Practice MCQ Questions and answers on Basic General Knowledge-GK

The 'pulse' of the aquatic environment can be ascertained by measuring oxygen.

The range of R.B.C to W.B.C in the human body is 1 : 500.

The official language of the Government of India is Hindi. Article 343 (1) of the Constitution of India states "The Official Language of the Union government shall be Hindi in Devanagari script." Unless Parliament decided otherwise, the use of English for official purposes was to cease 15 years after the constitution came into effect, i.e. on 26 January 1965.

The number of chromosomes in human body is 46. In humans, each cell normally contains 23 pairs of chromosomes, for a total of 46. Twenty-two of these pairs, called autosomes, look the same in both males and females. The 23rd pair, the sex chromosomes, differ between males and females.

The purest form of water can be obtained from a heavy shower of rain. It is a common belief that raindrops are the purest form of natural water.

The Netaji Subhas National Institute of Sports is located at Patiala. Netaji Subhas National Institute of Sports, Patiala India which is also Asia's largest Sports Institutes housed in the palatial monumental building and sprawling lawns built by the erstwhile Maharaja of Patiala whose descendants dedicated this complex for the promotion of sports to the people of India. This Institute is popularly known as the "Mecca" of Indian Sports and has produced Coaches of high caliber.

The Pilotless target aircraft, fabricated at the Aeronautical Development Establishment, Bangalore, is Lakshya. Lakshya ("target" in Sanskrit) is an Indian remotely piloted high speed target drone system developed by the Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) of DRDO. A variant Lakshya-1 is used to perform discreet aerial reconnaissance of battlefield and target acquisition.

UN General Assembly elects a President and Twenty one Vice Presidents at the start of its each regular session. Unless the General Assembly decides otherwise, the General Assembly shall elect a President and twenty-one Vice-Presidents at 9 least three months before the opening of the session over which they are to preside.

The treaty which ushered in NATO, was signed by the member nations at Washington. On 4 April 1949, the foreign ministers from 12 countries signed the North Atlantic Treaty (also known as the Washington Treaty) at the Departmental Auditorium in Washington, D.C.: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The unit of current is ampere. Ampere or amp (symbol: A) is the unit of electrical current. The Ampere unit is named after Andre-Marie Ampere, from France. One Ampere is defined as the current that flows with electric charge of one Coulomb per second.