This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1204 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1204 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Where is Timbuktu? A) Sweden. B) Saskatchewan, Canada. C) Mali, in West Africa. D) New South Wales, Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mali, in West Africa. 2. 17 year old Zac Sunderland made the world's news in July 2009 for doing what? A) Eating thre world record number of hot dogs. B) Setting off a bomb in Jakarta's Ritz-Carlton Hotel. C) Sailing around the world solo. D) Free-jumping from the Empire State Building. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sailing around the world solo. 3. Which film, Alfred Hitchcock's first as producer as well as director, starred Cary Grant, working with Hitchcock for the first time, and Joan Fontaine, who won Best Actress Oscar for it? A) Mr. & Mrs. Smith. B) Suspicion. C) Saboteur. D) North By Northwest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Suspicion. 4. Which of these players can be found in a cricket team? A) Pinch hitter. B) Pace bowler. C) Full back. D) Goalie. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pace bowler. 5. Which of these is not one of the meanings of "kindle" ? A) To start a blaze. B) A litter of kittens. C) An e-book reader. D) A herd of cattle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A herd of cattle. 6. What shape are the individual cells in a honeycomb? A) Triangular. B) Square. C) Circular. D) Hexagonal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hexagonal. 7. The Izzies or Isadora Duncan Awards are given in honour of Isadora Duncan who was a what? A) Painter. B) Poet. C) Dancer. D) Fashion designer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dancer. 8. A single flame gas burner frequently used in student science laboratories is named after whom? A) John Tilley. B) Michael Faraday. C) Sir Humphry Davy. D) Robert Bunsen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Robert Bunsen. 9. After 97 years since being installed on a rock in Copenhagen harbour, the statue of "The Little Mermaid" left its place in April 2010 to go where? A) New York, USA. B) Shanghai, China. C) Sydney, Australia. D) London, England. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shanghai, China. 10. Stalactites and stalagmites are formed from what? A) Slate. B) Chalk. C) Flint. D) Limestone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Limestone. 11. Who was the first Pope to be elected to office in the 21st century? A) John Paul II. B) Benedict XVI. C) George Ringo II. D) John XXIII. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Benedict XVI. 12. Which is the strait between mainland Australia and Tasmania? A) Bass Strait. B) Torres Strait. C) Endeavour Strait. D) Clarence Strait. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bass Strait. 13. Which of these is a crustacean? A) Lobster. B) Wallaby. C) Albatross. D) Salamander. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lobster. 14. A campanile is built to contain what? A) Budgerigars. B) Bats. C) Treasure. D) Bells. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bells. 15. Which musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber is based on a book by Wilkie Collins? A) Aspects of Love. B) Cats. C) The Woman in White. D) Jeeves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Woman in White. 16. Who, according to the Christian and Hebrew Bibles, succeeded King Saul as king over Israel and Judah? A) His son, Ish-bosheth. B) His son, Jonathan. C) His daughter, Michal. D) His son-in-law, David. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) His son-in-law, David. 17. In sport what does "OBP" measure? A) How often a baseball batter reaches base for any reason other than various specific errors. B) How many times a hole in a golf round is reached with one stroke. C) The force applied to a tennis ball in a professional match. D) How many times a tiddlywinks counter lands on target. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) How often a baseball batter reaches base for any reason other than various specific errors. 18. The process to allow for the first three-parent babies using Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy (as distinct from mitochondrial donation) was approved in 2015 in what country? A) Russia. B) UK. C) Israel. D) South Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) UK. 19. When Alger Hiss, an official involved in the establishment of the United Nations was accused of having been a communist and then of being a Soviet spy, and took a defamation case against his accuser, of what was he convicted in 1950? A) Treason. B) Perjury. C) Homicide. D) Espionage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Perjury. 20. Who played Inspector Clouseau in the films made from 1963 to 1978? A) Peter Finch. B) David Niven. C) Steve Martin. D) Peter Sellers. 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