Rajasthan Previous Year GK Questions

By the Rayleigh criterion the smallest angle the eye can resolve is 1.22 times the wavelength divided by the diameter of the pupil, that is 1.22 multiplied by 500 nanometres and divided by 3 millimetres, which comes to about 2.03 times ten to the power minus four radian.

Brewster found that when unpolarised light falls on a transparent surface at one particular angle of incidence, called the polarising angle, the reflected light is completely plane polarised, and at that angle the refractive index of the surface equals the tangent of the polarising angle.

A swing is a pendulum, and its speed is greatest at the lowest point, where all the potential energy gained at the top has turned into kinetic energy.

Rajasthan is divided into ten agro-climatic zones, and zone three B is the flood prone eastern plain, which covers Alwar, Bharatpur, Dholpur, Karauli and Sawai Madhopur, the districts drained by the Banganga, Gambhir and Chambal where heavy monsoon flows cause waterlogging.

Replacement level fertility is the total fertility rate at which a generation of women exactly replaces itself in the next generation.

The Employees State Insurance (Amendment) Act belongs to 2010, so 1 pairs with (c). The Equal Remuneration Act, which forbids unequal pay for men and women for the same work, was passed in 1976, so 2 pairs with (d).

Baji Rao I, Peshwa from 1720 to 1740, carried Maratha arms north of the Narmada and into Gujarat, Malwa and Bundelkhand, defeated the Nizam at Palkhed and reached the outskirts of Delhi, so that the initiative in Indian politics passed from the Mughal capital to Poona.

Ashoka's Thirteenth Rock Edict names the Hellenistic kings to whom he sent dhamma missions, and their kingdoms are known from Greek history: Antiochus II Theos ruled the Seleucid kingdom of Syria, Ptolemy II Philadelphus ruled Egypt, Antigonus II Gonatas ruled Macedonia and Magas ruled Cyrene in north Africa.

Shulka was a duty on goods, collected at the gates of towns and at ferries and frontiers on trade, not on land or its produce.

The correct answer is D, because Jorwe is a Chalcolithic site in Maharashtra that gives its name to the Jorwe culture, not to the Malwa culture, which is named after its own region in Madhya Pradesh and is represented by Navdatoli, Eran and Nagda.

In this method small narrow channels are run between the ridges on which a row crop stands, and only those channels are filled.

Sandy soil drinks water too fast for any surface method, and an uneven surface cannot be flooded evenly without heavy levelling.

Although the Indira Gandhi Canal and the Chambal canals are the famous works of the state, they water only a part of it.

The Merino, of Spanish origin and now reared in large numbers in Australia, is the standard fine wool sheep of the world, its fleece being soft, dense and of very small fibre diameter.

The corrected lactometer reading, written CLR, is the figure read on the neck of a lactometer floating in milk, and the specific gravity is obtained from it by the simple relation one plus the reading divided by one thousand.

In the Gerber test a measured quantity of milk is mixed with sulphuric acid and amyl alcohol in a butyrometer and spun in a centrifuge; the acid digests everything but the fat, which rises into the graduated neck of the tube and is read off directly as a percentage.

Rajasthan runs its cattle breeding farms in the home tract of each breed, so the place names and the breeds go together.

Fusion is the joining of two light nuclei into a heavier one, with a neutron or other products released and a large amount of energy appearing because the mass of the product is slightly less than the mass of the reactants; in ITER the reaction fuses deuterium and tritium into…

A tanka is a covered underground tank, usually sunk in a courtyard or beneath a house in western Rajasthan, into which rain falling on the paved courtyard or the roof is led through a filter and stored for drinking right through the dry months.

Oceans cover close to seventy-one per cent of the earth's surface and hold about ninety-seven per cent of its water, which makes the marine ecosystem the largest on the planet by both area and volume.