One Dozen Fact

Booker Prize is given in which field?

• Medicine
• Physics
• Literature
• Engineering

Answer explanation

The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, is a literary award conferred each year for the best novel written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Rythu bandhu scheme was introduced in which state?

• Telangana
• Gujarat
• Maharashtra
• Karnataka

Answer explanation

The Rythu Bandhu scheme, also referred to as the Farmer's Investment Support Scheme (FISS), was started by the government of Telangana in 2018 as a welfare program aimed at supporting farmers.

International Labour Organisation headquaters located in?

• Geneva, Switzerland
• New York, USA
• Paris, France
• London, England

Answer explanation

The ILO headquarters are located in Geneva, where the ILO's Member States government, employer and worker representatives meet three times a year at the ILO's Governing Body and annually at the International Labour Conference (ILC).

India's largest Mundra Port is located in

• Chennai
• Kolkata
• Mumbai
• Gujarat

Answer explanation

• It is the largest private port and the largest container port in India.

• Location: It is located on the north shores of the Gulf of Kutch, near Mundra, Kutch district, Gujarat.

• It is a all-weather port.

Indian constitution was adopted in the year

• 1975
• 1950
• 1960
• 1947

Answer explanation

UNFCCC stands for

• Union of Nations Fighting Climate Crisis
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• United Nations Framework Convention on Carbon Control
• Universal Network for Forest Conservation and Climate Change

Answer explanation

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change established an international environmental treaty to combat "dangerous human interference with the climate system", in part by stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.

Yellow Revolution is related to

• Banana cultivation
• Textile industry
• Solar energy
• Oilseed production

Answer explanation

The revolution launched in 1986- 1987 to increase the production of edible oil, especially mustard and sesame seeds to achieve self-reliance is known as the Yellow Revolution. Sam Pitroda is Known as the father of the Yellow Revolution in India.

A branch of plant agriculture dealing with garden crops, generally fruits and vegitables is called

• Horticulture
• Agriculture
• Zoology
• Botany

Answer explanation

The study and discription of the physical features and characteristics of earth's surface is called as

• astronomy
• chemistry
• biology
• topography

Answer explanation

Shifting agriculture in karnataka is called as

• Aquaculture
• Terrace farming
• kumari

• Slash-and-burn agriculture

Answer explanation

Swidden agriculture- Swidden cultivation is the cultivation which uses the technique of “slash and burn”. A piece of land is temporarily used for cultivation and then is abandoned. This is the other name of shifting cultivation