This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 526 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 526 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What do these people have in common:Fournier, Bodoni, Gill and Baskerville? A) They were passengers who survived the "Titanic" disaster. B) They have dog breeds named after them. C) They invented fonts which are named after them. D) They played in the Metropolitan Orchestra under Toscanini. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They invented fonts which are named after them. 2. Which political figure's assassination was among the events which precipitated World War I? A) Archduke Franz Ferdinand. B) Adolf Hitler. C) President James Garfield. D) Prince Philip I. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Archduke Franz Ferdinand. 3. The 1987 record "La Bamba" was by which artist? A) Enya. B) Alicia Keys. C) Los Lobos. D) Los Del Rio. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Los Lobos. 4. What is the name of the mathematical function which can be shown to grow faster asymptotically than any computable function? A) Racing cheetah. B) Running rat. C) Busy beaver. D) Busy bee. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Busy beaver. 5. In 2001, American Dennis Tito was the first person to do what? A) Be a space tourist. B) Run 1500 metres in under 3 minutes 30 seconds. C) Fly a microlight around the world. D) Satisfactorily explain the creation of "black holes". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Be a space tourist. 6. Which rock musical includes the songs "Skid Row (Downtown)", "Somewhere That's Green", and "Suddenly, Seymour" ? A) Billy Elliot. B) Little Shop of Horrors. C) Tommy. D) Sunday in the Park with George. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Little Shop of Horrors. 7. What is the board game in which progress is determined by a player's ability to answer general knowledge and popular culture questions? A) Scrabble. B) Monopoly. C) Trivial Pursuit. D) Cluedo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trivial Pursuit. 8. Which of these was a famous film star 1947 until her death in 1962? A) Marilyn Manson. B) H H Munro. C) James Monroe. D) Marilyn Monroe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Marilyn Monroe. 9. As what is the Kamoshika, or Serow, classed? A) Alpine evergreen. B) Sheerleg derrick. C) Unmanned scramjet. D) Goat-Antelope. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Goat-Antelope. 10. During World War II, where was the HQ of the English code cracking unit that was set up to decipher the output from the "Enigma" machine? A) Biggin Hill. B) Northanger Abbey. C) Alexandra Palace. D) Bletchley Park. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bletchley Park. 11. In beach volleyball and indoor volleyball, what is the maximum number of contacts that a team can have with the ball before it crosses the net? A) 3. B) 2. C) 1. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3. 12. Where are almost the only mountainous areas near the African coast of the Red Sea? A) Libya. B) Eritrea. C) Egypt. D) Ethiopia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ethiopia. 13. Which of these is a stage musical based on an Australian novel by Colleen McCullough? A) Cats. B) The Witches of Eastwick. C) Les Misérables. D) The Thorn Birds. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Thorn Birds. 14. What is "UDFy-38135539" which was calculated in October 2010 to be 13 billion light years away? A) Galaxy. B) Planet. C) Sun. D) Red dwarf. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Galaxy. 15. In 1957 Luxembourg, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy joined together to form what? A) EEC. B) ETA. C) WHO. D) USSR. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) EEC. 16. What is another name for Cro-Magnon man? A) Neanderthal. B) European early modern human. C) Homo habilis. D) Hobbit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) European early modern human. 17. Who created the characters of Willy Loman, Joe Keller and Eddie Carbone? A) Edward Albee. B) Tennessee Williams. C) Arthur Miller. D) Sam Shepard. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arthur Miller. 18. Osman founded which empire? A) Prussian. B) Russian. C) Ottoman. D) Persian. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ottoman. 19. When the Ashmolean opened in Oxford in 1683, it was one of Great Britain's first what? A) Animal sanctuaries. B) Zoological gardens for public use. C) Public museums. D) Plant research institutes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Public museums. 20. Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were charged in November 2021 with crimes committed when they were Presidents of two of football's governing bodies in what year? A) 2011. B) 2015. C) 1981. D) 1991. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2011. ← 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