BASICS
1. Who has been appointed as the new chairman of Central Board of Indirect taxes and Customs (CBIC)?
S Ramesh
1.Who provided that π2 is irrational?
Adrien Marie Legendre.
1. "The fathers of the Internet" is
Vint Cerf
1.What are the colors of our flag?
Red, white and blue
1. Which substance (in white colour) seen on the inner side of the test tube near its mouth when ammonium chloride is heated in it?
Ammonium chloride
2. Who has been appointed as the acting Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)?
ArvindSaxena
2.Who is the not so well known father of statistics?
John Graunt.
2.The inventor of the World Wide Web?
Tim Berners-Lee --> The first web browser was invented in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. It was called WorldWideWeb and was later renamed Nexus.)
2.How many stars are there in our flag?
50
2. Those reactions in which the products cannot react and give back the original reactants are called what?
Irreversible reactions
3. Pappu Karki, the popular Kumaoni folk singer has passed away. He was native of which state?
Uttarakhand
3.Which game did a thinking machine play for the first time?
Chess
3.The founder of Netscape Communications?
Marc Andreessen -co-authored Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser and he founded Netscape Communications.
3.What do the stars on the flag mean?
One for each state in the union
3.What is the name of the chemical with formula KCNS?
Potassium thiocyanate.
4. India’s first-ever national police museum will establish in which city?
Delhi
4.Which number has come to represent spying and espionage activity?
007 (This is due to James Bond movies in which his number is agent 007)
4.Where was the first computer installed in India?
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
4.What is the date of Independence Day?
July 4th
4.What is the visible part of the Sun called?
The Photosphere
>The outer region of the Sun that is normally visible from the Earth is called the photosphere, which means “sphere of light.”
6. Which country will host the 45th G7 summit 2019?
France
5.Which is the only number equal to the number of its letters in English language?
Four
5.The first page of a website is called the
Home page
5.Who was the first President of the United States?
George Washington
5.Who invented the telescope?
Hans Lippershey
<Hans Lippershey (c. 1570-c. 1619) was a spectacle maker in the Netherlands, who is credited with the invention of the telescope.