General Knowledge Questions

Select the synonym of:

to entrain

Select the antonym of

agonising

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

The teacher did not ask (any questions to Rinky).

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

The Chairman (send in) all the right signals and we can only hope that his trip will result in rich dividends.

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

Daily pricing

P : is being seen as a ploy

Q : government to escape any political backlash

R : to increase prices while allowing the

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

North India

P : needs a more holistic solution

Q : to the toxic air that residents

R : breathe at the onset of winter

Yeast and mushrooms are the examples of organisms of which kingdom?

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

In mid-2012 I completed my first massive online open course, or MOOC, the kind widely offered by Coursera, EdX, Udacity and so on in partnership with different educational institutions. It was on clinical trials and ethical practices, offered by Johns Hopkins, on Coursera. This was shortly before the MOOC sensation hit India, and when Coursera, which was founded by two Stanford professors, itself was just a few months old. The MOOC bug had bit me. The course I’d completed was mainly designed for health care professionals who would be involved in actual clinical trials, not college students who had no prior knowledge of that area. I decided to enroll in the course because it was the only biology related course open at the time. However, I did see hope in that sometime in the future I’d be able to get a glimpse of what classes are like in the hallowed halls of major educational institutions around the world. By early 2013, Coursera and EdX had partnered with so many educational institutions and expanded their course offerings to include everything from food and nutrition to Greek mythology to business, that I was spoilt for choice. I spent hours going through course catalogues and poring over course descriptions, almost delirious with excitement at the fact that I was actually going to be able to take classes offered by universities I had only dreamt of attending.

Which of the following is the name of a university and not an online education delivery company?