GK/General Awareness
1-Mandamus is a writ which is an order of a court of law issued to a subordinate courtor an officer of government or a corporation or any other institution commanding the performance of certain acts or duties
2- Prohibition is a writ issued by a higher court to a lower court prohibiting it from takingup a case because it falls outside the jurisdiction of the lower court.
3- Quo Warranto is a writ issued against a person who claims or usurps a public office.
4-Habeas Corpus is a writ issued to a detaining authority to produce the detained person in court to knowcause for detention
5- Certiorari is a writ issued to a lower court directing it that the record of a case besent up for review with all the files, evidence and documents with an aim to overrule the judgement of the lower court
6-Rise in temperature is a result of ‘Green House Effect’.
7-Lake Toba is a Caldera lake.
8-Astrometer instrument is used to measure intensity of sun-rays.
9-Junagarh rock edict of Rudradamana inscriptions proves Chandragupta Maurya’s conquest of Saurashtra.
10-Sarnath Inscription of the time of Kanishka indicates that his empire was extended upto Champa in the east
11- Kurram, Nadu, Kottam gives the administrative divisions of the chola kingdom in the correct descending order.
12-Haryanka dynasty ruled over Magadha in the 6th century B.C.
13-Amir Khusro wrote books of Ashiqa, Qiranussadain, Khazain-ul-Futuh.
14- Ishwardas Nagar wrote Futuhat-i-Alamgiri book.
15- Kanauj became the most important city of northern India under Harsha.
16-Ionosphere atmospheric layer is responsible for the deflection of radio-waves.
17-Ashokan Pillar inscriptions is devoted to the principle of religious tolerance completely
18-30°to 35°latitudes in both the hemispheres are horse latitudes.
19-Government of India Act 1858 transferred the Government of India from East India Company to the Crown
20-Seventh Constitution contains the Union, State and Concurrent List.