Basic General Knowledge MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option A.
King Hammurabi raised the first army of the world in 2000 BC. Hammurabi (also known as Khammurabi and Ammurapi, reigned 1792-1750 BCE) was the sixth king of the Amorite First Dynasty of Babylon, assumed the throne from his father, Sin-Muballit, and expanded the kingdom to conquer all of ancient Mesopotamia.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
The exhaled air contains a mixture of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and oxygen in which nitrogen has the highest percentage. Exhaled air contains less oxygen and more carbon dioxide, it is also saturated with water vapour. Exhaled air contains: 78% nitrogen and16% oxygen.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
When light passes from air into glass it experiences change of wavelength and speed. Waves change speed when they pass across the boundary between two different substances, such as light waves refracting when they pass from air to glass. This causes them to change direction and this effect is called refraction.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
John F. Kennedy, President of USA, died in 1963. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Hamid Karzai was chosen president of Afghanistan in 2002. The Karzai administration was the government of Afghanistan under President Hamid Karzai, who became the head of state of Afghanistan in December 2001 after the Taliban government was overthrown. Karzai was appointed at the 2002 Loya Jirga as the Interim President of the Afghan Transitional Administration.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Plorence(Chadwick) is the associated place for Skiing.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The legislature of Sikkim is Unicameral. The Sikkim Legislative Assembly is the unicameral state legislature of Sikkim state in north-eastern India. The seat of the Legislative Assembly is at Gangtok, the capital of the Sikkim state.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Missile ‘prithivi’ aims to hit target without the help of the Air Forces. Prithvi I was one of the first missiles developed under Government of India’s IGMDP. Launched in February 1988, Prithvi I is a single-stage, liquid-fuelled missile. A surface-to-surface missile, it has a range of 150 km and a mounting capability of 1000 kg. It was inducted into the Indian Army in 1994.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The density of population in Chandigarh is 7,902/sq. km.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
A value-added tax (VAT) is a consumption tax placed on a product whenever value is added at each stage of the supply chain, from production to the point of sale. The amount of VAT that the user pays is on the cost of the product, less any of the costs of materials used in the product that have already been taxed.