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The World Day to Combat Desertification is observed every year on _______

A) 4th May B) 17th June
C) 14th August D) 3rd October
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 17th June

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Which is the World's highest bridge standing 1850 ft above a gorge opens?

A) Sidu Bridge B) Millau Via-duct
C) Beipanjiang Bridge D) Puli Bridge
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Beipanjiang Bridge

Explanation:

Duge Beipanjiang Bridge in southwest China, opened to traffic this week and now the highest bridge in the world, some 565 metres (1,854 feet) above the valley below.The bridge stretches across a 1,341-metre (4,400-foot) span. Three years in the making, it's estimated to have cost the Chinese government around 1 billion yuan (or US$144 million).The bridge is going to cut travel times between Liupanshui in the Guizhou province and Xuanwei in the Yunnan province to two hours instead of the current five – as long as you don't mind the heights.The bridge crosses the the Nizhu river, and to give you some idea of the size of the drop down to the water below, it's almost 2 Eiffel Towers or one-and-a-half Empire State Buildings.

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Q:

Online functional learning portals are accessed through the

A) Web portal B) Interactive Multimedia Instruction
C) Instructor Facilitated New Equipment D) All the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Web portal

Explanation:

Online functional learning portals are accessed through the web portal.

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The idea of ‘Farr-i Izadi’, on which the Mughal kingship was based, was first developed by which one of the following Sufi saints?

A) Shihabuddin Suhrawardi B) Nizamuddin Auliya
C) Ibn al-Arabi D) Bayazid Bistami
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Shihabuddin Suhrawardi

Explanation:

Abul Fazl placed Mughal kingship as the highest station in the hierarchy of objects receiving light emanating from God (farr-i izadi). Abul Fazl was inspired by a famous Iranian Sufi, Shihabuddin Suhrawardi who first developed this idea. According to this idea, there was a hierarchy in which the Divine Light was transmitted to the king who then became the source of spiritual guidance for his subjects.

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By tradition, when does the presidential campaign begin?

A) When a candidate is officially nominated at the national convention B) With the New Hampshire primary
C) In September, following the national convention D) After a candidate has gained enough electoral votes in the primaries
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) When a candidate is officially nominated at the national convention

Explanation:

When a candidate is officially nominated at the national convention, then the presidential campaign begins.

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A capillary tube is partially dipped vertically in a vessel containing water. Due to capillarity water rises in the tube. The height of water rise in the tube can be increased by 

A) decreasing the radius of the capillary tube B) increasing the radius of the capillary tube
C) increasing the height of water in the vessel D) None of these
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) decreasing the radius of the capillary tube

Explanation:

The water rise in a capillary tube dipped in water is such that the weight of water in the tube above the surface of water in the vessel is equal to  the upward force due to surface tension. So it is clear that if the bore to the tube is decreased , the height of the water column in it  must be greater.

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Q:

' Neela Charid ' which won the vyas Samman in 1992 is written by

A) Subhash Mukhopadhyay B) VS. Naipaul
C) Ram Vilas Sharma D) Shiv Prasad Singh
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Shiv Prasad Singh

Explanation:
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Q:

First Afghan War took place in the year

A) 1849 B) 1839
C) 1858 D) 1869
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 1839

Explanation:
      • The First Anglo-Afghan War also known as Disaster in Afghanistan was fought between British imperial India and The Emirate of Afghanistan from 1839 to 1842.
      • A British-Indian force attacks Ghazni fort during the First Afghan War, 1839.
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