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

A) become 4 times B) becomes 1/4 th
C) is also doubled D) becomes half
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) becomes 1/4 th

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The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is awarded for significant public achievement in which field?

A) Journalism B) Literature
C) Films D) Sports
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Films

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Which port is located at the northern end of the Panama Canal?

A) Panama B) Colone
C) Gatun D) Miraflores
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Colone

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In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which is opposite in meaning of the given word.

 

Disarming

 

 

A) Detestable B) Charming
C) Silk D) Convincing
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Detestable

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

 

Unchecked industrial effluents discharging into the rivers has caused ______________ damage to the environment.

 

A) uncontrollable B) disproportionate
C) infinite D) incalculable
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) incalculable

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Taenia (Tapeworm), Fasciola (Liver fluke) are examples of which Phylum?

A) Coelenterata B) Platyhelminthes
C) Annelida D) Arthropoda
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Platyhelminthes

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Which of the following is one of the commercial products obtained from Gelidium and Gracilaria and are used to grow microbes and in preparations of ice- creams and jellies?

A) Agar B) Chlorella
C) Spirullina D) Gymnosperms
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Agar

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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.


Instead of finding the root cause of_________ of Indians, the British government took to more ____________ measures. Under the Defense of India Act, it gave more power to the police to arrest persons to stop processions with ____________ movements and actions. The Act brought in the Central Legislative Assembly was defeated by one vote. Even then it was to be passed in the form of an ordinance in the "interest of the public." Bhagat Singh who was in hiding all this while, volunteered to throw a bomb in the Central Legislative Assembly where the meeting to pass the ordinance was being held. It was a carefully laid out _________, not to cause death or injury but to _____________ the attention of the government, that the modes of its suppression could no more be tolerated. It was decided that Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt would court arrest after throwing the bomb.


It was a carefully laid out _________

A) scam B) trick
C) trap D) plot
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) plot

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