This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 226 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 226 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The songs "Don't Rain on My Parade" and "People" are from which musical? A) Funny Girl. B) Call Me Madam. C) South Pacific. D) A Star is Born. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Funny Girl. 2. Which long-running TV show, adapted in the US in the year after the original aired in the UK, went on to win seven Daytime Emmy Awards in the US? A) The Chase. B) Whose Line Is It Anyway?. C) Survivor. D) Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. 3. What tax was current in ancient Athens, in Jerusalem more than 2, 000 years ago, in Egypt, in Europe and England from time to time (leading in 1381 to Wat Tyler's rebellion), including Charles I's, Charles II's, and Margaret Thatcher's governments, in Canada and the USA, and in NZ among others? A) Purchase Tax. B) Poll Tax. C) Sales Tax. D) Pay As You Earn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poll Tax. 4. The lyric "You can make it OK, you can get married in Gibraltar near Spain" is from which song? A) "You're my World" by Umberto Bindi, Gino Paoli & Carl Sigman. B) "Je t'aime moi non plus" by Serge Gainsbourg. C) "The Ballad of John and Yoko", credited to Lennon / McCartney. D) "Joy to the World" by Hoyt Axton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "The Ballad of John and Yoko", credited to Lennon / McCartney. 5. Where are the Kaieteur Falls, the world's largest single-drop waterfall by volume? A) Essequibo, Guyana. B) Cuispes, Peru. C) Patagonia, Chile. D) Canaima, Venezuela. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Essequibo, Guyana. 6. Until the introduction of the Euro on 1 January 2002, which country had the Deutsche Mark as its basic currency unit? A) France. B) Italy. C) Belgium. D) Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Germany. 7. What is the collective name for table items such as salt, mustard, vinegar and pepper? A) Consonants. B) Compliments. C) Condiments. D) Cormorants. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Condiments. 8. What is the only joint rule in the history of England? A) George V and Elizabeth I. B) Elizabeth II and Philip I. C) William III and Mary II. D) Jane Grey and Guilford Dudley. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William III and Mary II. 9. Which British sprinter returned to competition in 1997 after a 4 year ban due to doping offences? A) Jason Gardener. B) Dwain Chambers. C) Dougie Walker. D) Jason Livingston. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jason Livingston. 10. Which of these is the surname of two sisters who are tennis champions? A) Scissor. B) Woods. C) Williams. D) Bronté. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Williams. 11. What is young British artist Debbie Smyth best known for? A) Large-scale thread and pin drawings. B) Stained glass sculpture. C) Ambient music. D) Programming robots to paint. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Large-scale thread and pin drawings. 12. Who owned the fictional plantation of Tara? A) Scarlett O'Hara. B) Ben Cartwright. C) Angela Channing. D) Madame Ranevskaya. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scarlett O'Hara. 13. The non-fiction book "The Invention of Nature" by historian Andrea Wulf is concerned with which scientist? A) Charles Darwin. B) Alexander von Humboldt. C) Benjamin Rush. D) Joseph Banks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alexander von Humboldt. 14. Which country's team won the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023? A) Morocco. B) Australia. C) New Zealand. D) Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spain. 15. In Greek mythology, which herald had a voice louder than 50 men combined? A) Tiresias. B) Stentor. C) Argus. D) Rorcus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stentor. 16. Who wrote the lyrics / music for the musical "Chess" ? A) Fred Ebb / John Kander. B) Richard Stilgoe & Charles Hart / Andrew Lloyd Webber. C) Tim Rice / Andrew Lloyd Webber. D) Tim Rice / Bjorn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tim Rice / Bjorn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson. 17. After the death of his elder brother Tsar Aleksandr I, Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich was declared Emperor of all the Russias on 1 December 1825. How long did his time on the throne last? A) 50 years. B) 26 years. C) 1 day. D) 26 days. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 26 days. 18. Which of these has the largest playing surface? A) Ice hockey. B) Polo. C) Squash. D) Table tennis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Polo. 19. What was the experimental goal of the Stanford Prison Experiment in 1971? A) To study the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. B) To see the effect on prisoners of different periods of solitary confinement. C) To study the effects on prison inmates of a theatre and arts programme. D) To see the effect on a confined group of people of being studied. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To study the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. 20. What was the sporting fixture called Baku 2015? A) Asian speedboating championship. B) The inaugural European Games. C) Desert car rally. D) World synchronised swimming championships. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The inaugural European Games. ← 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