This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 586 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 586 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the name of the main character, a senior bank clerk, in Franz Kafka's unfinished novel "The Trial" ? A) Mr Micawber. B) Winston Smith. C) Maurice Till. D) Josef K. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Josef K. 2. Myrmecophily refers to an association, beneficial to either or both of the partners, between animals, or plants or fungi and which other? A) Moths. B) Ants. C) Bees. D) Millipedes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ants. 3. Who was the first President of Poland, from 1990 to 1995 at the start of the break up of Soviet influence across eastern Europe? A) Petro Poroshenko. B) Wojciech Jaruzelski. C) Andrzej Duda. D) Lech Wałęsa. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lech Wałęsa. 4. What is different about the audience at a Deaflympics? A) They are supplied with placards and balloons showing applause or other positive comments. B) It is usual for them to applaud by waving rather than shouting or clapping. C) They can register comments on a giant screen by the area of competition. D) Nothing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is usual for them to applaud by waving rather than shouting or clapping. 5. Leif Ericson, a Norse explorer regarded as the first European to land in North America before Christopher Columbus, established a settlement at Vinland, which has been tentatively identified as being where? A) New York. B) Newfoundland. C) Rhode Island. D) Mexico. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Newfoundland. 6. Why were the figure skating team event medals in the 2022 Winter Olympics not awarded at the time? A) The three medal-winning teams had to leave before the medal ceremonies. B) Illness affected more than 50% of each team. C) No teams were entered in the tournament. D) One of the competitors in the team which scored highest tested positive for a banned drug. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) One of the competitors in the team which scored highest tested positive for a banned drug. 7. Robert and James Adam are associated with which field? A) Astronomy. B) Architecture. C) Medicine. D) Music. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Architecture. 8. With the history of which country is Gandhi associated? A) Italy. B) India. C) Germany. D) Sweden. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) India. 9. The word plagiarism comes from the Latin word meaning what? A) Eating. B) Murdering. C) Stealing. D) Kidnapping. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kidnapping. 10. Anniversaries of an event in July 1776 are particularly celebrated in what country? A) China. B) USA. C) Russia. D) India. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) USA. 11. Which area was identified in 2000 as a global biodiversity hotspot, due to its exceptional concentration of endemic species paired with exceptional loss of habitats? A) Upper Guinea forest of West Africa. B) Zimbabwe. C) The Serengeti Plain. D) The Nile Valley. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Upper Guinea forest of West Africa. 12. 56 people were killed at which disaster in Bradford England in 1985? A) Football stadium fire. B) Earthquake. C) Hurricane. D) Collapse of a reservoir. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Football stadium fire. 13. What does an emetic make you do? A) Vomit. B) Urinate. C) Sneeze. D) Bleed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vomit. 14. Michelangelo sculpted his statue of David in which century? A) 14th. B) 15th. C) 16th. D) 17th. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 16th. 15. A "Henry" is a basic SI unit of what? A) Capacitance. B) Inductance. C) Resistance. D) Current. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inductance. 16. Which of these is an area of Canada? A) Shitzu. B) Dachshund. C) Labrador. D) Boxer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Labrador. 17. What is the peptide hormone produced in all vertebrates and some others to promote the absorption of glucose from the blood to muscles and fat tissue? A) Lipids. B) Insulin. C) Haemoglobin. D) Bile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Insulin. 18. The first of what games was played in 1967, when the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League, 35 to 10? A) America's Cup. B) F A Cup. C) Rose Bowl. D) Super Bowl. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Super Bowl. 19. What do Katharine Hepburn, Luise Rainer, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Vivien Leigh, Ingrid Bergman, Elizabeth Taylor, Glenda Jackson, Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Jodie Foster, and Hilary Swank have in common? A) Having 5 children each. B) Having the same birthday. C) Having been married to Jack Nicholson. D) Winning an Academy Award for Best Actress. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Winning an Academy Award for Best Actress. 20. Which Pixar-created 2022 animated film follows a 13-year-old Chinese-Canadian student with an awkward reaction to strong emotion? A) Disenchanted. B) Cheaper by the Dozen. C) Turning Red. D) Godmothered. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Turning Red. ← 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