This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 862 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 862 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In May 2009, publicist Raymone Bain announced that she was suing who for US$ 44 million for five years' work? A) Jay Z. B) Jennifer Aniston. C) Michael Jackson. D) Madonna. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Michael Jackson. 2. How many pins are there to a firkin? A) None. B) 40, two in each stave. C) 4, two in each ear. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2. 3. The IWC, an international body established in 1946, is concerned with what activity? A) Wolves. B) Woodchopping. C) Wheat. D) Whaling. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Whaling. 4. Who was the only Chinese track and field athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in Atlanta in 1996 (for the 5, 000m)? A) Wang Junxia. B) Ma Junren. C) Mao Dezhen. D) Jingyi Le. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wang Junxia. 5. "Superbad. Superdad." was the tagline for which 2010 film? A) Centurion. B) Despicable Me. C) Crossing Hennessy. D) Inside Man. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Despicable Me. 6. What was the name of the series of military campaigns between 1095 and 1291 sanctioned by the Roman Cathoilic Church and waged by much of Latin Christian Europe to seize Christian control of the Holy Land? A) The Liturgy. B) The Holy Roman Empire. C) The East-West Schism. D) The Crusades. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Crusades. 7. What did the ancient now-ruined Canal of the Pharaohs connect? A) The Suez Rift Valley and the Nile River. B) The Suez Rift Valley and the Mediterranean Sea. C) Thebes and Amarna. D) Napata and Memphis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Suez Rift Valley and the Nile River. 8. What is the alternative name for Pluto, the Greek God of the underworld, that has come to mean Hell? A) Charon. B) Styx. C) Hades. D) Gehenna. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hades. 9. Where is the International Handball Federation (IHF) headquartered? A) Amsterdam, the Netherlands. B) Basel, Switzerland. C) Copenhagen, Denmark. D) New York, USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Basel, Switzerland. 10. What computer operating system that can be installed on a wide variety of computer hardware (including mobile phones, smartphones, wristwatches, mainframes & supercomputers) is an example of free and open source software collaboration? A) IOpX. B) Unix. C) Windows. D) Linux. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Linux. 11. Where is the island of Tristan da Cunha? A) Caribbean Sea. B) Pacific Ocean. C) South Atlantic Ocean. D) South China Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) South Atlantic Ocean. 12. What is the number of points required to win a game of Canasta? A) 5, 000. B) 500. C) 1, 000. D) 10, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 5, 000. 13. Which of these are not allowed to be worn in Olympic boxing? A) Beards. B) Socks. C) Underpants. D) Tattoos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beards. 14. Which of these is not a fabric? A) Tarlatan. B) Taffeta. C) Tweed. D) Thimble. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thimble. 15. Which of these is a rodent? A) Giraffe. B) Cat. C) Elephant. D) Porcupine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Porcupine. 16. Which of these is a song from the musical "42nd Street" ? A) Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend. B) There's No Business Like Show Business. C) We're in the Money. D) Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) We're in the Money. 17. In an operation headed by Ali Hassan al-Majid (a cousin of then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein), Iraq used the deadly nerve gas Sarin against what minority in 1987 and 1988? A) Kurds. B) Chechens. C) Romanians. D) Poles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kurds. 18. What type of bow is used in Olympics archery events? A) Compound. B) Straight. C) Recurve. D) Self. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Recurve. 19. Which film ended with the two main characters driving a car off a cliff? A) Vanishing Point. B) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. C) Bullitt. D) Thelma and Louise. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thelma and Louise. 20. Elephants (maximum weight around 6, 000 kg) have a gestation period of around 95 weeks; what is the gestation of the blue whale (maximum recorded weight around 173, 000 kg)? A) 48 weeks. B) 156 weeks. C) 40 weeks. D) 95 weeks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 48 weeks. ← 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