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Week 35
RECALL & REMEMBER!
Clue: This particle is a fundamental constituent of matter and carries a negative charge. It's found in all atoms.
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India and Indonesia recently held their seventh Joint Defence Cooperation Committee meeting in New Delhi, focusing on expanding collaboration in defense industry, maritime security, and multilateral cooperation. Both nations expressed satisfaction with the growing scope of defense cooperation.
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False - The Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919.
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Week 36
True, The pH of a solution can indeed be negative, though this is less common.
Clue: This fundamental force is responsible for the attraction between objects with mass and is described by Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation. What is this force called?
Week 33
IIT Kanpur, in collaboration with DRDO, established a DRDO-Industry-Academia Centre of Excellence (DIA CoE) for interdisciplinary research in next-gen defence technologies.
Clue: This term refers to the passing on of genetic traits from parents to offspring. Clue: It involves the transmission of DNA through reproduction.
True, The first successful vaccine was developed by Edward Jenner in 1796.
Week 34
World Environment Day has been celebrated annually on June 5 since 1973. Millions worldwide participate in its observance. The 2024 theme is ‘land restoration, desertification, and drought resilience’.
Hint: These structures are responsible for protein synthesis in cells. They read messenger RNA and assemble amino acids into proteins.
True, An irrational number is a real number that cannot be expressed as a ratio of integers; for example, √2 is an irrational number. We cannot express any irrational number in the form of a ratio, such as p/q, where p and q are integers, q≠0.
Week 31
Kumargupta I , The University of Nalanda was established at Badagoan, Bihar in the 5th century during the reign of the Gupta emperor Kumaragupta I.
Clue: This principle explains why objects float or sink in a fluid.It's named after an ancient Greek mathematician.
False, The first country to grant women the right to vote was New Zealand.
Week 32
True, the boiling point of water decreases with increasing altitude. This is because of the lower atmospheric pressure at higher altitudes. At a higher altitude, atmospheric pressure is lower, it takes less energy to bring water to the boiling point. Less energy means less heat, which means water will boil at a lower temperature at a higher altitude.
China, China’s space agency announced the successful landing of the uncrewed Chang’e-6 spacecraft on the moon’s far side on June 2, 2024. Landing in the South Pole-Aitken Basin, it marks the first human sampling and return mission from this region.
Clue: a figure of speech that involves the comparison of one thing with another using "like" or "as."
Week 29
True, The rate of a chemical reaction generally increases with an increase in temperature. This is because higher temperatures provide more kinetic energy to the reactant molecules, increasing the likelihood of successful collisions that result in a reaction.
Indravati National Park is a national park located in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh state of India. It derives its name from the nearby Indravati River.
Week 30
Clue: the phenomenon where light bends as it passes through different mediums
True, Antarctica is the driest continent; it is almost entirely desert. Very little snow or rain falls on the continent, but because it is so cold, the small amount of precipitation that does fall does not melt.
Article 124, The Supreme Court of India is the apex judicial body under the Constitution of India. Article 124 of the Constitution states that “There shall be a Supreme Court of India.” The Supreme Court came into existence on 26 January 1950 with the coming into force of the Constitution.
Week 27
True, The United States Declaration of Independence was adopted in 1776 to formally declare the American colonies' independence from British rule, citing grievances against King George III and asserting principles of self-governance, individual liberty, and natural rights.
Researchers discovered a new scorpion species with 8 eyes and 8 legs in Thailand’s Kaeng Krachan National Park. Named Euscorpiops Krachan, it belongs to the subgenus Euscorpiops.
Week 28
True, The Panama Canal was constructed to connect the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, providing a vital shortcut for maritime trade between the east and west coasts of the Americas.
Environment and Water (CEEW’s) report on used water management spotlights Haryana, Karnataka, and Punjab as leaders in the country. Urban water demand rises while groundwater levels dwindle.
Week 25
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) in Bengaluru have observed a significant shift in the habitat of numerous bird species in the Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary, a protected area in the Himalayan foothills of West Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh. The study attributes this migration to higher elevations to the escalating temperatures in the region.
True,A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of symbols that reads the same backwards as forwards.
Clue: The substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without being consumed in the process.
A catalyst is a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without being consumed during the process. Catalysts can also lower the temperature or pressure required to start a reaction.
Week 26
The second International AYUSH Conference in Dubai showcases AYUSH as a reliable and cost-effective healthcare approach for preventing and managing Non-Communicable Chronic Diseases.
False,The twinkling of stars is due to atmospheric refraction of star-light. The atmosphere is made of several layers and the refractive indices which keep on changing continuously due to this path of light rays from the star keep on changing their path continuously.
Week 23
Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project,Located on the border of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, this project experienced a hillside collapse on the left side of the dam, leading to the deposition of debris into its reservoir.
Python was conceived in the late 1980s by Guido van Rossum at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands as a successor to the ABC programming language, which was inspired by SETL, capable of exception handling and interfacing with the Amoeba operating system.
True, Planck's constant, symbolized as h, is a fundamental universal constant that defines the quantum nature of energy and relates the energy of a photon to its frequency.
Week 24
The primary objectives of the recently launched XPoSat (X-ray Polarimeter Satellite) by ISRO are to investigate the polarization of intense X-Ray sources and study the enigmatic world of black holes.
False, The Great Barrier Reef is an interlinked system of about 3000 reefs and 900 coral islands, divided by narrow passages.
Week 21
Deoxyribonucleic acid (abbreviated DNA) is the molecule that carries genetic information for the development and functioning of an organism.
True, New York has three main islands: Manhattan Island, Staten Island and part of Long Island, and it also has a number of smaller islands within each borough
The Indian Railways launched an AI-based surveillance system to prevent elephant deaths on railway tracks. ‘Gajraj System’ will be installed on 700 kilometres of route passing through forest areas.
Week 22
the force that opposes the motion of an object sliding over a surface.
Pakistan and the UAE have inked several agreements under which the Gulf nation is likely to invest between USD 20-25 billion in the cash-strapped nation, according to a media report.
False, The Louvre is not only the biggest art museum in the world, it's the largest museum of any kind in the world spanning a massive 782,910-square-feet of gallery space. The building was formerly a fortress and the French Royal Palace. The scale is astonishing. The Louvre is also the most visited museum in the world.
