This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 525 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 525 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Shallots and scallions are types of what? A) Beans. B) Onions. C) Apples. D) Sharks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onions. 2. Under the reign of what monarch were the bugle calls used in the daily routines of the British army officially published? A) George V. B) Anne. C) George III. D) Victoria. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) George III. 3. Who are the central figures of John Steinbeck's novel "Of Mice and Men" ? A) George & Lenny. B) Beavis & Butthead. C) Butch & Sundance. D) Bonnie & Clyde. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) George & Lenny. 4. Who plays high school student Alex Truelove in the 2018 Netflix film "Alex Strangelove" ? A) Joaquin Phoenix. B) Nick Robinson. C) Daniel Doheny. D) Hugh Laurie. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Daniel Doheny. 5. Who personifies the USA? A) Uncle Scrooge. B) Uncle Vanya. C) Uncle Ben. D) Uncle Sam. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Uncle Sam. 6. In which Canadian province, in the 2006 census, was English the mother tongue of 79.99% of the population, followed by Chinese languages (3.02%), German (2.62%), French (1.90%), Punjabi (1.13%), Tagalog (0.92%) and Ukrainian (0.91%), with the most common aboriginal language being Cree (0.53%)? A) Alberta. B) Quebec. C) Nova Scotia. D) Ontario. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alberta. 7. Leonid Brezhnev led the Soviet Union as General Secretary then as Chairman of the Presidium, the longest term as leader since Josef Stalin; who was his immediate successor? A) Gennady Yanayev. B) Konstantin Chernenko. C) Mikhail Gorbachev. D) Yuri Andropov. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Yuri Andropov. 8. The English version of "The Magic Roundabout", a children's television programme created in France was broadcast from 18 October 1965 to January 1977. It was narrated by the father of which actress? A) Maggie Smith. B) Diana Rigg. C) Minnie Driver. D) Emma Thompson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Emma Thompson. 9. In the original Star Trek TV series which aired in the USA from 1966 to 1969, who played "Scotty" ? A) DeForest Kelley. B) William Shatner. C) James Doohan. D) Walter Koenig. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) James Doohan. 10. In addition to its meaning in chemical terms, what is wolfram? A) A breed of dog. B) A computer language. C) A chess gambit. D) A type of orchid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A computer language. 11. The John F. Kennedy International Airport is located in what American city? A) Los Angeles. B) New York. C) Chicago. D) Las Vegas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) New York. 12. What occurs when a ray of light meets an obstacle such as a fine wire? A) Diffraction. B) Diffusion. C) Refraction. D) Debacle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diffraction. 13. What does geology describe? A) People-planet interaction. B) Types of rock. C) Landforms. D) Planetary building processes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Planetary building processes. 14. What is sargassum? A) An area in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. B) Trash collected at the ocean's surface. C) A genus of floating, unrooted, seaweed. D) Equipment used by a call centre and business process outsourcing service. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A genus of floating, unrooted, seaweed. 15. In anatomy, what word refers to a difference in coloration, usually of the iris but also of hair or skin? A) Heterochromia. B) Dysrhythmia. C) Sturge-Weber syndrome. D) Piebaldism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heterochromia. 16. What was stolen from Stanley Gibbons' stamp company's exhibition in the Westminster Central Hall on Sunday 20 March 1966, and found by David Corbett's dog Pickles on March 27 under the hedge of Corbett's house? A) Shakespeare's First Folio, published in 1623. B) Jules Rimet Trophy (FIFA World Cup). C) The Koh-I-Noor Diamond. D) "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust" by Pablo Picasso. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jules Rimet Trophy (FIFA World Cup). 17. Reputedly, when Joshua blew a trumpet, the walls of which city came tumbling down? A) Babylon. B) London. C) Jerusalem. D) Jericho. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jericho. 18. Burial mounds (kurgans) of the ancient people known as the Scythians have been excavated in what area? A) Japan. B) Turkey. C) Kazakhstan. D) Cornwall. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kazakhstan. 19. What is the name for what is commonly known as aspirin? A) Thalidomide. B) D N A. C) Nucleic analgaesic. D) Acetyl-salicylic acid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Acetyl-salicylic acid. 20. A climbing current account deficit and an increasingly strong dollar prompted the US to initiate what international agreement in November 1985? A) Brussels Agreement. B) Louvre Accord. C) Plaza Accord. D) International Convention on the Harmonization of Frontier Controls of Goods. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plaza Accord. ← 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