Basic General Knowledge – Practice Set 14 (GK MCQ Questions Answers)
1) FFC stands for
a) Federation of Football Council
b) Film Finance Corporation
c) Foreign Finance Corporation
d) None of the above
2) Each year World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day is celebrated on
a) June 8
b) June 18
c) May 8
d) May 18
3) First International Peace Congress was held in London
a) 1564 AD
b) 1798 AD
c) 1843 AD
d) 1901 AD
4) UNO Day is on
a) 20th July
b) 24th October
c) 14th November
d) 12th February
5) UNESCO (United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) was established in
a) 1919
b) 1957
c) 1945
d) 1946
6) Grey Revolution is associated with:
a) Orange
b) Sand
c) Wool
d) Coal
7) Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) was established in
a) 1955
b) 1956
c) 1957
d) 1958
8) Entomology is the science that studies
a) The origin and history of technical and scientific terms
b) Behavior of human beings
c) Insects
d) The formation of rocks
e) None of these
9) Fastest shorthand writer was
a) Dr. G. D. Bist
b) J.M. Tagore
c) Khudada Khan
d) J.R.D. Tata
10) Dr. Zakir Hussain was
a) First vice president of India
b) first speaker of Lok Sabha
c) the first Muslim president of India
d) first president of Indian National Congress
11) To which country does the present UN Secretary-General belongs?
a) Ghana
b) South Korea
c) Spain
d) Sweden
12) Squadron leader Rakesh Sharma was India’s first man to go into space. He was ____ cosmonaut to be in space in the world.
a) 12th
b) 107th
c) 139th
d) 151st
13) Penicillin was invented by
a) Dr Jonas E. Salk
b) Gregory Mendal
c) Paul Ehrlich
d) A. Fleming
14) Sushri Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar received Bharath Ratna in
a) 2000
b) 2001
c) 2002
d) 2003
15) The headquarter of the Warsaw Treaty Organization were at
a) Berlin
b) Prague
c) Moscow
d) Warsaw
16) The 2006 World Cup Football Tournament held in
a)France
b) China
c) Germany
d) Brazil
17) The XV Asian Games are scheduled to be held at
a)Qatar
b) Hiroshima
c) Beijing
d) Jakarta
18) The largest party of Ireland, the Ulster Unionist Party, endorses the Northern Ireland peace deal between British and Irish governments in
a) 1997
b) 1988
c) 1998
d) 1990
19) Oscar Awards were instituted in
a)1968
b) 1929
c) 1901
d) 1965
20) The last ruler of the Mughal dynasty was
a) Babur
b) Bahadurshah Zafar
c) Akbar
d) None of the above
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