This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 560 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 560 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When was the Ukrainian national anthem first played at an Olympic Games? A) 1998 Winter Olympics. B) 1992 Winter Olympics. C) 1994 Winter Olympics. D) 1992 Summer Olympics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1994 Winter Olympics. 2. How did General George S Patton, responsible for a number of US victories in World War II, die? A) Old age in a rest home in Philadelphia in 1958. B) As the result of a car accident near Heidelberg, Germany, in 1945. C) In a plane crash off the coast of Japan in 1946. D) Assassination in Manila, The Philippines, in 1945. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) As the result of a car accident near Heidelberg, Germany, in 1945. 3. What is the silt-formed delta of the River Rhône? A) Everglades. B) Camargue. C) Catalunya. D) Basquette. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Camargue. 4. Q is associated with scientific developments and gadgets for which other fictional character? A) James Bond. B) Top Cat. C) Pollyanna. D) Dr Who. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) James Bond. 5. Where in the USA are the La Brea tar pits? A) Los Angeles. B) Joshua Tree National Park. C) Yellowstone National Park. D) Nevada, near the Hoover Dam. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Los Angeles. 6. What does calendering entail? A) Begging. B) Preparing a schedule of meetings. C) Rolling and compressing under heat. D) Straining vegetables. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rolling and compressing under heat. 7. In the television series "Jeeves and Wooster" (1990-1993), one of the episodes featured which song, that was first released in 1931, became the biggest chart-topper of the year, and in 1999 was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame? A) Flat Foot Floogie. B) Minnie the Moocher. C) Sing, Sing, Sing. D) The Man I Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Minnie the Moocher. 8. Where is the boxing venue known as Madison Square Garden? A) San Francisco. B) Chicago. C) New York. D) Philadelphia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) New York. 9. What event in mid 2023 caused extensive and ongoing comment in the golf world? A) PGA Tour, DP World Tour and Saudi-backed LIV Golf merged. B) A revolutionary new design of golf ball was introduced. C) PGA Tour financial prizes were tripled. D) DP World Tour dissolved. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) PGA Tour, DP World Tour and Saudi-backed LIV Golf merged. 10. Digitalis is a genus of about 20 species of herbaceous perennials, shrubs, and biennials that are commonly called ..... ? A) Hyacinth. B) Deadly nightshade. C) Hemlock. D) Foxglove. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foxglove. 11. Jiggers, or chigoe or sand fleas (Tunga penetrans), are a small parasite found mostly where on the body? A) Tails. B) Eyelashes. C) Hair. D) Feet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Feet. 12. Where is the "Caprivi Strip" ? A) Namibia. B) Israel. C) Oklahoma, USA. D) Paris, France. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Namibia. 13. Which of these is a variety of igneous rock consisting of large-grained crystals, such as feldspar or quartz, dispersed in a fine-grained feldspathic matrix or groundmass? A) Porphyry. B) Powhiri. C) Parsimony. D) Pharmacy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Porphyry. 14. Besides their meat, whales have been hunted from the 1600s for three main items. Which of these is not one of them? A) Oil. B) Caviar. C) Baleen. D) Ambergris. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Caviar. 15. What does field archery involve? A) Use of bows without sights or mechanical releases. B) Varying animal-shaped targets. C) Kneeling and long-distance targets through light bush. D) Multiple (sometimes unmarked) targets of varying distance, in multiple terrains. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Multiple (sometimes unmarked) targets of varying distance, in multiple terrains. 16. What is the Caspian Sea Monster? A) A giant sturgeon which has eluded fishermen. B) A creature said to resemble the Loch Ness monster. C) A giant lighthouse. D) An experimental sea-skimming ground effect vehicle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An experimental sea-skimming ground effect vehicle. 17. Which of these was painted last? A) "Guernica" by Pablo Picasso. B) "Untitled (Horse)" by Susan Rothenberg. C) "Der Blaue Reiter" by Wassily Kandinsky. D) "The Blue Boy" by Thomas Gainsborough. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Untitled (Horse)" by Susan Rothenberg. 18. What headwear is traditionally worn at Harrow, the English public school? A) Cloth cap. B) Top hat. C) Beret. D) Straw boater. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Straw boater. 19. Celebrated 20th century Chinese poet, essayist, short story writer and playwright Lin Huiying, sometimes known as Phyllis Lin, was prominent in which other field in the arts? A) Architecture. B) Painting. C) Mathematics. D) Sculpture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Architecture. 20. Who directed "Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid", "Convoy", "The Wild Bunch" and "Cross of Iron" ? A) Sam Peckinpah. B) Kris Kristofferson. C) Quentin Tarantino. D) Alfred Hitchcock. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sam Peckinpah. ← 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