This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 66 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 66 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Spiro Agnew was the Vice President to which president of the USA? A) Bill Clinton. B) George W Bush. C) Dwight D. Eisenhower. D) Richard Nixon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Richard Nixon. 2. Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst (1729-1796) was better known under what name? A) Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress. B) Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia. C) Eleanor of Aquitaine. D) Marie Antoinette, Queen of France. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia. 3. Which of these is half the length of the diameter of a circle? A) Circumference. B) Radius. C) Sector. D) Tangent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Radius. 4. Where is the intrusive igneous rock known as diorite found? A) Globally. B) At mid-ocean ridges. C) In volcanic arcs and mountain-building belts. D) In extinct volcanic peaks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In volcanic arcs and mountain-building belts. 5. What name was first applied to the group "Cream" when they formed in the early sixties? A) Improvisers. B) Easy Listening. C) Supergroup. D) Heavy Metal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Supergroup. 6. Despite its name it is square and contains the arena for boxing contests, what is it called? A) Amphitheatre. B) Quadrangle. C) Ring. D) Circuit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ring. 7. What is the official name of the spectator area at Wimbledon at the side of No. 1 Court known as Henman Hill or Murray Mound? A) Aorangi Terrace. B) Strawberry Field. C) Sugar Hill. D) Lavender Hill. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aorangi Terrace. 8. What was George Michael's first number 1 solo single in the UK, which was credited to "Wham! featuring George Michael" in the USA? A) Careless Whisper. B) Accidental Phrase. C) Dropped Aside. D) Slovenly Tirade. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Careless Whisper. 9. Inspired by lucid dreaming and corporate espionage, it won Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Cinematography. Which film is it? A) Inception. B) The Matrix. C) In Dreams. D) Electric Dreams. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inception. 10. When was the song "Bette Davis Eyes", which was Billboard's biggest hit of 1981 and a No. 1 hit in 21 countries, first released by its original composers? A) 1944. B) 1952. C) 1964. D) 1974. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1974. 11. Which of these is not an annual music festival in Belgium? A) Pukkelpop. B) Rock Werchter. C) Graspop Metal Meeting. D) Rock am Ring. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rock am Ring. 12. The pirate radio station Radio Caroline was named after the daughter of which US President? A) John F Kennedy. B) Dwight D Eisenhower. C) Franklin D Roosevelt. D) Lyndon B Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John F Kennedy. 13. Which is a formal description of a phrase such as "bits and bobs" ? A) Binomial freeze. B) Argot. C) Kenning. D) Periphrasis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Binomial freeze. 14. Which of these capitals is the most southern? A) Canberra. B) Wellington. C) Buenos Aires. D) Santiago. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wellington. 15. Irish milliner Philip Treacy made the wide-brimmed cream-coloured hat worn by whom at her wedding on 9 April 2005? A) Jennifer Aniston. B) Madonna. C) Shania Twain. D) Camilla Parker Bowles. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Camilla Parker Bowles. 16. Which of these is NOT a method of preparing food? A) Smoke. B) Steam. C) Steep. D) Stoke. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stoke. 17. There were a number of firsts at the 1992 Summer Olympics; which of these was not one? A) First Games for South Africa since the 1960 Games, after a long suspension for its apartheid policy. B) A Suriname swimmer becomes the first black person to win individual swimming gold. C) First single, unified German Olympic team since the 1964 Games. D) After dissolution of the USSR in 1991, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania sent the first teams since 1936. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A Suriname swimmer becomes the first black person to win individual swimming gold. 18. What pattern is on Charlie Brown's shirt in the comic strip "Peanuts" ? A) A grand piano. B) Coloured bubbles. C) Dogs and lizards. D) A horizontal zig-zag. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A horizontal zig-zag. 19. Where was the testing ground for British nuclear weapons in 1957? A) Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, in the Pacific. B) Greenham Common. C) Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean. D) Christmas Island, one of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, in the Pacific. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Christmas Island, one of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, in the Pacific. 20. Which boxer bit both of Evander Holyfield's ears in a fight for the WBA World Heavyweight Championship on 28 June 1997? A) Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay). B) Joe Frazier. C) Mike Tyson. D) George Foreman. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mike Tyson. ← 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