This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 519 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 519 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What part does Greek legend assign the Titan, Prometheus, in the development of science (among other things) on Earth? A) Making alcohol. B) The creation of glass. C) Ship design. D) Stealing fire from the gods and giving it to mankind. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stealing fire from the gods and giving it to mankind. 2. In what activity would a "waulking song" occur? A) Sailing. B) Hiking. C) Fulling, i.e. tramping to scour and thicken woollen cloth. D) Narrowboating. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fulling, i.e. tramping to scour and thicken woollen cloth. 3. What is a group of stars called? A) Condensation. B) Constipation. C) Constellation. D) Confrontation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Constellation. 4. Who became Heavyweight world boxing champion after Riddick Bowe refused to fight him in 1992? A) Gentleman Jackson. B) Cassius Clay. C) Marquess of Queensberry. D) Lennox Lewis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lennox Lewis. 5. Which of these is Marge Simpson's mother? A) Hillary Rodham. B) Eleanor Roosevelt. C) Jacqueline Bouvier. D) Jane Wyman. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jacqueline Bouvier. 6. How far is our Earth from its sun? A) Approximately 8 light minutes. B) 4 light years. C) 8 light years. D) 9.3 light seconds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Approximately 8 light minutes. 7. Which theme park in LA County, California, USA, initially created to offer tours of soundstages and sets, is one of the oldest movie studios still in use and was the first of many similar theme parks in, for example, Florida and Japan? A) Paramount Studios. B) Universal Studios. C) Twentieth Century Fox. D) United Artists. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Universal Studios. 8. For administrative purposes, Turkey is divided into 81 provinces, formerly termed vilayet, which are now called ..... what? A) Departments. B) States. C) Iller. D) Cantons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iller. 9. What is the distinguishing colour of a male morpho butterfly? A) Iridescent bright blue. B) Ultramarine. C) Streaked green and purple. D) White. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iridescent bright blue. 10. What was the last year in which there was just one World Darts Championship? A) 1997. B) 1993. C) 1984. D) 2002. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1993. 11. How many sports are there in a decathlon? A) 10. B) 5. C) 6. D) 9. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 10. 12. Atlantic equatorial currents pushed westward by the Trade Winds unite in the Gulf of Mexico and then flow northward. What is the north-flowing current called? A) Gulf Stream. B) Humboldt current. C) Force of Greenland. D) Sirocco. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gulf Stream. 13. Fennec Shand teams up with the eponymous character in a Star Wars-type adventure TV series released from what streaming service? A) HBO Max. B) Netflix. C) Apple TV+. D) Disney +. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Disney +. 14. The Eusébio de Queirós Law passed in 1850 in Brazil did what? A) Formally established the Republic of Brazil. B) Established Rio de Janeiro as the seat of the Portuguese Empire. C) Abolished the international slave trade in Brazil. D) Declared war on the USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abolished the international slave trade in Brazil. 15. The long-established ceremony in Oxfordshire, England, of "scouring the Horse", described by academic and archivist Francis Wise in 1736, relates to what? A) Re-enacting the ride of Lady Godiva. B) Mass medication of young foals after spring growth. C) The Uffington White Horse. D) County races. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Uffington White Horse. 16. Which Austrian performed the winning song, "Rise Like a Phoenix", at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014? A) Conchita Wurst. B) Måns Zelmerlöw. C) The Makemakes. D) Ann Sophie. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conchita Wurst. 17. Which Olympic Games were the first where all continents were represented, with all athletes competing in one stadium? A) 1920, Antwerp. B) 1908, London. C) 1912, Stockholm. D) 1924, Paris. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1912, Stockholm. 18. What is an element of the game bossaball which distinguishes it from volleyball? A) Players can swing or kick off the net. B) It is played on a surface which is inflated and includes a trampoline at each end of the court. C) Players can jump out of their "court" but for no more than 5 seconds. D) Two balls are in play at the same time. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is played on a surface which is inflated and includes a trampoline at each end of the court. 19. Who principally studied transplant rejection and immunosuppression after World War II, which led him to perform the first successful living kidney transplant in the UK on 30 October 1960? A) Michael Woodruff. B) Christiaan Barnard. C) Joseph E. Murray. D) William Harvey. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Michael Woodruff. 20. Where was the opening ceremony for the 1948 Summer Olympics held on 29 July? A) Earl's Court. B) Crystal Palace. C) Hyde Park. D) Wembley Stadium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wembley Stadium. ← 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