Questions

Who among the following was awarded with Padma Shri 2017 in the field of 'Sports - Hockey'?

Who among the following is a recipient of V. Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award at the Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) in year 2018?

Who was known as the liberator?

Sir Charles Wilkins is known and remembered for which of the following translations?

In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

Many persons of good education unconsciously circumscribe themselves ___________ a small vocabulary. They have a knowledge of hundreds of desirable wordswhich they do not put _________ practical use in their speech or writing. Many, too, are conscious __________ a poverty of language, which engenders in them a senseof timidity and self-___________. The method used for building a large vocabulary has __________ been confined to the study of single words.

timidity and self-___________. The method used

In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.

I said to my father, "I want to build a raft which can hold four people ."

In the following question, a word has been written in four different ways out of which only one is correctly spelt. Select the correctly spelt word.

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".

We (have been) away for a long time, you know, and so we're anxious to get home again.