General Studies Questions [Mix & Previous Years MCQs]

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The largest town of the Republic of Malta is St. Paul’s Bay. The town of St. Paul’s Bay is located in the northern region of Malta. It has a total estimated population of about 23,000 people.

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Oman, officially known as Sultanate of Oman, is a country situated in the southern Arab peninsula. The Sultanate of Oman is an Absolute Monarchy. The present monarch of the state is Haitham bin Tariq Al Said.

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Sultan Qutbuddin of the Shah Mir Dynasty conquered Punch (1373-89). His son, Sultan Sikander (1389-1413), known for iconoclasm, faced Timur’s invasion but saved Kashmir through diplomacy. He established the Jamia Masjid in Srinagar and promoted Persian culture.

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Loss on Security Provisions pertains to the risk of capital losses that could occur due to changes in the prices of securities. It’s crucial for investors to understand this risk as part of their investment strategy, given that prices of securities can fluctuate due to various external factors such as market volatility, economic conditions, or changes in interest rates. Therefore, this understanding allows investors to manage their portfolios effectively to mitigate potential losses.

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The Tolkappiyam is a work on the grammar of the Tamil language written in the form of poems around 200 BC by Tolkappiyar complied in second sangam. The seat of the second Sangam was Kapatpuram. It was attended by several poets and produced a large mass of literature, but only Tolkappiyam (the early Tamil grammar) has survived.

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The Battle of Buxar was fought on 22 October, 1764 between the forces of the British East India Company under Hector Munro and the combined armies of Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Bengal; the Nawab of Awadh; and the Mughal King Shah Alam II. It resulted in a decisive victory for the British East India Company.

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Potash fertilizer is not manufactured in India. In India, few deposits of potash mineral are reported from Sidhi district of Madhya Pradesh, Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh, Kaimur district of Bihar and Sawai Madhopur and Karauli districts of Rajasthan. It is in the form of Glauconitic (a potassium bearing green mica) sandstone.

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A monopoly exists when a specific individual or enterprise is the sole supplier of a particular commodity, contrasting it with a monopoly, which concerns a single entity’s control of the market to purchase a good or service. Monopolies are characterized by a lack of economic competition for the production of a good or service and a lack of viable substitute goods.

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The consumption function shows the relationship between real disposable income and consumer spending. It is a mathematical formula laid out by famed economist John Maynard Keynes.

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Equilibrium output refers to the level of output where aggregate demand equals aggregate supply (AD = AS) in an economy. It shows that whatever the manufacturer intends to produce during the year is the same as what the buyer bought during the year.