Question Discussion & Solution

The correct answer is Sesamum.

Key Points

• Seasame is a Rabi crop in South India.
• It is a flowering plant in the genus Sesamum and in India, it is smaller in numbers.
• Another species of Sesamum is S. Indicum.
• Sesamum is also known as Benne.
• The mustard plant is a plant species in the genera Brassica and Sinapis in the family Brassicaceae.​

Additional Information

• Finger millet (Ragi)
  • Millet is a collective term referring to a number of small-seeded annual grasses that are cultivated as grain crops, primarily on marginal lands in dry areas in temperate, subtropical, and tropical regions.
  • Some of the common millets available in India are Ragi (Finger millet), Jowar (Sorghum), Sama (Little millet), Bajra (Pearl millet), and Variga (Proso millet).
• Barley
  • Barley is cultivated as a rabi season crop in Rajasthan.
  • It is sown in October-December and harvested from March to May.
• Wheat
  • It is a Rabi crop generally sown between October & November harvested between April & May.

The correct answer is Rakesh Sharma.

Key Points

• Rakesh Sharma is the first Indian to enter space.
  • He was selected as a cosmonaut for a joint Soviet-Indian spaceflight in 1982.
  • He made history by becoming the first Indian to travel to space in 1984.
  • He flew on Soyuz T-11 with commander Yury Malyshev and flight engineer Gennady Strekalov, to the space station Salyut 7 on 3^rd April 1984.
  • Rakesh Sharma and his crewmates landed in Kazakhstan on 11^th April 1987 after the successful completion of the mission.
  • He is the only Indian citizen to travel in space.

Additional Information

• Kalpana Chawla was the first Indian-origin woman to enter space.
  • She was killed in the space shuttle Columbia disaster on 1st February 2003.
• Sunita Williams is the second Indian-origin woman to enter space.
  • The first marathon in space was run by Sunita Williams.
• Yuri Gagarin is the first man to enter space.
• Ravish Malhotra was an Air Force test pilot in India. 
  • He served as a backup for Rakesh Sharma on the Soyuz T-11 mission.

The correct answer is Prime minister.

Key Points

• Prime Minister is the ex-officio chairman of the NITI Aayog in India.
• NITI Aayog is an executive body, that was established by the government in 2015, through an executive resolution.
• The newly created body replaced the erstwhile planning body- the Planning Commission of India.
• The term NITI stands for National Institution for Transforming India.
• NITI Aayog is a think tank that advises the government in policy formulation, unlike the Planning commission which was empowered to allocate and distribute funds for the planning.
• NITI Aayog's main focus areas are cooperative & competitive federalism, decentralized planning, scenario planning, capacity building, etc.

Additional Information

• Full-Time Organisational Framework:
  • Chairman: Prime Minister
  • Vice Chairperson: Rajiv Kumar
  • Chief Executive Officer (CEO)- Shri Amitabh Kant
  • Full-Time members- Shri VK Saraswat (former DRDO Chief), Prof. Ramesh Chand (Agriculture Expert), and Dr. VK Paul (Public Health expert)
  • Ex-officio members: maximum 4 
  • Special Invitees: Experts and practitioners as appointed by the Prime Minister.

Rupee, Pound and Yen are types of currency.

The correct answer is Stapes.

• Stapes is the smallest bone in the human body.

Key Points

• The smallest bone in the human body is called stapes, located in the middle ear.
• The size of the staples is 3mm × 2.5 mm. 
• There are three bones in the middle ear, ​Malleus, Stapes, and Incus.
• ​The Stapes is the smallest of the three bones and it looks like a bell.​
• It is the innermost bone of our auditory ossicles in the middle ear, which are responsible for transmitting sound waves from the air outside to the fluid-filled labyrinth (cochlea).

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Additional Information

• The malleus or hammer is a hammer-shaped small bone or ossicle of the middle ear which connects with the incus and is attached to the inner surface of the eardrum.
  • The word is Latin for hammer or mallet.
  • It transmits the sound vibrations from the eardrum to the incus.
• The incus, also known as the “anvil,” is the middle of three small bones in the middle ear.
  • The incus transmits vibrations from the malleus to the stapes.
• In anatomy, the scapula (plural scapulae or scapulas), also known as the shoulder bone, shoulder blade, wing bone, or blade bone,
  • It is the bone that connects the humerus (upper arm bone) with the clavicle (collar bone).
• The rib cage is the arrangement of ribs attached to the vertebral column and sternum in the thorax of most vertebrates that encloses and protects vital organs such as the heart, lungs, and great vessels.
• The hip bone (os coxae, innominate bone, pelvic bone, or coxal bone) is a large irregular bone, constricted in the center and expanded above and below. In some vertebrates (including humans before puberty).
• it is composed of three parts: the ilium, ischium, and the pubis.