This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 460 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 460 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The subduction of which tectonic plate beneath the South American Plate is the main force creating the Andes orogeny? A) Juan Fernandez. B) Pacific. C) Cocos. D) Nazca. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nazca. 2. Which of these is a common compression method for computer files? A) Button. B) Zip. C) Belt. D) Elastic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Zip. 3. Who according to legend was the son of Zeus and Europa and became King of Crete? A) Maxos. B) Minos. C) Midos. D) Generos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Minos. 4. Which of these is not a rodent? A) Prairie dog. B) Chinchilla. C) Rat. D) Skunk. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Skunk. 5. If you travelled east from the north shores of Lake Victoria, Uganda, to western Sumatra what would you be travelling along? A) The equator. B) The Livingstone ley line. C) Tropic of Capricorn. D) The Greenwich meridian. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The equator. 6. On average how long do Mourning Cloaks, some tropical Heliconians, and Monarch Butterflies live once they have reached the adult winged stage? A) 18 months. B) 8 to 9 months. C) 3 months. D) 24 months. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 8 to 9 months. 7. Which of these characters appears in the TV series "True Blood" ? A) Barbie Brickhouse. B) Pooky Pothouse. C) Shona Slophouse. D) Sookie Stackhouse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sookie Stackhouse. 8. Who was US Ambassador to Great Britain at the start of World War II, from 1938 to 1940? A) John F Kennedy. B) Joseph P Kennedy, Snr. C) Edward Kennedy. D) Robert F Kennedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joseph P Kennedy, Snr. 9. The USA won the most medals at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. Out of these countries, which one won the most? A) Australia. B) Cuba. C) Madagascar. D) Cameroon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Australia. 10. In the first century AD, which rebellious British chieftain, of the Catuvellauni, was taken to Rome in chains? A) Caratacus. B) Prasutagus. C) Lugotorix. D) Canute. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Caratacus. 11. Which of these colours has the shortest wavelength? A) Green. B) Orange. C) Yellow. D) Red. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Green. 12. In 1968, what telephone number was established as the national emergency number for the United States? A) 119. B) 111. C) 999. D) 911. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 911. 13. Who sailed the Golden Hind in the 16th century? A) Sir Francis Drake. B) Sir Francis Walsingham. C) Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban. D) Sir Francis Galton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sir Francis Drake. 14. In what faith or religion do bhikkhunī feature? A) Zen. B) Baha'i. C) Jainism. D) Buddhism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Buddhism. 15. What style of music is synonymous with Perez Prado? A) Calypso. B) Rhumba. C) Samba. D) Mambo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mambo. 16. Where is the second regional gallery in the Tate Gallery network, that was opened in 1993? A) On the site of Millbank Prison, London. B) Liverpool, Merseyside. C) Bankside, London, on the south bank of the Thames. D) St Ives, Cornwall. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) St Ives, Cornwall. 17. Which British TV series which ran from 1983 to 2010 was named for a character which, since 1994, had not appeared in it? A) Juliet Bravo. B) Ballykissangel. C) Blackadder. D) Taggart. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Taggart. 18. Who first employed his evolving methodology of satyagraha (devotion to the truth), or non-violent protest in 1906 while a lawyer in South Africa during the Indian community's struggle for civil rights to protest against registration laws in the new state of Transvaal? A) Martin Luther King, Jr. B) Mohandas Gandhi. C) Malcolm X. D) Charles Manson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mohandas Gandhi. 19. Who created the character of Tarzan? A) Edgar Rice Burroughs. B) H Rider Haggard. C) Robert Louis Stevenson. D) C S Forester. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Edgar Rice Burroughs. 20. In 1984, Muhammad Ali was diagnosed with what disorder? A) Multiple sclerosis (MS). B) Alzheimer's disease. C) Parkinson's disease. D) Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parkinson's disease. ← 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