This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge โ Quiz 529 ๐ Homepage ๐ Download PDF Books ๐ Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 529 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these people was, according to several early sources, the second Pope? A) Charlie. B) Pigpen. C) Schroder. D) Linus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Linus. 2. What shape ball is used in the sport of kabaddi? A) Round and dimpled. B) Oval. C) Round and smooth. D) None, it is a contact sport. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None, it is a contact sport. 3. What is a Pyrrhic victory? A) One where losses among the "victors" are so great as to make it barely worthwhile if at all. B) Overwhelmingly complete. C) A victory won by political agreements instead of battle. D) A victory won by setting the opposing forces on fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One where losses among the "victors" are so great as to make it barely worthwhile if at all. 4. Where is the World Golf Hall of Fame located? A) St. Augustine, Florida, USA. B) Pinehurst, North Carolina, USA. C) Augusta, Georgia, USA. D) Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) St. Augustine, Florida, USA. 5. What was the name of Julius Caesar's last wife? A) Calpurnia. B) Sheba. C) Desdemona. D) Desiderata. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Calpurnia. 6. Trig stations are installed on the highest point of a hill or mountain for what? A) Measuring time. B) To form a comfortable seat. C) To provide a perch for passing birds. D) Geodetic and other surveying. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Geodetic and other surveying. 7. When in trouble, which of these characters might reach for a can of Duff? A) Moe. B) Homer Simpson. C) Waylon Smithers. D) Batman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Homer Simpson. 8. Which of these is a fully independent country? A) Greenland. B) Wales. C) Bavaria. D) Sri Lanka. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sri Lanka. 9. After leading a rebel army for 20 years, Ahmed Sukarno was elected the first president of which country after it was granted independence in 1949? A) Singapore. B) Burma. C) Malaysia. D) Indonesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indonesia. 10. Which cold, low-salinity ocean current flows north-westward along the west coast of South America from the southern tip of Chile to northern Peru and can extend 1, 000 kilometers (620 miles) offshore? A) Gulf Stream. B) Kuroshio. C) Canary Current. D) Humboldt Current. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Humboldt Current. 11. In 1815 the Congress of Vienna created United Netherlands, but in 1830 the restive south split off again to form what? A) Flanders. B) Luxembourg. C) Belgium. D) North France. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Belgium. 12. What is the block-chain-enabled NFT used for in transactions concerning digital material? A) To establish unique ownership. B) To make transactions easier. C) To establish material in permanent unchangeable form. D) As currency. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To establish unique ownership. 13. What is a species in the legume family, native to North and South America, an annual herbaceous plant growing 30 to 50 cm (1 to 1 1/2 feet) tall? A) Pineapple. B) Peanut. C) Beetroot. D) Potato. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peanut. 14. Professional sportsperson Leticia Bufoni has been ranked the #1 women in her field by the World governing body in the sport; what field is that? A) Ice hockey. B) Street skateboarding. C) Ski flying. D) Solo round the world yachting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Street skateboarding. 15. The Ishtar Gate, constructed around 575BC by order of King Nebuchadnezzar II, was a gate to which city? A) Athens. B) Carthage. C) Troy. D) Babylon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Babylon. 16. Which country voted in November 2012 to work to become the 51st state of the USA? A) Nicaragua. B) Belize. C) Honduras. D) Puerto Rico. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Puerto Rico. 17. Antonin Dvoลรกk (1841-1904) used folk material in his music drawn from his homeland where? A) Bohemia. B) Czechoslovakia. C) Austria. D) Hungary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bohemia. 18. Which Summer Olympics was the first to exclude South Africa? A) 1964. B) 1944. C) 1980. D) 2004. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1964. 19. The annual BBC Sports Personality award was first given in 1954 and as at 2020 includes how many other categories? A) 3. B) 8. C) 4. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 8. 20. Some rivers do not flow to the sea, but empty instead into inland sinks or aquifers, or dry up or similar. Some of these are the Okavango, the Humboldt, the Kern, the Chu and ..... ? A) Darling, Australia. B) Huai River, China. C) Lena, Russia. D) The Bear, North America. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Bear, North America. โ PreviousNext โRelated 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 ๐ Back to Homepage ๐ Download PDF Books ๐ Premium PDF Books