This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 485 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 485 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who wrote the poem "Daffodils" ? A) John Keats. B) William Wordsworth. C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. D) Lord Byron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Wordsworth. 2. From which sport do we get the expression "par for the course" ? A) Baseball. B) Golf. C) Rugby Union. D) Polo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Golf. 3. Who created the statue of "David", which is held in Florence's Academia Gallery? A) Rodin. B) Michelangelo. C) Henry Moore. D) Leonardo da Vinci. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Michelangelo. 4. What type of geographical feature is an ox-bow? A) Forest. B) Hill. C) Lake. D) Canyon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lake. 5. What is the branch of medicine dealing with diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the human heart? A) Cardiography. B) Endocarditis. C) Cardiology. D) Cartography. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cardiology. 6. Who is the New Zealander who directed "Shrek", "Shrek 2", "The Chronicles of Narnia:The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" and "The Chronicles of Narnia:Prince Caspian" ? A) Peter Jackson. B) Andrew Adamson. C) Paul Murphy. D) Roger Donaldson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Andrew Adamson. 7. What 1936 film sets out a future to 2036, predicting World War II from 23 December 1940, bombing raids on cities, a plague ("wandering sickness") in 1966, and a civilization based in Basra, Iraq, that renounced war and outlawed independent nation-states? A) Metropolis. B) Things to Come. C) Modern Times. D) R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Things to Come. 8. What does UAE stand for? A) Up And Ended. B) Unified African Empire. C) Under Age Employment. D) United Arab Emirates. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) United Arab Emirates. 9. Where is the Tynwald the legislative body? A) Sark. B) Iceland. C) Greenland. D) Isle of Man. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Isle of Man. 10. Especially in the USA, Canada and Australia, what term is used to describe an elected official approaching the end of their tenure? A) Porch sitter. B) Filibuster. C) Tail dragger. D) Lame duck. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lame duck. 11. In Michelangelo's painting on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Adam's finger points to whom? A) Moses. B) God. C) Eve. D) David. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) God. 12. What word's original meaning was "to remove or destroy every tenth one" ? A) Decimate. B) Decapod. C) Decimal. D) Decalogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Decimate. 13. Which of these is an alcoholic beverage made by leaching part of the cannabis plant in a high-proof alcohol, resulting in a very potent dark green or brown liquid? A) Green Dragon. B) Kamikaze. C) Agent Orange. D) Glowtini. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Green Dragon. 14. What gave rise to the phrase "mad as a hatter" ? A) The fashion for extreme hat styles in the 19th century. B) The use of mercury in 19th century hat making. C) The character in "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll. D) Their premises were always the cheap ones near the local asylum for the mentally disturbed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The use of mercury in 19th century hat making. 15. Which country won the 1999 Rugby World Cup? A) Wales. B) New Zealand. C) Australia. D) USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Australia. 16. Which is the only one of the four grand slam tennis tournaments currently played on grass? A) The French Open. B) The Australian Open. C) Wimbledon. D) The US Open. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wimbledon. 17. Which founder member of The Goons in 1951 was an old Etonian, served in MI9 in WW II, appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, and received the Peruvian Order of Merit in 1971? A) Peter Sellers. B) Spike Milligan. C) Harry Secombe. D) Michael Bentine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Michael Bentine. 18. Where was the first officially recorded baseball game held in the USA? A) Cooperstown, New York. B) Corona, Queens New York. C) Cincinnati. D) Hoboken, New Jersey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hoboken, New Jersey. 19. Which team defeated Pakistan in the 2007 inaugural ICC World Twenty20 cricket tournament? A) New Zealand. B) India. C) England. D) West Indies. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) India. 20. Sometimes called St Stephen's Tower, now formally Elizabeth Tower, it houses a famous landmark in Britain; what is that? A) The ravens for the Tower of London. B) The crown jewels. C) The bell, Big Ben, for the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster. D) The machinery for raising and lowering sections of Tower Bridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The bell, Big Ben, for the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster. ← 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