This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1202 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1202 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is usually used to remove a piece of cooked fish from a frying pan? A) Ladle. B) Slice. C) Carving knife. D) Slotted spoon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Slice. 2. What is one of the characteristics of social organisation among the East African naked mole rat? A) Families dig burrows close together in villages and share broodcare and guard duties. B) They are solitary, associating only to mate. C) Groups, or prides, consist of a single male and several females and nursing young. D) Colonies have a single productive female, or queen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Colonies have a single productive female, or queen. 3. Who takes part in the annual Umhlanga Reed Dance in Swaziland? A) Fishermen. B) Headmen of the villages. C) Wind sections of the state orchestras. D) Childless, unmarried girls. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Childless, unmarried girls. 4. Which of these has the time zone that is the furthest ahead of London? A) Egypt. B) Hawaii. C) India. D) New Zealand. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) New Zealand. 5. What is the name for what is basically an induction coil whereby the voltage of an alternating current can be increased or decreased without changing the frequency? A) Transformer. B) Voltmeter. C) Rheostat. D) Ammeter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transformer. 6. At the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, Canadian athlete Ian Millar competed in his last of how many Olympics? A) 7. B) 4. C) 10. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 10. 7. Which of these is the most recent series to be made starring David Jason? A) Only Fools and Horses. B) The Darling Buds of May. C) A Touch of Frost. D) Open All Hours. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A Touch of Frost. 8. Who was born in Besançon in France and lived 19 years in the UK's Channel Islands, prior to which he wrote "Notre Dame de Paris" ? A) Baroness Orczy. B) Victor Hugo. C) Georges Simenon. D) Guy de Maupassant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Victor Hugo. 9. Who was Hugh Grant's female co-star in the film "Music and Lyrics" ? A) Courtney Cox. B) Jodie Foster. C) Samantha Eggar. D) Drew Barrymore. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Drew Barrymore. 10. Which of these was of French nationality? A) Alexander Graham Bell. B) Alexander Fleming. C) Louis Pasteur. D) Gerardus Mercator. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Louis Pasteur. 11. Before its name was changed to "Washington D.C." after his death, what had George Washington named it? A) Caroline. B) Georgetown. C) Federal City. D) Franklin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Federal City. 12. The Dutch-based Stellantis N.V., formed in 2021, is a 50:50 merger between two internationally recognised manufacturing conglomerates from which countries and in what field? A) Italy and France, automobiles. B) UK and Germany, medicine. C) Hungary and Nigeria, fashion. D) USA and Russia, energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Italy and France, automobiles. 13. During the reign of which English king was there a succession crisis between his supporters and those of his cousin, the Empress Matilda? A) Joe. B) Mark. C) Stephen. D) Vern. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stephen. 14. The islands of Zanzibar and Madagascar are in which ocean? A) Pacific. B) Indian. C) Atlantic. D) Arctic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indian. 15. Which of these US cities is the southernmost? A) Phoenix. B) Las Vegas. C) Albuquerque. D) Memphis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phoenix. 16. Big Daddy Pollitt is a character in which Tennessee Williams play? A) In Masks Outrageous and Austere. B) A Streetcar Named Desire. C) The Glass Menagerie. D) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. 17. Which tree native to Mexico, South America and Central America, part of a family of flowering plants, produces a fruit (technically a large berry) that contains a pit which may be egg-shaped or spherical? A) Avocado. B) Chinese Gooseberry (or Kiwi). C) Pear. D) Banana. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Avocado. 18. Which of these was last to occupy the post of British Prime Minister? A) Sir Alec Douglas-Home. B) Sir Winston Churchill. C) Sir Harold Macmillan. D) Sir Anthony Eden. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sir Alec Douglas-Home. 19. Which of these was released in 2018 with the statement that the next album by the artist would be the last released under his stage name? A) This Is America. B) Redbone. C) Feels Like Summer. D) Summertime Magic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) This Is America. 20. Which politician issued a CD of love songs that he had written and co-written, in 2003? A) John Howard. B) Robert Muldoon. C) Silvio Berlusconi. D) Jean-Pierre Raffarin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Silvio Berlusconi. ← 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