This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 97 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 97 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The US TV series, "Mrs America", centres on the struggles in 1970s America to do what? A) Bring the Roe v. Wade action. B) Stop the building of nuclear power plants. C) Enact the Voting Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act. D) Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. 2. Which professional surfer who died on 2 November 2010, the only surfer to have won a title at every venue on the ASP calendar, had won 3 world titles (2002, 2003, 2004) and as recently as 3 September 2010 had won the Billabong Pro in Tahiti? A) Kelly Slater. B) Andy Irons. C) Mick Fanning. D) Sunny Garcia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Andy Irons. 3. Which of these dishes is named after a Napoleonic battle? A) Chicken Marengo. B) Peach Melba. C) Bombay Duck. D) Beef Stroganoff. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chicken Marengo. 4. The letters "G I", when applied to dietary matters, stand for what? A) Glucose Intolerant. B) Glycemic Index. C) Genetically Imbalanced. D) Grossly ignorant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Glycemic Index. 5. Skier Jure Franko, from the host country, won his country's first Winter Olympics medal in which Games? A) 1984. B) 1992. C) 1956. D) 1972. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1984. 6. Which of these mountain ranges is mainly in the US state of California? A) Adirondacks. B) Rockies. C) Appalachians. D) Sierra Nevada. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sierra Nevada. 7. Which of these names is associated with reference books about ships and aircraft? A) Jenny. B) Janet. C) Joan. D) Jane. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jane. 8. The two athletes, Rafer Johnson and Yang Chuan-Kwang, won gold and silver in the 1960 Summer Olympics in a long and extremely tight contest in what? A) Marathon. B) Decathlon. C) Diving. D) Wrestling. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decathlon. 9. Which of these is a British entrepreneur and inventor of the slim-line electronic pocket calculator in 1972 and the ZX Spectrum series of computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s? A) Clive Sinclair. B) Harry Lime. C) Dick Smith. D) Harvey Norman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clive Sinclair. 10. What beverage was introduced to England from China by the Dutch in 1645? A) Ovaltine. B) Coffee. C) Chocolate. D) Tea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tea. 11. Charles Higson's book "Silver Fin" concerned the adventures of which fictional character as a teenager in the 1930s? A) Sherlock Holmes. B) James Bond. C) Superman. D) Hercule Poirot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) James Bond. 12. In what sport do the tests include an "away drive", "shedding", "singling", a "cross drive" and a "double lift" ? A) Bungee jumping. B) Weightlifting. C) Golf. D) Sheepdog trialling. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sheepdog trialling. 13. Whose film career from 1940 to 1966 included starring roles in "Scaramouche", "Salome" and "Beau Brummell" ? A) Cary Grant. B) Stewart Granger. C) Rudolph Valentino. D) Errol Flynn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stewart Granger. 14. What is a caduceus? A) A medical symbol, comprising a staff with one snake coiled round it, no wings. B) A symbol of commerce, comprising two snakes coiling round a staff, often surmounted by two wings. C) A type of Greek urn. D) A venomous snake. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A symbol of commerce, comprising two snakes coiling round a staff, often surmounted by two wings. 15. What family name is next in the series IvaniΕ‘eviΔ, Hewitt, Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, and Murray? A) Djokovic. B) Williams. C) Roddick. D) Berdych. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Djokovic. 16. In the nursery rhyme "The House That Jack Built", what was wrong with the cow? A) It had no tail. B) It had only 3 legs. C) It had a crumpled horn. D) It gave no milk. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It had a crumpled horn. 17. What profession was Larry Nassar who was sentenced in the USA in December 2017 to 60 years in federal prison, in January 2018 to an additional 40 to 175 years in Michigan State prison, and in February 2020 to yet another 40 to 175 years in Michigan State prison? A) Sports doctor. B) Physiotherapist. C) Athletic trainer. D) Naturopath. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sports doctor. 18. It is in Rwanda, delivers 8.5 megawatts of power and is designed so that, from a bird's-eye view, it resembles the shape of the African continent; what is it? A) The first major solar power farm in east Africa. B) Nyabarongo Dam. C) A windmill farm. D) Nuclear power station. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The first major solar power farm in east Africa. 19. What is the term for one of a pair of arched fibre tracts that join under the corpus callosum of the brain, or for the line of reflection of the conjunctiva from the eyelid to the eyeball, or for the annular recess around the outside of the cervix? A) Cul-de-sac. B) Annular ligament. C) Fornix. D) Arcus conjunctiva. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fornix. 20. Which island is governed in the western half by Indonesia and is independent in the eastern half? A) New Zealand. B) Australia. C) Madagascar. D) New Guinea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) New Guinea. β PreviousNext βRelated 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 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books