Question Discussion & Solution

The correct answer is Dial-up.

Key Points

• Dial-up Internet access is a form of Internet access that uses the facilities of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) to establish a connection to an Internet service provider (ISP) by dialling a telephone number on a conventional telephone line.
• Dial-up connections use modems to decode audio signals into data to send to a router or computer and to encode signals from the latter two devices to send to another modem. 
• It is considered the slowest internet service among all.

Additional Information

• In 1979, Tom Truscott and Steve Bellovin, graduates of Duke University, created an early predecessor to dial-up Internet access called the USENET. 
• 5G can be significantly faster than 4G, delivering up to 20 Gigabits-per-second (Gbps) peak data rates and 100+ Megabits-per-second (Mbps) average data rates.
• 5G is considered the fastest internet service till now.

The pattern followed is

S.I. Unit of Pressure is Pascal,

Similarly,

S.I. Unit of Current is Ampere.

The correct answer is 100.

• 100 per cent share of the Central Government in the 'Sambhar wetland project' under the Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012 - 2017).

Additional Information 

• The objectives of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan were:
  • To create 50 million new work opportunities in the non-farm sector.
  • To remove gender and social gap in school enrolment.
  • To enhance access to higher education.
  • To reduce malnutrition among children aged 0–3 years.
  • To provide electricity to all villages.
  • To ensure that 50% of the rural population has access to proper drinking water.
  • To increase green cover by 1 million hectares every year.
  • To provide access to banking services to 90% of households.

The correct answer is Uttarakhand

Key Points

• Nanda Devi is India's second-highest mountain peak, after Kanchenjunga.
  • But it is the highest mountain peak entirely located in India.
  • Height: 7,817 metres
  • Location: Uttarakhand.

Additional Information

About Uttarakhand (as of August 2021):

• Uttarakhand, formerly Uttaranchal, state of India, located in the northwestern part of the country.
  • Uttarakhand was carved out from Uttarpradesh on 9 November 2000 as the 27th State of India.
  • It is bordered to the northwest by Himachal Pradesh, to the northeast by the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, to the southeast by Nepal, and to the south and southwest by the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
  • Its capital is the northwestern city of Dehra Dun.
  • Governor: Baby Rani Maurya
  • CM: Pushkar Singh Dhami
  • State flower: Saussurea obvallata
  • State Bird: Alpine musk deer
  • National park: Valley of Flowers National Park (UNESCO sites), Rajaji National Park, Nanda Devi National Park, Gangotri National Park, Jim Corbett (1st National park in India).