This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 1200 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1200 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What name was adopted in 1957 by London's Sadler's Wells Ballet Company? A) Party Duh. B) Ballet-2-U. C) The Royal Ballet Company. D) The Wellies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Royal Ballet Company. 2. Why were the Far Eastern Games discontinued after 1934? A) China withdrew because of Japan's preconditions (at the time at war with China) for participating. B) The second World War. C) The Asian Games replaced them. D) They were assimilated by the Olympic Games. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) China withdrew because of Japan's preconditions (at the time at war with China) for participating. 3. Where is Guantanamo Bay? A) Jamaica. B) Brazil. C) Virgin Islands. D) Cuba. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cuba. 4. What is the science that deals with the properties, composition, and structure of elements and compounds, the transformations they undergo, and the energy that is released or absorbed during these processes? A) Chemistry. B) Cosmology. C) Biology. D) Physics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chemistry. 5. What was the first film to be directed by the son of veteran British director Ken Loach? A) The Spirit of '45 (2013). B) The Angels' Share (2012). C) Oranges and Sunshine (2011). D) Measure of a Man (2017). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oranges and Sunshine (2011). 6. Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, can be described as what? A) A bornhardt. B) A roche moutonnΓ©e. C) A tor. D) A mesa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A bornhardt. 7. What type of race is "the Madison" ? A) Snail, long distance. B) Relay marathon. C) Track cycling relay. D) Homing pigeons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Track cycling relay. 8. In 2010, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization announced that it expected to make a formal declaration in 2011 of the global eradication of "Rinderpest" . What does Rinderpest attack, mostly? A) Rice. B) Humans. C) Cattle. D) Sheep. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cattle. 9. For what did speculative grammarians search? A) A universal grammar, valid for all languages. B) The most incisive satire. C) A way of categorising grammars. D) A universal language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A universal grammar, valid for all languages. 10. In the nursery rhyme, who was quite contrary and had an unusual garden? A) The Duke of Gloucester. B) Mary. C) Jack Sprat. D) Jack Horner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mary. 11. Which country declared independence from Britain unilaterally in August 1963, joined the Federation of Malaysia in September along with Malaya, Sabah and Sarawak, but left two years later, officially gaining sovereignty on 9 August 1965? A) Brunei. B) Burma. C) Papua-New Guinea. D) Singapore. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Singapore. 12. Which of these is not one of The Rhinemaidens, three water-nymphs who appear in Richard Wagner's opera cycle "Der Ring Des Nibelungen" ? A) Woglinde. B) Brunhilde. C) Wellgunde. D) Flosshilde. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brunhilde. 13. A 1999 James Bond film was entitled "The World is not ..... '' what? A) Enough. B) Ample. C) Sufficient. D) An oyster. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enough. 14. Following the 1997 return of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China to become a special administrative region, Macau was returned to become its second special administrative region. When was that? A) 1999. B) 1998. C) 2002. D) 2001. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1999. 15. What TV role played by Jodie Whitaker regenerated in 2022 into the same character but played by another actor? A) Dr Doctor. B) Dr No. C) Dr Strange. D) Dr Who. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dr Who. 16. Which sport is played by two teams of four players each on a rectangular sheet of ice, whereby teams take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones towards the "house" while two sweepers with brooms accompany each one to help direct them to their resting place? A) Curling. B) Skittles. C) Polo. D) Bridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Curling. 17. Which book attributed to Thomas Cranmer and published around 1549 is still in print? A) Beowulf. B) The Canterbury Tales. C) Le Morte d'Arthur. D) The Book of Common Prayer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Book of Common Prayer. 18. Which of these would be least useful to thicken liquid in cooking? A) Rice flour. B) Roux. C) Okra. D) Choko. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Choko. 19. What was the nickname of the Chevalier Raoul, a character in a tale by Perrault in 1697, who murdered successive wives? A) Marquis de Sade. B) Bluebeard. C) Cyrano de Bergerac. D) Sancho Panza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bluebeard. 20. What is the name used in North America for a man who makes his living by felling trees? A) Phil Feller. B) Ed Wood. C) Lumberjack. D) Toppler. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lumberjack. β PreviousNext βRelated 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 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books