This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 831 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 831 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What geometric figure could be constructed from the difference in the sums of the internal angles of an octagon and a pentagon? A) Hexagon. B) Square. C) Another pentagon. D) Triangle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Another pentagon. 2. What are scotch bonnet, capsicum and Trinidad Perfume? A) Game birds. B) Fashion accessories. C) Alcoholic drinks. D) Peppers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Peppers. 3. Who is reported as saying "We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam [sic] is the history we make today" ? A) Henry Ford. B) Winston Churchill. C) Neil Kinnock. D) Ronald Reagan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Henry Ford. 4. If someone has been swinged what is most likely to be the case? A) They have failed to decide what to do. B) They have been severely beaten or punished. C) They have been suspended and set in motion. D) They have drunk more than they can cope with and are comatose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They have been severely beaten or punished. 5. Gabriel Loire, Mordecai Ardon and Marcelle Ferron are known for their art work in what medium? A) Grained wood. B) Dyed cloth. C) Stained glass. D) Striped paint. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stained glass. 6. Who was associated with Sir Donald Bailey in completing the development of the Bailey Bridge? A) James Jardine. B) Sir Ralph Freeman. C) James Warren. D) Sarah Guppy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sir Ralph Freeman. 7. In which religion or faith is Olympus the home of deities? A) Judaism. B) Hellenism. C) Sikh. D) Druze. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hellenism. 8. Which of these is an English actress known for her work in the films "My Summer of Love", "The Devil Wears Prada", and the BBC TV film "Gideon's Daughter" ? A) Emily Blunt. B) Rita Sharpe. C) Kookie Cutter. D) Jane Dullman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emily Blunt. 9. When mountain climbers hammer in and extract pitons damage is done to the rocks. Clean climbing since 1970 has largely replaced them with what? A) Lost Arrows and angles. B) Abalakov Cam. C) Chockstones and SLCD. D) Bongs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chockstones and SLCD. 10. The successive black notes on a piano is an example of what? A) Pentatonic scale. B) An aria. C) An octave. D) A major key. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pentatonic scale. 11. What is the basis for a pina colada? A) Gin. B) Rum. C) Whisky. D) Ouzo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rum. 12. These are the last lines of which play:H:Shall the worms declare his truth? Go to him, take his shame away. E:He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him. A) "Enemy of the People" by Henrik Ibsen. B) "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller. C) "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller. D) "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller. 13. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is based on principles which include what? A) Behavioural modification works best when accompanied by medicine. B) Psychological problems are based, in part, on faulty or unhelpful ways of thinking. C) EQ testing. D) For ongoing therapy a trained therapist is permanently essential. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Psychological problems are based, in part, on faulty or unhelpful ways of thinking. 14. What name was given to 6 labourers in Dorset, England, who formed a "Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers" and in 1834 were sentenced to 7 years transportation for "administering unlawful oaths" ? A) The Gang of Six. B) The Society of Friends (Quakers). C) The Luddites. D) The Tolpuddle Martyrs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Tolpuddle Martyrs. 15. New Zealand singer and songwriter Lorde won the 2014 Grammy for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance for her debut single; what was the song? A) Royals. B) Green Light. C) Pure Heroine. D) Yellow Flicker Beat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Royals. 16. Which of these is an American jazz musician best known for playing the vibraphone? A) Laurindo Almeida. B) Dizzy Gillespie. C) Lionel Hampton. D) Oscar Peterson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lionel Hampton. 17. Which celebrated athlete announced that their last Olympic competition would be the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil? A) Swimmer Michael Phelps. B) Track athlete Usain Bolt. C) Shot putter Valerie Adams. D) Sailor Peter Burling. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Track athlete Usain Bolt. 18. American graphic designer and film maker Saul Bass commented: "I'm a working man. Perhaps I'm luckier than most in that I receive considerable satisfaction from doing useful work which I, and sometimes others, think is good" . Which of the words in the comment is a gerundive? A) Receive. B) Doing. C) Than. D) Working. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Working. 19. Ronnie Verrell, an English jazz drummer who played in The Ted Heath Orchestra, The Syd Lawrence Orchestra, Jack Parnell's ATV Orchestra and for "Sunday Night at the London Palladium" also provided the drumming for what? A) The Beatles' 1964 tour to Australia. B) "Animal" in the Muppet Show. C) Neil Young's band "Crazy Horse". D) The CD "I Dreamed A Dream" by Susan Boyle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Animal" in the Muppet Show. 20. Which weapon, common in the 14th and 15th centuries and still carried by the Yeomen of the Guard in Britain, consisted of a pike and an axe on a 5 foot long staff? A) Malteser. B) Longbow. C) Quoin. D) Halberd. 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