This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 565 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 565 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these states of the USA is rectangular? A) Ohio. B) Nevada. C) Missouri. D) Colorado. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Colorado. 2. Which of these is a person who can read and write? A) Ostler. B) Scrivener. C) Milliner. D) Haberdasher. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scrivener. 3. Carve, Cutback, Drop in, Floater, Goofy foot, Grommet and Off the Hook are terms used in which sport? A) Surfing. B) Cricket. C) Ice Hockey. D) Baseball. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Surfing. 4. Anthony Nesty won which country's first Olympic medal, a gold in the 100 m butterfly in the 1988 Summer Olympics? A) Singapore. B) Burundi. C) Suriname. D) Costa Rica. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Suriname. 5. Which is the nearest large high altitude lake to Lake PoopΓ³ in Bolivia? A) Lake Managua. B) Lake Nicaragua. C) Lake Titicaca. D) Lake San Luis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lake Titicaca. 6. When it was enacted in 1883 what did the Pendleton Act establish in the USA? A) Rules governing rodeo. B) Regulations limiting anti-competitive conduct by companies. C) Protection of industrial property. D) The basis for the modern USA Civil Service. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The basis for the modern USA Civil Service. 7. In 2009, L'Osservatore Romano published a controversial article that demonstrated that what had done more for the liberation of woman than the contraceptive pill and abortion pill? A) Sewing machine. B) Washing machine. C) Microwave oven. D) Vacuum cleaner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Washing machine. 8. Which Greek philosopher was accused by the Sophists of corrupting the youth of Athens and was condemned to death by drinking hemlock? A) Socrates. B) Plato. C) Xenophon. D) Euclid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Socrates. 9. From 1928 the obverse of medals awarded at the Olympic Games carried a picture of the Roman Colosseum. At which Games was this replaced by the Panathinaikon Stadium in Greece? A) 2004. B) 1968. C) 1996. D) 2000. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2004. 10. What is the number of the beast, according to the Book of Revelation? A) 911. B) 007. C) 1800DEVIL. D) 666. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 666. 11. What is Bundesliga? A) An Austrian sweet pumpkin pie. B) A professional association football league in Germany. C) Germany's shores on the North Sea. D) The main cathedral in KΓΆln (Cologne). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A professional association football league in Germany. 12. Which November 2016 series created by, and released in its entirety on, Netflix had within three months been given awards from the Screen Actors Guild, the Golden Globe and Critics' Choice Television? A) StartUp. B) The Crown. C) House of Cards. D) A Series of Unfortunate Events. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Crown. 13. In 2006 Monty Panesar became the first person of what religion to play test cricket for England? A) Islam. B) Buddhism. C) Judaism. D) Sikh. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sikh. 14. What can be one of the effects on Earth of a Coronal Mass Ejection from the Sun? A) A spurt of growth in plant life. B) Temporarily extended brilliant sunlight. C) Widening of the hole in the ozone layer. D) Disruption of navigation, communication and accelerated or erratic distribution of electricity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Disruption of navigation, communication and accelerated or erratic distribution of electricity. 15. Apart from the platypus what are the only living examples of egg-laying mammals? A) Red Kangaroo. B) Tiger Quoll. C) Echidna (spiny anteater). D) Capybara. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Echidna (spiny anteater). 16. What does Dorothy Sayers's character Lord Peter Wimsey call his 12-cylinder ("double-six") 1927 Daimler four-seater? A) Mrs Merdle. B) Cleopatra. C) Little Nell. D) Pip. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mrs Merdle. 17. What is the country of origin of the cheese called "Monterey Jack" ? A) USA. B) Netherlands. C) Wales. D) Greece. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) USA. 18. Among the works of which English landscape painter are "The Fighting Temeraire" and "The Sun of Venice Going to Sea" ? A) Reynolds. B) Turner. C) Gainsborough. D) Constable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Turner. 19. In what can a slow over rate be penalised? A) Announcing, in broadcast media. B) Throwing, in a game of water polo. C) Calculating the weighted average cost of capital, in corporate finance. D) Bowling, fielding or batting in a game of cricket. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bowling, fielding or batting in a game of cricket. 20. Rabbits are the background for what hit song, biggest selling single in the UK in 1979? A) Run, rabbit, run. B) Watership Down. C) When You're Losing Your Way in the Rain. D) Bright Eyes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bright Eyes. β PreviousNext βRelated 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 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books