austria. D) Nanjing, People's Republic of China. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Innsbruck, Austria. 15. In Olympic archery, the outer 2 circles on the target (called 1 ring and 2 ring) are what colour? A) White. B) Green. C) Red. D) Black. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) White. 16. What does the informal and dangerous sport of tombstoning involve? A) Falling from height into water, usually without deliberately moving i.e. as a stone would. B) Diving feet first from a cliff. C) Diving to end in a belly-flop. D) Diving bound to a partner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Falling from height into water, usually without deliberately moving i.e. as a stone would. 17. What is the formation of vapour bubbles of a flowing liquid in a region where its pressure falls below its vapour pressure? A) White out. B) Hydraulic collapse. C) Supersaturated vaporisation. D) Cavitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cavitation. 18. Which state of the USA, initially called New Connecticut, declared independence in 1777, issued its own coinage 1785-1788, exchanged ambassadors with France, the Netherlands and the USA, and in 1791 joined the US Federal union as the 14th state? A) California. B) Vermont. C) Pennsylvania. D) Tennessee. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vermont. 19. Which bridge across the Thames is closest to the Houses of Parliament in London? A) Westminster Bridge. B) Tower Bridge. C) Vauxhall Bridge. D) Lambeth Bridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Westminster Bridge. 20. Where did the Bataan Death March, which started in April 1942, take place? A) Malaysia. B) Mongolia. C) North-eastern China. D) The Philippines. 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