Questions

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

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Choose the CORRECT option if the two sides of a triangle is of length 4 cm and 10 cm and the length of its third side is a cm.

If after giving a discount of 18%, a book is sold for Rs 1599, then what will be the marked price (in Rs) of the book?

From an external point two tangents to a circle are drawn. The chord passing through the points of contact subtends an angle72° at the centre. The angle between the tangents is?

In November 2017, India’s MC Mary Kom won the gold medal at the Asian Boxing Championship, 2017 held at Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. In which one of the following categories was she declared winner?

With which religion is Kaivalya associated?

What is the capital of Canada?

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

The man who is perpetually hesitating which of the two things he will do first, will do neither. The man who resolves, but suffers his resolution to be changed by the first counter-suggestion of a friend, - who fluctuates from opinion to opinion, from plan to plan, and veers like a weather-cock to every point of the compass, with every breath of caprice that blows-can never accomplish anything great or useful. Instead of being progressive in any thing, he will be at best stationary, and more probably retrograde in all. It is only the man who first consults wisely, then resolves firmly, and then executes his purpose with flexible perseverance, undismayed by those petty difficulties which daunt a weaker spirit that can advance to eminence in any line. Take your course wisely, but firmly; and having taken it, hold upon it with heroic resolution, and the Alps and Pyrenees will sink before you.

What is the meaning of "retrograde" in the passage?