General Studies Questions [Mix & Previous Years MCQs]

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Food Safety and Standards Authority of India is an autonomous body established under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India. It ws established under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, which is a consolidating statute related to food safety and regulation in India.

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Skoda Auto, also known as Skoda, is a Czech automobile manufacturer founded in 1895, headquartered in the Czech Republic. It was previously known as Laurin&Klement. Volkswagen Group is its parent company.

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The intensity of earthquakes is different from its magnitude which is related to the energy released by an earthquake. The Modified Mercalli intensity scale is used to determine the intensity of the earthquake which means the effects of an earthquake, at a given place, or on a locality.

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Manolis Kalomiris was a Greek classical composer. He was the founder of the Greek National School of Music. A passionate composer, he has a post-romantic idiom characterised by rich harmonies and orchestrations, complex counterpoints, long eastern melodies, and the frequent use of Greek folk rhythms. A preoccupation with love and death transcends all five of his music dramas.

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Devon Sheldon Smith is a cricketer from Grenada who represents the West Indies. His primary role within the team is as an opening or top order left-handed batsman, he has bowled right arm off breaks in his career but rarely at international level. In the West Indian domestic competitions, he plays for the Windward Islands. He has been described as a compact player who heavily favours scoring on the offside.

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The Guatemalan Peace Process lasted from 1994 to 1996 and resulted in the Guatemalan Peace Accords.

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Terry Gajraj is famously known as “Guyana Baboo”. Terry Gajraj is a Guyanese American chutney and chutney-soca artist.

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“Pic Macaya National Park” is an IUCN category II national park of Haiti. Pic Macaya National Park is one of two national parks of the Republic of Haiti. It is located in the country’s southern peninsula, within the Massif de la Hotte. Featuring the country’s last stand of the virgin cloud forest, it encompasses more than 8,000 hectares. Elevations in the rugged park reach a maximum height of 2,347 meters above sea level at Macaya Peak, the second-highest point in Haiti behind Pic la Selle. A majority of the park is composed of two tall peaks: Pic Macaya and Pic Formon.

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Hungary and Slovakia are the two countries that share the location of the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Tokaj wine region”. Tokaj wine region or Tokaj-Hegyalja wine region is a historical wine region located in northeastern Hungary and southeastern Slovakia. It is also one of the seven larger wine regions of Hungary. Tokaj has been declared a World Heritage Site in 2002 under the name Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landscape. However, its fame long predated this distinction because it is the origin of Tokaji aszu wine, the world’s oldest botrytized wine. Due to the Treaty of Trianon, a smaller part of the historical wine region now belongs to Slovakia.

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The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) for higher education is a non profit organization that checks on standards and quality in UK higher education. It was formed in 1997.