General Knowledge MCQs with Explanations

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In 2022, India overtook China as the country with the largest population in the world, with more than 1.43 billion people.

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The quietest place on earth is an anechoic chamber at Orfield Laboratories in Minnesota. The space is so quiet that the longest anybody has been able to bear it was an entire 45 minutes. It is 99.99 percent sound absorbent and holds the Guinness World Record for the world’s quietest place. The inside of the small room is lined on all six sides with deep, fiberglass wedges, a double wall of insulated steel and foot-thick concrete.

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Construction of the mosque began in 1976 after a $120 million grant from Saudi King Faisal, whose name the mosque bears. The unconventional design by Turkish architect Vedat Dalokay was selected after an international competition.

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Iran voted by national referendum to become an Islamic republic on 1 April 1979 and to formulate and approve a new theocratic-republican constitution whereby Khomeini became supreme leader of the country in December 1979.

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1978 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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Treaty of Sèvres, (August 10, 1920), post-World War I pact between the victorious Allied powers and representatives of the government of Ottoman Turkey.

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World Theatre Day is an international observance celebrated on 27 March. It was initiated in 1961 by the International Theatre Institute.

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Portugal 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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‘Groundwater: Making The Invisible Visible’ is the theme of World Water Day 2022