General Knowledge Questions

The glycemic index or glycaemic index is a number associated with the carbohydrates in a particular type of food that indicates the effect of these carbohydrates on a person's blood glucose (also called blood sugar) level. A value of 100 represents the standard, an equivalent amount of pure glucose.

The GI represents the rise in a person's blood sugar level two hours after consumption of the food.

The Double V Campaign was used in World War II. The purpose of the double v campaign is to fight for victory and ending segregation at home.

It was aimed at African-Americans, and it first appeared in an African-American newspaper, the Pittsburgh Courier, in 1942. The Double V Campaign worked to have a victory over racism abroad and racism in the United States.

It stood so it gave a chance for Black Americans to fight in the war so they could achieve Victory at Home and Abroad- (Civil Rights then the war in the Atlantic and Pacific).

Five associate banks of SBI – State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur (SBBJ), State Bank of Hyderabad (SBH), State Bank of Mysore (SBM), State Bank of Patiala (SBP) and State Bank of Travancore (SBT), besides Bharatiya Mahila Bank (BMB) became part of the State Bank of India (SBI) on 1 April 2017. This merger catapulted SBI to among the top 50 banks in the world.

– With this six-way mega merger, the merged entity (SBI) will have a deposit base of more than Rs. 26 lakh crore and advances level of Rs. 18.50 lakh crore. It will have a total customer base of 37 crore with a branch network of around 24,000 and nearly 59,000 ATMs across the country.

– The government had in February 2017 approved the merger of these five associate banks with SBI. Later in March 2017, the Cabinet approved merger of BMB as well.

– SBI first merged State Bank of Saurashtra with itself in 2008. Two years later, State Bank of Indore was merged with it.

These are called intrusive igneous rocks because the magma has intruded into pre-exiting rock layers. Types of intrusive igneous rocks are granite and basalt .

A batholith is the largest of the intrusive bodies.

A devastating  series of earthquakes in 1906 ruined the city completely and its presence is a constant remainder of the past and a threat of repetition in future.

With the failure of the revolution of 1848 to unify Germany, one phase in the struggle for unification came to an end. Now Germany was to be unified not into a democratic country by the efforts of revolutionaries but by the rulers into a militaristic empire. The leader of this policy Bismarck who belonged to a prussian aristocratic family. He wanted to preserve the predominance of the landed aristocrats and the army in the united German state and to achieve the unification of Germany under the leadership of Prussian monarchy. He described his policy of unification as one of 'blood and iron'. The policy of 'blood and iron' meant a policy of war.