This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 504 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 504 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Monet was inspired by the house and gardens of which of these places? A) Versailles. B) Schönbrunn Palace. C) Giverny. D) Buckingham Palace. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Giverny. 2. In which US/Canada TV series do the Goa'uld feature? A) Battlestar Galactica. B) Star Wars:the Clone Wars. C) Stargate SG-1, and spin-offs. D) Space Battleship Yamato. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stargate SG-1, and spin-offs. 3. Which of these bands was the last to have a number 1 single in the UK? A) Monkees. B) Mud. C) Madness. D) Manic Street Preachers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Manic Street Preachers. 4. What is the name of the Swedish parliament? A) Tynwald. B) Reichstag. C) Folketinget. D) Riksdag. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Riksdag. 5. What is the name given to the hypotheses, now superseded, that the movement of continents and the appearance of new crustal material at mid-ocean ridges is because the Earth's volume is increasing? A) Continental drift. B) Rip-zones expansion. C) Expanding Earth. D) Careyism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Expanding Earth. 6. Who was the English King at the Battle of Agincourt? A) Richard III. B) Henry V. C) John I. D) Edward VIII. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Henry V. 7. In 1956, a major uprising in Hungary was put down by forces from where? A) Germany. B) USA. C) NATO. D) USSR. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) USSR. 8. Single buck and springboard are two disciplines in what World Championship(s)? A) Skiing. B) Swimming. C) Luge. D) Timbersports and Lumberjack. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Timbersports and Lumberjack. 9. Which of these is an Olympic event? A) Triple leap. B) Triple hop. C) Triple step. D) Triple jump. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Triple jump. 10. Which Irishman wrote the novels "Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man", "Ulysses" and "Finnegan's Wake" ? A) Oscar Wilde. B) Samuel Beckett. C) James Joyce. D) George Bernard Shaw. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) James Joyce. 11. The Union of South Africa was formed in 1910:which area did not join the Union until 1919? A) Orange Free State. B) Natal. C) Transvaal. D) South West Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) South West Africa. 12. What word means to sell scarce shares or tickets at a quick profit? A) Scalp. B) Scrape. C) Slip. D) Slide. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scalp. 13. A popular work of its composer/performer, Albert Chevalier, described as outlining "the finest sentiments of the human heart [ ..... ] in a language understood by the people", and a song that influenced public taste "towards refinement and purity", was what? A) "Adam's Rib" (1993). B) "The Boy I Love" (1885). C) "My Old Dutch" (1892). D) "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away" (1897). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "My Old Dutch" (1892). 14. The 21st century term "pink tide" is used in discussions about what? A) Children with Kawasaki Disease during the COVID-19 pandemic. B) Perceived turn to left wing ideologies in 21st century Latin American countries. C) Spread of toxic algae. D) Weather forecasting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Perceived turn to left wing ideologies in 21st century Latin American countries. 15. What does "Amen" mean? A) The end. B) Over and out. C) See you same time tomorrow. D) So be it. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) So be it. 16. What is the longest river in England? A) Severn. B) Thames. C) Exe. D) Avon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Severn. 17. What band's most commercially successful line-up, in 1969-73, featured Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord, Roger Glover and Ian Paice? A) Yes. B) Pink Floyd. C) Deep Purple. D) AC/DC. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deep Purple. 18. What machine carries food vertically between kitchen and dining room? A) Stupid sommelier. B) Dumb waiter. C) Idiot maître d'. D) Demented sous chef. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dumb waiter. 19. In astronomical terms when is the diamond ring effect seen? A) During supernova. B) During a solar flare. C) During a total eclipse of the sun by the moon. D) In the last stages of supernova. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) During a total eclipse of the sun by the moon. 20. In which of these games would you hear talk of a gambit? A) Poker. B) Squash. C) Chess. D) Surfing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chess. ← 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