Questions

Atomic number of which of the following elements is greater than that of Phosphorus?

Who was the Governor-General of India duringthe‘Sepoy Mutiny’?

If tanθ + cotθ = 5, then the value of tan2θ + cot2θ is

When did the US drop the atomic bomb on Japanese city Hiroshima?

49th Parallel is the boundary line between which two countries?

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

barking up the wrong tree

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

But the war did not cease; though friend and foe alike were almost drowned in blood. It seemed as powerful as eternity, and in time Tony Vassall too went to battle and was killed. The country gave Patience a widow's pension, as well a touching inducement to marry again; she died of grief. Many people died in those days, it was not strange at all. Nathan and his wife got so rich that after the war they died of overeating, and their daughter Olive came into a vast fortune and a Trustee.

"............ as well a touching inducement to marry." Here inducement means

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".

We have lost the magic of living, and (is mired) in numbers.