This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 9 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In 1990, who became the first son and father to play on the same Major League Baseball team at the same time (the Seattle Mariners), and the only father and son pair to hit back to back home runs? A) Ken Griffey. B) Paul Hornung. C) Joe Nuxhall. D) Tony Romo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ken Griffey. 2. According to the New International Version of the Christian Bible, "the love of money is a root of all kinds of ..... " what? A) Bankers. B) Happiness. C) Conflict. D) Evil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Evil. 3. Which landlocked country in Southeast Asia is bordered by Burma, the People's Republic of China, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand? A) Malaysia. B) Singapore. C) Laos. D) Taiwan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Laos. 4. What was the name of the US policy to transport suspect terrorists to other countries for interrogation? A) Extraordinary rendition. B) International handcuffs. C) Unusual deportation. D) Foreign hospitality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extraordinary rendition. 5. The 1997 film, "The Castle", portrays a household reacting to a developer's threat to acquire their property compulsorily in order to extend an airport. Where is it set? A) Tokyo, Japan. B) Manchester, UK. C) Melbourne, Australia. D) Paris, France. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Melbourne, Australia. 6. With what activity is Dame Clara Butt associated? A) Sheep shearing. B) Singing. C) Sculpture. D) Temperance movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Singing. 7. What is sumo? A) Full-contact wrestling. B) A Japanese musical instrument. C) An ancient board game. D) A rival to Lego. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Full-contact wrestling. 8. What is the dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada that was completed in 1935? A) Grand Coulee Dam. B) Aswan Dam. C) Three Gorges Dam. D) Hoover Dam. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hoover Dam. 9. Where was the venue for the Commonwealth Games in 2010? A) London. B) Sydney. C) New Delhi. D) Cape Town. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) New Delhi. 10. The trilogy of plays known collectively as "Passion Play" (2005-2013) was written by whom? A) Jacques Scheurs. B) Michael Sheen. C) Sarah Ruhl. D) Russell Westbrook. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sarah Ruhl. 11. What was the set of industry censorship guidelines which governed the production of the vast majority of US motion pictures released by major studios from 1930 to 1968? A) The Wheat Code. B) The Straws Code. C) The Maize Code. D) The Hays Code. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Hays Code. 12. Where are the Enets and Nenets (or Samoyed) nomadic peoples based? A) Northern Canada. B) Northern Russia. C) Northern China. D) Northern Japan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Northern Russia. 13. Where would you find a major domo? A) The army. B) A grand household. C) In a polo team. D) Nixt to a minor domo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A grand household. 14. Where was Christopher Columbus born? A) Madrid. B) Genoa. C) Istanbul. D) Marseilles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Genoa. 15. The fictional town of Denton in the Midlands was the setting for which British TV series? A) Inspector Morse. B) Midsomer Murders. C) Juliet Bravo. D) A Touch of Frost. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A Touch of Frost. 16. What country, after having governed it for 155 years, transferred its sovereignty of Hong Kong to China in 1997? A) USA. B) UK. C) New Zealand. D) Russia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) UK. 17. In the third century CE, politician, geographer, writer, and cartographer Pei Xiu was the first in China recorded as describing what in full? A) Principles and practices of retaining power. B) China's geometric grid reference for maps. C) Routes and facilities for travel from Guangzhou to Palmyra. D) Construction and arming of petards. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) China's geometric grid reference for maps. 18. Which American lexicographer also published a popular and influential speller, grammar book and reader for elementary age students? A) Noah Webster. B) Charles Merriam. C) George Merriam. D) William Adolphus Wheeler. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Noah Webster. 19. Maynard James Keenan, frontman of the alt-rock group Tool, is also an accomplished what? A) Pastry chef. B) Breeder of Shetland ponies. C) Civil engineer. D) Winemaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Winemaker. 20. Which of these describes a boisterous, knockabout style of humour? A) Bostick. B) Yardstick. C) Slapstick. D) Chapstick. 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