Basic General Knowledge MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Yelena Isinbayeva is associated with Pole vault. Yelena Gadzhievna Isinbayeva (born 3 June 1982) is a Russian former pole vaulter. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist (2004 and 2008), a three-time World Champion (2005, 2007 and 2013), the current world record holder in the event, and is widely considered the greatest female pole-vaulter of all time.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
When there is a decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the blood, the breathing rate increases. Breathing rate and breathing volume increase, the blood pressure increases, the heart rate increases, and kidney bicarbonate production ( in order to buffer the effects of blood acidosis), occur.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The corresponding Gregorian date of the saka month, Bhadra is August 23.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The first women’s Olympic field hockey competition was introduced by the IOC at Moscow in 1980 Summer Olympics. Olympic field hockey games were first played on artificial turf at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
5 non-permanent Security Council (UNO) members are from Afro-Asian countries.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary at Tamil Nadu has reserves of important bird sanctuary. Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary is a 30-hectare (74-acre) protected area located in the Chengalpattu District and Madurantakam taluk of the state of Tamil Nadu, India. The sanctuary is about 75 kilometres (47 mi) from Chennai on National Highway 45 ([NH45]). Easily reachable from Madurantakam and Chengalpattu. More than 40,000 birds (including 26 rare species), from various parts of the world visit the sanctuary during the migratory season every year.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
First Afghan War took place in 1839. The First Anglo-Afghan War (also known by the British as the Disaster in Afghanistan) was fought between the British East India Company and the Emirate of Afghanistan from 1839 to 1842.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
In 1945, fifty nations met to phrase the basic charter for a world organization which would “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war”. This conference took place at San Francisco.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Ashoka became emperor of India in 264 BC. He saw corpses, ruins and people that lost everything they had. Ashoka converted in 264 BC to Buddhism and became a peaceful and caring ruler of his people. Around 260 BC, the Maurya Empire had become the largest and wealthiest empire on Earth.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Sushri Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar received Bharath Ratna in 2001. She is one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India. She has recorded songs in over a thousand Hindi films and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional Indian languages and foreign languages, though primarily in Marathi, Hindi, and Bengali.