Basic General Knowledge MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Costa Rica, EI Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua countries from the membership of CACM (Central American Common Market). Central American Common Market (CACM), Spanish Mercado Común Centroamericano (MCCA), association of five Central American nations that was formed to facilitate regional economic development through free trade and economic integration. Established by the General Treaty on Central American Economic Integration signed by Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua in December 1960, its membership expanded to include Costa Rica in July 1962. The CACM is headquartered in Guatemala City.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Steel is more elastic than Rubber because ratio of stress to strain is more. Steel is more elastic than rubber because steel comes back to its original shape faster than rubber when the deforming forces are removed.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The first human cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19, subsequently named SARS-CoV-2 were first reported by officials in Wuhan City, China, in December 2019.Source : who.int

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Germany signed the Armistice Treaty on November 11, 1918 and World War I ended.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Ms. Medha Patkar is associated with the Sardar Sarovar project. Sardar Sarovar Dam in Gujarat is one of the biggest dams on Narmada where the non-violent people’s struggle has questioned social and environmental costs, undemocratic planning and unjust distribution of benefits.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Todar Mal was revenue minister in the court of Akbar, one of the nine gems in the court of Akbar and known for his reforms in policies of land revenue during Akbar’s reign.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The important minerals of Assam are petroleum.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
In 1917 during World War I, USA declared war on Germany, Britain defeated Turkey and captured Baghdad and Jerusalem.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
The command from a superior officer or a judge to a subordinate right given to a person to act in the name of another, is mandate. Mandamus is a judicial remedy in the form of an order from a court to any government, subordinate court, corporation, or public authority, to do (or forbear from doing) some specific act which that body is obliged under law to do (or refrain from doing), and which is in the nature of public duty, and in certain cases one of a statutory duty.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
The influx of domestic sewage containing detergents cause nutrient enrichment in water bodies due to the presence of phosphates. Sewage, sludges, and effluents contain appreciable amounts of phosphates, which become a decisive factor in excessive growth of algae and other forms of life when these wastes are discharged into waterways. The presence of phosphates in a body of water indicates its pollution with sewage or other organic wastes. After proper treatment these wastes may be applied to soil and the phosphates thus used to improve crop growth.