1. Who, among the following, first put forward the concept of Swaraj?
Note:- Tilak demanded swaraj as his “birthright,” and his newspaper encouraged the young militants, whose introduction of the cult of the bomb and the gun in Maharashtra and Bengal led to Tilak’s deportation for “sedition” to prison in Mandalay (Burma) from 1908 to 1914.
2. A special tourist train Orient Express has been introduced in the ...
Note:- The Orient Express train started in 1994-95 as a joint venture of the Tourism Corporation of Gujarat and the Indian Railways. The livery follows a blue scheme to differentiate it from the Palace on Wheels.
3. The Asiatic Society of Bengal was founded by
Note:- The Asiatic Society is an organization founded during the Company rule in India to enhance and further the cause of "Oriental research", in this case, research into India and the surrounding regions. It was founded by the philologist William Jones on 15 January 1784 in a meeting presided over by Justice Robert Chambers in Calcutta, the then capital of the British Raj.
4. Which of the following planets is known as the Earth's twin?
Note:- Venus is also known as the twin of the earth Because Venus and Earth are about the same size, almost the same mass, and made of the same material.
5. Asia's largest brackish water lagoon, the Chilka Lake, lies in?
Note:- Chilika Lake is a brackish water lagoon, spread over the Puri, Khurda and Ganjam districts of Odisha state on the east coast of India, at the mouth of the Daya River, flowing into the Bay of Bengal, covering an area of over 1,100 km.
6. Ebola is a fatal disease. It refers to
Note:- Ebola is a rare but deadly virus that causes fever, body aches, and diarrhea, and sometimes bleeding inside and outside the body. As the virus spreads through the body, it damages the immune system and organs. Ultimately, it causes levels of blood-clotting cells to drop. This leads to severe, uncontrollable bleeding.
7. The main raw material used in the manufacture of cement is?
Note:- Limestone comprises 95% of core raw material for cement production. No wonder then that the cement sector governs demand, supply, and pricing of limestone (as well as coal) to some extent. According to some estimates, around 180-250 kg of coal and about 1.5 tonnes of limestone is required to produce a tonne of cement. Cement manufacturing consumes minerals such as gypsum, Quartz, bauxite, coal, kaolin (china clay), and iron ore too in varying amounts.
8. Late Blight is a disease that affects
Note:- Late blight is a potentially devastating disease of tomato and potato, infecting leaves, stems, and fruits of tomato plants. The disease spreads quickly in fields and can result in total crop failure if untreated. The late blight of potatoes was responsible for the Irish potato famine of the late 1840s.
9. Audio and videotapes are usually coated with?
Note:- Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic recording, made of a thin, magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film. It was developed in Germany in 1928, based on magnetic wire recording.
10. The greatest Indian Mathematician of the 12th century was
Note:- Bhāskaracharya was an Indian mathematician and astronomer. He was born in Bijapur in Karnataka. Born in a Hindu Deshastha Brahmin family of scholars, mathematicians and astronomers, Bhaskara II was the leader of a cosmic observatory at Ujjain, the main mathematical centre of ancient India.
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