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| who is the first field marsal of indian army? | | 2 |
| The ?Grand Trunk Road? connects
(a) Kolkata and Mumbai
(b) Delhi and Chennai
(c) Kolkata and Amritsar
(d) Tirupati and Ludhiana | | 2 |
| Shri Rajender Singh won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for
(a) Emergent Leadership
(b) Community Leadership
(c) Illiteracy Eradication
(d) Bio-technology | | 1 |
| Consider the following statements in respect of Soccer World
Cup :
1. Prior to FIFA-2002 Cup, Brazil had won the World Cup four
times.
2. ?Indomitable Lions? is the nickname for Cameroon team.
3. ?Azzurri? is the nickname for the Italian team.
4. Senegal, Slovenia and Ecuador participating in FIFA-2002
are the only teams participating in the World Cup for the
first time.
Which of these statements are correct ?
(a) 1, 2 and 3
(b) 2 and 3
(c) 1, 3 and 4
(d) 1, 2 and 4 | | 1 |
| Stockholm Syndrome is a mental condition experienced by
(a) The young persons who take up jobs in the industry after
passing out from the Management Schools
(b) Persons who migrate from rural areas to urban cities,
during the earlier stages of their stay
(c) Drug-addicts in the rehabilitation centers
(d) Hostages and kidnap victims in which positive feelings
develop towards their captors | | 1 |
| Grassroots of democracy is | | 3 |
| ?Sagar Samrat? is the name of
(a) An island near Port Blair
(b) A drilling ship in Bombay High
(c) An island near Maldives
(d) Name of a 5-star hotel in Goa | | 1 |
| Which of the following is a chemical compound ?
(a) Air
(b) Oxygen
(c) Ammonia
(d) Mercury | | 2 |
| 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 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 | | 1 |
| The Comptroller and Auditor-General of India is appointed by the
(a) Prime Minster
(b) President
(c) Finance Minster
(d) Home Minister | | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Dhanvantari was
(a) A famous General of Chandragupta Maurya
(b) A noted physician in the court of Chandragupta Vikramaditya
(c) A famous dramatist who lived during the time of Harsha
(d) A musician in the Court of Ashoka | | 1 |
| 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 |
| 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 | | 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 |
| Consider the following statements :
1. Falkland Islands are situated in Pacific Ocean.
2. Red Sea separates Sudan from Egypt.
3. England, Norway, Denmark surround North Sea.
Which of these statements is/are correct?
(a) 2 only
(b) 1and 3
(c) 2 and 3
(d) 3 only | | 2 |
| Consider the following statements :
While it is 6.30 AM (Sunday) in London, it is around
1. 2.30 AM (Sunday) in Honolulu (Hawaii)
2. 8.30 PM (Saturday) in Honolulu (Hawaii)
3. 3.30 PM (Sunday) in Tokyo
4. 1.30 AM (Sunday) in Tokyo
which of these statements is/are correct?
(a) 4 only
(b) 2 and 3
(c) 1 and 4
(d) 2 and 4 | | 1 |
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