Basic General Knowledge MCQs

✅ 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.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
When a given amount of air is cooled the amount of moisture it can hold decreases. If you increase the temperature, however, the amount of water vapor the air can hold increases, so the relative humidity decreases.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Numismatics is the study of coins. Numismatics is the study of coins and money, of coins and coin-like objects. The value of coins as historical evidence was understood even in antiquity, but the systematic development of the study of coins as a proper discipline, with a methodology of its own, began only in the late eighteenth century with the work of Joseph Hilarius Eckhel, an Austrian priest whose Doctrina Numorum Veterum (Vienna, 1793-1799) was an attempt to comprehend all of ancient Greek and Roman coinage in the span of eight volumes.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
The sacred place of the followers of Shintoism is Central shrine of Ise (Central of Japan) and Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. A shrine (jinja) is a sacred place where kami live, and which show the power and nature of the kami.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The first permanent Indian oceanographic station, ‘Dakshin Gangotry’ during Antarctic Expedition, was set up in April/March 1984. Dakshin Gangotri was the first Indian scientific research base station established in Antarctica, as a part of the Indian Antarctic Program. Located at a distance of 2,500 kilometres from the South Pole, it was established during the third Indian expedition to Antarctica in 1983/84.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Magna Carta was a charter of Rights granted to the Englishmen during 1215 AD by King John II, It was a charter guaranteeing the freedom of the barons, the church and the common man and It is the foundation stone of the rights and liberties of the English people.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Lakshmibai National College of Physical Education is located at Gwalior. The Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education is a Government of India sponsored deemed university, under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, dedicated to promoting excellence in sports and physical education in the country. The campus is on the Agra – Mumbai National Highway at Shaktinagar, Gwalior in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The language spoken in Lakshadweep island is Malayalam. The principal languages of Lakshadweep are Malayalam, Jeseri (Dweep Bhasha) and Mahl. The people of all the northern islands speak a dialect of Malayalam with the influence of Tamil and Arabic similar to Arwi.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Profit made when an asset is sold more than the price at which it was bought is called capital-gain. Capital gain is the profit one earns on the sale of an asset like stocks, bonds or real estate. It results in capital gain when the selling price of an asset exceeds its purchase price. It is the difference between the selling price (higher) and cost price (lower) of the asset.