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Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

 


To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman brain is required. A few simple rules will keep you free, not from all errors, but from silly errors. If the matter is one that can be settled by observation, make the observation yourself. Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. Thinking that you know when in fact you do not is a bad mistake, to which we are all prone. I believe myself that hedgehogs eat black beetles, because I have been told that they do; but if I were writing a book on the habits of hedgehogs, I should not commit myself until I had seen one enjoying this diet. Aristotle, however, was less cautious. Ancient and medieval writers knew all about unicorns and salamanders; not one of them thought it necessary to avoid dogmatic statements about them because he had never seen one of them.

 

According to the author, unicorns and salamanders

 

A) have existed in the past B) are invisible
C) caused writers to write strange stories D) never really existed
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) never really existed

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Who built Hawa Mahal?

A) Guru Ramdas B) Maharaja Pratap Singh
C) Rabindra Nath Tagore D) British Govt
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Maharaja Pratap Singh

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How did social darwinism affect European Imperialism?

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Social Darwinism was a prominent intellectual theory that was used to justify European Imperialism in the 19th and early 20th centuries.


Social Darwinism held that those made better or worse by industrialization were based on the natural predisposition of the people effected. For those who were made better off, the success of those people demonstrated that they had a well-evolved culture and this expansion would help remove or improve underperforming cultures, which were those "chosen" by the fact that they were performing poorly.


 


Imperialism may encompass a broad range of meanings, including the foreign occupation of one nation by another; one society's control of the internal politics of another; and, especially, foreign extraction of a less powerful nation's natural resources and/or exploitation of its indigenous human resources.


 


All in all, according to the Social Darwinist, Imperialism was the natural expansion and success of a well-evolved culture and this expansion would help remove or improve underperforming cultures.

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The term Round Revolution is most closely associated with which among the following?

A) Eggs B) Tomato
C) Brinjal D) Potato
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Potato

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Choose the most appropriate answer:Serena Williams defeated__________ to win the women’s singles title of Australian Open 2015.

A) Venus Williams B) Sania Mirza
C) Maria Sharapova D) Ana Ivanovic
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Maria Sharapova

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Serena Williams won the title, defeating Maria Sharapova in the final, 6–3, 7–6, to earn her sixth Australian Open title.

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Dzongkha is the official Language of _____ .

A) Indonesia B) Cambodia
C) Bhutan D) Myanmar
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Bhutan

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Anti-defection law is given in which schedule of Indian constitution?

A) Second Schedule B) Tenth Schedule
C) Third Schedule D) Fourth Schedule
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Tenth Schedule

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The apparent weight of a person in a lift which is moving down with uniform acceleration is _______.

A) greater than the weight when the person is stationary B) twice the weight when the person is stationary
C) less than the weight when the person is stationary D) same as the weight when the person is stationary
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) less than the weight when the person is stationary

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