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Welcome to the General Knowledge Section of Free Time Learning. As we are aware General Knowledge (GK) is a very important area in all the competitive exams held in the country. Nowadays, a good knowledge of general awareness is very important in clearing any competitive and government recruitment examinations.

These General Knowledge Question are very important and usefull to UPSC, IAS/PCS, UPPSC, IBPS, SBI, RBI, SSC, CGL, Railway, APPSC, TSPSC, KPSC, TNPSC, TPSC, UPPSC, MPSC, RPSC, BPSC, MPPSC, UKPSC, MPSC, and other competitive exams.

A)
APJ Abdul Kalam
B)
Homi J Bhabha
C)
Raja Ramanna
D)
Vikram Sarabhai

Correct Answer : Option (B) - Homi J Bhabha


Colloquially known as "father of the Indian nuclear programme", Bhabha was also the founding director of the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay (AEET) which is now named the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in his honour.

Published On : June 8, 2021
A)
Srikumar Banerjee
B)
Arvind Bhatnagar
C)
Prafulla Chandra Ray
D)
Shivram Bhoje

Correct Answer : Option (C) - Prafulla Chandra Ray


Set up as an individual initiative in a laboratory in 1892 by the 'father of Indian chemistry' Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray, and regarded the country's first pharma company, Bengal Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Ltd has recorded profits for 2016-17 for the first time after more than six decades.

Published On : June 8, 2021
A)
Expedition 22
B)
Expedition 25
C)
Expedition 26
D)
Expedition 31

Correct Answer : Option (C) - Expedition 26


Scott Joseph Kelly (born February 21, 1964) is an American engineer, retired astronaut, and naval aviator. A veteran of four space flights, Kelly commanded the International Space Station (ISS) on Expeditions 26, 45, and 46.

Published On : June 8, 2021
A)
1676
B)
1789
C)
1824
D)
1993

Correct Answer : Option (A) - 1676


In 1676, the Danish astronomer Ole Roemer (1644–1710) became the first person to measure the speed of light. Roemer measured the speed of light by timing eclipses of Jupiter's moon Io.

Published On : June 8, 2021
A)
PARAM 8000
B)
CRAY XC - 30
C)
SAGA-220
D)
PRATYUSH

Correct Answer : Option (C) - SAGA-220


Delivering 220 TeraFLOPS (220 Trillion Floating Point Operations per second), SAGA-220 is easily the fastest supercomputer we have around. Built with a budget of Rs. 14 crore.
 
SAGA-220 (Supercomputer for Aerospace with GPU Architecture-220 teraflops) is a supercomputer built by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It was just inaugurated by K V Radhakrishnan 2 May 2011, Chairman, ISRO.

Published On : June 8, 2021
A)
Solar energy
B)
Wind energy
C)
Solar energy
D)
Energy from fossils

Correct Answer : Option (D) - Energy from fossils


Published On : June 8, 2021
A)
Sun
B)
Earth
C)
Animals
D)
Plants

Correct Answer : Option (A) - Sun


Published On : June 8, 2021
A)
Triton
B)
Ganymede
C)
Charon
D)
Luna

Correct Answer : Option (C) - Charon


Charon, the largest of the five moons, is mutually tidally locked with Pluto, and is massive enough that Pluto–Charon is sometimes considered a double dwarf planet.

Published On : June 8, 2021
A)
biological evolution
B)
chemical evolution
C)
artificial evolution
D)
physical evolution

Correct Answer : Option (B) - chemical evolution


Published On : June 8, 2021
A)
Venus
B)
Mars
C)
Saturn
D)
Jupiter

Correct Answer : Option (B) - Mars


IN 2015, Scientists had discovered belts of glaciers consisting of frozen water equivalent to over 150 billion cubic metres on Mars. Scientist deducted the sources based on radar measurements from the NASA satellite and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Published On : June 8, 2021