Basic General Knowledge MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option A.
David Cohen Award is the biggest literary award of Britain. The David Cohen Prize has established itself as the greatest honour a British or Irish writer can receive within these islands. It is also conducted with proper secrecy and dignity.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
World War II was fought between Axis Power (Germany, Italy and Japan) against the Allies (Britain, USSR, USA, France). World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world’s countries including all the great powers eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The term used to describe a sudden fall of a government, brought about by illegal force is called loup de’ etat. A coup d’état, also known by its German name putsch, or simply as a coup, is the overthrow of an existing government by non-democratic means; typically, it is an illegal, unconstitutional seizure of power by a dictator, the military, or a political faction.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
The objective of India’s space programme was mass communication and education via satellite, survey and management of natural resources and development of indigenous satellites and satellite launch vehicles.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
The helicopter fleet of Air Force consists of Chetak, Cheetah, MI-8s, MI-17s and MI-26.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The state having maximum cities is Uttar Pradesh. Uttar Pradesh, the most populous and fourth largest state of India. It lies in the north-central part of the country.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was created in 1949. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Organisation agencies related to the United Nations is concerned with promoting the growth of international trade and equilibrium in balance of payments. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), commonly referred to as the World Bank, is an international financial institution whose purposes include assisting the development of its member nation’s territories, promoting and supplementing private foreign investment and promoting long-range balance growth in international trade.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Triple antigen provides immunity to children against all of the following disease, except polio. Polio, short for poliomyelitis, or infantile paralysis, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus. In about 0.5 percent of cases, there is muscle weakness resulting in an inability to move.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
The electron was first identified by J. J. Thompson. Thomson in 1897 was the first to suggest that one of the fundamental units was more than 1,000 times smaller than an atom, suggesting the subatomic particle now known as the electron. Thomson discovered this through his explorations on the properties of cathode rays.