General Knowledge Questions

What is main root of plants called as?

Fighting began in Lexington and concord when British troops

____ is the most electropositive and ___ is the most electronegative element of the third period of modern periodic table.

Which of the following is a renewable source of energy?

In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

The primary objective of a socialist government is to __________ the miseries of the poor.

In 1918, Mahatma Gandhi went to ______________ to organise a satyagraha movement amongst cotton mill workers.

With which sport is P.V. Sindhu associated?

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it.

To know language is to be able to speak it; even a child who does not yet attend school can speak his or her language. In order to speak a language it is important to listen to it and to read a few pages in it everyday. A child picks up language and learns to talk just as (s)he learns to walk. Walking and talking comes naturally to a child as it grows. In our country, a child may grow up speaking more than one language, if these languages are spoken in the home and in the neighbourhood. we call this multilingualism. A child speaks a language or languages much before (s)he starts going to school. To know a language then is first of all to be able to speak it as easily and naturally as a tree year old child does. Later on the child will learn to read and write in that language. In order to read and write in a language, one has to speak it. But it is possible to speak a language but not able to read or write in it. A baby does not speak until it is nine months old but it understands a few words at six months of age. It has been listening ever since it was born, and even a little before that. So the first strategy in speaking a language is to listen.

One of the activities of a child before it is even born is