This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 260 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 260 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who starred in "Beaches", "Down and Out in Beverly Hills", "Outrageous Fortune" and "The First Wives Club" ? A) Diane Keaton. B) Bette Midler. C) Goldie Hawn. D) Julia Roberts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bette Midler. 2. Which of these is NOT a Norwegian explorer or adventurer known for their 20th century expeditions? A) Abel Tasman. B) Roald Amundsen. C) Thor Heyerdahl. D) Fridtjof Nansen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abel Tasman. 3. Who became famous for editing and publishing texts of classic writing "purged of all coarse and indecent expressions" ? A) Mrs Grundy. B) Reverend William Spooner. C) Mrs Malaprop. D) Thomas Bowdler. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thomas Bowdler. 4. The "galop" from Offenbach's "Orphée aux Enfers" is generally associated with what? A) British royal coronations. B) Can can. C) Hitler's most publicised Nuremberg rally. D) The funeral of Ronald Reagan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Can can. 5. What scale, developed by Terence Meaden as an extension of the Beaufort scale, measures tornado intensity between T0 and T11? A) Temperature scale. B) Tachymeter scale. C) Torino Scale. D) TORRO scale. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) TORRO scale. 6. The name of which board game means "I play" in Latin? A) Mah Jong. B) Stratego. C) Ludo. D) Parcheesi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ludo. 7. Flower chafers, June beetles, dung beetles and rhinoceros beetles are species of what? A) Ladybird, or ladybug. B) Shield bug. C) Scarab. D) Lepidoptera. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scarab. 8. How many terms does a binomial expression have? A) 3. B) 2. C) 4. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 9. What colour are salmon eggs? A) Black. B) Blue. C) White. D) Orange. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Orange. 10. In Herman Melville's "Moby Dick", what was the name of Captain Ahab's ship? A) Jolly Roger. B) Hispaniola. C) Covenant. D) The Pequod. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Pequod. 11. What was the Olympics venue announced by Jacques Rogge as his last before he resigned as President of the International Olympics Committee (IOC)? A) Brazil 2016. B) Tokyo 2020. C) 2018 PyeongChang. D) 2014 Sochi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tokyo 2020. 12. Manually created bespoke sound effects in theatre or film are called what? A) Foley. B) Freesound. C) RealSFX. D) Tic-tac. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foley. 13. Spain has been through the upheaval of civil war more than once; what were the dates of the war in the 20th century? A) 1900-10. B) 1930-36. C) 1936-39. D) 1998-9. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1936-39. 14. Where in the USA is Lake Mead? A) On the border between Nevada and Arizona. B) On the border between Utah and Arizona. C) On the border between Utah and Colorado. D) On the border between Nevada and Idaho. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) On the border between Nevada and Arizona. 15. Which song, in the best known translation, contains the words "Oh the shark has pretty teeth dear, And he shows them pearly white, Just a jack-knife has Macheath dear, And he keeps it out of sight" ? A) It's All Over Now. B) They Swam Right Over the Dam. C) Chanson d'Amour. D) Mack the Knife. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mack the Knife. 16. Archimedes is the first person recorded to have designed and built an elevator, in about 236 BC. Who is credited with introducing the safety elevator, which did not fall if the cable broke? A) Elisha Otis (1811-1861). B) Alfred Einstein (1879-1955). C) Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859). D) James Watt (1736-1819). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elisha Otis (1811-1861). 17. What was the Roman name for Wales? A) Caledonia. B) Hibernia. C) Cambria. D) Gaul. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cambria. 18. Among its functions to promote and safeguard astronomy (e.g. research, communication, education and development) through international cooperation, the International Astronomical Union does what in relation to features in the solar system? A) Names them. B) Creates video and VCR games using them. C) Builds topographical models of them to use in designing playgrounds. D) Nothing, it is not involved in anything to do with them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Names them. 19. In 2015, with names formally confirmed in 2016, new laboratory-synthesised elements were added to the periodic table of elements. How many were there? A) 5. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 4. 20. Which of these is closest to the South Georgia and the Sandwich Islands? A) Galápagos Islands. B) Stewart Island. C) Elephant Island. D) Kuril Islands. 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