This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 482 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 482 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When a traffic sign reads "Stop", what form of speech is being used? A) Vocative. B) Imperative. C) Ablative. D) Exclamatory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imperative. 2. Where were the World Indoor Bowls Championships moved to in 1999? A) Potters Holiday Park in Hopton on Sea, England. B) Onto an ice rink. C) Tbilisi, Georgia. D) Coatbridge, Scotland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Potters Holiday Park in Hopton on Sea, England. 3. What word best describes a triangle where all sides are equal? A) Isosceles. B) Equilateral. C) Scalene. D) Obtuse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Equilateral. 4. In the current Western calendar (the Gregorian) how many days are there in 4 consecutive years, provided that none of the years ends in two noughts and is not at the same time divisible by 400? A) 1460. B) 1461. C) 1640. D) 1641. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1461. 5. Cherries produce fruit in which season of the year? A) Spring. B) Winter. C) Autumn. D) Summer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Summer. 6. The Himalayas and Tien Shan, or Tian Shan, lie north and south of which other major mountain range? A) The Hindu Kush. B) The Pamir Mountains. C) The Kyrgiz. D) The Kunlun Mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Kunlun Mountains. 7. Pat Boone had particular success as a singer during which period? A) Early 1970s. B) 1950s. C) 1920s and 1930s. D) 1980s. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1950s. 8. In what sport is a drive knee an integral part? A) Speedway. B) Long jump. C) Water polo. D) Pole vault. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pole vault. 9. In April 2010, after riots in the capital which overthrew the government, President Kurmanbek Bakiyev left which country, leaving the way clear for the head of the new provisional government, Roza Otunbayeva? A) Kashmir. B) Kazakhstan. C) Kyrgyzstan. D) Kiribati. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kyrgyzstan. 10. A state of the USA is called Rhode ..... what? A) Beach. B) Bay. C) Island. D) Harbour. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Island. 11. The first Punic War was fought mainly on which island? A) Corfu. B) Malta. C) Crete. D) Sicily. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sicily. 12. What is the name of the government-owned corporation that provides the intercity passenger train service in the USA? A) Ontrack. B) Amtrak. C) Passtrack. D) GoRail. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Amtrak. 13. What was the name for a foul smell believed to carry diseases, since discredited by the discovery of infectious agents? A) Seepage. B) Majorca. C) Moa Point. D) Miasma. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Miasma. 14. How did Boris Godunov, one of Russia's Tsars in the early 17th century, come to power? A) He was elected. B) He assassinated his predecessor. C) He inherited it. D) He was co-opted. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was elected. 15. What do the plays Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and Abigail's Party by Mike Leigh have in common? A) The people named in the title never appear in the play. B) The plays were both devised with the cast. C) They are set in France. D) The first performance of both plays included the spouse of the playwright in the cast. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The people named in the title never appear in the play. 16. Which is a surname of a famous 16th century English scientist and statesman (and, in a later century, a famous British painter)? A) Ham. B) Bacon. C) Swine. D) Pork. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bacon. 17. Which team beat the defending champions, Russia, 2-1 in the final of the 2010 Ice Hockey World Championships? A) Germany. B) Sweden. C) Czech Republic. D) Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Czech Republic. 18. Marked the first what for the International Cycling Association World Championships? A) First races for which gold medals were presented. B) Championship held. C) Championship races for women. D) Championship races open to professionals. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Championship races open to professionals. 19. Which best describes the voraciously carnivorous (sometimes cannibal) small fish Histrio histrio, the Sargassum fish? A) It can survive out of water for extended periods of time. B) Its pelvic and pectoral fins are prehensile and almost look like clawed hands and feet. C) All of these. D) Its gills are pores near the pectoral fins rather than slits. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All of these. 20. From what sport did top-ranking athlete Naomi Osaka publicly take a break in 2021? A) Golf. B) Tennis. C) Yachting. D) Swimming. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tennis. ← 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