This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 58 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 58 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A gobo is a small screen used to shape theatre lighting, but also what? A) A small marine fish. B) Dandelion leaves and root. C) The root of a variety of burdock. D) A component in the steering mechanism of a submarine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The root of a variety of burdock. 2. What board game for two players is known as wéiqí in Chinese and baduk in Korean? A) Go. B) Draughts. C) Scrabble. D) Chess. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Go. 3. The video and streaming service Hotstar is an Indian subsidiary of what organisation? A) Netflix. B) BBC. C) Disney +. D) CNN. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Disney +. 4. What animal is involved in "dressage" ? A) Pig. B) Horse. C) Dog. D) Elephant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Horse. 5. Toward the end of 2000, in which sport was the diameter of the ball increased by 2mm to make it easier to be seen on television and thus make it more viable as a televised spectator sport? A) Golf. B) Table tennis. C) Soccer. D) Baseball. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Table tennis. 6. The character of John Bull is a national personification of which group of people in general? A) Teetotal people. B) Citizens of the United Kingdom, England in particular. C) Quakers. D) Whisky drinkers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Citizens of the United Kingdom, England in particular. 7. In which Winter Olympics did mixed doubles curling become a full medal competition? A) 2018. B) 1998. C) 1932. D) 2022. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2018. 8. The Grand Prince of Moscow who was crowned Tsar when aged 16 on 16 January 1547, became known as whom? A) Harold the Horrible. B) Alexander the Odoriferous. C) Ivan the Terrible. D) William the Small. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ivan the Terrible. 9. What is the name for the reverse image on film from which a photograph is printed? A) Negative. B) Developer. C) Fixer. D) Exposure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Negative. 10. Who was the Roman god of wine and fertility? A) Mars. B) Jupiter. C) Bacchus. D) Quirinus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bacchus. 11. In February 1841, English polymath, inventor, politician and scientist William Henry Fox Talbot patented a process which was seminal in the development of what? A) Electric clock. B) Mauveine, the first synthetic organic dye. C) Power loom. D) Photography. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Photography. 12. A hammer and toothed chisel is used in creating which form of art? A) Topiary. B) Stone sculpture. C) Silver jewellery. D) Tapestry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stone sculpture. 13. Before 1972, what was Sri Lanka known as? A) East Pakistan. B) Burma. C) Ceylon. D) Persia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ceylon. 14. What do the Akan peoples in Ghana, various indigenous peoples in North America, people of a number of Greek islands (at least until the 19th century), and the Khasi peoples in India have in common? A) Deeply incised tattooing is a rite of manhood. B) They have used vegetables as a currency. C) Their societies are matrilineal. D) They specifically forbid military aggression. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Their societies are matrilineal. 15. Between them, which National Basketball Association (NBA) teams in the US have won 34 championships (as at 2020) of the 68 held since the first in 1947? A) The Golden State Warriors and the Chicago Bulls. B) The Boston Celtics and the Golden State Warriors. C) The Los Angeles Lakers and the Chicago Bulls. D) The Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics. 16. Which of these is an American dramatic TV series that premièred in September 2006 and centres on the upper class Walker family and their lives in Los Angeles, California? A) All In The Family. B) Brothers & Sisters. C) Til Death Us Do Part. D) Packed to the Rafters. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brothers & Sisters. 17. Benjamin Disraeli's government was elected in the UK how many times? A) 3. B) 1. C) 2. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1. 18. Which cities does the Madaraka Express Railway connect? A) Mombasa and Nairobi in Kenya. B) Mombasa in Kenya and Kampala in Uganda. C) Mogadishu in Somalia, and Djibouti City. D) Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, and Asmara in Eritrea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mombasa and Nairobi in Kenya. 19. How is sidereal time measured? A) By the changing positions of the planets. B) By the apparent motion of the distant, so-called fixed, stars about the Earth. C) By the position of the moon relative to the Earth. D) By motion of ocean tides. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) By the apparent motion of the distant, so-called fixed, stars about the Earth. 20. Denmark has a land border with which of these countries? A) Netherlands. B) Belgium. C) Poland. D) Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Germany. ← 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