Practice MCQ Questions and answers on Basic General Knowledge-GK

The world's largest international organisation and a successor to the League of Nations is UNO. It is a successor to the League of Nations, a body devoted to international cooperation that was formed in 1920 after World War I, but found itself unable to prevent the outbreak of war in Europe and Asia in the 1930s. The U.S. never joined the League of Nations.

Tomb of Vasco-da-Gama is situated at Kochi (Kerala). Vasco da Gama's body was first buried at St. Francis Church, which was located at Fort Kochi in the city of Kochi, but his remains were returned to Portugal in 1539. The body of Vasco da Gama was re-interred in Vidigueira in a casket decorated with gold and jewels.

UNO Day is on 24th October. UN Day marks the anniversary of the entry into force in 1945 of the UN Charter. With the ratification of this founding document by the majority of its signatories, including the five permanent members of the Security Council, the United Nations officially came into being. 24 October has been celebrated as United Nations Day since 1948. In 1971, the United Nations General Assembly recommended that the day be observed by Member States as a public holiday.

Olympic Airways belongs to Greece. Olympic Air S.A. is a regional airline, a subsidiary of the Greek carrier Aegean Airlines. It was formed as part of the privatization of the former Greek national carrier Olympic Airlines, a company that carried the name Olympic Airways from 1957 to the beginning of the 21st century.

Velocity of wind is measured by anemometer. The speed of that wind can be measured using a tool called an anemometer. An anemometer looks like a weather vane, but instead of measuring which direction the wind is blowing with pointers, it has four cups so that it can more accurately measure wind speed.

The term used to describe many that flows into a country to take advantage of high rates of interest is called hot money. Hot money is the flow of funds (or capital) from one country to another in order to earn a short-term profit on interest rate differences and/or anticipated exchange rate shifts. These speculative capital flows are called 'hot money' because they can move very quickly in and out of markets, potentially leading to market instability.

Todar Mal was revenue minister in the court of Akbar, one of the nine gems in the court of Akbar and known for his reforms in policies of land revenue during Akbar's reign.

The unit of energy in MKS system is joule. 1 Joule (J) is the MKS unit of energy, equal to the force of one Newton acting through one meter.

Tiruchirapalli is situated on river Cauvery. Tiruchirappalli is situated in central south-eastern India, almost at the geographic centre of the state of Tamil Nadu. The Cauvery Delta begins to form 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) west of the city where the river divides into two streams the Kaveri and the Kollidam to form the island of Srirangam

The term cover point in cricket means the position given by the bowler to the fielder on the offside, in front of a wicket.