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Who said that lines of 'the ballot is stronger than bullet'?

A) Mahatma Gandhi B) Adolf Hitler
C) Abraham Lincolon D) Nelson Mandela
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Abraham Lincolon

Explanation:

Abraham Lincolon was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

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Lincoln led the United States through the American Civil War—its bloodiest war and perhaps its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis.

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Change in focal length of eye lens is caused by

A) ciliary muscles B) iris
C) pupil D) retina
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) ciliary muscles

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Where is the headquaters of the UNESCO

A) New Delhi B) London
C) Paris D) New York
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Paris

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Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.
The exhausted travellers seemed relieved when the train finally (came into) the station.

A) pulled in B) pulled into
C) pulled onto D) no improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) pulled in

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Pick up the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blanks to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

The villagers ______ the murder of their leader by burning the police van.

A) Protested B) Avenged
C) Mourned D) Consoled
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Protested

Explanation:

Protested is used because here the villagers express their feeling by making an objection to what has been done.

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Q:

Who was Shivaji’s Guru?

A) Eknath B) Tukaram
C) Dnyanesh D) Samartha Ramadas
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Samartha Ramadas

Explanation:

Shivaji’s Guru was Shree Samarth Ramdas was a noted 17th-century saint and spiritual poet of Maharashtra. He is most remembered for his Advaita Vedantist text, the Dasbodh. Ramdas was a devotee of Hanuman and Rama.

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In photosynthesis________

A) Light energy is converted into chemical energy B) Chemical energy is converted into Light energy
C) Chemical energy is converted into electrical energy D) Light energy is converted into Mechanical energy
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Light energy is converted into chemical energy

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Q:

Which is a density independent factor in controlling a population?

A) Food shortage B) Disease
C) Floods D) All of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Floods

Explanation:

Any factor limiting the size of a population whose effect is not dependent on the number of individuals in the population, then such factor is called Density Independent Factor. It is things that the organisms have no control over.

 

Here in the given options, food shortage and disease are factors that are dependent on the number of population but Floods have no dependency.

 

Some examples of density independent factors are :: Earth quake, fires, volcanic eruptions, floods, and  all natural calamities.

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