Static GK for Judiciary – 12

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Q.1. Which of the following country does not share a land border with India?

(a) Afghanistan

(b) Pakistan

(c) Malaysia

(d) Bhutan

 

Q.2. A programme written in a high level language is referred to__________?

(a) source code

(b) object code

(c) machine code

(d) assembly code

 

Q.3. Iodine Test is used to detect______?

(a) Cholesterol

(b) Fat

(c) Protein

(d) Carbohydrate

 

Q.4. Which command is used to add a new slide in the current presentation in powerpoint?

(a) Ctrl + N

(b) Ctrl + M

(c) Ctrl + O

(d) Ctrl + D

 

Q.5. Who among the following is the first woman Chief Minister in post-Independence period in India?

(a) NandiniSatpathy

(b) ShashikalaKadokar

(c) SuchetaKriplani

(d) SyedaAnwaraTaimur

 

Q.6. Which ‘Bus” among the following is responsible for specifying address of a memory location?

(a) Data Bus

(b) RAM Bus

(c) Address Bus

(d) ROM Bus

 

Q.7. Which country is the leading producer of coconut?

(a) India

(b) Indonesia

(c) Malaysia

(d) Thailand

 

Q.8. Who was the youngest revolutionary to be awarded death sentence?

(a) Khudiram Bose

(b) Bhagat Singh

(c) Sukhdev

(d) Rajguru

 

Q.9. In computing, 1 nibble is equal to ____________?

(a) 4 bit

(b) 4 bytes

(c) 8 bytes

(d) 4 kilo bytes

 

Q.10. The Ayushman Bharat National Health Protection Mission (ABNHPM) was rolled out from which city?

(a) Raipur

(b) Jaipur

(c) Bhopal

(d) Ranchi

 

 

Answers with Explanations

1.Correct Answer: C

Explanation-India shares borders with seven countries like Pakistan, China, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Afghanistan and Nepal. Malaysia is the only country that does not share a border with India. The borders of Malaysia include land and maritime borders with Brunei, Indonesia and Thailand and shared maritime boundaries with the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam. Hence Option C is correct.

 

2.Correct Answer: A

Explanation- Computer programs are written in a high-level programming language; however, the human-readable version of a program is called source code.
The source code of a program is specially designed to facilitate the work of computer programmers, who specify the actions to be performed by a computer mostly by writing source code. The source code is often transformed by an assembler or compiler into binary machine code understood by the computer.
Hence Option A is correct.

 

3.Correct Answer: D

Explanation- starch

An iodine test can be used for the detection of starch in a given sample. The iodine test can help to distinguish starch from monosaccharides, disaccharides, and other polysaccharides. The iodine test is used for distinguishing between starch, glycogen, and carbohydrates. Hence Option D is correct.

 

4.Correct Answer: B

Explanation- We can use the Ctrl + M shortcut command to insert a new slide to the current presentation. It will add a new slide below the slide open currently. Hence Option B is correct.

 

5.Correct Answer: C

Explanation- Since 1963 India has had 16 female chief ministers, A majority of them belonged to the Indian National Congress party. The first female to become chief minister was SuchetaKripalani of the Indian National Congress party, who sworn in on 2 October 1963 as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. Hence Option C is correct.

 

6.Correct Answer: C

Explanation- An address bus is a computer bus architecture used to transfer data between devices that are identified by the hardware address of the physical memory (the physical address), which is stored in the form of binary numbers to enable the data bus to access memory storage.

The address bus is used by the CPU or a direct memory access (DMA) enabled device to locate the physical address to communicate read/write commands. All address busses are read and written by the CPU or DMA in the form of bits. Hence Option C is correct

 

7.Correct Answer: B

Explanation- Indonesia is the world’s leading coconut producer in 2019, with about 17.13 million metric tons of coconuts produced. That year, India was the third largest coconut producer in the world, accounting for around 14.68 million metric tons of global production volume. Hence Option B is correct.

 

8.Correct Answer: A

Explanation- Khudiram Bose

At the age of 18 he sacrificed his life for the nation, making him the youngest martyr of the Indian Independence Movement. Khudiram Bose was the youngest revolutionary freedom fighter who was executed on August 11, 1908. Hence Option A is correct.

 

9.Correct Answer: A

Explanation- In computing, a nibble is a four-bit aggregation, or half an octet. It is also known as half-byte or tetrade. Hence Option A is correct.

 

10.Correct Answer: D

Explanation- This scheme was launched on 23rd September, 2018 in Ranchi, Jharkhand by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi. Hence Option D is correct.