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The correct answer is 16-3-2012.

Key Points

• Indian Government Budget 2012-13
• Budget is a statement of the estimated receipts and expenditures of the Government in a financial year which begins on 1 April of the Current Year and ends on 31 March of the following year.
• The Union Budget for 2012-13 had been announced by Mr. Pranab Mukherjee, then Finance Minister of India on 16 March 2012.
• GDP growth to be 7.6% during 2012-13.
• Fiscal Deficit targeted at 5.1% of GDP in 2012-13.
• Total expenditure budgeted at Rs. 14,90,925 crores in 2012-13.
• Gross Tax receipts estimated at Rs. 10,77,612 crores in 2012-13.

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• According to Article 112 of the Indian Constitution, the Union Budget of a year is referred to as the Annual Financial Statement.
• The Finance Minister, Mrs. Nirmala Sitharaman introduced Budget 2021-22 on 1 February 2021.

The correct answer is R.K. Shanmukham Chetty.

Key Points

• R.K. Shanmukham Chetty
• He was a lawyer, economist, and politician who served as independent India's first finance minister from 1947 to 1949.
• He presented independent India's first Union budget on 26 November 1947.
• He was a strong supporter of the Tamil Isai Movement.

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• John Mathai
• He was an economist who served as India's first Railway Minister and subsequently as India's Finance Minister.
• He was the first Chairman of the State Bank of India when it was set up in 1955.
• C. D. Deshmukh
• He was the first Indian to be appointed as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India in 1943.
• He served as the Finance Minister in the Union Cabinet (1950- 1956).
• T.T. Krishnamachari
• He was an Indian politician who served as Finance Minister from 1956 to 1958 and from 1964 to 1966.
• He was a member of the drafting committee of the Constituent Assembly.
• Current Union Finance Minister: Nirmala Sitharaman

The correct answer is Scientist.

Key Points

• Stephen Hawking
• He was a British scientist, professor, and author who performed groundbreaking work in physics and cosmology
• He contracted motor neuron disease in 1963 and was then told he had just two years.
• He predicted theoretically that black holes emit radiation, this is often called Hawking radiation.
• For the first time in the world, Hawking showed how quantum fluctuations, might give rise to the spread of galaxies in the universe.
• He also answered the famous unified field theory, which was one of Einstein's unanswered theories.
• He is the author of popular science books like 'A Brief History of Time'.

The correct answer is Nuclear Fusion.

Key Points

• Hydrogen Bomb
• It contains a mixture of deuterium oxide and tritium oxide in a space surrounding an ordinary atom bomb.
• The first step of the reaction is endothermic i.e. reaction between deuterium oxide and tritium oxide is initiated by the energy obtained from the explosion of the atom bomb.
• The second step of the reaction is exothermic i.e. energy evolving.
• Nuclear Fusion
• The process which involves the fusion of two or lighter nuclei to give heavier nuclei is called nuclear fusion.
• It occurs only at extremely high temperatures (>10⁶K), so also called thermonuclear reactions.
• It is used in a hydrogen bomb.
• The energy of the sun and stars is also a result of a series of nuclear fusion reactions.

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• Nuclear Fission
• It is the phenomenon of artificial transmutation in which a heavy nucleus splits up into two or more lighter nuclei of nearly comparable mass with the release of a tremendous amount of energy.
• It was discovered by two German scientists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann in 1939.

The correct answer is Kepler.

Key Points

• Planetary Laws

1. Every planet's orbit is an ellipse with the Sun at a focus.
2. A line joining the Sun and a planet sweeps out equal areas in equal times.
3. The square of a planet's orbital period is proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis.

• Kepler
• He was a German astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer.
• He is best known for his laws of planetary motion.

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• Newton
• Isaac Newton was an English scientist and mathematician.
• He made major contributions in mathematics and physics (the study of the relationship between matter and energy) and advanced the work of previous scientists on the laws of motion, including the law of gravity.
• Galileo
• He was an Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer.
• He has been called the "father of modern physics.
• ​Copernicus
• He was a Polish astronomer who is most famous for his contribution to establishing the heliocentric nature of the Solar System.
• His theory led to the Copernican Revolution, which is considered the launching point of modern astronomy and the Scientific Revolution.

The correct answer is All the above.

Key Points

• Thomas Munro
• He was a Scottish soldier and colonial administrator.
• He served as an East India Company army officer and statesman.
• He was appointed as the governor of the Madras Presidency.
• He is regarded as the father of the Ryotwari system.
• Arthur Cotton
• He was a British general and irrigation engineer.
• He devoted his life to the construction of irrigation and navigation canals throughout British India.
• Sir Arthur Cotton Museum has been built in his honour in Rajamahendravaram, Andra Pradesh.
• C.P. Brown
• He was a joint collector of the Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh from 1820 to 1822 and a court registrar from 1826 to 1829 during the British regime.

The correct answer is 22.

Key Points

• The Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India lists the official languages of the Republic of India.
• As per Articles 344 (1) and 351 of the Indian Constitution, the eighth schedule includes the recognition of the 22 languages.
• The language in this schedule includes Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.
• Of these languages, 14 were initially included in the Constitution.
• Subsequently, Sindhi was added in 1967 by the 21^st constitutional amendment act; Konkani, Manipuri, and Manipuri were added in 1992 by the 71^st constitutional amendment act; and Bodo, Dogri, Maithili, and Santali were added in 2003 by the 92^nd constitutional amendment act.
• According to Article 343: Hindi in Devanagri Lipi shall be the official language of the Union.

The correct answer is The Artist.

Key Points

• Oscar Awards Function
• The Oscar is also known as the Academy Awards.
• It is a set of awards given for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry.
• The award is given annually by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science.
• The first Academy award was held in the year 1929 in California.
• The award winners in different categories are awarded a copy of the golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, commonly known as Oscar.
• 84^th Academy Awards 2012
• Best Film: The Artist
• Best Actor: Jean Dujar for his role in the movie 'The Artist'
• Best Actress:  Meryl Streep for her role in the movie 'The Iron Lady'
• Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius for directing the movie 'The Artist'
• 93^rd Academy Awards 2021
• Best Film: Nomadland
• Best Actor: Anthony Hopkins for his role in the movie 'The Father'
• Best Actress: Frances McDormand for her role in the movie 'Nomadland'
• Best Director: Chloe Zhao for directing 'Nomadland' movie

The correct answer is Jean Dujardin.

Key Points

• Oscar Awards Function
• The Oscar is also known as the Academy Awards.
• It is a set of awards given for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry.
• The award is given annually by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science.
• The first Academy award was held in the year 1929 in California.
• The award winners in different categories are awarded a copy of the golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, commonly known as Oscar.
• 84^th Academy Awards 2012
• Best Film: The Artist
• Best Actor: Jean Dujar for his role in the movie 'The Artist'
• Best Actress:  Meryl Streep for her role in the movie 'The Iron Lady'
• Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius for directing the movie 'The Artist'
• 93^rd Academy Awards 2021
• Best Film: Nomadland
• Best Actor: Anthony Hopkins for his role in the movie 'The Father'
• Best Actress: Frances McDormand for her role in the movie 'Nomadland'
• Best Director: Chloe Zhao for directing 'Nomadland' movie

The correct answer is Kerala.

Key Points

• In 1957, the Communist Party of India (CPI) defeated Congress in legislative assembly elections in the southern state of Kerala and formed the first non-congress government in independent India.
• EMS Namboodiripad became the Chief Minister of Kerala that was the first non-congress government in independent India.
• Kerala
• Capital: Thiruvananthapuram
• Chief Minister: Pinarayi Vijayan
• Governor: Arif Mohammad Khan
• National Parks: Eravikulam National Park, Mathikettan National Park, Periyar National Park, Silent Valley National Park
• State Animal: Indian Elephant
• State Bird: Great Hornbill
• State Tree: Coconut Tree
• State Flower: Kanikoan

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