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The instrument of instructions contained in the Government of India Act, 1935 has been incorporated in the Constitution of India in the year 1950 as ______ 

A) Fundamental Rights B) Directive Principles of the State Policy
C) Fundamental Duities D) Emergency Provisions
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Emergency Provisions

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During a Financial Emergency, all Money Bills passed by State Legislatures require the consent of the 

A) Prime Minister B) President
C) Lok Sabha D) Union Finance Minister
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) President

Explanation:

No Financial Emergency has been imposed on the country so far. Article 360 deals with Financial Emergency. (This article, however,shall not apply to the state of Jammu and Kashmir)

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Q:

Nissil granules occur in

A) Eosinophil B) Glial cell
C) Neuron D) Lymphocyte
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Neuron

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The Number of officially recognised languages in india is

A) 12 B) 15
C) 18 D) 21
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 18

Explanation:

India has 18 officially recognised languages - Konkani, Manipur and Nepali were added to the official list of 15 in 1992. The other 15 languages are Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit , Tamil, Telugu , Urdu and sindhi.

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Who has won the Nobel prize in "Physics" for the year 2017 ?

A) Barry Barish B) Kip Thorne
C) Rainer Weiss D) All of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) All of the above

Explanation:

Rainer Weiss, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Kip Thorne and Barry Barish, both of the California Institute of Technology, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves, which were predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago but had never been directly seen.

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Q:

What state of matter is Jello?

A) Liquid B) Solid
C) Colloid D) Gas
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Colloid

Explanation:

Jello is a colloid, a semi-rigid structure i.e, semi-solid suspended in a liquid. When you Heat it up a bit and you'll break the protein bonds of the gelatin and it will liquefy completely and if you freeze, it becomes solid.

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Who among the following was the 1st Speaker of the Lok Sabha?

A) M.A. Ayyangar B) N. Sanjiva Reddy
C) Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar D) Sardar Hukam Singh
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar

Explanation:

Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar popularly known as Dadasaheb was an independence activist, the President of the Central Legislative Assembly, then Speaker of the Constituent Assembly of India, and later the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India from 15 May 1952 – 27 February 1956.

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The Deccan Agriculturalists 'Relief Act of 1879 was enacted with which one of the following objectives?

A) Restore lands to the dispossessed peasants B) Ensure financial assistance to peasants during social and religious occasions
C) Restrict the sale of land for indebtedness to outsiders D) Give legal aid to insolvent peasants
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Give legal aid to insolvent peasants

Explanation:

The Deccan Riots Commission was set up which presented a report to the British Parliament in 1878.In 1879, the Agriculturists Relief Act was passed which ensured that the farmers could not be arrested and imprisoned if they were unable to pay their debts.It was an Act for the relief of Indebted Agriculturists in certain parts of the Deccan.

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