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Q1. Kautilya and Panini were from which one of the following ancient institutions?
Correct answer : 3
Q2. Who among the following introduced the 'market control mechanism'?
Correct answer : 1
Q3. During the rule of which Mughal emperor, British East India Co., established its first factory in Surat?
Correct answer : 2
Q4. Who was the first to occupy Rashtrapati Bhavan?
Correct answer : 2
Q5. Which Indian freedom fighter was popularly called "Mahamana"?
Correct answer : 3
Q6. Which of the following parties were established by Dr.B.R.Ambedkar? (1) The Peasants and Workers Party of India (2) All India Scheduled Castes Federation (3) The Independent Labour Party
Correct answer : 2
Q7. Who is the founder of the Irish Party Sinn Fein?
Correct answer : 1
Q8. Whom did the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi depose in a bloodless coup in 1969?
Correct answer : 2
Q9. Lal Mahal in Pune, Maharashtra was the house of which famous Indian ruler?
Correct answer : 3
Q10. To which American General did the British General Cornwallis formally surrender, though not in person, at Yorktown in 1781?
Correct answer : 2
Q11. Which Mughal emperor issued gold coins bearing depictions of Rama & Sita
Correct answer : 3
Q12. Which island, a former capital of Port Blair, remained under Japanese occupation during 1942-1945?
Correct answer : 1
Q13. Who is the only Mughal empress whose image appears on the Mughal coinage of her time?
Correct answer : 2
Q14. One of the statement below does not relate to the later Vedic period?
Correct answer : 3
Q15. Which of the following orders was known for its proselytizing activities in medieval India?
Correct answer : 4
Q16. Arrange the following important travellers to India in the chronological order of their visits: a)Marco Polo b)Ibn Batuta c)Alberuni d)Athanasius Nikitin
Correct answer : 1
Q17. Which of the following was NOT a recommendation of the Nehru Report 1928?
Correct answer : 2
Q18. Among the following events, what can be called the first step of the British to introduce communal politics in India?
Correct answer : 2
Q19. Which of the following envisaged a 'federation between the states and British India'?
Correct answer : 1
Q20. Who among the following transferred to Ashokan Pillars from Topra and Meerut to Delhi?
Correct answer : 2
Q21. What is the organizational journal of Bharatiya Janata Party?
Correct answer : 3
Q22. The Prime Minister of India, at the time of his/her appointment ….
Correct answer : 1
Q23. What is the organizational journal of Indian National Congress?
Correct answer : 2
Q24. When was the Bharatiya Janata Party formed?
Correct answer : 2
Q25. What was the parent organization of Bharatiya Janata Party 9BJP)?
Correct answer : 2
Q26. After independence also, the Indian National Congress had a split. In which year it occurred?
Correct answer : 3
Q27. Who was the first Indian woman President of the Indian National Congress?
Correct answer : 1
Q28. Who is the longest serving INC President?
Correct answer : 3
Q29. Sonia Gandhi is the …….woman President of the Indian National Congress.
Correct answer : 3
Q30. Who was the first woman President of the Indian National Congress?
Correct answer : 1
Q31. How many Muslim Presidents were there for Indian National Congress?
Correct answer : 2
Q32. How many times European Presidents were there for the Indian National Congress?
Correct answer : 3
Q33. Who was the first Muslim President of the Indian National congress?
Correct answer : 4
Q34. Who was the first President of the Indian National Congress after the independence?
Correct answer : 1
Q35. In which session of the Indian National Congress, the two factions were united by the efforts of Dr. Annie Beasant?
Correct answer : 4
Q36. Who was instrumental in uniting the two factions of the Indian National Congress?
Correct answer : 1
Q37. When did the Indian National Congress split into two groups - one known as 'extremists' and the other 'liberals'?
Correct answer : 3
Q38. How many delegates attended the first session of the Indian National Congress at Bombay?
Correct answer : 3
Q39. Who was the first President of the Indian National Congress?
Correct answer : 1
Q40. Where was the first session of the Indian National Congress was held?
Correct answer : 3
Q41. Which committee was appointed to look into the tax disputes with the industry over the years?
Correct answer : 2
Q42. ...........heads the PM's Economic Advisory Council
Correct answer : 1
Q43. Who among the following was NEVER a governor of RBI?
Correct answer : 2
Q44. Plant and machinery are .......
Correct answer : 1
Q45. Which among the following was the first bank to be fully managed by Indians?
Correct answer : 2
Q46. Ram purchased a bike for Rs.54000/-. He sold it at a loss of 8%. With that money he again purchased another bike and sold it at a profit of 10%. What is his over all loss/profit?
Correct answer : 4
Q47. A book contains 50 leaves. On Each page there are 20 lines and in each line there are 10 words. Find the total number of words in the book?
Correct answer : 4
Q48. If the height of a cone is increased by 100% then its volume increases by..
Correct answer : 1
Q49. 9 trucks are required to transport 10,800 kg of goods. How many trucks will be required to transport 8,400 kg of goods?
Correct answer : 3
Q50. P:4 = 12:21 implies that P equals ......
Correct answer : 3
Q51. Komodo Dragon, a large sized lizard specie, is found only in ................
Correct answer : 4
Q52. Which of the following diseases is not caused by water pollution?
Correct answer : 3
Q53. Who is known as the father of modern genetic science?
Correct answer : 2
Q54. In which year the first human heart transplantation was conducted by Dr.Christian Barnard on Louis Washkansky?
Correct answer : 2
Q55. Tectona grandis is the scientific name for which tree?
Correct answer : 3
Q56. Orange Pekoe' is a term of process associated with.......
Correct answer : 4
Q57. Where was the Coffee Plantation developed for the first time in India?
Correct answer : 2
Q58. Who discovered the cause of "Beri-Beri"?
Correct answer : 1
Q59. Callus formation leads to .......
Correct answer : 3
Q60. Callus is a mass of ....................
Correct answer : 3
Q61. Insulin is used for the treatment of ...........
Correct answer : 2
Q62. Artificial synthetic seeds are produced through which of the following methods?
Correct answer : 1
Q63. Pollution of water and land, due to oil slicks can be remedied by .......................
Correct answer : 3
Q64. T-DNA is the part of.............
Correct answer : 4
Q65. Transgenic tobacco plants were resistant to the ......................pest.
Correct answer : 2
Q66. The simplest form of Carbohydrate is...................
Correct answer : 3
Q67. Fatty acids are absorbed by ...................
Correct answer : 2
Q68. ....................type of fracture occurs in the young bones of children.
Correct answer : 1
Q69. .......................is abundant in sunflower oil.
Correct answer : 2
Q70. The relaxation phase of a chamber of the heart is known as ..............
Correct answer : 3
Q71. ..........can be used as a general anaesthetic.
Correct answer : 2
Q72. .........is mixed with ether as a stabilizer to form an anaesthetic.
Correct answer : 3
Q73. ........are the chemical compounds that relieve the pain without affecting the loss of consciousness.
Correct answer : 1
Q74. .............can act as antipyretic as well as analgesics.
Correct answer : 3
Q75. ..........can act as analgesics.
Correct answer : 2
Q76. Antipyretic compounds are used to........
Correct answer : 3
Q77. ........can act as antimalarial.
Correct answer : 4
Q78. .........is the first discovered antibiotic.
Correct answer : 3
Q79. Penicillin is extensively used for treating .........
Correct answer : 4
Q80. …………………..is the main source of antibiotics.
Correct answer : 4
Q81. …………………called the "Queen of drugs".
Correct answer : 2
Q82. ..........discovered penicillin.
Correct answer : 4
Q83. ………………..is used as a medicine for relieving cramps, spasms of stomach, intestines and bladder.
Correct answer : 1
Q84. Pick the antispasmodics from the following:
Correct answer : 4
Q85. …………………is considered as nitro dyes.
Correct answer : 1
Q86. ………………is considered as triphenyl methane dyes.
Correct answer : 3
Q87. …………………is considered as acid dye.
Correct answer : 4
Q88. Congo Red and Maritius yellow are ……………dyes
Correct answer : 4
Q89. The derivation of Alizarin with aluminium is.........colour.
Correct answer : 3
Q90. Blue colour is obtained when Alizarin is mixed with………………
Correct answer : 2
Q91. Indigo is a/an……………dye.
Correct answer : 4
Q92. ………………..is used in the preservation of fruit juices and squashes.
Correct answer : 4
Q93. Which of the following is an artificial sweetening agent?
Correct answer : 3
Q94. ........is not an electron carrier in electron transport chain.
Correct answer : 3
Q95. Of the following, which one is a freon gas.
Correct answer : 2
Q96. Chlorophyll is a naturally occurring chelate compound in which central metal?
Correct answer : 2
Q97. Which chemical element was found in gaseous state in the atmosphere surrounding the Sun by scientist Pierre Janssen?
Correct answer : 2
Q98. Who discovered the "Positron"?
Correct answer : 2
Q99. Boson: a subatomic particle is named after ...
Correct answer : 4
Q100. Which non-metallic element has the chemical symbol "S"?
Correct answer : 2
Q101. What was the first man made alloy?
Correct answer : 1
Q102. Apart from Oxygen and hydrogen, which two elements form atleast one per cent each in sea water composition?
Correct answer : 1
Q103. What is Alumina?
Correct answer : 2
Q104. The rows of the periodic table are called……
Correct answer : 3
Q105. What is the hardest naturally occurring substance?
Correct answer : 2
Q106. The most abundant metal in the earth's crust is......
Correct answer : 2
Q107. Apart from Zinc and copper, what other element forms the gunmetal?
Correct answer : 3
Q108. Element 112, the highest numbered element to be officially recognized by the IUPAC, was named after a famous scientist in 2010. Who was he?
Correct answer : 2
Q109. To which group do the 'chaleogens' belong in the periodic table?
Correct answer : 2
Q110. Traces of which two elements give the green tinge to Emerald?
Correct answer : 1
Q111. Lenz law is in accordance with the law of ...........
Correct answer : 2
Q112. Lenz’s law is a consequence of the law of conservation of
Correct answer : 2
Q113. Latent heat of vaporization of water boiling under normal pressure is
Correct answer : 2
Q114. Large rain drops fall under gravity, when drops undergo - velocity
Correct answer : 4
Q115. Kinetic energy of a body in motion equals the product of half its mass and the square of its
Correct answer : 2
Q116. Johannes Kepler proposed
Correct answer : 4
Q117. IR are used for
Correct answer : 3
Q118. It two stones of masses 1 kg and 5 kg are dropped from a height
Correct answer : 3
Q119. Inside the coolidge tube, the tungsten filaments coated with ...........
Correct answer : 4
Q120. IR and UV rays obey
Correct answer : 3
Q121. Ink sticks to paper while writing because of
Correct answer : 1
Q122. Industrial electric appliances are designed to operate at ...........
Correct answer : 4
Q123. In which transformer the input is equal to output power?
Correct answer : 4
Q124. In which transformer, the number of turns in the secondary less than in the primary coil?
Correct answer : 3
Q125. In which scattering the scattered wave length is equal to the incident wavelength?
Correct answer : 4
Q126. In which reaction, reversible and irreversible reactions are possible?
Correct answer : 2
Q127. In which reaction enormous amount of energy is released?
Correct answer : 2
Q128. In which orbits an electron can revolve in?
Correct answer : 3
Q129. In which of the following, the strength of magnetic field produced by a current carrying solenoid does not depend upon
Correct answer : 2
Q130. In which of the following the velocity of sound is maximum?
Correct answer : 4
Q131. How many gaps are there along the Western Ghats?
Correct answer : 3
Q132. The Western Ghats extend north to south from the mouth of the Tapti river to ......
Correct answer : 1
Q133. The mountains lying between Narmada and Tapti rivers are
Correct answer : 4
Q134. The Vindhya Satpura ranges run ......
Correct answer : 1
Q135. The Vindhya Satpura mountain range ends near .....
Correct answer : 3
Q136. The Gondwana joined with the .... Continent.
Correct answer : 2
Q137. The landmass north of the Tethys was named the ....
Correct answer : 1
Q138. The first break of the Pangaea(undivided land mass) into two parts was caused by a shallow sea known as ....
Correct answer : 4
Q139. The Sun completes one revolution around the centre of the Milky Way in ..........million years.
Correct answer : 3
Q140. To the west of India lies the ........peninsula.
Correct answer : 2
Q141. In which of these countries golf was first played?
Correct answer : 2
Q142. When is World Population Day observed?
Correct answer : 4
Q143. Who is the author of the book titled "Sahibs who loved India"?
Correct answer : 4
Q144. In which year was the first television programme broadcast in India?
Correct answer : 2
Q145. Yarlung Zangbo river is known in India as.....
Correct answer : 3
Q146. Who was the first Indian to reach the singles semi final of the Wimbledon ?
Correct answer : 4
Q147. Who wrote the Indian classical dance scripture?
Correct answer : 2
Q148. Which European city is referred to as Lefkosia or Lefkosa by its residents?
Correct answer : 2
Q149. What is the colour of the cross in Sweden's flag?
Correct answer : 3
Q150. "Daulatgiri" the eight thousander mountain means....
Correct answer : 4
Q151. In which year, Mother Teresa was beatified by Pope John Paul II?
Correct answer : 2
Q152. Who wrote the book "We, the People"?
Correct answer : 3
Q153. During WWI, US military faced a large casuality, for reasons other than war and it was due to sickness. What was it?
Correct answer : 1
Q154. Metrology is the study of......
Correct answer : 3
Q155. Sinking of "RMS Lusitania" by Germany on 7th May 1915, was the cause for WWI and also for the ........
Correct answer : 2
Q156. For what reason or occasion the Eiffel Tower was built in 1888?
Correct answer : 3
Q157. Craniology is a study of ................
Correct answer : 2
Q158. What is "Puncack Jaya"?
Correct answer : 4
Q159. The world's first postage stamp was issued in the year....?
Correct answer : 2
Q160. What was the name of the US Air Force's 22 year investigation into the existence of UFOs?
Correct answer : 1
Q161. "Death Valley" is located in which state of USA?
Correct answer : 1
Q162. Which is the smallest US state?
Correct answer : 3
Q163. Which Asian country is an archipelago with more than 7100 islands?
Correct answer : 2
Q164. Kyoto Protocol relates to....
Correct answer : 3
Q165. Kenya's is the world's third largest producer of......
Correct answer : 3
Q166. William Webb Ellis was the inventor of .....
Correct answer : 3
Q167. "Taprobane" was the name of which neighbouring country of India, as called by the Greeks?
Correct answer : 4
Q168. What is the name for the upper shell of a tortoise/turtle?
Correct answer : 4
Q169. China has received ..........nobel prizes for literature
Correct answer : 1
Q170. Which state in India is the first to get the "Aadhar" card?
Correct answer : 3
Q171. What is common to the books - The Moor's Last Sigh, The Price of Power, The Land of the Lingam and The Polyester Prince?
Correct answer : 4
Q172. Hague Sophia in Istanbul is a famous museum. What was it previously?
Correct answer : 2
Q173. "Shaktiman" is a famous mode of transportation of Indian Army. While "Shakti" in Hindi means powerfu, what doe 'man' represent?
Correct answer : 3
Q174. Where was the 'barcode' used first?
Correct answer : 1
Q175. A man is waiting for a bus on routes 10, 17 and 25. The bus on route 10 comes every 10 min, but on route 17 comes every 20 min, and bus on route 25 comes every 40 min. After the man reaches the stop, a bus just leaves the stop. What is the minimum time for which he has to wait to get a bus?
Correct answer : 4
Q176. The next number in the series 0, 7, 26, 63 is
Correct answer : 1
Q177. Fill the series: 0.5, 1, 2.5, 5, ?
Correct answer : 3
Q178. If A, B, C, D are numbers in increasing order and D, B, E are numbers in decreasing order, then which one of the following sequences need neither be in a decreasing nor in an increasing order?
Correct answer : 3
Q179. Three of the four are alike in a certain way and so form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group?
Correct answer : 2
Q180. Find a suitable option from the options given to replace the highlighted word/s. 5 will be the answer if "e;No correction is required"e; .... "e; "e;It was he not me who was responsible for the dispute."e;
Correct answer : 2
Q181. Choose the word which is most opposite in meaning to the word: PROGRESSED
Correct answer : 2
Q182. Choose the correct word to fill the blank from the given options: "e; Mr Bose ........ working in the bank for the last fifteen years.
Correct answer : 1
Q183. Read the sentence carefully and find out whether there is any grammatical/idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one numbered part of the sentence. The numbered part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (5). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any) .. "e; His mother looked at him (1) / standing there, and the boy (2) / could see the memories (3) / flashing through her mind. (4) / No error (5).
Correct answer : 4
Q184. Read the following sentence carefully and find out whether there is/are 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) .......There were many (1) / factors that contributed (2) / to the success (3) / of this experiments. (4) / No error (5)
Correct answer : 4
Q185. To cry wolf -- means
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Q186. Choose the word which is most similar in meaning to the word: REFLECTION
Correct answer : 3
Q187. Rearrange the following six sentences A to F in proper order and then answer the question that follows: (A) The next day, the priest discovered that one of the servants cut his stick shorter by two inches, fearing that it would grow. (B) When the priest questioned each of the servants, they denied. (C) One day a rich merchant's house was robbed, and he suspected one of his servants. (D) In this way, the wise old priest caught the thief. (E) He approached the wise priest in the village and asked for help on the matter. (F) The priest then gave them each a stick of equal length and said that the stick of the real theif would grow by two inches the next morning. From the above, which should be the SECOND sentence after the rearrangement?
Correct answer : 3
Q188. On September 11, 2015, to protect against any terrorist attacks, a military exercise was conducted at the coastal cities of India.
What was the code name for the exercise?
Correct answer : 1
Q189. In September 2015, the G 20 countries' Finance Ministers conference was held in ................
Correct answer : 3
Q190. In 2015, The Central Government accorded sanction for a new port at Colachel, in the district of ............, Tamilnadu.
Correct answer : 2
Q191. State the Object Oriented Programming Languages
Correct answer : 4
Q192. In MODEMS ....
Correct answer : 2
Q193. RAM is a volatile memory because ....
Correct answer : 3
Q194. The offer of after sales services to customers over the internet is a ......activity.
Correct answer : 2
Q195. Expansion cards are inserted into......
Correct answer : 1
Q196. Which of the following is an optional memory to run the computer system?
Correct answer : 3
Q197. In the formula, = B1/B2 + B3, which of the following is the correct precedence?
Correct answer : 1
Q198. For which of the following a proxy server is used?
Correct answer : 3
Q199. "e;Only the process executing the critical section is allowed access to the shred variable, all other processes should be prevented from doing so until the completion of the critical section."e; This is often referred to as ....