General Awareness Test-24 - NDA MCQ

The word Adivasi was used for the first time to refer to the tribal people by Thakkar Bappa.

Indica is an account of Mauryan India by Megasthenes. The original book is now lost, but its fragments have survived in later Greek and Latin works.

The Teesta River is a river in the Indian state of Sikkim then Subansiri, dibang and lohit is correct order from west to east.

The word syzygy is an astronomical term that refers to an alignment in a straight line of three celestial bodies like sun, moon and earthbound by gravity.

The minimum qualifications of a person to become a member of Lok Sabha - Must be a citizen of India, Must not be less than 25 years of age and not hold an office of profit under  Union Government.

An SDR is essentially an artificial currency instrument used by the IMF and is built from a basket of important national currencies.

Soft drinks are claimed to be acidity regulators. They regulate acidity using bicarbonate salts.

Covalently bonded molecules have poor conductors of electricity and weak intermolecular force.

Glucose is the first compound which is fixed during photosynthesis.

Lymphatic vessels present in the intestinal villi absorb fatty acids and carries the digested food and fats from the small intestine. It acts as a reservoir of digested food and water.

The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. It allows ships to travel between Europe and South Asia. It is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt.

The Ten Degree Channel is a channel that separates the South Andaman and Car Nicobar in the Bay of Bengal. 

1. Ganga – Gaumukh 
2. Son – Amarkantak 
3. Godavari – Trimbakeshwar 
4. Krishna – Mahabaleshwar

At high altitudes, pressure cooker is preferable for cooking because the boiling point of water reduces due to lower atmosphere pressure. 

Sriharikota does not have a heavy water plant. Satish Dhawan Space Centre is a rocket launch centre located in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.

The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express passed through the UK, France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey.

Salal power station is run-of-the-river scheme with an installed capacity of 690 MW (Stage-I of 3 x 115 MW & Stage-II 3 X115 MW) to harnesses the Hydropower potential of river Chenab. It is located in district of Jammu & Kashmir.

Most of the Western flowing rivers travel lesser distance than eastern flowing rivers before getting into the sea. On way to Western coast through hard rocks and over higher gradient, they couldn’t collect large amount of Slit and flow with very high speed compared to East flowing rivers. Eastern rivers flow through broken hills and mountain ranges. So, they are widened and flow with lesser velocity before entering into sea. So, they deposit sediments and silt before entering into sea and can form a Delta. 

The summer or south-west monsoon comes in from the direction of Africa, and brings heavy rain to the west coast and large areas of northern India between June and August. The Western Ghats intercepts the Southwestern Monsoon winds. The Western slopes of the mountains experience heavy annual rainfall (with 80 percent of it falling during the southwest monsoon from June to September), while the Eastern slopes are drier; rainfall also decrease from South to North.

Tsunami is not caused by hurricanes.