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Q1. The Simon Commission was appointed to look into the working of the reforms introduced under the Act of 1919. The Indians decided to boycott the commission because....
Correct answer : 4
Q2. The "August Offer of 1940" sought to conciliate the Congress by guaranteeing......
Correct answer : 2
Q3. The much talked about "August Offer" was made during which year?
Correct answer : 3
Q4. Prime Minister of Uk, Clement Atlee announced on 20th February 1947, that the British Government would withdraw from India by.....
Correct answer : 3
Q5. About which one of the following song did Gandhiji wrote "that one song is enough to sustain me even if I were to forget the Bhagvad Gita"?
Correct answer : 2
Q6. At which of these places, unprecedented riot and bloodshed occurred between 16-19,1946 among Hindus and Muslims due to the 'direct action to achieve Pakistan' policy of Muslim League?
Correct answer : 4
Q7. In the March 1939 Tripuri session of the Indian National Congress, Nethaji defeated which of the following opponents who was also sponsored by Gandhiji?
Correct answer : 3
Q8. For what reason Gandhiji began a fast unto death on 20th September 1932 in Yeravada Jail?
Correct answer : 2
Q9. The Khilafat movement subsided following the......
Correct answer : 2
Q10. Which one of the following does not relate to Lala Hardayal of the Ghadar movement?
Correct answer : 2
Q11. In which year the Muslim League adopted self government as one of its objectives?
Correct answer : 2
Q12. Which of the following Acts formallly introduced the principle of elections for the first time?
Correct answer : 2
Q13. Who was the President at the time of the time of the split of Moderate Vs Extremist in the Congress?
Correct answer : 1
Q14. Among the following what was not the aim of Servant's of India Society launched by Gohale in 1905?
Correct answer : 3
Q15. Who among the following is credited with bringing sanskritic culture true to the South?
Correct answer : 1
Q16. Pick out the place where regional militant nationalism was not based?
Correct answer : 1
Q17. Of the following Acts enacted by the British, which one was a short lived?
Correct answer : 1
Q18. What was the service undertaken by the Jyotiba Phule's Satyashodak Samaj during the later 19th century?
Correct answer : 4
Q19. Under the leadership of Dr.Ambedkar, the untouchable "Mahars" launched an autonomous movement with certain demands. Which of the following was not one of them?
Correct answer : 2
Q20. Which of the following quote is correctly matched? (A)Give me blood, I will give you freedom - Nehruji (B) Karenge ya marenge - Nethaji (C)Swaraj is birthright and I shall have it - Tilak (D) A new star rises, the star of freedom in the East - Gandhiji
Correct answer : 1
Q21. Which is the first Indian district court to become an "on line court"?
Correct answer : 3
Q22. Who is the first woman judge of a High Court?
Correct answer : 2
Q23. Which is the oldest High Court of India?
Correct answer : 2
Q24. Who administers the oath of office to judges of the High Courts?
Correct answer : 1
Q25. Upto what age Chief Justice of the Supreme Court can serve?
Correct answer : 3
Q26. Who administers the oath of office to Chief Justice of High Courts?
Correct answer : 2
Q27. Under which Article of the Constitution High Courts are established?
Correct answer : 4
Q28. Who appoints the Chief Justice and Judges of Supreme Court and High Courts?
Correct answer : 3
Q29. How many Muslim Chief Justices have been there for Supreme Court so far?
Correct answer : 1
Q30. Who was the first Muslim Chief Justice of India?
Correct answer : 3
Q31. Justice K.G.Balakrishnan holds the record of being the…..
Correct answer : 1
Q32. Who was the first woman judge of the Supreme Court?
Correct answer : 3
Q33. Apart from Chief Justice, how many judges are there in the Supreme Court?
Correct answer : 4
Q34. Who appoints and administers the oath of office to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
Correct answer : 1
Q35. When was the first sitting of the Supreme Court of independent India took place?
Correct answer : 2
Q36. Which Articles of the Constitution provides for the establishment of a Supreme Court and deals with other matters of Supreme Court?
Correct answer : 3
Q37. What unique procedure was followed while annexing Dadra, Nagar Haveli?
Correct answer : 3
Q38. When was state of Bombay was divided to form Maharashtra and Gujarat?
Correct answer : 1
Q39. What was the name for the coded military operation to annex Goa?
Correct answer : 3
Q40. In which year was Goa, ruled by Portuguese, annexed with India?
Correct answer : 3
Q41. The situation in which total revenue is equal to total cost is known as .............
Correct answer : 2
Q42. Currency of RBI are backed by certain assets. These assets must not be less than a prescribed amount of..
Correct answer : 3
Q43. What does "Disguised Unemployment" mean?
Correct answer : 2
Q44. The working of SEBI includes ......
Correct answer : 4
Q45. Which of the following is included in national income account?
Correct answer : 2
Q46. Fill in the question mark: 876.95 - ? = 841.45 + 234.45 - 642.39 (SBI 2001)
Correct answer : 4
Q47. If the sum of three consecutive numbers is more than middle number by 130, then find the middle number. (SBI 2001)
Correct answer : 2
Q48. If flag posts stand 50 years apart in a straight line, what is the distance from the first to the ninth?
Correct answer : 3
Q49. The ratio between the ages of Rinky and Nikky is respectively 3:5. Four year hence the sum of their ages would be 96 years. What would be the ratio between their ages after four years? (SBI 2001)
Correct answer : 4
Q50. Fill in the question mark: 5424.87 + 678.679 + 65.459 = ? (SBI 2001)
Correct answer : 4
Q51. Plants which are not vernalized are known as.......
Correct answer : 3
Q52. Tobacco is botannically called........
Correct answer : 4
Q53. Chemically xphytochrome belongs to which of the following?
Correct answer : 1
Q54. Through which of the following the quality and quantity of crops can be improved?
Correct answer : 3
Q55. Auto and allopolyploid breeding can be improved by which of the following methods?
Correct answer : 2
Q56. Which of the following is a wild variety of rice?
Correct answer : 4
Q57. ...........is a method of eliminating undesirable ones.
Correct answer : 4
Q58. Plants produced by pure line selection exhibits more ............... with respect to all genes.
Correct answer : 1
Q59. By which of the following methods, water melon, tomato and seedless apple are produced?
Correct answer : 2
Q60. Disease free plants are obtained by the culture known as:
Correct answer : 1
Q61. Genes are compared to which of the followings?
Correct answer : 4
Q62. Of the following, which are nitrogen fixing bacterias?
Correct answer : 1
Q63. Of the following which one is an aquatic fern?
Correct answer : 3
Q64. Blast Disease of rice plants is caused by which of the following?
Correct answer : 2
Q65. Bordeaus is a/an
Correct answer : 3
Q66. Exploitation and utilisation of bio-resources from a country by several organization is called as......
Correct answer : 1
Q67. Which of the following plants possess anticancerous properties?
Correct answer : 4
Q68. Which of the following is an oil eating bacteria?
Correct answer : 1
Q69. .........mouse was also patented by Bio patent method.
Correct answer : 3
Q70. The term for the avoidance of man-made complex substance is "....................."
Correct answer : 1
Q71. Of the following which one is added as bleaching agent to washing powders to increase the whiteness in fabrics?
Correct answer : 2
Q72. Which of the following is used as a nail polish remover?
Correct answer : 4
Q73. The percentage of ethanol in whisky is........
Correct answer : 2
Q74. Bordeaux mixture is used as........
Correct answer : 3
Q75. What is the acid present in sugarcane juice?
Correct answer : 2
Q76. Which of these metals is commonly used as a conductor?
Correct answer : 4
Q77. The energy liberated by fuels burning is........energy
Correct answer : 3
Q78. Which of the following is manufacture by the 'sublimation' process?
Correct answer : 4
Q79. Of the following elements, which one exhibits allotropy?
Correct answer : 3
Q80. What is the element in our intake of food?
Correct answer : 2
Q81. What is the term for the reaction of oxygen with carbon?
Correct answer : 1
Q82. What is the term for the broken pieces of glasses added in the manufacture of glass?
Correct answer : 1
Q83. What is the natural source of dyes?
Correct answer : 3
Q84. Of the following methods, which one is used in the electroplating and electrorefining processes?
Correct answer : 2
Q85. A solution of gum in water is known as........
Correct answer : 2
Q86. Of the following noble gases, which one is present in natural gas?
Correct answer : 3
Q87. What is the term for the elements forming a group from atomic numbers 58 to 71?
Correct answer : 4
Q88. Which one of the following factor increases down the group?
Correct answer : 3
Q89. By how many times the proton is heavier than the mass of an electron?
Correct answer : 1
Q90. Of the following which one is the poor conductor of electricity?
Correct answer : 4
Q91. Deuterium is an isotope of which of the following elements?
Correct answer : 2
Q92. Who revealed that the fundamental units of matter are atoms?
Correct answer : 3
Q93. Which of the following reacts with ozone and decomposes it?
Correct answer : 2
Q94. By which of the following means, oceans get more polluted?
Correct answer : 2
Q95. A car travelling at a steady speed causes ......pollution.
Correct answer : 2
Q96. DDT is a……
Correct answer : 3
Q97. Mixture of smoke and fog is otherwise known as.......
Correct answer : 1
Q98. Which of the following gets more polluted by the excessive use of fertilizers?
Correct answer : 2
Q99. How do we call the phenomenon of redirection of heat energy towards the earth?
Correct answer : 3
Q100. Among the following which is/are the chemical/s released by jet aeroplanes that pollute the atmospheric air?
Correct answer : 3
Q101. Why detergents are better than soap for laundering?
Correct answer : 3
Q102. Soda Iye used in the hot process of the preparation of soap is......
Correct answer : 3
Q103. Petroleum is also known as........
Correct answer : 4
Q104. Iodine displaces……
Correct answer : 4
Q105. Hydrogen sulphid is…..
Correct answer : 3
Q106. Of the following allotropic form of sulphur, which one is the most stable?
Correct answer : 2
Q107. Monoclinic sulphur is otherwise known as…..
Correct answer : 1
Q108. Rhombic sulphur is otherwise known as.......
Correct answer : 2
Q109. Sulphur dioxide is........
Correct answer : 4
Q110. What can be obtained by pouring boiling sulphur into cold water?
Correct answer : 4
Q111. What is the principle used in galvanometer?
Correct answer : 3
Q112. What is the power of an electric lamp, if it draws 20 A current when connected to 220V line? (P = VI)
Correct answer : 1
Q113. What is the power of a lens?
Correct answer : 1
Q114. What is the power of a concave lens having focal length of 20 cm?
Correct answer : 2
Q115. What is the position of the image, when the object is placed at c for a concave mirror?
Correct answer : 1
Q116. What is the position of the image when an object is placed at infinity in front of a concave lens?
Correct answer : 1
Q117. What is the path taken by light?
Correct answer : 4
Q118. What is the phase difference between electric and magnetic field in an EM wave?
Correct answer : 1
Q119. What is the other name of Thomson’s atom model?
Correct answer : 3
Q120. What is the other name of Fleming’s left hand rule?
Correct answer : 2
Q121. What is the order of molecular range in liquids?
Correct answer : 2
Q122. What is the order of temperature when atom bomb exploded?
Correct answer : 3
Q123. What is the orbital velocity of a satellite revolving near the earth’s surface?
Correct answer : 1
Q124. What is the number of neutrons for an atom having atomic number Z and mass number A?
Correct answer : 2
Q125. What is the nature of the wire when a current is flowing through it?
Correct answer : 2
Q126. What is the nature of the image formed by concave lens
Correct answer : 3
Q127. What is the natural source of IR and UV rays?
Correct answer : 2
Q128. What is the name of the fluid between the retina and the lens?
Correct answer : 2
Q129. What is the name of coating an iron with zinc?
Correct answer : 1
Q130. What is the minimum energy required to remove an electron?
Correct answer : 2
Q131. Diego Garcia is an important military naval base of United States of America. Where is it located?
Correct answer : 2
Q132. Ozone layer lies in.....
Correct answer : 2
Q133. In which of the following cities one can never see the sun shine overhead at noon?
Correct answer : 1
Q134. The Mid Atlantic Ridge between Iceland and Scotland is called ...........
Correct answer : 3
Q135. Volcanoes are not found in ..........
Correct answer : 4
Q136. The natural sun block region is known as.....
Correct answer : 2
Q137. The result of global warming would result in ......hurricanes.
Correct answer : 3
Q138. Which of the following is NOT correct?
Correct answer : 2
Q139. "Challenger Deep" in Mariana Trench is the deepest point on the earth's surface and lies in Pacific Ocean. Specify the country.
Correct answer : 1
Q140. When the green house effect becomes stronger, it leads to which of the following?
Correct answer : 4
Q141. What distinguishes Jainism from Buddhism?
Correct answer : 2
Q142. "Milindapanha" represents....
Correct answer : 4
Q143. What does "Buddha" mean?
Correct answer : 4
Q144. "Tripitakas" are the sacred books of......
Correct answer : 1
Q145. "Purushasukta" is found in which of the following?
Q147. Who among the following founded the four 'Matthas" in the four corners of India?
Correct answer : 2
Q148. Which among the following pair is correctly matched?
Correct answer : 3
Q149. Mahabalipuram Cave temples were established by....
Correct answer : 2
Q150. Who started the 'Saka Era'?
Correct answer : 2
Q151. The 'Saka Era' began in the year....?
Correct answer : 4
Q152. Shrimad Bhagwad Gita was originally written in ......
Correct answer : 3
Q153. Where did Buddha preach his first sermon?
Correct answer : 1
Q154. The 'Brahmanas' are books that deal with...?
Correct answer : 2
Q155. What was the major impact of Vedic culture on Indian History?
Correct answer : 2
Q156. What is the major difference between 'varna' and 'jati'?
Correct answer : 2
Q157. The content of Rig Veda is....
Correct answer : 3
Q158. Upanishads are books on.....
Correct answer : 1
Q159. What is the name of the building in which the Labour Ministry is housed?
Correct answer : 4
Q160. Survey of India is headquartered at......
Correct answer : 3
Q161. National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research is located at......
Correct answer : 2
Q162. Where is the National Institute of Oceanography located?
Correct answer : 3
Q163. Where is the Himalayan Biosource Technology Centre is located?
Correct answer : 2
Q164. Where is the National Botanical Research Institute located?
Correct answer : 4
Q165. Where is the Central Leather Research Institute located?
Correct answer : 1
Q166. Where is the Heavy Water Board of India located?
Correct answer : 1
Q167. Uranium Corporation of India is headquartered at......
Correct answer : 3
Q168. When was the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai established?
Correct answer : 3
Q169. Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics is located at.....
Correct answer : 4
Q170. Atomic Energy Regulatory Board is headquartered at......
Correct answer : 1
Q171. Atomic Energy Commission is headquartered at.....
Correct answer : 3
Q172. Where is the World's highest helipad?
Correct answer : 1
Q173. Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd., is headquartered at.....
Correct answer : 4
Q174. National Institute of Malaria Research is located in .....
Correct answer : 3
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: Some tractors are buses. All buses are trains. Some trains are boats. All boats are ships. CONCLUSIONS: (1) Some boats are buses. (2) Some ships are buses. (3) Some trains are tractors. (4) Some ships are trains.
Correct answer : 1
Q176. If the first and second letters of the word UNPRECEDENTED are interchanged with the last and the second last letters and similarly the third and fourth letters are interchanged with the third and the fourth letters from the last respectively and so on., then what will be the 7th letter to the right of the 3rd letter from left?
Correct answer : 3
Q177. A trader in order to code the prices of article used the letters of PSICHOLAZY in the form of '0' to '9' respectively. Which of the following code stands for Rs.875.50?
Correct answer : 4
Q178. In the question below is given a statement followed by two assumptions numbeFF0000 1 and 2. You have to consider the statement and the following assumptions and decide which of the assumptions is implicit in the statement. Give answer: . STATEMENT: Many people were caught by the railway police while they were trying to cross the railway tracks and imposed heavy penalty before relasing them. ASSUMPTIONS: (1) People may refrain from crossing railway tracks in future. (2) People may continue crossing railway tracks and pay hefty penalty.
Correct answer : 1
Q179. In the question below, there are three statements followed by three conclusions numbeFF0000 1, 2 and 3. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statement. STATEMENTS: All dogs are birds. Some birds are trees. No house is tree. CONCLUSIONS: (1) Some houses are dog. (2) Some birds are dogs. (3) Some trees are dogs.
Correct answer : 2
Q180. Give the abstract noun for STRONG
Correct answer : 2
Q181. Choose the word similar in meaning to the word: CORROBORATE
Correct answer : 2
Q182. Give the meaning for TO LET THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG
Correct answer : 3
Q183. Given below are six statements of which the first and the last .. (1) and (6) remains constant. The remaining four are given as (P), (Q),{R} and (S), which are not in the proper order. Arrange them in proper order and find out which order of sentences is correct: (1) Carl Sagan (P) the severity of the problem (Q) says that we do not fully understand (R) that the next generations may be badly affected (S) in his essay (6)
Correct answer : 4
Q184. Pick an alternative for the phrase/idiom: "To cast aspersions"
Correct answer : 3
Q185. In the question, a part of the sentence is highlighted. Replace the highlighted part with the options given which may improve the sentence. "e; A lot of bloodshed could have been saved had the administration taken timely action."e;
Correct answer : 2
Q186. 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 (4). I wonder (1) / why are you tinkering with the wire (2) / you might get a shock. (3) / No error (4).
Correct answer : 2
Q187. Choose the word similar in meaning to the word: SOLECISM
Correct answer : 4
Q188. The 2016 Gnnanpith Award was bagged by Raghuveer Choudhary. He belongs to ..............
Correct answer : 4
Q189. In 2016, T M Krishna received the Ramon Magasasay Award. He is a ...........
Correct answer : 3
Q190. According to the report of International Monetary Fund, which country contributes the most towards skill development?
Correct answer : 2
Q191. MIB stands for ......
Correct answer : 2
Q192. Printed information, called .......exists physically and is a more permanent form of output than that presented on a display device.
Correct answer : 1
Q193. What is "e;Virtual Private Network"e;?
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Q194. The Light Pen can be used ......
Correct answer : 4
Q195. The simultaneous processing of two or more programs by multiple processors is
Correct answer : 4
Q196. Which of the following computer language is used for artificial intelligence?
Correct answer : 2
Q197. Which of the following is the correct ascending order with reference to increasing quantity of speed and capacity?
Correct answer : 4
Q198. Which of the keys are used to resize a column in a table?
Correct answer : 3
Q199. Pick the valid statement. In the common domain names, the abbreviations represent ...
Correct answer : 4
Q200. The daily processing of corrections to customer accounts can be simplified into a processing mode of