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Q:

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

to go for broke

A) to risk everything in an all-out effort B) failure in relationship or partnership
C) losing all money in an effort to revive a failing business D) to start again after failing in a business
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) to risk everything in an all-out effort

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Q:

Who has chosen for the first "Bhagwan Mahavir Ahimsa Puraskar"?

A) Subhash Chandra Bose B) Alluri Seetha Ramaraju
C) Abhinandan Varthaman D) None of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Abhinandan Varthaman

Explanation:

Abhinandan Varthaman who shot down the Pakistan's F-16 jet has chosen for the first "Bhagwan Mahavir Ahimsa Puraskar".

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Q:

Indian Air Force conducts a exercise 'Vayu Shakti' in?

A) Hyderabad B) Pokhran
C) Sonipat D) Kolkata
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Pokhran

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Q:

Who invented the mobile phone?

A) Joseph Wilson B) Edwin Land
C) Martin Cooper D) John Lloyd Wright
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Martin Cooper

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Q:

Select the word with the correct spelling.

A) flooring B) altituede
C) purveyour D)  snobish
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) flooring

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All this does not bode _______________ for even the loosest definitions of cosmopolitanism. A city by definition is a space, as ________________ historians and sociologists have already told us, which ideally privileges and _________________ the unexpected encounter, and calls on its citizens to be able to respond humanely even to those _______________ are not linked to us in familial, ethnic, nationalist or caste ___________________.

 

which ideally privileges and _________________ the unexpected encounter,

 

 

A) nurtured B) nurturing
C) nurtures D) nurture
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) nurtures

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Q:

In the names Mangifera indica (mango), Solanum tuberosum (potato) and Panthera leo (lion), the terms Mangifera, Solanum and Panthera represent the higher level of?

A) Taxon B) Taxonomic Hierarchy
C) Specific Epithet D) Binomial Nomenclature
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Taxon

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Q:

Which element is not a part of a nitrogenous base?

A) Carbon B) Oxygen
C) Phosphorous D) Nitrogen
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Phosphorous

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A nitrogenous base is an element that contains nitrogen that have same chemical properties of the base.

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