Question Discussion & Solution

The correct asnwer is Bikaner.

• The annual fair of Kolayat is organized in Bikaner, Rajasthan.
  • It is also called the Kapil Muni Mela.
  • It is organized in the Bikaner district of Rajasthan.
  • The fair is organized at the bank of the Kolayat river.
  • The fair is organized in the month of Karthik of the Hindu Calendar.

Additional Information

Fairs of Rajasthan

Key Points

• Microbes belong to diverse organisms – bacteria, fungi, protozoa, viruses.
• Microbes influence man's life in several ways- they are found in clothes, jams, shoes, dead wood, food products, soil, etc.
• Spore Formation is a method in asexual reproduction.
• Spore formation can be seen in the bread mold / Rhizopus.
• The presence of sugar and carbohydrate on bread provides proper conditions for spore formation. 

Rhizopus is the correct option. 

Additional Information

• Yeast is used as a fermentation agent in the bakery (bread industry) and brewery (wine industry). So, Saccharomyces cerevisiae is also called “Baker’s yeast”.
• Wart disease is caused by the fungus Synchytrium endobioticum. 
• Aspergillus is a Fungus genus that belongs to the class Ascomycetes or the sac fungi.

The correct answer is Magnesium Sulfate.

• Magnesium Sulfate is the industrial name of Epsom.
• Magnesium sulfate is a magnesium salt having sulfate as the counterion.
• It has a role as an anticonvulsant, a cardiovascular drug, a calcium channel blocker, an anaesthetic, a tocolytic agent, an anti-arrhythmia drug, an analgesic, and a fertilizer. It is a magnesium salt and a metal sulfate.

Key Points

• Magnesium Sulfate Formula Structure:  

Additional Information

Given word: PRIED

Meaningful 5 letter words that can be formed are: REDIP, PRIDE and RIPED.

The correct answer is Constellation.

• Ursa Major constellation lies in the northern sky. Its name means “the great bear,” or “the larger bear” in Latin.
• Ursa Major is the largest northern constellation and third largest constellation in the sky.
  • Its brightest stars form the Big Dipper asterism, one of the most recognizable shapes in the sky, also known as the Plough.
• Ursa Major contains seven Messier objects. It also contains 13 stars with confirmed planets.

Important Points

• The biggest known galaxy is IC 1101, which is 50 times the Milky Way's size and about 2,000 times more massive.
  • It is about 5.5 million light-years across.
• Our Sun (a star) and all the planets around it are part of a galaxy known as the Milky Way Galaxy.
  • A galaxy is a large group of stars, gas, and dust bound together by gravity. The Milky Way is made up of about 90% dark matter, the matter which cannot be seen, and about 10% “luminous matter”, or matter that we can see with our eyes.
  • The solar system lies about 30,000 light-years from the galactic centre.

Additional Information

• Sirius, also known as the Dog Star or Sirius A, is the brightest star in Earth's night sky.
• The name means "glowing" in Greek.