Indian General Knowledge Quiz

Intelligence everywhere is Motorola's tagline. This reflects their technology and communications focus. Note the spelling variation Motorolla in the option. Intel and AMD are chip manufacturers, Dell makes computers.

1729 is the Ramanujan-Hardy number, named after the famous anecdote where Hardy visited Ramanujan in hospital and mentioned arriving in taxi number 1729, which Ramanujan immediately recognized as the smallest number expressible as the sum of two positive cubes in two different ways: 1³ + 12³ = 9³ + 10³ = 1729.

Unlike Germany's Weimar constitution or Japan's MacArthur constitution (named after General Douglas MacArthur who drafted it), the Indian Constitution is not named after any individual. It was drafted by the Constituent Assembly with Dr. B.R. Ambedkar as the Drafting Committee Chairman, but it's not called 'Ambedkar's Constitution' - it's simply the Constitution of India.

The Indian President has absolute veto power only over State Legislation. For bills passed by Parliament, the President can only delay them (suspensive veto), not reject them absolutely. The absolute veto means the President can refuse assent to State bills, preventing them from becoming law at all. Option D is incorrect because absolute veto exists for State bills.

Impeachment proceedings against the Vice President of India can only be initiated in the Rajya Sabha. This is because the Vice President is the ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha. While removal requires a resolution passed by both houses, only the Rajya Sabha can initiate the process, similar to how only Lok Sabha can initiate impeachment against the President.

A Financial Emergency under Article 360 has never been declared in India since the Constitution came into force in 1950. While there have been discussions about economic crises, no President has issued a proclamation for Financial Emergency. This is a factual question about India's constitutional history.

Justice V. Ramaswami of the High Court was the first (and so far only) judge against whom an impeachment motion was successfully initiated in 1991. The motion was passed in Lok Sabha but fell through in Rajya Sabha. P.V. Narasimha Rao was the Prime Minister during this period (1991), making Option A correct. This was a landmark event in India's judicial history.

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was enacted to legally reinforce the right to work, operationalizing the Directive Principles of State Policy outlined in the Indian Constitution.

The 91st Constitutional Amendment (2003) added Article 75(1A) which limits the Council of Ministers to 15% of the total Lok Sabha membership. This was introduced to prevent oversized ministries. Before this amendment, there was no constitutional limit, though convention suggested reasonable size. The amendment strengthened this provision.

India is described as a 'holding together' federation where the central government is strong and states have no right to secede. This type of federation forms by devolving power to regional governments within an existing country, unlike 'coming together' federations where independent states voluntarily unite.

High Court judges are appointed by the President of India under Article 217 of the Constitution. The President acts in consultation with the Chief Justice of India and the Governor of the concerned state before making such appointments.

State autonomy has been a key demand of DMK since its inception, advocating for greater powers for state governments within India's federal structure. The party initially sought Dravida Nadu but later focused on strengthening federalism and state rights within India.

Narinder Singh Kapany, born in India, is widely recognized as the 'father of fiber optics' for his pioneering work on optical fibre transmission in the 1950s. While C.V. Raman and S.N. Bose were great physicists, they worked in different areas of physics.

Baglihar Dam is built across the Chenab River in the Ramban district of Jammu & Kashmir. It is a major hydroelectric power project that has been a point of discussion between India and Pakistan under the Indus Waters Treaty.

The first IIM was established in Kolkata (then Calcutta) in 1961. IIM Calcutta was the first of the IIMs to be set up, followed by IIM Ahmedabad in the same year. IIM Bangalore was established much later in 1973.

Madan Mohan Malaviya, a prominent freedom fighter and educationist, was popularly called 'Mahamana' (meaning 'great soul'). He founded Banaras Hindu University in 1916 and played a key role in India's independence movement and educational development.

An isohyet is a line on a map connecting points that receive equal amounts of rainfall. Isobars connect points of equal atmospheric pressure, isotherms connect points of equal temperature, and isohels connect points of equal sunshine duration.

Vinod Dham, often called the 'Father of the Pentium processor', was the Indian-born engineer who led the development of the Pentium processor at Intel. Bill Gates is the co-founder of Microsoft, not a processor architect.

Hawk-Eye technology is used in cricket to track ball trajectory and measure speed accurately. While specialized radar guns also measure speed, Hawk-Eye is the comprehensive tracking system used in professional cricket for speed and trajectory analysis.