General Knowledge - With a Twist

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. What is a physician whose practice covers a variety of medical problems in patients of all ages known as? Primary Care Physician Marcus Welby, M.D. Internist General Practitioner

2. What U.S. corporation has the slogan "We bring good things to life"? Pillsbury General Electric Hershey's Chocolates Whirlpool

3. Who was the 34th US President? Richard M. Nixon General Dwight D. Eisenhower Harry S Truman Captain John F. Kennedy

4. The oldest division of which corporation was started by Ransom E. Olds in 1897? Data General Corporation General Motors Academy of General Dentistry Media General Corporation

5. What TV medical melodrama airs daily? Answer: (Two Words)

6. Dr. Jocelyn Elders held which official position for 15 months? CDC Inspector General Chief of Staff for General Colin Powell U.N. Inspector General U.S. Surgeon General

7. Which politician was the target of an assassination attempt in the book/movie 'Day of the Jackal'? General Idi Amin General Erwin Rommel General Muammar Qaddafi General Charles de Gaulle

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? General Executive Inspector General Chief Operating Officer General Inspector

9. Who was the 18th US President? General Ulysses S. Grant General Dwight Eisenhower General Stonewall Jackson General Chester A. Arthur

10. What aspect of accounting sums up all of a business's financial transactions? Bottom Line Accounts Payable General Ledger Accounts Receivable

11. What company's brand portfolio has more than 100 leading U.S. brands including Betty Crocker? Beatrice General Food Products General Foods General Mills Kraft General Subsidiaries

12. What defense industry contractor, headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, started out as Electric Boat? Northrop Grumman General Contractors Yoyodyne Propulsions Lockheed General Corporation General Dynamics

13. What is the highest ranking U.S. law enforcement official at both the state and federal levels? Answer: (Two Words)

14. What health and nutrition corporation started as a health food store in Pittsburgh, PA in 1935 named Lackzoom? One-a-Day Vitamins General Distributors, Inc. General Nutrition Centers, Inc. General Foods General Mills, Inc.

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

16. In 2005, what body began its 59th session? The Missouri General Synod The General House of Representatives The General Review Board of the Merck Manual The United Nations General Assembly

17. Who had the nickname of "Old Blood and Guts"? General Norman Schwarzkopf General Omar Bradley General Bill Donovan General George Patton

18. Controversial Kurt Waldheim of Austria held what office from January 1972 to December 1981? Answer: (Two Words (9 and 7 letters))

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? Naval General Legal Affairs Armed Forces General Legal Office Central Office of General Legal Investigations Judge Advocate General

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)

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? General Messinger General Fulton General Slocum General Jackson

22. Which investigative arm of the US Congress is charged with examining matters relating to the receipt and payment of public funds? Federal Reserve General Accounting Office General Office of the Treasury Fiscal General Office

23. What geeky online comic strip has the same name as the dreaded Blue Screen of Death? General Positioning System General Protection Fault General Positronic Capacitor General Photonic Flash

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

25. "What's good for General _________ is good for the USA" was the slogan of which Li'l Abner character? Confusion Skunkworks Yokum Bullmoose