This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 16 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who was the great great great grand uncle of the singer/composer known as "Moby" ? A) Herman Melville. B) Abraham Lincoln. C) Benjamin Franklin. D) King Edward VII. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Herman Melville. 2. For which 1949 American film noir directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, and Richard Conte, did Robinson receive the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival? A) House of Strangers. B) Soylent Green. C) The Secret Garden. D) White Heat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) House of Strangers. 3. What is the early English name for the road that went from London through Lincoln and York to Hadrian's Wall? A) Stone Street. B) Watling Street. C) Fosse Way. D) Ermine Street. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ermine Street. 4. In 1992, Vitaly Scherbo (USSR/BLR) broke the record for being awarded the most Olympic gold medals in one day (4) for which discipline? A) Gymnastics. B) Soccer. C) Golf. D) La crosse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gymnastics. 5. Which year did the International Association of Athletics Federations first recognise a women's record in pole vault? A) 1948. B) 1994. C) 1962. D) 1958. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1994. 6. Where was Tempelhof airport? A) Geneva. B) Vienna. C) Hamburg. D) Berlin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Berlin. 7. On 3 June 1844, which bird became extinct when the last two were killed by hunters? A) Dodo. B) Colombian Grebe. C) Liverpool Pigeon. D) Great Auk. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Great Auk. 8. "Just So Stories for Little Children" (1902) is concerned with what? A) Tales of how animals acquired their various distinctive characteristics. B) Dinner etiquette. C) Cautionary tales. D) Science experiments. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tales of how animals acquired their various distinctive characteristics. 9. People who speak Magyar are likely to be or have been native to what country? A) Switzerland. B) Romania. C) Hungary. D) Moldova. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hungary. 10. Which of these is half a semi-breve? A) Crotchet. B) Minim. C) Rest. D) Quaver. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Minim. 11. Which of these would be involved in prestidigitation? A) Refrigerator engineer. B) Doctor. C) Canning factory manager. D) Magician. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Magician. 12. What year did the cable television network ESPN made its debut broadcasting and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day? A) 1979. B) 1989. C) 1999. D) 1969. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1979. 13. Which of these books was written first? A) Nineteen Eighty Four. B) Jane Eyre. C) Robinson Crusoe. D) Pride and Prejudice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Robinson Crusoe. 14. Why did the MS Achille Lauro become internationally well-known in 1985? A) She caught fire and leaked her entire cargo of oil and diesel. B) She was hi-jacked. C) She sailed a short distance under solar power. D) She was torpedoed and sank with all passengers and crew. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She was hi-jacked. 15. Which British-Australian actor, voice-artist, political activist, Dickens aficionado, is the long-term partner of retired Australian professor of Indonesian Studies, Heather Sunderland? A) Toni Collette. B) Hugh Jackman. C) Geoffrey Rush. D) Miriam Margolyes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Miriam Margolyes. 16. The painting that has the words "ceci n'est pas une pipe" written on it, is by which artist? A) Magritte. B) Picasso. C) Braque. D) Chirico. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Magritte. 17. Which sewing machine company has held a patent on the mechanism that creates the blanket stitch since its introduction in 1877 (the most recent patent renewal was in 2007), and is involved in litigation with several Chinese firms who are accused of violating their intellectual property rights? A) Brother. B) Bernina. C) Merrow. D) Singer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Merrow. 18. What is the name of the small red oval mark painted on the face, common in Hinduism? A) Bindy. B) Bling. C) Cindy. D) Dindy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bindy. 19. Which of these is used by a photographer to develop and print film? A) Shadowstudy. B) Dimsalon. C) Gloomy Lounge. D) Darkroom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Darkroom. 20. Who is the Hamilton of the 2015 musical of the same name? A) Lewis Hamilton. B) Sir William Hamilton. C) Hamilton Fish. D) Alexander Hamilton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alexander Hamilton. ← 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