This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 968 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 968 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. On 10 February 2018, Australian Reverend Kay Goldsworthy became the first what? A) Aboriginal Member of Parliament. B) Female archbishop in the Anglican Communion. C) Cleric to give birth while serving. D) Transgender cleric in "Come Dancing". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Female archbishop in the Anglican Communion. 2. Which Russian or Russian-American composed "God Bless America" ? A) Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov. B) Irving Berlin. C) Leonard Bernstein. D) Modest Mussorgsky. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irving Berlin. 3. From 1970 to 1995, Julie Goodyer played Bet Lynch, a character known for sporting leopard-skin prints and a bleached-blonde beehive hairdo, in which long-running soap opera? A) Coronation Street. B) East Enders. C) Neighbours. D) Dallas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coronation Street. 4. What was the eponymous imaginarium in the 2009 film "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" ? A) A community on a planet in the Andromeda galaxy. B) Greek poetry. C) The world through a magic mirror in Dr Parnassus's travelling show. D) A university for blind and deaf artists in Athens, Greece. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The world through a magic mirror in Dr Parnassus's travelling show. 5. During which period did sound recording studios first start up in the US? A) Late 1880s and early 1890s. B) Late 1890s. C) Late 1890s and early 1900s. D) Early 1910s. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Late 1880s and early 1890s. 6. What country is the city Nuestra Señora de La Paz, or Chuqi Yapu, in? A) Spain. B) Peru. C) Bolivia. D) Portugal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bolivia. 7. What were the first names of comedians Abbott and Costello? A) Eric and Ernie. B) Bud and Lou. C) Mick and Keith. D) Stan and Oliver. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bud and Lou. 8. Which of these fictional detectives smokes a pipe? A) Hercule Poirot. B) Inspector Morse. C) Miss Marple. D) Inspector Maigret. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inspector Maigret. 9. Where would one expect to see sports competitions involving sprinters, jumpers and thrown hammers? A) On a farm. B) In a track and field event. C) In a paved civic square. D) Under water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In a track and field event. 10. With what does the CGPM, established in 1875, and its two arms, CIPM and BIPM, concern itself? A) Vegetable manures. B) Research in physics. C) Petroleum sales. D) Measurement systems. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Measurement systems. 11. What is a street term for the drug Gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid (GHB)? A) Crystal meth. B) Ecstasy. C) P. D) Fantasy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fantasy. 12. The 2019 TV series set in a universe where superpowered individuals work as heroes for a powerful corporation known as Vought International and are opposed by a team of vigilantes, is called what? A) The Boys. B) The Seven. C) The Umbrella Academy. D) Hawkeye. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Boys. 13. On the Christian calendar, what name is given to the 40 days before Easter? A) Lent. B) Epiphany. C) Annunciation. D) Christmas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lent. 14. Equipment launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in December 2021 was designed to do what? A) Experiment with all-electric airplane flight. B) Observe the near-earth asteroid 4660 Nereus. C) Replace the aging Hubble Telescope. D) Be one of three flights gathering data to provide a foundation for human deep space exploration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Replace the aging Hubble Telescope. 15. In which TV series did the lead character refer to his wife as '' 'er indoors" ? A) Minder. B) Rumpole of the Bailey. C) The Good Life. D) To The Manor Born. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Minder. 16. The lead character in the TV series "Lovejoy", which was based on stories by John Grant (under the pen name Jonathan Gash), was an expert in what? A) Antiques. B) Guns. C) Seduction. D) Magic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antiques. 17. A board, appropriately marked up, and the right shape pieces will make it possible for people to play which of these? A) Conkers. B) Tiddlywinks. C) Chinese Checkers. D) Street craps. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chinese Checkers. 18. What name was given to people who believed that James II and his descendants were the rightful rulers of Britain? A) Scots on the rocks. B) Bonny Lads. C) Charlietans. D) Jacobites. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jacobites. 19. Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), revered as a great poet, also wrote which play or drama? A) The Stone Guest. B) Ruslan and Ludmila. C) Eugene Onegin. D) Boris Godunov. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Boris Godunov. 20. A test developed in 1924 by R.L. Smith & G.E. Sandland at Vickers Ltd as an alternative to the Brinell method, is used to measure what? A) The hardness of materials. B) The viscosity of oil. C) Radiation. D) Rolling resistance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The hardness of materials. ← 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