This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1203 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1203 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. New Yorkers Sarah Michelson, Sara Mearns and Pam Tanowitz are known for their work in what? A) Music. B) Banking. C) Hospitality. D) Dance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dance. 2. A "moog" was what type of instrument? A) Gong. B) Theremin. C) Drum. D) Synthesizer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Synthesizer. 3. Which book about a castaway was written by Daniel Defoe? A) Man of La Mancha. B) Man Friday. C) Robinson Crusoe. D) Mutiny on the Bounty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Robinson Crusoe. 4. Which of these was the last to make its debut on British TV? A) Peak Practice. B) Angels. C) Dr Finlay's Casebook. D) Emergency Ward 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Peak Practice. 5. Which state in the USA is equidistant from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, containing both the geographic centre of the 48 contiguous USA states and the geodetic centre of North America? A) Colorado. B) Kansas. C) Nebraska. D) Oklahoma. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kansas. 6. The 2009 Super Bowl, played at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, was between the Arizona Cardinals and what other team? A) Cleveland Browns. B) Dallas Cowboys. C) Baltimore Ravens. D) Pittsburg Steelers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pittsburg Steelers. 7. Stanley Matthews typically played which position for the English football team? A) Goalkeeper. B) Inside right. C) Right wing / outside right. D) Centre forward. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Right wing / outside right. 8. When and where was the subsequently-named "Liberty Bell" hung in America? A) 1751, Philadelphia. B) 1776, Philadelphia. C) 1776, Washington D.C. D) 1800, Washington D.C. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1751, Philadelphia. 9. Mahé Drysdale, Rebecca Scown, Juliette Haigh, Hamish Bond, Eric Murray, Pete Reed, Andrew Triggs Hodge, Ondrej Synek and Alan Campbell have been international competitors in which sport? A) Rowing. B) Figure skating. C) Golf. D) Tennis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rowing. 10. The traditional boomerang is made out of what? A) Clay. B) Glass. C) Stone. D) Wood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wood. 11. In the Rio 2016 Summer Paralympics, the Olympic torch was toured through 5 Brazilian cities plus where else before creating the Olympic Flame? A) The statue of Christ the Redeemer. B) London, UK. C) Tokyo, Japan. D) Stoke Mandeville. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stoke Mandeville. 12. Which 600-seat opera house was built in Sussex by John Christie in 1934 as a tribute and memorial to his wife, Audrey Mildmay? A) Covent Garden. B) Sadler's Wells. C) Glyndebourne. D) Theatre Royal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Glyndebourne. 13. What "Bridge" is the name of a home to a London football team and was the venue for precursor battle to the Battle of Hastings in 1066? A) Stamford Bridge. B) London Bridge. C) Oxbridge. D) Weybridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stamford Bridge. 14. Who dies at the end of Shakespeare's tragedy "Troilus and Cressida" ? A) Hector. B) Troilus. C) Cressida. D) Achilles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hector. 15. What is the main criterion for calling a fruit a "drupe" ? A) The natural sugar content is very high. B) They hang down on a very long stem. C) The stem is very strong. D) A layer of fruit surrounds a single stone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A layer of fruit surrounds a single stone. 16. Whose last words were reputedly "My neck is very slender" ? A) Marie Antoinette. B) Mary, Queen of Scots. C) Anne Boleyn. D) Empress Wu of China. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anne Boleyn. 17. On the Christian calendar, what name is given to the first Sunday after Easter? A) Whit Sunday. B) Low Sunday. C) Palm Sunday. D) Advent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Low Sunday. 18. Disputes between which two countries are called "Intifada", one uprising in which began in 1987, another in 2000 and another in 2005? A) Turkey & Greece. B) Palestine & Israel. C) Spain & Algeria. D) Philippines & Malaysia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Palestine & Israel. 19. What is the name for the lowest point of a sound wave? A) Period. B) Decay. C) Trough. D) Nadir. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trough. 20. "Monticello" was the mansion owned by which US president? A) Abraham Lincoln. B) George Washington. C) Thomas Jefferson. D) Andrew Jackson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thomas Jefferson. ← 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