This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 147 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 147 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The botanist who discovered the plant in 1769 named it bougainvillea for what reason? A) There were no other plants with that name. B) His name was Bougainville. C) He discovered it in the settlement of Bougainville. D) He was sailing on a ship commanded by Admiral Louis de Bougainville. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He was sailing on a ship commanded by Admiral Louis de Bougainville. 2. What office exercises executive authority over the island of St Helena? A) The British monarchy. B) The Legislative Council of St Helena. C) The Parliament of the Republic of South Africa. D) The Parliament of the Republic of Namibia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The British monarchy. 3. "Criteria" is the plural, what is the singular? A) Criterio. B) Criterius. C) Criteriae. D) Criterion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Criterion. 4. Which team came third in the 2002 men's basketball world championships in Indianapolis? A) Australia. B) New Zealand. C) Germany. D) Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Germany. 5. In the 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove ..... ", the doctor, working as national security consultant to the president, was a sinister character with a heavy Germanic accent and darkly Teutonic attitudes. Who had the nickname "Dr Strangelove" when in public office in the 1970s? A) Henry Kissinger. B) Willy Brandt. C) Kurt Georg Kiesinger. D) Helmut Schmidt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Henry Kissinger. 6. Which UK TV series, hosted by Lee Mack, features celebrities putting weird, unusual and over-the-top hypotheses to the test? A) Would I Lie to You?. B) 8 Out of 10 Cats. C) Duck Quacks Don't Echo. D) Mock the Week. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Duck Quacks Don't Echo. 7. Which gas is the most common in the earth's atmosphere? A) Nitrogen. B) Carbon dioxide. C) Hydrogen. D) Oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nitrogen. 8. Ramesses the Great presided over what empire? A) Hittite. B) Egyptian. C) Babylonian. D) Persian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Egyptian. 9. The annual rock festival at Roskilde is held in which country? A) Belgium. B) Ireland. C) Denmark. D) Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Denmark. 10. Since the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World Tour Masters 1000 was introduced in 1990, which former world number 1 holds the record for the most titles to 2010, with 17? A) Peter Andre. B) Andre Previn. C) Maurice André. D) Andre Agassi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Andre Agassi. 11. What is a linctus? A) Halting speech. B) An alpine rodent. C) A medicinal syrup. D) A spasm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A medicinal syrup. 12. What is or are speculaas? A) A cake topping. B) A spiced shortcrust biscuit. C) Marzipan animals. D) Hand puppets. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A spiced shortcrust biscuit. 13. Which of these airlines is based in the Netherlands? A) Ryanair. B) Lufthansa. C) KLM. D) Aeroflot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) KLM. 14. The International Game Fish Association rules specify that in freshwater fishing the double line and leader together may not exceed what combined length? A) 12.19 m (40 ft). B) 3.04 m (10 ft). C) 5 m (16.5 ft). D) 1.82 m (6 ft). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3.04 m (10 ft). 15. Who was Christopher Robin's favourite bear, according to books and poetry by A.A. Milne? A) Teddy. B) Winnie the Pooh. C) Paddington. D) Smokey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Winnie the Pooh. 16. Quinsy affects which part of the human body? A) Tonsils. B) Legs. C) Lungs. D) Appendix. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tonsils. 17. Mukhtar Al-Bakri, Sahim Alwan, Faysal Galab, Shafal Mosed, Yaseinn Taher and Yahya Goba were collectively known as the "Lackawanna Six" and by what other name? A) The Manson Family. B) The Gang of Six. C) The Buffalo Six. D) The Modern Jazz Sextet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Buffalo Six. 18. What is the name for the 'booklets' which form a book? A) Quarto. B) Reams. C) Quires. D) Rinceaux. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quires. 19. There is a ban on doing what on the islands in the Svalbard archipelago in Norway? A) Processing whale meat. B) Dying. C) Being buried other than, under special licence, as ashes in an urn. D) Killing polar bears. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Being buried other than, under special licence, as ashes in an urn. 20. What is the next number in the sequence 0; 4; 36; 1, 444? A) 2, 090, 916. B) Over 4, 371, 938 million. C) 1, 045, 458. D) Over 2, 185, 969 million. 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