Part – B General knowledge (English) (NDA/NA SOLVED PAPER 2019 (I) (51 to 100)

‘Inversion of Rainfall’ is associated with orographic rainfall. The orographic rainfall occurs due to the ascent of air forced by a mountain barrier. The mountain barrier should be across the wind direction, so that the moist air is forced in obstruction to move upward and get cooled.
The amount of the rainfall increases with increasing height of the barrier, but this is up to certain limit. After that there is a marked decrease due to lesser moisture content of the air and this phenomenon is called ‘Inversion of Rainfall’.

James Mill (1773-1836) was the author of the book ‘History of British India’. This book is a history of company rule in India. Hence, option (c) is correct

The Azamgarh Proclamation of 25th August, 1857 stressed on Hindu-Muslim divide. It was published in Delhi Gazette in the midst of the Sepoy Mutiny (1857).
The author was most probably Firoz Shah (grandson of Bahadur Shah Zafar), who fought against the British in Lucknow and Awadh (Oudh). The original document was published in Urdu.

Lord Willingdon was 22nd Viceroy of India from 1931 to 1936. He mentioned Mahatma Gandhi in a letter written in 1933 by saying, ‘‘It’s a beautiful world if it was not for Gandhi who is really a perfect nuisance.’’ Hence option (d) is corrrect.
The important events of his period include Second and Third Round Table Conferences, relaunching of Civil Disobedience Movement, Communal Award by Ramsay MacDonald (1932), Poona Pact (1932), the Government of India Act, 1935 and Separation of Burma from India.

Ghanshyam Das Birla, an Indian businessman favoured ‘healthy capitalism’ in helping Gandhiji to work towards a ‘common object.’ Birla was a close associate and a steady supported of Mahatma Gandhi, whom he met for the first time in 1916.
Gandhiji stayed at Birla’s home in New Delhi during the last four months of his life. In 1957, GD Birla was awarded India’s second highest civilian honour, the Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India.

The art piece ‘In Memoriam’ was a creation of the European painter, Joseph Noel Paton. He was a Scottish artist, illustrator and sculptor. In 1844, Paton’s first painting, Ruth Gleaning, was exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy.

Static electricity can charge an insulator. Charging of insulator by induction process, static charge is required.
A static electric charge can be created whenever two surfaces contact and separate at least one of the surfaces has a high resistance to electric current.

The speed of sound in water at 20°C is approximately 1500 m/s.

Iron (Fe) is a chemical element with atomic number 26. It is a metal that belongs to the first transition series and group 8 of the periodic table. Its melting point is 1538°C (~1500°C) or 1811 K.