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| Recently, Cannes Film Festival was held in
(a) Switzerland
(b) France
(c) Italy
(d) England | | 2 |
| Bacteria and viruses cause
(a) Allergies
(b) Non-communicable diseases
(c) Degenerative diseases
(d) Infectious diseases | | 2 |
| Chauri Chaura is known in the history of India?s struggle
for freedom because
(a) Gandhiji launched his first Satyagraha in India from
this place
(b) Gandhiji withdrew his Satyagraha movement when an irate
mob set fire to a police station and burnt some policemen
(c) Hundreds of freedom fighters were shot dead at this
place by the police
(d) Gandhiji sat on a hunger strike | | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Consider the following statements concerning United Arab
Emirates :
1. Oman is one of the seven Emirates which form the United
Arab Emirates.
2. Dubai is the capital of United Arab Emirates.
3. Fishing and tourism are the key industries of United Arab
Emirates.
Which of these statements is/are correct ?
(a) 1 and 2
(b) 3 only
(c) 2 and 3
(d) 1, 2 and 3 | | 2 |
| Who among the following became the President of India
without having been the Vice-president ?
(a) Shri V. V. Giri
(b) Shri Venkataraman
(c) Shri N. Sanjeeva Reddy
(d) Shri Zakir Hussain | | 1 |
| Latitude of a place is indicative of its
(a) Time
(b) Altitude
(c) Amount of rainfall
(d) Temperature | | 1 |
| The device to convert alternating current into direct current is
(a) Transformer
(b) Rectifier
(c) Alternator
(d) Condenser | | 3 |
| The ?Grand Trunk Road? connects
(a) Kolkata and Mumbai
(b) Delhi and Chennai
(c) Kolkata and Amritsar
(d) Tirupati and Ludhiana | | 2 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| A factory has three belt conveyors fitted in its loading
station. Conveyors ?A? and ?B? operating simultaneously lift
all the goods in the same time during which the goods can be
lifted by the conveyor ?C? operating alone. Conveyor ?B?
lifts all the goods five hours faster than the conveyor ?C?.
The durations of time required to lift all the goods,
individually by the conveyors ?A?, ?B? and ?C? are
(a) 17, 12, 8 hrs.
(b) 15, 10, 6 hrs.
(c) 16, 11, 7 hrs.
(d) 14, 9, 5 hrs. | | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. 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 |
| 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. 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 |
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