This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 976 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 976 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The first high speed impact crash of two intact space spacecraft in February 2009 was between a Russian satellite (launched 1993) that was out of control and what other? A) HOTBIRD 3, which had suffered loss of power from one solar array. B) The Telstar I communications satellite launched 1962 that was in decaying orbit. C) Iridium commercial satellite launched 1997. D) Intelsat III F-8 whose apogee motor failed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iridium commercial satellite launched 1997. 2. When Warren Hastings, returning from a term as Governor-General in 1786, was impeached (and acquitted) where had he been in office? A) New Zealand. B) Hong Kong. C) America. D) India. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) India. 3. The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, passed in 1864, abolished slavery as well as what? A) Establishing equal protection of the laws for all persons. B) Involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. C) Racial segregation in schools and public accommodations, and employment discrimination. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. 4. In 2010, when Tiger Woods announced that would change to a Scotty Cameron, he was referring to a type of what? A) Tee. B) Putter. C) Cap. D) Golf bag. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Putter. 5. What is the common term for "pre-patellar bursitis" ? A) Athlete's foot. B) Tennis elbow. C) Achilles heel. D) Housemaids knee. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Housemaids knee. 6. In which decade was Paul McCartney born? A) 1920s. B) 1940s. C) 1930s. D) 1950s. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1940s. 7. Which of these games calls for stones? A) Go. B) Upwords. C) Rummikub. D) Ticket to Ride. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Go. 8. What divides the course of the ancient Grand Coulee river bed in Washington, USA, roughly in half? A) Soap Lake. B) The Grand Coulee Dam. C) Dry Falls. D) Palouse Canyon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dry Falls. 9. Which of these people was born in India? A) Imran Khan. B) Mother Teresa. C) Aftab Ahmed Chowdhury. D) Mohandas Gandhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mohandas Gandhi. 10. What is the racing number on the bonnet of "Herbie" ? A) 1. B) 42. C) 18. D) 53. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 53. 11. What is a surgical procedure to improve the function or the appearance of a human nose? A) Giraffeoplasty. B) Hippoplasty. C) Rhinoplasty. D) Buffaloplasty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhinoplasty. 12. A hectare is roughly the size of which of these? A) Twice the floor space of the White House. B) Twice the size of a cricket ground. C) 20 singles tennis courts. D) A quarter of the floor space of Buckingham Palace. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Twice the floor space of the White House. 13. In the Bible's book of Genesis, which of Jacob's sons was sold into slavery by his brothers? A) Reuben. B) Joseph. C) Benjamin. D) Levi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joseph. 14. The 1812 Fire of Moscow, on 14 September 1812, broke out after most residents and Russian troops had abandoned the city, and whose troops had entered it? A) Hitler. B) Napoleon. C) Lord Sandwich. D) Alexander the Great. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Napoleon. 15. "What things soever" is an example of what? A) Chiasmus. B) Litotes. C) Tmesis. D) Dysphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tmesis. 16. The Tarantula is named after a town in which country? A) Spain. B) Italy. C) Mexico. D) Greece. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Italy. 17. "The Motorcycle Diaries", recording an odyssey in 1952, has powerful resonance in what places? A) Israel and Palestine. B) The Midwest of the USA. C) Eastern Canada. D) South America and Cuba. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) South America and Cuba. 18. In 1919, three actors and a director formed the United Artists Corporation. Which of these was not one of the actors? A) Charlie Chaplin. B) D. W. Griffith. C) Mary Pickford. D) Douglas Fairbanks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) D. W. Griffith. 19. What is the GBLA, formed after events in 1967? A) Great Bitter Lake Association. B) Great Britain's League of Apiarists. C) Gas and Broadband Line Assemblies. D) Garden Building Landscape Architects. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Great Bitter Lake Association. 20. A character called "Piglet" features in books by which author? A) A.A.Milne. B) E.B.White. C) Ian Falconer. D) William Golding. 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