This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 119 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 119 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What are oysters wrapped in bacon called? A) Scotch egg. B) Devils on horseback. C) Pigs in a blanket. D) Angels on horseback. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Angels on horseback. 2. What is the title of ex-Australian Prime Minister John Howard's autobiography, published in October 2010? A) A Galah in Charge of the Menagerie. B) Lazarus Rising. C) Is That It?. D) Too Little, Too Late. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lazarus Rising. 3. In 2014, Yan Bingtao from China became the youngest ever amateur snooker world champion when he won the IBSF World Snooker Championship. How old was he? A) 9. B) 14. C) 18. D) 25. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 14. 4. Who married Jacqueline Bouvier in 1953? A) Aristotle Onassis. B) John F Kennedy. C) Charles de Gaulle. D) Leonard Cohen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John F Kennedy. 5. Which of these is a type of shark? A) Roundhead. B) Sorehead. C) Fathead. D) Hammerhead. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hammerhead. 6. What is the relationship between the words "bridle" and "bridal" ? A) Synophones. B) Persephones. C) Monophones. D) Homophones. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Homophones. 7. Guru Nanak established what in India in the late 15th and early 16th centuries? A) An astronomy observatory. B) Trade relations with Venice. C) The Taj Mahal. D) The Sikh religion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Sikh religion. 8. What is one expected to do in a dormitory? A) Grow tomatoes. B) Eat. C) Sleep. D) Swim. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sleep. 9. Which new year has ever started on 16 July? A) Maori. B) Jewish. C) Islamic. D) Chinese. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Islamic. 10. What chemical element, a rare and lustrous silvery-white metal, was discovered in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston, who named it after an asteroid? A) Coliseum. B) Stadium. C) Conservatorium. D) Palladium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Palladium. 11. Which of these is a compound word? A) Window. B) Discotheque. C) Motel. D) Someone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Someone. 12. In England, the monarch has the power of veto over any proposed legislation from Parliament by withholding the Royal Assent. Who last used this power? A) Charles I in 1649. B) Queen Victoria in 1899. C) Queen Elizabeth I in 1599. D) Queen Anne in 1708. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Queen Anne in 1708. 13. Who wrote the line "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree" ? A) Percy Bysshe Shelley. B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. C) Lord Byron. D) Alfred Lord Tennyson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 14. Who in 2018 is the most recent in the series:Rosalynn, Laura, Hillary, Michelle ..... ? A) Rose. B) Sarah. C) Melania. D) Nancy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Melania. 15. The shape of South America's eastern coastline closely echoes ..... ? A) The islands of Japan. B) Juan Fernandez Ridge. C) The Himalayas. D) The southern half of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The southern half of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. 16. Where is Lake Placid, the venue for the 1980 Winter Olympics? A) Manitoba, Canada. B) Utah, USA. C) Central Australia. D) Upstate New York, USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Upstate New York, USA. 17. Serengeti National Park is on what continent? A) Europe. B) Africa. C) Asia. D) Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Africa. 18. Who won his third rowing Olympic gold medal with Steve Redgrave in 2000? A) Matthew Arnold. B) Matthew Broderick. C) Matthew Pinsent. D) Matthew Perry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Matthew Pinsent. 19. Where is the Greater Maghreb? A) On the coast of Mozambique. B) In the Sahara Desert. C) Coastal northwest Africa. D) Along the Red Sea coast of Egypt. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coastal northwest Africa. 20. What children's game uses the phrase "What's the time?" A) Spin the Bottle. B) Hangman. C) Hide and Seek. D) Mr Wolf. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mr Wolf. ← 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