This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge โ Quiz 531 ๐ Homepage ๐ Download PDF Books ๐ Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 531 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What workers make up the majority of the Teamsters Union in the USA? A) Truck drivers. B) Taxi drivers. C) Cowboys. D) Horse trainers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Truck drivers. 2. Which state donated the land occupied by the US capital city, Washington, District of Columbia? A) Virginia. B) Maryland. C) Connecticut. D) New York. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Maryland. 3. There are 22 of which of these to the measure known as a chain? A) Acres. B) Fathoms. C) Furlongs. D) Yards. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Yards. 4. Hadrian's Wall, built following 122 AD, stretches for 73 miles from Solway Firth to where? A) The Firth of Forth. B) Settle. C) Carlisle. D) Wallsend-on-Tyne. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wallsend-on-Tyne. 5. The group "Smile", formed in 1968 by Roger Taylor, Tim Staffel and Brian May, changed their name to what after Tim Staffel was replaced as vocalist? A) The Animals. B) The Who. C) Queen. D) Herman's Hermits. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Queen. 6. "Pollywog" is another name for what? A) Throw when a ball spins in flight. B) Black-faced doll. C) Kettle. D) Tadpole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tadpole. 7. In 1498, Vasco da Gama was the first European to reach which area by sea? A) Japan. B) Singapore. C) China. D) India. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) India. 8. What position did Liechtenstein take during World War II? A) Neutrality. B) It fought on the side of Germany. C) It joined with Italy. D) It was one of the Allies against Germany and Italy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Neutrality. 9. In 1888 in London, 1400 women, most of them teenagers and some as young as 12, staged a sustained strike for better working conditions at what factory? A) Quarry Bank Mill. B) Huntley & Palmers. C) Bryant and May. D) Creative Watch Co. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bryant and May. 10. A celebration held annually during the last full week of July in Cheyenne, Wyoming, includes what as its main events? A) Rapping. B) Ballooning. C) BMX races. D) Outdoor rodeo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Outdoor rodeo. 11. In 1984, who had a hit single singing about how he "got my first real six-string, bought it at the five-and-dime, played 'til my fingers bled. It was summer of '69" ? A) Robbie Williams. B) Bryan Adams. C) Rod Stewart. D) Ruben Studdard. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bryan Adams. 12. Ding Junhui is a star in which sport? A) Snooker. B) Table tennis. C) Surfing. D) Bowls. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Snooker. 13. What note does an orchestra tune to? A) C an octave above middle C. B) B above middle C. C) A above middle C. D) D above middle C. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A above middle C. 14. In "Blade Runner 2049" (2017) a number of people reprised their original roles in "Blade Runner" (1982); this included Harrison Ford, Edward James Olmos and Sean Young, plus who else? A) Hampton Fancher, as co-writer of the screenplay. B) Ridley Scott, as director. C) Vangelis, as composer. D) Jordan Cronenweth, as cinematographer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hampton Fancher, as co-writer of the screenplay. 15. Trophies of the same name were awarded to the champions of Major League Baseball, the International Hockey League's coach of the year from 1985 to 2001 and the Canadian Hockey League's coach of the year from 1993 to 2001. What is the name of these trophies? A) Commissioner's Trophy. B) Intercontinental Cup. C) America's Cup. D) Ranfurly Shield. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Commissioner's Trophy. 16. What compete at the Burghley Trials, Badminton, the Rolex Kentucky Three Day, the Adelaide Trials, the Luhmรผhlen Trials and the รtoiles de Pau? A) Cyclists. B) Sheepdogs. C) Horse riders. D) Snowboarders. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Horse riders. 17. Franklin Roosevelt was fairly fluent in which languages other than English? A) German & French. B) Latin & Spanish. C) Mandarin Chinese & Spanish. D) French & Mandarin Chinese. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) German & French. 18. Unusually for vertebrates, hagfish and lampreys have no what? A) Pineal gland. B) Nostrils. C) Jaws. D) Gonads. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jaws. 19. Which of these is a meaning of bare? A) Endure. B) Naked. C) Carry. D) Ursine animal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Naked. 20. Luigi and Lucia Galeazzi Galvani are credited with the first studies in what, published in 1791? A) Continuously providing electric current to a circuit. B) The nature of bioelectricity in the body. C) The hearing of birds, quadrupeds, and humans. D) The properties of a vacuum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The nature of bioelectricity in the body. 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