This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 506 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 506 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Before becoming president of the USA in 1977, and after being discharged from the Navy in 1953, Jimmy Carter took over and expanded his family business in Plains, Georgia. What was the business? A) Accounting firm. B) Used car dealership. C) Peanut farm. D) Oil well firefighters. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peanut farm. 2. "Falling in love does not mean you love to fall" is an example of chiasmus and what other figure of speech? A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 3. The term "bonspiel" is used in which sport? A) Croquet. B) Archery. C) Lacrosse. D) Curling. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Curling. 4. Thomas Cranmer held what position during the reign of Henry VIII, between 3 December 1533 and 4 December 1555? A) Lord High Executioner. B) Archbishop of Canterbury. C) Royal songwriter. D) Royal speechwriter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Archbishop of Canterbury. 5. Which of these is a 2002 American historical film directed by Martin Scorsese set in the mid-19th century, that culminates in a confrontation between Bill "The Butcher" Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis), a crime boss and political kingmaker and his mob with Amsterdam Vallon (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his immigrant allies? A) Boys of Brazil. B) Gangs of New York. C) Bro's of Chicago. D) Mob of Cincinnati. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gangs of New York. 6. The small isolated volcanic island called Ascension Island lies approximately midway between what two land masses? A) Iceland, and Norway. B) The easternmost point of South America, and Africa. C) Tasmania in Australia, and New Zealand. D) The westernmost point of South America, and Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The easternmost point of South America, and Africa. 7. These are the last lines of which musical: "Eliza? Where the devil are my slippers" ? A) West Side Story. B) The Sound of Music. C) My Fair Lady. D) The Music Man. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) My Fair Lady. 8. Which of these best describes the family of Bill and Hillary Clinton? A) A son and a daughter. B) Two daughters. C) One daughter. D) Two sons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) One daughter. 9. What Is the title of Somerset Maugham's book that is based on the life of Paul Gauguin? A) The Quiet American. B) The Old Man and the Sea. C) The Moon and Sixpence. D) The Ipcress File. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Moon and Sixpence. 10. Which scientist has the following geographical features named after him:a sound in Tierra del Fuego, a mountain in the Andes, a sound in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands and an Australian city? A) Alexander Graham Bell. B) Alexander Fleming. C) Charles Darwin. D) Thomas Edison. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Charles Darwin. 11. Where are the Maldives? A) Siberia. B) The Balkans. C) Sahara Desert. D) Indian Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indian Ocean. 12. Which cloud formation is a sign of thermals? A) Cirrus. B) Cumulus. C) Stratus. D) Alto. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cumulus. 13. Following NASA's launch of space equipment in December 2021, what was in the first release of information from the equipment? A) Analysis of captured space debris. B) An image of the open cluster NGC 3532, in the Carina constellation. C) An image of Hurricane Ian (category 4) in 2022. D) A high resolution image of the star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A high resolution image of the star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. 14. Ulysses is the Roman name for which Greek king? A) Achilles. B) Odysseus. C) Agamemnon. D) Diomedes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Odysseus. 15. What is the name for the middle part of the nose that separates the nostrils? A) Snodgrass. B) Chauffeur. C) Particle. D) Septum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Septum. 16. The Harelle, a revolt that occurred in the French city of Rouen in 1382 followed by the Maillotins Revolt a few days later in Paris, and subsequently in Amiens, Dieppe, Falaise, Caen, Orleans, and Rheims during the Hundred Years' War, was about what? A) Lack of state-provided education. B) The price of wine. C) Racial persecution. D) Taxation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Taxation. 17. The musical "Kiss Me Kate" is based on which Shakespearean play? A) Hamlet. B) Much Ado About Nothing. C) The Taming Of The Shrew. D) King Lear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Taming Of The Shrew. 18. The play "The Mousetrap" by Agatha Christie ran at the New Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End from 25 November 1952 until Saturday 23 March 1974, when it immediately transferred to which theatre next door, reopening on Monday 25 March? A) Shaftesbury Theatre. B) St Martin's Theatre. C) London Palladium. D) Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) St Martin's Theatre. 19. Gee Jon. a member of the Hip Sing Tong criminal society from San Francisco, California, sentenced to death for the murder of an elderly member from another gang in Nevada, was the first person in the US to do what? A) Escape from Alcatraz prison. B) Be executed by lethal gas. C) Be given a presidential pardon. D) Die of natural causes while on Death Row. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Be executed by lethal gas. 20. What does a trichologist treat? A) Hair. B) Ears. C) Eyes. D) Throat. 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