Basic General Knowledge MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option A.
On a night when the sky is clear, the temperature may dip considerably; on a cloudy night the temperature will usually dip much less. The reason for this difference is that the clear sky allows radiant energy to escape readily from the earth.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Lal Bahadur Shastri succeeded Pandit Nehru as the second Prime Minister of India and signed the Tashkent Agreement with Ayub Khan for a ceasefire between India and Pakistan and is also known as “Man of Peace”.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The parts of the Mahabharata which include Bhagawad Gita, is more than 2500 years old. Kurukshetra is a city in the Indian state of Haryana. It is also known as Dharmakshetra (“Holy Place”) and as the “Land of the Bhagavad Gita”.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
INS Agrani (Petty Officers’ School) is situated at Coimbatore. Indian Naval Station Agrani is a leadership training establishment of the Indian Navy, it comes under the Eastern Naval Command and conducts courses for middle level sailors. This station was commissioned in 1965.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Exposure to sunlight helps a person improve his health because the ultraviolet rays convert skin oil into Vitamin D.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) was established in 1957. It is a leading ISO 9001-2015 certified shipyard on the West Coast of India, functioning under the administrative control of Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The dance in Himachal Pradesh, performed indoor, solo or duet, especially when life comes to a standstill during cold winter is Munzra. The Himachal is known to be the Dev Bhoomi.There are various traditional dance forms of Himachal Pradesh for each and every occasion.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
The three abundant elements in the earth’s crust are oxygen, silicon, aluminium. The mass-abundance of the nine most abundant elements in the Earth’s crust is approximately: oxygen 46%, silicon 28%, aluminum 8.3%, iron 5.6%, calcium 4.2%, sodium 2.5%, magnesium 2.4%, potassium 2.0%, and titanium 0.61%. Other elements occur at less than 0.15%.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
If the plane of the earth’s equator were not inclined to the plane of the earth’s orbit there would be no change of seasons. When tilted, the hemisphere closer to the sun would experience summer, while the hemisphere that is relatively farther away would experience winter. If the earth were not tilted, the whole planet would be relatively equidistant from the sun, and hence, no seasons.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
The headquarter of Asian Development Bank is located in Manila. The headquarters of the bank is at 6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines, and it has 31 field offices in Asia and the Pacific and representative offices in Washington, Frankfurt, Tokyo and Sydney.