This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 264 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 264 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Widely known for his work on British television, for co-founding the Materials Library, and for talks on aesthetics in the arts and sciences, Mark Miodownik has a doctorate in what? A) Mediaeval French theatre. B) Particle physics. C) Liberal arts. D) Turbine jet engine alloys. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Turbine jet engine alloys. 2. British clog dancing can be seen as a forerunner of what? A) Ballet. B) The tarantella. C) Tap dance. D) Bunions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tap dance. 3. In the words of the 1941 song popularised by Glenn Miller and his band, about when does the Chattanooga Choo Choo leave Pennsylvania Station? A) A quarter past six. B) A quarter to three. C) A quarter to four. D) Midnight. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A quarter to four. 4. What Court was established in 1959 by the election of its members by the European Council? A) European Court of Justice. B) European Court of Human Rights. C) Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organisation. D) E-Curia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) European Court of Human Rights. 5. What is the nationality of 2007 IndyCar Series champion George Dario Marino Franchitti? A) Scottish. B) Italian. C) Spanish. D) Brazilian. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scottish. 6. Who was Prime Minister of Great Britain at the end of World War I? A) Stanley Baldwin. B) Andrew Bonar Law. C) David Lloyd George. D) Herbert Asquith. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) David Lloyd George. 7. Where does the Guinness Book of World Records recognise the largest wave ever surfed, 78 feet (23.8 m), as having been ridden? A) Australia. B) Hawaii. C) Portugal. D) South Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Portugal. 8. What is the name given to a cataclysmic nuclear explosion caused by the accretion of hydrogen onto the surface of a white dwarf star? A) Red Dwarf. B) Nebula. C) Pulsar. D) Nova. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nova. 9. Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is mainly set in what city? A) Vancouver. B) Venice. C) Vatican. D) Verona. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verona. 10. Who broke the world record for the pole vault at the Beijing Olympics? A) Svetlana Feofanova. B) Annika Becker. C) Stacy Dragila. D) Yelena Isinbayeva. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Yelena Isinbayeva. 11. What nationality was the merchant brigantine "Mary Celeste" when she was found deserted and floating off the Azores in 1872? A) British. B) American. C) Canadian. D) Italian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) American. 12. Which of these historical figures is most associated with the year 1649? A) Elizabeth I. B) Robert the Bruce. C) Marie Antoinette. D) Charles I. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Charles I. 13. If you flew due west from Libreville, capital of the Gabon, where would you first make landfall? A) Sydney, Australia. B) The mouth of the Amazon River. C) South Somalia. D) Borneo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The mouth of the Amazon River. 14. Lake Tana lies at the head of which major river? A) Blue Nile. B) Amazon. C) Rhine. D) Danube. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blue Nile. 15. In a 1996 film John Travolta played what character? A) Debt collector. B) Mob hitman. C) Angel. D) Security guard. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Angel. 16. Which of these is a basic blend of ground spices common in Indian and other South Asian cuisines? A) Garam masala. B) Gram Parsons. C) Gounod. D) Lassi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Garam masala. 17. What function do palps, or pedipalps, serve for spiders? A) Jumping. B) Injecting poison into prey. C) Holding prey. D) Secondary sexual organs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Secondary sexual organs. 18. If a boat or yacht is luffed what does it do? A) Sails close to the wind. B) Heels over and takes water. C) Takes a ninety degree turn. D) Hauls to and stops. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sails close to the wind. 19. For the Republic of South Africa, the city of Johannesburg is what? A) Its administrative capital. B) The seat of its National Parliament and its legislative capital. C) Its principal port. D) The seat of its Constitutional Court. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The seat of its Constitutional Court. 20. Corcovado mountain overlooks which city? A) Sydney. B) Rio de Janeiro. C) Moscow. D) Montevideo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rio de Janeiro. ← 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