This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1193 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1193 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In the nursery rhyme beginning "Hey Diddle Diddle", who jumped over the moon? A) Cat. B) Dish. C) Little dog. D) Cow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cow. 2. Which female jazz singer died in December 2008? A) Anita O'Day. B) Eartha Kitt. C) Nina Simone. D) Ella Fitzgerald. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eartha Kitt. 3. What was the profession of World War I heroine Edith Cavell? A) Costume designer for films. B) Nurse. C) Chemist. D) Aircraft pilot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nurse. 4. Which Winter Olympic Games was the last to have an outdoor speed skating rink? A) 1960 in Squaw Valley, California. B) 1992 in Albertville. C) 2018 in Pyeongchang. D) 1972 in Sapporo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1992 in Albertville. 5. What is the bone which links the wrist to the thumb's metacarpophalangeal joint? A) Trapezium. B) Pectus. C) Quadrilateral. D) Delta. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trapezium. 6. Which of these might be played by a drummer? A) Long sight. B) Bulls eye. C) Vibrato. D) Rim shot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rim shot. 7. What equipment is needed for a competition in welly wanging? A) A snail. B) A boomerang. C) A bungee rope. D) A gumboot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A gumboot. 8. Which of these is a trumpet shaped, widely-cultivated genus of flowering plants of South American origin? A) Gladioli. B) Petunia. C) Ranuncula. D) Hydrangea. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Petunia. 9. Harrison Ford was working as what before his first big break as a film actor? A) Plumber. B) Carpenter. C) Electrician. D) Jockey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carpenter. 10. Which musical by Elton John and Lee Hall, which revolves around a motherless boy who trades boxing gloves for ballet shoes and is based on a 2000 film, opened in London's West End in 2005? A) Into the Woods. B) Sunday in the Park with George. C) The Secret Garden. D) Billy Elliot the Musical. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Billy Elliot the Musical. 11. They began in 1990 playing at McManus's, their aunt's pub, went on to perform in the film "The Commitments", and played at the 1996 Summer Olympics as their international career began. Who were they? A) Beastie Boys. B) U2. C) The Corrs. D) The Smashing Pumpkins. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Corrs. 12. In what epic does the character Enkidu first appear? A) Beowulf. B) The Iliad. C) The Epic of Gilgamesh. D) The Mahabharata. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Epic of Gilgamesh. 13. Which of these is a spin off from the TV series Grey's Anatomy? A) Brothers & Sisters. B) Desperate Housewives. C) Private Practice. D) True Blood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Private Practice. 14. In Egypt, what are "Dog Days" ? A) The periods when the Nile flooded regularly before the Aswan Dam was built. B) The public holidays between Christmas Day and New Year's Day. C) A hot season from around 3 July to 11 August. D) In spring, when the male dogs howl at each other. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A hot season from around 3 July to 11 August. 15. Where was the 5, 421m (17, 785 ft) high Chacaltaya ski resort? A) Bolivia. B) Switzerland. C) Lesotho. D) Japan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bolivia. 16. Celebrated archaeologists Frederick Bligh Bond and later Dr C.A. Ralegh Radford excavated at Glastonbury Abbey in the 20th century searching for what remains? A) King Arthur and Guinevere. B) The Abbey's founder King Ine of Wessex. C) Saint Dunstan. D) The last Abbot in the 16th century, Richard Whyting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) King Arthur and Guinevere. 17. Which of these is the name of a panther in Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" ? A) Bagheera. B) Mowgli. C) Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. D) Akela. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bagheera. 18. In the 1994 film "The Shawshank Redemption", the prisoner at the centre of the film has a poster of whom in his cell as he begins his sentence? A) Marilyn Monroe. B) Raquel Welch. C) Rita Hayworth. D) Eve Marie Saint. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rita Hayworth. 19. What is the official nickname of a particularly large capacity plane, built by Airbus and used to transport large dimension loads, from pieces of art to space station parts and whole helicopters? A) Gigantor. B) Big Blue. C) Beluga. D) Great White. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beluga. 20. As what was Eustace the Monk (c. 1170-1217) well-known? A) A master illustrator. B) A mercenary and a pirate. C) A weaver of tales. D) A singer of bawdy songs. 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