This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 546 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 546 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A halt in 1648 to what must have seemed at the time almost endless wars in Europe, is called what? A) The Peace of Westphalia. B) The Peace of Augsburg. C) The Treaty of Concordia. D) The Peace of Rueil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Peace of Westphalia. 2. What currency is used in China? A) Yen. B) Yuan. C) Ringgit. D) Won. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yuan. 3. Abyssinian, Balinese, British Shorthair, Birman, Bombay, Burmese, California Spangled, Devon Rex, Egyptian Mau, Himalayan, Japanese Bobtail and Javanese are all breeds of what? A) Dog. B) Cat. C) Horse. D) Pig. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cat. 4. For what event in 1215 is Runnymede, England, famous? A) An attempt to fly by helicopter. B) King John accepted the Magna Carta. C) Richard the Lionheart announced the 3rd crusade. D) King Alfred burnt some scones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) King John accepted the Magna Carta. 5. Which of these is not found on the route of the Trans-Siberian Railway? A) Irkutsk. B) Ulaan Bataar. C) Ulan-Ude. D) Krasnoyarsk. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ulaan Bataar. 6. The film The Philadelphia Story was made into which musical? A) High Society. B) Top Hat. C) Shall We Dance. D) Singin' in the Rain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) High Society. 7. Who starred with Bette Davis in the 1962 film "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane" ? A) Joan Crawford. B) Olivia de Havilland. C) Agnes Moorehead. D) Susan Hayward. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Joan Crawford. 8. What does "REM" stand for? A) Really Ecky Measles. B) Regulatory Ear Malformation. C) Rapid Eye Movement. D) Royal Equine Mumps. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rapid Eye Movement. 9. How did Nigerian man Umar Farouk Abdulmutallah make world news on 25 December 2009? A) Trying to blow up an aeroplane. B) Finding, by e-mail, someone to share his family fortune. C) Shooting down Santa's sleigh. D) Leading US police on their longest recorded car chase. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trying to blow up an aeroplane. 10. In which country was the Althing, a legislative and judiciary parliament, founded in 930? A) Denmark. B) Iceland. C) Greenland. D) Finland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iceland. 11. The 328 metre high Sky Tower is in which city? A) Kaminoyama, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. B) Abu Dhabi, UAE. C) Wroclaw, Poland. D) Auckland, New Zealand. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Auckland, New Zealand. 12. He was a founding member, songwriter, and guitarist with the rock band Magic Alex, made his professional acting debut in 1992 in UK TV, and in TV has starred alongside Robbie Coltrane, Philip Glenister, David Tennant and Jim Broadbent. Who is he? A) Marc Warren. B) John Lynch. C) James Nesbitt. D) John Simm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John Simm. 13. June Middleton, of Melbourne, Australia, who died aged 83 in 2009, was in the Guinness Book of Records for spending the most time in what? A) A refrigerator. B) An iron lung. C) "Harry Potter" film screenings. D) A coal mine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An iron lung. 14. Why is Harvard University named after John Harvard, a young clergyman from the London Borough of Southwark, England? A) He safeguarded the investment of the College Trust Funds for 40 years. B) He arranged for a Royal Charter for the College from Charles I. C) He wrote the first procedure manual for the administrators. D) He bequeathed the College his library of 400 books and £779. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He bequeathed the College his library of 400 books and £779. 15. Score, in relation to an opera, means what? A) A consummated love, or other, affair in the storyline. B) The music for the performers. C) The size of the first audience. D) The words. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The music for the performers. 16. Which actor and musician, born in 1935, won a scholarship to study organ at Magdalen College, Oxford? A) Jonathan Miller. B) Alan Bennett. C) Peter Cook. D) Dudley Moore. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dudley Moore. 17. What is the word for the apparent change in frequency of a vibration due to the relative change in position of the observer? A) Boyle's Law. B) Echo. C) Archimedes's Principle. D) Doppler effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Doppler effect. 18. What type of animal is a gelada? A) Baboon, or monkey. B) Antelope. C) Beetle. D) Reptile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Baboon, or monkey. 19. Sometimes called elephant or chinese chess, what is this game known as in the Asian Games? A) Xiangqi. B) Go. C) Weiqi. D) Checkers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Xiangqi. 20. "A Dictionary of the English Language", first published in 1755, becoming one of the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language, was by whom? A) Noah Webster. B) Francis Bacon. C) Samuel Johnson. D) Thomas More. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Samuel Johnson. ← 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