This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 36 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 36 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How many human blood groups are there? A) 4. B) 8. C) 3. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 8. 2. Henry Cooper is associated with which sport? A) Boxing. B) Surfing. C) Dog racing. D) Baseball. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Boxing. 3. Which of these is a plucked instrument? A) Pan pipes. B) Kazoo. C) Didgeridoo. D) Jew's harp. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jew's harp. 4. In what game would you declare a rubber? A) Chess. B) Backgammon. C) Bridge. D) Pinochle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bridge. 5. What makes Douglas Fairbanks the odd one out from these other stars of the early American film scene:Cary Grant, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Errol Flynn? A) He was the only one never to win an Oscar. B) He was the only one born, and to have started his performing career, in the USA. C) He was the only one to marry. D) He did not move to the USA until he was nearly 26. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He was the only one born, and to have started his performing career, in the USA. 6. Outside its use in linguistics, what is a "paradigm" ? A) A place of everlasting joy. B) Something which defines a system or sets its limits. C) A situation or statement thought to be absurd but found to be true. D) A standard, a model or an accepted perspective. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A standard, a model or an accepted perspective. 7. Which actor won the 2012 Golden Raspberry Award for both the worst actor and the worst actress in a 2011 film? A) Adam Sandler. B) Julie Andrews. C) Eddie Redmayne. D) Robin Williams. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adam Sandler. 8. The Wash is an English estuary which opens to which body of water? A) Irish Sea. B) North Sea. C) English Channel. D) Scapa Flow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) North Sea. 9. In Scandinavian mythology, who were the maidens who rode through the sky on horses, sword in hand, to influence the outcome of battles and select the bravest fighters to live in Valhallah? A) Vikingae. B) Fates. C) Avalonians. D) Valkyries. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Valkyries. 10. Which of these is a character in "The Matrix" series of films? A) Thomas A. Anderson. B) Ethan Hunt. C) Dr. Emmett Brown. D) Warrant Officer Ripley. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thomas A. Anderson. 11. It is believed that the first of what type of business was opened in 1936 in Fort Worth, Texas by Noah Brannen? A) Washateria. B) Lubritorium. C) Used car lot. D) Chinese take-away. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Washateria. 12. In Great Britain, painted strips on the road to show where pedestrians should cross is named after which animal? A) Giraffe. B) Zebra. C) Leopard. D) Hamster. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Zebra. 13. What word had as one of its early meanings "to shoot an arrow short or wide" ? A) Drib. B) Drab. C) Drub. D) Drob. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Drib. 14. Where was the first FIFA Club World Championship, a football competition contested between the world's champion clubs, held in 2000? A) Brazil. B) Japan. C) Abu Dhabi. D) Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brazil. 15. What was the stage name of Norma Deloris Egstrom, an American jazz and popular music singer and songwriter who won 3 Grammy Awards (including the Lifetime Achievement Award) and who was nominated for an Academy Award as an actress? A) Peggy Lee. B) Marilyn Monroe. C) Brenda Lee. D) K d lang. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Peggy Lee. 16. The tectonic plates that lie under the Earth's crust constantly move; in which general direction does the South American Plate which is under South America and much of the Atlantic west of the mid-Atlantic Ridge move? A) South. B) East. C) North. D) West. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) West. 17. Which daughter of James V of Scotland became Queen of France in 1559? A) Marie Antoinette. B) Mary Queen of Scots (Mary I ). C) Queen Margrete of Norway. D) Maid Marian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mary Queen of Scots (Mary I ). 18. What process in 1932 made it possible for Adolf Hitler to run for political office in Germany? A) Naturalisation. B) Amnesty. C) Marriage to a German citizen. D) Voiding a guilty verdict. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Naturalisation. 19. Which of these places is closest to Perth, Australia? A) Mumbai, India. B) Beijing, China. C) Tokyo, Japan. D) Bangkok, Thailand. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bangkok, Thailand. 20. If a shawm were a member of the modern orchestra what section would it be in? A) Percussion. B) Brass. C) Strings. D) Woodwind. 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