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PD/January/2018/114 “Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.”

Indian Polity andConstitution

★ Who was the Chairman of theCommittee on FundamentalRights and Minorities of theConstituent Assembly ?

—Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

★ Which article of the Indian Con-stitution deals with the pro-visions with respect to an inter-state council ?

—Article 263

★ Article 1 of the Indian Constitu-tion describes India as a

—Union of States

★ Telangana emerged as the newState of India on June 2, 2014. Itwas the outcome of

—15th Lok Sabha

★ The ideals of liberty, equalityand fraternity in the Preambleof the Indian Constitution areinspired from the

—French Constitution

★ Which article of the IndianConstitution ensures the equalityof opportunity in matters ofpublic employment to allIndians ?

—Article 16

★ At present, how many funda-mental duties are there in theIndian Constitution ?

—Eleven

★ The normal term of Lok Sabhacan be extended by an Act ofParliament itself during Emer-gency for a period upto

—One year at a time

★ The Council of Ministers has nooption but to resign if it loses theconfidence of

—The Lok Sabha

★ The members of the ConstituentAssembly were elected

—Indirectly by the ProvincialAssemblies

Indian NationalMovement

★ Which great Indian revolu-tionary leader wrote “ThePhilosophy of The Bomb” ?

—Bhagawati Charan Vohra

★ Parallel government in differentparts of India was a significantfeature of the

—Quit India Movement

★ Indian National Army had threefighting brigades named aftergreat Indian leaders

—Subhash, Gandhi and Nehru

★ Which British Prime Ministermade a declaration on March 15,1946 that British Cabinet Missionwould visit India ?

—Lord Attlee★ In which session was Surendra-

nath Banerjee’s National Con-ference merged with the IndianNational Congress ?

—Calcutta Session, 1886★ In which session of the INC were

the resolutions of FundamentalRights and the National Eco-nomic Programme passed ?

—Karachi Session, 1931★ Which National Movement was

ended with the Chauri-Chauraevent ?

—Non-Cooperation Movement★ Who called Mahatma Gandhi as

‘Mahatma’ for the first time ?—Rabindranath Tagore

★ ‘Gita Rahasya’ was written byLokmanya Tilak during hisimprisonment in

—Mandalay Jail★ ‘Ghadar’ newspaper was

published from—San Francisco (USA)

History and Cultureof India

★ Who was the author of thePrayaga Prasasti ? —Harisena

★ Which dynasty of South Indiaclaimed that its ancestors hadruled at Ayodhya ?

—Chalukyas of Kalyani

★ Who is the author of the book‘Padshahnama’ ?

—Abdul Hamid Lahori

★ Which Chola ruler assumed thetitle of ‘Gangaikonda’ ?

—Rajendra I

★ During the reign of SultanAlauddin Khalji, a superinten-dent of the market was known as

—Shahna-i-Mandi★ Who is the author of the book on

the Vijayanagar empire named‘A Forgotten Empire’ ?

—Sewell★ Krishna Deva Raya was a great

ruler of Vijayanagar empire of—The Tuluva Dynasty

★ In Shivaji’s Ashtapradhan,foreign minister was known as

—Dabir (Sumant)

★ Who was the leader of the Kolrevolt in 1831-32 ?

—Buddhu Bhagat

★ Which British Governor-Generalwas credited with ending theproblem of Pindaris ?

—Lord Hastings

Economic Affairsof India

★ Who has become the new chair-man of the State Bank of India ?

—Rajnish Kumar

★ Who is the chairman of a taskforce on ‘Public Credit Registryfor India’ formed by RBI ?

—Y.M. Deosthalee

★ What is India’s rank on the 2017Global Hunger Index ?

—100th rank

★ What is India’s rank on theGlobal Passport Power Rank-2017 ? —75th rank



PD/January/2018/115 “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

★ What is India’s rank on theWorld Bank’s Ease of DoingBusiness Index-2018 ?

—100th rank

★ The payment of foreign trade isrelated with

—Balance of Payment

★ Which Bank is the latest entry inRBI’s ‘Too Big to Fail LendersList’ ?

—HDFC Bank

★ The first credit Information Com-pany in India was

—CIBIL

★ ‘International Day of Coope-ratives’ is observed on

—July 7

★ ‘UDAY Yojana’ is associatedwith

—‘Energy Distribution’

Geography(India and the World)

★ Pamban is an island situatedbetween

—India and Sri Lanka★ The equatorial forests in the

Amazon basin are also known as—Selvas

★ Which kinds of rocks are alsoknown as ‘primary rocks’ ?

—Igneous rocks

★ The lines joining equal depths inoceans are called

—Isobath

★ Antilles current and Carribeancurrent are two branches of theoceanic current named

—North equatorial current

★ Which current mainly helps inthe formation of the Sargassosea ?

—Antilles current

★ The ‘Great Indian Desert’ is inthe rain shadow area of

—The Bay of Bengal Current★ ‘Talcher’ is the famous coal field

of —Odisha

★ Banihal Pass connects Srinagarwith

—Jammu

★ Sunderban Delta is formed bythe rivers

—Ganga and Brahmaputra

Science & Technology

★ Bifocal lens can be used as aremedy of —Presbyopia

★ Which noble gas is used inairport landing lights and in lighthouses ? —Krypton

★ Colour vision in human eyes isthe function of photoreceptorcells named —Cone cells

★ Rutherford’s alpha-particle scat-tering experiment was responsi-ble for the discovery of

—Proton

★ ‘Sleeping sickness’ is a parasiticdisease of humans and otheranimals. It is caused by

—Trypano soma

★ Dengue causes high fever, rashesand reduces the number of aparticular type of blood cells.Those blood cells are

—Platelets★ Radon is —an inert gas

★ The phenomenon of radioactivitywas discovered by

—Henri Becquerel

★ The main thinking part of thebrain is —Forebrain

★ The bond which is presentbetween water molecules is

—Covalent bond

Agriculture

★ Saline or alkaline soil is alsoknown as —Chopan

★ Sabarmati, Taichung Native,Hansa are the high yieldingvarieties of —Rice

★ Winter temperature between10°C to 15°C and the summertemperature between 21°C to25°C with rainless days andbright sunshine are the idealconditions for the cultivation of

—Wheat★ More than 80 per cent area of the

rubber plantation is concentratedin India in —Kerala

★ Sugarcane is one of the impor-tant cash crops in India. It isgrown to obtain —Sucrose

★ The Indian state leading in coffeeproduction is

—Karnataka

★ World Milk Day is observed on—June 1

★ Hard varieties of wheat arericher in —Gluten

★ Short duration crops are mainlysuitable for

—Dry farming

★ ‘Chicks’, ‘Coorgs’ and ‘Margo-gipes’ are major varieties of

—Coffee

Environment,Biodiversity, Climate

Change and Calamities

★ The term ‘brown air’ is used for—Industrial smog

★ Organisation related to ‘RedData Book’ or ‘Red List’ is

—I.U.C.N.

★ Which plant is referred to as the‘pollution indicator’ ?

—Lichen

★ ‘Centre for Marine LivingResources and Ecology’ islocated in —Kochi

★ World Wetlands Day is observedon —February 2

★ Who is the first special envoy ofthe UN for the oceans ?

—Peter Thomson

★ Where is the headquarters of theInternational Union for Con-servation of Nature (IUCN)located ?

—Gland (Switzerland)

★ Who is the author of the book‘Evolution of Climate’ ?

—C.E.P. Broeks

★ Who is the author of the book‘Climate and Evolution’ ?

—W.D. Mathew

★ The ‘Great Barrier Reef’ islocated in —Pacific Ocean

Communication

★ When signs are organized intosystems, they will become

—Codes



PD/January/2018/116 “Life as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front it blows with brave hearts.”

★ No new information is availablein

—Phatic communication

★ An informal type of discoursethat does not cover any func-tional topics of conversation orany transactions that need to beaddressed is referred to as

—Phatic communication

★ In communication, social mean-ings are part of

—Interpretation★ Jacobson’s Model of Communi-

cation has constituent factorsnumbering —Six

★ When codes shape collectiveperceptions, they are termed

—Ideological codes★ In communication research, the

chi-square statistic is alsoreferred to as —Crosstabs

★ In analog mass communication,contents are linear and

—Static★ When codes govern signs and

when assembled together, theybecome —Texts

★ Who has identified four typesof grapevine channels ‘Singlestrand’, ‘Gossip’, ‘Probability’‘Cluster’ in an organisation ?

—Keith Davis

Education and Child Psychology

★ The most effective method toencourage conceptual develop-ment in students is

—Give students multiple examplesand encourage them to use

reasoning

★ Primary school children willlearn most effectively in anatmosphere

—where there emotional needs aremet and they feel that they are

valued

★ Individualized learning is amethod of teaching in whichcontent, instructional technology,and pace of learning are basedupon

—the abilities and interest ofeach other

★ Sensitive period pertaining tolanguage development is

—Early childhood period

★ According to Lev Vygotsky, theprimary cause of cognitive deve-lopment is

—Social interaction

★ According to Jean Piaget, whichis necessary for learning

—Active exploration of theenvironment by the teacher

★ In a progressive classroom set-up, the teacher facilitates learn-ing by providing an environmentthat

—Promotes discovery

★ ‘Theory of multiple intelligence’was proposed by

—Howard Gardner

★ According to National Curri-culum Framework, 2005, the roleof a teacher has to be

—Facilitative

★ A teacher can enhance effectivelearning in his elementary class-room by

—Connecting the content to thelives of the students

Sports and Games

★ Which team emerged championof the FIFA Under-17 FootballWorld Cup-2017 ? —England

★ The Salt Lake Stadium where thefinal of the FIFA U-17 WorldCup-2017 organized, is located in

—Kolkata

★ Which team won the Asia CupHockey (Men’s) Title-2017 ?

—India

★ Who emerged champion of the2017 Formula One Champion-ship

—Mercedes’ driver LewisHamilton

★ ‘Max Verstappen’, ‘DanielRicciardo’ and ‘Valtteri Bottas’are famous sportspersons of

—Formula One Race★ ‘Deuce’, ‘Smash’, ‘Chip Shot’,

‘Love’ etc. are terms associatedwith the game of

—Lawn Tennis

★ What is the national game ofChina ?

—Table Tennis

★ Which Tennis Grand SlamTournament is played on‘Flushing Meadows’ ?

—US Open

★ FIFA Football World Cup isscheduled to be organized in2018 in

—Russia

★ Which Indian Cricketer is popu-larly known as ‘HaryanaHurricane’ ?

—Kapil Dev

Miscellany

★ Who became the new Director-General of UNESCO ?

—Audrey Azoulay of France★ World Day of Social Justice is

observed on—February 20

★ Name the winner of the 2017Nobel Peace Prize

—The International Campaign toAbolish Nuclear Weapons

(ICAN)

★ The Coalition Years : 1996-2012 isa book written by

—Former President of IndiaPranab Mukherjee

★ ‘Chong’, ‘Khaiva’ and ‘Nuralim’are forms of folk dances of

—Nagaland

★ ‘Pannalal Ghosh’, ‘Hari PrasadChaurasia’ and B. Kunjamani arefamous exponents of —Flute

★ ‘Binary language’ consists ofhow many digits ? —2

★ ‘Major’ in the Indian Army isequivalent to the rank of

—Squadron Leader in the IndianAir Force

★ The headquarters of the WorldIntellectual Property Organisa-tion (WIPO) is located in

—Geneva

★ ‘Kyodo’ is the news agency of

—Japan

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