General Knowledge (Part-B: English) NDA/NA SOLVED PAPER 2021-II (101 to 150)

Total Questions: 50

1. Which one of the following is not a function of the Constitution of India?

Correct Answer: (a) To ensure participation of good people in politics
Solution:Our constitution ensures that everyone gets equal opportunity but it doesn't ensure that good people come to power. As constitution provides us authority to select our leader to come into power but it depends on our decision that who will be coming into power. Constitution has no provision regarding this selection but has provisions for managing such issues.

2. Which one of the following statements about biodiversity is not correct?

Correct Answer: (d) More than 100 hotspots of biodiversity are identified in the world.
Solution:A hotspot is a natural habitat that has at least more than 0.5% of total vascular plants as endemic species and is under threat by human activities.
There are 36 biodiversity hotspots on our planet, and these areas are dazzling, unique, and full of life. Plants, animals, and other living organisms that populate these places are rare and many of them are only found in these specific geographic areas.
It covers only 2.3% of the earth surface but is a habitat for 77% of the world's species.

3. The Earth's atmosphere is mainly heated by which one of the following?

Correct Answer: (c) Long wave terrestrial radiation
Solution:The atmosphere is mainly heated by longwave terrestrial radiation. The earth's surface receives most of its energy in short wavelengths. The energy received by the earth is known as incoming solar radiation which in short is termed insolation.

4. Which one of the following is the correct sequence of layers as we move from the Earth's surface upwards?

Correct Answer: (b) Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere
Solution:Earth's atmosphere has a series of layers, each with 1 its specific traits. Moving upward from ground level, these layers have been named the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere and exosphere.

5. Which one of the following is not a soil forming factor?

Correct Answer: (d) Human habitation
Solution:Soil research has shown that soil profiles are influenced by five separate, yet interacting, factors: parent material, climate, topography, organisms, and time.
Soil scientists call these the factors of soil formation. Apart from Climate, other major factors which are responsible for the formation of the soil are Relief, Parent Rock, Time, flora, fauna and microorganisms. Thus, human habitation is not a soil-forming factor.

6. Which one of the following best describes the Lithosphere?

Correct Answer: (c) Crust and upper mantle
Solution:The lithosphere is the rigid outer part of the earth with thickness varying between 10-200 km. It includes the crust and the upper part of the mantle.

7. Which one of the following countries has the maximum time difference from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)?

Correct Answer: (d) Bhutan
Solution:There are 24 time zones around the world. India has +5.5 GMT, Nepal has 5.75, Sri Lanka has also 5.5 while Bhutan has 6.00. Thus in the given options, Bhutan has the maximum time difference from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

8. Which one of the following is not a feature of the Constitution of India?

Correct Answer: (d) It specifies the supremacy of the judiciary.
Solution:In India, the constitutional supremacy was explicitly reiterated in the Minerva Mills case whereby the Supreme Court held that "government, legislature, executive and judiciary are all bound by the Constitution, and nobody, is above or beyond the Constitution.
" Every law made by the parliament is subject to interpretation by Supreme Court in the light of ideals and objectives of the constitution and if they go beyond or above that, they can be held null and void. Indian Constitution does not have the express provision of separation of judicial and parliamentary supremacy but it's not quite unclear also.
It is the prerogative of the parliament to amend the constitution and make the laws; it is the duty of the judiciary to decide if the basic structure of the constitution are transgressed by such laws.
Thus, we can say that the constitution does not specify the supremacy of the judiciary.

9. Which one of the following statements about the Attorney General of India is not correct?

Correct Answer: (a) He has the right of audience only in the Supreme Court of India.
Solution:The Attorney General has the right of audience in all Courts in India as well as the right to participate in the proceedings of the Parliament, though not to vote.
Article 76 of the Indian Constitution under its Part-V deals with the position of Attorney General of India. The article mentions that he/she is the highest law officer in India. As a chief legal advisor to the government of India, he advises the union government on all legal matters.

10. Who among the following described the Directive Principles of State Policy as the novel feature of the Constitution of India?

Correct Answer: (d) B. R. Ambedkar
Solution:Dr BR Ambedkar described these principles as 'novel features' of the Indian Constitution. Article 36 deals with the definition of the state and article 37 deals with the nature and significance of Directive Principles. The makers of the Indian Constitution borrowed DPSP from the Constitution of Ireland.