General Knowledge MCQs with Explanations

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18th century 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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Captain Cook was the first man to set foot in all five continents. Captain Cook is considered one of the greatest navigators and explorers of all time and, even before his death, was celebrated as a British national hero and icon. Cook mapped the east coast of Australia – this paved the way for British settlement 18 years later.

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One of the first countries that introduced a social pension was Germany in 1889 by its chancellor Otto von Bismarck who wanted to connect ordinary workers with the newly created German state and granted every worker who reached age of 65 a small flat pension. At first it was funded by taxes on tobacco monopoly.

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Teatro di San Cassiano in Venice Italy was the first public opera house when it opened in 1637.

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SL-J was partially funded by Japan through NASDA; this cooperative Japanese-American mission launched a NASDA astronaut into Earth orbit using the Space Shuttle in 1992.

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NAMA is a space agency of Nigeria. The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) was created under ACT 48 of 1999 of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to develop the Nigerian airspace infrastructure to a level consistent with the requirements of the ICAO Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs).

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Two such brands include KFC and Pizza Hut – both owned by parent company, Yum! Brands, itself a subsidiary of PepsiCo – which are now looking to use omnichannel strategies to break free of their dine-in reputations. Yum! was created in 1997 as Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc. from PepsiCo’s fast food division as the parent corporation of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurant companies.

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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (born 2 March 1931) is a Russian and former Soviet politician. The eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union, he was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991.

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1943 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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According to Sikh tradition, Gurmukhi (literally, “from the mouth of the Guru”) was invented in the mid-16th century by Angad, the second Sikh Guru (head of the Sikh religion), in order to correct certain inadequacies in the Lahnda script so that sacred literature might be accurately recorded.