This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 60 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 60 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the name of a slender highly tempered, sharp-pointed, edgeless weapon about 3 feet long? A) Cossack. B) Cutlass. C) Scimitar. D) Rapier. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rapier. 2. In the western or the Christian world what is termed "the Good Book" ? A) The Holy Bible. B) Delia Smith's Cookery Course. C) A Christmas Carol. D) The Church Hymnal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Holy Bible. 3. What game, whose players use a squidger, aim to squop their opponents, occasionally to boondock them, and in a variant play a jeu de puces, was held in a Royal Match in 2008 to commemorate a 50th anniversary? A) Spookies. B) Tiddlywinks. C) Super Mario. D) Squidge Rush. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tiddlywinks. 4. Which of these is the name of a US special operations force? A) Black Beavers. B) Brown Bears. C) Navy Seals. D) Green Alligators. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Navy Seals. 5. In the song "My Generation" by the Who, what words follow the line "People try to put us down" ? A) Cos our music's underground. B) When they see us on the town. C) See us and they wear a frown. D) Just because we get around. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Just because we get around. 6. The aria "Nessun Dorma" is from what opera? A) Turandot by Puccini. B) Tosca by Verdi. C) Die Fledermaus by Strauss. D) The Barber of Seville by Mozart. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Turandot by Puccini. 7. If a field is 25 metres square, what is the length of the perimeter? A) 20 metres. B) 100 metres. C) .5 kilometre. D) 1 centimeter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 100 metres. 8. By what name is Marian (or Mary Ann) Evans, who wrote "Adam Bede", "The Mill On The Floss" and "Silas Marner", better known? A) P D James. B) Georgette Heyer. C) Jane Eyre. D) George Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) George Eliot. 9. Apart from in zoos and breeding centres, where is the endangered pygmy hippopotamus, Choeropsis liberiensis, mostly found? A) North west Liberia. B) Southern Nigeria. C) The Nile Valley. D) The Limpopo River. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) North west Liberia. 10. How many bones are there, excluding the jaw and the bones in the ear, in the human skull? A) 9. B) 4. C) 22. D) 43. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 22. 11. Which of these musicals was not composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber? A) Tycoon (1992). B) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (1968). C) The Likes of Us (2005). D) The Wizard of Oz (2011). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tycoon (1992). 12. Five of Canada's fourteen UNESCO World heritage sites (Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, Wood Buffalo National Park, Dinosaur Provincial Park and Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump) are in which Canadian province? A) Ontario. B) Saskatchewan. C) Quebec. D) Alberta. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alberta. 13. The school of thought known as diffusionism is a study in which field? A) Chemistry. B) Anthropology. C) Oceanography. D) Cuisine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anthropology. 14. In 2019 what are Dorian, Lorenzo and Humberto? A) Major hurricanes. B) Winners of "America Has Talent". C) World champions in freestyle guitar. D) Winners in the Hairstyling Olympics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Major hurricanes. 15. The portrait of which US statesman appears on the US $ 100 bill? A) Abraham Lincoln. B) George Washington. C) Theodore Roosevelt. D) Benjamin Franklin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Benjamin Franklin. 16. By what name is Vincent Fernier better known? A) Axl Rose. B) Alice Cooper. C) Meat Loaf. D) Dr John. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alice Cooper. 17. Which country has borders with Brazil, Paraguay and Peru? A) Ecuador. B) Bolivia. C) Chile. D) Mexico. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bolivia. 18. Which of these is a branch of crime fiction characterised by strong, independent female detectives, that was labelled and effectively created as a genre during the 1990s? A) Charlie's Angels' style. B) PI Girls. C) Cops Charmantes. D) Tart Noir. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tart Noir. 19. Where is Mount Ararat? A) Northern Iraq. B) Central Greece. C) Central Armenia. D) In the far east of Turkey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In the far east of Turkey. 20. What is a rhumb line? A) A mathematical aid. B) A building aid. C) A navigational aid. D) A philosophical theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A navigational aid. ← 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