This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 807 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 807 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is another name for a Lexicon? A) Teacher. B) Dictionary. C) Barbeque. D) Target. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dictionary. 2. Which sporting equipment is made principally of fibreglass or carbon-fibre, or a mixture of both? A) Poles for pole vault. B) Foils for fencing. C) Stirrups for dressage. D) Bars for track hurdles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poles for pole vault. 3. Whose play about the Salem witch trials in the 17th century drew parallels to McCarthyism in the 1950s? A) Edward Albee. B) Tennessee Williams. C) Arthur Miller. D) Sam Shepard. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arthur Miller. 4. Where and when did the character Worzel Gummidge first appear? A) In a book by Barbara Euphan Todd in 1936. B) On the radio in 1939 in BBC's Children's Hour. C) On "Jackanory" in 1967. D) On BBC in a TV series first aired in 1953. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In a book by Barbara Euphan Todd in 1936. 5. Which of Little Red Riding Hood's relations was eaten by a wolf? A) Niece. B) Aunt. C) Cousin. D) Grandma. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grandma. 6. Who was Queen of France as the wife of Henry II (who reigned for 15 years from 1547) and remained the dominant person in France after his death during the reign of 3 of her 4 sons until 1589? A) Catherine the Great. B) Catherine de Medici. C) Catherine of Aragon. D) Catherine Zeta Jones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Catherine de Medici. 7. Michael Douglas starred in what TV series, set in California, which ran on US TV from 1972 and 1980? A) Dirty Harry. B) The Streets of San Francisco. C) MacMillan and Wife. D) The Untouchables. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Streets of San Francisco. 8. Whose campaign is the subject of the 2006 documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" ? A) Al Gore. B) Barack Obama. C) David Attenborough. D) Malala Yousafzai. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Al Gore. 9. What was the nickname for the Boeing B-17 long-range bomber used in World War II? A) Dark Angel. B) Big Bertha. C) Fat Albert. D) Flying Fortress. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flying Fortress. 10. Corsica is surrounded by which sea? A) Dead Sea. B) Tasman Sea. C) Coral Sea. D) Mediterranean Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mediterranean Sea. 11. The 2021 TV series "The Lost Symbol", starring Ashley Zukerman and Eddie Izzard, is a prequel to what? A) The Robert Langdon film and TV series. B) The Raiders of the Lost Ark series. C) "Willow". D) "Lucifer". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Robert Langdon film and TV series. 12. What is the traditional name for someone who is a professional copyist or writer of formal documents, such as deeds or contracts? A) Slaverer. B) Scratcher. C) Scrivener. D) Ostler. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scrivener. 13. Who was the Champion at the 2017 Australian Open? A) Nick Kyrgios. B) Rafael Nadal. C) Roger Federer. D) Andy Murray. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Roger Federer. 14. What was the musical work by Mike Oldfield released as an album, containing only one track on each side, in 1973? A) Tubular Bells. B) Classical Gas. C) War of the Worlds. D) The Six Wives of Henry the Eighth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tubular Bells. 15. The island of Taiwan is off the coast of where? A) Great Britain. B) Australia. C) China. D) Malaysia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) China. 16. Which was the first of these four to be an Olympic 100 metres winner? A) Harold Abrahams. B) Jesse Owens. C) Usain Bolt. D) Linford Christie. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Harold Abrahams. 17. According to the books by Edgar Rice Burroughs, who raised Tarzan after he was orphaned? A) Mice. B) Apes. C) His aunt. D) Captain Bligh. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apes. 18. Where is the VRAEM? A) North of Kazakhstan. B) Brussels. C) Peru. D) South Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peru. 19. What is the 9th month of the Islamic calendar, the month of fasting, in which Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking, and so on from dawn to sunset? A) Muttondan. B) Ewerdan. C) Lambadan. D) Ramadan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ramadan. 20. Which tree, native to Western Australia, has flowers that are used to make honey, and long, straight trunks which provide a deep rich reddish-brown, termite-resistant wood with an attractive grain? A) Karri. B) Coolabah. C) Jarrah. D) Mahogany. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jarrah. ← 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