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Given:

Total Cloth = 40 m

Remaining Cloth = 7m

Calculation:

According to the question

Cloth to be excluded = 40 - 7 = 33 m

⇒ Percentage Cloth Excluded = (33/40) × 100

⇒ Percentage Cloth Excluded = 82.5%

∴ 82.5% percentage of cloth should be excluded from 40 metre cloth so that the remaining portion is 7 metre.

The correct answer is the Great Himalayan Range.

Key Points

• The Himalayan range is made up of three parallel ranges - the Greater Himalayas, the Lesser Himalayas, and the Outer Himalayas, also called Siwalik Range.
• The northernmost range is called the Great Himalayas and is also the oldest of all the ranges of Himalayas.
• It is made up of erosion material from the rising Himalaya.

Additional InformationSiwalik Range

• It rises from the plain of the Indus and Ganges and parallels the primary range of the Himalayas.
• It is regarded as the foothills of the Himalayas.

Lesser Himalaya Range

• The Lesser Himalayas run parallel to the Greater Himalayas and have an elevation between 2000 m to 5000 m.
• Its areas comprise of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan.

Dhaula Dhar Range

• The Dhauladhar range is part of a lesser Himalayan line of mountains.
• It rises from the Indian plains to the north of Kangra and Mandi.

The correct answer is 101^st.

Key Points

• Satyajit Ray was born on May 2, 1921.
• He was an Indian filmmaker, documentary filmmaker, screenwriter, author, lyricist, and essayist.
• He is widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.
• His much-celebrated works are- The Big City, The Apu Trilogy, The Music Room, and Charulata.
• His 101 birth anniversary is being celebrated on May 2, 2022.
• To pay tribute to him on his Birth Anniversary 2022, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has initiated different activities.
• Also, the National Museum of Indian Cinema has organized a three-day film festival at various locations.

The correct answer is Rabindranath Tagore.

Key Points

• In the year 1905 the then Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon ordered the partition of Bengal, based on religious grounds.
• The order of partition was passed on August 1905 and came into effect on October 16, 1905.
• That year October 16 was the date that collided with Rakhi Purnima, the last day of Shravan month according to Hindu calendar.
• Rabindranath Tagore led a protest against the decision of British viceroy Curzon.
• He urged Hindus and Muslims to tie Rakhi (amulet) on each other’s wrist to express harmony and solidarity among each other.
• Following the lead of Tagore hundreds of Hindus and Muslims in Kolkata, Dhaka and Sylhet came out to tie Rakhi threads as a sign of unity.

The correct answer is Rajiv Kumar.

Key Points

• Shri Rajiv Kumar assumed charge as the 25^th Chief Election Commissioner of India.
• He has been serving in ECI as Election Commissioner since September 1, 2020.

Additional Information

• Article 324 deals with Election Commission of India.
• Article 324 provides that the superintendence, direction and control of the preparation of the electoral rolls for, and the conduct of, all elections to Parliament and to the Legislature of every State and of elections to the offices of President and Vice President held under this Constitution shall be vested in a Commission.

The correct answer is Mehargarh.

Key Points

• Mehrgarh is a Neolithic archaeological site (dated c. 7000 BCE – c. 2500/2000 BCE) located near the Bolan Pass on the Kacchi Plain of Balochistan in Pakistan.
• It is situated to the west of the Indus River and between the modern-day Pakistani cities of Quetta, Kalat and Sibi.
• The site was discovered in 1974 by an archaeological team led by the French archaeologists Jean-François Jarrige and his wife, Catherine Jarrige.
• It provides the earliest evidence of settled agriculture in the subcontinent and probably south Asia.
• The earliest evidence of farming on this site has been suggesting that a civilization existed in the site of Mehrgarh as early as 7000 BCE.
• The earliest farming was developed by semi-nomadic people using plants such as wheat and barley and animals such as sheep, goats and cattle.
• The settlement was established with unbaked mud-brick buildings and most of them had four internal subdivisions.

The correct answer is BACK.

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Note: The original question in WBCS question paper was wrong. Therefore Testbook has slightly modified it.

The correct answer is Rohit Sharma.

Key Points

• Rohit Sharma has become the second Indian batter to complete 10,000 runs in T20 cricket for men.
• He achieved this historic milestone during the match against Punjab Kings on 13 April, 2022.
• He became the seventh batter overall to reach 10,000 runs in T20s.
• Chris Gayle was the first batter to achieve this milestone.
• Virat Kohli became the first Indian to score 10,000 runs in T20s.

The correct answer is 3.

Total number of chairs = 15

Position of P is at the middle. Q is at 12^th position counting from the right.

The correct answer is D.D. Basu.

Key Points

• Durga Das Basu was an Indian jurist and lawyer.
• D D Basu's Introduction to the Constitution of India is a pioneer work.
• He wrote the Commentary on the Constitution of India and Casebook on the Indian Constitutional Law.
• He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1985.

Additional Information

• K. C. Wheare described the Indian Constitution as quasi-federal.
• Jennings said India's Constitution is "far too large and far too rigid."
• He also called the Constitution of India a “lawyer's paradise” because the legal language and phraseology adopted by the constitution-makers makes it a complex document.