This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 522 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 522 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What did the Walt Disney Company buy most of the rights and assets to in February 2004? A) The Muppets. B) The Beatles songs written from 1963 to 1968. C) Knott's Berry Farm theme park in Buena Park, California, USA. D) Marvel comics characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Muppets. 2. Which of these was a nickname for professional golfer Jack Nicklaus who was competitive internationally from 1962 to 1980? A) The Flying Dutchman. B) The Golden Bear. C) The Great White Shark. D) The Flying Finn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Golden Bear. 3. Which of these flags does not have an eagle on it? A) National flag of Pakistan. B) National flag of Egypt. C) National flag of Mexico. D) Presidential Standard of the United States. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) National flag of Pakistan. 4. Who created the framework for the Virginia Plan, that structured the US Government into three branches? A) George Bush. B) Thomas Jefferson. C) George Washington. D) James Madison. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) James Madison. 5. What are ratites? A) Very small rodents. B) A kind of bird. C) Grating projections on a sea snail's radula. D) Plants which have multiple bulbs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A kind of bird. 6. The islands of Tristan da Cunha are 2, 816 kilometres (1, 750 miles) from the nearest land. What country is closest to them? A) Australia. B) Chile. C) Argentina. D) South Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) South Africa. 7. Who wrote the 19th century "Castle of Otranto", seen as the first gothic horror novel? A) Edgar Allan Poe. B) Ann Radcliffe. C) Horace Walpole. D) Mary Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Horace Walpole. 8. What is the Solid project, led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, designed to do? A) Consolidate Cloud apps. B) Decentralize the web. C) Create a user-controlled social platform. D) Review the systems of global social platforms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decentralize the web. 9. What does the Water Festival mark in Burma/Myanmar? A) Independence Day. B) Midsummer. C) Burmese New Year. D) The full moon day of PhΔlguna. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Burmese New Year. 10. In the film "Rocky Balboa", what was the outcome of his last fight? A) He lost by a split decision. B) He won by a knock-out. C) It was a draw. D) The fight was abandoned. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He lost by a split decision. 11. When an electron in a higher-than-normal orbit falls back to its normal orbit, what is one of the results? A) A bang. B) A sizzle. C) A photon is released. D) Ozone is created. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A photon is released. 12. Which of these is an award-winning film about a literary critic, author and Oxford professor, the celebrated author to whom he was married, and their last years together as her dementia takes her? A) Iris (2001). B) The Notebook (2004). C) A Song For Martin (2001). D) Away From Her (2007). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iris (2001). 13. Which of these is a comic book character who, born James Howlett in the 1880s and known as Logan, is a mutant, possessing keen senses, enhanced physical capabilities, retracting bone claws, and an ability to quickly recover from virtually any injury or sickness? A) Wolverine. B) Green Arrow. C) Superman. D) Aquaman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wolverine. 14. What song was adopted by the US Civil Rights movement in the 1960s? A) Onward Christian Soldiers. B) We Shall Overcome. C) You'll Never Walk Alone. D) A Hard Day's Night. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) We Shall Overcome. 15. What is the name for a poem of 14 lines that first appeared when written by Giacomo da Lentini in 1220, for which various rhyme schemes were developed? A) Quatrain. B) Limerick. C) Sonnet. D) Ditty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sonnet. 16. Under what label was the first album released in 1998 by the newly renamed group Destiny's Child? A) Columbia. B) Sony. C) Mathew Knowles. D) Warner Alliance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Columbia. 17. The America's Cup trophy was held by America from 1852 until 1983 when the Cup was won by which challenger? A) Southern Cross of Australia. B) Australia II of Australia. C) Black Magic of New Zealand. D) Dame Pattie of the UK. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Australia II of Australia. 18. In 2011 the capture and killing of Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi changed the political landscape in which country? A) Egypt. B) Tunisia. C) Algeria. D) Libya. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Libya. 19. What is the name of the revised version of the game Cluedo, with changes to board, gameplay and characters, created in 2008? A) Cluedo 2000. B) Go Cluedo!. C) Cluedo Millennium. D) Cluedo Reinvention. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cluedo Reinvention. 20. Where is a sepal found? A) Supporting written music for an instrumentalist. B) Between the nostrils. C) Protecting a flower in bud or supporting the opened flower. D) In the body, triggering inflammation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Protecting a flower in bud or supporting the opened flower. 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