Practice MCQ Questions and answers on Basic General Knowledge-GK

Triple antigen provides immunity to children against all of the following disease, except polio. Polio, short for poliomyelitis, or infantile paralysis, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus. In about 0.5 percent of cases, there is muscle weakness resulting in an inability to move.

Trans World Airlines is an International Airline of United States of America. TWA was headquartered at one time in Kansas City, Missouri, and planned to make Kansas City International Airport its main domestic and international hub, but abandoned this plan in the 1970s. The airline later developed its largest hub at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.

The third crusade was led by Richard I of England, Fredrick Barbarossa of Germany and Philip II of France.

Walt Disney was the greater of cartoon films starring popular cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. Walt Disney , in full Walter Elias Disney, (born December 5, 1901, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died December 15, 1966, Los Angeles, California), American motion-picture and television producer and showman, famous as a pioneer of animated cartoon films and as the creator of such cartoon characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.

To consider the large number of agenda items, General Assembly has seven main committees. Each committee deals with a particular topic and is allocated agenda items according to the topic. A report is issued to the plenary for each item allocated to a Main Committee.

Until December 1991 Belarus and Ukraine were integral parts of the USSR & not independent countries, but had separate UN memberships. Though Belarus and Ukraine have a long shared history, the two countries differ significantly in many ways.

Weight of an object put in a satellite orbiting in space around the earth is reduced to zero. The satellite will fly off into space in a direction which was tangential to its original direction of motion. This is because the direction of velocity of an object moving in a circular path is always tangential at every point along the path.

The first Secretary-General of the UN belong to Norway. LIE, Trygve Halvdan, Norwegian politician and first Secretary-General of the United Nations 1946-1953, was born 16 July 1896 in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway and passed away 30 December 1968 in Geilo, Norway.

War of the Roses was civil war in England. The Wars of the Roses were a series of English civil wars for control of the throne of England fought between supporters of two rival cadet branches of the royal House of Plantagenet: the House of Lancaster, represented by a red rose, and the House of York, represented by a white rose.

The three abundant elements in the earth's crust are oxygen, silicon, aluminium. The mass-abundance of the nine most abundant elements in the Earth's crust is approximately: oxygen 46%, silicon 28%, aluminum 8.3%, iron 5.6%, calcium 4.2%, sodium 2.5%, magnesium 2.4%, potassium 2.0%, and titanium 0.61%. Other elements occur at less than 0.15%.