Practice MCQ Questions and answers on Basic General Knowledge-GK

The first Olympics in the city of Olympia in Greece took place in 776 BC. They continued to be celebrated when Greece came under Roman rule, until the emperor Theodosius I suppressed them in AD 393 as part of the campaign to impose Christianity as the State religion of Rome. The games were held every four years, or olympiad, which became a unit of time in historical chronologies.

The clear sky looks blue because of dispersion of light. A clear cloudless day-time sky is blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more than they scatter red light. When we look towards the sun at sunset, we see red and orange colours because the blue light has been scattered out and away from the line of sight.

The common terms used in shooting are bed, ballsege, marksmanship, plug.

The buoyancy depends on the mass of the liquid displaced. According to Archimedes principle, the buoyant force of a partially immersed body is equal to the weight of the displaced liquid. Therefore the buoyant force depends upon the density of the fluid and the submerged volume of the body.

The first chairman of the Africa fund committee was Late Rajiv Gandhi.

The award instituted to honor outstanding agricultural scientists is Borlaug Award. The Borlaug Award is an award recognition conferred by a fertilizer company, Coromandel International, for outstanding Indian scientists for their research and contributions in the field of agriculture and environment. The award was created in 1972 and named in honour of Nobel Laureate Norman E.

The battle tanks designed and developed by the Defence Research and Development Organization in collaboration with Heavy Vehicles Factory and Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited are Arjun.

The chief administrative office of the UNO, which co-ordinates and supervises the activities of the UNO, is the secretariat. The secretary-general, the principal administrative officer of the United Nations, is elected for a five-year renewable term by a two-thirds vote of the General Assembly and by the recommendation of the Security Council and the approval of its permanent members.

The first women to climb Mt. Everest was Junko Taibei. Junko Tabei was the first woman to reach the summit of Everest on May 16, 1975, at the age of 35. In 1975, she defied Japanese societal norms again when she left her young daughter with her husband while she traveled to Nepal to lead a group climbing Everest.

The five intertwined rings or circles on the Olympic Flag made of white silk are from left to right blue, yellow, black, green and red respectively.