This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 496 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 496 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is skat, created around 1810 in Germany? A) A species of potato. B) A style of percussion. C) A three player card game. D) A strategy game with counters. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A three player card game. 2. What country would you be in if you were where the Yukon River empties into the Bering Sea? A) Greenland. B) Canada. C) USA. D) Russia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) USA. 3. Who "made some tarts, all on a summer's day" ? A) King of Spades. B) Queen of Hearts. C) Jack of Hearts. D) Princess Anne. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Queen of Hearts. 4. Longstanding conflict in an island in southeast Asia/western Pacific became eventually full-scale armed clashes finally mediated by New Zealand in 1997, and resulted in the establishment of what? A) The Chatham Islands Independent Territory. B) The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste. C) The Free Mainland. D) The Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. 5. Ricky Ponting represented Australia in what sport? A) Yachting. B) Rugby union. C) Cricket. D) Swimming. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cricket. 6. The Recording Academy (USA) gave its first Lifetime Achievement Award, to "performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording" in 1963. Who was the first to receive it? A) Ella Fitzgerald. B) Frank Sinatra. C) Duke Ellington. D) Bing Crosby. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bing Crosby. 7. Which of these is not a painting by Hieronymus Bosch? A) The Haywain. B) Adoration of the Magi. C) The Tower of Babel. D) The Garden of Earthly Delights. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Tower of Babel. 8. What particular type of cheese is made from the milk of water buffalo raised in designated areas of Lazio and Campania on the west coast of Italy? A) Gorgonzola. B) Brie. C) Caciotta. D) Mozzarella. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mozzarella. 9. What size is the circle from which competitors in the Olympic shotput throw? A) 10 ft (3.048 m) in diameter. B) 7 ft (2.134 m) in diameter. C) 3 ft (0.914 m) in diameter. D) 20 ft (6.096 m) in diameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 7 ft (2.134 m) in diameter. 10. Which is one of the closest living relatives of a hippopotamus? A) Whale. B) Rabbit. C) Pig. D) Horse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Whale. 11. Which of these people is associated with the Information Technology industry? A) Paul Allen. B) Robert Fulton. C) Ricky Gervais. D) Fred McMurray. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paul Allen. 12. Which landmass has a feature often referred to as The Horn? A) The Sinai Peninsula. B) Australia. C) Africa. D) Antarctica. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Africa. 13. Who defeated the king of Jerusalem in the Battle of Hattin in 1187? A) Charlemagne. B) Genghis Khan. C) Saladin. D) Barbarossa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Saladin. 14. What does "cense" mean? A) To edit in order to limit legal liability, or eliminate undesirable material. B) To perfume the air. C) To perceive or detect. D) Without. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To perfume the air. 15. Which of these is a snake? A) Mambo. B) Mamba. C) Mamberamo. D) Mammoth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mamba. 16. Which is the biggest ball? A) Cricket ball. B) Beach volleyball. C) Table tennis ball. D) Ballpoint pen ball. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beach volleyball. 17. In July caribou migrate in large numbers south across which continent? A) Australia. B) Europe. C) Asia. D) North America. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) North America. 18. An act passed on 5 July 1900 and given Royal Assent by Queen Victoria on 9 July 1900 led to what milestone in the constitutional history of Australia? A) Protection for the short-beaked echidna. B) Votes for aboriginals. C) Creation of the Commonwealth of Australia. D) Amnesty for all involved in the destruction of the native people of Tasmania. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Creation of the Commonwealth of Australia. 19. Who died in 1972, which led to the accession of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark? A) King Albert II. B) King Harald V. C) King Carl XVI Gustaf. D) King Frederik IX. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) King Frederik IX. 20. Theo van Doesberg, Piet Mondriaan, Vilmos Huizar and Bart van der Leck are identified with what art movement? A) Suprenatism. B) Art Nouveau. C) Neoplasticism. D) Impressionism. 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