Madhya Pradesh Previous Year GK Questions

Once a ductile specimen passes its ultimate tensile strength, the deformation stops being uniform and concentrates in one short length, which draws out into a narrow waist.

A lever is a rigid bar turning about a fulcrum, and by the principle of moments the load multiplied by the load arm equals the effort multiplied by the effort arm, so a long effort arm lets a small effort balance a large load; this is the simplest way of…

The profit volume ratio measures contribution as a percentage of sales, and contribution is sales minus variable cost.

Costs are classified as direct or indirect by traceability. A direct cost can be attributed wholly to one product, job or process, such as the raw material in a shirt or the wages of the worker who stitches it.

A sprinkler breaks water into drops and spreads it like rain, so the field does not have to be levelled and no flowing sheet of water is needed.

A data warehouse is exactly that, a central store into which data from many operational systems is extracted, cleaned and loaded so that it can be analysed for decision making.

In an auction the price is not fixed by the seller but is discovered from what buyers are willing to bid, and this way of trading appears at two levels.

The Protection of Human Rights (Amendment) Act, 2019 reduced the term of the Chairperson and the members of the Commission from five years to three years, or until they attain the age of seventy, whichever is earlier, and it also made them eligible for reappointment.

The Ganga-Yamuna Doab is a level alluvial plain with deep fertile soil, assured water from wells, canals and a high water table, and a long history of dense farming settlement, so its villages are compact or nucleated: the houses stand packed together in one block with narrow lanes, and the…

Robert Giffen observed that when the price of a cheap staple such as coarse bread fell, poor families did not buy more of it but less, because the saving let them shift to a better food; such inferior goods are therefore called Giffen goods and their demand curve slopes upward.

The Buddhist text Mahaparinibbana Sutta and the Jaina tradition credit Ajatashatru of the Haryanka dynasty with two engines used in his long war against the Lichchhavis of Vaishali: the Mahashilakantaka, which hurled great stones, and the Rathamusala, a chariot fitted with a mace that swept down ranks of soldiers.

In 1897 Thomson passed an electric discharge through a gas at very low pressure and showed that the cathode rays produced were a stream of identical negatively charged particles, far lighter than any atom and the same whatever gas or electrode was used.

His play takes up the later life of Rama, after the events of the Ramayana.

The socialist leader Yusuf Meherally, who had been Mayor of Bombay, coined the words Quit India, just as he had coined Simon Go Back in 1928, and the Congress adopted the phrase for its resolution of 8 August 1942.

Section 16 of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 extends the collective-fine provision of the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 to atrocities, and the power to impose and recover a collective fine on the inhabitants of an area rests with the State Government.

The last election to the Central Legislative Assembly set up under the Government of India Act of 1919 was held in the winter of 1945, after the Second World War ended and the Labour government in Britain moved towards a settlement with Indian leaders.

Article 338 provides for the National Commission for Scheduled Castes, a constitutional body that investigates and monitors the safeguards given to Scheduled Castes, enquires into specific complaints and reports to the President, who places the report before Parliament.

A pyramid of energy is always upright because energy is lost as heat at every step of a food chain, so each higher trophic level holds less energy than the one below it.

The Inter Tropical Convergence Zone is the low-pressure belt near the equator where the north-east and the south-east trade winds meet.

The Indian Councils Act of 1909, known as the Morley-Minto Reforms, introduced separate electorates for Muslims and so gave communal representation legal shape for the first time in British India.