This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 533 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 533 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these nations has officially adopted the International System of Units as its primary system of measurement? A) Burma / Myanmar. B) New Zealand. C) USA. D) Liberia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) New Zealand. 2. Where are Yell, Unst and Fetlar? A) Between the mainlands of Norway and Denmark. B) Shetland, Scotland. C) North of Greenland. D) Nova Scotia, Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shetland, Scotland. 3. On which continent is Suriname? A) Asia. B) Africa. C) Europe. D) South America. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) South America. 4. What free trade area that came into effect on 1 January 2010 was the largest at the time in terms of population and third largest in terms of volume? A) FISA. B) WETA. C) BAFTA. D) ACFTA. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) ACFTA. 5. The Maya of the Yucatán in central America united in 987 in an alliance known as the League of what? A) Patapán. B) Marzipan. C) Mayapan. D) Yucatán. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mayapan. 6. Which of these composers was an American whose early works include an opera, premièred in 1984, sung in Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew, and Ancient Egyptian? A) Glass. B) Webber. C) Gershwin. D) McCartney. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Glass. 7. What language did the playwright Henrik Ibsen write his plays in? A) Norwegian. B) Danish. C) Swedish. D) Finnish. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Danish. 8. What do the Australian native animals the Wombat and the spiny horned Thorny Devil (or Dragon), have in common? A) They are both marsupials. B) They eat termites. C) They live in arid rocky plains. D) They nest and reproduce underground. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They nest and reproduce underground. 9. What is the longest and widest single nerve in the human body? A) Sciatic nerve. B) Lateral femoral cutaneous nerve. C) Optic nerve. D) Saphenous nerve. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sciatic nerve. 10. In the British sitcom "Absolutely Fabulous", what is the name of Edina's daughter? A) Bubbles. B) Saffron. C) Patsy. D) Margaret. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Saffron. 11. Which of these works with the fictional Crime Scene Investigation division in New York? A) Captain Jim Brass. B) Catherine Willows. C) Nick Stokes. D) Detective Mac Taylor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Detective Mac Taylor. 12. What distance does the Laser Run, competed as part of a pentathlon, cover? A) 4, 000 m. B) 800 m. C) 2, 000 m. D) 3, 200 m. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3, 200 m. 13. Which British playwright won the 2005 Nobel Prize for literature? A) Alan Ayckbourn. B) Tom Stoppard. C) Michael Frayn. D) Harold Pinter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Harold Pinter. 14. What was the name of the British Royal Yacht that entered service in 1953 and decommissioned on 11 December 1997? A) Britannia. B) Alexandra. C) Victoria and Albert. D) Queen Elizabeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Britannia. 15. Who is the eponymous absent-minded professor who features in a series of books by British author Norman Hunter in the 1930s and then 1970-83? A) Professor Branestawm. B) Emmett Brown. C) Dr Strange. D) Madame Olivier. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Professor Branestawm. 16. Who was the world chess champion from 1969 to 1972? A) Boris Spassky. B) Bobby Fischer. C) Anatoli Karpov. D) Mstislav Rostropovich. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Boris Spassky. 17. What did the Chinese historical term Huaxia originally embody? A) The central role of mountains and rivers in Chinese civilisation. B) Great. C) Beautiful people. D) The common way of life, language and culture of tribes in the Central Plains of China. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The common way of life, language and culture of tribes in the Central Plains of China. 18. The Wimbledon tennis championships are held in which city? A) Ankara. B) Paris. C) London. D) Sydney. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) London. 19. Which 2006 film about a dystopian future uses the music "Fragments of a Prayer" as a recurring motif? A) Children of Men. B) Pan's Labyrinth. C) Apocalypto. D) X-Men:The Last Stand. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Children of Men. 20. How often does the number "1" occur in the sequence from 1 to 100 inclusive? A) 18. B) 21. C) 22. D) 11. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 21. ← 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