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9681.Which is the national flower of our country?
Lotus
Sunflower
9939.The first silent Tamil movie Keechaka Vadham was released in the year
1914
1915
1918
1921
11907.Fathometer is used to measure
Earthquakes
Rainfall
Ocean depth
Sound intensity
12213.The Indian Ocean Arc is an Imaginary circle in space about ____ over the equator
20,000 km
35,000 km
36,000 km
30,000 km
12239.The headquarter of Lalit Kala Academy are at
New Delhi
Chandigarh
Pune
Kolkata
12280.The normal threshold of hearing is around
60-80 db
45-60 db
100-120 db
25-45 db
12338.Uttar Pradesh is surrounded by ___ in north
Nepal
Uttrakhand
Haryana and Delhi
Rajasthan
13241.Pulses are a good source of
carbohydrates
fats
proteins
vitamins
13272.What is the population density of Kerala?
819/sq. km
602/sq. km
415/sq. km
500/sq. km
13455.Which of the following is used as a moderator in nuclear reactor?
Thorium
Graphite
Radium
Ordinary water
13610.Where are the contents of your computers hard drive indexed?
Yahoo!
Google
MSN
None of the above
13670.The intersecting lines drawn on maps and globes are
latitudes
longitudes
geographic grids
None of the above
13717.The main examples of Rabi crop are
wheat, barley, peas, rapeseed, mustard, grams
rice, jowar, barley, wheat
peas, maize, cotton and jute
All of the above
9701.What is the capital of India ?
New Delhi
Mumbai
9937.Which one is the first regular newspaper in Tamil language
The Hindu
Bharat Devi
Swadesamitran
Dina Thanthi
9951.Which of the following dam is built on Kaveri river ?
Mettur dam
Dudhawa dam
Almatti dam
Mullaperiyar dam
12193.The first recipient of Bharat Ratna award in 1954 was
S. Radhakrishnan
C. Rajagopalachari
C.V. Raman
Jawaharlal Nehru
12234.The last ruler of the Mughal dynasty was
Babur
Bahadurshah Zafar
Akbar
None of the above
12300.The regional economic commissions of the Economic and social Council (UNO) are
ECE (Economic Commission of Europe) and ESCAP (Economic and Social Commission for Asia)
ECLA (Economic Commission for Latin America) and ECA (Economic Commission for Africa)
ECWA (Economic Commission for Western Asia) and ECLA
All of the above
12322.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, awards the Nobel Prize in
physics
economics
chemistry
both (1) and (3)
13176.Pine, fir, spruce, cedar, larch and cypress are the famous timber-yielding plants of which several also occur widely in the hilly regions of India. All these belong to
angiosperms
gymnosperms
monocotyledons
dicotyledons
13198.CO2 released in the process of photosynthesis comes from
CO2
water
sugar
pyruvic acid
13202.Phloem is a tissue found in
reproductive organs of animals
plants
insects
mammals
13253.When the batsman, in cricket, is out without scoring a single run, is called
drive
duck
flight
googly
13343.What does VVVF stand for?
Variant Voltage Vile Frequency
Variable Velocity Variable Fun
Very Very Vicious Frequency
Variable Voltage Variable Frequency
13473.Atoms of an element differ from those of all other elements in
atomic number and electronic configuration
number of neutrons and number of valence electrons
atomic number and number of valence electrons
number of neutrons and electronic configuration
13564.In a Digital circuit, what is 1 AND 1?
0
1
2
4
13628.The abbreviation URL stands for:
User Regulation Law
Unknown RAM Load
Uniform Resource Locator
Ultimate RAM Locator
13710.The most recent and logical concept regarding the origin of ocean basins and continents is that of
continental data
conventional current
plate tectesic
cooling process
9928.Which one is recognised as state fruit in Tamil Nadu
Jackfruit
Mango
Banana
Orange
10990.The chief constituent of gobar gas is
ethane
methane
hydrogen
carbon dioxide
11910.For purifying drinking water alum is used
for coagulation of mud particles
to kill bacteria
to remove salts
to remove gases
11937.If force is expressed in Newton and the distance in metre, then the work done is expressed in
Joule
Kg wt
Kg wt m
Watt
11960.How many non-permanent Security Council (UNO) members are from Afro-Asian countries?
5
15
2
1
12040.Jharkhand has ____ state on its eastern end.
Bihar
West Bengal
Orissa
Chhattisgarh
12062.Mother Teresa received the Magsaysay Award in 1962 in the area of
Community leadership
public service
journalism and literature
international understanding
12110.Rise of the Chinese civilization along the banks of Hawang 40 took place in
2500 - 2000 BC
2700 - 2600 BC
2205 - 1122 BC
2000 - 1200 BC
12129.Super conductivity is a phenomenon in which the resistance of a substance
increases with temperature
decreases with temperature
does not change with temperature
becomes zero at very low temperature
12272.The smallest state of India is
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Himachal Pradesh
Goa
13326.Which is the Indias largest and the oldest museum?
Indian Museum, Kolkata
National Museum, New Delhi
Allahabad Museum
Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad
13439.Marsh gas is
nitrogen
ethane
methane
hydrogen
13700.The mountains which come into being after the continental drift started, with the break up of the large land mass of pangola are
young mountains
old mountains
volcanic mountains
fold mountains
9669.Karagam is the folk dance of state?
Kerala
Tamil Nadu
12007.K.S. Ranjit Singhji was
first Bar-at-law
first Air Marshal
first Indian test cricketer
first Field Marshal
12031.Mother Teresa won the Nobel Prize for Peace in
1992
1979
1988
1954
12035.Lal Bahadur Shastri is also known as
Guruji
Man of Peace
Punjab Kesari
Mahamana
12155.Three important rivers of the Indian subcontinent have their sources near the Mansarover Lake in the Great Himalayas. These rivers are
Indus, Jhelum and Sutlej
Brahmaputra, Sutlej and Yamuna
Brahmaputra, Indus and Sutlej
Jhelum, Sutlej and Yamuna
12189.The most ideal region for the cultivation of cotton in India is
the Brahmaputra valley
the Indo-Gangetic valley
the Deccan plateau
the Rann of Kutch
12299.The national flag was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India on
August 15, 1947
July 22, 1947
January 26, 1950
January 2, 1950
12365.Tiruchirapalli is situated on river
Cauvery
Tapti
Krishna
Ganga
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