This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1187 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1187 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these songs is from "Kiss Me Kate" ? A) Tomorrow. B) Another Op'nin', Another Show. C) People Will Say We're in Love. D) There's No Business Like Show Business. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Another Op'nin', Another Show. 2. Babe Ruth played for which Major League Baseball team between 1914 and 1919? A) Boston Braves. B) New York Yankees. C) Boston Red Sox. D) Chicago White Sox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Boston Red Sox. 3. A.A. Fair, Kyle Corning, Charles M. Green, Carleton Kendrake, Charles J. Kenny, Les Tillray and Robert Parr ere all pseudonyms of which American author? A) Erle Stanley Gardner. B) Raymond Chandler. C) Dashiell Hammett. D) Julian Barnes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Erle Stanley Gardner. 4. Where is the Afar Triple Junction, or Afro-Arabian Rift System? A) Alexandria, Egypt. B) Northern Mozambique. C) At the Red Sea's eastern end. D) South Somalia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) At the Red Sea's eastern end. 5. Why did 66 nations, including the United States, Canada, West Germany and Japan, boycott the 1980 Olympic Games held in Moscow? A) Cuban Missile Crisis. B) USSR's participation in the Afghan Civil War. C) USSR's refusal to remove the Berlin wall. D) USSR's bad behaviour at the UN General Assembly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) USSR's participation in the Afghan Civil War. 6. What does MIX in Roman numerals mean? A) A computer. B) Crossbreeding. C) 1009. D) 1900. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1009. 7. Rosehill racecourse is in which Australian city? A) Melbourne. B) Perth. C) Darwin. D) Sydney. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sydney. 8. Where do quolls have their homes? A) At the tops of trees. B) On coral reefs. C) In hollowed out logs or in rocky dens. D) In bogs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In hollowed out logs or in rocky dens. 9. What is "Dutch Elm Disease" ? A) A bacterium. B) A virus. C) A beetle. D) A fungus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A fungus. 10. What was one avenue the Greek organisers of the 1896 Olympics used to fund the costs and finish or build the last of the venues? A) Mock medals. B) Commemorative stamps. C) Autobiographies of the organisers. D) Commemorative strain of wheat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Commemorative stamps. 11. In 800 CE, Charlemagne became the first what in the West since the 5th century CE? A) Supreme Roman Overlord. B) Emperor of the Franks. C) Saxon Emperor. D) Emperor of the Romans, later known as Holy Roman Emperor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Emperor of the Romans, later known as Holy Roman Emperor. 12. What was Melanie Chisholm's nickname when she was in the Spice Girls? A) Sporty. B) Hot. C) Indian. D) Sultry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sporty. 13. Who wrote the 1998 novel "About A Boy" ? A) Nick Hornby. B) Harry Harrison. C) Jim Keeble. D) Terry Pratchett. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nick Hornby. 14. Which of these pieces of music features in the opera "Carmen" by Georges Bizet? A) The March of the Toreadors. B) The Waltz of the Flowers. C) Walk on the Wild Side. D) Run For Your Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The March of the Toreadors. 15. What is a leotard? A) Inter-galactic space flight. B) Dead lion. C) Close fitting dance costume. D) A lion with brain damage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Close fitting dance costume. 16. A series of political protests against the government in Thailand in 2010 were organised by a group calling themselves what? A) Grey beards. B) Brown boots. C) Green trousers. D) Red shirts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Red shirts. 17. Which facility, opened in England in sections between 1774 and 1790 and a major asset for a while to industrialising Britain, forms part of the background for the works "His Dark Materials Trilogy" (by Philip Pullman) and "The Wind in the Willows" (by Kenneth Grahame)? A) The Oxford Canal. B) The Coventry coalfields. C) Woolwich Dockyard. D) Foss Dyke. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Oxford Canal. 18. During the 1924 Olympic Games relations between the teams representing Italy and France in fencing boiled over into a duel between two of their ancillary personnel, over what? A) Alleged cheating. B) A derogatory remark about the other team's colours. C) A scoring controversy. D) An alleged insulting gesture. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A scoring controversy. 19. Where are gaiters usually worn? A) Ears. B) Head. C) Feet. D) Legs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Legs. 20. Where and what is Mosi-oa-Tunya? A) A waterfall, on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. B) A 19th century Zulu battlefield, South Africa. C) A tree, Woodbush Forest Reserve, South Africa. D) A volcano, Ethiopia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A waterfall, on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. ← 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