This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 579 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 579 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is Crémant? A) Fruit fool. B) Sparkling soda. C) "Champagne" made in France but not in the Champagne region. D) Whipped egg white cake. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Champagne" made in France but not in the Champagne region. 2. Which culture is known for deliberately mummifying its dead as long ago as 5050 BCE? A) Chinchorro, in South America. B) Egyptian. C) Wan Muhuggiag, north Africa. D) Switzerland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chinchorro, in South America. 3. By what name was US president Andrew Jackson affectionately known? A) Old Ironsides. B) Old Glory. C) Old Hickory. D) Old Curmudgeon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Old Hickory. 4. What is the word for the minimum number of people necessary to formally constitute a meeting? A) Kangaroo Court. B) Quorum. C) Agendum. D) Quern. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quorum. 5. Louis Farrakhan, the National Representative of the Nation of Islam and an advocate for black interests, is an activist in which country? A) Australia. B) UK. C) USA. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) USA. 6. In what discussion is the term "sett" appropriate? A) About badgers. B) About tennis. C) About the ancient Egyptian god of chaos. D) About mathematics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) About badgers. 7. What is an aramaic word meaning "father" that is used as a title of respect to bishops and patriarchs in Coptic, Syrian and Abyssinian churches? A) Falange. B) Baobab. C) Joshua. D) Abba. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Abba. 8. Historically, anthrax was recognised as a common industrial disease of which of these professions? A) Electrician. B) Miner. C) Wool sorter. D) Stone mason. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wool sorter. 9. Where is the Chungyang mountain range? A) Japan. B) Tibet. C) Mongolia. D) Taiwan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Taiwan. 10. Which of these countries has a border with France? A) Austria. B) Australia. C) Germany. D) Greece. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Germany. 11. Which ancient people were thought to have built large pyramidal structures at Tula and Teotihuacan, Mexico? A) Safesecs. B) Apaches. C) Toltecs. D) Pygmies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Toltecs. 12. When the UK version of the biographical documentary "This Is Your Life" TV series aired who was the first presenter? A) Eamonn Andrews. B) Michael Parkinson. C) Kenny Everett. D) Stephen Fry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eamonn Andrews. 13. Which of these is a famous aria from Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot that means "None shall sleep" ? A) Nissan Dormer. B) Nessun Dorma. C) Dormer Window. D) VW Campervan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nessun Dorma. 14. Who, before being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2003, was the first author to be awarded the Booker Prize twice? A) Arundhati Roy. B) Peter Carey. C) Margaret Atwood. D) J M Coetzee. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) J M Coetzee. 15. The line "It did always seem so to us, but now in the division of the kingdom it appears not which of the Dukes he values most, for equalities are so weighed that curiosity in neither can make choice of either's moiety" is spoken by which Shakespearean character? A) Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream". B) Macbeth in "Macbeth". C) Portia in "The Merchant of Venice". D) The Earl of Gloucester in "King Lear". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Earl of Gloucester in "King Lear". 16. The Indonesian Army special forces group, founded in 1952, that conducts special operations missions for the Indonesian government is called what? A) The State Intelligence Service (SHISH). B) The Mossad. C) Kopassus. D) Agencja Wywiadu (AW). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kopassus. 17. In the 19th century, who wrote "Stancliffe's Hotel" when she was 23, a decade before she found a public audience, that was not published until 2003? A) Elizabeth Gaskell. B) Louisa May Alcott. C) Wilkie Collins. D) Charlotte Brontë. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Charlotte Brontë. 18. Who was the nephew of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria and heir to the throne, who renounced his children's right to succession in order to make a morganatic marriage with Countess Sophie Chotek and was assassinated with her in Bosnia in 1914? A) Otto Ferdinand. B) Franz Karl. C) Otto Joseph. D) Franz Ferdinand. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Franz Ferdinand. 19. Which comic character was introduced in More Fun Comics #73 in November 1941? A) Aquaman. B) Wonder Woman. C) Adam Strange. D) Hawkman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aquaman. 20. Neo, Morpheus and the city of Zion feature in what 1999 film? A) The Sixth Sense. B) Star Wars:Episode I-The Phantom Menace. C) Eyes Wide Shut. D) The Matrix. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Matrix. ← 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