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GK For Various Entrance Examination

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*** Our Universe and PlanetS ***
1. In order of their distances from the Sun, which of the following planets lie between
Mars and Uranus?
(a) Earth and Jupiter
(b) Jupiter and Saturn
(c) Saturn and Earth
(d) Saturn and Neptune
Answer. (b)
2. Comets revolve around:
(a) Sun
(b) Earth
(c) Venus
(d) No single heavenly body
Answer. (a)
3. Which one of the following is correct? Great Bear is a
(a) Galaxy
(b) Planet
(c) Star
(d) Constellation
Answer. (d)
4. The hottest planet is:
(a) Mercury
(b) Venus
(c) Jupiter
(d) Saturn
Answer. (b)
5. Which of the planets is nearest to the earth?
(a) Jupiter
(b) Venus
(c) Mercury
(d) Mars
Answer. (b)
6. Which one of the following planets takes the same number of days
for rotation And revolution?
(a) Mars
(b) Venus
(c) Mercury
(d) Jupiter
Answer. (b)
7. Which of the following planets of the solar system has the longest day?
(a) Mercury
(b) Jupiter
(c) Venus
(d) Earth
Answer. (c)
8. Which planet of the solar system spins on its axis at the fastest rate?
(a) Mercury
(b) Earth
(c) Jupiter
(d) Satum
Answer. (c)
7. Which planet looks reddish in the night sky?
(a) Mercury
(b) Mars
(c) Jupiter
(d) Saturn
Answer. (b)
8. Which of the following is the largest of the inner planets?
(a) Venus
(b) Mercury
(c) Mars
(d) Earth
Answer. (d)
9. A black hole is a:
(a) Contracted star with intense gravitational pull
(b) Star with very low surface temperature
(c) Star with no atmosphere
(d) Pulsating star
Answer. (a)
10. Asteroids have their orbits between the planets:
(a) Mercury and Venus
(b) Earth and Mars
(c) Mars and Jupiter
(d) Jupiter and Saturn
Answer. (c)
11. The orbits of planets around the Sun, or of satellites around the Earth, can be:
(a) Circular and elliptic
(b) Circular and hyperbolic
(c) Elliptic and parabolic
(d) Parabolic and hyperbolic
Answer. (a)
12. NASA’s Deep Impact space mission was employed to take detailed pictures of which comet nucleus?
(a) Halley’s Comet
(b) Hale-Bopp
(c) Hyakutake
(d) Temple
Answer. (d)
13. Foucault experiment is proof of which one of the following?
(a) Revolution of Earth
(b) Rotation of Earth
(c) Rotation of Moon
(d) Revolution of Moon
Answer. (b)
14. The earth rotates around its axis from:
(a) North to south
(b) East to west
(c) South to north
(d) West to east
Answer. (d)
15. “Mohs’ Scale” is used to indicate the:
(a) Degree of brittleness of a substance
(b) Degree of hardness of minerals.
(c) Degree of viscosity of a liquid
(d) Degree of elasticity of a material
Answer. (b)

List of Heads of Important Indian Organizations

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▶▶List of Heads of Important Indian Organizations◀◀

1. Chief Economic Advisor – Siddharth Tiwari
2. Chief Election Commissionor – V.S.Sampath
3. RBI – Raghu Ram Rajan
4. RAW – Alok Joshi
5. SBI – Arundhyuti Bhattyacharya
6. SEBI – U.K. Sinha
7. IB – Saiyad Ashif Ibrahim
8. IBPS – Mr.Anup Sankar Bhattacharya
9. IRDA – T.S.Vijayan
10. ISRO – Dr. K. Radhakrishnan
11. NABARD – Dr. Harsh Kumar Bhanwala
12. NASSCOM – R. Chandrasekhar
13. SSC – Amitava Bhattacharyya
14. TRAI – Rahul Khullar
15. UGC – Ved Prakash
16. UPSC – Smt. Rajni Razdan
17. DRDO – Avinash Chander
18. FICCI – Sidharth Birla
19. ASSOCHAM – Rana Kapoor
20. CAG – Shashi Kant Sharma
21. CBDT – K.V. Chaudhary
22. CBI – Ranjeet Sinha
23. CCI – Ashok Chawla
24. National Commission for women – Mamta Sharma
25. National Innovation Commission – Sam Pitroda
26. National Security Advisor – Ajit Kumar Doval
27. Press Trust of India – K N Shanth Kumar
28. Attorney General of India – Mukul Rohatgi
29. Bombay Stock Exchange – Ashish Kr. Chauhan
29. National Stock Exchange – Chitra Ramkrishna
30. Press Council of India – Marandey Katju

COUNTRY AND CAPITAL

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COUNTRY AND CAPITAL

           


[1] Ghana —- Accra
[2] Greece —— Athens
[3] Grenada —– Saint George’s East Caribbean
[4] Guatemala —– Guatemala City
[5] Guinea —— Conakry
[6] Guyana —— Georgetown
[7] Hungary —— Budapest
[8] Iceland ——- Reykjavik
[9] India —— New Delhi
[10] Indonesia —– Jakarta
[11] Iran —– Tehran
[12] Iraq —– Baghdad
[13] Ireland —— Dublin
[14] Israel —— Jerusalem
[15] Italy —— Rome
[16] Jamaica —— Kingston
[17] Japan —– Tokyo
[18] Jordan ——- Amman
[19] Kazakhstan —— Astana
[20] Kenya —— Nairobi
[21] Kiribati ——- South Tarawa
[22] Korea, North ——- Pyongyang
[23] Korea, South —— Seoul
[24] Kuwait —— Kuwait City
[25] Kyrgyzstan —— Bishkek
[26] Latvia —— Riga
[27] Lebanon —– Beirut
[28] Lesotho —— Maseru
[29] Liberia —— Monrovia
[30] Libya —– Tripoli
[31] Lithuania —— Vilnius
[32] Luxembourg —— Luxembourg Ville
[33] Madagascar —- Antananarivo
[34] Malawi ——- Lilongwe
[35] Malaysia —— Kuala Lumpur
[36] Mali —— Bamako
[37] Malta —— Valletta
[38] Marshall Islands —— Majuro
[39] Mexico —— Mexico City (Distrito
[40] States of Moldova —— Chisinau
[41] Monaco —— Monaco Ville
[42] Mongolia ——- Ulaanbaatar
[43] Morocco —— Rabat
[44] Mozambique ——- Maputo
[45] Myanmar —— Rangoon

Facts About Indian Currency

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Facts About Indian Currency

* The first coins were minted (made) around 2500 years ago.
* Paper money was first used in China over 1000 years ago.
* The first “rupee” was first introduced by Sher Shah Suri. It was based on a ratio of 40 copper pieces (paisa) per rupee.
* Udaya K Dharmalingam is the designer of the Indian rupee Symbol, which was adopted by the Government of India in 2010.
* From 1953, Hindi was displayed prominently on the new notes.
* The Government of India took over the issue of bank notes in 1861 from the Private and Presidency Banks.
* The first series of coins with theIndian rupee symbol was launched on 8 July, 2011.
* The first 1000 Rs Note was introduced in 2000.
* The first 20 Rs and 5 Rs note was introduced in 2001.
* Decimalization started in 1957 and the rupee was divided into 100 Naye Paise.
* Total 15 Languages (Apart from English) are printed in Indian Rupee Note. They are Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Panjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
* In India, the first paper bank note was published by Bank of Hindustan in 1770.
* The current Mahatma Gandhi series of bank notes stared from 1996 with new series of 10Rs notes.
* Indian coins are produced in 4 cities: Noida, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata. The coins produce from each city puts an identification mark under the year of issue. Coins produced in Noida have a dot mark, Mumbai have diamond mark, Hyderabad have star mark and coin produce from Kolkata have nothing beneath the year.
* Credit cards were first used in the United States in the 1920’s.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

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WWF
WWF

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is an international non-governmental organization founded on April 26, 1961, and is working on issues regarding the conservation, research and restoration of the environment formerly named the World Wildlife Fund, which remains its official name in Canada and the United States. It is the world’s largest independent conservation organization with over 5 million supporters worldwide, working in more than 100 countries, supporting around 1,300 conservation and environmental projects. WWF is a foundation.

The group’s mission is “to stop the degradation of the planet’s natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature.” Currently, much of its work focuses on the conservation of three biomes that contain most of the world’s biodiversity: oceans and coasts, forests, and freshwater ecosystems. Among other issues, it is also concerned with endangered species, pollution and climate change.

Read Also: Biodiversity

WWF-India Secretariat is an autonomous office based in New Delhi. WWF International is located at Gland in Switzerland. A specialist office in Brussels works on the policies and activities of the European Union, while a second office in Washington DC, works with global institutions involved with international economic issues, such as the World Bank.

The idea for a fund on behalf of endangered animals was initially proposed by Victor Stolan to Sir Julian Huxley. This proposal led Huxley to put Stolen in contact with Max Nicholson, a person that had had thirty years of experience of linking progressive intellectuals with big business interests through the Political and Economic Planning think tank. Nicholson thought up the name of the organization.

WWF was conceived on 29 April 1961, under the name of World Wildlife Fund, and its first office was opened on 11 September that same year in Morges, Switzerland. Godfrey A. Rockefeller also played an important role in its creation, assembling the first staff. Its establishment marked with the signing of the founding document called Morges Manifesto that lays out the formulation ideas of its establishment.

In 1986, the organization changed its name to World Wide Fund for Nature, to better reflect the scope of its activities, retaining the WWF initials. However, it continues to operate under the original name in the United States and Canada.

Must Read: Wildlife Sanctuaries in India

In order to conserve India’s ecological security, WWF-India has adopted the following steps:

  • Ensuring conservation of the country’s biodiversity, major ecosystems, and critical landscapes
  • Minimizing wasteful consumption and promotion of sustainable and judicious use of natural resources by all sectors of society
  • Promoting the active involvement of rural and traditional communities in the sustainable management and conservation of natural resources
  • Working towards reduction in the impact of climate change
  • Minimizing pollution, reducing the use of toxic chemicals and ensuring improved management of toxic waste
  • Enhancing active participation of all sections of society in nature conservation and environmental protection through environmental education, awareness, and capacity-building
  • Ensuring that the environmental principles are integrated into development planning, policy, and practices
  • Promoting environmental governance through legislation, policy, and advocacy

WWF’s current strategy for achieving its mission specifically focuses on restoring populations of 36 species (species or species groups that are important for their ecosystem or to people, including elephants, tunas, whales, dolphins, and porpoises), and ecological footprint in 6 areas (carbon emissions, cropland, grazing land, fishing, forestry and water).

The only giant panda residing in the Western world at that time, along with its physical features and status as an endangered species, the panda is seen to serve the need of a strong recognizable symbol of the organization. Moreover, the organization also needs an animal that would have an impact in black and white printing. The logo was then designed by Sir Peter Scott from the preliminary sketches made by a Scottish naturalist, Gerald Watterson.

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