Rainforests are associated with :
(a) Tropical climate
(b) Siberian climate
(c) Taiga climate
The longitude ?used? to reckon the Indian Standard Time is: (a) 750?30? E (b) 820?30? E (c) 850?00? E (d) 860?15? E
In which of the following States the yield of forest wealth per acre is highest? (a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Madhya Pradesh (c) Kerala (d) Assam
Sun has a temperature of about: (a) 60000C (b) 80000C (c) 70000C
Which cricketer is called ?Rawalpindi Express?? (a) Imran Khan (b) Wasim Akram (c) Saqlain Musthaq (d) Shoaib Akhtar
The present membership of European Union is (a) 10 (b) 15 (c) 20 (d) 25
The recent atomic weight scale is based on 1 1H1 2 1H2 3 6C12 4 8O16
Polar winds are: (a) permanent winds (b) variable winds (c) local winds
Akbar permitted his regent, Bairam Khan, to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca because: (a) Akbar wanted him to go on a diplomatic mission (b) Bariram had asked to go for religious reasons (c) Bairam had been rebellious and therefore Akbar wanted him to absent himself from India for a while (d) Akbar could not go himself and therefore sent a substitute
The term of office of the Vice-President of India is (a) Five years (b) Six years (c) Seven years (d) Eight years
The Pochampad Project irrigates the State of: (a) Tamil Nadu (b) Andhra Pradesh (c) Uttar Pradesh (d) Karnataka
. A lottery system has ticket numbers with eight digits. There are ten first prizes of Rs. 1.00 lakh each, one hundred of Rs. 1,000 each. At the draw of lots an eight digit number is generated by choosing for each digit from left to right a random number in the range of 0 to 9. Any one who has a ticket with the first two digits (from left to right) matching the chosen number gets a first prize, and so on. One individual purchases a large number of tickets at a discounted price of Re. 0.75 each. For how much money should he purchase tickets to achieve a 10% chance of winning a third prize? (a) Rs. 10,000 (b) Rs. 75,000 (c) Rs. 1,00,000 (d) Rs. 7,500
The charter of the UN was signed on June 26, 1945 at: (a) Geneva (b) San Francisco (c) California (d) Paris