Thursday, 23 February 2017

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (23Feb2017)

1) How many minimum members should be present in Parliament to complete the quorum of the
house ?
Ans ) one – tenth members of the total members.
2) Which Article says “There will be a Governor for each State in India” ?
Ans) Article 153.
3) Why is the person of blood group AB called Universal Acceptor ?
Ans) The person of blood group AB can receive the blood from all types of blood groups AB,A,B and O,
and is therefore called Universal Acceptor.
4) Why is cooking quicker in a pressure cooker ?
Ans) The boiling point of water (or any other liquid) depends upon the pressure on its surface. Steam
produced inside the cooker builds up pressure thereby raising the boiling point of water, which results in
quick cooking .
5) Who was Madame Curie?
Ans) She was the French physicist who isolated radium. She joint with husband pierre Cuire Discovered
Radium for which they shared the Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) She won Nobel Prize again for Chemistry
in 1911. Her full name was Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) she was born in Poland.
6) Which English physician discovered the mechanics of the circulation of blood in 1616 AD?
Ans) William Harvey.
7) Which number system is commonly used as shortcut notation for groups of four binary digits ?
Ans) Hexadecimal.
8) What does the acronym YUPPIE stand for ?
Ans) Young Urban Professional.
9) Which was the first country to commence competitive examination in Civil Services ?
Ans) China.
10) What is called Tsunami?
Ans) It is Japanese word. Tsu means harbor: name means waves. i.e , when a submarine earthquake
causes a considerable movement of section of the Ocean floor, the volume of the marine basin changes
great mass of water into motion and waves of peculiar called kind Tusnamis are formed on the surface
of the ocean.
11) Where is the South Alps mountain located ?
Ans) New Zealand.
12) Which planet is known as ‘Lord of the Heavens’?
Ans) Jupiter
13) Who wrote David Copperfield, one of the world classics?
Ans) Charles Dickens
14) Who is called the architect of the Chinese Revolution and founder of the People’s Republic of China?
Ans) Mao Zedong.
15) Where was the German dictator Adolf Hitler born in 1889?
Ans ) Austria.
16) In which year did Mahmud Ghaznavi attack Somnath Temple ?
Ans) 1025 AD.
17) Who was the first sovereign ruler of the Sultanate of Delhi?
Ans) IItutmish who belonged to Shamsi dynasty.
18) Who founded the Servants if India Society in 1905?
Ans) Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
19) With which sport/game is PV Sindhu associated ?
Ans) Badminton
20) Badminton is the national sport of which Asian country?
Ans) Malaysia.

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