Basic General Knowledge MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Pan – American Highway, north-west Alaska to Southernmost Chile is the worlds longest road. According to Guinness World Records, the Pan-American Highway is the world’s longest “motorable road”.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Raja Rammohan Roy was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj, advocated widow remarriage and woman’s education and was a social reformer who tried to eradicate sati, purdah and child marriage.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Angrilla, Antigua, Trinidad, Tobago, Barbados, Belize, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Dommica, Grenade, Guyana and Jamaica are the members of CARICOM.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The site of the third oldest civilisation after the Sumerian and Egyption, Mohenjo-daro, was built in 2500 BC.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The five permanent members of the Security Council are China, France, Russia, UK, USA. The permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (also known as the Permanent Five, Big Five, or P5) are the five states which the UN Charter of 1945 grants a permanent seat on the UN Security Council (UNSC): China, France, Russia (formerly the Soviet Union), the United Kingdom, and the United States.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Soil is formed from the parent rock material by chemical decomposition, physical decomposition and biological decomposition.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The headquarter of the International Court of Justice is at The Hague. The International Court of Justice (French La Cour internationale de justice (CIJ), is an international organization. It is the main judicial organ or branch of the United Nations. In short, International Court of Justice is ICJ; sometimes people call it the World Court. In French language, it is Cour internationale de justice. Established ICJ in 1945, ICJ has its headquarters at The Hague, Netherlands. The ICJ began its working from 1946. It replaced an earlier similar court named Permanent Court of International Justice.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The first man-made satellite, Sputnik I was launched by the former USSR in 1957. The world’s first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball (58 cm.or 22.8 inches in diameter), weighed only 83.6 kg. or 183.9 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
FRS stands for Fellow of Royal Society. Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of London judges to have made a ‘substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, and medical science’.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Basketball at the 1936 Summer Olympics was the first appearance of the sport of basketball as an official Olympic medal event. The tournament was played between 7 August and 14 August 1936 in Berlin, Germany.