This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 985 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 985 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Snowflake was the name of what albino animal that died in the Barcelona Zoo in 2003? A) Giraffe. B) Zebra. C) Gorilla. D) Lion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gorilla. 2. The series ran from 1985 to 1992, during that season won two Primetime Emmys for Outstanding Comedy Series, three Golden Globes for Best Television Series-Musical or Comedy, Emmys for each of its four stars, and continues to rerun. Which was the series? A) The Golden Girls. B) Hill Street Blues. C) All in the Family. D) The Honeymooners. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Golden Girls. 3. Which of these songs is from "The Sound of Music" ? A) Ain't No Mountain High Enough. B) Climb Every Mountain. C) Keep Right On To The End Of The Road. D) River Deep, Mountain High. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Climb Every Mountain. 4. The Homestake Experiment in the late 1960s was designed to observe what? A) Solar neutrinos. B) Beta decay. C) Treatment of Alzheimer's. D) The results of chemical weapons tests. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Solar neutrinos. 5. What do ethnologists call people occupying most of North Africa, after one of Noah's sons who is, according to legend, their ancestor? A) Semites. B) Hamites. C) Sethamines. D) Hamburgers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hamites. 6. All or part of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Greece and Turkey are often described as being in what? A) The Caucasus. B) The Baltic States. C) The Balkans. D) The Rift Valley. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Balkans. 7. What is Donald Duck's middle name? A) Partington. B) Smiddy. C) Dunn. D) Fauntleroy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fauntleroy. 8. What was Gregorian chant or plainchant developed for? A) 12th century love songs. B) The music of Arvo Pärt. C) Use in the mediaeval Christian Latin liturgy. D) Communication in the Italian alps. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Use in the mediaeval Christian Latin liturgy. 9. In which tennis event finals did Serena Williams notably lose to Naomi Osaka in 2018? A) Australian Open. B) French Open. C) US Open. D) Wimbledon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) US Open. 10. What is involved in a course Camarguaise, or course libre? A) A foot race across the Camargue delta in France. B) Contest between a bull and unarmed men. C) A race between wild Camargue horses. D) A go-kart race in the south of France. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Contest between a bull and unarmed men. 11. Which of these countries gained independence from France in 1953 and became an independent constitutional monarchy under King Norodom Sihanouk? A) Vietnam. B) Laos. C) Burma. D) Cambodia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cambodia. 12. In a film script, what do the letters EXT mean? A) Extend. B) Extemporise. C) Exterior. D) Extreme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exterior. 13. Who gave Harry Potter his first kiss? A) Fleur Delacourt. B) Cho Chang. C) Parvati Patil. D) Hermione Granger. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cho Chang. 14. Banksy's 2015 work on the walls of a ruined building in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, depicts what? A) A kitten with a bow. B) A dog urinating on a gun. C) An unknown old man. D) A parachuting rat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A kitten with a bow. 15. The island of Alcatraz is closest to which of these cities? A) New York. B) Los Angeles. C) San Francisco. D) Chicago. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) San Francisco. 16. To which astronomer and cosmologist is what became known as the "big bang theory", the currently leading cosmological theory as modified by George Gamow, attributed? A) Edwin P. Hubble. B) Stephen Hawking. C) Willem de Sitter. D) Georges Lemaître. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Georges Lemaître. 17. Why was the 2005 IBSF World Snooker Championship, due to be held in Pakistan, cancelled? A) Fireworks explosions nearby damaged the venue. B) Security concerns linked to Taliban attacks. C) Earthquake. D) Not enough people registered to compete. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Earthquake. 18. What was the official name of the first code of French civil law (published in 1804), given in 1807? A) Laws of Hammurabi. B) Code Napoléon. C) Rules of Engagement. D) Common Law. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Code Napoléon. 19. What is a religious censure used to deprive or suspend membership in a religious community? A) Excommunication. B) Execration. C) Exile. D) Excrescence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Excommunication. 20. Songhai Empire, more than 600 years old and from the 15th to the late 16th centuries one of the largest Islamic empires in history, was where? A) West Africa. B) Xinjiang, China. C) Turkey. 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