General Knowledge

Option: D
Explanation :The summer solstice occurs during summer.This is the June solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and the December solstice in the Southern Hemisphere. Depending on the shift of the calendar, the summer solstice occurs sometime between June 20 and June 22 in the Northern Hemisphere and between December 20 and December 23 in the Southern Hemisphere.The same dates in the opposite hemisphere are referred to as the winter solstice.

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Option: C
Explanation :The winter solstice December 22 marks the shortest day of the year. A solstice occurs twice a year, when the sun’s position in the sky, as viewed from Earth, reaches its farthest points north and south from the celestial equator. According to the Meteorology Department on December 22, with sunrise at 7:06am and sunset at 5:07pm, the day would be 10.1 hours long. Henceforth, the days would start lengthening and nights shortening form December 23.

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Option: A
Explanation :Robert of Ketton, known in Latin as Rodbertus Ketenensis, was an English astronomer, translator, priest and diplomat active in Spain. He translated several works of Arabic into Latin, including the first translation of the Quran into any Western language in 1143.

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Option: B
Explanation :1- Lagos(Nigeria), 2- Cairo(Egypt), 3- Kinshasa(Democratic Republic of the Congo), 4- Luanda(Angola), 5- Nairobi(Kenya), 6- Mogadishu(Somalia), 7- Abidjan(Ivory Coast), 8- Alexandria(Egypt), 9- Addis Ababa(Ethiopia), 10- Johannesburg(South Africa)

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Option: D
Explanation :From medieval Italy to the 19th century France, four major inventors contributed to the rise of the bicycle. Some created true innovations, others improved upon earlier models, but only one man is today regarded as the true inventor of the bicycle. Frenchman Pierre Michaux (together with his son Ernest and partner Pierre Lallement) created first pedal based bicycle during early 1860s. That moment started long and successfully history of bicycle that we all know and use today.
Final great landmark of bicycle history happened in 1885 with the appearance of John Kemp Starley’s “safety bicycle”. Equipped with standardized metal frame, rear wheel chain drive and pneumatic wheels, this model became instant success. Everyone was able to drive it, and its use became widespread all across the world.

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Option: A
Explanation :While the Sikorsky name is forever linked to helicopters, Igor Sikorsky (1889-1972) was a versatile aviation designer and developer whose 50-year career included pioneering work on fixed wing aircraft and flying boats, all before returning to his first love, helicopters, and creating the first practical one.
By 1939, Sikorsky’s VS-300 was ready to make its first flight. “It was the first practical, workable helicopter that could do everything it was supposed to do, fly, hover and deal with all the different aspects that people were trying to solve with torque and lift,” Cochrane says.
The VS-300 became the model for all modern single-rotor helicopters, and in 1941, Sikorsky Aircraft got its first contract from the U.S. Army Air Corps for an observation helicopter that became known for life-saving missions in military and civil emergencies.

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Option: B
Explanation :The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur were two American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world’s first successful airplane. They made the first controlled sustained flight of a powered heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer on December-17-1903, four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. In 1904–05, the brothers developed their flying machine into the first practical fixed-wing aircraft the Wright Flyer III. Although not the first to build experimental aircraft, the Wright brothers were the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed-wing powered flight possible.

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Option: C
Explanation :The telescope is one of humankind’s most important inventions. The simple device that made far away things look near gave observers a new perspective.
The first person to apply for a patent for a telescope was a Dutch eyeglass maker named Hans Lippershey (or Lipperhey). In 1608, Lippershey laid claim to a device that could magnify objects three times. His telescope had a concave eyepiece aligned with a convex objective lens.
In 1609, Galileo Galilei heard about the “Dutch perspective glasses” and within days had designed one of his own — without ever seeing one. He made some improvements — his could magnify objects 20 times — and presented his device to the Venetian Senate. Galileo was the first to point a telescope skyward. He was able to make out mountains and craters on the moon, as well as a ribbon of diffuse light arching across the sky — the Milky Way. He also discovered the rings of Saturn, sunspots and four of Jupiter’s moons.

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Option: C
Explanation :Manu Sawhney is the current CEO OF ICC, he becomes the 5th CEO of ICC on 1 April 2019 succeeding David Richardson who had held role since June 2012. Mr. Sawhney is the former CEO of Singapore Sports Hub and Managing Director of ESPN Star Sports with 22 years of commercial experience in both sport and broadcasting as senior leadership roles.
In January, the ICC Board approved Sawhney’s appointment as the next ICC CEO to replace the incumbent, Dave Richardson, whose seven-year tenure comes ends with the World Cup.
One of the key and significant project that Sawhney has already started work on is the broadcast rights cycle after the 2023 World Cup. Currently Star India holds the rights for ICC’s global events till then.

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Option: B
Explanation :The International Cricket Council (ICC) has appointed Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ehsan Mani as the head of its most powerful committee known as Finance & Commercial Affairs (F&CA).
Ehsan Mani’s appointment will put an end to the power-plays of big-three boards, which included Indian, Australian and English boards.
The appointment of Ehsan Mani might come as a shock to some since Pakistan is largely neglected on the international stage. However, Ehsan Mani has previously also served as the F&CA chairman from 1996 and 2002.

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