General Knowledge Questions

The most active ingredient in bleaching powder is

__________ acts as a shield absorbing ultraviolet radiation from the sun.

Gandhiji's 'Satyagraha' meant an attachment to the following two elements

The astronomer who discovered planet Pluto was ___.

Who is the Bengali writer who won the 31st Moortidevi Award for the year 2017?

In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

Many a travelogue I read nowadays are about how the traveller went on a road less travelled ___________ some off-the-track trek or to an unknown destination or simply into the wild. How no internet ________________ is what you need to reconnect with yourself! How leaving your watch and phone __________ and going into the world of no check-ins and no updates would bring you solitude! These write-ups are laced with adjectives describing the geography of the region and filled with__________ details of the author’s days in that remote place. And, ironically, they all end with a strange advice to travel, and tell no one. I beg to _________.

and filled with __________ details of the author’s

If the velocity of a body becomes two times its initial velocity, its kinetic energy becomes n times its initial kinetic energy. What is the value of n?

Find the acceleration (in m/s2) produced in a body of mass 4 kg when a force of 24 N is applied on it.