Question Discussion & Solution

Arrow moves one, two, three, four, and five sequentially anticlockwise. The arrow head change in a sequence of filled circle → Filled arrow → Open arrow

Next figure is gap of five with open arrow. 

All except Wheat are cash crops whereas wheat is a food crop.

Cash crops mainly used for direct sale in the market rather than for family consumption. Food crops are used for family consumption.

The correct answer is Tsitsi Dangarembga.

Key Points

• Zimbabwean writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga has won the prestigious German Peace Prize.
• She is the first Black woman to win the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, which is endowed with $29,100 and has been awarded since 1950.
• Dangarembga is known for her works including the bestselling novel, “Nervous Conditions” and its sequel, “This Mournable Body.”

Important Points

• In 1988, her debut novel Nervous Conditions was the first to be published in English by a Black woman from Zimbabwe.
• In 2020, her novel This Mournable Body was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
• In addition to the Peace Prize, Dangarembga has also been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize and the PEN International Award for Freedom of Expression in 2021.

Additional Information

• The Peace Prize of the German Book Trade is an international peace prize that is awarded annually by the German Publishers and Booksellers Association.
• The prize has been awarded since 1950 traditionally on the Sunday of the Frankfurt Book Fair which usually takes place in October.
• The prize includes 25,000 euros.

• The Peace Prize acknowledges individuals who have been committed and contributed towards the realization of peace and humanity through their work especially in the field of literature, art, and science.

The correct answer is Charles Babbage.

• Charles Babbage is considered to be the ‘Father of Modern Digital Computer’.

Key Points

• Digital computer, any of a class of devices capable of solving problems by processing information in discrete form.
  • It operates on data, including magnitudes, letters, and symbols, that are expressed in binary code—i.e., using only the two digits 0 and 1.
  • Examples of digital electronic computers include the IBM PC, the Apple Macintosh as well as modern smartphones.
• Today computers are being used almost everywhere like schools, colleges, hospitals, offices, railway stations, hotels, etc.
• A computer system is multitasking so that you can do two tasks very easily at the same time.

Additional Information

• Storage Capacity of Computer
  • Computer systems have a very large capacity to store any type of data.
  • A computer can store and resell any information due to its storage capacity. 
  • Computers have the ability to store all types of data such as data, pictures, files, programs, games, and sound for many years and later we can get any data in a few seconds at any time for taking that information and for future retrieval.
• Reliability of Computer
  • Reliability is a very big characteristic of computers.
  • Today almost all the big industries or big e-Commerce companies like Amazon and Flipkart, and big search engine companies like - Google and Bing, all these companies are dependent on computers. 
  • Today every major industry and company in the world has full confidence in their computers, and their entire business is running from computers.
• Diligence of Computer
  • A person gets tired of doing some work in a few hours and a computer has the ability to do any work continuously for many hours, days, months. 
  • Even after the computer has worked for such a long time, there is no decrease in its ability to work and its accuracy.
  • The computer does work without any discrimination.
    • A computer is free from monotony and tiredness.
• Accuracy of Computer
  • A computer is very accurate.
    • It does not make any kind of mistake in calculating.
    • Sometimes we get some errors but these are because of the mistake performed by us.
  • The Accuracy of the computer is constantly high and it can perform hundreds of operations with the carry-out calculation and analysis accurately and speedily.

A cage is meant to keep something surrounded, so enclosure is the essential element. A prisoner (choice b) or an animal (choice c) are two things that may be kept in cages, among many other things. A zoo (choice d) is only one place that has cages.