This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 596 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 596 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these is used in the film industry? A) Pietons. B) Clapperboard. C) Hod. D) Tiller. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Clapperboard. 2. What arcade game, based on the concept of eating, was developed primarily by Tōru Iwatani over the course of a year in 1979/80, with a nine-man team? A) Space Invaders. B) Pac-Man. C) Ping Pong. D) Mars Attack. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pac-Man. 3. The mnemonic Roy G. Biv is an aid to remembering what? A) The colours of the rainbow. B) The inventor of the crossword puzzle. C) Species of African elephant. D) The first elements of the atomic table. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The colours of the rainbow. 4. What made Superman weak? A) Argonite. B) Xenonite. C) Kryptonite. D) Neonite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kryptonite. 5. Over how many holes is The British Open (golfing championship) played? A) 90. B) 72. C) 54. D) 81. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 72. 6. The Sunda Strait lies between which two islands? A) Bali and Lombok. B) Java and Sumatra. C) Maluku Islands (the Moluccas or the Spice Islands) and Papua. D) Java and Kalimantan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Java and Sumatra. 7. Which of these Beatrix Potter characters is a cat? A) Miss Moppet. B) Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle. C) Samuel Whiskers. D) Timmy Tiptoes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Miss Moppet. 8. Where was Expo 2010 held from 1 May to 31 October 2010, the most expensive Expo in the history of world's fairs with the largest site (5.28 square km), with more than 190 countries and over 50 international organisations participating? A) Shanghai, China. B) Chicago, Illinois, USA. C) London, UK. D) Paris, France. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shanghai, China. 9. Between which countries was the War of the Pacific fought? A) Chile and Bolivia. B) Chile and Peru. C) Chile and a united Bolivia and Peru. D) Chile and Argentina. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chile and a united Bolivia and Peru. 10. Blue Mountain Coffee, noted for its mild flavour and lack of bitterness (the beans of which are the flavour base of Tia Maria coffee liqueur), is grown in which country? A) Spain. B) Cuba. C) Brazil. D) Jamaica. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jamaica. 11. Work published by English scientist Alfred Russel Wallace in 1855 and 1858 proposed what? A) The Famennian stage in the Late Devonian epoch. B) Methods of petroleum cracking. C) The theory of evolution through natural selection. D) Identification of the first archaeopteryx fossil to be discovered. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The theory of evolution through natural selection. 12. Dust carried in winds from the Bodélé Depression, an ancient desiccated lake bed in the south-west corner of the central African country of Chad, has been identified as a key source of phosphorus-a vital nutrient for plant growth-in what area? A) South Africa. B) Ethiopia. C) Amazon rain forest. D) Peru. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amazon rain forest. 13. What is the favourite drink of a vampire? A) Milk. B) Gin and tonic. C) Blood. D) Prune juice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blood. 14. As at 2 February 2015, when she won No 1 ranking in women's professional golf, what age was Lydia Ko? A) 18. B) 17. C) 19. D) 20. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 17. 15. In which country does over half of the population live on reclaimed land? A) Kenya. B) The Netherlands. C) New Zealand. D) Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Netherlands. 16. What are raced in the Iditarod, held annually since 1973 in Alaska from Anchorage to Nome? A) Cars. B) Sled dogs. C) Horses. D) Motor bikes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sled dogs. 17. What is a boson? A) A ship's officer. B) An elementary particle. C) A musical instrument. D) A bout of heavy rain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An elementary particle. 18. The names of how many continents end with the same letter that they started with? A) 3. B) 7. C) 5. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 5. 19. Who is the person, or are the people, who in 1920 formed the company which eventually became Columbia Pictures? A) The Cohn brothers (Harry and Jack) and Joe Brandt. B) W. Ray Johnston. C) Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky. D) Carl Laemmle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Cohn brothers (Harry and Jack) and Joe Brandt. 20. Opinion polls in Japan just over two months before the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (opening delayed until July 2021 in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic raging in 2020), estimated what percentage of people were in favour of continuing to hold the Games at that date? A) Just over 5%. B) About 50%. C) Over 80%. 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