This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 468 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 468 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Homeland, broadcast 2011-12 on US TV, concerned the activities of which law enforcement organisation? A) NCIS. B) NYPD. C) CIA. D) CSI. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) CIA. 2. Who hosted the Oscar ceremony in 2014? A) Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. B) Ellen de Generes. C) Anne Hathaway and James Franco. D) Jon Stewart and Chris Rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ellen de Generes. 3. What could occasion an arrest for putting your face under water? A) Fishing for green ormer in Guernsey, UK. B) Treasure hunting In the Trevi Fountain, Italy. C) Paddling in the fountain in front of the White House, USA. D) Playing with an orca in the Antibes Marineland, France. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fishing for green ormer in Guernsey, UK. 4. Who began a collaboration with Walt Disney in 1945 to make the Academy Award-nominated short cartoon, "Destino", that was released in 2003, after his death in 1989? A) Salvador Dali. B) Pablo Picasso. C) Édouard Manet. D) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Salvador Dali. 5. Who was the first African American holder of the world heavyweight boxing title? A) Jack Johnson. B) Sonny Liston. C) Joe Louis. D) Ezzard Charles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jack Johnson. 6. Who were the lollards? A) Followers of John Wycliffe in the 14th and 15th centuries. B) A group of unemployed who rioted in London in 1982. C) The inventors of the reclining lounge chair in 1961. D) The first unionists, from Tolpuddle, England, in 1834. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Followers of John Wycliffe in the 14th and 15th centuries. 7. What was the name given to wandering players in 12th and 13th century France, England and Germany who recited poems of love and wine? A) Cartwheelers. B) Gigolos. C) Goliards. D) Repertory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Goliards. 8. What diameter is the ring from which a discus is thrown in competition? A) 3.4 m (11.1 ft). B) 2.135 m (7 ft). C) 1 m ((3.3 ft). D) 2.5 m (8.2 ft). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2.5 m (8.2 ft). 9. Where is the 2015 Australian film "Tanna" set? A) Marshall Islands. B) The Cook Islands. C) Christmas Island. D) Vanuatu. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vanuatu. 10. Sheep are aged by their teeth and are referred to by the number of permanent incisors that have erupted. About how old is a "two-tooth" ? A) 2 to 3 years. B) 2 to 4 years. C) 1 to 1.5 years. D) 1.5 to 2 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1 to 1.5 years. 11. What was the first film in which child star Shirley Temple featured? A) Bright Eyes (1934). B) The Red-Haired Alibi (1932). C) The Little Colonel (1935). D) Curly Top (1935). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Red-Haired Alibi (1932). 12. If someone has been granted furlough, what have they been given? A) Protective equipment or uniform. B) A subsidiary payment. C) Leave to attend a funeral. D) Temporary leave of absence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Temporary leave of absence. 13. Where are the lowlands known as the Pampas? A) South America. B) Russia. C) South Africa. D) Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) South America. 14. The oldest surviving almost-complete tablets recording a kingdom's code of laws, formed c. 2100-2050 BCE, applied to what region? A) Babylon, southern Mesopotamia. B) Judaea. C) Sumer, southern Mesopotamia. D) Mycenae, Greece. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sumer, southern Mesopotamia. 15. After which saint is Chile's capital city named? A) Joseph. B) Paul. C) James. D) Louis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) James. 16. Which of these is known as the King of the Fairies? A) Saki. B) Tusitala. C) Oberon. D) Boz. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oberon. 17. What is an IPO? A) Internal Price Outmoded. B) Instant Police Officer. C) International Protest Overseas. D) Initial public stock offering. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Initial public stock offering. 18. From 14 November 1994 when services began until 14 November 2007, from where did "Eurostar" trains leave London for Paris? A) Victoria. B) Kings Cross. C) Waterloo. D) St Pancras. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Waterloo. 19. What biodegradable polysaccharide, found as a component of some fungi and at least one alga, is also found in the skeletal mantles of invertebrates? A) Chitin. B) Keratin. C) Cellulose. D) Sclerotin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chitin. 20. Which 14th century scribe and seller of books (as well as builder of what is understood to be the oldest stone house in Paris still standing) is quoted as a character in a series of famous books in the 21st century? A) Geoffrey Chaucer. B) Dante Alighieri. C) Filippo Brunelleschi. D) Nicolas Flamel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nicolas Flamel. ← 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