This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 814 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 814 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is kept in the sump of a motor car engine? A) Windscreen washer fluid. B) Petrol. C) Oil. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oil. 2. In jazz, what kind of singing is vocal improvisation with nonsense syllables or without words at all, whereby singers have the ability to create the equivalent of an instrumental solo using their voice? A) Goman. B) Shoo. C) Pushoff. D) Scat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scat. 3. A pink gin is gin mixed with what? A) Angostura bitters. B) Cochineal. C) Blood. D) Tomato juice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Angostura bitters. 4. In 1991 the PYA was formed to represent people in what field? A) Youth paragliding. B) Programming language. C) Yachting. D) Yurt making. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Yachting. 5. "Now is the winter of our discontent" is a line from which play? A) Richard III. B) Othello. C) Hamlet. D) Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Richard III. 6. Which of these might have a piilion passenger on board? A) Van. B) Taxi. C) Motorcycle. D) Skateboard. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motorcycle. 7. What surgery most benefits from the Trendelenburg position? A) On the kidney. B) On the abdomen and genitourinary system. C) Brain surgery. D) Reversing dislocation in a shoulder. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) On the abdomen and genitourinary system. 8. Helen of Troy's face was said to have launched a thousand ..... what? A) Glaziers. B) Careers. C) Lifeboats. D) Ships. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ships. 9. What name is given to the unnatural fear of death? A) Homophobia. B) Androphobia. C) Thanatophobia. D) Xenophobia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thanatophobia. 10. John Mills won an Oscar in 1970 for his role in which film? A) Ryan's Daughter. B) The Parent Trap. C) Lawrence of Arabia. D) Strangers on a Train. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ryan's Daughter. 11. What six-note trumpet fanfare, composed in 1946, is often played at the beginning of sporting events in the USA? A) O Fortuna. B) Charge. C) Sweet Caroline. D) Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charge. 12. What TV series was set on Craggy Island? A) Yes, Minister. B) Black Books. C) Gilligan's Island. D) Father Ted. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Father Ted. 13. Which law enforcement agency was established in 1908 as a branch of the U S Department of Justice? A) F B I. B) C I A. C) N T S B. D) F C C. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) F B I. 14. Which of these shapes does not contain a right angle? A) Rectangle. B) Rhomboid. C) Square. D) A triangle with the sides in the ratio of 3, 4, and 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhomboid. 15. If 3 consecutive numbers add up to 27, what is the smallest of those numbers? A) 8. B) 0. C) 15. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 8. 16. What is "the American smooth" ? A) A dance. B) A style of coffee. C) A hair style. D) A breed of dog. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A dance. 17. Who discovered the moon of Saturn called Titan in 1655? A) Asaph Hall. B) Herschel. C) Cassini. D) Huygens. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Huygens. 18. Who is said by some experts to be the "master" referred to in the English nursery rhyme "Baa baa black sheep" ? A) The Chancellor of the Exchequer. B) The owner of the wool press. C) King Edward I. D) The local squire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) King Edward I. 19. Who was the other half of the Bucket household, played by actor Clive Swift, in the UK TV comedy series "Keeping Up Appearances" ? A) Richard. B) Onslow. C) Sheridan. D) Hyacinth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Richard. 20. The character "Eliza Doolittle" in "My Fair Lady" was originally created by whom? A) Oscar Wilde. B) Christopher Marlowe. C) James Joyce. D) George Bernard Shaw. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) George Bernard Shaw. ← 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