This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 122 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 122 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which folk tale character loses her shoe? A) Cinderella. B) Little Red Riding Hood. C) The White Snake. D) Baba Yaga. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cinderella. 2. As of 2016, who is the only winner of a Formula One Drivers' championship to do so in a car bearing his own name? A) Graham Hill. B) Bruce McLaren. C) Jack Brabham. D) Juan Fangio. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jack Brabham. 3. Which character in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" appears frequently in drag? A) Frank n Furter. B) Riff-Raff. C) Everett V. Scott. D) Rocky Horror. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Frank n Furter. 4. The following are the first few examples of what:(220, 284), (1184, 1210), (2620, 2924), (5020, 5564) & (6232, 6368)? A) Amicable numbers. B) Natural numbers. C) Prime numbers. D) Paired numbers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amicable numbers. 5. In 1204 and 1453 the libraries of which city were destroyed or sold off first by the Crusaders and then by the Ottoman Turks? A) Tripoli. B) Baghdad. C) Constantinople. D) Córdoba. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Constantinople. 6. Which do Bolivia and Paraguay have in common? A) The Atacama Desert. B) They have Pacific coastlines. C) The Amazon River runs through both. D) The countries are both landlocked. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The countries are both landlocked. 7. Which is accepted as being among the immediate reasons for Japan's surrender at the end of World War II? A) Japan preferred to work on developing automobile technology. B) Emperor Hirohito was friendly with new President of the USA, Harry Truman. C) The dropping of atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. D) China asked them to. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The dropping of atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 8. Who first popularised the story of Dr Faustus in England? A) Charles Gounod. B) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. C) Thomas Mann. D) Christopher Marlowe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Christopher Marlowe. 9. What was the real first name of "Paul" of "Peter, Paul, and Mary" ? A) Simon. B) Noel. C) Harold. D) Brad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Noel. 10. On the US television show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", what appears on Buffy's tombstone the second time she dies? A) Vampires suck. B) Here lies the true slayer. C) Devoted daughter, sister, and friend. D) She saved the world. A lot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She saved the world. A lot. 11. The early Great Wall of China built in the years following 221 BCE, new or by reinforcing existing remains of walls, by the Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, was intended to protect the newly unified empire against whom? A) The hordes of Genghis Khan. B) The Xiongnu people from the north. C) The Huns to the west. D) European traders. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Xiongnu people from the north. 12. Which of these words best describes the subject of the study of Pomology? A) Englishmen. B) Apples. C) Fruit. D) Small drums. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fruit. 13. What word can mean a tumble-down dwelling and a sailors' work song? A) Canton. B) Shanty. C) Blues. D) Chant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shanty. 14. The Emperor Charlemagne famously clashed with the Basques in 778 CE in which of these? A) The plains of Agincourt. B) The valley between the Fedyukhin Heights and the Causeway Heights, Crimea. C) Pass of Roncevaux, the Pyrenees. D) Waterloo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pass of Roncevaux, the Pyrenees. 15. In snail racing, what do world championship rules exclude? A) Cheering your snail on. B) Fancy dress. C) Giant snails. D) Greasing the snail's shell. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Giant snails. 16. In the sentence "She insists that her guests be on time" what describes the verb "be" ? A) Imperative. B) Subjunctive. C) Imperfect. D) Conditional. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subjunctive. 17. Why was Yugoslav Anton Josipovic awarded a gold medal by default for the final of the Light Heavyweight boxing contest at the 1984 Olympic Games? A) The medal ceremony was scheduled before all rounds were completed. B) He was the only competitor in the class. C) The other semi-final ended in a draw. D) Neither of the two contenders in the other semi-final was eligible to fight him. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neither of the two contenders in the other semi-final was eligible to fight him. 18. With what is FIFA usually associated? A) Freestyle skiing. B) Futsal. C) Gridiron. D) Football. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Football. 19. Salvador Dali was a principal figure in what artistic movement? A) Surrealism. B) Impressionism. C) Cubism. D) Fauvism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Surrealism. 20. Which dancer and actor choreographed Justin Bieber's 2015 song "Sorry", DeeWunn's "Mek It Bunx Up" (also 2015), Rihanna's 2019 Savage x Fenty Show, and Jennifer Lopez's 2020 Super Bowl halftime show? A) Parris Goebel. B) Rina Chae. C) Anthony Joseph Testa. D) Solange Knowles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parris Goebel. ← 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