General Knowledge Questions

___________ gases absorb long wave (infrared) radiation from the earth and emit it again towards the earth.

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.

According to the author, all art is

Which is the second highest civillian award given in India?

Raymond Samuel Tomilson is famous for developing which of the following?

In the following question, a sentence / a part of sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is required, choose "No Improvement" option.

Ram cooked a conspiracy to cheat Abdul.

Any undesirable change in physical, chemical or biological characteristics of air, land, water or soil is called?

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.

As one of the most misunderstood practices, yoga has often borne the brunt of being __________ in extremes: of yogis in pretzel-like contortions at __________ end of the spectrum, and young Instagram-led, erstwhile-overweight beach posers ____________ the other. The truth is that yoga is what you want it to be — the ultimate customisable exercise form. For a runner, it may mean lengthening muscles to gain _______________, while for someone who is hyper-flexible, it could be a way of __________core strength.

may mean lengthening muscles to gain _______________, while for someone

The material carried by the glacier such as rocks big and small, sand and silt gets deposited, which are called glacial ________.