General Knowledge - Technology, Politics & More

Child labor violates Article 24 of the Constitution (prohibition of child labor in factories). Denying temple entry to underprivileged persons violates Article 15(2) (prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, or sex). Foreigners settling and establishing cultural units is permitted under law with reasonable restrictions. Arresting an insurgent during a President's visit for maintaining public order falls under constitutionally valid preventive detention (Article 22).

Degaussing is the process of reducing or eliminating a magnetic field, specifically used to erase data from magnetic storage media like floppy disks, tapes, or hard drives. It is not related to CPU attachments, creating media, or medical applications.

Computer viruses are malicious programs that spread through file sharing, email attachments, infected downloads, or network connections. A scanner is an input device for digitizing physical documents - it cannot contract or spread viruses as it does not execute or transfer program files.

CPU stands for Central Processing Unit, which is the primary component of a computer that executes instructions and processes data. It is not related to power units or public certification.

A Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube technology used in traditional monitors and televisions to display images. It is not found in CPUs, printers, or scanners.

CAG stands for Comptroller and Auditor General, a constitutional authority established under Article 148 to audit government accounts and ensure financial accountability. It is not related to commerce, civil affairs, or comparative administration.

This is a trick question - if you take away three apples from five, you now have three apples in your possession (the ones you took). The question asks how many you have, not how many remain.

IRQ stands for Interrupt Request, which is a signal sent to the CPU to temporarily stop current operations and handle a higher-priority task. The 'Queue' spelling in options A and B is incorrect - it is not 'Que'.

The Intel Pentium FDIV bug was a flaw in the Floating Point Unit (FPU) of certain Pentium processors that caused incorrect division results. It was not related to cache, socket issues, and Intel acknowledged the flaw.

The prompt establishes right at the start that the family consists of Lee's parents and their children, meaning Lee is one of the siblings. The first four children are La, Le, Li, and Lo, leaving Lee as the fifth child.

MIME stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, an Internet standard that extends email format to support non-ASCII text and multimedia attachments. It enables sending images, audio, and other file types through email. 'Mail Internet Mail Exchange' and 'Mail Interleave Method Exchange' are fabricated expansions.

Nelson Mandela's autobiography is titled 'Long Walk to Freedom' (1994), chronicling his early life, education, 27-year imprisonment, and eventual rise to the South African presidency. 'War and Peace' is by Tolstoy, 'The Mother' by Maxim Gorky, and 'My Story' is generic. The question has a typo in 'mondela'.

Indira Gandhi's government introduced the Twenty Point Programme in 1975 during the Emergency period. It aimed to alleviate poverty, improve living standards, and address land reforms, education, and industrial development. Nehru, Rajiv Gandhi, and Narasimha Rao served as Prime Minister but weren't associated with this specific programme.

Hexadectylism is the medical term for having six fingers or toes on one or both hands or feet, a congenital condition called polydactyly. The other options are nonsensical distractors. The condition is usually harmless and the extra digit can be surgically removed if needed.

A VGA port is a video graphics array interface used exclusively to transmit analog display signals from a computer to a monitor or projector. Network cards, serial ports, and modems are all designed for data communication and connecting with other computing devices.

This is a classic trick riddle. While the pattern suggests color-matched materials (red bricks → red house), a greenhouse is actually made of glass panels, not green bricks. The wordplay breaks the established pattern. Greenhouses allow sunlight in for plants while trapping heat, hence the 'green' reference.

Chiranjeevi, the legendary Telugu cinema actor, was originally named Siva Sankara Vara Prasad before entering films. He adopted the screen name 'Chiranjeevi' which means 'one who lives forever' in Sanskrit. The variations Siva Prasad and Siva Sankara Prasad are incomplete or incorrect versions of his birth name.

E-mail is a form of asynchronous communication where messages are sent and stored until the recipient chooses to open and read them at a later time. Chat, instant messaging, and IRC are all synchronous, real-time communication mediums.