This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 447 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 447 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Kylie Minogue released which perfume in 2006? A) Coquette. B) Eau de Wombat. C) Flutter. D) Darling. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Darling. 2. Which of these is a treatment used to combat mental illnesses such as depression and schizophrenia? A) Radiology. B) Electro Cardiography. C) Electro Encephalography. D) Electric Convulsive Therapy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Electric Convulsive Therapy. 3. Mike Moore, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation from 1999 to 2002, was from which country? A) South Africa. B) Australia. C) New Zealand. D) England. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) New Zealand. 4. Cramp affects what part of the body? A) Brain. B) Muscles. C) Liver. D) Arteries. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Muscles. 5. With which organisation is European star JiΕΓ KyliΓ‘n most associated? A) Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). B) Nederlands Dans Theater. C) European Chess Union. D) Eurovision Song Contest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nederlands Dans Theater. 6. In Australia, what is used to stuff a "carpetbag steak" ? A) Oysters. B) Potatoes. C) Chillis. D) Mixed vegetables. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oysters. 7. Who or what, at one level, is the "Half" in American author Brit Bennett's book "The Vanishing Half" (2020)? A) The protagonist's husband. B) Women. C) Spanish-American illegal immigrant workers. D) One of twin sisters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) One of twin sisters. 8. Syntax is the study of the underlying principles and the ways of what? A) How words are used. B) How finance systems function. C) How a sentence is put together. D) How language changes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) How a sentence is put together. 9. Who was an American serial killer active in various states between 1973 and 1978 who confessed to over 30 murders (estimates range from 26 to over 100)? A) Lord Lucan. B) Al Bundy. C) "Ted" Bundy. D) Jesse James. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Ted" Bundy. 10. What is an alternative name for a hydrolaccolith, a mound of earth-covered ice found in the Arctic and subarctic that can reach up to 70 metres (230 ft) in height and up to 600 m (2, 000 ft) in diameter? A) Ice box. B) Pingo. C) Ice berg. D) Popsicle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pingo. 11. One of the children in the 19th century family at the centre of the famous murder trial dramatised in the UK TV show "The Suspicions of Mr Whicher", William Saville-Kent, became a naturalist whose seminal work shaped Australian practice in what area? A) Education. B) Fisheries. C) Establishment of zoological gardens. D) Forensic science. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fisheries. 12. What is buttock mail? A) An ecclesiastical fine for sexual intercourse outside marriage. B) Chain mail to cover the buttocks. C) Pornographic emails. D) Scales covering the top of the hind legs of butterflies or moths. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An ecclesiastical fine for sexual intercourse outside marriage. 13. Which classic poem contains the line "Far from the madding crowd" ? A) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam. B) Hiawatha. C) Elegy in a Country Churchyard. D) Sea Fever. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elegy in a Country Churchyard. 14. As what was Ernest Evans, American rock 'n roll singer and dancer famous for covers such as "Pony Time" and "Limbo Rock", better known? A) Chuck Berry. B) Chubby Checker. C) Jerry Lee Lewis. D) The Big Bopper. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chubby Checker. 15. Who was the hero in the "Die Hard" series of films? A) John McLane. B) Don MacLaine. C) Don Ameche. D) John McCain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John McLane. 16. What is a document that sets out the disposal of assets after death? A) Would. B) Will. C) Could. D) Might. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Will. 17. Which of the following roles was not played by Peter Sellers in the 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb" ? A) US President Muffley. B) Dr. Strangelove. C) RAF Group Captain Lionel Mandrake. D) US Air Force General "Buck" Turgidson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) US Air Force General "Buck" Turgidson. 18. What is the term used when one team is beaten throroughly by another? A) Whitewash. B) Blueclean. C) Blackscrub. D) Redmop. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Whitewash. 19. Where was the centennial Winter Olympics held? A) Lillehammer, Norway. B) Atlanta, Georgia, USA. C) There were no Winter Olympics Games in the centennial year. D) Nagano, Japan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) There were no Winter Olympics Games in the centennial year. 20. Which monastic order, founded in 529 CE, was based at a monastery at Monte Cassino, Italy, until it was sacked in 580, when the monks fled to Rome and then spread throughout Europe? A) Trappists. B) Capuchin. C) Carmelites. D) Benedictine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Benedictine. 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