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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)
Watt
B)
Volt
C)
Ohm
D)
Ampere

Correct Answer :   Ampere


The ampere, symbol A, is the SI unit of electric current. It is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the elementary charge e to be 1.602 176 634 ×10⁻¹â¹ when expressed in the unit C, which is equal to A s, where the second is defined in terms of ∆νCs

Published On : June 8, 2021
A)
Galileo Galilei
B)
Hans Lipperhey
C)
Copernicus
D)
None of the above

Correct Answer :   Hans Lipperhey


The first person to apply for a patent for a telescope was Dutch eyeglass maker  Hans Lippershey (or Lipperhey). In 1608, Lippershey laid claim to a device that could magnify objects three times. His telescope had a concave eyepiece aligned with a convex objective lens. One story goes that he got the idea for his design after observing two children in his shop holding up two lenses that made a distant weather vane appear close. Others claimed at the time that he stole the design from another eyeglass maker, Zacharias Jansen.

Published On : June 8, 2021
A)
K kasturirangan
B)
Homi J Bhabha
C)
Satish Dhawan
D)
Vikram Sarabhai

Correct Answer :   Vikram Sarabhai


The Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR) was founded in 1962 under Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) with Vikram Sarabhai as its chairperson which in 1969 became ISRO.

Published On : June 8, 2021
A)
1729
B)
1650
C)
1532
D)
1427

Correct Answer :   1729


The Hardy-Ramanujan number stems from an anecdote wherein the British mathematician GH Hardy had gone to meet S Ramanujan in hospital. Hardy said that he came in a taxi having the number '1729', which the British mathematician described "as rather a dull one".

Published On : June 8, 2021
A)
Presidency College
B)
Trinity College
C)
London College
D)
Cambridge College

Correct Answer :   Trinity College


Ramanujan was the first Indian to be elected to a fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, and it is interesting that two of the successful candidates (S. Chandrasekhar and S. Chowla) are both Trinity men

Published On : June 8, 2021
A)
Cauvery Basin
B)
Sri Lanka
C)
Antarctica
D)
Sundarbans Delta

Correct Answer :   Antarctica


Dakshin Gangotri was the first scientific base station of India situated in Antarctica, part of the Indian Antarctic Programme. It is located at a distance of 2,500 kilometres (1,600 mi) from the South Pole.

Published On : June 8, 2021
A)
Bhaskar
B)
Surya
C)
Aditya
D)
Ravi

Correct Answer :   Aditya


The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has recently announced that its first solar mission, named Aditya-L1, will be launched in 2019–20. The spacecraft aims to answer fundamental questions in solar physics by studying dynamic processes on the Sun.

Published On : June 8, 2021
A)
Yuri Denver
B)
Yuri Malenchenko
C)
Yuri Johnson
D)
David Malenchenk

Correct Answer :   Yuri Malenchenko


Yuri Malenchenko became the first person to marry in space, on 10 August 2003, when he married Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who was in Texas, while he was 240 miles over New Zealand, on the International Space Station.

Published On : June 7, 2021
A)
Asteroid Strom
B)
Comet Strom
C)
Meteorite Strom
D)
Solar Strom

Correct Answer :   Solar Strom


Published On : June 7, 2021
A)
space observatory
B)
Reconnaissance satellite
C)
Reconnaissance satellite
D)
Communication satellite

Correct Answer :   space observatory


ASTROSAT is India's first dedicated multi wavelength space observatory. ... ASTROSAT observes universe in the optical, Ultraviolet, low and high energy X-ray regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, whereas most other scientific satellites are capable of observing a narrow range of wavelength band.

Published On : June 7, 2021