Questions

In each of the questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and click the button corresponding to it.

Straw in the wind

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.

to arrest persons to stop processions with ____________ movements and actions.

Select the word with the correct spelling.

A car accelerates uniformly from 18 kmph to 72 kmph in 5 s. The acceleration of the car (in m/sq.s) is:

Which of the following is not a vector quantity?

A broadcasting station transmits waves with a frequency of 71 x 104 Hz and a speed of 3 x 108 m/s. The wavelength of the wave is

In April 2016, amid rising tension over North Korea, which country launched its first domestically built aircraft carrier?

The ability to memorize well is an example of