This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 442 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 442 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What distinguishes a member of the order stomatopoda? A) A hard exoskeleton covering its legs. B) Its legs are attached to the abdomen instead of the thorax. C) It has gills on its abdominal appendages, and attacking (spear or hammer) appendages to its thorax. D) The abdominal segments have swimmerets (swimming legs). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It has gills on its abdominal appendages, and attacking (spear or hammer) appendages to its thorax. 2. With what was Edith Head, who was nominated for 35 Oscars (including every year from 1948 to 1966), associated? A) Costume design. B) Writing gossip columns. C) Set design. D) Hair design. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Costume design. 3. In the musical Mamma Mia, who does Sam marry? A) Donna. B) Sophie. C) Rosie. D) Sky. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Donna. 4. Which world record-holding athlete ran their last (and gold medal-winning) race in the 2016 Olympic Games before they retired from Olympic competition? A) Usain Bolt. B) Sir Mo Farah. C) Florence Griffith Joyner. D) Emane Seifu. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Usain Bolt. 5. What song is this lyric from: "Driver at the engine, fireman rings the bell, sandman swings the lantern to show that all is well" ? A) Puff, the Magic Dragon. B) The Carnival Is Over. C) Blowing in the Wind. D) Morningtown Ride. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Morningtown Ride. 6. When and where was the first full facial reattachment performed? A) 1994, India. B) 1996, Australia. C) 2005, France. D) 2006, China. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1994, India. 7. Reynald Temarii, president of the Oceania Football Confederation, was banned from soccer administration by FIFA because it was alleged that he had said that his vote for the election of hosts of the 2018 FIFA World Cup and 2022 FIFA World Cup could be influenced through the construction of a sports academy. Where was it to be built? A) Fiji. B) Tonga. C) Tahiti. D) Hawaii. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tahiti. 8. Which piece on a chessboard can move only one space in any direction? A) King. B) Pawn. C) Bishop. D) Queen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) King. 9. What board game released in 1981 was created by Scott Abbott and Chris Haney, with the help of John Haney and Ed Werner? A) Scrabble. B) Monopoly. C) Trivial Pursuit. D) Cluedo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trivial Pursuit. 10. What post did Gaius Julius Caesar hold at the time of his death? A) Dictator of the Roman Republic and Consul of the Roman Republic. B) First emperor of Rome. C) Last king of Rome. D) Senior magistrate of the Roman Senate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dictator of the Roman Republic and Consul of the Roman Republic. 11. Sylvie Guillem, CBE, is a French what? A) Philanthropist. B) Jockey. C) Ballet dancer. D) Fashion designer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ballet dancer. 12. Whose works include "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" (1912) and a parody of the "Mona Lisa" (1919) which shows a moustache and goatee attached to a cheap reproduction of the painting? A) Pablo Picasso. B) Salvador Dali. C) Marcel Duchamp. D) El Greco. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Marcel Duchamp. 13. Which game uses the term "pung" ? A) Canasta. B) Go. C) Mahjong. D) Chinese Chequers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mahjong. 14. Which of these is a 2001 American action-adventure comedy film directed, produced, and written by Brian Helgeland, starring Heath Ledger? A) A Night's Tale. B) A Knight's Tale. C) A Knight's Tail. D) A Night's Tail. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A Knight's Tale. 15. Which musical term denotes a repetitive oscillation about a single pitch that occurs in rapid cycles? A) Glissando. B) Portato. C) Vibrato. D) Portamento. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vibrato. 16. Characters known collectively as the futhorc, are what? A) Musicians in a mediaeval hall. B) Decision-makers in an Althing. C) Anglo Saxon runes. D) Players in an Icelandic passion play. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anglo Saxon runes. 17. One of Junia Wonders's award-winning young children's books is called "When the [what] came" ? A) Pumpkins. B) Monsters. C) Scarecrows. D) Turtles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monsters. 18. The 14 year old Kyra Poh from Singapore won gold medals at the international indoor skydiving championship WindGames 2017; what were the disciplines? A) Solo freestyle, and solo speed. B) Open, and female. C) Dynamic, and speed. D) Female, and solo speed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Solo freestyle, and solo speed. 19. What is Operalia? A) A 1993 opera by Jerry Goldsmith. B) Part of the Opéra National de Paris, specifically for workshopping new opera. C) An international opera competition. D) An underwater hotel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An international opera competition. 20. In which of these is the motive drive generated from inside the vehicle? A) Glider. B) Cable car. C) Funicular. D) Tram, or trolley bus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tram, or trolley bus. ← 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