Bihar Previous Year GK Questions

In the core of the Sun, at a temperature of about fifteen million kelvin, four hydrogen nuclei combine through the proton-proton chain to form one helium nucleus.

A hydrogen bomb, also called a thermonuclear bomb, works in two steps. A fission explosion of uranium or plutonium produces the temperature of millions of degrees needed to force light nuclei together, and the fusion of those nuclei then releases far more energy than the fission stage alone.

PARAM 8000 was built by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing at Pune and was unveiled in 1991, three years after C-DAC itself was set up in 1988.

When Telangana was created on 2 June 2014 under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, Hyderabad became its capital, and the Act further provided that the city would serve as the common capital of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for a period of not more than ten years.

The White Paper of 1933 on Indian constitutional reform was examined by a Joint Select Committee of the British Parliament chaired by Lord Linlithgow, and the Bill drafted on its report became the Government of India Act of 1935; Linlithgow later served as Viceroy of India from 1936 to 1943.

Potassium permanganate is a neutral compound, so the oxidation numbers of all its atoms must add up to zero. Potassium, an alkali metal, is always +1, and each of the four oxygen atoms is -2, giving the oxygens a total of -8.

Wood's Dispatch of 1854, sent by Charles Wood, the President of the Board of Control, is called the Magna Carta of English education in India, and both statements describe it correctly.

The Goods and Services Tax was announced for the first time in the Union Budget for 2006-07, presented by the then Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, who proposed 1 April 2010 as the date for rolling it out.

Photosynthesis makes carbohydrate and gives out oxygen, and of the four choices here only oxygen is something the plant produces.

The Maginot Line was the chain of concrete forts that France built along its border with Germany. It is named after Andre Maginot, the French war minister who pushed the project through, and it was built in the 1930s after the First World War to stop another German invasion.

Fluorine is the most electronegative element, so in every compound it pulls the shared electrons towards itself and always shows an oxidation number of -1.

New oceanic crust is made at mid-ocean ridges, where magma rises, cools and is pushed outwards on both sides, and that process is called seafloor spreading.

The Indian Nation was an English daily brought out from Patna, and it is the only Patna paper in this list.

Interest paid on the government's past borrowing is the classic non-plan expenditure, because it is a committed charge the Centre must meet whatever its plans are.

Hooke's law holds only as far as the limit of proportionality, and that limit is either equal to or lower than the elastic limit, so statements 1 and 4 are the correct pair.

Plate tectonics says the Earth's rigid outer shell is broken into plates that keep moving slowly, carried by convection currents in the mantle below.

The Joint Parliamentary Committee that examined the White Paper on Indian constitutional reform was chaired by Lord Linlithgow, and its report of 1934 became the draft of the Government of India Act of 1935.

Muri, a town in the Ranchi district of Jharkhand, has a large alumina refinery, so it is remembered as an aluminium centre.

Lincoln is the only American President shot inside a theatre, so he is the one the question points to.

Young fold mountains were raised in the Tertiary period, only a few tens of millions of years ago in geological time, so erosion has had little time to wear them down and many of them are still rising as the plates behind them keep pushing.