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Who is author of the book 'Preparing for the Twenty First Century '

A) V.S.Naipaul B) John Ruskin
C) Paul Kennedy D) Henry Kissinger
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Paul Kennedy

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Which of the following is regarded by historians as a crucial stage in describing the progress of civilization?

A) Writing B) The discovery of fire
C) Agriculture D) The use of internet
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Agriculture

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Who has been appointed as the first woman Secretary General of the Lok Sabha?

A) Rama Devi B) Sumitra Mahajan
C) Anupama Kare D) Snehlata Shrivastava
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Snehlata Shrivastava

Explanation:

Snehlata Shrivastava, appointed as the first woman Secretary General of the Lok Sabha. The appointment was made by Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan. Ms. Shrivastava will replace Anoop Mishra, who retired on November 30, 2017. 

Ms. Shrivastava, a senior civil servant with 35 years of rich and varied administrative experience is a 1982 batch IAS officer from the Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Rama Devi holds the distinction of the being the first woman secretary general of the Rajya Sabha.

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What is RAID?

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A method for providing fault tolerance by using multiple hard disk drives

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Who invented the high level language C?

A) Dennis M. Ritchie B) Donald Kunth
C) Niklaus Writh D) Seymour Papert
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Dennis M. Ritchie

Explanation:

C, an early systems programming language, was developed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson at Bell Labs between 1969 and 1973.

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Q:

The average salinity of seawater is

A) 35% B) 3.5%
C) 3% D) 2.5%
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 3.5%

Explanation:

Seawater or salt water is water from a sea or ocean.

On average, seawater in the world's oceans has a salinity of approximately 3.5% or 35 parts per thousand. This means that for every 1 litre (1000 mL) of seawater there are 35 grams of salts dissolved in it.

 

Hence, The average salinity of seawater is 3.5%.

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The primary effect on climate of a volcanic eruption depends on______

A) the quantity of lava produced B) how hot the eruptive products are
C) the amount of water vapour produced D) none of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) none of the above

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What is the capital Namibia?

A) Male B) Windhoek
C) Monaco D) Ulaanbaatar
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Windhoek

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Windheok is the capital of Namibia

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