General Knowledge MCQs with Explanations

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Valley of the Kings, Egypt, designated a World Heritage site in 1979. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. The kings of the New Kingdom (c. 1539–1075 bce), fearing for the safety of their rich burials, adopted a new plan of concealing their tombs in a lonely valley in the western hills behind Dayr al-Baḥrī.

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Ustad-Ahmad Lahori was the main architect of the Taj Mahal. The Taj Mahal is considered to be the greatest architectural achievement in the whole range of Indo-Islamic architecture.

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The Gotthard Base Tunnel is the world’s longest and deepest tunnel. It runs under the Swiss alps between the towns of Erstfeld in the north and Bodio in the south.

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Guru Ram Das had laid the foundations of Ramdaspur, later renamed to Amritsar, when he inaugurated the pool’s excavation in 1577.

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Kim Campbell 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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Napoleon Bonaparte 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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Erwin Rommel, nicknamed “the Desert Fox,” is given the option of facing a public trial for treason, as a co-conspirator in the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, or taking cyanide. He chooses the latter. Rommel was born in 1891 in Wurttenberg, Germany, the son of a teacher.

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M. K. Gandhi 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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World No Tobacco Day is celebrated around the world every year on May 31.