Verbal Reasoning - Mental Ability Questions

Which of the Phrases(1), (2), (3) and (4) given below each sentence should replace the phrases printed in bold in the sentence to make it grammatically correct.

The ban is applied by the district’s commercial taxes department after protests by a community, which had threat to burn theatres screening the controversial movie.

Physiology :Biology :: Metaphysics : ?

In a certain code language, “blue” means “car”, “car” means “wood”, “wood” means “rice”, “rice” means “chair” and “chair” means “table”. What do we eat?

The following question consist of two words each that have a certain relationship to each other, followed by lettered pairs of words.Select the lettered pair that has the same relationship as the original pair of words.

Pedant  :  Erudition

How many such pairs of letters are there in the word ELEVATION each of which have as many letters between them in the word as they have between them in the English Alphabet?

The price of commodity X increases by 60 rupees every year, while the price of commodity Y increases by 20 rupees every year. If in 2002, the price of commodity X was Rs. 320 and that of Y was Rs. 740, in which year commodity X will cost 60 rupees more than the commodity Y ?

A family consists of six members P, Q, R, S, T and U. There are two married couples. Q is a doctor and the father of T. U is grandfather of R and is a contractor. S is grandmother of T and is a housewife. There is one doctor, one contractor, one nurse, one housewife and two students in the family. What is the profession of P ? 

Oar is to rowboat as foot is to