This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 566 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 566 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What item of sporting equipment usually has three holes drilled in it, although the rules allow for up to five? A) Ten-pin bowling ball. B) Croquet mallet. C) Billiard table. D) Hockey stick. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ten-pin bowling ball. 2. What is the next in this series:Los Angeles, Seoul, Barcelona, Atlanta? A) Athens. B) Sydney. C) Beijing. D) London. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sydney. 3. According to the English nursery rhyme, who "called for his pipe and called for his bowl and called for his fiddlers three" ? A) King Kong. B) King Wenceslas. C) King Cole. D) King Prawn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) King Cole. 4. Who created the comic strip "Doonesbury" ? A) Brant Parker and Johnny Hart. B) Gary Larson. C) Jim Davis. D) Garry Trudeau. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Garry Trudeau. 5. Who arrived to play a concert at the Milan's Arena Civica in July 2006, a 12, 000 seat venue, found that the organisers had not put the tickets on general sale and that only 45 people had shown up, and refused to go on stage for such a small audience? A) Madonna. B) Paul McCartney. C) Lady Gaga. D) Bob Geldof. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bob Geldof. 6. Which painter's most famous works include "Portrait of Mrs. Graham", "Mary and Margaret:The Painter's Daughters", "William Hallett and His Wife Elizabeth, nee Stephen", known as "The Morning Walk", and "Cottage Girl with Dog and Pitcher" ? A) C. F. Goldie. B) Thomas Gainsborough. C) Hans Holbein the Younger. D) Joshua Reynolds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thomas Gainsborough. 7. What word means "a ceremonial meeting of Australian Aborigines" ? A) Parliament. B) Convocation. C) Corroboree. D) Coolabah. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Corroboree. 8. A long running television series about a division of police in the UK is ..... ? A) The Bill. B) The Beak. C) The Boardwalk. D) The Bullring. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Bill. 9. The Vardon Trophy, first awarded in 1937, and the Byron Nelson Award, first given in 1980, are given in what sport? A) Golf. B) Swimming. C) Lacrosse. D) Badminton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Golf. 10. Who famously flew a kite in a thunderstorm in 1752 to demonstrate the effects of lightning? A) Sid Franklin. B) Benjamin Franklin. C) Frank L. Baum. D) Franklin D. Roosevelt. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Benjamin Franklin. 11. On a complex Cartesian Plane where is the unit usually represented as i or j? A) At the nadir. B) Horizontal axis. C) At the zenith. D) Vertical axis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vertical axis. 12. Donald Campbell, the car and motorboat racer who broke eight world speed records in the 1950s and 60s, was born in which country? A) China. B) England. C) Sri Lanka. D) Pakistan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) England. 13. Which country music artist performed at the 2017 Superbowl in the USA? A) Keith Urban. B) Luke Bryan. C) Faith Hill. D) Carrie Underwood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Luke Bryan. 14. Crossword clues are divided into which of these two categories? A) Up and Under. B) North and West. C) Across and Down. D) Yes and No. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Across and Down. 15. The 2017 documentary feature film "Kim Dotcom:Caught in the Web" documents what? A) The culture surrounding file-sharing internet sites. B) A police raid to arrest internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom in New Zealand. C) The legal process to try internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom in the USA for internet piracy. D) Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom's personality and history. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A police raid to arrest internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom in New Zealand. 16. In which war did forces led by the Duke of Marlborough and the Duke of Savoy beat a combined French-Russian force at Blenheim in Western Bavaria in 1702? A) The War of the Austrian Succesion. B) The War of the Spanish Succesion. C) The Crimean War. D) The Hundred Years' War. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The War of the Spanish Succesion. 17. Which Greek God is the equivalent of the Roman God Neptune? A) Apollo. B) Eros. C) Poseidon. D) Pluto. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poseidon. 18. What was the name for a form of stencil duplicator used for making numerous copies of a document? A) Mimeograph. B) Teleprinter. C) Offset printer. D) Pantograph. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mimeograph. 19. What was the name of the first turbo prop airliner, built in 1950? A) Vickers Viscount. B) Handley Page Hannibal. C) Electra. D) Concorde. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vickers Viscount. 20. To call someone a whiffler can indicate that you think they do what? A) Scythe their lawns. B) Argue evasively, shift position constantly. C) Sniff constantly. D) Make a mockery of others. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Argue evasively, shift position constantly. ← 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