Basic General Knowledge MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option D.
The main objectives of the UN are to maintain peace and security in the world, to develop friendly relations among nations and to work together to remove poverty, disease and illiteracy and encourage respect for each other’s rights of basic freedom.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
The Loktak lake facing environmental problems is situated in Manipur. Loktak Lake is the largest freshwater lake in Northeast India and is famous for the phumdis (heterogeneous mass of vegetation, soil and organic matter at various stages of decomposition) floating over it. The lake is located at Moirang in Manipur state, India.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Weight of an object put in a satellite orbiting in space around the earth is reduced to zero. The satellite will fly off into space in a direction which was tangential to its original direction of motion. This is because the direction of velocity of an object moving in a circular path is always tangential at every point along the path.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
The British Geological Survey reports that as of 2005, Kodarma district in Jharkhand state in India had the largest deposits of mica in the world.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The literacy rate of Andaman & Nicobar Islands is 86.63 per cent. That was the beginning of library service in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
IMF – International Monetary FundUNICEF – United Nations International Children’s Emergency FundUNDP – United Nations Development ProgrammeIDA – International Development Association

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The Territorial Army was established in 1948. It was replaced by the Auxiliary Force (for Europeans and Eurasians) and the Indian Territorial Force (for Indians) in 1920. The modern Territorial Army was inaugurated by the first Indian Governor-General of India, C. Rajagopalachari, on 9 October 1949 after the Independence Territorial Army Act was passed in 1948.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Biennial meeting of the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM), Annual meeting of the finance minister of the member countries and Regular meeting of the minister of education, law, health and other minister are the important meeting of the Commonwealth.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Fastest shorthand writer was Dr. G. D. Bist.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Under Article 109 in 1968, the number of votes required in the Security Council to convene a general conference to review the charter was increased from seven to nine.