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Correct answer: (A) Electrolysis
Green hydrogen is made by the electrolysis of water with renewable electricity—the water splits into H₂ and O₂. Since the power comes from the sun or the wind, there is no carbon emission.
Correct answer: (A) Deepfake
Deepfake technology copies a person's face, voice and manner closely enough to make a video in which even someone dead can be shown speaking. AI is the wider field and a chatbot is only a conversing program.
Correct answer: (B) Pakistan
On the cost-of-living index of 2024, Pakistan among the countries given was placed better than India.
Correct answer: (B) Rajendra Prasad
Among those who stood with Gandhiji in the Champaran Satyagraha of 1917, Rajendra Prasad was foremost; he went on to be India's first President. The movement was on behalf of the peasants forced to grow indigo.
Correct answer: (A) Mercury
Mercury's surface is covered with craters like the Moon's and it has almost no atmosphere of its own, so it is called the moon-like planet. Mars has a thin atmosphere and the Earth a dense one.
Correct answer: (A) Rift Valley of Africa
Correct answer: (A) Flood-prone areas
Dry-point settlements grow where there is a danger of flood—people choose the higher, drier spots, such as the mounds in river valleys, to build on.
Correct answer: (B) Rohtas
Rohtas district produces the most paddy in Bihar and is called the state's rice bowl; the irrigation from the Son canal is the main reason.
Correct answer: (A) Alborz
Tehran, the capital of Iran, lies at the foot of the Alburz range.
Correct answer: (C) Mahendragiri
The highest peak of the Eastern Ghats is Mahendragiri, in Odisha. Anai Mudi belongs to the Western Ghats and Kanchenjunga to the Himalaya.
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
The spread of agriculture, large development projects, and grazing with the gathering of fuelwood are all genuine causes of the loss of flora and fauna. None of them is an invalid reason.
Correct answer: (B) Bhagalpur
Bhagalpur produces the most silk cloth in Bihar and is called the Silk City. Its tussar silk is specially well known.
Correct answer: (B) Lord Chelmsford
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place at Amritsar on 13 April 1919, when Lord Chelmsford was the Viceroy of India. Lord Curzon (1899–1905) is known for the partition of Bengal and Lord Irwin (1926–31) for the Gandhi–Irwin pact.
Correct answer: (B) W. C. Bonnerjee
The first session of the Indian National Congress was held at Bombay in 1885 and its first President was W. C. Bonnerjee. Dadabhai Naoroji became President three times later.
Correct answer: (B) Dadabhai Naoroji
Dadabhai Naoroji is called the Grand Old Man of India. With his theory of the Drain of Wealth he showed that British rule was carrying India's wealth away.
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
The Quit India Movement (1942) and the Non-Cooperation Movement (1920) were both started by Mahatma Gandhi. The Swadeshi Movement began in 1905 against the partition of Bengal, before Gandhiji had even returned to India. So more than one option is correct.
Correct answer: (A) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
The Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928 was led by Vallabhbhai Patel. After that successful movement against the raising of land revenue, the women there gave him the title ‘Sardar’.
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
Annie Besant, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Sarojini Naidu were all associated with the Home Rule Movement, so the answer is ‘None of the above’.
Correct answer: (A) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
The Bihar Provincial Congress Committee was founded in 1920 by Dr Rajendra Prasad, who later became India's first President. Anugrah Narayan Sinha was his colleague, and Jayaprakash Narayan belonged to a later generation.
Correct answer: (C) Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
Correct answer: (A) Materialism
Correct answer: (C) Liberation
Correct answer: (B) Buddhism
Correct answer: (A) Udayana
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
Correct answer: (A) True
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
Correct answer: (C) Mimamsa philosophy — theory of Apurva
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
Correct answer: (C) Swagata
Correct answer: (A) Samkhya
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
Correct answer: (A) Aurobindo — Ashtanga Yoga
Correct answer: (A) True
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
Correct answer: (A) Pineal gland
Correct answer: (B) Idealism
Correct answer: (C) Spinoza
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
Correct answer: (B) Leibniz
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
Correct answer: (A) God
Correct answer: (C) Leibniz
Correct answer: (B) Descartes
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
Correct answer: (A) Hume
Correct answer: (B) False
Correct answer: (C) Bradley