General Knowledge Questions

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

Ease somebody's mind

In the following question the 1st and the last part of the sentence/passage are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the sentence/ passage is split into four parts and named P, Q, R and S. These four parts are not given in their proper order. Read the sentence/passage and find out which of the four combinations is correct.

1. September 2005.
P. I felt such a great weight on me that I could barely move.
Q. As the doors closed behind me, I was overcome by deep loneliness and despair.
R. I was leaving behind my family and I didn't know when I would see them again.
S. I was going through the departure gate at the airport in Holguin, Cuba.
6. In my hands I held my prayer book.

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".

What would the cavalry (doing) out here?

CIPAM is planning to launch a scheme for raising intellectual property rights awareness at a cost of Rs 29.7 crore. What does ‘C’ stand for in ‘CIPAM’?

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

Conformity to facts

In Microsoft Word, under character formatting ___________ is used to superscript and subscript.

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 correspondingto it.

NONCONFORMIST

Who is the author of the book Coming Round the Mountain?