This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 590 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 590 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who, from 1940 to 1949 was Jane Wyman's third husband? A) Ronald Reagan. B) Humphrey Bogart. C) Clark Gable. D) David Niven. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ronald Reagan. 2. A 19th century French physicist, chemist, botanist and teacher is particularly well-known for his seminal work in establishing entomology. What was his name? A) Jacques Curie. B) Jean-Henri Fabre. C) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. D) Louis Pasteur. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jean-Henri Fabre. 3. Stubble goose is a traditional dish served in places in the Northern Hemisphere to celebrate what? A) The Festival of Light. B) Michaelmas. C) The first day of winter. D) Labour Day. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Michaelmas. 4. The term, "soccer", coined first in the 1880s in the UK to distinguish types of football comes from what? A) An abbreviation of "association football". B) The method of kicking the ball. C) Type of material used for the ball's inner inflatable bladder. D) The players wore socks instead of puttees. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An abbreviation of "association football". 5. What is a "put you up" ? A) A card game. B) A ladder. C) A bed converted from a sofa. D) The squire to knight. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A bed converted from a sofa. 6. Who was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day, 1066? A) William II. B) Harold Godwinson. C) Edgar the Atheling. D) William I. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William I. 7. Which of these is found mainly in the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia, and lives on lizards, birds, fruits, eggs, termites, the young tips of palm trees, nests of bees, berries, sprouts, insects, roots, cocoa, nuts and coconuts? A) Capybara. B) Giraffe. C) Coatimundi. D) Sun Bear. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sun Bear. 8. "Monkey's fist" is a type of what? A) Coral. B) Fruit. C) Knot. D) Fungus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Knot. 9. Which 2008 Western film starred Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen as lawmen, Jeremy Irons as a rancher and Renee Zellweger as a piano-playing widow? A) Brumby. B) Palomino. C) Appaloosa. D) Stallion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Appaloosa. 10. A former member of the band "Man Jumping" and composer of several operas, Scottish musician John Lunn also composed music for more than one UK TV series. Which one was BAFTA Award-nominated? A) Hotel Babylon. B) Downton Abbey. C) Little Dorrit (2008). D) Grantchester. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Little Dorrit (2008). 11. What Shakespearean play begins "When shall we three meet again, In thunder, lightning or in rain" ? A) Much Ado About Nothing. B) Othello. C) Macbeth. D) A Winter's Tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Macbeth. 12. If you are holding a musical instrument with F-holes what are you likely to be holding? A) A balalaika. B) A banjo. C) A cor anglais. D) A bowed string instrument. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A bowed string instrument. 13. Az, buky, vědě and glagoli and dobro are the first 5 letters of which alphabet? A) Glagolitic. B) Arabic. C) Hebrew. D) Sumerian. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Glagolitic. 14. Until Tony Blair, which of Britain's Labour Prime Ministers was in office for the longest overall time? A) Harold Wilson. B) James Callaghan. C) Ramsay MacDonald. D) Clement Attlee. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Harold Wilson. 15. The film actor Norma Jean Mortenson is better known by what name? A) Gene Kelly. B) Marilyn Monroe. C) Norma Shearer. D) Jean Harlow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Marilyn Monroe. 16. Rheumatism affects what part of the body? A) Liver. B) Heart. C) Head. D) Joints. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Joints. 17. The Singapore Declaration issued in 1971 and the Harare Declaration issued in 1991 are considered to be the two most important documents to what union of nations? A) Channel Islands. B) United Nations. C) Commonwealth of Nations. D) European Union. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Commonwealth of Nations. 18. Rob Pilatis and Fab Morvan were collectively known as what? A) Frankie Goes To Hollywood. B) Eurythmics. C) Wham!. D) Milli Vanilli. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Milli Vanilli. 19. Which of these is a disease affecting the eye? A) Trachea. B) Trachoma. C) Tijuana. D) Terracotta. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trachoma. 20. In the first decade of the 1900s, Henry Ford established the Ford Motor Company in which city of the USA? A) Hollywood. B) Detroit. C) Las Vegas. D) Tombstone. 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