Practice MCQ Questions and answers on Basic General Knowledge-GK

Satyajit Ray received Magsaysay Award for journalism, literature and creative communication arts in 1967. The Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia's premier prize and highest honor, celebrates greatness of spirit and transformative leadership in Asia.

The agreement according to which the UK, the USA and the former USSR cannot assist other countries in acquiring technology to develop nuclear weapons, is known as Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT). The NPT non-nuclear-weapon states agree never to acquire nuclear weapons and the NPT nuclear-weapon states in exchange agree to share the benefits of peaceful nuclear technology and to pursue nuclear disarmament aimed at the ultimate elimination of their nuclear arsenals.

The 'Red Triangle' symbol denotes family planning. An inverted Red Triangle is the symbol for family planning health and contraception services, much as the red cross is a symbol for medical services.

P.T. Usha, who came close to bagging a bronze finished fourth in 400 m hurdle in 1984 Olympics. Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha is a retired Indian track and field athlete. She has been associated with Indian athletics since 1979. She is often called the "queen of Indian track and field".

Photophobia is abnormal intolerance of light. Photophobia is a symptom of abnormal intolerance to visual perception of light. As a medical symptom, photophobia is not a morbid fear or phobia, but an experience of discomfort or pain to the eyes due to light exposure or by presence of actual physical sensitivity of the eyes, though the term is sometimes additionally applied to abnormal or irrational fear of light such as heliophobia.

Pressure cooker cooks rice faster because high pressure raises the boiling point of water. The trapped steam increases the atmospheric pressure inside the cooker by 15 pounds per square inch (psi), or 15 pounds above normal sea-level pressure. At that pressure, the boiling point of water is increased from 212°F to 250°F. This higher temperature is what cooks food faster.

The ancient Olympics Games came to a sudden end when the Roman Emperor Theodosius banned them as paper manifestations. The modern Olympic Games were received after a lapse of nearly fifteen centuries.

Reproductive cells in human beings are produced in greater numbers for a longer period of time in the male. Sexual reproduction occurs through the union of sex cells, or gametes. Gametes differ widely in males versus females for a given organism. For humans, male gametes are called spermatozoa while female gametes are called ova. Spermatozoa are also known as sperm and ova are also known as eggs.

Study of earthquakes is known as seismology. Seismologists study earthquakes by going out and looking at the damage caused by the earthquakes and by using seismographs. A seismograph is an instrument that records the shaking of the earth's surface caused by seismic waves.

The 2005 Australian Open Tennis Championship titles for men's and women's singles were won, respectively by Marat Safin and Serena Williams. Dinara Mubinovna Safina is a Russian former world No. 1 tennis player. Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player and former world No. 1. She has won 23 major singles titles, most by any man or woman in the Open Era.