This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 50 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 50 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who, as president of Argentina, ordered the invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982? A) Roberto Eduardo Viola. B) General Reynaldo Bignone. C) General Leopoldo Galtieri. D) Jorge Rafael Videla. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) General Leopoldo Galtieri. 2. Which of these is a San Francisco landmark? A) Telegraph Hill. B) Telephone Hill. C) Television Hill. D) Teleprompter Hill. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Telegraph Hill. 3. Who is killed by the Shakespearean character Macduff? A) Hamlet. B) Macbeth. C) Romeo. D) Julius Caesar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Macbeth. 4. Since 2006 what classification is commonly applied to the astronomical body Pluto? A) Conundrum. B) Asteroid. C) Planet. D) Dwarf planet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dwarf planet. 5. Which of these TV series was a cartoon? A) The Late Show with David Letterman. B) The Flintstones. C) Happy Days. D) Sesame Street. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Flintstones. 6. Which 20th century musical is based on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" ? A) The Rocky Horror Show. B) West Side Story. C) South Pacific. D) The Phantom of the Opera. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) West Side Story. 7. Upper ocean temperatures in parts of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current have increased by how much since 1955? A) Over 1$^\circ$C. B) 0.2$^\circ$C. C) Nearly 10$^\circ$C. D) 11.2$^\circ$C. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Over 1$^\circ$C. 8. Marie Adolphe Carnot (1839-1920), a French mining engineer and chemist, gave his name to a mineral which is an important source of what? A) Carrotene. B) Uranium. C) Fluorine. D) Platinum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Uranium. 9. When did the first woman achieve a medical degree in the USA? A) 1849. B) 1857. C) 1799. D) 1912. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1849. 10. Herpetophobia is a fear of what? A) Snakes. B) Junkyards. C) Dogs. D) Elephants. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Snakes. 11. What is the 2018 SXSW Grand Jury prize-winning 12 minute film written, self-funded, directed, acted, and eventually released on line by Jim Cummings? A) Thunder Road. B) A Quiet Place, Blockers and Ready Player One. C) Who We Are Now. D) Final Portrait. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thunder Road. 12. Which of these cities is the furthest West in Europe? A) Lisbon. B) London. C) Lourdes. D) Limoges. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lisbon. 13. Where are the Trossachs? A) Stirling, Scotland. B) Fife, Scotland. C) Thuringia, Germany. D) Otago, New Zealand. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stirling, Scotland. 14. For which musical instrument is rosin useful? A) Guitar. B) Piano. C) Violin. D) Harp. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Violin. 15. Hair described as "bouffant" is what? A) Pulled back. B) Puffed out. C) Cut short. D) In pigtails. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Puffed out. 16. In 1950 what was the stadium, rebuilt on the site of an earlier stadium from 1922 and eventually demolished in 2002, the home of the professional American Football teams the Baltimore Colts and the Baltimore Ravens? A) Memorial Stadium (Babe Ruth Stadium). B) Nickerson Field. C) Alumni Stadium. D) Fenway Park. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Memorial Stadium (Babe Ruth Stadium). 17. The 2001 TV series "Micawber" was based on a character created by which author? A) Charles Dickens. B) Anthony Trollope. C) Charlotte Brontë. D) George Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Charles Dickens. 18. What island nation in the South Pacific Ocean was, from 1906, jointly managed by France and the UK as the New Hebrides, and became a Republic in 1980? A) Tonga. B) Vanuatu. C) Tuvalu. D) Samoa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vanuatu. 19. A coup in February 2010 led by Colonel Djibril Adamou Harouna displaced president Mamadou Tandja in which country? A) Somalia. B) Bangladesh. C) Niger. D) Fiji. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Niger. 20. What is the focus of "The Compleat Angler" by Izaak Walton, first published in 1653 (with additions for another quarter of a century)? A) Discussion of the best rods and flies to use to catch different kinds of fish. B) Celebration in prose and verse of the art and spirit of fishing. C) The social aspect of fishing. D) An angler's place at the royal court. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Celebration in prose and verse of the art and spirit of fishing. ← 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