This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 556 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 556 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is The Everest, established in 2017? A) A horse race. B) A free-climbing contest. C) A base jumping contest. D) An alligator race. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A horse race. 2. What right of a defendant was last used in "Ashford v Thornton", an 1818 English legal case that was a private appeal from an acquittal for murder? A) Trial by combat. B) To remain silent. C) A woman can refuse to testify against her husband. D) To challenge potential jurors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trial by combat. 3. A woman who is primigravida is what? A) In the early stages of obesity. B) Pregnant with her first child. C) Someone with Type I diabetes. D) Having her first menstrual cycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pregnant with her first child. 4. Voyages of exploration which stretched from 1492 to 1504 started with what purpose? A) To travel from one pole to the other. B) To find a new and shorter route from Portugal to the Orient. C) Testing out a new type of sail. D) To give the crew extended holiday cruises. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To find a new and shorter route from Portugal to the Orient. 5. Which of these is most likely to use a palette knife? A) Artist. B) Cricketer. C) Surgeon. D) Chef. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Artist. 6. Which river runs through the cities of Basel, Strasbourg, Karlsruhe, Mainz, Koblenz, Bonn, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Arnhem, Utrecht and Rotterdam? A) Tay. B) Po. C) Rhine. D) Seine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhine. 7. A plasma display panel contains many tiny cells between two panels of glass which hold a mixture of noble gases. The gas in the cells is electrically turned into a plasma which emits ultraviolet light which then excites what to emit visible light? A) Crystals. B) Light emitting diodes. C) Pixels. D) Phosphorus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Phosphorus. 8. Which of these are most associated with the first establishment of democracy as a form of government? A) Solon and Cleisthenes; 6th century BCE. B) Maximilien Robespierre; 18th century. C) Emperor Constantine; 4th century. D) Genghis Khan; 12th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Solon and Cleisthenes; 6th century BCE. 9. The four highest elevation capital cities in the world are in which area? A) North America. B) Africa. C) Asia. D) South America. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) South America. 10. What is a "harbinger" ? A) A harbourmaster. B) A forerunner or signal. C) A hangnail. D) An angel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A forerunner or signal. 11. The city of Rome in what is now Italy was successively the capital for the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and what next? A) Romany Rye. B) The Holy Roman Church. C) Romania. D) The Roman Empire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Roman Empire. 12. Which of these might seek or be asked to talk with beings or forces from the otherworld? A) Shaman. B) Lawspeaker. C) Oracle. D) Deemster. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shaman. 13. Where was Josef Mengele assigned to, when he carried out his work on people subjected to the Nazi regime? A) Bergen-Belsen. B) Buchenwald. C) Birkenau-Auschwitz. D) Dachau. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Birkenau-Auschwitz. 14. Which semi-aquatic carnivorous mammal of the weasel family has only two living species:the American and the European? A) Otter. B) Mink. C) Stoat. D) Ermine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mink. 15. Which of these is made in the shape of a closed ring? A) Bagel. B) Croissant. C) Pie. D) Pasty. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bagel. 16. What is a name for the tingling sensation known as pins and needles? A) Raynaud's disease. B) Paresthesia. C) Carpal tunnel syndrome. D) Neuropathy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paresthesia. 17. Which Polynesian island nation of 4 reef islands and 5 true atolls in the Pacific Ocean, midway between Hawaii and Australia, formerly known as the Ellice Islands, became fully independent within the Commonwealth in 1978? A) Tonga. B) Tuvalu. C) Vanuatu. D) Samoa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tuvalu. 18. Among the several meanings of "parison", which of these is one? A) A gob of molten glass that has been partly shaped or moulded. B) A design for heraldry. C) A defensive move in foil fencing. D) Elaborate bridle and tack for a horse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A gob of molten glass that has been partly shaped or moulded. 19. What is the regulation length for the pole used in Olympic pole vault? A) Maximum of 5.30 m (17 ft 5 in). B) Minimum of 3 m (9ft 10 in). C) There is no restriction on length. D) 5 m (16ft 5in). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) There is no restriction on length. 20. Who played the first doctor in the UK TV series "Dr Who" ? A) Freddie Highmore. B) Adrian Hall. C) William Hartnell. D) Roddie McDowall. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Hartnell. ← 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