General Knowledge Questions

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.

Books are our ______ friends. They are our guides. We can learn everything from them. The books contain all the great ______ of the world's leaders and we can learn them by reading the books. The books help us find ______ to our questions. The books never fail us. We should read as ______ books as we can. But all books are not good. So we should ______ only good books.

______ books as we can.

How many rings are there in the Olympic flag?

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) in December 2016imposed a ban on the procurement, sale and use of glasspowder coated manja for flying kites. Who is the Chairmanof NGT?

Where is the origin of Ganga and Brahmaputra rivers are situated respectively?

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which is opposite in meaning of the given word.

Swindle

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.

Insatiable greed for riches

In the following question the 1st and the last part of the sentence/passage are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the sentence/ passage is split into four parts and named P, Q, R and S. These four parts are not given in their proper order. Read the sentence/passage and find out which of the four combinations is correct.

1. Some animals like fishes lay eggs and leave them.
P. The mother does not care for the eggs at all.
Q. They lay thousands of eggs at a time but do not look after them.
R. Most of the eggs die and only a few of them develop into fishes.
S. She simply leaves the eggs and never comes back to them.
6. Is this not something terrible? Yet, it is a fact.

What was Australia's rank in 2016 Human Development Index published by the United Nations Development Programme?