This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 129 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 129 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What were Ronnie Hazlehurst and Ron Grainer in connection with the UK TV series, respectively, "Only Fools and Horses" and "The Prisoner" ? A) Scriptwriters. B) Producers. C) Supporting actors. D) Composers of the theme music. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Composers of the theme music. 2. Who, in 1901, won the Triple Crown in Major League baseball? A) Ty Cobb. B) Shoeless Joe Jackson. C) Nap Lajoie. D) Cy Young. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nap Lajoie. 3. Why was the indie film "Donnie Darko" hardly publicised on its general theatrical release In America in October 2001? A) As an experiment. B) The producers could not raise enough money. C) It was released before it had an official MPAA rating. D) It was released shortly after the 9/11 plane crashes in the USA, featuring a traumatic plane crash. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It was released shortly after the 9/11 plane crashes in the USA, featuring a traumatic plane crash. 4. Where, 25 miles West of Knoxville, Tennessee, was an Atomic Bomb Research Station set up in 1942? A) Chattanooga. B) Nashville. C) Memphis. D) Oak Ridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oak Ridge. 5. Where was the first Women's World Cup, at that time called Women's World Championship, held? A) China. B) USA. C) Germany. D) Norway. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) China. 6. In 2010, the International Cricket Council turned down a nomination for Vice President from ex-Australian Prime Minister John Howard in favour of one from Alan Isaac, who was from which country? A) Pakistan. B) South Africa. C) India. D) New Zealand. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) New Zealand. 7. When his Royal Highness Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, died on 9 April 2021, what happened to his title as Duke? A) It merged with the Crown. B) It was retired. C) His oldest son, Prince Charles, inherited it. D) It remains vacant until the Queen grants it to someone else. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His oldest son, Prince Charles, inherited it. 8. Which family includes Louis, a television journalist, his father Paul, a travel writer and novelist, his elder brother Marcel, a writer and television presenter and his cousin Justin, an American actor? A) Theroux. B) Amis. C) Abbot. D) Churchill. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theroux. 9. Wisdom teeth appear when? A) When born. B) Adulthood. C) Middle age. D) Going to school. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adulthood. 10. The eldest daughter in the US TV show "Medium" (2005-2011) starred also as one of the central characters in which 2002 mainstream TV show? A) The Brady Bunch in the White House. B) American Family. C) Max and Ruby. D) Once and Again. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Brady Bunch in the White House. 11. Who, in 1831, first demonstrated that the motion of a conductor in a magnetic field generates an electric current? A) Isaac Newton. B) Humphrey Davy. C) Ernest Rutherford. D) Michael Faraday. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Michael Faraday. 12. Where did the 1976 Summer Olympics take place? A) Beijing. B) Montreal. C) London. D) St Moritz. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Montreal. 13. How old was Kurt Cobain when he died? A) 30. B) 22. C) 18. D) 27. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 27. 14. Where were the political movers known as bolsheviks and mensheviks active? A) Turkey. B) Finland. C) Poland. D) Russia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Russia. 15. Players of the game of Nine Men's Morris, or mills or merels, need what? A) A board and 24 pegs. B) A bat, a ball and six mats. C) Nine batons and nine sets of bells. D) A board plus 18 stones or counters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A board plus 18 stones or counters. 16. Baron Scarpia, the villain of Puccini's opera "Tosca", has a striking resemblance to a real-life Italian baron of flexible loyalties and vicious tastes named Gherardo Curci (nicknamed Sciarpa) as well as to an infamous judge from where? A) Rome. B) Naples. C) Sicily. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sicily. 17. In 2013 actress Angelina Jolie very publicly did what? A) Refused an Academy award. B) Adopted a child, her first. C) Had a preventive double mastectomy. D) Attended an Academy Award ceremony in torn jeans. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Had a preventive double mastectomy. 18. In athletics, what name is used for the preliminary races that precede quarter-finals or semi-finals? A) Cools. B) Tepids. C) Heats. D) Hots. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Heats. 19. How can the land to the west of the Gulf of California be described? A) Island. B) Cape. C) Peninsula. D) Continental mass. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peninsula. 20. Phil Mickelson is a professional in what sport? A) Surfing. B) Tennis. C) Golf. D) American Football. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Golf. ← 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