This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 475 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 475 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who was the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 882 to 887 AD? A) Charles the Bald. B) Charles the Fat. C) Charles the Bold. D) Charles the Simple. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charles the Fat. 2. Where is the United Kingdom's National Space Centre? A) Bristol. B) Runnymede. C) Cardiff. D) Leicester. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Leicester. 3. What phrase refers to a person who is revealed to be different from what they had previously appeared? A) Silver lining. B) Dark horse. C) Red herring. D) Shadowfax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dark horse. 4. Tic-tac-toe is another name for which game? A) Noughts and crosses. B) Solitaire. C) Hangman. D) Ludo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Noughts and crosses. 5. If a player was competing in a championship organised by the LIHG, later the IIHF, what sport would they be playing? A) Ice hockey. B) Basketball. C) Rugby. D) Water polo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ice hockey. 6. What is the stage name of Robyn Hannah Louise Kenny, who was born on 7 January, 1983? A) Lady Gaga. B) Rhianna. C) Dido. D) Madonna. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhianna. 7. Who owned "The News" newspaper in Adelaide, diversified into the US, UK and Asian markets, and started Sky TV in Britain in 1989? A) Rupert Murdoch. B) Kerry Packer. C) George Randolph Hearst. D) Michael Bloomberg. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rupert Murdoch. 8. Of what was the wood nymph, Pomona, goddess in Roman mythology? A) Abundance. B) Perfume. C) Apples. D) Waterfalls. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abundance. 9. The Australian city of Melbourne is on which river? A) Derwent. B) Swan. C) Torrens. D) Yarra. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Yarra. 10. Of the various meanings of "gudgeon" which of these is NOT one? A) A small European freshwater fish. B) A rudder blade. C) A credulous or easily fooled person. D) The socket for the male component of a hinge or pivot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A rudder blade. 11. A popular myth which has been debunked by sports historians is that Abner Doubleday, a Union officer in the American Civil War, invented which sport? A) Basketball. B) Ice hockey. C) Baseball. D) American football. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Baseball. 12. The Potts children are from which film? A) Peter Pan. B) The Railway Children. C) Mary Poppins. D) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. 13. Samoa, Hawaii and the Tokelau Islands are part of which geographic area? A) Melanesia. B) Micronesia. C) Polynesia. D) Magnesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Polynesia. 14. A senate was the governing body of which of these empires? A) Greek. B) Mongol. C) British. D) Roman. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Roman. 15. In the 3rd millennium BCE the Indus Valley civilisation was using distance measurements precise to a unit of what? A) 1.704 mm (1/16 inch). B) 4.7 mm (approx. 1/5 inch). C) 2 cm (approx. 4/5 inch). D) 2.5 mm (approx. 1/10 inch). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1.704 mm (1/16 inch). 16. What was the mascot for the XX Commonwealth Games 2014? A) A tartan unicorn named Andy. B) A green thistle named Clyde. C) A white bull, rampant. D) A red, green and blue Scottish terrier named Jock. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A green thistle named Clyde. 17. What subregion of Oceania, comprising hundreds of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean, includes Guam, Wake Island, Nauru, the Marshall Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and Kiribati? A) Micronesia. B) Polynesia. C) Australasia. D) Melanesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Micronesia. 18. In 2002 what, possibly unique, reaction was observed in cichlids, a freshwater fish species, in one short stretch of the River Congo? A) They became viviparous. B) The fish in the stretch grew close to 10 times the usual size. C) They became bottom feeders. D) Cichlids had genetically diverged on opposite sides of the river. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cichlids had genetically diverged on opposite sides of the river. 19. Which of these has the most legs? A) Stool. B) Ant. C) Hen. D) Cat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ant. 20. The name of Justin Timberlake's 2018 album, "Man of the Woods", his first for 5 years, references what? A) His new full-body tattoo. B) The name of his 2-year old son. C) The forest in which he wrote most of the songs. D) A song by Guru Guru. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The name of his 2-year old son. ← 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