This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 141 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 141 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What was Emma Bunton's nickname when she was in the Spice Girls? A) Bubsy. B) Boo boo. C) Baby. D) Gaga. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Baby. 2. To give or write a speech in praise of someone, would be to give what? A) An elegy. B) A eulogy. C) An epitaph. D) A eucharist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A eulogy. 3. Which one of four "big cats" in the Panthera genus is the only one found in the New World (i.e. Mexico, across much of Central America and south to Paraguay and northern Argentina)? A) Tiger. B) Jaguar. C) Lion. D) Leopard. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jaguar. 4. In cockney rhyming slang, what are "Apples and Pears" ? A) Bears. B) Hairs. C) Stairs. D) Cares. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stairs. 5. Joseph Pulitzer, founder of the Pulitzer Prizes, made his fortune from what? A) Furniture making. B) Oil. C) Horse racing. D) Newspapers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Newspapers. 6. Which of these are two animated chipmunks created by The Walt Disney Company in 1943? A) Hill 'n Dale. B) Chip 'n Dale. C) Chip 'n Monk. D) Fitch 'n Chip. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chip 'n Dale. 7. Which of these states is the furthest north? A) Florida. B) Texas. C) New Mexico. D) South Dakota. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) South Dakota. 8. Which winner of an Oscar, a Grammy, an Emmy, a Tony and a Pulitzer, wrote musicals with Hart, Hammerstein and Sondheim? A) Richard Rodgers. B) Marvin Hamlisch. C) Burt Bacharach. D) Jerome Kern. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Richard Rodgers. 9. The award from the Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration in books for children and young people was given, in 1973, to the first what? A) Animated TV film for children. B) Reprint of a 19th century illustrated children's book. C) Graphic novel. D) Illustrator for overall work in more than one novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Graphic novel. 10. Who is a former British triple jumper who held the Olympic, Commonwealth, European and World records, and has held the world record in the event since 1995? A) Jimmy Edwards. B) Jonathan Edwards. C) Noel Edmonds. D) Jonathan Ross. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jonathan Edwards. 11. Which country rules over the Caracas island archipelago? A) Mexico. B) Cuba. C) Brazil. D) Venezuela. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Venezuela. 12. Who is George Dowd better known as? A) George Formby. B) George V. C) Boy George. D) George of the Jungle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Boy George. 13. "La Donna e Mobile" is an aria from which opera? A) Carmen. B) Rigoletto. C) Tosca. D) Die Fledermaus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rigoletto. 14. What lives in a "holt" ? A) Otter. B) Beaver. C) Badger. D) Rabbit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Otter. 15. What was the nickname of the British army regiment called the "8th King's Royal Irish Hussars" ? A) The Crossbelts. B) The Death or Glory Boys. C) The Green Horse. D) The Skins. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Crossbelts. 16. On a rifle shooting target, what is the name of the ring between the inner and the outer? A) Eagle. B) Bull. C) Magpie. D) Birdie. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Magpie. 17. The Dungeness Crab, which first began to be fished commercially in the mid 19th century, takes its name from where? A) Punta DΓΊngeness, Chile. B) Dungeness, Kent, UK. C) Dungeness, Washington, USA. D) Dungeness, Georgia, USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dungeness, Washington, USA. 18. Which of these is a Walt Disney film released in 1940 that features 8 segments set to classical music? A) Wall E. B) Fantasia. C) Finding Nemo. D) Mary Poppins. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fantasia. 19. On 1 November 2010, the San Francisco Giants won the baseball World Series 4-1, their first World Series since 1954. Who did they defeat? A) New York Mets. B) The Texas Rangers. C) New York Yankees. D) Philadelphia Phillies. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Texas Rangers. 20. The Red River forms the border of Texas with what other area? A) Oklahoma & Arkansas. B) Mexico. C) Florida. D) Louisiana. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oklahoma & Arkansas. β PreviousNext βRelated 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 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books