Basic General Knowledge MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The literacy rate of Mizoram stood at 91.33 per cent making it the third most literate state in the country after Kerala and Lakshadweep, a state minister said.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Bhutan, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka are the members of SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation).

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Toxin is a poisonous substance produce by some higher plants, certain animals and pathogenic bacteria.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
The normal red blood count per cubic mm is 4 million red blood cells. An RBC count is measured in millions per cubic millimeter (million/mm3). Normal values may vary slightly among different laboratories. One example of normal values is: 4.1 to 5.1 million/mm3 for women.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Penicillin was invented by A. Fleming. In 1928 Alexander Fleming (1881–1955) discovered penicillin, made from the Penicillium notatum mold, but he did not receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery until 1945.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Cement and paper, Asbestos and units of HMT, BHEL and Hindustan Shipyard and Bharat Dynamics Limited industries are common in Andhra Pradesh.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The number of already named bones in the human skeleton is 206.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The news agency Reuters belongs to Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia was a country in Southeastern and Central Europe for most of the 20th century.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
In Chennai, Triuchirapalli and Madurai, Tamil Nadu has airport.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Karoline Mikkelsen was the first woman to reach South Pole. She was a Danish-Norwegian explorer who on 20 February, 1935 was the first woman to set foot on Antarctica, although whether this was on the mainland or an island is a matter of dispute.