This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge โ Quiz 151 ๐ Homepage ๐ Download PDF Books ๐ Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 151 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. According to Christian legend, who, as Jesus was bearing the cross to Golgotha, offered him her veil to wipe his brow? A) Esther. B) Ruth. C) Veronica. D) Kylie. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Veronica. 2. What would be most useful in playing a game of backgammon? A) A ball. B) Dice. C) Umpires. D) Special shoes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dice. 3. What does the "T" stand for in the iniitals of the US agency known as the "NTSB" ? A) Tramways. B) Termination. C) Transportation. D) Treatment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transportation. 4. Which of these words is used to refer to a female swan? A) Cow. B) Cob. C) Cygnet. D) Pen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pen. 5. The Irtysh River in Asia is the main tributary of what major river, the seventh longest globally? A) Yenisei. B) Ob. C) Lena. D) Yangtze. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ob. 6. What country has the official languages Tok Pisin, English, Hiri Motu and its own Sign Language? A) Vanuatu. B) Borneo. C) Solomon Islands. D) Papua New Guinea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Papua New Guinea. 7. What is the more common name for the white crystalline salt called hydrated sodium pyroborate? A) Fire lighters. B) Heroin. C) Borax. D) Boron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Borax. 8. The British child-killer, Mary Bell, a close ally of Adolf Hitler, Albert Speer, and the commandant of the Sobibรณr and Treblinka extermination camps, Franz Stangl, were all subjects of books by which biographer, historian, and investigative journalist? A) Gitta Sereny. B) Paul Foot. C) Tom Bower. D) Pallab Ghosh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gitta Sereny. 9. Who composed the score for the 1948 UK film "Scott of the Antarctic" ? A) Ralph Fiennes. B) Edward Elgar. C) Edvard Grieg. D) Ralph Vaughan Williams. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ralph Vaughan Williams. 10. Who published an autobiography in 2020 titled "A Promised Land" ? A) Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China. B) The Dalai Lama. C) Barack Obama, ex-President of the United States. D) Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Barack Obama, ex-President of the United States. 11. A second century CE Roman, a Lusitanian Spaniard by birth, became the highest paid athlete ever, as what? A) Pentathlete. B) Gladiator. C) Wrestler. D) Charioteer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Charioteer. 12. Which of these is an area in France? A) Tuscany. B) Picardy. C) Bavaria. D) Costa Brava. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Picardy. 13. What is the name of the largest city in Morocco and the Maghreb, Morocco's chief port, and one of the largest financial centres in Africa? A) Casablanca. B) Rabat. C) Alexandria. D) Tripoli. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Casablanca. 14. The Mississippi River is on what continent? A) North America. B) Europe. C) Australia. D) Antarctica. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) North America. 15. Jacqueline Lee Bouvier became better known as who? A) Jacqueline Du Prรฉ. B) Paris Hilton. C) Jacantha Beanstalk. D) Jackie Kennedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jackie Kennedy. 16. In ballet, which of these terms refers to the position of the body supported on one leg, with the other leg extended behind the body with the knee straight? A) Entrechat. B) Jetรฉ. C) Pirouette. D) Arabesque. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Arabesque. 17. According to an old English poem, who was slain by a dragon? A) Eormanric. B) Merlin. C) Weland. D) Beowulf. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Beowulf. 18. Uruguay is mostly what type of land? A) Marsh and wetlands. B) Rolling plain. C) Mountain. D) Upland plateau. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rolling plain. 19. Which word best meets the definition "The incline of the stage floor (or the theatre floor) away from the horizontal (lower at the downstage end)" ? A) Tilt. B) Pan. C) Rake. D) Tip. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rake. 20. What is the name of the line separating the numerator and denominator of a fraction if it is written as a horizontal line? A) Tangent. B) Vinculum. C) Secant. D) Solidus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vinculum. โ PreviousNext โRelated 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 ๐ Back to Homepage ๐ Download PDF Books ๐ Premium PDF Books