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Given:

9 men can complete half of a work in 12 days.

Concept used:

Total work = Efficiency of each worker × Number of days to finish × Number of total workers

Calculation:

Let the efficiency of each man be M.

Half of the total work = 9M × 12 = 108 units

Total work = 108M × 2 = 216M units

Now, 24 men will finish the work in = 216M ÷ 24M

⇒ 9 days

∴ 24 men will finish the work in 9 days.

The correct answer is Finland.

In News 

• ​Finland topped the World Happiness Index in 2018.
• The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness.
• The World Happiness Report 2018, ranks 156 countries by their happiness levels, and 117 countries by the happiness of their immigrants.
• The main focus of this year’s report, in addition to its usual ranking of the levels and changes in happiness around the world, is on migration within and between countries.
• All the top countries tend to have high values for all six of the key variables that have been found to support well-being: income, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom, trust, and generosity.

Additional Information  World Happiness Index  

• Recently, the 10^th edition of the World Happiness Report 2022 was released by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
• The report placed a total of 146 countries on its list.
• For the fifth year in a row, Finland has been ranked highest in the 2022 World Happiness Report.
• Afghanistan is the unhappiest country in the world, coming in at number 146.
• India moved up three ranks from 139^th in the 2021 report to 136^th in the 2022 edition.

The correct answer is Maharashtra.

Key Points

• Paithani cloth is related to Maharashtra.
• Paithani weaving technique, popular for it's unique art and tradition is the carrier of a legacy for over 2000 years.
• Born in Paithan, the splendid capital of Satvahana Dynasty in 200 BC on the banks of divine Godavari River, Paithani grew under the patronage of the Satvahana dynasty of kings.
• Later it progressed throughout the Deccan region.
• Paithani uses the ancient technique of tapestry where multiple threads of different colours along with gold and silver threads are woven together to form a fascinating piece of silk.
• In the distant past, Romans imported this golden woven fabric in exchange for gold of equal weight.
• The art of Paithani survived under successive rulers.
• In fact it flourished under Aurangzeb, who not only brought it back to its glory but also incorporated many novelties in appearance.
• The well known floral motifs and AmarVell are contributions from Mughal era.

Additional Information

 Maharashtra

• It was founded on the first May 1960 by seprating  the bilingual Bombay  into majority Marathi-speaking Maharashtra and Gujarati-speaking Gujarat.
• Maharashtra is the third largest state in India by area.
• The capital of Maharashtra is Mumbai.
• It is also known as India’s financial and commercial capital.
• The official language of Maharashtra is Marathi.

The triangles are:

So, there are 14 triangles are in the given figure.

Hence, the correct answer is "14".

Here, Figure 2 is embedded in the given figure.

Hence, the correct answer is "Option 2".

The correct answer is Sarangi.

Key Points

• Sarangi is a string instrument.
• A sarangi is a bowed stringed instrument with a skin-covered resonator.
• The typical sarangi is made by hand, usually from a single block of wood.
• The four playing strings on this instrument are made of goat gut, and the seventeen sympathetic strings are made of steel.
• The sarangi is used throughout India and has some regional variations, but it is a particularly important part of the Hindustani music of North India.

Additional Information 

The correct answer is Blaise Pascal.

Key Points

• Blaise Pascal  invented the calculator.
• In 1645 Pascal published an eighteen-page pamphlet describing his calculating machine.
• Pascal’s invention of the mechanical calculator in the early 1640s was born out of a desire to help his father in collecting taxes.
• He was the second person known to have created a device of this kind.
• A company by the name of Schickard had manufactured a type of mechanical calculator in 1624.
• Until 1645, Pascal worked on improvements to the machine, which was called the Pascaline. It resembled the mechanical calculators of the 1940s.

Additional Information 

• James Watson played a crucial role in the discovery of the molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the substance that is the basis of heredity.

The correct answer is 2013.

Key Points

• The Mars Orbiter Mission was launched in 2013.
• India's first interplanetary spacecraft, Mars Orbiter Mission was successfully launched on November 05, 2013, at 14:38 hrs (IST), by India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C25, from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.
• The four main Objectives of the Mars Orbiter Mission are the Study of the Martian atmosphere, the Study of Martian Surface Features, Morphology, and Mineralogy.

Additional Information

5 different scientific payloads of the Mars Mission

• Mars Color Camera (MCC)
• Methane Sensor for Mars (MSM)
• Lyman Alpha Photometer (LAP)
• Thermal Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (TIS)
• Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyser (MENCA)

Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) – Achievements

• India is the 1^st country in the world to achieve Mars Orbit Insertion in the very 1^st attempt.
• The cost of this mission was $ 74 million, it cost less than a famous Hollywood movie named Gravity.
• MOM is the cheapest Interplanetary Space Mission in the World.
• It is the 1^st Interplanetary Space Mission of India.
• It is the 1^st Indian spacecraft to survive the Van Allen Belt, by crossing it 39 times$.

Opposite sides are:

Dice 1: 

 → Can't be made (Circle and Squares are opposite faces).

Dice 2:  

→ Can't be made (Circle and Squares are opposite faces).

Dice 3: 

 → Can be made

Dice 4:  

→ Can be made

Here, Dice 3 and 4 can be made from the given open dice.

Hence, the correct answer is "Option 4".

The correct answer is Gujarat.

Key Points

• Modhera Sun Temple is situated at Gujarat.
• As per Archeological Survey of India Modhera Sun Temple was built in 1026-27 CE during the reign of Bhima I of the Chaulukya dynasty.
• As you enter the historical complex, you first come across the magnificent kund known as the Ramakund, built in rectangular shape containing 108 shrines to various gods and demi-gods.
• Three main shrines positioned on the three sides of the kund, dedicated to Ganesh and Vishnu and an image of Lord Shiva dancing the ‘tandav’.
• Walk up the steps to the ‘Sabha Mandap’ or the assembly and convene with sculpted renderings of twelve ‘Adityas’ (another name for the sun god).
• The twelve representations carved on the pillars represent the sun according to the twelve months.
• In October, 2022 Honorable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Inaugurated Solar powered 3-D Projection Mapping Show and Heritage Lighting at the Temple.

Additional Information