This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 49 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 49 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which Swedish-Danish crime TV series starts with a body, cut in half at the waist, discovered in the exact middle of the Γresund Bridge which connects Copenhagen with MalmΓΆ? A) Smilla's Sense of Snow. B) The Killing. C) Wallander. D) The Bridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Bridge. 2. Who was the king of Iraq from 1921 to 1933? A) Faisal Husseini. B) Faisal bin Al Hussein Bin Ali El-Hashemi. C) Rashid Ali al-Gaylani. D) Ghazi bin Faisal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Faisal bin Al Hussein Bin Ali El-Hashemi. 3. Where is the Bayerische Staatsoper's home base? A) Munich. B) Stockholm. C) Prague. D) London. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Munich. 4. Which of these was imprisoned for causing the explosion of a Pan American airliner over Lockerbie in 1988? A) Al Megrahi. B) Al Jazeera. C) Al Capone. D) Al Lanpoe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Al Megrahi. 5. David Attenborough is best known for narrating what kind of TV programme? A) Sport. B) Children's cartoons. C) Natural History. D) Current Affairs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Natural History. 6. "Cassata Siciliana" is a type of what? A) Biscuit. B) Ice cream. C) Cake. D) Cocktail. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cake. 7. David Leadbetter and Butch Harmon are coaches in which sport? A) Tennis. B) Golf. C) Soccer. D) Rugby. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Golf. 8. What won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature in 2000? A) "The Folk Keeper" by Franny Billingsley. B) "The Crystal Cave" by Mary Stewart. C) "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Charles Vess. D) "Tamsin" by Peter S. Beagle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "Tamsin" by Peter S. Beagle. 9. After Mao Zedong, chairman of the Communist Party of China, launched the Cultural Revolution on 16 May 1966, he attempted to mobilise China's youth, who formed what groups around the country? A) Maosketeers. B) Storm Troopers. C) Red Guard. D) The Mao Youth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Red Guard. 10. The European parliament meets in Strasbourg and which other city? A) The Hague. B) Brussels. C) Calais. D) London. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brussels. 11. Who is the star of TV series "The F Word" and "Hell's Kitchen" ? A) Nigella Lawson. B) Delia Smith. C) Jamie Oliver. D) Gordon Ramsay. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gordon Ramsay. 12. Although the speed of light is a constant 186, 000 miles per second (299, 792, 458 metres per second) when passing through a vacuum, it slows in dense mediums. What is the densest of these mediums, i.e. slows light the most? A) Water. B) A gas of bosons (Bose-Einstein condensates) at near absolute zero. C) Diamond. D) Glass. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A gas of bosons (Bose-Einstein condensates) at near absolute zero. 13. Which of these is contained in the nucleus of an atom? A) Electron. B) Proton. C) Cybertron. D) Cyclotron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Proton. 14. Which of these is an Italian film-maker who has an airport named after him? A) Federico Fellini. B) Sergio Leone. C) Carlo Ponti. D) Franco Zeffirelli. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Federico Fellini. 15. When is Emancipation Day observed in much of Canada, and in the parts of the Caribbean in which there were British possessions in 1833? A) 1 January. B) None, it is not celebrated. C) 31 December. D) 1 August, or the first Monday in August. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1 August, or the first Monday in August. 16. Where was the Republic of Katanga? A) The north of Namibia. B) Botswana. C) In the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. D) The Gabon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 17. If a person has a kit containing dental picks, trowels, brushes, line levels, a sieve, shovels, storage bags, pens/pencils and a tape measure what are they likely to be? A) A makeup artist. B) A topographical surveyor. C) A dentist. D) An archaeologist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An archaeologist. 18. Of all of the capitals of sovereign countries that are closest to each other, which two are the furthest apart? A) Washington DC, USA and Ottawa, Canada. B) Wellington, New Zealand and Canberra, Australia. C) London, UK, and Paris, France. D) Helsinki, Finland, and Stockholm, Sweden. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wellington, New Zealand and Canberra, Australia. 19. Which of these is not an alternative name for a game of dice for one or more players, mostly played in a group of two to four where traditionally a counting box is used with tiles numbered 1 to 9, known as Klackers, Zoltan box, Batten down the Hatches or High Rollers? A) Shut the Box. B) Ludo. C) Tric-Trac. D) Canoga. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ludo. 20. Where does the β¬10 Greek commemorative coin, minted in 2003 to commemorate the 2004 Summer Olympics, showing handball take its design from? A) A silhouette photograph of champion player Nikola Karabatic. B) A design competition won by Gregorio C. Caparas. C) An archaic black-figure pottery vase showing a game known as cheirosphaira. D) A popular Greek cartoon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An archaic black-figure pottery vase showing a game known as cheirosphaira. β PreviousNext βRelated 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 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books