Current Affairs & General Knowledge Test - 10

The last Mauriyan king was Brihatratha.

Brihadratha was the last ruler of the Mauryan Empire. He ruled from 187 to 184 BCE, when he was killed by his general, Pushyamitra Shunga, who went on to establish the Shunga Empire. The Mauryan territories, centred on the capital of Pataliputra, had shrunk considerably from the time of Ashoka to when Brihadratha came to the throne. According to the Puranas, Brihadratha succeeded his father Shatadhanvan to the throne and ruled for seven years.

Vosges are block mountains.

A mountain is any natural elevation of the earth's surface.

• Mountains are formed by enormous movements upon the earth's crust.
• These gigantic movements fold and break the crust into many layers and sometimes these movements raise the crust in the upward direction (dome-shaped).
• As a result, the changes in crust give rise to different types of mountains.

Section 9 of the Aadhaar Act, 2016 states that “the Aadhaar number or the authentication thereof shall not, by itself, confer any right of, or be proof of, citizenship or domicile in respect of an Aadhaar number holder.” So, statement 1 is not correct.

The Aadhaar Act regulations, state that an individual’s Aadhaar number may be “omitted” permanently or deactivated temporarily by the Unique Identification Authority of India, the agency responsible for issuing the numbers and managing the database. So, statement 2 is not correct.

Therefore Neither 1 nor 2 statement are correct.

In March 2018, Mahanadi Water Disputes Tribunal is formed on the direction of Supreme Court to adjudicate water sharing dispute between Odisha and Chhattisgarh states.

Accordingly, it was concluded that the dispute cannot be resolved by negotiation. Subsequently, the Central Government constituted Mahanadi Water Disputes Tribunal vide Notification No 1114 (E)

The Indian Olympic Association has taken the first formal step towards hosting the Olympics in India by submitting a 'Letter of Intent' to the International Olympic Committee's Future Host Commission. The proposed year for hosting the Games is 2036, which is expected to bring significant economic growth, social progress, and empowerment to India's youth.

SIDBI is not a subsidiary of RBI.

National Housing Bank is a subsidiary of RBI. National Housing Bank is a statutory organization set up on July 9, 1988 under the National Housing Bank Act, 1987. NHB is wholly owned by Reserve Bank of India, which contributed the entire paid-up capital.

Hence, the correct option is (A).

Vaishali was the capital of Vajji Mahajanapada. The kingdom was situated in Bihar to the north of the river Ganga. It covered the districts of Vaishali and Muzaffarpur in Bihar.

Sodium hydrogen carbonate is used in soda-acid fire extinguishers.

It consists of a strong iron vessel with a side discharge nozzle. The iron vessel is filled with a Sodium hydrogen carbonate solution.

Working principle of any fire extinguisher:

• ​Cooling of the combustible material below its ignition temperature.
• Cutting off the air supply.
• Cooling the combustible material simultaneously while cutting off the air supply.

Pranav Venkatesh, a Grandmaster from Chennai, achieved a historic double victory by winning the FIDE World U-18 Youth Rapid and Blitz Chess titles in Slovenia.

The correct answer is It deflects the wind to the right direction: in the southern hemisphere.

• The Coriolis effect describes the pattern of deflection taken by objects not firmly connected to the ground as they travel long distances around  Earth.
• The Coriolis effect is responsible for many large-scale weather patterns.
• The key to the Coriolis effect lies in Earth’s rotation. Specifically, Earth rotates faster at the Equator than it does at the poles.
• Equatorial regions race nearly 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles)/hour.
• Near the poles, Earth rotates at a sluggish 0.00008 kilometers (0.00005 miles)/hour.
• The Coriolis effect becomes more extreme as you move further away from the equator toward the poles.
• Due to this Coriolis force, the winds in the Northern Hemisphere get deflected towards the right, and in the Southern Hemisphere get deflected towards the left.
• Wind and ocean currents are strongly affected by the Coriolis effect.