Basic General Knowledge MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option C.
The term of office of a Judge of the International Court of Justice is nine years. The International Court of Justice is composed of 15 judges elected to nine-year terms of office by the United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council. These organs vote simultaneously but separately. In order to be elected, a candidate must receive an absolute majority of the votes in both bodies.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
The role of WTO (World Trade Organisation) was to settle trade disputes between nations and to widen the principal of free trade to sectors such as services and agriculture. Its main function is to ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Sculpture flourished during Indus valley civilization. People from this civilisation created sculpture, seals, pottery, and jewellery from materials, such as terracotta, metal, and stone.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The first women to climb Mt. Everest was Junko Taibei. Junko Tabei was the first woman to reach the summit of Everest on May 16, 1975, at the age of 35. In 1975, she defied Japanese societal norms again when she left her young daughter with her husband while she traveled to Nepal to lead a group climbing Everest.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
War of the Roses was civil war in England. The Wars of the Roses were a series of English civil wars for control of the throne of England fought between supporters of two rival cadet branches of the royal House of Plantagenet: the House of Lancaster, represented by a red rose, and the House of York, represented by a white rose.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The king of Macedonia, who conquered most of Asia Minor and defeated Porus (India) in 327 B. C. was Alexander the Great. Alexander enters India In 326 B.C., Alexander met King Porus of Paurava at the Hydaspes River. Porus’s army was less experienced than Alexander’s, but they had a secret weapon elephants. Even so, after a fierce battle in a raging thunderstorm, Porus was defeated.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Malfunctioning of liver organ causes jaundice. Hepatocellular jaundice occurs as a result of liver disease or injury. Hemolytic jaundice occurs as a result of hemolysis, or an accelerated breakdown of red blood cells, leading to an increase in production of bilirubin. Obstructive jaundice occurs as a result of an obstruction in the bile duct.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
The purpose of SAARC is to promote the welfare of the people of South Asia, to improve the environment of security in the region and to accelerate economic growth and cultural development.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
GNLF stands for Gorkha National Liberation Front. Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) is a political party in the Darjeeling District of West Bengal, India.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Hitler party which came into power in 1933 is known as Nazi Party. Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or Nazi Party, grew into a mass movement and ruled Germany through totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945. Founded in 1919 as the German Workers’ Party, the group promoted German pride and anti-Semitism, and expressed dissatisfaction with the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the 1919 peace settlement that ended World War I (1914-1918) and required Germany to make numerous concessions and reparations.