Know Your World - 48

1. By which band is Monetary policy regulated?

Central Bank

2. Which One feature is distinguishing the Rajya Sabha from the Bidhan Parishad?

Indirect election

3. If the price of an inferior good falls, what about its demand?

Remains constant

4. In which sector is 70% of working population of India engaged?

Primary sector

5. In India, in which banking is the Public Sector is most dominant?

Commercial banking

6. Which is the largest Public Sector Bank in India?

State Bank of India

7. Who is responsible for the collection and publication of monetary and financial information?

Reserve Bank of India

8. With which was Tarapore Committee associated?

Fuller capital account convertibility

9. To which Bill the President must accord his sanction without sending it back for fresh consideration?

Finance Bills

10. Among Indian Economists who had done pioneering work on National Income?

V. K. R. V. Rao

11. Who was the chairman of National Income Committee?

P. C. Mahalanobis

12. How is the contribution of agriculture to India’s economy?

Decreasing

13. Which body finalizes the Five Year Plan proposals?

National Development Council

14. Of which purpose was Nationalization of banks done?

Consolidating the economy

15. Word Bull and Big are associated with which branch of commercial activity?

Share Market

16. Chanda Kochhar leads to which of the organization?

ICICI Bank

17. Of which allocation does Gadgil Formula refer to?

Tax proceeds between the States

18. What is the principal source of revenue to the State Government in India?

Sales Tax

19. By whom was the first attempt to initiate economic planning in India made?

By M. Visvesvaraya

20. Bouncing of cheques has become an offence. What is the punishment for the same?

6 months imprisonment

21. In which year, some more commercial banks in addition to the first lot of 141 were nationalized in India?

1980

22. When did East African Development Bank come into force?

1967

23. Which forms the largest share of deficit in Govt. of India budget?

Fiscal deficit

24. Which scheme was intended to tap the black money?

India Development Bonds

25. Which bank prints currency notes of the denomination of Rs. 100?

The Bank Note Press, Dewas

26. Before 31st August, 1965 how many members were in the Economic and Social Council?

18

27. What is the effect of inflation on tax revenue results in a situation?

Fiscal drag

28. Which part of separated UTI is under SEBI’s regulation?

UTI-II

29. By which bank are the central banking functions in India performed?

Reserve Bank of India

30. From where does the National Stock Exchange functions?

Mumbai

Know Your World - 47

1. Which tissue takes part in healing the wounds?

Epithelium tissue

2. Temporary hardness of water is due to the presence of which thing?

Magnesium bicarbonate

3. Which energy does not have the problem of pollution?

Sun

4. What is a suitable unit for expressing electric field strength?

N/C

5. Which air pollutant affect the nervous system of man?

Lead

6. Which oxyacid of halogen has maximum acidic nature?

HClO4

7. The greatest threat to organisms and biodiversity in which process?

Process of habitat loss

8. The unidirectional property of a pn-junction is useful for its use as which thing?

Rectifier

9. Which animals have a diet mainly consisting of bamboo?

Red pandas

10. Thermal decomposition of alkanes is known as which name?

Cracking

11. Which energy of the electron at absolute zero is called?

Fermi energy

12. What is the characteristic odour of garlic?

A sulphur compound

13. What can be the maximum duration of totality for a solar eclipse?

7 minutes 40 seconds

14. Which is the vitamin that is most readily manufactured in our bodies?

Vitamin D

15. In human body, which are the leg bones?

Humerus and Femur

16. Which of the following is good nuclear fuel?

Plutonium-239

17. In metabolism, how enzymes act?

As catalyst

18. Which is the essential element in all organic compounds?

Carbon

19. By which plants is the maximum fixation of solar energy done?

Green plants

20. What is the wavelength of visible spectrum?

3900-7600 A

21. Which animal resembles most to human beings in terms of physical and mental capabilities?

Chimpanzee

22. Salts of which element pre vide colours to fireworks?

Strontium and barium

23. ORT (Oral Rehydration Therapy) is associated with the treatment of which disease?

Diarrhea

24. To suspect HIV/AIDS in a young individual, which symptom is mostly associated with?

Chronic diarrhea

25. We cannot see during a fog. Why?

Because of scattering of light

26. Which type of coal is difficult to light in the open air?

Peat

27. Leukemia or blood cancer is characterized by abnormal increase of which cells?

White blood cells

28. What does Oxidation involve?

Loss of electrons

29. Which Part of plant is important for the life cycle of plant?

Flower

30. What will be If a pendulum clock be taken from the earth to a revolving artificial satellite?

It will stop altogether

Know Your World - 46

1. Which is an insectivorous plant?

Pitcher plant

2. In colourful diamond, Why are different colours present?

Due to impurities

3. Which plant is referred to as a living fossil?

Gingko

4. Which physical quantities have the same dimensions?

Momentum and impulse

5. Which crop would be preferred for sowing in order to enrich the soil with nitrogen?

Gram

6. What is the number of unpaired electrons in carbon atom?

2

7. Which mammal rolls itself into ball at the time of danger?

Hedgehog

8. When some detergent is added to water, what will be the surface tension?

Increases

9. How many chambers are found in the heart of frog?

3

10. In an atom the order of filling up of the orbitals is governed by which principle?

Aufbau principle

11. Sex determination of child is done by whose chromosome?

Father

12. Who firstly demonstrated experimentally the existence of electromagnetic wave?

Hertz

13. What is the effect of over secretion of hormone from pituitary gland?

Increase growth in length

14. Heating pyrites in air to remove sulphur is known as which name?

Roasting

15. By whom the concept of survival of the fittest as advanced?

Herbert Spencer

16. There is no net transfer of energy by the particles of the medium in which waves?

Stationary waves

17. Moho discontinuity lies at the depth of approximately how many kilometers?

400 km

18. From the evolutionary point of view, which is the most primitive animal?

Turtle

19. What is reduction of oxide with carbon at high temperature called?

Smelting

20. Conversion of chemical energy into electrical energy occurs in which thing?

Battery

21. Purification of petroleum is carried out by which method?

Fractional distillation

22. Thick stems and thorny wax coated leaves are commonly found in which area?

Deserts

23. What is the short upper part of the human intestine next to the stomach?

Duodenum

24. Where will be the Time period in a vibration magnetometer infinite?

At magnetic pole

25. Which technique can be used to establish the paternity of a child?

Quantitative analysis of DNA

26. Which petroleum refinery product has the lowest boiling point?

Gasoline

27. By whom was Gene first isolated?

Hargobind Khurana

28. By which impact is Nuclear fission is caused?

Neutron

29. By who was Insulin discovered?

Dr. F G. Banting

30. Which is purest form of iron?

Wrought iron

Know Your World - 45

1. From which part of the plant is turmeric obtained?

Stem

2. In order of their distances from the Sun, which planet lies between Mars and Uranus?

Jupiter and Saturn

3. Which is used as a coolant in nuclear reactors?

Liquid sodium

4. Meghnad Saha is known for his contribution in which field?

Physics

5. Which part of cinchona plant yields quinine?

Bark

6. Liquefied Petroleum Gas consists of mainly which gases?

Methane, butane and propane

7. Which cytoplasm organelles are treated as prokaryotic cells within the eukaryotic cells?

Glyoxysomes

8. When milk is churned, how does the cream separate from it?

Due to the centrifugal force

9. When did man first land on moon?

1969

10. Which is the secondary source of light in a fluorescent lamp?

Mercury vapour

11. Archaeopteryx had which reptilian characters?

Clawed wings, teeth on jaw, tail

12. Which elements are obtained from sea weeds?

Iodine

13. By using which technique, is DNA fingerprint done?

Southern Blotting

14. Which Bacteria convert atmospheric nitrogen into nitrogenous compound?

Nitrogen fixing bacteria

15. Sound travels faster in which thing?

Iron than in air

16. Which type of microorganism is most widely used in industries?

Bacteria, microalgae and fungi.

17. In fireworks, how is the green flame produced?

Because of barium

18. Water will be absorbed by root hairs, then how is when the external medium?

Hypotonic

19. Who does a liquid drop tend to assume a spherical shape?

Surface tension

20. What is an instrument for measuring the rate of transpiration?

Potometer

21. Which reflects back more sunlight as compared to other three?

Land covered with fresh snow

22. Which substance does not have a melting point?

Glass

23. For which snake is the diet mainly composed of their snakes?

King Cobra

24. What minimum number of non-zero non-collinear vectors is required to produce a zero vector?

3

25. What structure is common to both earthworm and cockroach?

Ventral nerve cord

26. By which a mixture of sand and naphthalene can be separated?

Sublimation

27. Which part of human brain is the regulating centre for swallowing and vomiting?

Medulla oblongata

28. By which Radio waves of constant amplitude can be generated?

Oscillator

29. Which is used to know the development of foetus in uterus?

Ultrasound

30. Which oil is used in the floatation method for the purification of ores?

Pine oil

Know Your World - 44

1. Which mirror is to be used to obtain a parallel beam of light from a small lamp?

Concave mirror

2. What is the Number of water molecules present in Mohr’s salt?

8

3. Which gland is responsible for the secretion of insulin?

Pancrease

4. The change in temperature of a body is 50°C. What is the change on Kelvin scale?

50 K

5. What is a good source of Vitamin ‘E’?

Fresh vegetable

6. Which are the important raw materials required in cement industry?

Limestone and clay

7. What is not the cause of low conductivity of electrolyte?

Ionization of salt

8. Epiphytes are plant which depends on other plants for which purpose?

Mechanical support

9. Cooking gas is a mixture of which gases?

Butane and propane

10. Which acid is produced when milk gets sour?

Lactic acid

11. What is Electric field intensity at a point a hollow charged spherical conductor?

Is zero

12. What is the most important requirement for the people of a flood hit area?

Inoculation against cholera

13. Which are the most commonly used chemicals in the artificial rain making or cloud seeding?

Silver Iodide (Agl)

14. Which hormone is responsible for the secretion of milk in mothers?

Lactogenic hormone

15. What happens, When water is heated from 0°C to 10°C the volume of water?

First decreases then increases

16. A vein is a vessel that carries blood which side?

Towards the heart

17. Which compound does not give a positive test in Lassaigne’s test for nitrogen?

Hydrazinc

18. What is in lichen symbiotic relationship between fungi and algae called?

Halotism

19. With which instrument can a sailor in a submarine see the objects on the surface of sea?

Periscope

20. Litmus paper used in laboratory from which obtained?

Lichen

21. Which acid is used in synthetic lemonade?

Citric acid

22. At absolute zero temperature, what will be the kinetic energy of the molecules?

Zero

23. Which is the instrument that measures air pressure?

Barometer

24. Middle ear is not found in snake. Through part do they receive sound?

Skin

25. By whom was the quantum theory first enunciated?

By Max Planck

26. Through which are the characters are transferred from parents to progeny?

DNA

27. With rise of boiling point of water, what will be the latent heat of steam?

Decreases

28. Which branch of biology deal with the study of heredity?

Genetics

29. If a proton of mass m is moving with velocity of light, how will its mass?

Unchanged

30. If we sprinkle common salt on an earthworm, why does it die?

Due to osmotic shock

Know Your World - 43

1. A man with a dark skin, in comparison with a man with a white skin, What will experience?

Less heat and less cold

2. Where a large number of species are are found within a small unit of area?

Wet evergreen equatorial forests

3. Which is the tree requiring minimum water for its growth?

Babul

4. How are Oxygen and ozone?

Allotropes

5. In which is ‘Foot and Mouth Disease’found?

Cattle

6. What denotes the smallest temperature?

1° on the Kelvin scale

7. Which tree, once very popular in social forestry, is now taken to be environmental hazard?

Eucalyptus

8. Foot-and-Mouth disease in animals, a current epidemic in some parts of the world, By which is this caused?

Bacterium

9. In which animal is respiration done by skin?

Frog

10. ‘Gobar gas’ contains mainly which gas?

Methane

11. By which number the quality of gasoline’ sample is determined?

By its octane number

12. Due to bite of mad dog the disease hydrophobia is caused by which virus?

Rabies virus

13. A temperature at which both the Fahrenheit and the centigrade scales have the same value?

-40°

14. Medicine for epilepsy is obtained from which lichen?

Parmelia

15. Which type of glass is used for making glass reinforced plastic?

Quartz glass

16. What percentage of water is lost during transpiration?

0.99

17. When temperature is gradually decreased, what is the specific heat of substance?

Decreased

18. What is the loss of water in the form of water drops called?

Guttation

19. Which metal is non toxic in nature?

Gold

20. What is Study of growth and development of embryo?

Embryology

21. Angular separation between two colours of the spectrum depends upon which thing?

Angle of deviation

22. What is the Study of pulse and arterial blood pressure called?

Sphygmology

23. Which is the element that has the highest first ionization potential?

Nitrogen

24. What is considered as the easily digestible source of protein?

Soybean

25. Total internal reflection of light is possible when light enters from which thing?

Water to air

26. Which is a global biodiversity hotspot in India?

Western Ghats

27. In the human body, Cowper’s glands form a part of which system?

Reproductive system

28. Which transition metal is in liquid state?

Mercury

29. In absence of ribosome in cell which functions does not take place?

Protein synthesis

30. If a bar magnet is cut length wise into 3 parts, what will the total number of poles be?

6

Know Your World - 42

1. ‘Sharbati Sonora’ refers to ______

A variety of wheat

2. Kisan-Khad is an example of fertilizer ______

N-P-K

3. Commercial Cork is obtained from the bark of ______

Oak

4. The National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resource is located at ______

New Delhi

5. Origin of species was published by ______

Charles Darwin

6. The deficiency of ______ in the body leads to diabetis.

Insulin

7. Antibiotics are ______

drugs prepared from moulds and mould like organisms

8. An instrument to hear and analyse movements of heart and lungs ______

Stethescope

9. Largest reptile is ______

Crocodile

10. Life span of RBC is ______

120 days

11. An adult person will have ______ liters of blood

43256

12. In GM food, GM stands for ______

Genetically modified

13. Vaccine for influenza has been discovered by_____

Salk

14. The number of chromosomes in a normal human body cell is_____

46

15. Who is known as the father of Genetics?

Gregor Johann Mendel

16. The average length of human pregnancy is_____

36-38 weeks

17. Colour vision is made possible by the cells in the retina called_____

cone cells

18. The naturally occurring anticoagulant in the human body is_____

Heparin

19. The cellular energy is made available in the form of_____

ATP

20. Osteomalacia symptomised by bone softening is due to the deficiency of_____

Vitamin D

21. 1 gm of carbohydrate food gives energy which is about _____

4.2 k.cal

22. Who is the father of cloning?

Ian Wilmut

23. Who invented oral polio vaccine?

Albert Sabin

24. Name the disease which created panic in Asian countries in 2003.

Avian Flu

25. Name the first transgenic crop sown in India.

Bt. Cotton

26. Write the scientific name of coconut.

Cocus nucifera

27. Name the largest flower in the world?

Rufflesia

28. National Institute of Communicable diseases is located at ___

New Delhi

29. Name the inventor of mercury thermometer.

Fahrenheit

30. Name the scientist who prepared smallpox vaccine first.

Edward Jenner