General Knowledge Questions

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

The instructor's rules were simple. Breathe through your mouth, not your nose; else the mask will fog up. Easier said than done; I got it wrong many a time. But once you fought habit and got the hang of it, the panoramic underwater world revealed itself to you with high-definition clarity.

Led by him, I slowly peered through the mask into what till then was crystal-clear water, shimmering in the sunlight. I saw pebbles, sand and my fluid shadow. I was in Nemo's universe. Sea cucumbers, sea anemone, clown fish, star fish, sea horses, parrot fish, butterfly fish and a bevy of colourful salt water fish swam past. A shoal of canary-yellow fish did a merry dance and another with vibrant blue fish followed it. They were oblivious to the snorkelers who struggled to take in the sight of a world so beautiful, so colourful, and resist opening their mouth wide in amazement; the tube would fall off!

The writer is describing her experience of which activity?

(which is sold) P (for its horn) Q (the Rhinoceros is hunted by poachers) R (at high prices) S

The correct sequence should be

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

Tarapur agreement guaranteed supplies of

P : Tarapur reactors for entire life

Q : enriched uranium fuel from

R : the US for running the

Where is the headquarters of CARICOM?

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

But while the defeat made

P-­as it was no longer in currency.
Q-­news, the issue on which
R-­it was based failed to resonate

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

We are late because my wife took two hours to (put up) her make-up.

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

The reference

P - ­is simultaneously a matter
Q - ­to the size of a vulnerable community
R­ - of legal as well as political and ethical perspective

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Corruption has become (the day's order).