Fog is common around Newfoundland Coast because :
(a) icebergs melt around the cost
(b) warm and cold currents meet
(c) the rainfall is heavy
(d) high tides cause storms
Two important leaders who toured the country preaching the ideology of socialism were: (a) Gandhi and Tilak (b) Motilal Nehru and C R Das (c) Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhash Chandra Bose (d) Lala Lajpat Rai and Bipin Chandra Pal
India?s first TV centre was set up at: (a) Bombay (now Mumbai) (b) Delhi (c) Calcutta (now Kolkata) (d) Lucknow
. Who among the following became the Prime Minister of India without being earlier the Chief Minister of a State? 1. Morarji Desai 2. Charan Singh 3. V.P. Singh 4. Chandra Sekhar 5. P.V. Narasimha Rao Select the correct answer from the codes given below: Codes: (a) 1, 2 and 4 (b) 2, 3 and 5 (c) 2 only (d) 4 only
The author of ?Arthashastra? is: (a) Banabhatta (b) Vagabhatta (c) Kautilya (d) Vatsyayan
Which of the following has no blood, but respires? 1 Fish 2 Earth worm 3 Hydra 4 Cockroach
The first Indian to be elected to the leadership of Communist International was: (a) Dadabhai Naoroji (b) Jawaharlal Nehru (c) S A Dange (d) M N Roy
The Central Bank in India is (1) SBI (2) NABARD (3) SHB (4) RBI
Which of the following provisions of our Constitution can be amended by the method of simple majority by the Union Parliament? (a) Creation of new States or changing the boundaries of the existing States (b) The creation or abolition of Second Chambers in the States (c) Qualifications for Indian citizenship (d) Administration of Scheduled and Tribal Areas
. Given below are two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and the other labeled as Reason (R): Assertion (A): The monsoonal rainfall decreases as one goes towards the west and north-west in the Ganga plain. Reason(R): The moisture-bearing monsoonal winds go higher up as one moves up in the Ganga plain. In this context of the above two statements which one of the following is correct? (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A (b) Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A (c) A is true but R is false (d) A is false but R is true
Which of the following is likely to convert itself into a bank ? (1) SIDBI (2) ECGC (3) IDFC (4) SEBI (5) None of these
The first Olympic Games were held at Olympia (Greece) in the year: (a) 776 BC (b) 300 BC (c) 872 BC (d) 205 AD
. If father has blood group A and mother has blood group O then which one of the following blood groups may be found in their son? (a) B (b) AB (c) O (d) B, AB or O