This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 277 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 277 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Eugène Arnold Dolmetsch (1858-1940) is seen as largely responsible for promoting what for use in schools? A) Slide rule. B) Hula hoop. C) Recorder. D) Ball-point pen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Recorder. 2. What fictional island off the coast of Sumatra that first appeared in the 1933 film "King Kong" is the home of King Kong and other creatures? A) Soames Island. B) Treasure Island. C) Skull Island. D) Pitcairn Island. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skull Island. 3. "Choo choo" is a child's name for what? A) Food. B) High chair. C) Railway engine. D) Handkerchief. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Railway engine. 4. In "The Sound of Music", which of these items did not feature in Maria's list of "Favourite Things" ? A) Gold rings. B) Raindrops. C) Packages. D) Mittens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gold rings. 5. According to legend, when did the seer and priest Laocoön live? A) When Jason and the Argonauts set out to find the Golden Fleece. B) At the time of the Trojan War, famously ended after the Trojans accepted the gift of a wooden horse. C) At the time Rome was founded. D) When the Minotaur labyrinth was built. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) At the time of the Trojan War, famously ended after the Trojans accepted the gift of a wooden horse. 6. What 2003 mystery-detective novel by Dan Brown has been denounced as an attack on the Catholic Church and criticised for historical and scientific inaccuracy? A) Death In Venice. B) The Passion of Christ. C) 12 Stations from King's Cross. D) The Da Vinci Code. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Da Vinci Code. 7. Who did Antonio Banderas marry on 14 May 1996? A) Bette Midler. B) Jessica Tandy. C) Julia Roberts. D) Melanie Griffith. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Melanie Griffith. 8. What sign of the zodiac is represented by an archer? A) Capricorn. B) Leo. C) Sagittarius. D) Libra. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sagittarius. 9. An attack near the finish line of the annual Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, was the work of two young brothers who detonated two what? A) Pressure cooker bombs. B) Pipe bombs. C) Dirty bombs. D) Gas canisters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pressure cooker bombs. 10. In the first episodes of the game which featured Commander Keen, released in 1990, what or who were the hero's opponent? A) The Holy Empire of Sanbreque. B) The Shikadi. C) Boobus Tuber. D) The Vorticons. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Vorticons. 11. Where is the giant herbivorous insect Deinacrida heteracantha a native? A) Argentina. B) The Philippines. C) New Zealand. D) Myanmar/Burma. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) New Zealand. 12. The half-length portrait of Lisa di Anton Maria di Noldo Gherardini is better known by what name? A) The Night Watch. B) Girl With a Pearl Earring. C) Mona Lisa. D) Pieta. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mona Lisa. 13. What card game uses a scoreboard with holes and pegs? A) Pontoon. B) Baccarat. C) Cribbage. D) Bridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cribbage. 14. Which author and playwright wrote "An Inspector Calls", "When We Are Married" and "Dangerous Corner" ? A) J M Barrie. B) J B Priestley. C) Noel Coward. D) Oscar Wilde. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) J B Priestley. 15. Which of these elements is the basis for calamine lotion? A) Tin. B) Iron. C) Copper. D) Zinc. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Zinc. 16. The food known as "whitebait" consists of small what? A) Sausages. B) Eels. C) Mushrooms. D) Fish. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fish. 17. French intelligence service (DGSE) agents Captain Dominique Prieur and Commander Alain Mafart were convicted of the manslaughter of photographer Fernando Pereira and sinking a ship, Greenpeace's the "Rainbow Warrior", in 1985, in which harbour? A) Auckland, New Zealand. B) Noumea, New Caledonia. C) Sydney, Australia. D) Nadi, Fiji. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Auckland, New Zealand. 18. The orangutan is found on Sumatra and which other island? A) Timor. B) Singapore. C) Taiwan. D) Borneo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Borneo. 19. Which of these countries is closest to Austria? A) Korea. B) Denmark. C) Zimbabwe. D) Japan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denmark. 20. By what name does history better know 11th-century Castilian military leader Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar? A) Saladin. B) Che. C) El Cid. D) Lawrence of Arabia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) El Cid. ← 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