This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 710 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 710 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who was the first female prime minister of the Republic of India, who served for three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977 and then from 1980 until her assassination in 1984? A) LaRue Parker. B) Golda Meir. C) Ada Deer. D) Indira Gandhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indira Gandhi. 2. What term is used when a sports team gathers in a tight circle to strategise, motivate or celebrate? A) Muddle. B) Cuddle. C) Huddle. D) Puddle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Huddle. 3. Which Irish Republican, an Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, was elected to the UK Parliament while leading the 1981 hunger strike to protest against the removal of Special Category Status? A) Kieran Doherty. B) Bobby Sands. C) Michael Devine. D) Patsy O'Hara. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bobby Sands. 4. The World Freefall Convention moved in 2001 from Quincy, Illinois, where it had been first established in 1990, to where? A) Dubai, United Arab Emirates. B) Queenstown, New Zealand. C) Chester, South Carolina. D) Rantoul, Champaign County, Illinois. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rantoul, Champaign County, Illinois. 5. The Democratic Party is one of the main parties in US politics. What is the other? A) Independence. B) Republican. C) Washington. D) Communist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Republican. 6. What did the 1975 Viking programme aim to do? A) Resurrect ancient Scandinavian languages. B) Salvage the Swedish warship, Vasa. C) Study the Scandinavian origins in depth of areas in Estonia, the Ukraine and Sicily. D) Observe the planet Mars, in orbit and on the surface. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Observe the planet Mars, in orbit and on the surface. 7. Where is the northernmost point in the African mainland? A) Egypt. B) Morocco. C) Tunisia. D) Libya. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tunisia. 8. Apart from Africa where is there a Table Mountain? A) California, USA. B) Coromandel, New Zealand. C) Queensland, Australia. D) Cook Islands. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coromandel, New Zealand. 9. What devastating event happened in north-east Asia in May 1987? A) A 23 tonne meteorite strike. B) An earthquake, measured at 7.9 on the Richter Scale. C) A month-long force 5 hurricane. D) The Black Dragon Fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Black Dragon Fire. 10. The third atomic bomb to be dropped from an aeroplane was where? A) Osaka. B) Christmas Island. C) The Marshall Islands. D) San Fernando Valley. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Marshall Islands. 11. What age was Henry III of England when he succeeded his father, King John, in 1216 during an incursion by foreign forces? A) 6 months. B) 9 years. C) 14 years. D) 2 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 9 years. 12. Cameron Carpenter, born in Pennsylvania and currently living in the USA and Berlin, was the first what to be nominated for a Grammy Award for a solo album? A) Balalaika player. B) First People's artist. C) Deaf performer. D) Organist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Organist. 13. Which battle was partly fought on Senlac Hill? A) Gettysburg. B) Sino-Japanese. C) Hastings. D) Bunker Hill. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hastings. 14. The matched grip, Moeller method, Open, Rudiment and Traditional grip are terms used in playing what instrument? A) Drums. B) Trumpet. C) Oboe. D) Guitar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Drums. 15. In South America, the equator crosses Ecuador, Colombia and which other country? A) Brazil. B) Venezuela. C) French Guiana. D) Peru. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brazil. 16. Who was president of the USA at the outbreak of World War I? A) Woodrow Wilson. B) George Washington. C) Richard Nixon. D) Franklin D. Roosevelt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Woodrow Wilson. 17. What is the name for the station logo or watermark played at the corner of the screen in many TV programmes to identify the channel? A) Digi. B) TM. C) WMtv. D) DOG, or bug. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) DOG, or bug. 18. Which of these TV series is a cartoon? A) That 70s Show. B) The Simpsons. C) CSI:NY. D) Hawaii Five-O. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Simpsons. 19. What is the name for the outer covering of the shell of a coconut which is made into yarn used to make matting and brushes? A) Skein. B) Rattan. C) Slarn. D) Coir. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Coir. 20. When a sensor is attached to the tip of someone's finger or their earlobe in the course of a hospital stay what is it measuring? A) Peripheral oxygen saturation of the blood. B) Pulse. C) Blood pressure. D) Temperature. 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