Practice MCQ Questions and answers on Basic General Knowledge-GK

In August, 1996 at Kolar(near Bangalore), India made successful test flights of Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) named Nishant. The DRDO Nishant was an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) developed by India's ADE (Aeronautical Development Establishment), a branch of DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organisation) for the Indian Armed Forces.

IDA stands for International Development Agency. The International Development Association (IDA) is the part of the World Bank that helps the world’s poorest countries. It was established in 1960 to complement the existing International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) by lending to developing countries which suffer from the lowest gross national income, from troubled creditworthiness, or from the lowest per capita income.

Indira Gandhi was assassinated in 1984. On 31 October 1984, Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, was killed by her Sikh bodyguards. The assassination sparked four days of riots that left more than 8,000 Indian Sikhs dead in revenge attacks.

India's first nuclear blast at Pokhran in Rajasthan took place in 1974. The bomb was detonated on the army base Pokhran Test Range (PTR), in Rajasthan, by the Indian Army under the supervision of several key Indian generals.

Basketball is a team sport where two teams, usually consisting of five players on each team, play against each other on a rectangular court.

In a normal human being, food take about 12 hours to reach the end of the intestine for complete absorption. Food then enters your large intestine (colon) for further digestion, absorption of water and, finally, elimination of undigested food.

In certain diseases antibiotics are administered. The object is inhibit the growth of bacteria. An antimicrobial is a substance that kills or inhibits the growth of microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi, or protozoans. Antimicrobial drugs either kill microbes (microbiocidal) or prevent the growth of microbes (microbiostatic).

In cricket, the two sets of wickets are 22 yards apart.

India's first indigenous helicopter was successfully flown in Bangalore on August 30, 1992. The country's first indigenous chopper, Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH -Dhruv), designed, developed, produced and maintained by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd to meet the requirement of military and civil operators, today achieved a new milestone of clocking one lakh cumulative flying hours.

In Vancouver, the last Winter Olympics Games held. The city of Vancouver was elected host city of the XXI Olympic Winter Games in 2010 at the 115th IOC Session in Prague on 2 July 2003.