Basic GK Online Quiz

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only international organization dealing with the global rules of trade. Its main function is to ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible. It promotes multilateral trade.

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RAF stands for “Rapid Action Force”. It is a specialised wing of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) of India to deal with riot and crowd control situations.

The largest reflecting telescope in Asia is located in the Devasthal Observatory at Nainital, Uttarakhand, India.

Dehradun is not in UP, it is the capital of Uttarakhand.

Goa is a former Portuguese colony, the Portuguese overseas territory of Portuguese India existed for about 450 years until it was annexed by India in 1961. Portugal established a colony here in 1510, bringing with it not only Christianity but European culture. Not until 1961 did the Portuguese leave, giving Goa its freedom. It wasn't until 1987 that Goa officially became a state in India.

Vasco Nunez de Balboa was a Spanish explorer. He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World. Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer. Ferdinand Magellan and Vasco da Gama were Portuguese explorers.

Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Udaan Academy is a pilot training institute located at Fursatganj Airfield, in Amethi district of Uttar Pradesh. It was the first such institute in India (established in 1985). It is an autonomous institution and comes under the Ministry of Civil Aviation.

Dadabhai Naoroji is known as “Grand Old Man of India”. He was also known as “Unofficial Ambassador of India”. He was an Indian political leader, merchant, scholar and writer who was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom House of Commons between 1892 and 1895. He was the first Asian to be a British MP.

The Indian National Congress was founded at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay On 28 December 1885. A.O. Hume assumed office as the General Secretary, and Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee was elected president.