This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 190 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 190 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. For bagpipes what is the pipe in which the notes are formed? A) Chanter. B) Recorder. C) Stock. D) Drone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chanter. 2. The satirical 2014 UK TV series "W1A" is a follow-up to which other series? A) Twenty Twelve. B) Last Tango in Halifax. C) Downton Abbey. D) Luther. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Twenty Twelve. 3. Hearing sound when no external sound is present, possibly a ringing, clicking, hiss, sizzle or roar, is described as what? A) Tintin. B) Otitis. C) Tintinnabulum. D) Tinnitus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tinnitus. 4. In 2009, when it was suggested that doctors in the state of Queensland, Australia, were losing patients due to their shifts of 80 hours per week, what did Queensland health officials suggest that doctors do about it? A) Drink 6 cups of coffee per day. B) Make sure that they took a ten minute break every hour. C) Stop watching television at home and sleep instead. D) Refrain from sexual activity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Drink 6 cups of coffee per day. 5. Who wrote "The Sheep Pig", that was made into the film "Babe" ? A) Raymond Briggs. B) Dick King-Smith. C) Helen Cresswell. D) Roald Dahl. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dick King-Smith. 6. In mid August 2017 the yachts Bagheera and the Snow Dragon II, with a crew of 10 and a dog called Fukumi, sailed on what expedition? A) To sail round the world non-stop without resupply. B) To sail through the North-East Passage. C) To sail to the North Pole. D) To circumnavigate the new size Antarctica after Larsen C ice shelf calved its 5, 800 sq km iceberg. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To sail to the North Pole. 7. Which of these is a type of generator of electric current in which mechanical energy is converted to electrical energy? A) Dynamo. B) Domino. C) Eurythmic. D) Motor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dynamo. 8. Development of the iron lung with which Drinker and Shaw's names are associated, and which was used to aid polio victims, was first funded by which body? A) Medical Research Council, UK. B) Boston Children's Hospital. C) South Australia Health Department. D) Consolidated Gas Company of New York. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Consolidated Gas Company of New York. 9. What marked the 1895 game in Canada between the Halifax Stanleys and Dartmouth Jubilees hockey teams? A) First national championship. B) First recorded game involving two all-black hockey teams. C) The game lasted three days, and was the last to be played with no time limit. D) It was the first hockey game to be played on ice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) First recorded game involving two all-black hockey teams. 10. Where is the Ocucaje Desert? A) Venezuela. B) Peru. C) Chile. D) Bolivia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peru. 11. Which 2011 film, starring Emma Watson, Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Redmayne, Dominic Cooper, Julia Ormond, Derek Jacobi, Michael Kitchen and Judi Dench, was Watson's first film released after the Harry Potter series? A) The Perks of Being a Wallflower. B) My Week With Marilyn. C) The Tale of Despereaux. D) The Bling Ring. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) My Week With Marilyn. 12. Which of these is a fictional character co-created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger which first appeared in Detective Comics in May 1939? A) Batman. B) Pac-Man. C) Lakeman. D) Sandman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Batman. 13. In musical notation, what word means "higher in pitch by a semitone" ? A) Sharp. B) Acute. C) Cutting. D) Off. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sharp. 14. What is the series "yan ..... giggot" most likely to be? A) Favourite names in the Orkney Islands. B) A method of counting sheep, one to twenty. C) A list of common plants suitable for planting on sea shores. D) Cuts of mutton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A method of counting sheep, one to twenty. 15. Which of these is closest to a galette? A) Chamois. B) Crostata. C) Samosa. D) Waffle iron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crostata. 16. Which German-born chemist split the uranium atom in 1939 and won the Nobel prize in 1944? A) Otto Hahn. B) Ernest Rutherford. C) Pierre Curie. D) Frederick Nietzsche. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Otto Hahn. 17. What song is on the soundtrack of the 2009 film "Inglourious Basterds" at the start of the section called "Final Chapter:Revenge of the Giant Face" ? A) "Slaughter" by Billy Preston. B) "The Green Leaves of Summer" by Nick Perito. C) "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" by David Bowie. D) "Claire's First Appearance" by Jacques Loussier. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" by David Bowie. 18. Plain unglazed pottery is often termed as what? A) Trachea. B) Tahoma. C) Terracotta. D) Tijuana. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Terracotta. 19. By what name was Dino Paul Proscetti better known? A) Dean Rusk. B) Dean Martin. C) Dean Torrance. D) James Dean. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dean Martin. 20. The Academy Award-winning song "Mona Lisa", written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the film "Captain Carey, U.S.A", was a 1950 hit for which artist? A) Bobby Darin. B) Danny Kaye. C) Dean Martin. D) Nat King Cole. 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