NDA Exam 2018 General knowledge Question Answers list
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- The circulation and movement of soluble inorganic matter (nutrients) derived from sedimentary and atmospheric phases and reservoirs throught organic phase of various biotic components and finally their return to inorganic phase is collectively called: Biogeochemical Cycles
- The middle zone of the earth with a thickness of 2780 Km having an average density of 5-6 is known as :
- Pyrosphere
- The instrument which records the seismic waves generated by the occurrence of earthquakes is called :
- Seismograph
- Wild Ass Sanctuary is situated in Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat
- The western Ghats are also known as The Sahyadris
- The major peaks like Mt. Everest, Kanchenjunga, Makalu, Dhaulagiri, Mansalu, Cho Oyu, Nanga Parbat and Annapurna all are situated in: The Greater Himalayas (Himadri)
- The highest peak of the KaraKoram Range is: K2 (Godvin Austin)
- Vembnad Lake is located in Kerala
- The most important coal field in India is: Jharia Coalfield
- The top five million cities of India as per the 2001 census, in descending order, are :
- Greater Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi, Chennai and Bangalore
- A river drains the water collected from a specific area which is called its: Catchment Area
- The low flat central area of a basin of inland drainage is called: Playa
- The only South American nation through which both the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn pass throught
- Brazil
- India shares maximum length of the border with Bangladesh
- On the bank of which river is Hyderabad situated? Musi River
- Who constructed Suez Canal? Ferdinand de Lesseps
- Where is Silicon Valley located at? In U.S.A.
- The highest percentage decadal growth rate of population as per 2001 Census was registered by
- Nagaland
- What is the difference between the Indian Standard time and Greenwich Standard Time ?
- 5 Hour and 30 minutes
- Wainganga river is a tributary of : Godavari
- Indira Gandhi Zoological Park is located in : Vishakhapatnam
- Madhumalai Sanctuary is located in : Tamil Nadu
- The headquarters of North Western Railway is located in : Jaipur
- First Metro Railway was inaugurated in Kolkata : On October 24, 1984
- India’s First Stock Exchange Bombay Stock Exchange was established in : 1887
- The index which refers to moisture deficit or surplus in a area is called: Moisture Index
- The study of plant communities in relation to their habits of a given ecosystem is known as :
- Synecology
- Primary producers fall into two categories e.g.: Phototrophs and Chemotrophs
- The Naharkatiya oil field is located in : Assam
- The largest mangrove forest in the world is located in : Sunderbans (West Bengal)
- Mindanao Island is located in : The Pacific Ocean
- Upper Volta is the old name of : Denmark
- The Highest point of Australia is : Mount Kosciusko
- A group of populations of different species living in the same habitat and interacting with one another is called
- Ecological Community
- Which river is known as Sorrow of Bihar ? Kosi River
- The largest among the west flowing rivers of Peninsula of India is Narmada River
- Titagarh, Amlai and Nepanagar are associated with Paper Industry
- Sandstone, Conglomerate , Limestone, Shale, Chalk and Coal are example of Sedimentary rocks
- WladimirKoppen –the great climatologist of Austria suggested in his new scheme of climatic classification
- Five major types of climate
- The Largest Indian Mammal is Elephant
- The India Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) was created in 1987
- The inner planets include Mercury , Venus, Earth , and Mars
- The mean thickness of Oceanic crust is 5 Kilometre
- The first large scale modern machine tool factory set up in public sector is
- The Hindustan Machine Tools (HMT) at Bangalore in 1953
- The first shore-based steel plant in India is Vishakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP)
- Golden Quaderilateral Comprising National Highways connects
- Delhi-Mumbai-Chennai-Kolkata-Delhiby six lane super highways
- The Diesel Locomotive works engaged in producing desel locos is located in Varanasi
- The Chambal Valley Project is a joint venture of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh
- World Environment Day is observed on : June 5
- McMohan Line lies between which of the following countries ? India and China
- India is the seventh largest country in the world. It occupies : 4% of world area
- The imaginary line joining the land projecting towards the sea which is the landward limit of internal seawater is called : Base Line
- The Beas project consisting of Beas-Satluj link and Pong dam at Beas is the joint venture of
- Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan
- The Nagarjunsagar Dam Project is located on :
- Krishna River in Nalgonda district
- Which river is known as sorrow of Bihar due to its devastating flood and frequqnt changes in its course ?
- Kosi River
- CGWB stands for Central Ground Water Board
- Which planet is called a watery planet? Earth
- The Crude Birth Rate is defined as: The Number of births per thousand population in a particular year
- AGRICULTURE
- Which instrument measures the soil salinity ? Conductivity meter
- Uniform soil erosion by running water is Sheet erosion
- Terracing is done in which type of areas ? Hilly areas
- Crop rotation is employed for Enhancing soil fertility
- Social forestry is useful in yielding Multipurpose uses
- Eco-friendly method is Energy plantation
- Silent valley has been preserved as it has Natural forest
- India’s Wheat Yield revolution of 1960s was possible primarily due to
- Mutations resulting in plant height reduction
- Ranikhet is a disease of Poultry
- Dwarf wheat varieties brought into India from Mexico were Sonora-64 and Lerma Rolo-64
- As per the 2010-11 advance estimates recently released by Central Statistics Office (CSO) the agriculture and allied sector accounted for :
- 2% of Gross Domestic Product at Constant 2004-05 prices
- Agriculture and allied sector account for : 1% of the total exports of India
- During the first three years of the Current Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-12) agriculture sector recorded and average growth of : 03%
- As per the third advance estimates of foodgrain for the year 2010-11 the production of foodgrains stands at the highest level of : 88 million tonnes
- Rangrajan Panel was recently constitution to study the recommedations of National Advisory Council (NAC) on the proposed : National Food Security Bill
- The group of crops which is sowm in October last and harvested in March/ April every year is :
- Rabi Crop
- Grey revolution in India is associated with the Resources is Located in : Karnal (Haryana)
- National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources is locaed in : New Delhi
- International Institution of Horticulture situted at Brazil
- Which gas is released from the paddy field ? CH4
- Which two crops are responsible for almost 75% of pulse production in India ? Gram and Pigeon Pea
- Supersonic Jet causes pollution by thinning of O3 Layer
- Who invented Penicillin ? Alexander Fleming
- The name of the white revolution is associated with VergheseKurien
- Scientists at the Tomato Genome Consortium (TGC) successfully sequenced the genomes of which of the following vegetables ? Tomato
- VenkataramanRamaKrishnan was jointly awarded Noble Prize in Chemistry in the year 2009 for the
- Studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
- Which Indian scientist proposed a theory for long distance transport of water in plants ?
- C. Bose
- Crop rotation helps to Eliminate parasites which have selective hosts
- The credit of Green Revolution in India goes to Norman Borlaug and Dr. M. s. Swaminathan
- Silver Revolution in India is associated with: The production of Eggs
- As per the National Agriculture Policy 2000, the growth rate for agriculture has been targeted at 4% :
- For next two decades
- The State Agricultural Produce Marketing (Development and Regulation) Act was passed in :
- The year 2003
- TRIFED stands for :
- Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India Limited
- Food Chain Revolution aims at putting :
- A check on destroying food grains, vegetables, and fruits
- In milk production, India stands: First in the World
- The pioneer of operation flood in India is: Varghese Kurien
- About 3-68 crore farmers have been benefited from this scheme involving debt waiver and debt relief of Rs. 65318.33 crore. The scheme is :
- Agriculture Debt Waiver and Debt Relief Scheme 2008
- Three types of loans which are provided to Indian farmers to meet their financial requirements are :
- Short term loans, medium terms loans, and long-term loans
- As per the Eleventh Five Year Plan Period (2007- 2012) target under the National Food Security Mission (NFSM), the production of rice, wheat and pulses are to be increased by :
- 10,8 and 2 million tonnes respectively
- Food management in India has three basic objectives namely :
- Procurement of foodgrains from farmers, distribution of food grains to the consumers and maintenance of food buffers for security and price stability
- Keeping in view the interest of the farmers as also the need of self-reliance the Government has been announcing Minimum Support Price (MSP) for 24 Major crops
- FRP stands for : Fair and Remunerative Price (of Sugarcane)