831: If the Speaker of the State Legislative Assembly decides to resign, he should submit his resignation to the:
(a) Chief Minister
(b) Deputy Speaker
(c) Judge of the High Court
(d) President
832: Graphene is frequently in news recently. What is its importance?
1. It is a two-dimensional material and has good electrical conductivity.
2. It is one of the thinnest but strongest materials tested so far.
3. It is entirely made of silicon and has high optical transparency.
4. It can be used as 'conducting electrodes' required for touch screens, LCDs and organic LEDs.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 3 and 4 only
(c) 1, 2 and 4 only
(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
833: Assertion (A) :
The southern half of India lies within the tropics and the northern half belongs to the warm temperate zone
Reason (R) :
The tropic of cancer runs almost halfway through India
(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
(c) A is true but R is false
(d) A is false but R is true
834: Which one of the following cities does not have the same clock time as that of the other three cities at any given instant ?
(a) Lisbon (Portugal)
(b) London (U.K)
(c) Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
(d) Accra (Ghana)
835: The number of economically active women (excluding students and those doing domestic duties in their homes) as a percentage of all women of working age (generally those aged 15-64 years) was the highest in 1996 in
(a) USA
(b) China
(c) Russia
(d) S. Korea