Basic General Knowledge MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The 2002 Commonwealth Games were held in UK. The 2002 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XVII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Manchester 2002 were held in Manchester, England, from 25 July to 4 August 2002.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
The ancient Olympics Games came to a sudden end when the Roman Emperor Theodosius banned them as paper manifestations. The modern Olympic Games were received after a lapse of nearly fifteen centuries.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
On July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin (1930-) became the first humans ever to land on the moon. About six-and-a-half hours later, Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Squadron leader Rakesh Sharma was India’s first man to go into space. He was 139th cosmonaut to be in space in the world. Sharma progressed through numerous levels and in 1984, he was appointed as a squadron leader and pilot in the Indian Air Force. He was selected on 20 September 1982 to become a cosmonaut and go into space as part of a joint program between the Indian Air Force and the Soviet Interkosmos space program.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Water is a good solvent of ionic salts because it has a high dipole moment. Salts are ionic compounds which, when dissolved in water, break up completely into ions. They arise by the reaction of acids with bases, and they always contain either a metal cation or a cation derived from ammonium (NH4+).

✅ The correct answer is option C.
France first became a republic on the 22nd of September 1792; this was the day that the National Convention abolished the French monarchy, ruled by the Capetian dynasty and various branches of it since 987 AD.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Algeria, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, United Arab Emirates, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela are the members of OPEC (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries).

✅ The correct answer is option C.
The theory of inheritance of acquired character was propounded by J.B. Lamarck. Lamarck is best known for his Theory of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics, first presented in 1801 (Darwin’s first book dealing with natural selection was published in 1859): If an organism changes during life in order to adapt to its environment, those changes are passed on to its offspring.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
John F. Kennedy was one the most popular Presidents of USA, the first Roman Catholic President and the writer of Why England slept and Profile in Courage.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Trans World Airlines is an International Airline of United States of America. TWA was headquartered at one time in Kansas City, Missouri, and planned to make Kansas City International Airport its main domestic and international hub, but abandoned this plan in the 1970s. The airline later developed its largest hub at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.