TNPSC Group IV- Key Answers....

TNPSC Group-4 2013 - Few Answer Keys

• Professor Rajkrishna, an Indian economist, coined the term 'Hindu rate of growth' in 1978 to characterise the slow growth and to explain it against the backdrop of socialistic economic policies

• Edward Joseph Snowden is an American computer specialist who worked for the CIA and the NSA and leaked details of several top-secret United States and British government mass surveillance programs to the press

• The Bhopal Gas Tragedy - December 3, 1984

• The books ‘Wings of Fire’ was written by A.P.J Abdul Kalam

• Nehru Report - 1928

• Second Round Table Conference - 1931

• Individual Sathyagraha - 1940

• Lord Attlee’s Announcement - 1946

• The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of India took place in Constitution Hall, New Delhi, on 9th December 1946

• August Offer - 1940

• C.R. Formula - 1944

• Wavell Plan - 1945

• Interim Government - 1946

• Justice M. Fathima Beevi was the first female judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court of India (1989)

• Gas which is evolved during photosynthesis - Oxygen

• Embden-Meyerhof pathway (EMP Pathway) is a biological pathway also known as Glycolysis

• Graphite and clay were mixed to form the pencil we know today (Graphite is a form of carbon)

• South Sudan became the 193rd member of the United Nations (UNO) in the year 2011

• Brahmo Samaj - Rajaram Mohan Roy

• Arya Samaj - Swami Dayanand Saraswathi

• Ramakrishna Mission - Swami Vivekananda

• Theosophical society - Madame Blavatsky

• Vitamin K is necessary for normal blood clotting

• Srivilliputhur Grizzled Squirrel Wildlife Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu is located in the Virudhunagar district

• The "lubb" is the first heart sound is caused by turbulence caused by the closure of mitral and tricuspid valves at the start of systole. The second heart sound, "dubb" is caused by the closure of the aortic and pulmonic valves, marking the end of systole

• The ICAR (Indian Council of Agricultural Research) has played a pioneering role in ushering Green Revolution and subsequent developments in agriculture in India

• Phycology is the scientific study of algae

• BRIC is a grouping acronym that referred to the countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China

• The National Development Council (NDC) was established on August 6, 1952.