This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 191 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 191 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these terms is applied to a humorous exaggerated imitation of an author, literary work, style, etc.? A) Paradox. B) Parody. C) Palindrome. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parody. 2. Complete the title of this James Bond film: "Licence To ..... ''? A) Kill. B) Drive. C) Own a Dog. D) Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kill. 3. Rose and Jack were the lead characters in which film? A) A Star Is Born. B) Finding Neverland. C) The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. D) Titanic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Titanic. 4. What infectious disease, occurring commonly in epidemics and caused by a virus, is characterised by blotchy rash preceded by a running nose and eyes, with a rise in temperature and lassitude? A) Chickenpox. B) Measles. C) Mumps. D) Whooping cough. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Measles. 5. Dick York, Dick Sargent, David White and Paul Lynde worked on what US TV serial which ran in the 1960s and 1970s? A) Bewitched. B) The Waltons. C) Down to Earth. D) Wagon Train. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bewitched. 6. All major television network evening schedules in the US were pre-empted on 16 January 1991 by coverage of what? A) The first US actions in the Gulf War. B) The attempted coup d'Γ©tat by the Tonton Macoute paramilitary force in Haiti. C) A mortar attack on 10 Downing Street, London, by the Provisional IRA. D) The O J Simpson trial in the courtroom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The first US actions in the Gulf War. 7. The fifteen elements with atomic numbers 89 to 103, which includes Actinium (Ac), Thorium (Th), Uranium (U), Neptunium (Np), Plutonium (Pu), Americium (Am), Californium (Cf), Einsteinium (Es) and Lawrencium (Lr), are known as what? A) Actinoid series. B) Noble gases. C) Antibiotics. D) Halogens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Actinoid series. 8. Colin Kaepernick, who became particularly well-known in 2016, is an American sportsman in what field? A) American football (NFL). B) Baseball. C) Soccer. D) Basketball. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) American football (NFL). 9. Which American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer who wrote "Wolverine Blues", "Black Bottom Stomp", and "Buddy Bolden's Blues" claimed, in self-promotional hyperbole, to have invented jazz outright in 1902? A) Paul Whiteman. B) "Jelly Roll" Morton. C) Duke Ellington. D) Wynton Marsalis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Jelly Roll" Morton. 10. Which of these is a photographer, who captured (and help create) the high fashion and celebrity chic of 1960s 'Swinging London', who has been married to Rosemary Bramble, Catherine Deneuve, Marie Helvin and Catherine Dyer? A) George Eastman. B) Cecil Beaton. C) David Bailey. D) Henri Cartier-Bresson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) David Bailey. 11. Which of these religions is the oldest to be recognised as an identifiable belief system? A) Christianity. B) Zoroastrianism. C) Islam. D) Taoism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Zoroastrianism. 12. How many volunteer hours were estimated to have supported the 2012 Summer Olympics? A) 7 million. B) 12 million. C) 8 million. D) 1.7 million. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 8 million. 13. The influential 1848 Cambridge University rules for football were drawn up with the participation of what groups? A) English universities. B) English public schools. C) Local football clubs. D) Local football leagues. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) English public schools. 14. Which of these is an English country dance? A) Sir Roger de Coverley. B) Sir Lancelot. C) Duke of Edinburgh. D) Dame Judi Dench. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sir Roger de Coverley. 15. Which 18th century playwright in which play, introduced the character of Mrs Malaprop who confuses words of similar sound? A) Richard Brinsley Sheridan in The Rivals (1775). B) Richard Brinsley Sheridan in The School for Scandal (1777). C) George Lillo in The London Merchant (1731). D) William Congreve in The Way of the World (1700). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Richard Brinsley Sheridan in The Rivals (1775). 16. Who was the star of the 1970s TV programme "Policewoman" ? A) Angie Dickinson. B) Sharon Gless. C) Ellen Burstyn. D) Tyne Daly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Angie Dickinson. 17. An ancient American two player war game called Patolli uses 5 or 6 dice together with how many game pieces and what shaped board? A) 4 pieces, oblong board. B) 64 pieces, square board. C) 6 pieces, X-shaped board. D) 12 pieces, circular board. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 6 pieces, X-shaped board. 18. In the human body which has more nerve endings? A) Hairs. B) Back of the head. C) Knee. D) Hand. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hand. 19. Which US president was re-elected with the slogan "Don't change horses in mid-stream" ? A) Abraham Lincoln. B) Herbert Hoover. C) Richard Nixon. D) Lyndon Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abraham Lincoln. 20. Where is the largest known land arthropod endemic? A) Shores round the Baltic Sea. B) The western coasts of North America. C) Islands across the Indian Ocean and parts of the western Pacific Ocean. D) Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Islands across the Indian Ocean and parts of the western Pacific Ocean. 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