General Knowledge Questions

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

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on him, and another none. This sculpture in the memory is not without pre-established harmony. The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and has done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope.

According to the author, God is not looking for _____ to manifest his works.

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the word which is opposite in meaning to the given word and click the button corresponding to it.

INERTIA

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the word which is opposite in meaning to the given word and click the button corresponding to it.

INSOLENT

Where is headquaters of Pan American Health Organisation

A sentence has been given in Active/Passive Voice. Out of the four given alternatives, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active Voice.

Tanya will bring the snake.

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

Adjacent

A   parallel-plate   capacitor,with   air   in between  the  plates,  has  capacitance  C. Now  the  space  between  the  two  plates  of the  capacitor  is  filled  with  a  dielectric  of dielectric constant 7. Then the value of the capacitance will become

Which one of the following statements with regard to the winter solstice is correct?