General Knowledge MCQs with Explanations

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The Karakoram Highway known by its initials KKH, also known as N-35 or National Highway 35 or the China-Pakistan Friendship Highway) is a 1,300 km (810 mi) national highway which extends from Hasan Abdal in the Punjab province of Pakistan to the Khunjerab Pass in Gilgit-Baltistan, where it crosses into China and becomes China National Highway 314. The highway connects the Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa plus Gilgit-Baltistan with China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

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David Livingstone is the correct answer. Review the question and compare it with the other choices to remember this fact for future exams.

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On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and, tethered to it, float freely in orbit – to space-walk.

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Prince Sultan bin Salman Al Saud is the correct answer. Review the question and compare it with the other choices to remember this fact for future exams.

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Qatar is the correct answer. Review the question and compare it with the other choices to remember this fact for future exams.

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On April 6, 1965, NASA launched the world’s first commercial communications satellite Intelsat I (a.k.a. Early Bird) into a geosynchronous orbit above earth.

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The Peregrine falcon is the fastest bird – and in fact the fastest animal on Earth – when in a dive. As it executes this dive, the Peregrine falcon soars to a great height, then dives steeply at speeds of over 200 miles (320 km) per hour.

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Brazil won the world cup football championship five times. 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002

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Jawaharlal Nehru is the correct answer. Review the question and compare it with the other choices to remember this fact for future exams.