Basic General Knowledge MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The headquarter of the International Committee of Red Cross are at Geneva. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a humanitarian institution based in Geneva, Switzerland, and a three-time Nobel Prize Laureate.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
The lower limit of perpetual snow in mountains such as the Himalayas is termed as the snow line. The snow line is an irregular line located along the ground surface where the accumulation of snowfall equals ablation (melting and evaporation).

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Sulphur is not present in chlorapatite. Chlorapatite is formed in fluor-deficient environments, and found in calcium silicate marbles, in layered mafic intrusions and in diabases. It is known to replace triphylite in some granite pegmatites (Ptáček 2016). A monoclinic polymorph, chlorapatite-M is known.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Presently known as the European Union, the EEC was established in 1958. Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom join the European Union, raising the number of member states to nine. The organisation founded in 1957 which is now known as the European Union, originally had six members: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Fa-Hien was the first Buddhist pilgrim of China to visit India during the reign of Chandragupta Vikramaditya. He is also renowned for his pilgrimage to Lumbini, the birthplace of Gautama Buddha (modern Nepal).

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Jesus Christ was crucified in 1 AD. The crucifixion of Jesus occurred in 1st-century Judea, most likely between AD 30 and 33.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The first Dada Saheb Phalke Award, given in 1969, was received by Devika Rani. The Dadasaheb Phalke Award was introduced in 1969 by the government to recognise the contribution of film personalities towards the development of Indian Cinema. The first recipient of this award was Devika Rani.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
India’s first atomic reactor was Apsara. Apsara is the oldest of India’s research reactors. The reactor was designed by the Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) and built with assistance from the United Kingdom (which also provided the initial fuel supply consisting of 80 percent enriched uranium). Apsara first went critical on 4 August 1956.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
The Council is composed of 15 Members: Five permanent members: China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and ten non-permanent members.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The host of first Olympics in 1896 was Athens, Greece. On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic Games are held in Athens, Greece, with athletes from 14 countries participating. The International Olympic Committee met for the first time in Paris in June 1894 and chose Greece as the site of the inaugural modern Olympiad.