General Knowledge MCQs with Explanations

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China 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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To celebrate the wonderment of books and those that make them come to life, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) established 23 April as World Book and Copyright Day in 1995.

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Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EarthDay.org including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries. The official theme for 2022 is Invest In Our Planet.

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April 22 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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The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history both in cost and casualties.

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Al-Biruni:

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Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, a mountainous landlocked country in southern Central Asia. It shares a border with six countries – Pakistan to the south and east, Iran to the west, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to the north and China to the extreme northeast.

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U.S.A 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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Soviet Union, in full Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.)

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Lake Constance, also called Lake of Constance, Constance also spelled Konstanz, German Bodensee, Latin Lacus Brigantinus, lake bordering Switzerland, Germany, and Austria and occupying an old glacier basin at an elevation of 1,299 feet (396 m).