This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 479 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 479 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Where is the liqueur "Bénédictine" traditionally made? A) Fécamp. B) Toulouse. C) Ankara. D) Calcutta. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fécamp. 2. In which city were the first meetings held of the General Assembly and the Security Council of the United Nations in January 1946? A) San Francisco. B) London. C) New York. D) Geneva. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) London. 3. Who established the Jersey Zoo on the Channel Island of Jersey in 1958? A) Benjamin Britten. B) Gerald Durrell. C) Margaret Thatcher. D) Emily Brontë. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gerald Durrell. 4. Professor Sprout is a character in which series of books? A) Winnie the Pooh. B) Harry Potter. C) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. D) Pippi Longstocking. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Harry Potter. 5. Which category best describes a piano? A) Cash and carry. B) Brass and wind. C) Bucks and breeze. D) Strings and percussion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Strings and percussion. 6. Which Formula One legend suffered major brain injury while skiing in 2013? A) Jules Bianchi. B) Michael Schumacher. C) Ayrton Senna. D) David Ferrer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Michael Schumacher. 7. Toronto, Canada, is on the northern shore of which lake? A) Erie. B) Ontario. C) Huron. D) Great Bear. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ontario. 8. What is the centre of the TV series "Defying Gravity" (2009) A) The training and career of an Olympic high jump gold medallist. B) Astronauts on a six-year space mission through the Solar System. C) An expedition to climb Mt Everest. D) The build-up to the ill-fated flight in 1986 of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Astronauts on a six-year space mission through the Solar System. 9. Transits of Venus occur in a pattern, with pairs of transits 8 years apart separated by much longer gaps, that repeats every how many years? A) 189. B) 56. C) 113. D) 243. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 243. 10. In medicine, what does "GP" mean? A) Gorgeous patient. B) Grumpy professor. C) Great prices. D) General practitioner. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) General practitioner. 11. What is the official Hawaiʻi state "gemstone" ? A) Obsidian. B) Black pearl. C) Abalone shell. D) Black coral. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Black coral. 12. In legal tender issued in the UK before I January 1961 what was next in the series:shilling, penny, ha'penny, ..... ? A) Farthing. B) Groat. C) Florin. D) Two bob. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Farthing. 13. The Albertine Rift is a branch of what? A) The Mid-Atlantic Ridge. B) The Red Sea Rift. C) The East African Rift. D) The Dead Sea Transform. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The East African Rift. 14. What did the International Avogadro Project aim to achieve? A) Redefine the kilogram in terms of a fixed number of atoms in a sphere of silicon. B) Re-express the Avogadro constant. C) Explore new uses for the Avogadro constant. D) Apply the Avogadro constant to sports science. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Redefine the kilogram in terms of a fixed number of atoms in a sphere of silicon. 15. Which painter, designer of stained glass and engraver born in Augsburg, Germany, became painter to the court of Henry VIII and died of the plague in 1543? A) Paul Klee. B) Hermann Hesse. C) Hans Holbein. D) Christian Ruben. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hans Holbein. 16. Which British actor and writer is particularly well-known for his collaborations with screenwriter, film director, animator, actor, comedian and former member of the Monty Python comedy troupe Terry Gilliam? A) Ray Cooper. B) Charles McKeown. C) Jonathan Pryce. D) Derek Deadman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charles McKeown. 17. What unit of measurement is used to measure the height of a horse? A) Feet. B) Hands. C) Heads. D) Toes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hands. 18. For which of these is tequila the basis? A) Piña colada. B) Margarita. C) Bloody Mary. D) Spritzer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Margarita. 19. Where is the 12th century Kasbah of the Udayas? A) Tunis, Tunisia. B) Cordoba, Spain. C) Lisbon, Portugal. D) Rabat, Morocco. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rabat, Morocco. 20. An "ISBN" is an identification number found on what item? A) Book. B) Bank card. C) Commercial aeroplane. D) Motor vehicle engine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Book. ← 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