General Studies Questions [Mix & Previous Years MCQs]

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Article 11 of the Indian Constitution empowers the Parliament to regulate the right of citizenship by law. The parliament can make any provision with respect to the acquisition and termination of citizenship and all other matters relating to citizenship.

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The equator receives equal day and night throughout the year because it does not tilt in relation to the sun’s location. Because of the tilted axis of the Earth, the poles and locations away from the equator lean towards or away from the sun as an orbit is completed, while the equator stays in essentially the same location relative to the sun.

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Manipur has six main valley insurgent groups: UNLF (United National Liberation Front), KCP (Kangleipak Communist Party), PLA (People’s Liberation Army), PREPAK (People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak), KYKL (Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup), and MPLF (Manipur People’s Liberation Front). Additionally, there are tribal insurgent groups, including the Kuki and Naga insurgents.

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Bluetooth is a wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances, creating personal area networks (PANs) with high levels of security. It can connect several devices, overcoming problems of synchronization.

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In IBM PC compatible computers, the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS), is the de facto standard defining a firmware interface. The name originated from the Basic Input/Output System used in the CP/M operating system in 1975.

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Primary storage, also known as main storage or memory, is the area in a computer in which data is stored for quick access by the computer’s processor. The terms random access memory (RAM) and memory are often as synonyms for primary or main storage.

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The MAX (maximum) statistical function gives the largest value in a range of values. In contrast, MIN (minimum) statistical function gives the smallest value in a range of values. These functions look like:

• MIN function: = MIN(A3:A6)
• MAX function:= MAX(A3:A6)

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Mother Teresa became the first Indian woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She had founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation in Calcutta, giving her life to social work.

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• The Thamiraparani is the only perennial river in Tamil Nadu. It is the shortest river in the state. It originates from the Agastyarkoodam peak of Pothigai hills of the Western Ghats. It flows through Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi districts of the Tamil Nadu state of southern India into the Gulf of Mannar. It thus originates and ends in the same state.
• Palar is a river of southern India. It rises in the Nandi Hills in Chikkaballapura district of Karnataka state and flows in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu before reaching its confluence into the Bay of Bengal at Vayalur. The Cheyyar and the Ponnai in Tamil Nadu are the major tributaries of this river Palar.
• The Brahmani River comes into existence by the confluence of the Koel and the Sankh rivers near Rourkela. It has a total length of 800 km. The basin flows through Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, and the Orissa States and drains into the Bay of Bengal.

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While the Philippines frequently experiences typhoons, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions due to its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire and within the typhoon belt, tornadoes are notably less common, making them the correct answer.