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Q:

The chosen date for the observance of the Earth Hour 2017 is ?

A) 25th March B) 26th March
C) 27th March D) 28th March
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 25th March

Explanation:

Earth Hour is a people's movement inspiring individuals from more than 7000 cities across the globe to take a stand against climate change, making it the largest voluntary movement ever witnessed in history.

On 25 March 2017, Switch Off and Switch Onto Solar Energy

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Q:

The Constitution of India was adopted on

A) 26th January, 1950 B) 26th January, 1949
C) 26th January, 1949 D) 15th August, 1947
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 26th January, 1949

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Q:

A by product of involuntary muscle contraction and relaxation is

A) Oxygen B) Water
C) Heat D) Nitrogen
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Heat

Explanation:

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When a muscle is contracted and relaxed some amount of heat is released as a by product. 

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Q:

What element behaves most like magnesium?

A) Silicon B) Strontium
C) Sulphur D) Tin
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Strontium

Explanation:

We know that, Elements in the same group of the periodic table have similar characteristics.

Here Magnesium and Strontium shared some similar properties because they both belong to the same group. Sr is the chemical symbol for strontium which is a group two element; it has atomic number of 38. 

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The given sentences, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of the sentences from among the five given choices to construct a coherent paragraph keeping 1 as the first statement.

1) On one online forum, the sysadmins were enjoying some gallows humour.

A) They were discussing a pair of recently announced security flaws, known as Meltdown and Spectre that between them affect any computer powered by processors designed by Intel, AMD, ARM and others.

B) Another wrote, with tongue only half in cheek, that “computers were a mistake”.

C) One simply posted a picture of a fire raging in a skip.

D) That’s most of them, in other words, from smartphones and desktop PCs to games consoles and the racks of machines that run cloud-computing services from Microsoft, Amazon and the like.

A) CBAD B) ADBC
C) BCDA D) CADB
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) CBAD

Explanation:

The correct sequence is CBAD.

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Q:

Who is known as "Iron Lady of India"? 

A) Rani Laxmi Bai B) Sonia Gandhi
C) Indira Gandhi D) None of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Indira Gandhi

Explanation:

Indira Gandhi the first Prime Minister of India is known as the Iron Lady of India.

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Q:

Who among the following received the Nobel Prize Twice in different subjects

A) Madam Curie B) Frederic Sanger
C) Pierre Curie D) John Bardeen
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Madam Curie

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Q:

The idea of including the Emergency provisions in the Constitution of india has been borrowed from the_________

A) Constitution of Canada B) Weimar Constitution of Germany
C) Constitution of Ireland D) Constitution of USA
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Weimar Constitution of Germany

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