Bihar Police SI Prelims Mock Test - 3 - Bihar Police SI MCQ

SAHAJ is the name of the scheme introduced as a well-targeted system of service delivery to LPG customers.

ACABQ consists of 16 members appointed by the assembly. It is a subsidiary organ of the General Assembly.

• Therefore statement A is correct.

The 193-member Assembly appoints members of the Advisory Committee. . Members are selected on the basis of broad geographical representation, personal qualifications, and experience.

ACABQ ensures that fund contributions to the U.N. system are put to good effect and that mandates are properly funded.

• Therefore statement B is correct.

Recently India got the victory in the elections held in ACABQ. The victory gives a strong display of support by U.N. member states for India.

• Therefore statement C is correct.

It comes as India gets ready to sit in the UN Security Council as a non-permanent member for a two-year term beginning January 2021.

It examines, on behalf of the General Assembly, the administrative budgets of the specialized agencies and proposals for financial arrangements with such agencies; and to consider and report to the General Assembly on the auditors’ reports on the accounts of the UN and of the specialized agencies.

The sourness in lemon is due to citric acid. Acids are substances in which hydrogen is found and they produce hydrogen ions in aqueous solution, acids are generally found in citrus fruits like lemon, tamarind etc.

Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Ramesh Sippy at the Film fare Awards 2020. The 65th Film fare Awards were held on 15 Feb 2020 at Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium, Guwahati, Assam.

• Gully Boy, directed by Zoya Akhtar, was awarded the Best Film. Ranveer Singh received Best Actor in a Leading Role for Gully Boy. Alia Bhatt was awarded Best Actress in a Leading Role for Gully Boy. Zoya Akhtar was awarded Best Director for Gully Boy.
• Critics Best Film was awarded to Article 15 and Sonchiriya.
• Critics Best Actor in a Leading Role was awarded to Ayushmann Khurrana for Article 15.
• Critics Best Actress in a Leading Role was awarded to Bhumi Pednekar and Taapsee Pannu for Saand Ki Aankh.
• Best Playback Singer Male was awarded to Arijit Singh, while Best Playback Singer Female was awarded to Shilpa Rao.

The objective of the Panini Language Laboratory is to promote the reading and writing of Hindi and other Indian languages.

Panini language lab:

• ​Panini language lab aims to promote reading and writing Hindi amongst the young generation and its further development.
• It will serve as a medium to generate more interest in learning Hindi amongst youngsters thereby strengthening the language.
• It has been established in Mauritius with support from the Indian External Affairs Ministry.

Indian Sailor Anandi Nandan Chandavarkar has won Gold at the 34th King’s Cup Regatta 2022 held in Phuket, Thailand on 11 December 2022.

• She participated in the French Open Skiff National event and finished 5th in the U-15 category.
• She also participated in the Japanese Open Skiff Nationals 2022.
• The King’s Cup Regatta started in 1987 and is a one-week event held annually in Phuket, Thailand.

Launched under the Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan, the PM-FME Scheme is centrally sponsored. It aims to enhance the competitiveness of existing individual micro-enterprises in the unorganized segment of the food processing industry and promote formalization of the sector. This scheme was launched by the Ministry of Food and Processing. Therefore statement A is Incorrect.

It seeks to provide support to Farmer Producer Organizations, Self Help Groups, and Producers Cooperatives along their entire value chain.

Under the PM-FME scheme, capacity building is an important component. The scheme envisages imparting training to food processing entrepreneurs, various groups, viz., SHGs / FPOs / Co-operatives, workers, and other stakeholders associated with the implementation of the scheme. Therefore statement B and C are correct. The Scheme adopts One District One Product (ODODP) approach to reap the benefit of scale in terms of procurement of inputs, availing common services and marketing of products. The States would identify food product for a district keeping in view the existing clusters and availability of raw material. The ODOP product could be a perishable produce based product or cereal-based products or a food product widely produced in a district and their allied sectors.

​Chemical Change: A change in which one or more new substances are formed is known as chemical change.

• The cooking of food is a chemical change because after cooking, the raw ingredients or the vegetables cannot be regained again.
• Water boiling, melting ice, tearing paper, freezing water and crushing a can are all examples of physical changes.
• Burning of paper is a chemical change, after burning the paper can not be obtained as previous again.
• Rusting of iron is a chemical change, after rusting the iron reacts with moisture and air to form an oxide layer on its surface.
• Digestion of food is chemical changes, in the digestion of food various enzyme and chemicals are involved.
• Dissolving sugar or salt in water is a physical change.

So, the set with chemical changes is:

Rusting of iron, burning of paper, digestion of food.

Sanjana Kapoor was awarded the French honour of ‘Chevalier dans I'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’ (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) in January 2020.

Some noted Indian awardees of this award include Bharti Kher, Shahrukh Khan, Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia, Aishwarya Rai, Raghu Rai, Ebrahim Alkazi, Habib Tanveer, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Wendell Rodricks, and Aruna Vasudev, to name a few. Sanjana Kapoor is the daughter of former actor Shashi Kapoor, who started her film career from  Aparna Sen’s famous movie "36 Chowringhee Lane" in the year 1981.

When the river enters the plains, it twists and turns to form large curves known as meanders. Over time, meander loops begin to intersect the river and form incised lakes, known as oxbow lake.

Sometimes, due to intense erosive action, the outer curve of a meander rises to such an extent that the inner ends of the loop come close enough to be disconnected from the main channel and exist as independent water bodies called oxbow lake.

In the budget for the year 2000-2001, the three rates of excise duty (8, 16, 24 percent) were replaced by a single Modvatable rate of 16%, called Modvat.

Smriti Mandhana has become the first Indian woman to score a Test hundred in pink-ball cricket.

Smriti Mandhana reached a new milestone on 1 Oct 2021 as she became the first Indian woman to score a Test hundred in pink-ball cricket. She scored 127 runs with 22 fours and a six. The historic century was also the first in the career of Mandhana. Earlier, Virat Kohli had become the first Indian cricketer in the men's game to have scored a hundred in pink-ball Test.

NFT is a one-of-its-kind asset that is not interchangeable in nature. It means that the NFT is not replaceable by another ‘identical’ item.

For example, if two individuals hold a bitcoin each, they can exchange their bitcoins, which are a replica of each other and have the same value. However, NFTs are not interchangeable, as they are more like pieces of art where each and every token is unique in itself. While bitcoins are also digital assets, NFTs are unique digital assets with each token representing a unique value.

NFTs have evolved to include digital real estate, video game items, digital art, and music.

'BIMSTEC's permanent Secretariat is situated in Dhaka.

The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) which was launched as a sub-regional grouping on 6th June 1997 through the Bangkok Declaration, was finally anchored with a Permanent Secretariat in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Central Pollution Control Board is primarily concerned with the measurement of pollution in India. The Central Pollution Control Board is the apex organization in the country in the field of pollution control.

The full form of "VLSI" is Very Large Scale Integration.

Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) is the process of creating an integrated circuit (IC) by combining millions of MOS transistors onto a single chip. VLSI began in the 1970s when MOS integrated circuit chips were widely adopted, enabling complex semiconductor and telecommunication technologies to be developed.

The temperature of oceanic water is important for marine organisms including plants and animals. The temperature of seawater also affects the climate of coastal lands and plants and animals therein. 

Assertion (A): At greater ocean depths; water moves extremely slow and maintains a uniform low temperature.

• With respect to temperature, there are three layers in the oceans from the surface to the bottom. 
• The first layer represents the top layer of warm oceanic water and is 500 m thick with temperatures ranging between 20° and 25°C.
• This layer is present within the tropics throughout the year but it develops in mid-latitudes only during summer.
•  The Thermocline layer represents the vertical zone of oceanic water below the first layer and is characterized by the rapid rate of decrease of temperature with increasing depth. 
• The third layer is very cold and extends up to the deep ocean floor.
• The polar areas have only one layer of cold water from the surface (sea level) to the deep ocean floor. 

So, the assertion is correct.

Reasons (R): The oceanic surface returns heat and water to the lower atmosphere.

• The major source of the temperature of oceanic water is the Sun.
• The ocean is a significant influence on Earth's weather and climate.
• The ocean covers 70% of the global surface.
• This great reservoir continuously exchanges heat, moisture, and carbon with the atmosphere, driving our weather patterns and influencing the slow, subtle changes in our climate.
• The oceans influence climate by absorbing solar radiation and releasing heat needed to drive the atmospheric circulation, by releasing aerosols that influence cloud cover, by emitting most of the water that falls on the land as rain, by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it for years to millions of years. 

So, the reason is also correct but does not explain the assertion correctly.

Monuments provide an insight into the technologies used for construction. 

• Between the seventh and tenth centuries architects started adding more rooms, doors and windows to buildings.
• Roofs, doors and windows were still made by placing a horizontal beam across two vertical columns, a style of architecture called “trabeate” or “corbelled”.
• The trabeate style was used in the construction of temples, mosques, tombs and in buildings attached to large stepped-wells (baolis).
• Based on the above given points, we can conclude that the following statements related to architecture is not correct:
• Pietra dura was a technique to place horizontal beams across two vertical columns.

On 12 March 1930, Gandhi informed the Viceroy that he was going to march to Dandi with 78 of his followers. The 'Dandi March' was in protest against the salt law brought by the British.

The Treaty of Surat (6 March 1775) was a treaty by which Raghunathrao, one of the claimants to the throne of the Peshwa, agreed to cede Salsette and Bassein Fort to the English, in consideration of being himself restored to Poona. The military operations that followed are known as the First Anglo-Maratha War. Warren Hastings, who in his capacity as Governor-General claimed a right of control over the decisions of the Bombay Government, annulled the Treaty of Surat and sent his own agent to negotiate a very different new pact, the Treaty of Purandhar (1776).

The point at which the energy is released is called the focus of the earthquake and the hypocenter. So, statement 1 is correct.

The intensity of an earthquake is measured by the Mercalli Scale. It is named after Mercalli, an Italian seismologist. It measures the energy released during the earthquake. The intensity scale takes into account the visible damage caused by the event. The range of intensity scale is from 1−12. So, statement 2 is incorrect.

Batholiths are the cooled portion of magma chambers. It is a large body of magmatic material that cools in the deeper depth of the crust moulds in the form of large domes. So, statement 3 is correct.

Indian shooter Avani Lekhara won the ‘Best Female Debut’ Award at the 2021 Paralympic Sports Awards 2021. She became the 1st Indian woman to win 2 Paralympic medals in a single edition of the Paralympic Games held in Tokyo.

Statement 1 is correct: Student learning assessment (PARAKH) will conduct assessment of students and faculty members of higher education institutes and schools.

Statement 2 is correct: It is launched by the All India Council for Technological Education (AICTE).

AICTE is the statutory body and national level apex advisory body to conduct a survey on the facilities available for technical education and to promote development in the country in a coordinated and integrated manner.

The Government of India had launched “Project Tiger” on 1st April 1973 to promote the conservation of the tiger. Project Tiger has been the largest species conservation initiative of its kind in the world. The Project Tiger Directorate of the Ministry of Environment and Forests was mandated with the task of providing technical guidance and funding support.

Nucleophiles are the species which have an excess of electrons.

Among the given species, the lone pair of nitrogen of pyrrole (B) is involved in the delocalization of the ring, thus, they are not available for donation. 

In aniline (D), the lone pair is involved in conjugation with the π electrons of the ring while in pyridine, these are relatively free for donation. Thus, the nitrogen of pyridine (A) is the most nucleophilic.

Phenyl and −COCH3 ​both are electron-withdrawing groups, thus decreases the nucleophilicity of nitrogen.

Here, I₁ enters and I₂ & I₃ are leaving the node.

So, I₁ -I₂ -I₃= 0

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is the regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union of states in South Asia.

The SAARC was founded in Dhaka on 8 December 1985. Its secretariat is based in Kathmandu, Nepal. The organization promotes development of economic and regional integration. It launched the South Asian Free Trade Area in 2006. The SAARC maintains permanent diplomatic relations at the United Nations as an observer and has developed links with multilateral entities, including the European Union.

Decisions at all levels are to be taken on the basis of unanimity and bilateral and contentious issues are excluded from the deliberations of the Association.

On 16 August 1946, Muslim League called for a “Direct Action Day” under the leadership of Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

FDI is allowed in India under two modes: the automatic route or through the government route.

Companies don't need government approval in Automatic Route.

Companies need Government approval in Government mode.

Provisions of the New FDI policy:

• An entity of a country, which shares a land border with India or where the beneficial owner of investment into India is situated in or is a citizen of any such country, can invest only under the Government route. Therefore, statement 1 is correct.
• A transfer of ownership in an FDI deal that benefits any country that shares a border with India will also need government approval.
• Investors from countries not covered by the new policy only have to inform the RBI after a transaction rather than asking for prior permission from the relevant government department.

India shares land borders with Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.

This revised FDI policy aims to curb opportunistic takeovers/acquisitions of Indian companies due to the current Covid-19 pandemic. Therefore, statement 2 is correct.

• China's investment in the Indian business space has been expanding rapidly​.

Majuli is the largest river island in the world to be inhabited by people.

It is located in the state of Assam and is a district by itself. It is formed due to course changes to the river Brahmaputra and its tributaries. It is located on the National Waterway 2, which is a part of Brahmaputra river. It is surrounded by River Brahmaputra and River Subansiri.