Questions

The first Asian city to host Summer Olympics was _________ .

Whom did Akbar defeat in the 2nd battle of Panipat in 1556?

Which event led to the siege of Yorktown?

In each of the questions below are given three statements followed by three conclusions numbered I, II, and III. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follow(s) from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.
Statements:
Some tables are chairs.
All chairs are benches.
All benches are desks.
Conclusions:
I. Some desks are tables.
II. Some benches are tables.
III. Some desks are chairs.

α and β are the roots of the quadratic equation x2 – x – 1 = 0. What is the value of α8 + β8?

Which of the statements given below are correct?
1. The author of the novel 'Air' is Geoff Ryman.
2. The author of the novel 'Ulysses' is James Joyce.
3. The author of the novel 'The Great Gatsby' is F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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

All art is, in an important sense, an escape. There is a sense in which the capacity to escape from his present experience, to use his accumulated consciousness of the past to project a vision of the future, is man's greatest and distinguishing ability. We must not forget the force of Aristotle's argument that poetry is valuable precisely because it shows men not simply as they are, but as they ought to be or (in terms more sympathetic to us today) as they are capable of becoming.

Aristotle's argument support the view that poetry shows

To be a voter in India, what is the minimum qualifying age?