This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge â Quiz 585 đ Homepage đ Download PDF Books đ Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 585 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What submarine feature joins mainland Ecuador to the Galapagos Islands? A) Cocos Ridge. B) Carnegie Ridge. C) Nazca Ridge. D) Tehuantepec Ridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carnegie Ridge. 2. What do the Bobo Ashanti and the Nyabinghi form part of? A) ESwatini. B) Baha'i. C) Rastafari. D) The tribes of Ghana. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rastafari. 3. Which is the 1999 Sega open-world action-adventure game, with detail unprecedented at the time, including a day-and-night system, variable weather effects, non-player characters with daily schedules, numerous interactive objects, and various minigames? A) Shenmue. B) Final Fantasy VIII. C) EverQuest. D) Baldur's Gate:Tales of the Sword Coast. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shenmue. 4. Edward Wilson as chief scientist, and others-zoologists, biologists, geologists, a physicist and a meteorologist-were the scientific team for which expedition? A) Terra Australis Expedition, led by Captain James Cook. B) Terra Nova Expedition, led by Sir Robert Falcon Scott. C) Nimrod Expedition, led by Sir Ernest Shackleton. D) Australasian Antarctic Expedition, led by Douglas Mawson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Terra Nova Expedition, led by Sir Robert Falcon Scott. 5. In May 1949, 10 western nations formed the Council of Europe. These were Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and which other country? A) Monaco. B) Luxembourg. C) The Vatican City. D) Portugal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Luxembourg. 6. What are Proxima Centauri, Sirius A, Pollux, Arcturus and Betelgeuse? A) Planets. B) Stars. C) Comets. D) Black holes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stars. 7. What is "stinkhorn" ? A) Beech tree. B) Moss. C) Flowering shrub. D) Fungus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fungus. 8. In May 2017 there was a worldwide ransomware cyber attack, called what? A) WannaCry. B) Hiccups. C) Gotcha. D) Get a Handkerchief. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) WannaCry. 9. During his career from 1959 to 1993, who battled more than 2, 000 fires in oil and natural gas wells, notably in 1962 when he tackled a fire at a gas field in the Sahara nicknamed the Devil's Cigarette Lighter, a 450-foot (137 m) flame? A) Black Aduel. B) Blue Achallenge. C) Red Adair. D) Green Abet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Red Adair. 10. According to the song, who loved Puff, the magic dragon? A) Little Miss Muffet. B) Little Jack Horner. C) Little Jackie Paper. D) Tiny Tim. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Little Jackie Paper. 11. What size is a doubles Padel (or Paddle) court? A) 12 m x 34 m. B) 6 m x 20 m. C) 10 m x 20 m. D) 11 m x 23.77 m. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 10 m x 20 m. 12. In humans, the adult skull is normally made up of 22 bones, which are joined together by sutures, rigid articulations permitting very little movement, except for which one? A) Jawbone. B) Tailbone. C) Funny bone. D) Thigh bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jawbone. 13. Which of these minerals is blue? A) Gold. B) Emerald. C) Ruby. D) Lapis lazuli. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lapis lazuli. 14. Which European country was twice, in 1892 and again in 1902, declared bankrupt? A) Spain. B) Greece. C) Andorra. D) Portugal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Portugal. 15. "The Bowery" is a street in which US city? A) New Orleans. B) Los Angeles. C) New York. D) Chicago. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) New York. 16. Which part of the body would be treated if the patient was suffering from bunions? A) Back. B) Eyes. C) Feet. D) Throat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Feet. 17. Until 971 the Southern Han dynasty in southern China kept a permanent military corps of what? A) Cross-bow archers. B) Elephants. C) Wild boars. D) Rocket launchers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elephants. 18. Which of the following was not recorded in the Christian Bible as a gift from a magi? A) Gold. B) Emeralds. C) Frankincense. D) Myrrh. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emeralds. 19. In ÊpÊe fencing what is a valid target on the opponent's body? A) The entire body except the head. B) Torso, neck and groin. C) The entire body above the waist except the weapon hand. D) The entire body. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The entire body. 20. What was the reason for a period of silence observed during the closing ceremony of the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games? A) Death of Sir Ludwig Guttmann, founder of the Paralympic Games. B) Deaths from the Zika virus epidemic before and during the Olympics. C) Deaths of relatives of athletes in several teams from earthquakes two days before. D) The death of a cyclist during competition. 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