Hard Nuts practice No -8

1.The International Space Station orbits in which layer of the atmosphere ?
Answer :-Thermosphere

2. Most breathing gases are a mixture of oxygen and one or more ____ ?
Answer :- Inert gases

3.Who wrote the first 30 chapters of Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography in Yervada jail after taking dictation from him ?
Answer :-Indulal Yagnik

4. Which national social organization’s publication was ‘the Hitavada’ ?
Answer :-Servants of India Society

5. In which state is the famous Nehru Bridge, over the river Sabarmati situated ?
Answer :- Gujarat (Ahmadabad)

6.Which river originates in Dhebar lake in Aravalli Range of the Udaipur district of Rajasthan ?
Answer :-Sabarmati River

7. Which element is produced in large scale by using the Claus Process ?
Answer :-Sulfur

8. Which element forms over 30 solid allotropes, more than any other element ?
Answer :-Sulfur

9. Which gas has the nicknames of ‘Sewer gas, Stink damp and Sulfane’ ?
Answer :-Hydrogen Sulfide

10.Super alloys are commonly used to build the parts of which type of engines ?
Answer :-Gas turbine engines

11.Which organ produces the hormones of calcitriol and erythropoietin ?
Answer :-Kidney

12.The performance which human organ is evaluated through the glomerular filtration rate ?
Answer :-Kidney

13.Where is the headquarters of the International Hydrographic Organization ?
Answer :- Monaco

14.Which language is recognized as the national language by the most number of countries ?
Answer :-English

15.’The wind up’ is the most important technique in which track and field event ?
Answer :-Discus throw

16.Which is the world’s largest museum ?
Answer :-The Louvre Museum (Paris)

17.What is measured through the Wenworth scale ?
Answer :- Grain size of sand

18.What is known in the names of ‘Singing sand, Whistling sand and Barking sand’ ?
Answer :-Sand that produces sound

19.Who authored ‘Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita (The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna)’ under the pseudonym of ‘M’ ?
Answer :-Mahendranath Gupta

20.Which building functions as a secular mausoleum containing the remains of distinguished French citizens ?
Answer :-The Pantheon (Paris)

21.Which famous writer’s last novel was ‘Ninety Three’ ?
Answer :-Victor Hugo

22.Which work of Adi Shankara expounds the Advaita Vedanta philosophy in the form of 580 verses in the Shardula Vikridita metre ?
Answer :-Vivekachudamani

23.Which country’s national calendar is Vikram Samvat ?
Answer :-Nepal

24. Which city of England has the nicknames of ‘Cottonopolis and Warehouse City’ ?
Answer :-Manchester

25.What are the First-generation human rights, often called ‘Blue rights’ ?
Answer :-Civil and political Rights  

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