This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 208 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 208 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The seven hills which lay within ancient Rome are the Capitoline, Caelian, Aventine, Palatine, Quirinal, Esquiline and which other hill? A) Pincian. B) Vatican. C) Viminal. D) Janiculum. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Viminal. 2. What is the word for someone who arranges marriages? A) Troublemaker. B) Dressmaker. C) Haymaker. D) Matchmaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Matchmaker. 3. Tierra del Fuego is volcanically active and sits at the tip of which tectonic plate? A) Nazca. B) Antarctic. C) South American. D) Scotia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scotia. 4. A 1951 film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll, Kasey Rogers and Patricia Hitchcock was called "Strangers on a ..... what" ? A) Plane. B) Train. C) Tandem. D) Tram. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Train. 5. What was the main character trait of the Dickens character Mr Micawber? A) Optimism. B) Shyness. C) Aggression. D) Superiority. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Optimism. 6. Elliot Gould played whose father on the TV series Friends? A) Joey. B) Chandler. C) Ross & Monica. D) Rachel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ross & Monica. 7. First appearing in English about the time of Shakespeare, what word means foppish, or, later, fabricated or tricked out? A) Arrant. B) Affected. C) Fangled. D) Capricious. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fangled. 8. Religious reformer Martin Luther famously burnt what letter? A) From All Saints' Church, Wittenberg, re damage to their door. B) From the pope, threatening to excommunicate him. C) From Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, calling him a troublemaker. D) From the Archbishop of Canterbury, inviting him to become an Anglican. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) From the pope, threatening to excommunicate him. 9. Who is the subject of the 2021 biographical musical "A Wonderful World" ? A) Duke Ellington. B) Whitney Houston. C) Louis Armstrong. D) Stevie Wonder. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Louis Armstrong. 10. Which of these is the best hand to have in blackjack? A) King of hearts, ace of diamonds. B) Jack of clubs, 8 of hearts. C) Ace of diamonds, 8 of spades, 3 of clubs, 3 of hearts, 10 of clubs. D) 10 of clubs, 10 of hearts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) King of hearts, ace of diamonds. 11. What initials refer to an improved quality of TV transmission? A) VD. B) CD. C) HD. D) PD. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) HD. 12. Sergei Rachmaninoff was a virtuoso on which instrument? A) Cello. B) Violin. C) Piano. D) Guitar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Piano. 13. On which continent would you find the mountain chains called Cordillera Oriental and the Cordillera Occidental? A) Australia. B) Asia. C) Europe. D) South America. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) South America. 14. What is obtained from a sturgeon? A) Ink. B) Caviar. C) Whalebone. D) Tomato sauce. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Caviar. 15. What does the film "Experimenter" (2015) centre on? A) The 1961 Stanley Milgram experiments. B) Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie. C) The fictional Dr Frankenstein. D) Biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, and Augustinian monk, Gregor Mendel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The 1961 Stanley Milgram experiments. 16. What is used in fireworks and flares to give off a brilliant red light? A) Phosphorus. B) Beryllium. C) Magnesium. D) Strontium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Strontium. 17. What shape is a horseshoe crab's heart? A) Pear-shaped. B) Similar to a mammal's. C) Three lobed. D) A long narrow tube. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A long narrow tube. 18. The Latin phrase "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes" from Virgil's Aeneid is often translated into English as what? A) Do not trust Greeks bearing gifts. B) Time waits for no-one. C) A pretty girl is like a melody. D) A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Do not trust Greeks bearing gifts. 19. From which Olympic Games were Germany and Japan excluded? A) Atlanta, 1996. B) Melbourne, 1956. C) Sydney, 2000. D) London, 1948. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) London, 1948. 20. Which thoroughfare was closed and blanketed with flowers, trees and grass for 3 days in May 2010? A) The Champs Elysees, Paris. B) Pall Mall, London. C) Broadway, New York. D) Saint Mark's Square, Venice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Champs Elysees, Paris. ← 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