Search Previous Year Questions

The correct answer is Bing.

Key Points

• Bing is the odd one among all. Because Bing is not a web browser like the option given above, Bing is a search engine like Google.
• This Bing has been created by Microsoft Corporation.
• Bing is a computer program created and operated by Microsoft, replacing its former Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search offerings.
• Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed the search engine in May 2009. Bing was fully operational in June 2009.

Additional Information

Important Points

• The winner of the inaugural world test championship was New Zealand. New Zealand managed to beat India by eight wickets to be crowned as the winners of the inaugural ICC World Test Championship.
• It started on 1 August 2019 with the first Test of the 2019 Ashes series and finished with the Final at the Rose Bowl, Southampton in June 2021.
• New Zealand won the match by eight wickets to be crowned as the winners of the inaugural ICC World Test Championship.
• New Zealand won the ICC Test Championship mace for the first time and was also awarded the cash prize of US$1.6 million, while India won US$800,0.
• It was New Zealand's second major ICC trophy win after emerging victorious at the 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy, and Kane Williamson became the second New Zealand captain after Stephen Fleming to win an ICC event.

Therefore, the correct answer is New Zealand.

Important Points 

• The Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union Territories) Bill, 2019 was introduced in Lok Sabha by the Minister of Home Affairs, Mr. Amit Shah, on November 26, 2019.
• The Bill provides for the merger of the Union Territories (UTs) of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and Daman and Diu into a single UT.
• The Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu were merged in view of fruitful utilization of manpower, improved administrative efficiency, reduced administrative expenditure, and improve service delivery as well as facilitated better monitoring of schemes.
• As it would also ensure better cadre management of employees.
• The bill was earlier passed by Lok Sabha on November 27, 2019.

Additional Information

• Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh- The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill, 2019 was introduced in Rajya Sabha on August 5, 2019, by the Minister of Home Affairs, Mr. Amit Shah.
• The Bill provides for the reorganization of the state of Jammu and Kashmir into the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Union Territory of Ladakh.
• Reorganization of Jammu and Kashmir: The Bill reorganises the state of Jammu and Kashmir into:
• the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir with a legislature, and
• the Union Territory of Ladakh without a legislature.
• The Union Territory of Ladakh will comprise Kargil and Leh districts, and the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir will comprise the remaining territories of the existing state of Jammu and Kashmir.
• Andaman & Nicobar Islands-The two sets of islands became a union territory of the Republic of India in 1956.

Hence, the correct answer is Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu.

Important Points

 The Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2020 is being conferred on **Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.**Gandhi Peace Prize is an annual award instituted by Government of India since 1995, the 125^th Birth Anniversary commemoration year of Mahatma Gandhi. The award is open to all persons regardless of nationality, race, language, caste, creed or sex.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh's founding father, was born in the modern-day Bangladesh district of Faridpur in 1920. He served as Bangladesh's first President and, later, Prime Minister. He is also known as Sheikh Mujib or simply Mujib, and his title is 'Bangabandhu,' which translates as 'Friend of Bengal.'

Additional Information The past awardees include luminaries like-

• Dr. Julius Nyerere, Former President of Tanzania;
• Dr. Gerhard Fischer, Federal Republic of Germany;
• Ramakrishna Mission;
• Baba Amte (Shri MurlidharDevidasAmte);
• Late Dr. Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa;
• Grameen Bank of Bangladesh;
• Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa;
• Shri Chandi Prasad Bhatt & Indian Space Research Organisation.

Recent awardees include-

1. Vivekananda Kendra, India(2015);
2. Akshaya Patra Foundation, India and Sulabh International (Jointly, for 2016);
3. Ekal Abhiyan Trust, India(2017)
4. and Shri Yohei Sasakawa, Japan(2018).

Therefore, the correct answer is Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

The phrase "Sixes and Sevens" mean confused.

Key Points

• "At sixes and sevens" is an English idiom used to describe a condition of confusion or disarray.
• Originally, the phrase was rendered on six and seven and referred to a dice game where throwing on a six or seven meant risking one's entire fortune. Until the 1600s, sixes, and sevens were meant to take a careless risk.

Key PointsPacifist: a person whose personal belief in pacifism causes him or her to refuse to be drafted into military service.

Pessimist: a person who habitually sees or anticipates the worst or is disposed to be gloomy.

Critic: a person who tends too readily to make captious, trivial, or harsh judgments; faultfinder.

Positivist: the state or quality of being positive; definiteness; assurance.

Hence pessimist is a person who looks only at the darker side of life.

The correct answer is 'Alliteration.'

Key Points 

• Alliteration: The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words in a sentence or phrase. In this figure of speech the letter or alphabet is repeated.
• ​Example: Road is full of snakes and scorpions.
• Here, in the given question, the two sounds are repeating "s" and "sh". So, this is a type of alliteration.

Hence, option 1 is the correct answer.

Additional Information 

• Onomatopoeia is when a word’s pronunciation imitates the sound that it describes. It includes animal noises like meow, hiss, etc.
• Example: The best part about music class is that you can bang on the drum.
• Simile is a very common figure of speech that uses the words "like" and "as" to compare two unlike things that are not similar in definition. 
• ​Example: Shalini is as fast as a tiger.
• Irony is a contradiction between words and expressions. It confuses the other person about what you said and what you meant.
• ​Example: A pilot has a fear of heights.

Key Points

• Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary is a marine wildlife sanctuary located in Odisha and is a very popular tourist attraction of Odisha in India.
• It is the world's largest nesting beach for Olive Ridley Turtles.
• It extends from the Dhamra River mouth in the north to the Brahmani river mouth in the south.
• It is very famous for its nesting beach for olive ridley sea turtles.
• It is one of the world's most important nesting beaches for turtles.

Hence, the Gahirmatha Marine Wildlife Sanctuary and the world’s largest nesting beach for the vulnerable Olive Ridley turtles is located in Odisha.**

Key Points

• The number of standardized hydrogen ions helps in knowing the acidity of a compound.
• The more the number of Hydrogen ions, the more will be the acidity of a solution.
• If a solution has a pH of 7 then it is considered to be a neutral solution, pH less than 7 is considered to be acidic and a pH more than 7 then solution is considered as basic.
• All the acids contain Hydrogen which dissolves in water to produce hydrogen ions.

Additional Information Acid is any substance that in water solution tastes sour, changes the color of certain indicators, reacts with some metals to liberate hydrogen, reacts with bases to form salts, and promotes certain chemical reactions.

Hence, t**he element which is present in all acids is Hydrogen.

Given:

⇒ (16)0.25 × (0.5)2

Concept used:

(a^m)ⁿ = a^mn

Calculation:

⇒ (16)0.25 × (0.5)2

Here, we can write it as,

⇒ [(2)⁴]^0.25 × (5/10)²

⇒ (2)¹ × (1/2)}²

⇒ 2 × 1/4 = 1/2 = 0.5

∴ Option 4 is correct.