AFCAT Past Year Based Test - 3 - AFCAT MCQ

Jaipal Singh Munda was the Indian hockey team captain in the year 1928. Jaipal Singh Munda born in a Munda tribal family was a politician, prolific writer and sportsman. He was the member of the Constituent Assembly which debated on the new Constitution of the Indian Union. He captained the Indian field hockey team to clinch gold in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.

The ecosystem of a region is the biome. A biome is collections of different kinds of ecosystem. Savanna is the biome which has a long dry season.

At the 1991 World Championships in Athletics (Tokyo), Powell broke Bob Beamon's almost 23-year-old long jump world record by 5 cm (2 inches), leaping 8.95 m (29 ft 4 1⁄4 in).

Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike, commonly known as Sirimavo Bandaranaike, was a Sri Lankan stateswoman. She became the world's first non-hereditary female head of government in modern history, when she was elected Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in 1960.

In 1966 Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri was the first Indian to receive the Bharat Ratna posthumously.

The Annexation of Goa was the process in which the Republic of India annexed the former Portuguese Indian territories of Goa, Daman, and Diu, starting with the “armed action” carried out by the Indian Armed Forces in December 1961.

The Baltic Cup is an international football competition contested by the national teams of the Baltic States – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Also, Finland has participated as a guest twice.

In basketball, a hook shot is a play in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of the arm farther from the basket in an upward arc with a followthrough which ends over his head.

Bharata Muni was an ancient Indian theatrologist and musicologist who wrote the Natya Shastra, a theoretical treatise on ancient Indian dramaturgy and histrionics, especially Sanskrit theatre. Bharata Muni is considered as the father of Indian theatrical art forms.

Maximum of 2 timeouts per game for a team is allowed. Time out lasts 30 seconds. In official international competitions, two 60 seconds technical time-out is used when the leading team reaches the 8- or 16-point mark.

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April, 1919 when a crowd of nonviolent protesters, along with Baisakhi pilgrims, who had gathered in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, Punjab, were fired upon by troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer.

Remotely Operated Vehicles are vehicles which are controlled by an operator who is not in the vehicle. These can be operated by radio control, or through a cable or line connecting the vehicle to the operator’s location.

During the sultanate period, there was a term that is being used to describe the measurement of land which is ‘Masahat’. Like nowadays we are using cents and hectares for measurement.

Latvia, with Riga as its capital city, thus declared its independence on 18 November 1918. Between World War I and World War II (1918–1940), Riga and Latvia shifted their focus from Russia to the countries of Western Europe.

Raja Rammohan Roy founded Brahmo Samaj in Calcutta on 20 August 1828. It was more of a reformist movement of Hinduism which later got divided into Adi Brahmo Samaj and Sadharan Brahmo Samaj.

Indira Point is a village in the Nicobar district at Great Nicobar Island of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. It is located in the Great Nicobar tehsil. It is the location of the southernmost point of India’s territory.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is the Japanese national aerospace and space agency. Through the merger of three previously independent organizations, JAXA was formed on 1st October 2003.

India became a member of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as a founding member in 1966. The Bank is engaged in promoting economic and social progress of its developing member countries (DMCs) in the Asia Pacific Region.

Vitamin K affects the clotting mechanism by being essential for the production of four distinct clotting factors: prothrombin, factors VII, IX and X.

The Rigveda is the oldest work, which Witzel states are probably from the period of 1900 to 1100 BCE. Witzel, also notes that it is the Vedic period itself, where incipient lists divide the Vedic texts into three (trayī) or four branches: Rig, Yajur, Sama and Atharva.

Defunct means no longer living, existing, or functioning.

Brawn means physical strength in contrast to intelligence.

Debilitate means make (someone) very weak and infirm.

Daunt means make (someone) feel intimidated or apprehensive.

Capricious means sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behaviour.

Umbrage means offence or annoyance.

Controversy means prolonged public disagreement or heated discussion.

Commotion is the antonym of tranquility. It means a state of confused and noisy disturbance.

Scrawny is the antonym of brawny. It means unattractively thin and bony.

Antonym of prevalent is rare. Rare means not occurring very often.