This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 492 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 492 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Sir Suma Chakrabarti was the 6th President, serving from 2012 to 2020, of what? A) The European Commission. B) The International Monetary Fund. C) The International Olympic Committee. D) The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development. 2. Which of these is the highest poker hand? A) Royal flush. B) Flush. C) Full house. D) Straight flush. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Royal flush. 3. In what decade was the sound barrier broken for the first time in level flight by a pilot in a plane? A) 1960s. B) 1950s. C) 1940s. D) 1970s. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1940s. 4. Who played with the "Runaways" and the "Blackhearts" ? A) Joan Jett. B) Suzi Quatro. C) Cilla Black. D) Courtney Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Joan Jett. 5. Where is the Thorntonbank Wind Farm which provides electricity to Belgium? A) In the North Sea. B) Charleroi, 50 km (30 miles) from Brussels. C) The Sonian Forest in south-east Brussels. D) Northern Luxembourg. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In the North Sea. 6. What term was used to describe the pattern where, from 1840 to 1960, each American President who had won election in a year ending in zero died in office? A) The Zero Factor. B) The Curse of Tippecanoe. C) Harrison's legacy. D) The Dead Pool. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Curse of Tippecanoe. 7. Cynthia Harnett, Ian Serraillier, Barbara Leonie Picard, and K.M. Peyton are recognised mainly for their writing for what or whom? A) Children or young adults. B) Science textbooks. C) Advertisements. D) Romantic fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Children or young adults. 8. Which of these countries lies on the African mainland? A) Israel. B) UAE. C) Djibouti. D) Yemen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Djibouti. 9. What is the accounting term for a liability that may arise depending on what happens with an undecided future event? A) Contingent liability. B) Indebtedness. C) Risky investment. D) Financial possibility. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Contingent liability. 10. What does Roe v Wade usually signify in the USA? A) Decriminalisation of the use of contraceptives by married couples throughout the USA. B) Definition of fishing territory in the Pacific. C) Elimination of gender bias in the US military. D) A Supreme Court decision that unduly restrictive state regulation of abortion is unconstitutional. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A Supreme Court decision that unduly restrictive state regulation of abortion is unconstitutional. 11. What are faience, raku and majolica? A) Kinds of earthenware. B) Oil paints. C) Folk dances. D) Types of intricate interlaced curling patterns. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kinds of earthenware. 12. What flower is the English rugby team emblem? A) Rose. B) Lily. C) Nasturtium. D) Thistle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rose. 13. What is the lowest number that is both the square of one integer and the cube of another? A) 1. B) 729. C) 64. D) 4096. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 64. 14. In 890 CE (and again in 1010 CE) which of these influential bodies of water froze over? A) Lake Taupo. B) Lake Victoria. C) The River Nile. D) The Mediterranean Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The River Nile. 15. Which term was coined by the US computer scientist Grace Hopper in 1945? A) Virus. B) Hard drive. C) Bug. D) Mouse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bug. 16. Which of these is a native American tribe, originally from the Southeastern USA? A) Choctaw. B) Chattanooga. C) Columbia. D) Appaloosa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Choctaw. 17. The Individual World Championships for which sport, the first of which was in 2005 and are held every two years, include events called "Constant Weight", "Constant Weight Without Fins", "Free Immersion", "Variable Weight", "Static", "Dynamic" and "Dynamic No Fins" ? A) Synchronised swimming. B) Freediving. C) Skeleton. D) Drifting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Freediving. 18. In what year did Canada win a gold medal for the first time at an Olympic Games that they hosted? A) 1976. B) 2010. C) 1988. D) 1964. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2010. 19. What are BΓͺtises de Cambrai? A) Embroidered handkerchiefs. B) Boiled sweets, specific to Cambrai in France. C) Houses in Cambrai, France, which fell over immediately after being built. D) A form of meringue created in Cambrai, France. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Boiled sweets, specific to Cambrai in France. 20. Where is the Walvis Ridge? A) The Apennine Mountains. B) The southern Atlantic Ocean floor. C) Off the west coast of Ireland. D) Under the jawbone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The southern Atlantic Ocean floor. β PreviousNext βRelated 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 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books