This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 532 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 532 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In 330 AD, Constantine the Great, Emperor of Rome, moved the capital from Rome to where? A) Athens. B) Byzantium. C) Carthage. D) Cairo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Byzantium. 2. Gambia is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and what other country or countries? A) Cameroon and Gabon. B) Senegal and Guinea-Bissau. C) Ghana, Mali and Liberia. D) Senegal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Senegal. 3. What is the name of the chemical that naturally occurs in sheep's wool? A) Lanolin. B) Linctus. C) Lentil. D) Linoleum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lanolin. 4. What are buckyballs? A) A weapon used by Captain America's sidekick. B) Aniseed flavoured hard boiled confectionery balls. C) The germ in the centre of buckwheat grains. D) Geodesic dome forms of carbon molecules. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Geodesic dome forms of carbon molecules. 5. Who created the character of Roderick Alleyn? A) Ngaio Marsh. B) Agatha Christie. C) Baroness Orczy. D) Georges Simenon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ngaio Marsh. 6. What is the capital of Namibia? A) Windhoek. B) Luanda. C) Khartoum. D) Nairobi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Windhoek. 7. Which boxer was filmed striking a gong, that was used as an introduction to films from the J Arthur Rank studios? A) Bombardier Billy Wells. B) Freddie Mills. C) Don Cockell. D) Terry Spinks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bombardier Billy Wells. 8. What is a term for an important person? A) Big cheese. B) Fat pear. C) Heavy butter. D) Large hotdog. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Big cheese. 9. Which Scottish author was born in 1850, married Mrs. Osbourne in 1880, settled on an estate called Vailima in 1889, and died of tuberculosis in 1894? A) C S Forrester. B) Walter Scott. C) Robert Louis Stevenson. D) Jonathan Swift. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Robert Louis Stevenson. 10. What was the nationality of the composer of the three piano pieces called "Gymnopédies" ? A) Spanish. B) British. C) Greek. D) French. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) French. 11. What playwright wrote many of his plays for the Stephen Joseph Company in Scarborough, UK? A) William Wycherley. B) Harold Pinter. C) Richard Brinsley Sheridan. D) Alan Ayckbourn. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alan Ayckbourn. 12. The rising young star, lead in the 'Hunger Games" series, is who? A) Jennifer Aniston. B) Jeniifer Lawrence. C) Jennifer Connelly. D) Jennifer Lopez. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jeniifer Lawrence. 13. Which voice on the Simpsons is provided by Nancy Cartwright? A) Marge. B) Bart. C) Lisa. D) Homer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bart. 14. What marks a 40th wedding anniversary? A) Gold. B) Ruby. C) Silver arrow. D) Emerald. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ruby. 15. Which of these is a variety of daisy? A) Calfnose. B) Bull's foot. C) Cowslip. D) Oxeye. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxeye. 16. What is the name for the British manufacturing district that includes Birmingham, Wolverhampton, West Bromich, Dudley, Smethwick and Walsall? A) Leeds. B) Factory city. C) Industrial county. D) Black country. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Black country. 17. Which state of the USA has the longest border with Canada? A) Alaska. B) Michigan. C) Maine. D) New York. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alaska. 18. "Napier's bones", a manually-operated device for calculating products and quotients of numbers, was developed by what 16th century scientist? A) John Napier. B) William Napier. C) Kathryn R Napier. D) William Oughtred. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Napier. 19. Which branch of mathematics was named after the Latin for "small pebble" ? A) Geometry. B) Trigonometry. C) Calculus. D) Algebra. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Calculus. 20. French aviator Louis Bleriot was the first to do what in an aeroplane on 25 July 1909? A) Cross the English Channel. B) Cross the Atlantic Ocean. C) Fly over the North Pole. D) Fly around the world. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cross the English Channel. ← 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