The main cause of the punic wars was:
(a) rivalry over Sicily
(b) occupation of Sicily by the Carthagians
(c) the Romans setting Carthage on fire
(d) the Romans selling thousands of slaves
Who among the following was the commander in charge of the allied forces in Iraq? 1 Hans Blix 2 Peter Williams 3 Tommy Franks 4 Alexander Graham
Which State or Union Territory tops in the literacy rate? (a) Gujarat (b) Goa (c) UP (d) Chandigarh
The equator divides the earth into two hemispheres named: (a) North and South (b) East and West (c) North-South and East-West
PETA was recently in global news on persuading/forcing 1 Petroleum companies stop using chamois leather products in petrol pumps 2 General motors not to use leather interiors in car 3 Daimler Chrysler to withdraw its leather interiors from their Benz cars. 4 All of the above
Budget is the 1 Proposal of taxation 2 Annual financial statement 3 Appropriation bill 4 None of these
What does the acronym CTBT stand for? 1 Continued Test Ban Treaty 2 Commercial Test Based Traiff 3 Continue Test Based Treatment 4 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
At the top of the trajectory of a projectile, the directions of its velocity and accelerations are (1) Parallel to each other (2) Anti ? parallel to each other (3) Lanclined to each other at 450 (4) Perpendicular to each other
Which of the following fertilizers leaves acidic residue? 1 Urea 2 Ammonium phosphate 3 Ammonium sulphate 4 None of these
It was the Baisakhi day when the ?massacre of the Jallianwala Bagh? took place. The Jallianwala Bagh is in: (a) Lahore (b) Amritsar (c) Ahmedabad (d) Pathankot
Rubber in India?s is cultivated mainly in 1 Andhra Pradesh 2 Assam 3 Kerala 4 Karnataka
Which is the twin city of Cochin ? (a) Alappuzha (b) Thrissur (c) Aluva (d) Ernakulam
Fundamental Rights are (a) Those basic conditions of social life without which a citizen cannot be at his best self (b) The rights of the rulers (c) The rights of the police (d) Those rights which men enjoyed in the State of Nature