This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 55 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 55 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What Irish dramatist, whose first produced play was "Widowers' Houses" in 1892, won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926? A) Oscar Wilde. B) George Bernard Shaw. C) Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan. D) Sean O'Casey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) George Bernard Shaw. 2. What does pemmican consist of? A) Lean dried meat. B) Coconut and tapioca. C) Powdered dried lean meat and fruit, mixed with rendered fat. D) Powdered nuts, chocolate, and ground fruit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Powdered dried lean meat and fruit, mixed with rendered fat. 3. Geoffrey Palmer played the reticent husband of his wistful wife, and Nicholas Lyndhurst one of their two young-adult sons, in which bittersweet 1978-1983 British TV series? A) Butterflies. B) Shoestring. C) Family Fortunes. D) Terry and June. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Butterflies. 4. What part of the body does interstitial nephritis affect? A) Intercostal muscles. B) Kidneys. C) Joints. D) Spleen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kidneys. 5. What does the Latin phrase "ad infinitum" mean? A) Forever. B) Merely a formality. C) Repeat the above. D) Delete. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Forever. 6. What is the tournament, known until 1975 as the South American Football Championship? A) Copa Centenario Revolución de Mayo. B) CONACAF. C) Copa América. D) Campeonato Sudamericano de Campeones. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Copa América. 7. North, South, East and West are the way that players are designated in which game? A) Pokémon. B) Bridge. C) Scrabble. D) Monopoly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bridge. 8. Aberdeen is known as what? A) The City of Love. B) The City of Churches. C) The Granite City. D) The Paper Tiger. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Granite City. 9. Which song has the line: "Girls don't like boys, they like cars and money" ? A) "Don't Trust Me" by 3OH!3. B) "Girls And Boys" by Good Charlotte. C) "Womanizer" by Britney Spears. D) "Are We Human or Are We Dancer" by the Killers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Girls And Boys" by Good Charlotte. 10. The Neckar, Main and Ruhr are tributaries of which river? A) Main. B) Rhone. C) Rhine. D) Essen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhine. 11. Which race when first run on 30 September 1906 from Paris, France, was won by Frank Purdy Lahm of the USA who, with co-pilot Henry Hersey, reached the northeast coast of England? A) Le Mans 24 Hour Race. B) The Tourist Trophy Race. C) The RAC Rally. D) The Gordon Bennett Cup race. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Gordon Bennett Cup race. 12. In 1835 Maori from the mainland of New Zealand went to Rekohu, or the Chatham Islands, and slaughtered or enslaved the entire population of which people? A) Marooned French sailors. B) Moriori. C) British settlers. D) Samoan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Moriori. 13. Which country suffered the largest number of deaths from a tsunami on 26 December 2004? A) India. B) Ceylon. C) Indonesia. D) Somalia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Indonesia. 14. In the stories by Enid Blyton, what is the name of the best friend of Big Ears? A) Noddy. B) Shakey. C) Rattley. D) Rolley. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Noddy. 15. What nationality is the soccer player Dennis Bergkamp? A) Belgian. B) Dutch. C) German. D) Austrian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dutch. 16. Where is the Pantanal? A) Mainly in Brazil. B) In Portugal. C) In the south of France. D) In southern Italy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mainly in Brazil. 17. Which part of the cardamom plant is used as a spice? A) Pollen. B) Stalk. C) Flower. D) Seed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Seed. 18. The Allied forces signed four armistices in the last 6 weeks of World War I. What was the final one known as, in which Germany accepted defeat? A) Armistice of Compromise. B) Armistice of Compiègne. C) Complementary Armistice. D) Comprehensive Armistice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Armistice of Compiègne. 19. What is silver service for? A) Meals for the elderly. B) Cleaning tableware. C) Serving food and drink. D) Photography. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Serving food and drink. 20. One of the top songs for 2012 featured Gotye and which other artist? A) Natasha Pincus. B) Kelly Clarkson. C) Illuminart. D) Kimbra. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kimbra. ← 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