General Knowledge Questions

Salzburg Festival is held in which country?

In the following items, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentence are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labeled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet.

S1 :One of the many young scientists who chose to throw in their lot with Rutherford was an Oxford physical chemist, Frederick Soddy.
S6:We now know that Gamma rays are a particularly fierce form of X-rays.
P:His association with Rutherford lasted only two years, but that was long enough to change the whole face of physics.
Q:He was just 23.
R:They found that thorium changed into a new element, thorium X, and in the process gave off what was apparently a gas and at the same time a third type of ray, which they named after the Greek letter ‘Gamma’.
S:When he teamed up with Rutherford,they investigated thorium which, as Marie Curie had shown, was radioactive.

The proper sequence should be 

Who invented Emoji in 1999?

In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one, which best express the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.

I said to my sister, "where were you this evening?"

Find the resistance (in mega ohm) of a wire of length 8 m, cross sectional area 2 sq.cm and made of a material of resistivity 120 ohm m.

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the words/sentence.

The practice of magic

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

Benediction

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

Epidemic