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Who won the world’s largest pre-college science competition in the US in the environmental engineering category for his project on biodegradation of pesticides  ?

A) Shanmuga Sundaram B) Prashant Ranganathan
C) Suresh Kumar D) Vijay Ragunathan
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Prashant Ranganathan

Explanation:

An Indian boy has won the world’s largest pre-college science competition in the US in the environmental engineering category for his project on biodegradation of pesticides. Prashant Ranganathan, a 12th grader from Jamshedpur, alongwith over 20 high school students from various parts of India, participated in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.

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A stone floor feels cold to the bare feet but a carpet on the same floor feels warm. This is because 

A) the floor and carpet are at different temperatures B) the stone conveys the heat away from the feet more rapidly than the carpet
C) the carpet is a better conductor of heat than the stone D) the human body maintains a constant temperature
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) the stone conveys the heat away from the feet more rapidly than the carpet

Explanation:

Both the floor and the carpet have the same temperature as both are exposed to the same atmosphere. But the former conducts away the heat from the feet better than the carpet as the latter is a non-conductor. So the feet losing more heat, the floor appears cooler to the feet.

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Q:

Dollu Kunitha is a folk dance from

A) karnataka B) Kerala
C) Bihar D) Tamil Naidu
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) karnataka

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The Ex-officio Secretary of NDC is ___________.

 

A) Vice-Chairman of Planning Commission   B) General Secretary of Lok Sabha  
C) Secretary of Finance Ministry   D) Secretary of Planning Commission  
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Secretary of Planning Commission  

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What is MESI?

Answer

The MESI protocol is also known as illinois protocol due to its development the University of illinois at Urbana-Champaign and MESI is a widely used cache coherency and memory coherence protocol.


MESI is the most common which supports write-back cache. its use in personal computers became widespread with the introduction of intel's pentium processor to "support the more efficient write-back cache in addition to the write-through cache previously used by the Intel 486 processor"/

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Q:

Brahmaputra Valley Fertilizers Corporation Limited (BVFCL) located?

 

A) Jharkhand B) Arunachal Pradesh
C) Odisha D) Assam
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Assam

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Terrestrial life-forms require ____________ water for life processes.

 

A) fresh B) saline
C) salt D) sour
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) fresh

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Which of the following tribes does not share its name to a mountain peak ?

A) Khasi B) Jaintia
C) Gaaro D) Bheel
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Bheel

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