General Studies Questions [Mix & Previous Years MCQs]

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Pyramid of energy is always upright, can never be inverted, because when energy flows from a particular trophic level to the next trophic level, some energy is always lost as heat at each step. Each bar in the energy pyramid indicates the amount of energy present at each trophic level in a given time or annually per unit area.

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Bangladesh’s official language is known as Bangla that is spoken by the vast majority of the population. Besides this, there are 38 languages that are in use in Bangladesh including Assamese, Arakanese, Bishnupriya, Burmese, Chak and Chakma. Maithili is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Bihar and Jharkhand states of India and in the Terai region of Nepal.

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The essential feature of democracy is giving prominence to the citizen. One of the key features of democracy is that by the people, from the people and to the people. People occupy the centre stage here.

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Tenth Schedule to the Indian Constitution deals with vacation of seats and disqualification from membership of Parliament and the State Legislatures on account of defection. It was added to the constitution by the 52nd Amendment Act (1985), popularly known as the anti-defection law.

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Pressure groups play an essential role in democracy. Political parties cannot provide adequate representation for the full range of diverse interests and opinions in a modern democracy because their key function is to aggregate interests into a coherent political entity capable of governing the country. Pressure groups enable particular interests and causes to be heard and to exert influence in public decision and decision-making.

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A food chain may be defined as the transfer of energy and nutrients from the source in plants through a series of organisms with repeated processes of eating and being eaten. Parasitic food chain starts from herbivore but food energy passes from larger to smaller organism without outright killing as in case of predator. Hence, the larger animals are considered to be the hosts and the smaller animals which fulfill their nutritional requirements from the hosts are considered as parasites.

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The Sahel region spans from Senegal to Eritrea, covering parts of Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and Sudan. The Sahara Desert extends across 11 countries: Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan, and Tunisia. The Horn of Africa includes Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia. Additionally, the region encompasses Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and extends to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana, and South Africa.

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The most common image file formats, the most important for cameras, printing, scanning, and internet use, are JPG, TIF, PNG, and GIF. In computing, .mdb file-extension is used in certain versions of Microsoft Access databases.

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The Internet’s first search engine appeared in 1989 and was invented by Alan Emtage, a computer science student from Barbados studying at McGill University. Emtage dubbed his invention Archie, a contraction of the word “archives” to fit the shortened naming conventions of the UNIX operating system.

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• Mohenjodaro (Sind) is situated on the right bank of the Indus.
• Harappa (Punjab, Pakistan) is located on the left bank of the Ravi.
• Chanhudaro (Sind) lies on the left bank of the Indus, about 130 km south of Mohenjodaro.
• Kalibangan (Rajasthan) was on the banks of the river Ghaggar which dried up centuries ago.
• Lothal (Gujarat) is at the head of the Gulf of Cambay.
• Banawali (Haryana) was situated on the banks of the now extinct Sarasvati river.
• Surkotada (Gujarat) is at the head of the Rann of Kutch.
• Dholavira (Gujarat), the latest city to be excavated, is in the Kutch district.