This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 91 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 91 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. If something is called "tuppenny ha'penny" what is meant? A) It is virtually worthless. B) It has an atmosphere of Victorian England. C) It is old fashioned. D) It is very cheerful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is virtually worthless. 2. Three times F1 World Champion Niki Lauda was severely burnt in a crash on what track in the 1976 F1 World Championship? A) Silverstone. B) Spa Francorchamps. C) Nürburgring. D) Zandvoort. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nürburgring. 3. The epitaph on whose tomb is followed by the deceased's own couplet: "Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it." ? A) Jonathan Swift. B) John Gay. C) Alexander Pope. D) John Arbuthnot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Gay. 4. Which of these is a central concept in quantum physics? A) Entanglement. B) Relativity. C) Nuclear bond. D) Speed of light. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Entanglement. 5. With what sport are Donald Bradman, Stewie Dempster, Sid Barnes, Graeme Pollock, George Headley, and Herbert Sutcliffe associated? A) Baseball. B) American Football. C) Cricket. D) Rugby Union. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cricket. 6. What is a chaconne, or a passacaglia? A) A piece of music. B) A dance. C) A dessert based on custard. D) A pass in a fencing duel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A piece of music. 7. Where is the kind of water flow known as thalweg found? A) Among mountain peaks. B) Beneath a surface stream, or in the middle of a waterway which is the boundary between states. C) In waterfalls. D) In glaciers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beneath a surface stream, or in the middle of a waterway which is the boundary between states. 8. At which UK General Election was Helen Grant elected, the Conservative Party's first black female MP? A) 1951. B) 1983. C) 2010. D) 1979. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2010. 9. What is one of the disciplines in which English artist Kate Tempest works? A) Brass instrument making. B) Sculpture. C) Thread work. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poetry. 10. Which British television series, presented by a wine writer and a co-presenter of a programme for car enthusiasts, tours around the UK sampling locally-made alcohol? A) Which AA Were You Wanting, Sir?. B) Oz & James Drink to Britain. C) Antiques Roadshow. D) Mucking In. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oz & James Drink to Britain. 11. The short story writer Katherine Mansfield died in 1923 at the age of 34 from what? A) Injuries in a car crash. B) Tuberculosis. C) Injuries in a duel. D) Drowning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tuberculosis. 12. Speculation about the possibility of a southern land mass has been around for at least 2, 000 years. When was the first recorded sighting of the Antarctic continent? A) 1905. B) 1540. C) 1820. D) 1775. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1820. 13. Belgian landscape and garden designer Jacques Wirtz specialised in sculpture using what medium? A) Bamboo. B) Stone. C) Topiary and water. D) Corrugated iron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Topiary and water. 14. What was abolished throughout the British Empire in 1833? A) Slavery. B) Capital punishment. C) Arms sales to native persons. D) The sale of liquor to indigenous peoples. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Slavery. 15. To whom anong these would Henry V, as he appears in William Shakespeare's play of the same name, have been able to talk in the period leading up to the play? A) Falstaff. B) Ophelia. C) Oberon. D) Iago. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Falstaff. 16. "Parturient" applies to something which is what? A) Bringing forth. B) Departing. C) Dividing. D) Participating. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bringing forth. 17. The formula (X²)² is the same as which of these? A) X²x2. B) 2X². C) (2X)². D) X⁴. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) X⁴. 18. Who is reputed to have survived over 55 assassination attempts, the most notable of which (the only time in modern history when a Head of State has personally exchanged fire with a potential assassin) was in 1931? A) Franklin D. Roosevelt. B) King Zog of Albania. C) Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. D) Adolf Hitler. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) King Zog of Albania. 19. Gamekeeping is the occupation of the title character in which of these? A) Cross of Iron. B) The French Lieutenant's Woman. C) The Man in the Iron Mask. D) Lady Chatterley's Lover. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lady Chatterley's Lover. 20. Which was the last of these Woody Allen movies to be released? A) Annie Hall. B) Sleeper. C) Bullets Over Broadway. D) Hannah and Her Sisters. 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