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Quiz about General Knowledge With a Twist

General Knowledge - With a Twist Quiz

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A multiple-choice quiz by jcmttt. Estimated time: 8 mins.

Author
jcmttt

Time
8 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
210,233

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
25

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
15 / 25

Plays
7447

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Question 1 of 25

1. What is a physician whose practice covers a variety of medical problems in patients of all ages known as? Hint

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Medic

General Practitioner

Internist

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Question 2 of 25

2. What U.S. corporation has the slogan "We bring good things to life"? Hint

Pillsbury

Whirlpool

Hershey's Chocolates

General Electric

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Question 3 of 25

3. Who was the 34th US President? Hint

Richard M. Nixon

General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Harry S Truman

Captain John F. Kennedy

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Question 4 of 25

4. The oldest division of which corporation was started by Ransom E. Olds in 1897? Hint

Media General Corporation

Data General Corporation

General Motors

Academy of General Dentistry

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Question 5 of 25

5. What US TV medical melodrama airs daily?

Answer: (Two Words)

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Question 6 of 25

6. Dr. Joycelyn Elders held which official position for 15 months? Hint

CDC Inspector General

U.S. Surgeon General

U.N. Inspector General

Chief of Staff for General Colin Powell

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Question 7 of 25

7. Which politician was the target of an assassination attempt in the book/movie 'Day of the Jackal'? Hint

General Idi Amin

General Erwin Rommel

General Muammar Qaddafi

General Charles de Gaulle

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Question 8 of 25

8. What is the highest position common to the U.S. government departments of Health and Human Services, Defense, Transportation and the United States Postal Service? Hint

Inspector General

Chief Operating Officer

General Executive

General Inspector

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Question 9 of 25

9. Who was the 18th US President? Hint

General Stonewall Jackson

General Chester A. Arthur

General Dwight Eisenhower

General Ulysses S. Grant

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Question 10 of 25

10. What aspect of accounting is a record of all of a business's financial transactions? Hint

Accounts Payable

Bottom Line

Accounts Receivable

General Ledger

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Question 11 of 25

11. What company's brand portfolio has more than 100 leading U.S. brands including Betty Crocker? Hint

General Mills

Kraft General Subsidiaries

General Foods

Beatrice General Food Products

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Question 12 of 25

12. What defense industry contractor, headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, started out as Electric Boat? Hint

Northrop Grumman General Contractors

Yoyodyne Propulsions

Lockheed General Corporation

General Dynamics

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Question 13 of 25

13. What is the highest ranking U.S. law enforcement official at both the state and federal levels?

Answer: (Two Words)

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Question 14 of 25

14. What health and nutrition corporation started as a health food store in Pittsburgh, PA in 1935 named Lackzoom? Hint

One-a-Day Vitamins General Distributors, Inc.

General Nutrition Centers, Inc.

General Foods

General Mills, Inc.

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Question 15 of 25

15. What scientific theory was presented in 1916 in a ground-breaking publication entitled '__________: The Special and General Theory'?

Answer: (Ten Letters)

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Question 16 of 25

16. In 2005, what body began its 59th session? Hint

The General House of Representatives

The Missouri General Synod

The United Nations General Assembly

The General Review Board of the Merck Manual

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Question 17 of 25

17. Who had the nickname of "Old Blood and Guts"? Hint

General Norman Schwarzkopf

General George Patton

General Bill Donovan

General Omar Bradley

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Question 18 of 25

18. Controversial Kurt Waldheim of Austria held what office from January 1972 to December 1981?

Answer: (Two Words (9 and 7 letters))

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Question 19 of 25

19. Which office provides legal and policy advice to the United States Secretary of the Navy in all legal matters, and was the setting for a television series? Hint

Naval General Legal Affairs

Judge Advocate General

Central Office of General Legal Investigations

Armed Forces General Legal Office

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Question 20 of 25

20. Whose career began in 1842, when the showman P. T. Barnum gave him a military title and arranged his exhibition as a midget owing to his adult height of 33 inches?

Answer: (Three Words)

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Question 21 of 25

21. What was the name of the steamboat that had a fire which killed more than 1,000 people on New York City's East River on June 15, 1904? Hint

General Fulton

General Slocum

General Jackson

General Messinger

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Question 22 of 25

22. Which investigative arm of the US Congress is charged with examining matters relating to the receipt and payment of public funds? Hint

General Accounting Office

General Office of the Treasury

Federal Reserve

Fiscal General Office

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Question 23 of 25

23. What geeky online comic strip has the same name as the dreaded Blue Screen of Death? Hint

General Photonic Flash

General Positioning System

General Protection Fault

General Positronic Capacitor

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Question 24 of 25

24. What Frenchman served as a General under George Washington in the American Revolution? Hint

Lafayette

Champlaine

Burgoyne

Chevalier

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Question 25 of 25

25. Fill in the blank to complete a Li 'l Abner character 's slogan - "What's good for General ____ is good for the USA." Hint

Bullmoose

Yokum

Confusion

Skunkworks

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What is a physician whose practice covers a variety of medical problems in patients of all ages known as?

Answer: General Practitioner

Although they are medical doctors, GPs are not Board Certified.

2. What U.S. corporation has the slogan "We bring good things to life"?

Answer: General Electric

Founder Thomas Edison launched a propaganda war against his rival, Nicola Tesla in the 1880s' "War of the Currents". Edison advocated DC (direct current) while Tesla promoted AC (alternating current) as the better choice for electrical distribution.

3. Who was the 34th US President?

Answer: General Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum is in Abilene, Kansas.

4. The oldest division of which corporation was started by Ransom E. Olds in 1897?

Answer: General Motors

Conspiracy theorists argue that GM intentionally destroyed the streetcar and trolley industries to sell more automobiles and buses.

5. What US TV medical melodrama airs daily?

Answer: General Hospital

This soap opera is set in the fictional town of Port Charles and has been on the air since April 1963.

6. Dr. Joycelyn Elders held which official position for 15 months?

Answer: U.S. Surgeon General

The Surgeon General administers the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, which is one of the seven U.S. uniformed services.

7. Which politician was the target of an assassination attempt in the book/movie 'Day of the Jackal'?

Answer: General Charles de Gaulle

As President of France, De Gaulle's stance on Algerian Independence was so unpopular that he really was the target of several assassination attempts.

8. What is the highest position common to the U.S. government departments of Health and Human Services, Defense, Transportation and the United States Postal Service?

Answer: Inspector General

The Naval Inspector General is "the conscience of the Navy".

9. Who was the 18th US President?

Answer: General Ulysses S. Grant

When running for President, Grant's slogan was "Let us have peace". Ironic for a man who, as a General, was known to be so decisive and unyielding that it was said the initials in his name stood for "Unconditional Surrender".

10. What aspect of accounting is a record of all of a business's financial transactions?

Answer: General Ledger

Forensic Accounting is a growing sub-specialty of the Accounting profession.

11. What company's brand portfolio has more than 100 leading U.S. brands including Betty Crocker?

Answer: General Mills

In the 1960s General Mills diversified and became the world's largest toy company after purchasing Rainbow Crafts (Play-Doh), Parker Brothers and Kenner. In 1985 it un-diversified and sold its toy and other non-consumer foods divisions.

12. What defense industry contractor, headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, started out as Electric Boat?

Answer: General Dynamics

The USS Houston and the USS Dallas, submarines built by the Electric Boat division of General Dynamics, were in the film "The Hunt for Red October".

Corporate HQ is in VA. The Land Combat business unit is in MI.

13. What is the highest ranking U.S. law enforcement official at both the state and federal levels?

Answer: Attorney General

The U.S. Attorney General is an honorary member of NAAG, the National Association of Attorney Generals, which is comprised of AG's from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and all US territories.

14. What health and nutrition corporation started as a health food store in Pittsburgh, PA in 1935 named Lackzoom?

Answer: General Nutrition Centers, Inc.

Owner David Shakarian expanded Lackzoom to two stores within six months but both were destroyed in the 1936 St. Patrick's Day flood. Both were rebuilt and grew to six stores within five years.

15. What scientific theory was presented in 1916 in a ground-breaking publication entitled '__________: The Special and General Theory'?

Answer: Relativity

Einstein won The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his services to Theoretical Physics.

16. In 2005, what body began its 59th session?

Answer: The United Nations General Assembly

'The Interpreter' is the only movie filmed at the United Nations. No director, including Alfred Hitchcock, had ever been given permission to film a movie at the United Nations.

17. Who had the nickname of "Old Blood and Guts"?

Answer: General George Patton

General Patton believed strongly in reincarnation and felt he had been in the Roman legion in an earlier life.

18. Controversial Kurt Waldheim of Austria held what office from January 1972 to December 1981?

Answer: Secretary General

Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was killed when his plane crashed in the Congo in 1961. His journal, 'Markings', was published in 1963 and is still in print.

19. Which office provides legal and policy advice to the United States Secretary of the Navy in all legal matters, and was the setting for a television series?

Answer: Judge Advocate General

A TV series about JAG lawyers started on one network in 1995, was cancelled, then ran from 1997-2005 on a different network.

20. Whose career began in 1842, when the showman P. T. Barnum gave him a military title and arranged his exhibition as a midget owing to his adult height of 33 inches?

Answer: General Tom Thumb

Tom Thumb was so popular that it was front-page news when he married fellow midget Lavinia Warren. The couple was placed on top of a grand piano to greet their wedding guests.

21. What was the name of the steamboat that had a fire which killed more than 1,000 people on New York City's East River on June 15, 1904?

Answer: General Slocum

More Americans died in this maritime disaster than on the Titanic.

22. Which investigative arm of the US Congress is charged with examining matters relating to the receipt and payment of public funds?

Answer: General Accounting Office

This office recently changed its name to the Government Accountability Office.

23. What geeky online comic strip has the same name as the dreaded Blue Screen of Death?

Answer: General Protection Fault

One of the characters in the 'General Protection Fault' cartoon is Fred the Slime Mold.

24. What Frenchman served as a General under George Washington in the American Revolution?

Answer: Lafayette

The Marquis de la Fayette had such zeal for the colonists in their fight for independence, that at age 19, despite being forbidden by the king to depart France and being arrested, he escaped from custody in disguise and made his way to Philadelphia to serve in the Continental Army. He is one of only six people in history to become an Honorary U.S. Citizen.

25. Fill in the blank to complete a Li 'l Abner character 's slogan - "What's good for General ____ is good for the USA."

Answer: Bullmoose

This character was the archetypal ruthless capitalist and his slogan was based on that of former G.M. President Charles E. Wilson who was quoted as saying "What is good for the country is good for General Motors, and what's good for General Motors is good for the country."

Source: Author jcmttt

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