General Knowledge MCQs Set 8

General knowledge questions with answers set 8 include thirty most important repeated mcqs of general knowledge which are grabs from past competitive exams papers. All gk questions are mcqs based which have four options in which one option is true. Mostly mcqs are on world gk questions with answers. We list all gk questions with answers in English language so everyone from any country can prepare for their exams.

General Knowledge MCQs With Answers Set 8

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1. Arab spring movement in Middle East started from which country?

A). Syria
B). Egypt
C). Sudan
D). Tunis

2. Timbaktu is the famous city of _____?

A). Egypt
B). Mali
C). Spain
D). Iraq

3. Three Gorges Dam is located in _____?

A). India
B). Canada
C). China
D). USA

4. According to science, the Earth is _____ years old.

A). 10 billion
B). 4.5 million
C). 4.5 billion
D). 450 million

5. After the United States, the largest number of Nobel Laureates are from _____?

A). United Kingdom
B). France
C). Germany
D). Russia

6. Kurt Waldheim was an Austrian diplomat and statesman who served two terms as the _____ secretary general of the United Nations.

A). Third
B). Fourth
C). Fifth
D). Sixth

7. The General Assembly and the Security Council select the judges of the International Court of Judges for the period of 9 years The ICJ is comprised of _____ judges.

A). 30
B). 15
C). 10
D). 35

8. Who among the following was the penultimate viceroy of British India?

A). Lord Wavell
B). Lord Mountbatten
C). Lord Linlithgow
D). Lord Willington

9. Taj Mahal was built by Shah Jahan to immortalize his wife Mumtaz Mahal. Its construction spanned 22 years. When was the project commenced?

A). 1622
B). 1642
C). 1632
D). 1652

10. International Mother Language is celebrated on _____?

A). 21 February
B). 21 March
C). 21 April
D). 21 May

11. Which among the given options is the capital of Kazakhstan?

A). Tashkent
B). Astana
C). Dushanbe
D). Asghabat

12. SCO, Shanghai Cooperation Organization was established in _____?

A). 1995
B). 1996
C). 2001
D). 2009

13. Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organization for Human Rights it was founded in _____?

A). 1960
B). 1963
C). 1962
D). 1961

14. 'King of Pop'. Michael Jackson was an American singer songwriter and dancer. He died in _____?

A). June 2009
B). June 2008
C). June 2007
D). June 2010

15. Who among the following is known Poet of Beauty?

A). William Wordsworth
B). John Keats
C). Rudyard Kipling
D). P. B. Shelley

16. World Food Program an organization of the United Nations was created at the behest of _____?

A). U Thant
B). Dwight Eisenhower
C). J. F Kennedy
D). Kissinger

17. Asabiyya, a concept of social solidarity with an emphasis on unity, was given by _____?

A). Ibn e Khaldun
B). Al Farabi
C). Ibn e Hazm
D). Jarir AI Tabari

18. Muhammad Ibn e Zakaria AI-Razi was a polymath physician, alchemist and philosopher from _____?

A). Iraq
B). Syria
C). Iran
D). Morocco

19. Al-Oanun fi at-tibb is an encyclopaedia of medicine in five books written by _____?

A). Al Farabi
B). Avicenna
C). Ibn e Hazm
D). Jarir Al Tabari

20. Who among the following discovered the sunspots?

A). Johannes Kepler
B). Einstein
C). Galileo
D). Copernicus

21. How many'countries are there in Asia?

A). 46
B). 48
C). 49
D). 50

22. Who among the following invented bifocal spectacles and lightning rod?

A). Galileo
B). James Madison
C). Thomas Edison
D). Benjamin Franklin

23. Mars, neighbour of Earth, has natural satellites.

A). Two
B). Three
C). Four
D). Five

24. Max Planck won Nobel Prize in 1918 for the discover of _____?

A). Time Constant
B). Heat Constant
C). Energy Quantum
D). Wave Constant

25. Paris Climate Agreement was adopted in _____?

A). 2014
B). 2015
C). 2016
D). 2017

26. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) also known as RIO Summit was held in _____?

A). 1990
B). 1991
C). 1992
D). 1993

27. The World Day to Combat Desertification and drought is a United Nations is observed on _____?

A). 17 May
B). 17 June
C). 17 July
D). 17 August

28. The largest famine hit Ethiopia in _____?

A). 1980
B). 1990
C). 1983
D). 1993

29. Literacy rate in Christian world is 100% compared to that literacy rate in Muslim world is _____?

A). 40%
B). 50%
C). 60%
D). None of these