Practice MCQ Questions and answers on Basic General Knowledge-GK

The term which refers to the total amount of sales made by a firm in one year or the total amount of money changing hands in business, is turnover. Sales turnover represents the value of total sales provided to customers during a specified time period, which is usually one year. The amount includes only revenue that is generated from daily operations, not non-operating revenue.

Treaty of Versailles rearranged the boundaries of several countries in Europe and many countries were formed such as Poland and Yugoslavia and Lithuania and Estonia.

The tribe residing in Meghalaya is Garos. The Garos refer to themselves as A'chik or Mande and their language belongs to the Bodo branch of the Bodo-Naga-Kachin family of Sino Tibetan phylum.

The Charter of the United Nations was signed on 26 June 1945, in San Francisco, at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, and came into force on 24 October 1945. The Statute of the International Court of Justice is an integral part of the Charter.

The Council is composed of 15 Members: Five permanent members: China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and ten non-permanent members.

Unofficial, and usually illegal, system of providing people with more then their share of goods and services where their prices are controlled, is called black market. The black market is distinct from the grey market, in which commodities are distributed through channels that, while legal, are unofficial, unauthorized, or unintended by the original manufacturer, and the white market, in which trade is legal and official.

Under Article 109 in 1968, the number of votes required in the Security Council to convene a general conference to review the charter was increased from seven to nine.

The term Ground Stroke is associated with Tennis. A groundstroke or ground stroke in tennis is a forehand or backhand shot that is executed after the ball bounces once on the court. It is usually hit from the back of the tennis court, around the baseline.

The type of root system of all of the following is tap root system, except that of maize plant. The root system of maize can be divided into an embryonic root system (Abbe and Stein, 1954) consisting of a single primary root and a variable number of seminal roots, and a post‐embryonic root system which is made up by shoot‐borne roots.

The news agency Cetreko belongs to Czechoslovakia.