Questions

In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

The news has always ____________ predicated on informing the consumer. It speaks of — apart from the day’s most ____________ upheavals — the best and the worst that _____________ has managed to accomplish each day. This includes the medal-winners, the laureates, the record-breakers, the deal-makers _________the criminals, the villains, the corrupt. The news regales us ________ the highlights, a reel of the most provoking ones that made it into a window of a half-an-hour.

Precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow is called

In terms of size, Neptune ranks no. ___ in our Solar System.

The number of parliamentary seats (Lok Sabha) of Chandigarh is

What is the old name of Singapore?

Which Indian won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Peace?

The operating system UNIX is the trademark of

Which of the following refers to the number of pixels per inch, printed on a page?