This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 530 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 530 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. After 2007, which boat class was no longer run as a World Rowing Championship event? A) Furred cockerels. B) Coxed fours. C) Year 9. D) Dinghies. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coxed fours. 2. Who played the character of Alex P. Keaton in all seven series of a 1980s sitcom? A) Ashton Kutcher. B) Robin Williams. C) Michael J Fox. D) Will Smith. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Michael J Fox. 3. How many nouns are there in the following sentence: "Andrew gave his son a toy to play with" ? A) 3. B) 4. C) 2. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3. 4. Someone who is obstreperous is what? A) Resistant and difficult to control. B) With child. C) Suffering from a cold and sore throat. D) Strong and aggressive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Resistant and difficult to control. 5. In 2011 three sports were accepted for inclusion in the 2014 Winter Olympics; these were Ski slopestyle, Snowboard slopestyle, and what other? A) Snowboarding big air. B) Team alpine skiing. C) Bandy. D) Snowboard parallel special slalom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Snowboard parallel special slalom. 6. What animal makes its home in a "drey" ? A) Meerkat. B) Brown bear. C) Bat. D) Squirrel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Squirrel. 7. Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, USA, saw what accident on 20 March, 1979? A) The collapse at speed of a rollercoaster, killing 200 people. B) Myxomatosis which had been used on the rabbit population escaped, killing 10 children. C) Partial meltdown in a nuclear power plant. D) Collision of two fully-laden oil tankers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Partial meltdown in a nuclear power plant. 8. Cuba first participated in the modern Olympic Games in 1900 but then missed the Games from 1908 to 1920, and again in 1932 and 1936. Since the 1948 Games when it again took part how many Games has Cuba missed or boycotted? A) 2. B) 0. C) 6. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2. 9. Who is the patron saint of Scotland? A) St Bartholomew. B) St Brigit. C) St Andrew. D) St Albert. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) St Andrew. 10. What is the English borough and market town on the River Otter in Devonshire, famous for lace making? A) Wedgewood. B) Honiton. C) Chippendale. D) Waterford. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Honiton. 11. The women's singles final of the US Open Tennis Championships in 2021 was contested by two teenage athletes. Top teenage players were not uncommon earlier in the US Open's 141 year history, but when was the last women's teenage final before 2021? A) 1999. B) 2004. C) 1982. D) 1921. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1999. 12. Who was found guilty of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968? A) Lee Harvey Oswald. B) Sirhan Bishara Sirhan. C) John Hinkley. D) Mark Chapman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sirhan Bishara Sirhan. 13. What is the curve which surface tension causes in the surface of a liquid close to an object or container? A) Lunula. B) Meniscus. C) Gibbous phase. D) Croissant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meniscus. 14. Jerry Yang and David Filo founded what computer application? A) Google. B) Yahoo!. C) Facebook. D) Twitter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yahoo!. 15. What is the international movement, started in 2008, aiming to promote exploring, understanding threats to, and conserving the world's natural wonders? A) Seven Natural Wonders. B) New7Wonders. C) Friends of World Heritage. D) UNESCO. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Seven Natural Wonders. 16. Which of these was a guitarist, singer and composer who died in September 1970, in Notting Hill, London, after drinking red wine and taking sleeping pills? A) Janis Joplin. B) Jimi Hendrix. C) Jim Morrison. D) James Brown. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jimi Hendrix. 17. What, among many other things, did the HMS Challenger expedition of 1872-76 discover? A) The "Marie Celeste". B) A previously unknown bat, Syconycteris hobbit, the Moss-forest Blossom Bat. C) The North-East Passage. D) Part of the Mariana Trench and one of the deepest known places on the ocean floor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Part of the Mariana Trench and one of the deepest known places on the ocean floor. 18. According to a report by the organisation called "Transparency International", what was the most corrupt country in the world in 2009? A) Egypt. B) Somalia. C) Spain. D) Ecuador. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Somalia. 19. After being called various names including the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo and Congo-Léopoldville, what was the (now) Democratic Republic of the Congo known as? A) Zambia. B) Zanzibar. C) Zaire. D) Zimbabwe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Zaire. 20. If you herald something you do what? A) Signify that it is coming. B) Flag it. C) Publicise it. D) Talk about it. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Signify that it is coming. ← 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