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| 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 |
| Knesset is the name of the Parliament of
(a) Norway
(b) Sweden
(c) Israel
(d) Spain | | 1 |
| Consider the following statements :
1. Part ?B? of the Budget speech of the Finance Minister
includes description of the initiatives on economic front to
be taken up by the Government for the coming year in
addition to direct and indirect tax proposals.
2. The receipts on account of the partial disinvestments of
Central Government?s holdings in the equity capital of
public sector enterprises are revenue receipts.
Which of these statements is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2 | | 1 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Which of the following is a chemical compound ?
(a) Air
(b) Oxygen
(c) Ammonia
(d) Mercury | | 2 |
| Which among the following became the first woman Prime
Minister in the world?
(a) Indira Gandhi
(b) Kim Campbell
(c) Margaret Thatcher
(d) Sirimavo Bandaranaike | | 3 |
| Consider the following statements :
1. Alluvial soil is rich in chemical properties and is
capable of yielding Rabi and Kharif crops.
2. Black soil is suitable for cotton, groundnut.
3. Rabi crops are reaped in outumn after sowing in the June.
Which of these statements are correct?
(a) 1, 2 and 3
(b) 1 and 2
(c) 2 and 3
(d) 1 and 3 | Reliance | 1 |
| A town ?P? is located in a particular district. The town ?A?
is west of ?P?. Town ?T? is east of ?P?. Town ?K? is east of
?B? but west of ?T? and ?A?. They are all in the same
district. Which town is the farthest west?
(a) P
(b) K
(c) B
(d) A | | 1 |
| The Civil Disobedience Movement of 1930 culminated in the
signing of a pact in 1931 by Gandhiji and
(a) Lord Irwin
(b) Lord Linlithgow
(c) Lord Wavell
(d) Lord Curzon | | 1 |
| Three containers have their volumes in the ratio 3 : 4 : 5.
They are full of mixtures of milk and water. The mixtures
contain milk and water in the ratio of 4 : 1, 3 : 1 and 5 :
2 respectively. The contents of all these three containers
are poured into a fourth container. The ratio of milk and
water in the fourth container is
(a) 5 : 2
(b) 157 : 53
(c) 151 : 48
(d) 4 : 1 | | 1 |
| A group of boys decided to buy a few cassettes whose price
was between Rs. 200 and Rs. 250. But at the time of
purchase, two of the boys declined to contribute as a result
of which the remaining boys had to pay Re. 1 more than they
had originally planned. What was the price of the cassettes
if the boys contributed equally and in whole number of rupees?
(a) Rs. 220
(b) Rs. 210
(c) Rs. 230
(d) Rs. 240 | | 1 |
| Who among the following wrote the book Algebra of Infinite
Justice ?
(a) Anita Desai
(b) Vikram Seth
(c) Arundhati Roy
(d) Rohington Mistry | | 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 |
| Combustion of a candle is a
(a) Photochemical reaction
(b) Exothermic reaction
(c) Physical change
(d) Endothermic reaction | FermiLab | 1 |
| Nalanda University flourished during the reign of which of
the following rules?
(a) Chandragupta Maurya
(b) Ashoka
(c) Kanishka
(d) Harsha | | 2 |
| What is the maximum number of pieces 1 cm in diameter and
20cm long that can be cut out of a cylindrical wooden block
20cm in length and 3cm in diameter ?
(a) 4
(b) 5
(c) 6
(d) 7 | | 1 |
| Recently, Government disinvested stake in VSNL, IBP and IPCL to
(a) Bharti Telesonic, Reliance and GAIL, respectively
(b) Tata Group of Industries, Indian Oil Corporation and
Reliance, respectively
(c) Bharti Telesonic, Royal Dutch Shell and Pfizer, respectively
(d) Motorola, Kuwait petroleum and Ranbaxy, respectively | | 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 |
| Shri Kiran Karnik is the
(a) President of NASSCOM
(b) Chairman of the Board of Control for Cricket in India
(c) Chairman of Maharashtra State Public Service Commission
(d) Managing Director of Engineers India Ltd. | | 2 |
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