INCREASE YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE PART 205
1. Which is the oldest Development Financial Institution of India?
2. What is a powerful eye irritant present in smog?
3. Where is respiratory centre situated?
4. Which part of the Earth’s surface receives the highest amount of insolation?
5. Which are manuals of instruction in the form of brief rules?
6. Who is the head of the National Defence Committee?
7. Who was the first Indian to be a Fellow of the Royal Society of London?
8. Prof. Amartya Sen has earned worldwide distinction in which field /area?
9. Mist is a result of which thing?
10. At where an example of Chola architecture can be seen?
11. How is the relative permeability of a diamagnetic material?
12. Which gland in human body is popularly called ‘Adam’s apple’?
13. Which was the first woman Governor of a State in free India?
14. The intensity of insolation depends on which line?
15. Between which the famous Battle of Takkolam in South India was fought?
16. In India, the bank NABARD does not provide refinance to which bank?
17. Crusade for human rights is associated with which name?
18. Which nontoxic gas helps in formation of enzymes which ripen fruit?
19. Which desert is famous for its deposits of nitrates?
20. Which queen enjoyed political power along ‘with her husband?
Answer :
1. IFCI 2. Sulphur dioxide 3. Medulla oblongata 4. Tropical deserts 5. Sutras
6. Home Minister
7. Srinivas Ramanujan
8. Economics
9. Condensation 10. Tanjore
11. Less than unity 12. Thyroid
13. Mrs. Sarojini
Naidu 14. Latitude
15. Cholas and Rashtrakutas 16. Export-Import Banks
17. Jimmy Carter
18. Acetylene 19. Atacama 20. Nur Jahan
