General Knowledge Pointers - 44

 

● With which the executive power relating to concurrent subjects remain?

Answer :- The Centre,

● Up to how much age can the Members of the Union Public Service Commission function?

Answer :- 65 years,

● A Municipal Corporation is set up in a city with howmuch population of not less than?

Answer :- 10 lakh,

● Which language is Next to Hindi spoken by the largest number of people in the Indian subcontinent?

Answer :- Bengali,

● Which is the Highest milk producer in India?

Answer :- U. P.,

● With which was Tarapore Committee associated?

Answer :- Fuller capital account convertibility,

● Who laid the foundation of nuclear science in the country?

Answer :- Homi J. Bhabha,

● A girl ate sweets while fanning the flies away. Due to this, she suffered from a which disease?

Answer :- Cholera,

● Which is the highest grade of coal whose surface is shining and has the highest calorific value?

Answer :- Anthracite,

● What is Refrigeration?

Answer :- A process in which the decomposition of food is delayed,

● How can the quantity of water vapour the atmosphere hold increases?

Answer :- With increase of temperature,

● Which substance is a bad conductor of electricity but a good conductor of heat?

Answer :- Mica,

● Which hormone is responsible for the secretion of milk in mothers?

Answer :- Lactogenic hormone,

● What denotes the smallest temperature?

Answer :- 1° on the Kelvin scale,

● Which metal is used for making boats because it does not corrode by seawater?

Answer :- Titanium,

● Sweating during exercise indicates operation of which process in the human body?

Answer :- Osmoregulation,

● What is the first large research reactor of India that uses U-233 as fuel?

Answer :- KAMINI,

● Who was the first Indian woman to swim across the English Channel?

Answer :- Arati Saha,

● Which is used as the logo of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)?

Answer :- Panda,

● Which country has the largest number of land-border neighbouring countries?

Answer :- Russia,

● Which train/railway passes through Germany, France, Austria, Hungary and Romania?

Answer :- Orient Express,

● What is the range of Prithvi III, the naval version of Prithvi?

Answer :- 250 km-300 km,

● To which woman is the Chameli Devi Award given to an outstanding woman?

Answer :- A journalist,

● What was the greatest invention of man in Palaeolithic Age?

Answer :- Fire,


● The tornadoes are very strong tropical cyclones originating in which sea?

Answer :- Caribbean sea,

● Which region receives the rainfall throughout the year due to westerly winds?

Answer :- South Chile,


● Which son of Aurangazeb revolted against his father, weakening the latter’s position against the Rajputs?

Answer :- Akbar,

● The birth place of Mahavir was –

Answer :- Kundigram near Vaishali,

● Sirajuddaula was defeated by Lord Clive in the battle of –

Answer :- Plassey,

● The earliest epigraphical evidence about Bhagavatism is –

Answer :- Besanagar Pillar inscription of Heliodorus,

● The famous work Tabaqat-i-Akbari was written by -

Answer :- Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmad,

● Which sites has yielded the cultural remains from Neolithic to Harappan period?

Answer :- Mehrgarh,

● Which events of the Buddha’s life did not take place on the full moon of Vaishakh month?

Answer :- Renunciation,

● Who established Delhi as the capital of Sultanate?

Answer :- Iltutmish

● The largest site of Indus Civilization in India is –

Answer :- Rakhigarhi,

● Who was the founder of Bahmani Kingdom in Deccan?

Answer :- Hasan Gangoo,

● Where for the first time Varna System is mentioned?

Answer :- Rigveda,

● The main centre of Chandella art was –

Answer :- Khajuraho,

● Who is credited with initiating a new Samvat –

Answer :- Lakshamanasena,

● Who divided the Mughal empire into provinces for the first time?

Answer :- Akbar,

● At which place the first meeting of Indian National Congress was held?

Answer :- Mumbai,

● Regvedic Gods are mentioned in –

Answer :- Boghajkoi inscription,

● Who among the following Gupta rulers conquered Huns –

Answer :- Skandagupta,

● Adi Shankar who later on became Shankaracharya was born in –

Answer :- Kerala,

● Which was the first great royal patron of Buddhism?

Answer :- Ashoka,

● Chachanama describes the history of which region?

Answer :- Sindh,

● In ancient India, at where was the earliest capital of Magadha kingdom?

Answer :- Rajgir,

● Which Mahajanapada was situated on the bank of river Godawari?

Answer :- Assaka,

● Which dynasty was ruling over North India at the time of Alexander’s invasion?

Answer :- Nanda,

 

● Who was the President of Gaya Session of the Indian National Congress held in 1922 ?

Answer :- Chittaranjan Das,

● By which name is Jay Prakash Narayan known?

Answer :- Loknayak,

● Which country has the largest coastline?

Answer :- Canada,

● The largest producer of aluminium in the world is –

Answer :- USA,

● The Pennines (Europe), the Appalachians (America) and the Aravallis (India) are examples of–

Answer :- old mountains,

● Which is the largest metal trading centre?

Answer :- New York,

● The oldest oil field in India is –

Answer :- Digboi, Assam,

● In India, Yarlung Zangbo River is known as –

Answer :- Brahmaputra,

● Which is the driest station?

Answer :- Leh,

● Which States has not identified tribal community?

Answer :- Haryana,

● Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary is located at –

Answer :- Gurgaon,

● The forest area in India per person (in average hectare) is –

Answer :- 0.20,

● Nagarjuna Sagar Multipurpose Project is on which river?

Answer :- Krishna,

● THE WORLD BENEATH HIS FEET is a Biography of -

Answer :- Pulela Gopichand,

● What does infant mortality rate refer to?

Answer :- The ratio of number of children who die before their first birthday out of every 1000 live births,

● The Waghera Uprising happened in –

Answer :- Baroda,

● Who penned the Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamare dil me hai/Dekhna hai zor kitna baju-e-qatil me hai.”

Answer :- Bismil,

● Who raised the demand of Complete Independence for the first time in 1921?

Answer :- Maulana Hasrat Mohani,

● Identify the years those are closest to the founding of the Communist Party of India and the RSS respectively.

Answer :- 1925, 1925,

● When Swami Sahajananda Saraswati formed the All India United Kisan Sabha with the demand for the ‘nationalization of land and waterways’?

Answer :- just before his death,

● The Fitch Ratings has its headquarters in -

Answer :- New York,

● Who highlighted the plight of the peasants of Champaran by writing under pseudonyms like ‘Dukhi’, ‘Dukhi Atma’, ‘Dukhi Hridaya’ ?

Answer :- Peer Muhammad Moonis,

● Of which thing were the Indus Valley houses built?

Answer :- Bricks,

● Where is the Shrine of Hazarat Nizamuddin Auliya is situated?

Answer :- Delhi,

● Which Sultan of Delhi was refused an audience by Nizamuddin Auliya?

Answer :- Jalaluddin Firoz Khalji,

● Which philosophical system was founded by Vallabhacharya?

Answer :- Suddhadvaita,

● Bhakt Tukaram was a contemporary of which Mughal emperor?

Answer :- Jahangir,

● Who was the Hindu saint to have as disciple both Hindus and Muslims?

Answer :- Sri Chaitanya,

● Who was the first Bhakti saint to use Hindi for the propagation of his message?

Answer :- Ramananda,

● What is the percentage of radiant energy reflected back by surface called?

Answer :- Albedo,

● Which types of cloud rarely forms at height lower than 5000 metres?

Answer :- Nimbostratus,

● A sea-breeze front is a weather front created by a sea-breeze also known by which name?

Answer :- Convergence zone,

● What is a line on a weather map joining all places of equal pressure called?

Answer :- Isobar,

● Why is wind in the southern hemisphere is deflected towards left?

Answer :- Due to rotation of the earth,

● Local thunderstorms Norwesters are prominent in which state?

Answer :- West Bengal,

● If the atmosphere is cooled, what is its capacity for water vapour?

Answer :- Lowered,