This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 446 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 446 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is used on uniforms of some US military or paramilitary personnel to indicate number of years' service? A) Hash marks. B) Wings. C) Chevrons. D) Horizontal stripes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hash marks. 2. The seven brightest stars of which constellation form the asterism known as the Big Dipper in the United States and Canada, or the Plough in the United Kingdom and Ireland? A) Ursa Major. B) Capricorn. C) Gemini. D) Leo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ursa Major. 3. As what did "Vinicius and Tom" become a popular pairing in December 2014? A) The name of a new cartoon series premiΓ¨ring on Nickelodeon. B) Names of twin red panda cubs born at Utica Zoo, New York, USA. C) Two new earthlike planets discovered. D) They were voted by Brazil as mascot names for the Rio Summer Olympics and Paralympics 2016. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They were voted by Brazil as mascot names for the Rio Summer Olympics and Paralympics 2016. 4. What is prussic acid, found in bitter almonds and laurel leaves, also known as? A) Niacic acid. B) Acetic acid. C) Hydrocyanic acid. D) Nitrous acid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hydrocyanic acid. 5. What name is given to sympathetic pregnancy? A) Couvade syndrome. B) The Strabo effect. C) The Guinea symptoms. D) Coriolis effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couvade syndrome. 6. What is the prevailing climate in northern Mali? A) Dry. B) Temperate. C) Monsoon. D) Coastal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dry. 7. Which of these US cities is the furthest north? A) San Francisco. B) Memphis. C) New Orleans. D) Chicago. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chicago. 8. Which Italian painter contemporary with Caravaggio, celebrated at the time but neglected until recently (with many paintings attributed to others), is admired for work celebrating female strength and chiaroscuro techniques? A) Jerome David (1590-1663). B) Pierre Dumonstier le Neveu (1585-1656). C) Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653). D) Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653). 9. Which of these would be most involved with the preparation of Coq au Vin? A) Delivery driver. B) Sommelier. C) Maitre d'. D) Chef. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chef. 10. Who married Sarah Hugill in 1972, had two children, divorced in 1983, married Sarah Brightman in 1984, divorced in 1990, married Madeleine Gurdon in 1991, and had three children? A) Kris Kristofferson. B) Tim Rice. C) Burt Bacharach. D) Andrew Lloyd Webber. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Andrew Lloyd Webber. 11. Racing what animal, other than a horse, is a popular sport in, for example, the USA, the UK and parts of Africa, often as part of a horse racing event? A) Elephants. B) Roosters. C) Rheas. D) Ostrich. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ostrich. 12. Which of these is a Shakespearean character? A) McKee. B) McCartney. C) Macintosh. D) Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Macbeth. 13. Where are the pyramids which include that of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty pharaoh Taharqa, the oldest and the largest of these? A) Luxor, Egypt. B) Nuri, Sudan. C) Saqqara, northwest of Memphis, Egypt. D) Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nuri, Sudan. 14. What is the marine system called which circulates nutrients from the deep ocean to its surface? A) Thermohaline. B) Gyres. C) Coriolis Effect. D) Conveyor belt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thermohaline. 15. Which writer is quoted as saying "The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction." ? A) Joan Didion. B) Ernest Hemingway. C) John Edgar Browning. D) Tom Wolfe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tom Wolfe. 16. In November 2010, who was widely quoted as saying it's "better to love beautiful girls than gays" ? A) Mick Jagger. B) Silvio Berlusconi. C) Britney Spears. D) Nicolas Sarkozy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Silvio Berlusconi. 17. Which is the shortest distance to travel by water from Bahir Dar to Alexandria? A) Via the Mediterranean Sea alone. B) Via the Nile River alone. C) Via the Blue Nile and the Nile River. D) Via the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Via the Blue Nile and the Nile River. 18. Which river, the longest in France, empties into the Atlantic at St. Nazaire? A) Seine. B) Rhine. C) Rhone. D) Loire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Loire. 19. A best-selling album by Bruce Springsteen was "Born in ..... " what? A) The USA. B) A manger. C) A Hospital. D) A Trunk. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The USA. 20. The term "three in a bed" is used in which sport? A) Synchronised swimming. B) Darts. C) Cricket. D) Field hockey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Darts. β PreviousNext βRelated 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 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books