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Previous year asked questions:

BSE was established in the year-1875

Background:

-oldest stock exchange in INDIA

-23 stock exchanges in INDIA

-two national ste:BSE & NSE

rest are regional ste

founder of KUSHAN EMPIRE: Kujala Kadphises

Bogibeel: India's longest rail cum road bridge

background:Over BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER

connecting - Dhemaji district to Dibrugarh district of ASSAM

capital of CANADA:OTTAWA

Background:On the southern bank of OTTAWA river

Two official languages:French and English

currency:CANADIAN DOLLAR

Second largest oil reservoir after Saudi

LIteracy rate :99%

Lakes of INDIA:

largest natural fresh water lake:Wular lake(260sqm)

largest man made fresh water lake:Shivaji sagar lake of Koyna dam(891 sqm)

largest brackish water lake of india: chilka lake(1165 sqm)

largest salt water lake: Sambhar lake-surrounded by aravali range-produces 9% of India's salt production

Highest lake of india: Lamho lake,Sikkim(height-5330m-14th highest of world)

longest lake of india:Vembanad lake(6.5km)

Deepest lake:Gobind sagar lake(depth-163m)

Tansen sanman 2018:

sitar player

Winner: Manju Mehta

given by which state: MP

Attorney general of India:

Present : K.K.Venugopal15th)-appointed by prez of india

Nobel Peace prize for 2018:

Winners: Nadia Murad (human activist)

Denis Mukwege (Physician)

Reason: Use of sexual Violance as a weapon of war

% fields: 1.Peace

2.chemistry

3.physics

4 .literature

5.physiology or medicine

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STAPCOR:

Abbreviation:Status & protection of coral reefs

2018 summit:

Theme: Reef for life

Inaugurated by: Dr.Harsh Vardhan (Union minister of environment forest and climate)

Held in: Lakshadweep- Bangaram Coral Island

Basic structural and functional unit of kidney-NEPHRON

Instruments for measurement:

Humidity: Hygrometer

Speed of wind:Anemometer

direct beam soalr irradiance: Pyrehliometer

Temperature Gradient:Thermometer