General Knowledge and Reasoning

(c) acoustics

Acoustics is the branch of physics dealing with sound and sound waves.

(d) bank

A river may lack a delta, fish or boats, but it always has banks.

(b) elephant polo

The World Elephant Polo Championship is held in Nepal (Chitwan).

(a) manaslu

Manaslu is known as the "killer mountain" because of its dangerous avalanches and high fatality rate.

(d) clearing

Knowledge requires clearing (understanding) of concepts; school, teacher and textbook are only aids.

(d) HGF

Each letter in the second group is a fixed number of places before the letter in the first group in the alphabet, and the same rule applied to WVU (23, 22, 21) gives 8, 7, 6, i.e. HGF.

(b) 27

The missing term fits the pattern of the series, giving 27.

(c) WTO

The World Trade Organization supervises and regulates international trade rules between nations.

(b) India

Among the options, India is the largest tea producer (China is the largest overall).

(b) Caspian

The Caspian Sea is the world's largest (widest) lake by area, about 371,000 sq km. Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake.

(a) Baburam Acharya

Baburam Acharya is known as the father of Nepali history (Itihas Shiromani) for his research on Nepal's history.

(a) 1966 AD

The Asian Development Bank was established on 19 December 1966, with headquarters in Manila.

(a) Lhasa Lhasa, in Tibet, lies at about 3,650 m, far higher than Simla (about 2,200 m), Thimpu (about 2,300 m) and Taipei (near sea level).

(a) 22 April Earth Day is observed worldwide every year on 22 April. (5 June is World Environment Day.)

(a) Moscow Moscow was ranked the most expensive city for expatriates in the cost-of-living surveys of that period.

(b) Caterpillar cell The vaccine was grown in insect (caterpillar) cells rather than in the traditional egg-based method, which allows faster production.

(d) 13 Michael Jackson won 13 Grammy Awards.

(d) 11 The sequence is of prime numbers: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13.

(a) 4 The code counts the vowels: SUN has 1 (U), RAM has 1 (A), MADHU has 2 (A, U). UNIVERSITY has U, I, E, I, which is 4.

(d) 69 Total $=21+49-1=69$ (Hari is counted in both ranks).

(c) Kami Rita Sherpa Kami Rita Sherpa holds the record for the most summits of Mount Everest.

(a) B.S. 2017 Mansir 20 The National Sports Council of Nepal was established in B.S. 2017 (1960 AD) as the apex body for sports development.

(d) 18 The 18th SAARC Summit was held in Kathmandu, Nepal, in November 2014.

(b) 60 days The first amendment to the Interim Constitution 2063 is recorded in this question as having been issued within 60 days.

(b) Dudh Koshi Dudh Koshi rises from the glaciers and snowfields of the high Everest region, making it the snow-fed river with the highest source among the options.

(d) Carbon Dioxide

CO$_2$ is denser than air and does not support combustion, so it smothers the fire by cutting off oxygen.

(c) Cerebrum

The cerebrum is the largest part of the human brain (about 85% of its weight) and controls thinking, memory and voluntary action.

(c) Disinflation

Disinflation is lowering the inflation rate by deflationary policy such as reducing the money supply. Reflation is the opposite (raising prices after deflation).

(b) USA

The first baby reported to be born with COVID-19 antibodies after the mother's vaccination was born in Florida, USA.

(b) China

China restricted the construction of new skyscrapers taller than 500 metres (2021), citing safety and wasteful building.

(a) China

China reported cases of a highly contagious Norovirus group, which causes gastroenteritis (vomiting and diarrhoea).

(b) China and Pakistan

JATE-21 was a joint anti-terrorist exercise held by China and Pakistan.

(b) Tissue Chips

Tissue chips (organs-on-chips) are small models of human organs containing several cell types that mimic how the organ behaves in the body; they are used for drug testing.

(b) Happy Hypoxia

In happy (silent) hypoxia, blood oxygen falls dangerously low but the patient feels no breathlessness and carries on normally. It was noted in COVID-19 patients.

(a) Saturn

Saturn is named after the Roman god of agriculture and wealth.

(d) Bismarck. Otto von Bismarck unified Germany through his policy of 'blood and iron' (war and strong industry).

(d) Hippocrates. The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates is called the father of modern medicine.

(d) Synagogue. Judaism's place of worship is the synagogue; a temple is for Hinduism, a fire temple for Zoroastrianism and a chapel for Christianity.

(b) Venus. Its thick carbon dioxide atmosphere causes a runaway greenhouse effect, making it hotter than Mercury even though Mercury is nearer the Sun.

(a) OK! The first word spoken on the Moon's surface during the Apollo mission is recorded as 'OK'.

(b) Sindhupalchowk. It stretches a long distance from the south to the Tibetan border in the north, making it the longest district.

(b) Ranoddip. Ranoddip Singh Rana divided Nepal into 32 districts.

(a) Khumbu. Among the options, the Khumbu glacier near Mount Everest is the longest glacier of Nepal.

(a) Arkapakshya. Ravana is said to have written Arkaprakash (Arkapakshya) and another work on medicine and astrology.

(b) Laotse. Lao Tzu (Laotse) is the founder of Taoism.