Answer / guest

(4) 65 years

After the break up of the Soviet Union, which is the largest country in the world in terms of area? 1 China 2 Canada 3 Russia 4 USA

3 Answers   Schneider,

---

If a person with a spring balance and a body hanging from it goes up and up in an aeroplane, then the reading of the weight of the body, as indicted by the spring balance, will: (A) go on increasing (B) go on decreasing (C) first increase and then decrease (D) remain the same

3 Answers  

---

Blood does not coagulate inside the blood vessels because (1) fibrin is absent (2) Thromboplastin is absent (3) Fibrinogen is absent (4) Calcium is absent

1 Answers  

---

Peter Nicol who was in India recently is associated with which of the following games/sports? 1 Hockey 2 Cricket 3 Squash 4 None of these

1 Answers  

---

Deficiency of which one of the following causes knock-knee, bow legs and pigeon chest in children? (a) Vitamin A (b) Vitamin B2 (c) Vitamin D (d) Vitamin E

1 Answers  

---

Mr.Abdurrahman Wahid was in the news during October 1999, for which one of the following reasons? 1 He was elected as the fourth President of Indonesia 2 He resigned as the President of Indonesia 3 He was elected as the Vice-President of Indonesia 4 None of these

1 Answers  

---

. ‘Self-sufficiency’ in food, in the true sense of freedom from hunger, has not been achieved in India in spite of a more than three-fold rise in food grains production over 1950-1990. Which of the following are the reasons for it? 1. The green revolution has been restricted to small pockets of the country. 2. The cost of food is too high compared to the earnings of the poor. 3. Too much emphasis is laid on wheat and paddy compared to the coarse grains. 4. The gains of the green revolution have largely accrued to the cash crop rather than food crops. Select the correct answer from the codes given below: Codes: (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1, 2 and 4 (c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 2, 3 and 4

1 Answers  

---

The country to host the 1997 Champiaons Trophy Field Hockey tournament is (1) Australia (2) Sweden (3) Belgium (4) India

1 Answers  

---

. Which among the following pairs of places have most marked difference in total rainfall per annum even though located approximately along the same latitude? (a) Bangalore and Madras (b) Bombay and Visakhapatnam (c) Ajmer and shillong (d) Nagpur and Calcutta

1 Answers  

---

Gandhiji went to England in 1931 to attend the: (a) First Round Table Conference (b) Second Round Table Conference (c) Session of the ?League of Oppressed Peoples? (d) Third Round Table conference

3 Answers  

---

Tank irrigation is extensively practiced South India. In which pair of the following states of South India is this irrigation relatively more common? (1) Karnataka and Maharashtra (2) Tamil Nadu and Karnataka (3) Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh (4) Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra

4 Answers  

---

The disputes regarding the election of the President are decided by (a) The Rajya Sabha (b) The Supreme Court (c) The Lok Sabha (d) The Chief Election Commissioner

5 Answers   BEd, IAS, RG, SSC, Supreme Court,

---