The most suitable reason for the establishment of overseas
colonies by the ancient Greeks was:
(a) inter city-state clashes
(b) scarcity of land in Greece
(c) people were hardy and adventurous
(d) difficulties of travel and communication on land
A light-year is a unit of: (a) time (b) distance (c) velocity (d) energy
Which of the following is the Booker Prize Winner novel of Arundhati Roy? 1 Heat and Dust 2 Midnight?s Children 3 Last Orders 4 The God of Small Things
Gujarat is the largest produced of salt in India because (a) It has extensive dry coast (b) Its coastal waters are very saline (c) It has extensive shallow seas (d) Besides producing salt from saline water, it has reserves of rock salt
Who is not a member of the ASEAN group? (A) Malaysia (B) Laos (C) Myanmar (D) Japan
In the human body fats are stored n (1) Epithelial cells (2) Adipose tissue (3) Epidermis (4) Liver
Diamond and emerald are made of (1) Carbon (2) Silica (3) Silica and beryllium (4) Carbon and beryllium
The 2004 Rajiv Gandhi National Award was jointly given to Madari Moideen and (a) Swami Agnivesh (b) Dilip Kumar (c) Sunderlal Bahuguna (d) Somnath Chatterjee
Chilka Lake is located in (a) Bihar (b) West Bengal (c) Assam (d) Orissa
The first statesman who received World Statesman Award is (1) I.K. Gujral (2) Abdul Gayoom (3) K.R. Narayanan (4) A.B. Vajpayee
. According to the ancient Indian geographical concept ‘Bharatavarsha’ was a part of (a) Pushkaradweepa (b) Jambudweepa (c) Kraunchadweepa (d) Kushadweepa
The earliest of the holy books of the Hindus is the: (a) Gita (b) Ramayana (c) Mahabharata (d) Vedas
Who built the rock-cut temples at Mahabalipuram? (a) King Narasimha Varman (b) Raja Simha Varman (c) Mahendra Varman (d) None of the three above