This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 972 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 972 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What equation is considered to be remarkable for its "mathematical beauty", because 3 basic arithmetic operations occur exactly once each (addition, multiplication, and exponentiation), and it links five fundamental mathematical constants:(the numbers 0, 1, π, e, and i)? A) Euler's identity. B) Botle's Law. C) Pythagoras's Theorem. D) Einstein's equation of mass-energy equivalence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euler's identity. 2. What is dialysis intended to do? A) Deliver chemotherapy. B) Treat kidneys. C) Support the spleen. D) Remove waste and excess water from the blood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Remove waste and excess water from the blood. 3. By what name is Abyssinia now known? A) The Persian Gulf. B) Ethiopia. C) Chasmine. D) The Marian Trench. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethiopia. 4. Standing on the highest peak in the Andes what country or countries could you see? A) Canada and the USA. B) Spain and Portugal. C) USA. D) Argentina and Chile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Argentina and Chile. 5. What group finances the LIV golf tour? A) Alive Solutions, Australia. B) Public Investment Fund, Saudi Arabia. C) Professional Golfers' Association of America. D) Wentworth Club, Surrey, England. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Public Investment Fund, Saudi Arabia. 6. What US state borders both Kansas and Utah? A) Colorado. B) Nebraska. C) Wyoming. D) Arkansas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Colorado. 7. Guion "Guy" Bluford, Jr. made history as what in 1983? A) First person to play trumpet underwater. B) First African American in space. C) First legally recognised sex-change in the USA. D) First jazz drummer to have 5 #1 hit records. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) First African American in space. 8. John Muir is known as the father of which US national institution? A) Postal service. B) National Park service. C) Public Broadcasting Service. D) The Marines. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) National Park service. 9. Which of these was a film starring Tom Hanks about the war between the Mujahideen in Afghanistan and the USSR? A) Charlie Wilson's War. B) Sleepless in Seattle. C) Castaway. D) Saving Private Ryan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Charlie Wilson's War. 10. What were the characters Simon and Simon in the US TV series (1981-89) of the same name? A) No relation. B) Sisters. C) Husband and wife. D) Brothers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brothers. 11. Which of these is an American investigative journalist and author of several best-selling unauthorised "poison pen" biographies of celebrities and politicians, including Jacqueline Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, the British Royal Family and "the Bush Dynasty" ? A) Andrew Morton. B) Oprah Winfrey. C) Kitty Kelley. D) Christopher Hampton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kitty Kelley. 12. "Coronation Street" is set in what suburb? A) Weatherfield. B) Albert Aquare. C) Roseneath. D) Remuera. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Weatherfield. 13. On 15 December 1940, whose remains (except for his heart, intestines and viscera) were transferred from Vienna to the dome of Les Invalides in Paris as a "gift" to France by Adolf Hitler? A) Napoleon III. B) Napoleon I. C) Napoleon II. D) Napoleon IV. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Napoleon II. 14. What instrument is associated with Pablo Cassals? A) Piano. B) Violin. C) Cello. D) Guitar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cello. 15. The Snake River runs through Hells Canyon on the border of which two US states? A) Utah and Colorado. B) Oregon and Washington. C) Oregon and Idaho. D) Nevada and Idaho. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oregon and Idaho. 16. The North Atlantic Treaty was signed in Washington, D.C. in 1949 by Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, UK, US, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Canada and which other country? A) Iceland. B) Mexico. C) Japan. D) Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iceland. 17. In what country, between the 1950s and 1980, would one have found "Rusticated Youth" ? A) China. B) England. C) Burma. D) Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) China. 18. What geographical feature is Bull Run, the site of a battle that was famously lost by the new Union army which included troops commanded by George Armstrong Custer, later General Custer? A) Harbour. B) Mountain. C) Valley. D) River. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) River. 19. In astronomical terms during the latter half of the 19th century what was Vulcan? A) The furthest white dwarf in the Milky Way galaxy. B) Another Earth planet. C) A planet in orbit around the star 40 Eridani A. D) A large plain on the surface of Jupiter's moon Callisto. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Another Earth planet. 20. Who sang with the Wailers? A) Bob Marley. B) David Bowie. C) Ray Charles. D) Eric Burdon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bob Marley. ← 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