This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 480 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 480 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What name is given to a young lion? A) Calf. B) Pup. C) Kid. D) Cub. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cub. 2. What is motofog? A) A motorbike-mounted distribution system for mosquito-focussed insecticide. B) A smoke machine for theatrical presentation. C) Coloured car exhaust used for street circus. D) Atmospheric pollution specifically due to vehicle exhaust fumes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A motorbike-mounted distribution system for mosquito-focussed insecticide. 3. Who, as President of Uganda, was overthrown by his own army commanders in a military coup d'état twice, in 1971 and 1985? A) Bazilio Olara-Okello. B) Idi Amin. C) Apollo Milton Obote. D) Tito Okello. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apollo Milton Obote. 4. What was the name of the TV producer who started what became a long and outstanding career by establishing the UK TV series "Dr Who" in 1963? A) Gareth Edwards. B) Verity Lambert. C) Barry Letts. D) Innes Lloyd. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verity Lambert. 5. In Roman numerals, what is signified by the letter X? A) 5. B) 50. C) 10. D) 100. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 10. 6. What is an ortolan? A) A breed of antelope. B) A small bottle of Armagnac. C) A small bird. D) A tall narrow stained glass window. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A small bird. 7. Which of these islands is directly south of Cuba? A) Puerto Rico. B) Jamaica. C) Hispaniola. D) Barbados. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jamaica. 8. In which film starring Edward G Robinson are the main character's dying words "Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Rico" ? A) St Valentine's Day Massacre. B) The Public Enemy. C) Scarface. D) Little Caesar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Little Caesar. 9. Which archaeologist is famed for excavating the palace of Minos, Crete between 1900 and 1908? A) Churchill Babington. B) Sir Arthur John Evans. C) Fred Wendorf. D) Sir Richard Colt Hoare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sir Arthur John Evans. 10. Who set the record for winning the World Snooker Championship the most times (7) in 1999? A) John Spencer. B) Steve Davis. C) Ray Reardon. D) Stephen Hendry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stephen Hendry. 11. What is the focus of climatology? A) The forces that cause change in our environment. B) Forces that influence long-term weather patterns, and how climate changes over time. C) Atmospheric phenomena, particularly of the troposphere and lower stratosphere. D) Patterns of wind and sea currents. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Forces that influence long-term weather patterns, and how climate changes over time. 12. Which of these is a position in rugby union? A) Striker. B) Silly mid-on. C) Lock. D) Goal Attack. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lock. 13. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) installed as First Consul in France by 1800 and crowned Emperor of France 1804, was born where? A) Cagliari, Sardinia. B) Ajaccio, Corsica. C) Turin, Italy. D) Marseilles, France. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ajaccio, Corsica. 14. Port Said is at the entrance to which canal? A) Panama. B) Suez. C) Corinth. D) Erie. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Suez. 15. Five of what animal, the first of a planned 33, were airlifted from South Africa to Tanzania's Serengeti National Reserve in May 2010? A) Komodo dragon. B) Siberian Tiger. C) Mountain Gorilla. D) Black rhinoceros. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Black rhinoceros. 16. In the UK in the 1780s the WCC was the forerunner to the MCC; what do its initials stand for? A) White's Cricket Club. B) White Conduit Club. C) Walsall Cricket Club. D) Worcestershire County Club. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) White Conduit Club. 17. Roland Berrill, an Australian barrister, and Dr. Lancelot Ware, a British scientist and lawyer, founded which international organsation in the UK in 1946? A) Greenpeace. B) Oxfam. C) Amnesty International. D) Mensa. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mensa. 18. Who invaded England in 1066? A) Lawmen. B) Mormons. C) Normans. D) Storemen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Normans. 19. Which rock musical by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman is about a florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood? A) The Rocky Horror Show. B) Little Shop of Horrors. C) The Secret Garden. D) The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Little Shop of Horrors. 20. What were major cities of the ancient Sogdia, or Sogdiana, region? A) Kashgar and Dunhuang. B) Tehran and Hamadan. C) Aleppo and Damascus. D) Samarkand and Bukhara (or Bokhara). 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