This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge β Quiz 997 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 997 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which was the sole supplier of tires to Formula One racing cars for the 2007 to 2010 seasons? A) Bridgestone. B) Michelin. C) Pirelli. D) Dunlop. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bridgestone. 2. Who painted "Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer", which sold at auction for $ US135 million in 2006? A) Gustav Klimt. B) Jackson Pollock. C) Willem de Kooning. D) Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gustav Klimt. 3. Which of these is recognised as an astronomer? A) Sir Barnes Wallis. B) Sir Fred Hoyle. C) Sir Robert Watson-Watt. D) Sir Richard Branson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sir Fred Hoyle. 4. What is the description "trochaic" usually applied to? A) Something which is very old. B) A pass in fencing with foils. C) A foot, or unit, in a line of poetry. D) A muscle which continually cramps. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A foot, or unit, in a line of poetry. 5. Carl Stotz began an organisation in Williamsport, Pennsylvania in 1939 to promote what sport to youth? A) Ice hockey. B) Basketball. C) American football. D) Baseball. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Baseball. 6. Which British monarch was the first to celebrate a diamond jubilee? A) Victoria. B) Elizabeth II. C) Elizabeth I. D) George V. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Victoria. 7. Where are the Huygens Gap and the Maxwell Gap? A) Swiss Alps. B) Rocky Mountains. C) Saturn. D) Under the Pacific Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Saturn. 8. The revival of learning in the West during the 8th and 9th centuries of the reign of Charlemagne and his successors Louis the Pious and Charles the Bald is referred to as what? A) The Ottonian Renaissance. B) The Italian Renaissance. C) The Carolingian Renaissance. D) The Light for the Dark Ages. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Carolingian Renaissance. 9. Which of these was on the German Reich's first list of "undesired" musical works in 1939? A) The Gypsy. B) Chattanooga Choo Choo. C) This Land is Your Land. D) Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. 10. If someone is said to have "kissed the Blarney Stone" what qualities are they being described as having? A) Dirty teeth. B) Eloquence, or skill at flattery. C) Unrealistic ambitions. D) A love of fairytales. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eloquence, or skill at flattery. 11. How did US president John F Kennedy die? A) Land mine explosion. B) Skiing accident. C) Assassination. D) Plane crash. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assassination. 12. On 7 January 2006, Elliot John Crosby became the youngest bowler in Britain to achieve what in a sanctioned ten-pin bowling competition? A) Roll a perfect single game score of 300. B) Roll 3 perfect games of 300 in a 3-game series. C) Roll 10 consecutive strikes. D) Roll 40 points in a single game. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Roll a perfect single game score of 300. 13. Who is most likely to perform a "pas de deux" ? A) Chef. B) Bullfighter. C) Ballet dancer. D) Insurance salesman. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ballet dancer. 14. What is the name for the act of murdering of one's own sister? A) Sororicide. B) Fratricide. C) Patricide. D) Matricide. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sororicide. 15. Which British body exercises supreme legal decision in international, constitutional, civil or criminal cases, if requested, from more than 50 countries? A) High Court. B) Supreme Court. C) Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. D) Court of Appeal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. 16. When Europeans first came to New Zealand, MΔori told them that they themselves had come from where? A) Hawaiki. B) Hawai'i. C) Indonesia. D) Fiji. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hawaiki. 17. Which is the highest mountain in Asia, and the world? A) Lhotse. B) K2. C) Mount Everest. D) Makalu. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mount Everest. 18. When did the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) introduce its first across-sport Classification Code to "harmonise policies and procedures and set principles" ? A) 2017. B) 2015. C) 1958. D) 2007. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2007. 19. By what name was British author and humourist Sir P.G.Wodehouse known to friends and family? A) Pug. B) Plum. C) Pal. D) Peeler. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plum. 20. What is or are the principal element(s), apart from carbon and hydrogen, in mustard gas? A) Phosphorus and fluorine. B) Chlorine and fluorine. C) Sulphur and chlorine. D) Arsenic and chlorine. 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