This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 213 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 213 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Since 2002, the awards presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have been broadcast from which venue? A) Ed Sullivan Theatre. B) The Kodak Theatre. C) Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. D) Graumann's Chinese Theatre. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Kodak Theatre. 2. Which of these is a sequel, written by Susan Hill, to Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca" ? A) Mrs de Winter. B) Northanger Abbey. C) Little Dorrit. D) Gone With the Wind. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mrs de Winter. 3. Which of these comes from the leaves of the sassafras? A) Filé powder. B) Arsenic. C) Rose hip. D) Ginger. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Filé powder. 4. The words of the national anthem for which country were written by Francis Scott Key? A) Jamaica. B) USA. C) Ethiopia. D) New Zealand. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) USA. 5. What annual three day event held near Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, was first organised by the 6th Marquess of Exeter in 1961? A) Royal Windsor Horse Show. B) Badminton Horse Trials. C) Bramham Horse Trials. D) Burghley Horse Trials. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Burghley Horse Trials. 6. What regular feature on page 3 of the Sun newspaper first appeared in November 1970? A) Stock market information. B) Crossword. C) Picture of a bare-breasted woman. D) Sudoku. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Picture of a bare-breasted woman. 7. How many countries in the European area does the United Nations include in its "Western European and Others" informal voting and regulations bloc? A) 20. B) 10. C) 12. D) 24. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 24. 8. What is the maximum number of individual players for Ludo? A) 6. B) 4. C) 10. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 4. 9. Which animal has very low metabolic rates and a quarter of the muscle tissue of animals of similar size, and whose hair grows in a direction opposite to that of its extremities? A) Alligator. B) Coatimundi. C) Sloth. D) Gorilla. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sloth. 10. Which of these is a component of the Japanese writing system? A) Cuneiform. B) Sanskrit. C) Katakana. D) Hieroglyphs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Katakana. 11. Australian Sidney Cotton was responsible for the development of which long-reaching facility, used first for the Allies in WW II? A) Aerial photo reconnaissance. B) Sonar. C) Radar. D) Magnetised limpet mines. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aerial photo reconnaissance. 12. What is the name for an artificial feature creating extra turns in a roadway, used in motor racing and on city streets, to slow cars? A) Speed bump. B) Cattle stop. C) Chicane. D) Calming lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chicane. 13. Which of these is not an example of a "joint" ? A) Cigarette. B) Knee. C) Nightclub. D) Three-wheeled motorcycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Three-wheeled motorcycle. 14. What is the meaning of the old English word "coomb" ? A) Port. B) Farm. C) Valley. D) Market. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Valley. 15. Who regularly roams in the Hundred Acre Wood which features in the books by A.A.Milne? A) Prince. B) Pooh. C) Pantagruel. D) Persephone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pooh. 16. Elton John co-wrote 5 songs with Tim Rice for which Walt Disney musical? A) Aladdin. B) Beauty and the Beasr. C) 101 Dalmatians. D) The Lion King. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Lion King. 17. Who in 2011 won the unofficial event he has hosted, the Chevron World Challenge, his first professional golf tournament win since 2009? A) Hunter Maan. B) Tiger Woods. C) Julien Foret. D) David Oakley. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tiger Woods. 18. Which capital city in Africa is built at the highest elevation? A) Nairobi, Kenya. B) Asmara, Eritrea. C) Windhoek, Namibia. D) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 19. Which of these is a herb? A) Fennel. B) Tunnel. C) Kennel. D) Puddle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fennel. 20. The British television series "Vigil" starring Suranne Jones opens with an investigation of what? A) Resistance in Tiananmen Square. B) The Troubles in Northern Ireland. C) Death on and related to a nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine. D) The aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks in the USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Death on and related to a nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine. ← 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