This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 477 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 477 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Labour laws in the UK and France in 1833 and 1841 respectively prohibited employment (in certain types of factories) of people below which age? A) 18. B) 12. C) 21. D) 9 (UK) and 8 (France). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 9 (UK) and 8 (France). 2. What was the sub-title of the book "The Snow Goose" by US writer Paul Gallico? A) Three Friends, Together Forever. B) A Story of Dunkirk. C) Nature At Its Most Wild. D) One Man And A Dream. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A Story of Dunkirk. 3. What new radio edit was created of a 2009 song by Britney Spears because the original caused controversy in many English-speaking countries due to its use of a double entendre in the chorus? A) Womanizer. B) If U See Amy. C) Circus. D) Radar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) If U See Amy. 4. Which of these is a USA possession in the Greater Antilles, east of Hispaniola? A) Hawaii. B) Philippines. C) Puerto Rico. D) Trinidad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Puerto Rico. 5. What is an affliction of nose, throat, upper air passages and eyes caused by over-sensitivity to proteins of pollen in certain plants? A) Hiccups. B) Pollination. C) Muscular dystrophy. D) Hay fever. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hay fever. 6. What profession is referred to in the title of the UK TV series "The Professionals" (1977-83)? A) Criminal Intelligence 5 (CI5) investigations. B) News announcers. C) Surgeons. D) Politicians. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Criminal Intelligence 5 (CI5) investigations. 7. Which of these is a disease caused by a lack of Vitamin B1, characterised by inflammation of the peripheral nerves with subsequent paralysis, dropsy and heart failure? A) Malaria. B) Mumps. C) Beri-beri. D) Whooping cough. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beri-beri. 8. What did Edgar the Atheling spectacularly fail to do in England in 1066? A) Drive the Danes out of England. B) Succeed to the throne vacated by the deaths of Edward the Confessor and Harold Godwinson (Harold II). C) Command the tide not to come in. D) Start a crusade. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Succeed to the throne vacated by the deaths of Edward the Confessor and Harold Godwinson (Harold II). 9. Which British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team won four drivers' and two constructors' world championships in its 30-year Formula One history? A) McLaren. B) Brabham (Motor Racing Developments Ltd). C) Williams. D) Jordan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brabham (Motor Racing Developments Ltd). 10. Who married Sir Winston Churchill? A) Barbara Rosebery. B) Geraldine Primrose. C) Jacqueline St Helier. D) Clementine Hozier. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Clementine Hozier. 11. Which two countries are closest to the islands and archipelagos of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe? A) Morocco and Algeria. B) Libya and Tunisia. C) Equatorial Guinea and the Gabon. D) Spain and Portugal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Equatorial Guinea and the Gabon. 12. Which of these people appeared in the TV series "The Good Life" and "To The Manor Born" ? A) Richard Briers. B) Penelope Keith. C) Felicity Kendall. D) Paul Eddington. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Penelope Keith. 13. Who was mother to Napoléon Bonaparte's son and heir, also named Napoléon? A) Joséphine de Beauharnais. B) Marie Louise of Austria. C) Maria Walewska. D) Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Marie Louise of Austria. 14. Where is the calcaneus bone? A) Heel. B) Knee. C) Hip. D) Spine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heel. 15. After the guilty verdict in the ecclesiastical trial of Pope Formosus in 897 in Rome, what prison sentence was carried out? A) None, the sentence was declared null and void. B) None, he was executed. C) 50 years. D) None, he had died 7 months prior to the trial. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None, he had died 7 months prior to the trial. 16. What type of sausage is usually sold in a flat circular coil? A) Salami. B) Bratwurst. C) Cumberland. D) Frankfurter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cumberland. 17. According to Malory and Tennyson who was the son of Lancelot and Elaine, raised by nuns and knighted on his arrival at Camelot? A) The Gladiator. B) Galahad. C) Glamis. D) Galatasaray. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Galahad. 18. In June 2013 the UK's College of Arms granted which chef a personal coat of arms? A) Heston Blumenthal. B) Gordon Ramsay. C) Marco Pierre White. D) Nigella Lawson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heston Blumenthal. 19. Which of these is a town in Ireland that is famous for the manufacture of crystal glass? A) Delft. B) Chippendale. C) Honiton. D) Waterford. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Waterford. 20. At the 2008 Olympic Games at Beijing, 4 countries won one medal, a gold. Which of these countries won more than that? A) Bahrain. B) Tunisia. C) Romania. D) Cameroon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Romania. ← 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