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Full form of BCG is 

A) Bacillus Cholera Germ B) Bacillus Calmette Guerin
C) Bacillus Curative Gene D) Bacillus Cholera Guerin
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Bacillus Calmette Guerin

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A semi-mechanised car park, the first of its kind in Jammu and Kashmir, was inaugurated by ___________.

A) Mehbooba Mufti B) Narendra Modi
C) Nitin Gadkari D) Pranab Mukherjee
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Mehbooba Mufti

Explanation:

A semi-mechanised car park, the first of its kind in Jammu and Kashmir, was inaugurated by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti who hoped the facility would ease traffic congestion in and around Lal Chowk. The multi-level car park, located near the old KMD bus stand on Maulana Azad Road, has been set up at a cost of Rs 27.15 crore and has a capacity to hold 288 vehicles.

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People from which state celebrate their harvest festival around Makar Sankranti?

A) Kerala B) Punjab
C) Karnataka D) Tamil Nadu
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Karnataka

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Which country has world's shortest written constitution?

A) USA B) Monaco
C) Vatican City D) India
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Monaco

Explanation:

Monaco, the world's second smallest country after Vatican City, has the smallest written constitution in the world. 

It comprises of 10 chapters with 97 Articles and a total of 3,814 words.

 

India has the world's largest written constitution.

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Name a common greenhouse gas containing only hydrogen and oxygen?

A) CH4 B) O3
C) H2O D) NO
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) H2O

Explanation:

The common greenhouse gas containing only hydrogen and oxygen is H2O, this is water vapor.

The common greenhouse gases are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone.

The composition (chemical formula) of those gases are:

Water vapor: H2O
Carbon dioxide: CO2
Methane: CH4
Nitrous oxide: NO
Ozone: O3.

As you see the only one of those that contains only hydrogen and oxygen is H2O, water vapor.

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Which Airport is named as Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhay Airport ?

A) Gorakhpur B) Delhi
C) Gujarath D) Agra
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Agra

Explanation:

 The UP government changed the name of Gorakhpur and Agra Airports as well as the name of the department of welfare of the differently abled.

 The Gorakhpur Airforce Station has been renamed as Mahayogi Goraknath Airport after the founder of the Nath monastic movement.

The Agra Airport will be renamed after Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay airport. The Department of Disabled Welfare will now be known as 'Divyang Jan Vikas Empowerment'.

 

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The Basic Architecture of Computer was developed by

A) Charles Babbage B) Blaise Pascal
C) Garden Moore D) John Von Neumann
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) John Von Neumann

Explanation:

Computer Architecture refers to how a computer system is designed and what technologies it is compatible with. In brief, Computer architecture is a specification detailing how a set of software and hardware technology standards interact to form a computer system or platform.  

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The Von Neumann Architecture, which is also known as the Von Neumann Model and Princeton architecture, is a computer architecture based on the 1945 description of computer by the mathematician and physicist John von Neumann.

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Which supercomputer is developed by the Indian Scientists?

A) Super 3 B) Param 808
C) Super 149 D) Param 8000
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Param 8000

Explanation:

PARAM 8000 was was the first supercomputer developed by Indian scientists launched on July 01, 1991 is considered India's first supercomputer.

    • It was indigenously built in 1991 by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing and was replicated and installed at ICAD Moscow in 1991 under Russian collaboration.

 

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