Basic General Knowledge MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option C.
There are 22 districts in Punjab. The districts listed are: Amritsar, Bathinda, Faridkot, Firozpur, Fatehgarh Sahib, Kapurthala, Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Mansa, Moga, Muktsar, Nawanshahr, Patiala, Rupnagar, Sangrur, and Tarn Taran.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Georgia, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan became the members of UNO in 1992.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The first rice straw power plant has been set up at Jalkheri, Punjab. The Jalkheri Power Plant becomes operational, not only about 80,000 MT per annum of rice straw shall be consumed for producing electricity, but this will also save environment from getting polluted which otherwise is polluted due to burning of rice straw by farmers.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The first lady Prime Minister of a country was Srimavo Bhadaranaike (Sri Lanka). Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike, also called Sirimavo R.D. Bandaranaike, (born April 17, 1916, Ratnapura, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]—died October 10, 2000, Colombo, Sri Lanka), stateswoman who, upon her party’s victory in the 1960 general election in Ceylon (later Sri Lanka), became the world’s first woman prime minister.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The Melghat Tiger reserve is in Maharashtra. Melghat was declared a tiger reserve and was among the first nine tiger reserves notified in 1973-74 under the Project Tiger. It is located at 21°26′45″N 77°11′50″E in northern part of Amravati District of Maharashtra State in India.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The term which denotes that each side has made equal point at game point, in Tennis, is referred to as deuce. Deuce is the score in a game of tennis when both players have forty points. One player has to win two points one after the other to win the game.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
In 1978 first test tube baby – Louise Brown was born. Louise Joy Brown is best known as the world’s first “test-tube baby.” Her birth by Caesarian section shortly before midnight on July 25, 1978, at Oldham General Hospital in England, made headlines around the world.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Synagogue is the place of worship for Judoists. A synagogue is a Jewish or Samaritan house of worship. Synagogues have a large place for prayer and may also have smaller rooms for study and sometimes a social hall and offices.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Marco Polo travelled through China, India and other parts of Asia. Marco Polo was a Venetian explorer known for the book The Travels of Marco Polo, which describes his voyage to and experiences in Asia. Polo traveled extensively with his family, journeying from Europe to Asia from 1271 to 1295 and remaining in China for 17 of those years.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
On April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. During the flight, the 27-year-old test pilot and industrial technician also became the first man to orbit the planet, a feat accomplished by his space capsule in 89 minutes.