GK Questions - Basic General Knowledge questions and answers

1. Who has been appointed as the new chairman of the Central Board of Indirect taxes and Customs (CBIC)?

[A]Johnjoseph 
[B]VanajaN.Sarna 
[C]MahenderSingh 
[D] S Ramesh

Ans .   D

2. Who has been appointed as the acting Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)?

[A]ArvindSaxena 
[B]SudhaJain 
[C]KirtiKumar 
[D] Omi Agrawal

Ans .   A

3. Pappu Karki, the popular Kumaoni folk singer has passed away. He was a native of which state?

[A]Jammu&Kashmir 
[B]HimachalPradesh 
[C]Uttarakhand 
[D] Assam

Ans .   C

4. India’s first-ever national police museum will establish in which city?

[A]Chennai 
[B]Delhi 
[C]Nagpur 
[D] Kolkata

Ans .   B

5. The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) is in news for appointing Sharad Kumar as the new Vigilance Commissioner. As per which committee’s recommendations, the CVC was set up?

[A]NittoorSrinivasaRaucommiittee 
[B]TejendraMohanBhasincommiittee 
[C]KVChowdarycommiittee 
[D] K Santhanam commiittee

Ans .   D

6. Which country will host the 45th G7 summit 2019?

[A]Italy 
[B]Germany 
[C]France 
[D] Canada

Ans .   C

7. Which country’s women's cricket team has clinched the Asia Cup Twenty-20 tournament 2018?

[A]SouthKorea 
[B]Bangladesh 
[C]India 
[D] Pakistan

Ans .   B

8. Who has won the men’s singles French Open tennis tournament 2018?

[A]NovakDjokovic 
[B]DominicThiem 
[C]RogerFederer 
[D] Rafael Nadal

Ans .   D

9. Which country’s football team has lifted the 2018 Intercontinental Cup football title?

[A]India 
[B]SriLanka 
[C]Kenya 
[D] Argentina

Ans .   A

10. Shantaram Laxman Naik, who passed away recently, was the former Congress chief of which state?

[A]Maharashtra 
[B]Goa 
[C]Bihar 
[D] Karnataka

Ans .   B

21. Who among the following got the Bharat Ratna Award before becoming the president of India?  

A.  R Venkataraman 
B.  Dr. Rajendra Prasad 
C.  DR Zakir Hussian 
D.  W Giri

Ans .D

22. Who is the first non-Indian to receive the Bharat Ratna?

A.  Martin Luther King 
B.  Mother Terasa 
C.  Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan 
D.  Aubin Mehta

Ans .C

23. When did Mother Teresa win the Nobel Peace Prize?  

A.  1975 
B.  1979 
C.  1981 
D.  1982

Ans .B

24. Which one of the following glasses is used in bulletproof screens?  

A.  Soda glass 
B.  Pyrex glasses 
C.  Jena glass 
D.  Reinforced glass

Ans .D

25. Which substance is used to retard the setting action of cement?  

A.  CaO 
B.  AlO 
C.  CaSO.2HO 
D.  NaO + KO

Ans .C

26. The mineral in which India depends largely on imports is  

A.  Iron Ore 
B.  Bauxite 
C.  Mica 
D.  Mercury

Ans .D

27. The last Mughal Emperor was  

A.  Akbar 
B.  Bahadur Shah 
C.  NoorJehan 
D.  Babur

Ans .B

28. The state which leads in agricultural production is  

A.  Haryana 
B.  Punjab 
C.  Karnataka 
D.  Tamil Nadu

Ans .B

29. The longest mountain range in the world is  

A.  The Alps 
B.  The Himalayas 
C.  The Andes 
D.  The Rockies

Ans .C

30. The most populous city in the world is  

A. Paris 
B. London 
C. Peking 
D. Tokyo

Ans .D