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| Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched ?
(a) National Aluminium Company Ltd. : Bhubaneswar
(b) Indian Bureau of Mines : Dhanbad
(c) National Film Archives of India : Pune
(d) National Archives of India : New Delhi | | 5 |
| Knesset is the name of the Parliament of
(a) Norway
(b) Sweden
(c) Israel
(d) Spain | | 1 |
| Carbohydrates are stored in the body as
(a) Sugars
(b) Starch
(c) Glucose
(d) Glycogen | | 4 |
| Consider the following statements regarding of India :
1. Pressurised heavy water reactors have been set up at
Kaiga (Karnataka) and Rawatbhata (Rajasthan).
2. Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, is one of the
five Research Centres under the Department of Science and
Technology.
3. India has a vast resource of Thorium and the third stage
of Indian Nuclear Power Programme envisages the use of
Thorium for power generation.
Which of these statements is/are correct?
(a) 2 only
(b) 1 and 2
(c) A and 3
(d) 1, 2 and 3 | | 1 |
| Which is the correct sequence of the given American cities
from West to East?
(a) Salt Lake City ? Pittsburg-San Francisco-Boston
(b) San Francisco-Salt Lake City-Pittsburg-Boston
(c) Salt Lake City-San Francisco-Boston-Pittsburg
(d) San Francisco-Pittsburg-Salt Lake City-Boston | | 1 |
| Consider the following statements :
1. Intel?s Pentium IV is an operating system used in PCs
2. During booting period of a PC, the operating system is
first loaded.
3. Analogue computers are useful only in scientific field
while digital computers have application in scientific as
well as in business, administrative functions.
4. Micro-computer is another name for micro-processor.
Which of these statements are correct ?
(a) 1, 2, 3 and 4
(b) 2 and 3
(c) 1 and 4
(d) 1, 2 and 4 | | 1 |
| The Comptroller and Auditor-General of India is appointed by the
(a) Prime Minster
(b) President
(c) Finance Minster
(d) Home Minister | | 2 |
| Which positional value divides the series into equal parts ?
(a) Median
(b) Second quartile
(c) 5th Decile
(d) All of these | | 2 |
| Consider the following statements :
1. Bermuda situated in Western Atlantic Ocean is a United
Kingdom Overseas Territory.
2. 38th Parallel divided boundary between North and South
Vietnam before unification.
3. Bahamas situated near Florida is one of the states of USA.
Which of these statements is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 and 3
(c) 1 and 3
(d) 1 and 2 | | 1 |
| when was former american president john kennady murdered? | | 4 |
| ?Raksha Kavach? is
(a) A new safety equipment designed for the soldiers of
Indian Army
(b) An anti-collision device to prevent collision between
trains designed by the Konkan Railway Corporation
(c) A new design for earthquake resistant buildings
(d) A new device for the Indian airports for the safe
landing of aircrafts | | 2 |
| The ?Grand Trunk Road? connects
(a) Kolkata and Mumbai
(b) Delhi and Chennai
(c) Kolkata and Amritsar
(d) Tirupati and Ludhiana | | 2 |
| 15 men can complete a work in 280 days. They started the
work and after every 10 days, 15 additional men were
employed. In how many days the work was completed?
(a) 70 days
(b) 60 days
(c) 55 days
(d) 50 days | | 1 |
| Consider the following statements :
1. Launching of Fourth Five-year Plan was postponed and
three Annual Plans had to be resorted to between 1966 and 1969.
2. Fifth Five-year Plan was terminated a year earlier.
3. Eighth Five-Year Plan commenced in 1992 instead of 1990.
Which of these statements are correct?
(a) 2 and 3
(b) 1 and 2
(c) 1 and 3
(d) 1, 2 and 3 | | 1 |
| A and B stand in a circular ring with 10 other persons. If
the arrangement of 12 persons is randomly done, the change
that there are exactly 3 persons between A and B is
(a) 3/10
(b) 2/11
(c) 2/13
(d) 3/11 | | 1 |
| The organisation of petroleum exporting countries
controls..........of world oil exports? | | 4 |
| Consider the following statements :
1. Prime Meridian passes through Greenwich and is at 00
Longitude.
2. International Date Line on the map appears as a straight
line along 1800 Longitude.
3. While crossing International Date Line from east to west,
one gains a day.
4. Tropic of Cancer lies at23?0 Latitude S.
Which of these statements are correct ?
(a) 1, 2, 3 and 4
(b) 1 and 2
(c) 1 and 3
(d) 2 and 3 | | 1 |
| Consider the following statements :
1. For the three All-India Services, there are 24 State
Cadres including three joint cadres.
2. Union Public Service Commission is the cadre controlling
authority for Indian Administrative Service.
3. Staff Selection Commission is entrusted with the task of
making recruitment to all the Group ?B? and Group ?C? posts
under the Government.
Which of these statements is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 1 and 2
(c) 2 and 3
(d) 1, 2 and 3 | | 2 |
| Two pipes ?A? and ?B? can fill a tank in 15 minutes and 20
minutes respectively. Both the pipes are opened together but
after 4 minutes, pipe ?A? is turned off. What is the total
time required to fill the tank ?
(a) 10 mt 30 sec
(b) 14 mt 40 sec
(c) 10 mt 20 sec
(d) 11 mt 45 sec | | 1 |
| Combustion of a candle is a
(a) Photochemical reaction
(b) Exothermic reaction
(c) Physical change
(d) Endothermic reaction | FermiLab | 1 |
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