Practice MCQ Questions and answers on Basic General Knowledge-GK

Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, was assassinated in 1991. The assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India, occurred as a result of a suicide bombing in Sriperumbudur, Chennai, in Tamil Nadu, India on 21 May 1991.

Pan - American Highway, north-west Alaska to Southernmost Chile is the worlds longest road. According to Guinness World Records, the Pan-American Highway is the world's longest "motorable road".

Raja Rammohan Roy was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj, advocated widow remarriage and woman's education and was a social reformer who tried to eradicate sati, purdah and child marriage.

South Indian temples have tall towers with curving sides that taper at the top and gateway towers shaped like trapezoidal pyramids.

South Africa joined the Commonwealth as 51^st member in May 1994. South Africa withdrew its membership from the Commonwealth in 1961 after it declared itself a Republic under the leadership of Prime Minister H.F Verwoerd. The country's move followed a storm of criticism for its racial policies by Commonwealth members.

Recently lead free petrol was introduced in our country because they cause less pollution. Worldwide studies have revealed that leaded petrol is responsible for 90 per cent of all airborne lead pollution. In India, petrol with a low lead content (0.15 gm/l instead of 0.56 gm/l) was introduced in the four metros in 1994.

Rabindranath Tagore receive Nobel Prize in 1913 in the field of literature. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913 was awarded to Rabindranath Tagore "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."

People who secretly indulge in anti-national or anti-government activities and help the enemy are called Fifth column. A fifth column is any group of people who undermine a larger group from within, usually in favor of an enemy group or nation. The activities of a fifth column can be overt or clandestine. Fifth column Refers to traitors or people who secretly indulge in anti-national or anti -government activities and help the enemy.

Sulphur is not present in chlorapatite. Chlorapatite is formed in fluor-deficient environments, and found in calcium silicate marbles, in layered mafic intrusions and in diabases. It is known to replace triphylite in some granite pegmatites (Ptáček 2016). A monoclinic polymorph, chlorapatite-M is known.

Oxygen was independently discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, in Uppsala, in 1773 or earlier, and Joseph Priestley in Wiltshire, in 1774, but Priestley is often given priority because his work was published first.