This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 466 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 466 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Where on the moon did the first man land? A) Bay of Rainbows. B) Sea of Showers. C) Sea of Serenity. D) Sea of Tranquillity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sea of Tranquillity. 2. Which three times Formula One champion was burnt in a crash in the 1976 F1 World Championship? A) Niki Lauda. B) Michael Schumacher. C) Jensen Button. D) Scott Dixon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Niki Lauda. 3. Who used the pseudonym "Bab" ? A) Gerard Manley Hopkins. B) Charles Dickens. C) Tim Rice. D) W S Gilbert. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) W S Gilbert. 4. What are rundlets, tierces and tertians? A) 13th century diseases in England, similar to influenza and dysentery. B) Units of volume in wine. C) Types of pass in sabre fencing. D) Different types of snowflake. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Units of volume in wine. 5. Which of these applies to critical study and discussion of literary texts and cultural contexts, particularly of religious writing? A) Mimesis. B) Exegesis. C) Diegesis. D) Genesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exegesis. 6. What are the cordilleras in Colombia? A) Percussion musical instruments. B) Alpine lakes. C) Part of the Andes mountain range. D) Volcanoes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Part of the Andes mountain range. 7. The holding of what is particularly influenced by infestations of Cameraria ohridella, a species of leaf miner moth, in the UK? A) The Chelsea Flower Show. B) The World Conker Championship. C) The World Snail Championship. D) Harvest festivals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The World Conker Championship. 8. Gros Michel, Cavendish and Dacca are all what? A) Makes of cigar. B) Banana cultivars. C) Holiday resorts in the South Island of New Zealand. D) Names of tornadoes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Banana cultivars. 9. Whose trademark wardrobe included a bowler hat and cane? A) Mary Pickford. B) Clint Eastwood. C) Humphrey Bogart. D) Charlie Chaplin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Charlie Chaplin. 10. Which of these has hooves? A) Deer. B) Bear. C) Aardvark. D) Porcupine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deer. 11. Gordon Shumway, who ends up as an uninvited guest of the Tanner family in a 1986-1990 US TV series, was better known as what? A) Mr Wonderful. B) Balki. C) ALF. D) Punky. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) ALF. 12. Which of these has been known as one of the most expensive serial drama series on TV? A) Dancing With The Stars. B) Lost. C) Hawaii Five-O. D) Man vs Wild. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lost. 13. The Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch painted his works in which centuries AD? A) 18th and 19th. B) 19th and 20th. C) 1st and 2nd. D) 15th and 16th. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 15th and 16th. 14. Nelson beat Napoleon's fleet, which lost 13 of 17 ships, in which battle in Aboukir Bay on 1 August 1793? A) Battle of El Alamein. B) Battle of Trafalgar. C) Battle of the Nile. D) Battle of Lissa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Battle of the Nile. 15. In quantum mechanics and particle physics, what is the usual term for an intrinsic form of angular momentum carried by elementary particles, composite particles (hadrons), and atomic nuclei? A) Valence. B) Spin. C) Orbit. D) Flow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spin. 16. The mountaineering achievement known as the Seven Summits involves climbing the highest mountains of each of the seven continents. The list differs but the core five are:Everest, Aconcagua, Vinson, Kilimanjaro and which other? A) Mauna Kea. B) Denali. C) Tyree. D) Logan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denali. 17. What relation were Ravi Shankar and Norah Jones to each other? A) Brother and Sister. B) Father and daughter. C) Just good friends. D) Mother and son. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Father and daughter. 18. What is the name of the test cricket venue in Birmingham, England? A) Trent Bridge. B) Edgbaston. C) Old Trafford. D) Headingley. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Edgbaston. 19. The word guerrilla comes from Spanish, where it means what? A) Little war. B) Rebel. C) Rifleman. D) Patriot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Little war. 20. In what country is the Gobustan State Historical and Cultural Reserve, established in 1966 in order to preserve prehistoric rock carvings, mud volcanoes and musical stones in the region? A) China. B) Azerbaijan. C) Burma/Myanmar. D) Mongolia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Azerbaijan. ← 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