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Q1. "Raziya was endowed with all qualities befitting a King but was not born of the right sex". Whose quote is this?
Correct answer : 3
Q2. Arrange the following social legislations in the chronological order? (a)Human sacrifice practice was outlawed (b) Act to declare slavery as illegal in India (c)The Caste Disabilities Removal Act (d)The Act that gave legal status to widow remarriage
Correct answer : 1
Q3. Who was that French Physician attached to the Court of Shah Jehan and also a witness to the war of succession between Dara Shikoh and Aurangazeb?
Correct answer : 3
Q4. When was the addition of third Pitaka, the Abhidhamma to the Buddhist Council text made?
Correct answer : 3
Q5. Fourth Buddhist council witnessed the split of Buddhism into two broad sects viz:Mahayana and Hinayna.Who presided over that council?
Correct answer : 3
Q6. Which of the following scripts was written from right to left between 300 BC to 300 AD and Ashoka's edicts in the western part were executed in it?
Correct answer : 2
Q7. Find out the wrong statement from among the following?
Correct answer : 2
Q8. Which of the following princely state was annexed by the British?
Correct answer : 2
Q9. Among the following princely states, which one was NOT annexed by the British?
Correct answer : 1
Q10. In which year the Pitt's India Act was passed?
Correct answer : 2
Q11. Which of the following statement is correct? (a)Nepal was a buffer state between India and Tibet or China (b)Tibet was spared from the imperialistic designs of the British (c)Bhutan maintained an independent foreign policy. (d)British India and Nepal never had cordial relations
Correct answer : 1
Q12. Which of the following statement is incorrect? (a)The Persian Gulf was considered as strategically important by the British. (b)Advancement of Russia towards Central Asia affected British interests. (c)Tibet was spared from imperialistic designs (d)The British foreign policy was directed towards protecting the larger interests of the British imperial.
Correct answer : 4
Q13. By the turn of 1820, what were the changes that took place among the following?
Correct answer : 2
Q14. Find out the incorrect statement among the following?
Correct answer : 2
Q15. Among the following statements which of them is incorrect?
Correct answer : 2
Q16. During the later half of 18th Century,the French East India Co., was reconstituted with a new name. What was it?
Correct answer : 4
Q17. Among the following statements which one of them is not factually correct?
Correct answer : 3
Q18. Find out the wrong statement among the following?
Correct answer : 2
Q19. Which of the following statements about Nizam rule in Hyderabad after 1724 is true?
Correct answer : 1
Q20. Which of the following about land revenue during Tipu Sultan reign is true?
Correct answer : 3
Q21. Where is the Mother Teresa Women's University located?
Correct answer : 3
Q22. Which Indian University was the first to start correspondence courses?
Correct answer : 1
Q23. Who founded the Benares Hindu University?
Correct answer : 1
Q24. Who among the following established the Calcutta Medical College?
Correct answer : 3
Q25. When was the Indira Gandhi National Open University started?
Correct answer : 3
Q26. Fullbright Scholarship is a joint effort of US and India Education Fund (USIEF). When was it started?
Correct answer : 2
Q27. Which is the oldest University of modern India?
Correct answer : 3
Q28. Who was the first education minister of India?
Correct answer : 4
Q29. Where was the first Navodaya School started?
Correct answer : 1
Q30. Whose brain child is the Navodaya Schools?
Correct answer : 2
Q31. What is the percentage of educational cess levied on all direct and indirect taxes from 2004-2005?
Correct answer : 2
Q32. Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya is a welfare scheme to
Correct answer : 3
Q33. Sarva Shiksha Abhigyaan is a welfare scheme to ensure
Correct answer : 2
Q34. What is the exam a student has to undergo for admission to management studies in US, Canada etc.,
Correct answer : 2
Q35. CSAT exams are conducted for selection to …..
Correct answer : 1
Q36. JMET exams are conducted for admission to…..
Correct answer : 3
Q37. Where is the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade located?
Correct answer : 1
Q38. Indian Institute of Petroleum is the leading institution offering courses on Petroleum. Where is it located?
Correct answer : 1
Q39. It is the only research institution on forest and its management. Where is it located?
Correct answer : 3
Q40. The only institution offering courses on Mining Technology is Indian School of Mines. Where is it located?
Correct answer : 3
Q41. Bank Marketing means ..........
Correct answer : 4
Q42. The First Five Year Plan period was between
Correct answer : 4
Q43. The relationship between the price of a commodity and the demand for it is a/an
Correct answer : 2
Q44. A good salesman should be ......
Correct answer : 4
Q45. The oldest industry of India is.....
Correct answer : 2
Q46. 7 pens and 5 pencils cost Rs.16.90. Had it been a purchase of 5 pens and 7 pencils, the expense would have been Rs.2.60 less. If so, a pen costs..............
Correct answer : 2
Q47. 8769 - 125.89 -17.865=? (SBI 2001)
Correct answer : 4
Q48. Fill in the question mark: 600% of 176 + 32.84 = 1312.04 - ? (SBI 2001)
Correct answer : 1
Q49. Fill in the Question mark: 25% of 1620 + 33 1/3% of 7740 = ? + 124. (SBI 2001)
Correct answer : 3
Q50. Find the wrong one in the series: 1,3,4,7,11,18,27,47 (SBI 2008)
Correct answer : 4
Q51. The region in between the Pyramids is known as ..................
Correct answer : 1
Q52. During kidney failure, the urine can be separated and sent out through a process called ...............
Correct answer : 4
Q53. Urine is ...........in nature.
Correct answer : 2
Q54. Medulla Oblongata is known as ........
Correct answer : 3
Q55. .................is the structural and functional unit of the nervous system.
Correct answer : 4
Q56. Central nervous system consists of ......................
Correct answer : 2
Q57. The length of the spinal chord is approximately .................
Correct answer : 3
Q58. The action that take place without direct involvement of the brain is called as ..............
Correct answer : 1
Q59. Retina contains the sensitive cells called..................
Correct answer : 2
Q60. The outer region of the brains is known as ................
Correct answer : 4
Q61. The two hemispheres of the cerebellum are connected by .....................
Correct answer : 3
Q62. 1. Tears keep the eyes moist 2. Tears protect the eye ball.
Correct answer : 3
Q63. The diseases to occur due to immoral sexual habits is/are .......................
Correct answer : 1
Q64. ..............and ................membranes protect the embryo.
Correct answer : 1
Q65. .....................secretes the "Oestrogen" harmones.
Correct answer : 4
Q66. What harmone is secreted by the interstitial cells of the testes?
Correct answer : 3
Q67. Protein is converted into ................during digestion.
Correct answer : 1
Q68. What disease is caused due to the deficiency of Vitamin D?
Correct answer : 2
Q69. Deficiency of Vitamin E causes ..................
Correct answer : 4
Q70. Proteins are .................
Correct answer : 2
Q71. Converting crude oil into several fractions is known as........
Correct answer : 2
Q72. Of the following which one is known as "Soapless Soap"?
Correct answer : 3
Q73. From the following pick the chemical name for clay?
Correct answer : 4
Q74. Of the following which one is used to make gaskets?
Correct answer : 3
Q75. Of the following which one is acidic in nature?
Correct answer : 4
Q76. Isobutane is a good example of .....
Correct answer : 2
Q77. From the following pick an example of explosive?
Correct answer : 4
Q78. The characteristic property of an inorganic compoiund is/are………
Correct answer : 1
Q79. Of the following which one is a natural fibere?
Correct answer : 4
Q80. Of the following which one is a synthetic fibre/
Correct answer : 3
Q81. What is the organic compound present in gum benzoin?
Correct answer : 4
Q82. What is the organic compound present in rancid butter?
Correct answer : 2
Q83. Sodium Chloride in alcohol forms a …………solution
Correct answer : 1
Q84. Sodium Chloride overgrows in alcohol and is termed as ....
Correct answer : 2
Q85. Sodium Chloride in water forms a .......solution
Correct answer : 4
Q86. Of the following which one is termed as alloys?
Correct answer : 1
Q87. The Tyndall effect happens in which of the following?
Correct answer : 2
Q88. Electro negative character is least in which of the following?
Correct answer : 3
Q89. Hydrogen in palladium is a good example of .......
Correct answer : 3
Q90. Which of the following hydrogen hallide will be in liquid state at ordinary temperature?
Correct answer : 2
Q91. Of the following halogens, which one is used in the production of DDT and dettol?
Correct answer : 1
Q92. Argon mixed with what is used in filling electric lamps?
Correct answer : 2
Q93. By what method rare gases from liquid air is extracted?
Correct answer : 1
Q94. Radon is produced by the radioactive disintegration of which of the following?
Correct answer : 3
Q95. Which one of the following is a chemically inert element?
Correct answer : 2
Q96. Of the following which one is used in meterological balloons?
Correct answer : 3
Q97. Of the following which one exhibits ionic bond?
Correct answer : 2
Q98. Which of the following glasses cuts off the ultraviolet rays harmful to the eyes?
Correct answer : 2
Q99. Sodium benzene lauryl sulphate is .....
Correct answer : 4
Q100. From the following which one is used for salting out soap?
Correct answer : 1
Q101. Fats and oils contain…………
Correct answer : 2
Q102. What is the product obtained when acetylene undergoes polymerization?
Correct answer : 3
Q103. What is formed when Ethylene undergoes polymerization?
Correct answer : 2
Q104. Naphthalene is a ........ compound.
Correct answer : 3
Q105. Saturated organic compounds contain……
Correct answer : 1
Q106. Who described the concept of electrolyte in water?
Correct answer : 2
Q107. An electrolyte depends on …………for the degree of dissociation.
Correct answer : 3
Q108. At infinite dilution, the degree of dissociation would be…….
Correct answer : 4
Q109. Chlorine forms ........…………with hot concentrated alkali.
Correct answer : 4
Q110. Of the following halogens, which one is considered as the "solid member" of the halogen family?
Correct answer : 2
Q111. What is the distance between a crest and adjacent through
Correct answer : 1
Q112. What is the disadvantage of solar cells?
Correct answer : 1
Q113. What is the disadvantage of hydro-electric power produced by using a dam?
Correct answer : 1
Q114. What is the de Broglie wavelength of an electron moving with a velocity 106 m/s?
Correct answer : 4
Q115. What is the direction of mechanical force produced by a current carrying conductor?
Correct answer : 3
Q116. What is the complementary colour of yellow light?
Correct answer : 3
Q117. What is the conventional direction of electric current?
Correct answer : 2
Q118. What is the colour of sunlight when it is scattered by the dust particles?
Correct answer : 3
Q119. What is the combined resistance of 6W and 12W connected in parallel?
Correct answer : 1
Q120. What is the charge possessed by neutron?
Correct answer : 2
Q121. What is the colour of sky when it is seen from moon’s surface?
Correct answer : 4
Q122. What is the charge of electron?
Correct answer : 3
Q123. What is the charge of b- rays?
Correct answer : 1
Q124. What is the cause of the green house effect?
Correct answer : 1
Q125. What is the change in atomic number, when a b - particle is emitted?
Correct answer : 2
Q126. What is the capacity of fuse wire, used in power circuit?
Correct answer : 3
Q127. What is the average dose of X - rays for dental?
Correct answer : 3
Q128. What is the average dose for chest x- rays?
Correct answer : 4
Q129. What is the approximate voltage produced by power stations?
Correct answer : 2
Q130. What is the apparent depth of the glass slab when an object seen through 10 cm thick glass slab appears to be raised by 3 cm?
Correct answer : 4
Q131. Regions with congenial climate and fertile soil, ideal for human occupancy is known as .......
Correct answer : 2
Q132. Contour bunding is used ...
Correct answer : 3
Q133. Which of the following statements is NOT CORRECT? (a) Mahanadhi river rises in Chhatisgarh (b) Godavari river rises in Maharashtra {c} Cauvery river rises in Andhra Pradesh (d) Tapti river rises in Madhya Pradesh.
Correct answer : 3
Q134. Acidic soils are not found in ............
Correct answer : 4
Q135. The hill biosphere reserve in Tamilnadu is ......
Correct answer : 2
Q136. North India gets rainfall due to ....
Correct answer : 2
Q137. .............is the highest hill of South India.
Correct answer : 1
Q138. As one moves from the equator to the poles along a meridican ..............
Correct answer : 1
Q139. Richter Scale is used to measure the .................
Correct answer : 1
Q140. It takes 11 seconds for the light to reach the earth from moon and 8 minutes from the Sun. How much time will it take from the nearest bright star to reach the earth?
Correct answer : 4
Q141. India's first Antarctic expedition was carried out in ?
Correct answer : 1
Q142. Which two teams played the first ever international football match?
Correct answer : 2
Q143. The Kedarnath Temple is located near the source of which river?
Correct answer : 2
Q144. How many sheets of paper make a Standard Ream?
Correct answer : 4
Q145. "Meghdoot Award" is presented to the employees of........
Correct answer : 2
Q146. When from "Money Gram " facility was introduced in Post Offices in India?
Correct answer : 2
Q147. Which famous Odissi dancer died in a lang slide?
Correct answer : 3
Q148. What is the official language of Iran?
Correct answer : 2
Q149. What is the highest award in India for the performing arts?
Correct answer : 2
Q150. The first radio commentary of a foot ball match anywhere in the world was aired in 1927. Which two teams played that match?
Correct answer : 4
Q151. Who invented the windshield wiper and patented it in 1903?
Correct answer : 1
Q152. Who was the first person to successfully swim the English Channel without artificial aids?
Correct answer : 2
Q153. Which world chess champion played a match against the IBM computer "Deep Blue"?
Correct answer : 1
Q154. Who is the only batsman in the world to have been given out for obstructing the field in Test Cricket?
Correct answer : 2
Q155. What is "Karakatoa"?
Correct answer : 4
Q156. What does "Hong Kong" mean?
Correct answer : 1
Q157. What is the name for ceremonial scarf of Tibetan Buddhists?
Correct answer : 1
Q158. Which is the only Indian University to produce two nobel laureates?
Correct answer : 3
Q159. Who was the first to get Physics Nobel Prize?
Correct answer : 4
Q160. What was the name of the 8 times national champion who was gunned down outside K D Singh Babu Stadium in Lucknow in 1988?
Correct answer : 4
Q161. Who was the first human being to die during a space flight?
Correct answer : 1
Q162. Who created the Rock Garden of Chandigarh?
Correct answer : 2
Q163. Carl Linnaeus, the botanist, who evolved the system of naming living organisms belongs to....?
Correct answer : 4
Q164. What is "Maghreb"?
Correct answer : 3
Q165. Dr. Christian Barnard of South Africa is famous for performing the world's first..
Correct answer : 2
Q166. Which Australian colony was the last to use the forced labour of prisoners?
Correct answer : 2
Q167. How many milligrams are there in a "Carat"?
Correct answer : 2
Q168. Which of the following is not a Rabi Crop in India?
Correct answer : 2
Q169. The capital of the Empire of Maharaja Ranjit Singh was ..............
Correct answer : 1
Q170. Who among the following Indian ruler of 18th century is known as the "Plato of the Jat People"
Correct answer : 3
Q171. If Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi was Tiger, who is "Panther"?
Correct answer : 3
Q172. What was the original name of Birbal?
Correct answer : 3
Q173. Which organization awards Hubbard Medal for exploration, discovery and Research?
Correct answer : 4
Q174. Hubbard Medal is an award for which field?
Correct answer : 3
Q175. Exactly five colouFF0000 lights - Green, Yellow, FF0000, White and Blue -- are arranged in a straight line on a control panel, evenly spaced, going from left to right in the order given above. On the control panel, there can be two types of patterns of lights that are called X sequence and Y sequence. An X sequence of lights is a sequence of either three or four lights that are on and evenly spaced with respect to one another. A Y sequence of lights is is any sequence of lights that are not an X sequence. Based on this information, answer the following QUESTION: Which of the following X sequences of lights will definitely turn into a Y sequence if any one of the five lights is changed, whether the change is from on to off; or from off to on?
Correct answer : 1
Q176. 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: The Municipal Corporation has announced 50 per cent FF0000uction in water supply till monsoon arrives in the city. ASSUMPTIONS: (1) People may protest against the unilateral decision of the Municipal Corporation. (2) Municipal Corporation may FF0000uce its taxes from the residents as it failed to provide adquate water.
Correct answer : 2
Q177. In the following question, choose the conclusion that logically follows from the given statement. In a certain code ' men and women have come forward to support ' is coded as ' offier have forward men support women to and come '. The the coded form ' enforced is to legislation government need state going' represents which of the following?
Correct answer : 3
Q178. In the following question, choose the conclusion that logically follows from the given statement. STATEMENT: Soldiers serve their country. CONCLUSIONS: (1) Women do not serve their country because they are not soldiers. (2) Those who serve their country are soldiers. (3) Men generally serve their country. (4) Men generally serve their country. (5) None of these.
Correct answer : 2
Q179. In the following question, choose the conclusion that logically follows from the given statement. STATEMENT: Every man should have his identity card with him. This card should mention his blood group, complete address and telephone number for contact, in case, some serious accident takes place. CONCLUSIONS: (1) No one is supposed to forget his phone number under any circumstances. (2) In case of emergency, he may forget his address and may need card to contact his house. (3) The police needs this information specially when the accident is fatal. (4) Blood cannot be transfused until its group is mentioned in the card. (5) None of these.
Correct answer : 3
Q180. Choose the correct suffix for COWARD
Correct answer : 2
Q181. Reading experience will build ........
Correct answer : 3
Q182. Give the abstract noun for SELL
Correct answer : 3
Q183. Replace the highlighted part of the sentence appropriately from the options given: The negotiations will call for considerable dexterity.
Correct answer : 1
Q184. Fill the blanks with appropriate words given: "e;This film ...............him the best comedian and he was ..............a special Oscar for this."e;
Correct answer : 1
Q185. 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). After the teacher had told the boys (1) / how to pronounce the word (2) / all of them in one voice repeted the word again. (3) / No error (4)
Correct answer : 3
Q186. In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive Voice. Out of the options suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active Voice: "e; I was recommended another lawyer."e;
Correct answer : 3
Q187. 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) Even today in many countries (P) neglected and there are far (Q) women continue to be (R) who have had the benefit of (S) fewer women than men (6) education and vocational training.
Correct answer : 2
Q188. What is the welfare scheme announced by the Central Government on the birth (April 5) anniversary of Babu Jagjivan Ram?
Correct answer : 4
Q189. In 2016, in which department of India, a reservation of 33% for women, has been announced?
Correct answer : 4
Q190. Which are cities of India, selected for modernization as "Smart Cities" with the aid of France?
Correct answer : 2
Q191. How can the user determine what programs are availabe on a computer ?
Correct answer : 2
Q192. The hexadecimal equivalent of a decimal number 749 is .....
Correct answer : 1
Q193. Which of the following is wrong?
Correct answer : 2
Q194. Which of the following is used in Power point text(s) to have a special visual/audio effect?
Correct answer : 1
Q195. What is meant by a dedicated computer?
Correct answer : 2
Q196. Permanent memory in computer is known as
Correct answer : 2
Q197. Basic components of a robot .......
Correct answer : 2
Q198. What function displays row data in a column or column data in a row?
Correct answer : 3
Q199. Modern Computers are reliable yet they are not ....
Correct answer : 3
Q200. The area that shows all the choices you can make while working in a window is known as ..........