In which of the following activities silicon carbide is used ?
a) Making Cement and Glass
b) Disinfecting water of ponds
c) Making cast for statues
d) Cutting very hard substances
Among the following chemical elements, which one has the same oxidation state in all of its compounds? 1 Carbon 2 Fluorint 3 Hydrogen 4 Oxygen
Which of the following States Governments has decided to celebrate at year-long programme, called Kharavela Mahotsava? 1 Andhra Pradesh 2 Karnataka 3 Kerala 4 Orissa
Who has been awarded the 2001 Jnanpith Award ? (a) Rajendra Shah (b) Dr. Karan Singh (c) K.V. Puttappa (d) Tagazhi Sivasankaran Pillai
India recently agreed to start a bus service between Srinagar-Muzaffarabad in Pakistan. Both the countries also agreed to start a rail link between which of the following pairs of cities in October 2005? 1 Srinagar-Islaabad 2 Khokrapar-Munnabao 3 Delhi_Lahore 4 Amritsar-Islamabad
Anand Dairy Farm is in (a) Punjab (b) Maharashtra (c) Karnataka (d) Gujarat
What percentage of solar radiation directly reaches the earth? (a) 47 (b) 27 (c) 20
Large number of plants can be produced in short time by (1) Gene technology (2) Plant breeding (3) Tissue culture (4) Pollination
The number of chromosomes present in man: (1) 46 (2) 44 (3) 48 (4) 23
Pancreas is (1) an endocrine gland (2) an exocrine gland (3) both exocrine and endocrine (4) None of these
In the tropics, continents have deserts in the western coast due to: (a) prevailing winds (b) oceans (c) human beings
Given the difficulty in facing a cut-throat competition with other banks and FIs, which among the following banks has decided to withdraw its domestic credit measures? 1 UTI bank 2 HSBC 3 ICICI bank 4 IDBI bank
With reference to a normal human being, which one of the following statements is not correct? 1 Human saliva is slightly alkaline 2 An adult human may secrete 1 to 1.5 litres of saliva per day 3 Saliva is secreted by sixs pairs of salivary glands in human beings 4 The salivary enzyme (ptyalin) breaks down cooked starach into maltose