This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 1215 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1215 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which World Championship inaugurated in 1963 has been dominated primarily by the Australian and New Zealand national teams? A) Netball. B) Baseball. C) American Football. D) Table tennis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Netball. 2. What effect do anthocyanins have on the part of a plant in which they are abundant? A) They colour it red, purple, blue, or black. B) The part shrivels. C) They boost the action of chlorophyll. D) They boost the plant's toxic defences against attack. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They colour it red, purple, blue, or black. 3. "Jake and the Never Land Pirates:Mama Hook Knows Best" (2013) is a children's book by whom? A) Sharon Osbourne. B) Margaret Mahy. C) Sarah Ferguson. D) Roald Dahl. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sharon Osbourne. 4. Joanna Lumley and David McCallum played which pair in a TV series? A) Sooty and Sweep. B) Sapphire and Steel. C) MacMillan and Wife. D) Cagney and Lacey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sapphire and Steel. 5. Which of these people was born in Palma, Italy and early in his long musical career was principal conductor at La Scala, Milan, from 1895 to 1908? A) Franco Faccio. B) Arturo Toscanini. C) John Barbirolli. D) Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arturo Toscanini. 6. In November 2010, China announced that it would have its first what in 2011? A) Purpose-built rock venue. B) Drop-in centre for the unemployed. C) Public toilet. D) Aircraft carrier. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aircraft carrier. 7. The terms "goose" and "chanter" refer to what? A) Carpet making. B) Choral singing. C) Bagpipes. D) Hunting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bagpipes. 8. What do the interior angles of a triangle add up to? A) 180 degrees. B) 360 degrees. C) 90 degrees. D) 45 degrees. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 180 degrees. 9. What do the massive auction complexes in Aalsmeer, Naalwijk, Rijnsberg and Eelde in the Netherlands sell? A) Antiques. B) Flowers and plants. C) Fish. D) Farming machinery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flowers and plants. 10. What sort of animal is the character created for children called "Blinky Bill" ? A) Wombat. B) Panda. C) Koala. D) Barn owl. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Koala. 11. Who composed the jazz / swing theme music for the television series Jeeves and Wooster? A) Olivier Giraud. B) Anne Dudley. C) Jonah Jones. D) Raymond Jones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anne Dudley. 12. Which place between York and Knaresborough in the UK was the site of a decisive battle in 1644 when Cromwell defeated Royalist forces? A) Culloden. B) Ilkley Moor. C) Oakham Common. D) Marston Moor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Marston Moor. 13. The Peasants' Revolt in England in 1381 led by men such as John Ball, Wat Tyler and Jack Straw, and the most extreme and widespread insurrection in English history, was about what? A) Racial persecution. B) Religious freedom. C) Taxation. D) Lack of state-provided education. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Taxation. 14. In what Olympic Games did the Jamaica national bobsleigh team make its debut? A) 1988 Calgary. B) 1998 Nagano. C) 1980 Lake Placid. D) 2006 Turin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1988 Calgary. 15. In what month or months does the annual sardine run happen? A) August. B) May to July. C) November and December. D) April. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) May to July. 16. Which music venue opened in Britain in 1951, the first dedicated concert hall of its size to be built in London since 1893? A) Minack Theatre. B) The 100 Club. C) The Royal Festival Hall. D) Symphony Hall. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Royal Festival Hall. 17. What TV series contained the frequent line "Let's be careful out there" ? A) NYPD Blue. B) Hill Street Blues. C) Miami Vice. D) Hawaii Five-O. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hill Street Blues. 18. The Leakey family who concentrated their studies in Kenya were working in what area? A) The history of the Mau-Mau uprising. B) Paleoanthropology. C) Identifying diamond mines. D) Setting up tourism initiatives. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paleoanthropology. 19. In Anglo Saxon Britain, what word described a magistrate and the regional representative of the king? A) Ostler. B) Cowper. C) Fletcher. D) Reeve. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reeve. 20. Since the mid 1990s the USA has banned what in hunting water fowl? A) The use of falcons. B) Guns with capacity for more than two shots. C) The issuing of licences to permanently disabled hunters. D) The use of lead shot. 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