The winter rains in north-western India are caused by the
1 Westerly depressions
2 Retreating monsoon
3 Trade winds
4 South-westerly monsoon
Who takes the final decision upon the disqualification of aMember of Parliament? (a) Speaker of Lok Sabha (b) Vice-President (c) President (d) Prime Minister
Crame Trophy Tennis final held in May 2003 was played between 1 Boris Becker and John McEnroe 2 John McEnroe and David Rickle 3 Boris Becker and Leander Paes 4 None of these
Who had discovered North America in 1497? (a) Vasco da Gama (b) Columbus (c) John Cabot (d) James Cook
. In a group of six women there are four dancers, four vocal musicians, one actress and three violinists. Girija and Vanaja are among the violinists while Jalaja and Shailaja do not know how to play on the violin. Shailaja and Tanuja are among the dancers. Jalaja, Vanaja, Shailaja and Tanuja are all vocal musicians and two of them are also violinists. If pooja is an actress who among the following is both a dancer and a violinist? (a) Jalaja (b) Shailaja (c) Tanuja (d) Pooja
The famous book ?Two Lives? has been written by 1 Anurag Mathur 2 Arundhati Roy 3 Vikram Seth 4 Shiv Khera
The deposits of wind transported silt which has settled from dust stroms over many thousand years is known as: (a) Loess (b) Barkhans (c) Peneplain
Which of the following statements is correct? 1 The famous Sun Temple of Konarak was built by Narsimhadeve I 2 Kashmir never became a part of the Mughal empire 3 The Wodeyar dynasty in Karnataka region was overthrown by Tipu Sultan 4 The Sena dynasty of Bengal ruled from their capital at Puruliya
Wisdom teeth normally grow during the age of 1 12-15 years 2 17-30 years 3 34 -40 years 4 40 -45 years
In India the Judiciary is (a) Independent (b) Under the Parliament (c) Under the President (d) Under the Prime Minister
The number of States having common boundary with the State of Madhya Pradesh is: (a) 7 (b) 6 (c) 5 (d) 8
The two cities that are most similar in terms of climate are : (a) Vancouver-Paris (b) Capetown-Algiers (c) Montreal-Murmansk (d) Panama City-Tokyo
As per the current figures the annual increase in food grains production in India is about? 1 0.5% 2 0.9% 3 15 4 2.6%