Test: General Awareness - 6 - NDA MCQ

Edwin Montague condemned O'Dwyer's severity at Jalianwala Bagh, and called it as “Preventive Murder”.

Narasimha Varman took the title of Vatapikonda when he defeated Pulakeshin II and captured Vatapi after the Battle of Vatapi in 642 AD.

The latitudes that pass through Sikkim also pass through Rajasthan.

Monsoon is traditionally defined as a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with the asymmetric heating of land and sea.

National Development Council (NDC) is an executive body established by the Government of India in August 1952, which is neither a constitutional nor a statutory body. The Planning Commission is a non-constitutional and non-statutory body and is responsible to formulate five years plan for social and economic development in India.
Zonal Councils are not Constitutional bodies unlike Interstate Council, which is a statutory body established under article 263.

The components of the capital account include foreign investment and loans, banking and other forms of capital, as well as monetary movements or changes in the foreign exchange reserve.

A ray of light traveling obliquely from denser to rarer medium bends away from the normal

Breath analyzers used by police to test drunken drivers works on the chemical basis of Acid-base reactions.

Pneumatophores are specialized root structures that grow out from the water surface and facilitate the aeration necessary for root respiration in hydrophytic trees such as many mangrove species.

Parathyroid Hormone (PTH) from the parathyroid glands regulates calcium level and it's needed for muscle contraction and blood clotting. It's critical to maintaining a plasma concentration of Ca+2. PTH is essential for life because of the calcium effect on neuromuscular capability.

The lower course of a river is sometimes chocked with sediments because the valley of a river is widest in its lower course, the velocity of a river in its lower course is low and the delta sometimes develops in a river’s lower course. 

The Vindhyan system of rocks is important for the production of precious stones and building materials. The system derives its name from the Vindhyan hills where its rocks are prominently exposed. It forms a dividing line between the Ganga Plain and the Deccan. The main rocks of the Vindhyan system are coarse, medium and fine textured sandstones, shales and limestones. The Vindhyan system of rocks bear out precious stones, ornamental stones, diamonds, building materials, and raw materials for cement, lime, glass and chemical industries 

Fold Mountains form when two tectonic plates move together (a convergent plate boundary). Fold Mountains form from sedimentary rocks that accumulate along the margins of continents.

Mr X will likely to be flown over Black Sea. Since Black Sea is bounded by Europe, Anatolia and Caucasus, it is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean. 

Both statements are correct. 

Black soils become sticky when it is wet. It is rich in iron, lime, calcium, Magnesium, carbonates, and alumina and poor in Phosphorous, Nitrogen and Organic matter. The soil is black in colour because it is volcanic in origin. It is created from igneous rocks and is also called ‘regur soil’. 

1. Chinook wind-Rocky Mountains 
2. Foehn- Northern slopes of the Alps 
3. Sirocco- North African desert 
4. Mistral- Southern slopes of Alps 

The oil refineries of India from west to east: Koyali (Gujarat), Mathura (U.P), Haldia (West Bengal), Bonington (Assam). 

According to census 2011, the least population is in Lakshadweep i.e. 64,429(0.01 % of total population).