Practice MCQ Questions and answers on Basic General Knowledge-GK

The term of office of the UN Secretary-General is five years, with a possibility to be re-appointed for a second five year term. In accordance with Article 97 of the Charter, the appointment is made by the General Assembly, upon the recommendation of the Security Council.

The Newspaper Paravada is taken out in Moscow.

The Olympic Symbol (Summer Games) comprises five rings or circles linked together to represent the sporting friendship of all people and the five continents.

The prize given to individuals fighting for freedom, independence and dignity of people is Simon Bolivai Prize.

The SI unit of electric current is named after Andre Marie Ampere. André-Marie Ampère, (born January 22, 1775, Lyon, France died June 10, 1836, Marseille), French physicist who founded and named the science of electrodynamics, now known as electromagnetism. His name endures in everyday life in the ampere, the unit for measuring electric current.

The national flag was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India on July 22, 1947. Our present flag was adopted on July 22, 1947 by the Constituent Assembly as a Free India National Flag. The colours and their significance remained the same as the previous one. In this flag dharma charkha of Emperor Asoka was replaced with the spinning wheel as the emblem on the flag.

The regional economic commissions of the Economic and Social Council (UNO) are ECE (Economic Commission of Europe) and ESCAP (Economic and Social Commission for Asia), ECLA (Economic Commission for Latin America) and ECA (Economic Commission for Africa) and ECWA (Economic Commission for Western Asia) and ECLA.

The playground of baseball is known as Diamond. A baseball field, also called a ball field or a baseball diamond, is the field upon which the game of baseball is played. The term is also used as a metonym for baseball park.

The state having maximum cities is Uttar Pradesh. Uttar Pradesh, the most populous and fourth largest state of India. It lies in the north-central part of the country.

The National Convention framed the new Republican constitution of France in 1795, according to the executive authority of the state was vested in a committee of five directors, called the Directo and a bicameral legislature was established.