Basic General Knowledge MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The Africa fund (Action for Resisting Invasion, Colonialism and Apartheid) under India’s leadership was instituted by NAM. The Africa Fund was set up in 2001 to make a difference to communities we had met in East Africa. It came on the back of 7 years of visits we had made to churches in Uganda, and then later Kenya, Tanzania & Dr Congo, and from the outset has set out to work through relationship with trusted individuals and groups.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Robert Koch worked on tuberculosis. German physician Robert Koch was one of the founders of bacteriology. He discovered the anthrax disease cycle and the bacteria responsible for tuberculosis and cholera. He received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1905 for his research on tuberculosis.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Rare Earth factory is situated in Alwaye (Kerala). Rare Earths Division (RED), Udyogamandal, Aluva is located on the banks of river Periyar in Kerala at a distance of 12 km from the Port city of Kochi and 15 km from Kochi International Airport. RED is an exclusive value adding chemical plant, wherein high pure individual rare earth compounds are produced.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Each year World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day is celebrated on May 8. This date is the anniversary of the birth of Henry Dunant, who was born on 8 May 1828.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
The headquarter of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation is at New Delhi. Indian Mountaineering Foundation is a company based out of 6, Benito Juarez Road, New Delhi, Delhi, India.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Euclid was Greek mathematician, propounded the geometrical theorems and contributor to the use of deductive principles of logic as the basis of geometry.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Mother Teresa received the Magsaysay Award in 1962 in the area of international understanding. Teresa received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Peace and International Understanding, given for work in South or East Asia, in 1962. According to its citation, “The Board of Trustees recognises her merciful cognisance of the abject poor of a foreign land, in whose service she has led a new congregation”.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Mahabaleshwar is located in Maharashtra. Mahabaleshwar is a hill station located in the Western Ghats, in Satara district of Maharashtra. Known for its captivating beauty and the beautiful strawberry farms, the city comprises of ancient temples, boarding schools, manicured and lush green dense forest, waterfalls, hills, valleys.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Louis Washkansky (1913 – 21 December 1967) was the recipient of the world’s first human heart transplant.Washkansky died of double pneumonia eighteen days after the transplant because of a weakened immune system.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Nowadays many novel chemicals are being synthesized termed as xenobiotics. The unique feature of these are that they are non- biodegradable and pose on environmental threat.