This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 801 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 801 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What would you mainly expect to see on the US TV series "The Jeff Probst Show" ? A) Walking. B) Talking. C) Stalking. D) Gawking. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Talking. 2. Which make of car has won the most 24 Hour races at Le Mans? A) Porsche. B) Ferrari. C) Ford. D) Jaguar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Porsche. 3. Whose body was buried in 1543 in an unnamed tomb in the Catholic church of Frombork, Poland, exhumed in 2005, and buried there for a second time in May 2010 in a ceremony conducted by the archbishop of Gniezno and primate of Poland? A) Emperor Maximillian II. B) Václav Havel. C) Nicolaus Copernicus. D) Saint Wenceslas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nicolaus Copernicus. 4. What does Trendelenburg's sign indicate? A) Weak or paralysed abductor muscles of the hip. B) Gynaecological and back issues. C) Ankylosis of vertebral and sacroiliac joints. D) Arthritis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Weak or paralysed abductor muscles of the hip. 5. The southern border of which country is with the continental USA? A) Mexico. B) Canada. C) Russia. D) Panama. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Canada. 6. The long-running murder mystery play, "The Mousetrap" by Agatha Christie, was developed from an earlier radio play by the same author called what? A) Of Mice and Murder. B) The Mousetrap. C) The Murder of Gonzago. D) Three Blind Mice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Three Blind Mice. 7. What was the first, and only complete, novel, published in 1788, written by 18th-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights Mary Wollstonecraft? A) Calamity Jane. B) Pride and Prejudice. C) Mary:A Fiction. D) Dragonslayer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mary:A Fiction. 8. Who are the only players in an ice hockey game allowed to be in the referee's crease? A) Rink steward. B) A game official. C) Goaltender. D) Captain and alternate captain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Captain and alternate captain. 9. What 2009 American musical film directed by Kevin Tancharoen is a loose remake of the 1980 film of the same title by Alan Parker? A) Evita. B) The King and I. C) Grease. D) Fame. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fame. 10. When you see a banana for sale, where is it likely (if not in the country you are in) to have been grown? A) Costa Rica. B) Ecuador. C) Fiji. D) Peru. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ecuador. 11. What is the lining membrane of the cavity of the eyeball connected to the optic nerve which forms the receptor surface for light rays? A) Rigoletto. B) Retina. C) Retsina. D) Red eye. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Retina. 12. What is the next in this series:2000, Me, XP, Vista ..... A) 2005. B) 7. C) You. D) GTR. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 7. 13. Who was in all of these films: "Alfie", "The Man Who Would Be King", "Educating Rita", "Little Voice", "Batman Begins", "The Dark Knight", "Last Orders" and "The Quiet American" ? A) Laurence Olivier. B) Jude Law. C) Michael Caine. D) Noël Coward. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Michael Caine. 14. One of the unique qualities of the Moconá (or Yucumã) Falls in the Uruguay River is that they run along the river rather than across it, and another is what? A) They are regularly obscured when water rises in the river. B) They are taller at their high point than the Victoria Falls. C) They completely dry up at the peak of the dry season. D) The water is orange. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They are regularly obscured when water rises in the river. 15. What is trokosi as practised among the Ewe people in Benin, Togo and Ghana? A) Celibacy. B) Ritual tattooing of religious initiates. C) Lighting incense sticks to the ancestors. D) Paying for sin by sending a young girl into permanent bondage to priests in a shrine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paying for sin by sending a young girl into permanent bondage to priests in a shrine. 16. Who became the first President of the French Republic by popular vote in 1848, became dictator after a coup in 1851, then ruled as "Emperor of the French" from 1852 to September 1870, when he was captured in the Franco-Prussian War? A) Napoleon III. B) Charles de Gaulle. C) Louis-Philippe of France. D) Louis Jules Trochu. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Napoleon III. 17. Ballet dancer Chase Johnsey broke a major custom when he was offered the opportunity to dance in female corps roles in what 2018 English National Ballet production? A) Petrushka. B) The Nutcracker. C) Swan Lake. D) The Sleeping Beauty. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Sleeping Beauty. 18. Once a fish has been gutted and butterflied, what turns it into a kipper? A) Salt and slow-grilling. B) Salt, pressure and slow-drying. C) Salt (or pickling) and cold-smoking. D) Salt and hot-smoking. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Salt (or pickling) and cold-smoking. 19. An early type of futures market, and a huge speculative bubble and collapse, related to what? A) Rice, in 1710. B) Olives, 6th century BCE. C) Tulip bulbs, in 1636-7. D) Corn, in 1851. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tulip bulbs, in 1636-7. 20. After winning the silver in equestrian dressage 1932 Summer Olympics, why was Swedish rider Bertil Sandström demoted to last? A) Months later, his horse tested positive for fluphenazine and zuclophenthixol. B) His blood tests indicated the use of darbepoetin. C) Clicking to his horse to encourage it. D) Swearing at the judges during the competition. 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