General Knowledge Questions

Emblica officinalis is the scientific name of

 Who are the winners of this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award 2018 from India, regarded as the Asian version of the Nobel Prize? 

The McMahon Line, which sets the boundary between India and China, is drawn to the northern boundary of which of the following states?

First human who got married in space is

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

Easier said than done

Which of the following branches of mathematics was invented by Newton?

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.

The abuse of phrases and the misuse of words rife among us can be checked __________ diligent exercises in good English, such as this book provides. ___________exercises, in conjunction __________ others to be found in different volumes by the same author, will serve to correct careless diction and slovenly speech, and lead to the art of speaking and writing correctly; for, after all, ___________ in the use of words is more a matter of habit than of theory, and once it is acquired it becomes just as easy to speak or to write good English _____________ bad English.

write good English _____________ bad English.

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.

But representatives have cynically chosen to look the other _________________ when matters of justice are involved. They seem to have only a will to power; to be part of a new ___________________ elite. _________________ they forget that the history of struggle is the future of struggle. Maoism is one extreme ____________________ struggle ___________________ corrupt appropriative and greedy elites; there are others.

Maoism is one extreme ____________________ struggle