General Awareness
1-The Concept of Sarvodaya is commonly associated with Mahatma Gandhi.
2-The author of the book Origin of species is Charles Darwin.
3-Tuareg people are the principal inhabitants of Sahara desert.
4-The Aihole inscription was written by Ravikiriti.
5-Chhau dance is a major classical dance in West Bengal.
6-Henri Becquerel discovered the phenomenon of radioactivity in 1896.
7-In Mollusca phylum of animals respiration takes place by Ctenidia.
8-Wilhelm Johannsen coined the term gene in 1909.
9-The Vijayanagara kingdom was founded in 1336 AD.
10- The World Trade Organisation(WTO) came into force in 1995.
11-PDS is associated with food security.
12-On May 3, Press Freedom is observed.
13-Vedanta Resources is a company operating in the area of Mining.
14-HDFC bank has taken over the Centurion Bank of Punjab.
15-Golden Revolution refers to the development of Horticulture.
16-National Research Center on Plant Biotechnology is located in New Delhi.
17-The Constitution (Ninety-fifth Amendment) Act, 2009, extended the period of reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and representation of the Anglo-Indians in the Lok Sabha and the State Legislative Assemblies for another ten years, i.e. up to 26 January 2020.
18-Sikkim became a state of India in 1975.
19- The Gandhi-Irwin pact was signed in 1931.
20-V.D Savarkar wrote the book-The Indian War of Independence.
21-World Bank prepares ‘Doing Business Report’.
22-Babur died in Agra in 1530.
23-Jupite, Saturn, and Uranus are superior planets.
24-The Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices(CACP) recommends Minimum Support Price.
25-Ibrahim Lodhi was the last ruler of Lodhi dynasty.
26-Bairam Khan was the guardian of Akbar.
27-USA has a Presidential form of Government.
28-Swami Vivekanand is associated with Ramakrishna Mission.
29-Rhizobium culture is a bio-fertilizer.
30-In Pitcher plant, a pitcher is developed from a leaf.
31-In Karnataka, Bandipur National Park is located.
32-Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry Ahmed Zewail died on August 2, 2016.He belonged to Egypt.
33-Lindane is also known as Gammaxene.
34-Pushpa Kamal Dahal assumed office as the Prime Minister of Nepal on August 4, 2016.
35-Scientist Lavoisier is associated with Oxygen.
36-Four bits in a Computer memory is equal to a Nibble.
37-Mahatma Gandhi started his first Satyagraha campaign at Champaran.
38-Australia has the World’s largest Uranium reserves.
39-Humidity is measured by Psychrometer.
40-Agronomy is a branch of Agriculture that deals with Principles and practice of crop production.
41-Paddy crop requires water logging condition for its cultivation.
42-Lichen is a symbiotic association between an Algae and Fungus.
43-The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is an international agricultural research and training organization, is located in the Philippines.
44-Sikkim is the smallest state in India according to the population.
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