General Knowledge Questions

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

There's more than the 101-seater dining table at the Falaknuma Palace that is awe inspiring. The library done in rosewood and mahogany is a place that will force anyone to pause, if only to admire the fine original polish, the furniture and the walnut carved high roof. The last is supposedly an imitation of the one at Windsor Castle.

The library is almost the size of a large banquet hall and acts as the passage to other parts of the palace including the dining area. For years the palace had no librarian because they couldn't find the right person to do justice to the treasure trove of books collected by the Nizam's family over several decades. That is until they found Asif Husain Arastu who belongs to the family that owned the famous A A Husain book store in Abids. So when his friend and historian Anuradha Naik pointed out the palace's requirement at the library, Husain was delighted. On his very first day as the librarian at the magnificent Taj Falaknuma palace, Asif Husain found a reference book on 'How to paint grass' by Alfred East.

The books at the library were collected by _______________.

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

The first and decisive step

P : in the expansion of

Q : conquest of the Atlantic ocean

R : Europe overseas was the

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

You are what you (have eaten).

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

Tenzing Norgay created history

P-to conquer Mount Everest
Q-became the first men
R-on May 29, 1953, when he and Sir Edmund Hillary

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

The party faithful, who

P - ­expectations, are now disillusioned
Q­ - had greeted his political arrival in 2004
R­ - with great enthusiasm, and

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

The white American underclass is in thrall

P-and used heroin needles
Q-to a vicious, selfish culture
R-whose main products are misery

If the velocity of a body is doubled its kinetic energy ________________.

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

We should learn our lesson
P-from this history and stay away
Q-of our neighbours
R-from interfering in the messy domestic politics