General Knowledge Quiz for CDS & INET : 1st OCTOBER

Dear Students, Defence Adda is providing you all with this quiz on General Knowledge questions for CDS, AFCAT, CAPF, INET, and other Defence Examinations.
Q1. Who among the following Europeans were the last to come to pre-independence India as traders?
(a) Dutch
(b) English
(c) French
(d) Portuguese
Q2. Among the following factories in
Bengal, the one established by the Portuguese was
(a) Kasim Bazar
(b) Chinsura
(c) Hoogly
(d) Srirampur
Q3. What is the name of the winds
that blow from the subtropical high-pressure belts towards the subpolar low
pressure belts?
(a) Easterlies
(b) Trade winds
(c) Westerlies
(d) Western disturbances
Q4. A Royal Commission on the
Public Service was appointed in the year
(a) 1912
(b) 1915
(c) 1910
(d) 1918
Q5. Which Schedule of Indian
Constitution has provisions relating to disqualification of Member of
Parliament on the ground of defection?
(a) Seventh Schedule
(b) Eighth Schedule
(c) Ninth Schedule
(d) Tenth Schedule
Q6. Which one of the following
pairs is correctly matched?
(a) M0 : Reserve
Money
(b) M1 : Broad
Money
(c) M2 : M1 +
Coins & Currency
(d) None of the above
Q7. What is the phenomenon which
established the transverse nature of light?
(a) Reflection
(b) Interference
(c) Diffraction
(d) Polarization
Q8. Saturated carbon compounds
can form which types of chain structures?
I. Straight chain
II. Branched-chain
(a) Only I
(b) Only II
(c) Neither I nor II
(d) Both I and II
Q9. What would happen if the
pancreas is defective:
(a) Digestion will not take
properly
(b) Insulin and glucagon are not
formed
(c) Blood formation will stop
(d) Blood pressure will increase
Q10. Which drug is used as an
Anti-Inflammatory?
(a) Metformin
(b) Diazepam
(c) Latanoprost
(d) Prednisone
SOLUTION
S1.Ans.(c)
Sol.The French were the last to
come to trade in India. The French
East India Company was a commercial Imperial enterprise, founded in 1664 to
compete with the English (later British) and Dutch East India companies in the
East Indies.
S2. Ans.(c)
Sol. In 1579-80 Emperor Akbar
gave permission to a Portuguese captain Pedro Tavares to establish a city
anywhere in Bengal province.They normally chose the Hoogly and thus Hoogly
became the first European(Portuguese) settlement in Bengal.
S3. Ans.(c)
Sol. Westerlies blow in the
middle latitudes between 30 and 60 degrees latitude and originate from the
high-pressure area in the horse latitudes towards the poles.
S4. Ans.(a)
Sol. Islington Commission, 1912 a
Royal Commission formed to recommend reforms in the Public Service of British
India with Lord Islington as its chairman.
S5.Ans.(d)
Sol. The 10th Schedule to the
Constitution popularly referred to as the ‘Anti-Defection Law,' was inserted
by the 52nd Amendment in 1985 which has provisions relating to disqualification
of Member of Parliament on the ground of defection.
S6. Ans.(a)
Sol. Narrow Money (M1), Reserve
Money (M0), M2 = M1 + Post Office Savings.
S7. Ans.(d)
Sol. The transverse nature of light
can be demonstrated through polarization.
S8.Ans.(d)
Sol. Saturated carbon compounds
can form both Straight chain and Branched-chain structures.
Sol. The pancreas is a mixed
gland which secretes digestive enzyme and the beta cells of islets of
Langerhans secrete insulin, alpha cells secrete glucagon, delta cells secrete somatostatin
hormone. If the pancreas is defective by any of the reason, then the formation
of insulin and glucagon are affected badly.
S10. Ans.(d)
Sol. Prednisone drug is used as
an Anti-Inflammatory drug. It is used to treat a number of different conditions,
such as inflammation (swelling), severe allergies, adrenal problems, arthritis,
asthma, blood or bone marrow problems, endocrine problems, eye or vision
problems, stomach or bowel problems, lupus, skin conditions, kidney problems,
ulcerative colitis, and flare-ups of multiple sclerosis.

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