This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 557 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 557 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. James Frederick Ferrier introduced which word to cover the branch of philosophy concerned with "the theory of knowledge" ? A) Episiotomy. B) Epistemology. C) Fallibilism. D) Deuteronomy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epistemology. 2. What group of men was constituted to guard the Roman emperor? A) Praetorian Guard. B) Swiss Guard. C) Beefeaters. D) The Night Watch. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Praetorian Guard. 3. What is a slang word for someone who deals in stolen goods? A) Paling. B) Gate. C) Fence. D) Divider. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fence. 4. Which of these people was born in Vienna? A) Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI of France. B) Albert, Prince Consort, husband of Queen Victoria of the UK. C) Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta aka "Lady Gaga". D) Franz Liszt, composer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI of France. 5. The Union Jack, the British flag, was first used in its present form in what year? A) 1801. B) 1777. C) 1066. D) 1919. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1801. 6. In what is the Smyslov screw used? A) Shot put. B) Clock making. C) White water rafting. D) Chess. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chess. 7. A study in June 2022 led by Joris Peters from Ludwig Maximilian University Munich and Greger Larson from the University of Oxford traced the origin of chicken domestication to a period from the 17th to the 13th century BCE in what present-day country? A) Thailand. B) India. C) Central China. D) Mesopotamia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thailand. 8. Where does the approximately 1700km mountain chain known in its southern portion as Tenasserim run? A) In Northern Australia. B) Across Uzbekistan. C) From Tibet to southern Laos. D) From Tibet to part way down the Malay Peninsula. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) From Tibet to part way down the Malay Peninsula. 9. In which country would you find the Moorish castle called the Alhambra? A) Portugal. B) Spain. C) Morocco. D) Angola. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spain. 10. In 1992 the Toronto Blue Jays became the first baseball team to do what? A) Win the World Series as a team based outside the USA. B) Qualify, as the Canadian team, for competing officially for the first time at the Olympic Games. C) Compete in the World Series in abbreviated shorts. D) Stage a competition series on the frozen St Lawrence River. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Win the World Series as a team based outside the USA. 11. A celebrated case in 1734 in England concerned Judith Defour, found guilty of murdering her two-year old daughter. What was the reason she gave? A) She needed to sell the child's clothes to buy gin. B) The child cost too much to keep. C) The child would not stop crying. D) Her current man did not like the child. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She needed to sell the child's clothes to buy gin. 12. Which was first? A) Cold War. B) Spanish Civil War. C) World War II. D) Russian Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Russian Revolution. 13. What is Hillary Clinton's maiden name? A) Rodham. B) Bouvier. C) Roosevelt. D) Kennedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rodham. 14. In what would you find words listed with meanings, derivations, history and pronunciation? A) Thesaurus. B) Lexicon. C) Encyclopaedia. D) Bibliography. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lexicon. 15. Which of these was a Prime Minister of Great Britain? A) John Major. B) John Sergeant. C) John Colonel. D) John General. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Major. 16. What boxer was known as "The Brown Bomber" ? A) Jack Johnson. B) Max Baer. C) Don Barry. D) Joe Louis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Joe Louis. 17. Kate Middleton is romantically linked with which of these people? A) Prince William. B) Prince Harry. C) David Bowie. D) Robbie Williams. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prince William. 18. Giovanni Boccaccio, who is best known for his work "Decameron", was involved in what type of activity? A) Music. B) Poetry. C) Architecture. D) Painting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetry. 19. Which of these names would not refer to the herb coriander? A) Dhania. B) Chinese parsley. C) Culantro. D) Cilantro. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Culantro. 20. In the "Batman" film released in 1989 who played the villain called "The Joker" ? A) Jack Nicholson. B) Adam West. C) Val Kilmer. D) Ben Affleck. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jack Nicholson. ← 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