This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1184 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1184 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which famous Ramone was never one of "The Ramones" ? A) Johnny. B) Joey. C) Dee Dee. D) Phil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Phil. 2. The Tasman Sea flows between which two countries? A) Australia and New Zealand. B) Canada and Greenland. C) Samoa and Fiji. D) The Netherlands and the UK. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Australia and New Zealand. 3. What continent lies under the islands of New Zealand? A) Pacifica. B) Australia. C) Antarctica. D) Zealandia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Zealandia. 4. Where is the Iberian peninsula? A) South America, extending into the Pacific Ocean. B) Asia, on the northern coast of the Black Sea. C) Western Europe, between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. D) North America, extending into the Gulf Of Mexico. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Western Europe, between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. 5. What is the specific name for the chain, cable, or mooring line (or a combination of these) including the attachment to a ship's anchor at one end and the ship itself at the other? A) Bowline. B) Hawser. C) Rode. D) Marlin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rode. 6. What was the first name of Inspector Maigret, a character created by George Simenon? A) Jules. B) Victor. C) Alexandre. D) Edouard. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jules. 7. Who was a British dog trainer, author and television personality who introduced the catch-phrases "walkies" and "sit!" in her 1980 television series? A) Barbara Woodhouse. B) Margaret Church. C) Rosemary Outhouse. D) Jennifer Chapel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Barbara Woodhouse. 8. What war was described as "the equivalent of two bald men fighting over a comb" ? A) Falklands War. B) Korean War. C) Six Day War. D) Seven Years' War. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Falklands War. 9. An American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, is Edgar Rice who? A) Casio. B) Hewlett-Packard. C) Fujitsu. D) Burroughs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Burroughs. 10. What colour is shown by cyanobacteria? A) Blue-green. B) Bright yellow. C) White. D) Deep blue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blue-green. 11. Which is a variety of the Manding languages spoken mainly in Mali as a first or second language? A) Makhuwa. B) Bambara. C) Nobiin. D) Tigrinya. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bambara. 12. Which of these played cricket for Pakistan? A) Imran Khan. B) Kerry Packer. C) Dennis Lillee. D) Michael Holding. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imran Khan. 13. The series of numbers that is obtained by adding the previous two together is named after whom? A) Archimedes. B) Isaac Newton. C) Pierre de Fermat. D) Fibonacci. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fibonacci. 14. A piece for cornet, accompanied by a brass band plus clarinet and double bass, was composed and used as theme music for which TV show? A) Bleak House. B) Meet Mister Callaghan. C) Amba, the Russian Tiger. D) Coronation Street. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Coronation Street. 15. Where is Strasbourg? A) Germany. B) France. C) Austria. D) Hungary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) France. 16. Whose work "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living", a 14-foot (4.3 m) tiger shark immersed in formaldehyde in a vitrine, became the iconic work of British art in the 1990s? A) Tracey Emin. B) Steve McQueen. C) Jake and Dinos Chapman. D) Damien Hirst. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Damien Hirst. 17. Who "rocked in the treetops all the day long" to a chorus of "Tweet, tweet, tweedley deet" ? A) Rockin' Robin. B) The Leader of the Pack. C) Terry. D) The Girl from Ipanema. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rockin' Robin. 18. Whose death in 1603 led to the uniting of the crowns of England and Scotland? A) William Shakespeare. B) Elizabeth I of England. C) Robert the Bruce. D) John Bunyan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elizabeth I of England. 19. Until he retired from daily involvement in 2008, Bill Gates was a developer (as well as magnate) in what scientific field? A) FB. B) PE. C) IT. D) Botany. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) IT. 20. In 1782, what was made the official bird of the USA? A) Kookaburra. B) Goose. C) Sparrow. D) Bald eagle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bald eagle. ← 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