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Q1. The Anglo Afghan relations in the 19th century was influenced by the fear of expansion by.....
Correct answer : 3
Q2. Who was the last Nawab of Awadh State?
Correct answer : 2
Q3. Which of the following was not conquered by Maharaja Ranjit Singhji? Multan Beas Sutlej Territory Peshawar Kashmir
Correct answer : 1
Q4. Arrange the following in the correct sequence of the European arrival in India during the 18th century: a)Portuguese b)Dutch c)British and d)French
Correct answer : 1
Q5. What are the resistance movements that took shape during the first 100 years rule of the British? (a)national revolts (b)peasant movements (c)civil rebellions (d)tribal uprisings
Correct answer : 3
Q6. By which of the following Acts, the British Crown took control of Government of India?
Correct answer : 3
Q7. When was the first step taken by the Government to spread modern education in India?
Correct answer : 3
Q8. In British India "Rule of Law" meant.........
Correct answer : 3
Q9. Which of the following Acts paved the way for Indians to hold jobs with the East India Company?
Correct answer : 3
Q10. Which of the following state had French influence in their legal systems?
Correct answer : 2
Q11. With what intention the Portuguese established their port in Goa? (a) to be used as an entryport for the east; (b) as a base for further expansion in India (c) to supervise the Malabar coast (d) to control the east Indian spice trade
Correct answer : 4
Q12. Rewakening during the 19th century in India was mostly confined to the ...................
Correct answer : 3
Q13. When did the British Government first interfere with the functioning of the East India Company?
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Q14. Who among the following is attributed with the revival of "Vedas"?
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Q15. Among the following what was the original intention of the East India Company?
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Q16. "India has to unite and conquer the whole world once again with its might". Whose quote is this?
Correct answer : 3
Q17. Who introduced the "Doctrine of Lapse"?
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Q18. During the 1857 revolt, who was the governor general?
Correct answer : 2
Q19. Which of the following statement is correct with regard to the 1857 revolt?
Correct answer : 1
Q20. Which factor was least responsible for the failure of the 1857 sepoy mutiny?
Correct answer : 4
Q21. The famous institution on Electrochemical studies is located in…..
Correct answer : 2
Q22. India's famous Dairy Science College is located in…….
Correct answer : 3
Q23. CFTRI is the leading institution on food related studies. Where is it located?
Correct answer : 3
Q24. National Institute of Fashion Technology is located in…..
Correct answer : 1
Q25. Where is the leading institution on plastic technology-CIPET- located?
Correct answer : 4
Q26. Which was the first Indian Institution of Management started in India?
Correct answer : 2
Q27. Where is the National level Indian Statistical Institute located?
Correct answer : 2
Q28. Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru was started in the year…..
Correct answer : 2
Q29. The study of Architecture in our country is regulated by……..
Correct answer : 1
Q30. When was the National Law School started?
Correct answer : 4
Q31. Which is the oldest Medical college in India?
Correct answer : 2
Q32. Where is the Armed Forces Medical College?
Correct answer : 3
Q33. JIPMER, Puducherry was named as such in 1964. When was it actually started?
Correct answer : 2
Q34. When was the Christian Medical College, Vellore started?
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Q35. When was the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) established?
Correct answer : 2
Q36. Who heads the organisational structure of IITs?
Correct answer : 4
Q37. In which city of India was the first Engineering college started?
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Q38. Which year saw more number of IITs established in India?
Correct answer : 3
Q39. Which was the first IIT to be started in India?
Correct answer : 4
Q40. When was the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (education) started?
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Q41. SEBI was established in the year ................
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Q42. ...................exercises control over Public Expenditure.
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Q43. Oil and Natural Gas Commission was established in the year .........
Q45. The Bank which tops the world with respect to micro-finance is..........
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Q46. Seats for Maths, Physics and Biology are in the ratio of 5:7:8 respectively. There is a proposal to increase these seats by 40%, 50% and 75% respectively. What will be the respective ratio of increased seats? (SBI 2008)
Correct answer : 1
Q47. A certain amount earns simple interest of Rs.1750 after 7 years. Had the interest been 2% more, how much more interest would it have earned? (SBI 2008)
Correct answer : 4
Q48. In how many different ways a group of 4 men and 4 women be formed out of 7 men and 8 women? (SBI 2008)
Correct answer : 1
Q49. A box containes four small boxes. Each of the four boxes contains three small boxes, in each of which there are two boxes. How many boxes are there altogether?
Correct answer : 3
Q50. What will be the cost of gardening 1 metre broad boundary around a rectangular plot having perimeter of 340 metres at the rate of Rs.10 per square metre? (SBI 2008)
Correct answer : 3
Q51. Rabies is a killer disease caused by the bite of ...................
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Q52. A person finding it difficult to see distant objects is suffering from ...............
Correct answer : 3
Q53. Which is the hardest substance of the human body?
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Q54. Arterial blood pressure is measured by ..........................
Correct answer : 2
Q55. Bleeding of gums is one of the symptoms of ..............
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Q56. The organs which are receptors for taste are known as ......................
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Q57. Acromegaly is a disorder caused by the irregular secretion of ......................glands.
Correct answer : 2
Q58. Nightblindness is caused by the deficiency of ...................
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Q59. 1.Nightblindness is caused by the deficiency of Vitamin A. 2.Intake of Carrot may prevent this disease.
Correct answer : 3
Q60. What is the name of the pigment that helps a man to see in darkness?
Correct answer : 2
Q61. Earthworm's body is divided into a number of ..................
Correct answer : 2
Q62. Heart in a state of contraction is known as ........................
Correct answer : 1
Q63. The cells over a feet in length are ............
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Q64. Amoeba, insects, snails and starfishes are ...........
Correct answer : 3
Q65. White blood corpuscles are produced in .................and .....................
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Q66. The nerves carry the ............from various parts of the body to the brain.
Correct answer : 3
Q67. The blood vessels which leave from the heart are known as ...................... .
Correct answer : 1
Q68. Internal fertilization takes place in .................
Correct answer : 3
Q69. Sertoli cells are situated in the ..................
Correct answer : 4
Q70. Red Blood Corpuscles are produced in the .................
Correct answer : 1
Q71. Why halogens do not exist in nature in free state?
Correct answer : 2
Q72. What is the gas liberated when an aqueous solution of chlorine is exposed to sunlight?
Correct answer : 2
Q73. Which of the following tests is the confirmatory test for chlorides?
Correct answer : 4
Q74. Of the following acids, which one is the weakest?
Correct answer : 4
Q75. Of the following halogens which one is used in the preparation of poisonous gases like Phosgene, Tear and Mustard gas?
Correct answer : 2
Q76. Of the following which one is highly stable?
Correct answer : 3
Q77. Of the following halogens which one is very unreactive?
Correct answer : 2
Q78. ........ reacts with hydrogen even in the dark.
Correct answer : 1
Q79. What is the other name for ore producers?
Correct answer : 3
Q80. What is the other name for Salt producers?
Correct answer : 2
Q81. What gas is used to produce coloured glow in electric signs?
Correct answer : 2
Q82. What is the rare gas obtained from radioactive disintegration?
Correct answer : 1
Q83. Covalent bonds are .....
Correct answer : 4
Q84. What is the content of Electrovalent compound?
Correct answer : 1
Q85. The non reactivity of rare gases is because of ....
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Q86. ........ law can be used to separate the isotopes of the same element.
Correct answer : 2
Q87. How do we call the tendency of gaseous substance to distribute itself uniformly in the available space?
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Q88. According to Charle's law at constant volume .....
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Q89. Zero degree Kelvin is known as .......temperature
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Q90. In a group all the elements will have ......
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Q91. All the elements in a group have ..... Valency.
Correct answer : 3
Q92. Of the following gases, which one is not a noble gas?
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Q93. Isobars are the atoms of the same element with .......
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Q94. The charge of the nucleus is due to the presence of ......
Correct answer : 3
Q95. The mass of an electron is……………
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Q96. In lithium, the atomic number is 3 and the mass number is 7. What would be the number of protons in it?
Correct answer : 3
Q97. What is the term used for the sum of the number of protons and neutrons present in the necleus?
Correct answer : 2
Q98. Who was the first to use the term "green house effect"?
Correct answer : 3
Q99. Of the following which are highly compressible?
Correct answer : 4
Q100. Of the following, which one is a heterogeneous mixture?
Correct answer : 3
Q101. Carbolic acid (eg. Phenol) is a good example of .....
Correct answer : 2
Q102. Of the following vitamis, which are water soluble?
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Q103. The content of Carbohydrates are…..
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Q104. Discoverer of antibiotic penicillin is......
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Q105. The content of Freezing mixture is…..
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Q106. From among the following which one is present in all acids?
Correct answer : 2
Q107. Phenolphthalein is a/an……
Correct answer : 4
Q108. The content of Bordeaus Mixture is......
Correct answer : 4
Q109. Of the following which one is used as a preservative in fruits and juices?
Correct answer : 1
Q110. In which of the following areas Potassium Permanganate is used?
Correct answer : 4
Q111. What is the angular momentum of the electron?
Correct answer : 1
Q112. What is the angle of deviation of a ray, whose angle of incidence is 80 degree?
Correct answer : 1
Q113. What is the angle between displacement and the force applied when the work done is maximum?
Correct answer : 1
Q114. What is the angle between electric and magnetic fields of an EM wave?
Correct answer : 3
Q115. What is the angle between displacement and force, to get maximum work?
Correct answer : 1
Q116. What is the amount of current, when 10 c of charge flows in 4 s through the conductor?
Correct answer : 3
Q117. What is Sun?
Correct answer : 2
Q118. what is Shunt?
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Q119. What is seen when the discharge tube is covered with thin black card board?
Correct answer : 2
Q120. What is required for the production of X-rays?
Correct answer : 2
Q121. What is produced in nuclear reactor?
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Q122. What is produced in nuclear reactor?
Correct answer : 4
Q123. What is one light year equal to?
Correct answer : 1
Q124. What is nuclear fission?
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Q125. What is matter composed of?
Correct answer : 4
Q126. What is natural radioactivity?
Correct answer : 1
Q127. What is it due to the twinkling of stars?
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Q128. What is induced when magnetic lines are cut by a conductor?
Correct answer : 4
Q129. What is formed when deuterium fuses with Tortrum?
Correct answer : 2
Q130. What is detected by X-rays?
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Q131. "Willy Willy" is a term generally used to indicate............
Correct answer : 4
Q132. Isohels are the cartographic lines connecting places with equal..........
Correct answer : 2
Q133. Isobaths are contour lines on a map or graph showing .............
Correct answer : 2
Q134. Which of the following states is land locked?
Correct answer : 4
Q135. ASSERTION {A}: During the Neap Tides, the high tide is lower and the low tide is higher than usual. REASON {R} : The Neap Tide, unlike the Spring Tide, occurs on the New Moon instead of on the Full Moon.
Correct answer : 3
Q136. Among the following soils, which one is found in heavy rainfall regions?
Correct answer : 2
Q137. Which of the following phenomenon occur due to stars?
Correct answer : 2
Q138. Isohalines are the contour lines of waterbodies or places with equal............
Correct answer : 2
Q139. Why Russia has many local time differences
Correct answer : 1
Q140. Lines joining places experiencing a thunderstorm at the same time are known as............
Correct answer : 3
Q141. Who painted the ceilings of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican?
Correct answer : 1
Q142. What is "Schengen" related to travel?
Correct answer : 4
Q143. "Your place in the Sky" is the tagline of........
Correct answer : 3
Q144. Who was the author of the famous classic "Kapala Kundala"?
Correct answer : 2
Q145. How many humps does a Bactrian Camel have?
Correct answer : 1
Q146. Wry Bill is a unique bird with a beak that curves sideways. Where is it found?
Correct answer : 2
Q147. Of the following African nations which one is not land locked?
Correct answer : 2
Q148. Who scored the world's first test century?
Correct answer : 1
Q149. In which state is the Valley of Flowers National Park located?
Correct answer : 3
Q150. What is the US President's country retreat called?
Correct answer : 2
Q151. What is the national flower of Taiwan?
Correct answer : 3
Q152. Where is the world's largest desalination plant?
Correct answer : 3
Q153. Who is the author of the book the "Time Machine"?
Correct answer : 2
Q154. Which of these is the name of a bird as well as a fruit?
Correct answer : 4
Q155. Which Mexican General and President played an important part in the development of the chewing gum which later became popular as Chiclets?
Correct answer : 3
Q156. Who invented the Black Box cockpit recorder?
Correct answer : 2
Q157. Which famous diamond, now part of the Kremlin's Diamond Fund, is said to have been stolen from Sri Renganathaswamy temple of Srirangam, Tamilnadu?
Correct answer : 1
Q158. How is the Burmese military called?
Correct answer : 2
Q159. In which year was the Marylebone Cricket Club, England founded?
Correct answer : 3
Q160. Which was the first Indian film to be nominated for an Oscar in the Best foreign film language category?
Correct answer : 1
Q161. Which two ethnic groups were at internal war in 1994 in Rwanda?
Correct answer : 2
Q162. Who killed US President Abraham Lincoln?
Correct answer : 4
Q163. In the Bible, who interpreted the dreams of Pharaoh?
Correct answer : 1
Q164. Who is considered as the father of geometry?
Correct answer : 3
Q165. What is the national flower of Pakistan?
Correct answer : 1
Q166. In astronomy the name of which Zodiacal constellation comes from the Latin word for "balance"?
Correct answer : 4
Q167. Which of these cities is also known as "City of Canals"?
Correct answer : 2
Q168. After which famous artist is Italy's largest airport named?
Correct answer : 2
Q169. Who wrote"Vande Mataram"?
Correct answer : 1
Q170. Komodo dragaons are found inhabiting only......
Correct answer : 4
Q171. Which of these cities was previously known as Salisbury?
Correct answer : 1
Q172. Which state of USA was once a part of Russia?
Correct answer : 1
Q173. On which island is Victoria, the capital of Seychelles, located?
Correct answer : 3
Q174. Which saint does legend credit with banishing snakes from Ireland?
Correct answer : 1
Q175. In the question below is given four statements, followed by four conclusions numbeFF0000 (1), (2), (3) and (4). You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts. STATEMENTS: All monkeys are parrots. No parrot is crow. Some crows are horses. All horses are tigers. CONCLUSIONS: (1) Some tigers are parrots. (2) Some crows are monkeys. (3) No tiger is parrot. (4) Some horses are parrots.
Correct answer : 2
Q176. Below in the question are given two statements A and B. These statements may be either independent causes or may be effects of independent causes or a common cause. One of these statements may be the effect of the other statement. Read both the statements and decide which of the following answer choice correctly depicts the relationship between these two STATEMENTS: (A) The government has decided to take strict action against the builder reponsible for construction of the bridge for having used low quality material thereby risking several lives. (B) The government has decided to build a vehicular bridge over the river connecting the suburban area to the city in order to FF0000uce the traffic load on the main road.
Correct answer : 4
Q177. In the question below is given three statements followed by two conclusions numbeFF0000 (1) and (2). You have to take the three given statements to be true even if they seem to at variance from commonly known facts and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts. STATEMENTS: Some floppies are keyboards. All keyboards are speakers. All speakers are monitors. CONCLUSIONS: (1) Some monitors are floppies. (2) All keyboards are monitors.
Correct answer : 3
Q178. Study the following information carefully and answer the given question. A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a circle facing the centre. D is fourth to the right of H and second to the left of B. F is fourth to the right of B. C fourth to the right of E who is not an immediate neighbour of B or D. A is not an immediate neighbour of D. What is B's position with respect to G?
Correct answer : 1
Q179. In the question below is given three statements followed by two conclusions numbeFF0000 (1) and (2). You have to take the three given statements to be true even if they seem to at variance from commonly known facts and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts. STATEMENTS: All islands are countries. All continents are islands. All planets are countries. CONCLUSIONS: (1) Some continents are not countries (2) No planet is a continent.
Correct answer : 4
Q180. This sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect form. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in indirect/direct form: "e;He wrote in his report, "e;The rainfall has been scanty till now."e;
Correct answer : 4
Q181. Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (5): (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any): A major computer security firm urged (1) / the social networking site to set up (2) / an early warning system after hundreds of users were (3) / hit by a new wave of virus attacks. (4) / No error. (5)
Correct answer : 3
Q182. Fill the blanks with appopriate word/s from the given options: Irregular supply of electricity can .........in wastage of electricity.
Correct answer : 1
Q183. China is more thickly populated than India. ---- choose the positive degree for the given statement.
Correct answer : 4
Q184. Fill the blanks with appropriate words given: "e; To the .........of all the students the class monitor was ...........berated by the Principal at a school function."e;
Correct answer : 4
Q185. Pick out the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete: The dumping of waste products is carefully done by the company in order to ......... any harm to the environment.
Correct answer : 1
Q186. Replace the highlighted part of the sentence appropriately from the options given: This building is a prime example of 1960s architecture.
Correct answer : 4
Q187. Fill the blanks with proper collective noun: "e;A ............of birds flew high on the sky"e;
Correct answer : 3
Q188. In 2016, which country joined the International Monetary Fund?
Correct answer : 3
Q189. In the report on World Skill Development Index released in 2016, where is India placed?
Correct answer : 3
Q190. In 2016, which countries joined the World Trade Organization?
Correct answer : 1
Q191. A ......store/s data in two dimensional tables
Correct answer : 3
Q192. Which of the following statements is WRONG concerning file names?
Correct answer : 1
Q193. "e;Compuserve"e; ...
Correct answer : 3
Q194. A sequential design process, often used in software development processes, in which progress is seen as flowing steadily downwards.
Correct answer : 4
Q195. BASIC language supports
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Q196. Servers are computers that provide resources to other computers connected to a ...
Correct answer : 1
Q197. What is an e-mail attachment?
Correct answer : 2
Q198. Which of the following technique is used in high speed modem?
Correct answer : 2
Q199. .......file format used for data compression and archiving
Correct answer : 4
Q200. The difference between raw data and information is .....