This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 938 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 938 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Father and son walk to do some fishing while the theme tune is whistled in the opening credits of which popular TV series first broadcast from 1960 to 1968? A) Happy Days. B) The Andy Griffith Show. C) My Three Sons. D) Dragnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Andy Griffith Show. 2. Competitions for which cup, sometimes called the World Men's Team Championships, for international badminton teams representing nations in the Badminton World Federation, have been held every three years since 1948-1949 and every two years since 1982? A) The Thomas Cup. B) The Uber Cup. C) The Sudirman Cup. D) The BWF Super Series Trophy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Thomas Cup. 3. What is the term for a two week period? A) Keep week. B) Bodmin. C) Semester. D) Fortnight. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fortnight. 4. Which of these is NOT a technical manual or aid book of some kind? A) '' for Dummies". B) "The Rubaiyat". C) "how-to guide". D) "Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "The Rubaiyat". 5. Which if these statements comes closest to the next number in the sequence 0; 9; 144; 21, 609? A) Over 2, 300, 000 million. B) Over 4, 600, 000 million. C) Around 230 million. D) Around 500 million. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Around 500 million. 6. In 1935, which city was chosen to replace Livingstone as the capital of the British colony of Northern Rhodesia, and is now the capital of Zambia? A) Addis Ababa. B) Bulawayo. C) Lusaka. D) Pretoria. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lusaka. 7. While most juries can only provide a verdict of "Guilty" or "Not Guilty", in which country can a jury decide "Not Proven" ? A) Wales. B) Scotland. C) Ireland. D) Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scotland. 8. What is the language system known as "ablaut" ? A) Inflection which indicates tense or person. B) An accent over a vowel which changes the sound. C) A vowel change that changes the meaning of a word without substantially changing it otherwise. D) Using extended synonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A vowel change that changes the meaning of a word without substantially changing it otherwise. 9. Which Austrian card game uses a 54 card Industrie und Glück deck? A) Gilten. B) Watten. C) Schnapsen. D) Tapp Tarock. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tapp Tarock. 10. Jacques Seguela wrote "Autobiographie Non Autorisée" about Carla Bruni, supermodel-singer, and her most recent lover at the time, which was who? A) TV star Ellen Degeneres. B) Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones. C) Film star Brad Pitt. D) French president Nicolas Sarkozy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) French president Nicolas Sarkozy. 11. Who did Tom Cruise propose to at the Eiffel Tower in 2005? A) Katie Holmes. B) Madonna. C) Britney Spears. D) Enya. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Katie Holmes. 12. Which of these was a character in the TV series "Dynasty" ? A) Alexis Carrington. B) Mary Hartman. C) Mary Richards. D) Sue Ellen Ewing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alexis Carrington. 13. Burj Al Arab Hotel, built in the shape of a sail, is where? A) Abu Dhabi. B) Dubai. C) Qatar. D) Saudi Arabia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dubai. 14. The Western Ghats run down the coast of which country? A) Saudi Arabia. B) China. C) India. D) Pakistan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) India. 15. Myles na gCopaleen and George Knowall are pseudonyms of what Irish novelist, playwright and satirist? A) Flann O'Brien. B) Brian O'Nolan. C) Brother Barnabas. D) Seamus Heaney. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brian O'Nolan. 16. What is the first sentence of the book "Nineteen Eighty Four" by George Orwell? A) This is a tale neither of love nor bravery, but of personal tragedy. B) I was being watched. I could feel eyes upon me. C) It was a dark and stormy night. D) It was a bright, cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It was a bright, cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen. 17. Nadya Suleman, a resident of Southern California, made the news early in 2009 for doing what? A) Shooting 19 students in a UCLA cafeteria. B) Giving birth to octuplets. C) Winning a pie-eating contest by a wide margin. D) Getting a record divorce settlement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Giving birth to octuplets. 18. The peacock is an important part of which faith? A) Yazidism. B) Christianity. C) Shinto. D) Buddhism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yazidism. 19. What is the name of the obelisk brought from Heliopolis, Egypt, that now stands in London? A) Nelson's Column. B) The Monument. C) Cleopatra's Needle. D) Eros. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cleopatra's Needle. 20. Who wrote "A Brief History Of Time" and "Black Holes and Baby Universes" ? A) Arthur C. Clarke. B) H. G. Wells. C) Isaac Asimov. D) Stephen Hawking. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stephen Hawking. ← 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