This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 71 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 71 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What profession, when they are working, are the Withnail and I of the 1987 British cult film of that name? A) Actors. B) Teachers. C) Writers. D) Roadies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Actors. 2. Where is a brinicle found? A) On trees beside the sea. B) In undersea caves. C) On trees beside salt marshes. D) Underneath forming sea ice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Underneath forming sea ice. 3. The first 21 novels of the "Jennings" series of humorous children's books by Anthony Buckeridge, published between 1950 and 1973, were set where? A) A farm in Devon. B) An air force cadet training unit. C) A British boarding school. D) The Norfolk Broads. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A British boarding school. 4. What is the longest time that there can be between General Elections in the UK? A) 4 years. B) 5 years. C) 3 years. D) 6 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5 years. 5. Which major record label was created in 1901, using the name of an 1898 painting of his friend's pet by Francis Barraud? A) Columbia. B) HMV. C) EMI. D) BMG. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) HMV. 6. Which constellation is just below the feet of The Great Bear? A) Andromeda. B) Leo. C) Orion. D) Pisces. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Leo. 7. In standard tuning for a 6 string guitar, two strings are tuned to the same note, two octaves apart. What is the note? A) G. B) E. C) C. D) Eb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) E. 8. Which of these is a cave complex near the town of Santillana del Mar, 30 km west of Santander, Spain, which is famous for its Upper Paleolithic cave paintings featuring drawings and polychrome rock paintings of wild mammals and human hands? A) Altamira. B) Ankara. C) Santa Maria. D) Alhambra. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Altamira. 9. Who was the Lanterne Rouge in the 2015 Tour de France? A) Svein Tuft, Canada. B) Ji Cheng, China. C) Chris Froome, UK. D) Sébastien Chavanel, Franc. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sébastien Chavanel, Franc. 10. Brogues are a type of what? A) Shirts. B) Hats. C) Shoes. D) Coats. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shoes. 11. Which of these Elizabeth/Elisabeths did not have the title of Queen? A) The daughter of Charles I of England, 1635-1650. B) Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, 1900-2002. C) The daughter of Charles, Duke of Bavaria, 1876-1965. D) The daughter of Duke Maximilian Joseph and Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, 1837-98. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The daughter of Charles I of England, 1635-1650. 12. Grammy winning American composer Stephen Paulus is known for which of these 1982 works? A) The Postman Always Rings Twice. B) Nacht und Trompeten. C) For John Cage. D) Echo's Songs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Postman Always Rings Twice. 13. Which of these won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 2008? A) Beat It by Michael Jackson. B) Rehab by Amy Winehouse. C) Hotel California by The Eagles. D) Killing Me Softly with His Song by Roberta Flack. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rehab by Amy Winehouse. 14. "Something wicked this way hops" was the tagline for which film released in 2005? A) Scream 2. B) The Panic Room. C) Freaky Friday. D) Wallace & Gromit:The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wallace & Gromit:The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. 15. Which of these worked in cosmology? A) Elbert Hubbard. B) Edwin N. Hubbell. C) Edgar Hubble. D) Edwin P. Hubble. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Edwin P. Hubble. 16. What is another name for "fishing" ? A) Curving. B) Cornering. C) Bending. D) Angling. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Angling. 17. Which of these could be appropriate to describe the arches in a vault? A) Conjugation. B) Fornication. C) Pointillism. D) Rondeau. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fornication. 18. In economics, what is "Dutch disease" ? A) A prolonged low flat period in the economy. B) A boom and bust, like the 17th century Tulip bubble. C) Link between a spike in one part of the economy and a drop in another. D) Infection of one economy with the problems of another. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Link between a spike in one part of the economy and a drop in another. 19. Which Norwegian playwright wrote "Hedda Gabler", "The Master Builder" and "Peer Gynt" ? A) Knut Hamsun. B) Henrik Ibsen. C) Emile Zola. D) August Strindberg. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Henrik Ibsen. 20. A "Wobbegong" is a type of what? A) Shark. B) Seabird. C) Insect. D) Crocodile. 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