1) Magnetite is a/an

neutral magnet

electromagnet

U-shaped magnet

none of these 2) Choose the source of energy which is different from others

Bio gas (Your selection was wrong)

Vegetable refuse

Plants

Crude oil 3) Which of the following is a supporter of combustion?

Cooking gas

Nitrogen gas

Oxygen gas

Producer gas 4) The wind energy farm gives information about

Causes of wind

amount of rainfall (Your selection was wrong)

intensity of earthquake

none of these 5) Which of the following can't be used to make a solar cell?

silicon

platinum

gallium

germanium (Your selection was wrong) 6) 15 lts of water containing 20% alcohol, then added 5 lts of water. What is % alcohol.

3

5

15

20 Water =15 *80 /100 = 12 ltrs Alcohol = 15*20 /100 = 3 ltrs Now water/alcohol = 12 + 5 /3 = 17/3 = 17 * 5 / 3 * 5 = 85 /15 Hence after adding 5 ltrs of water alcohol is 15 %.

7) Seven members are there in a meeting. Each should handshake only once with all others. Find the total number of handshakes?

20

21

28 (Your selection was wrong)

none of the above 6+5+4+3+2+1 = 21 8) The length of Indian coastline is

5000 Km

5500 Km

7516.6 Km (Your selection was wrong)

5800 Km 9) The split ring in motion is called

armature

rotor (Your selection was wrong)

commutator

core 10) Laws of electrolysis was given by

Faraday

Maxwell

Lenz

Bohr 11) Computer Memory is normally measured in:

Kilobytes

Megabytes

Gigabytes (Your selection was wrong)

Terabytes 12) Software that the computer uses to start, or "boot" is found where:

The Operating System (OS) (Your selection was wrong)

File Allocation Table (FAT)

Basic In-Out System (BIOS)

Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) 13) Protons are

negetively charged

positively charged

neutral (Your selection was wrong)

none of these 14) Which chess piece is of the lowest theoretical value?

Knight

Castle

Bishop

Pawn 15) Which musical instrument was invented by Belgian Adolphe Sax?

Saxophone

Euphonium

Trumpet

Tuba 16) Which vitamin is abundant in Citrus fruits

Vitamin A (Your selection was wrong)

Vitamin B

Vitamin C

Vitamin D 17) Triton is the star of which planet?

Mars

Jupitor (Your selection was wrong)

Neptune

Pluto 18) Which of the following is a crystalline solid?

graphite (Your selection was wrong)

calcite

gallium

oxygen 19) Which language is used for developing operating system?

c

java (Your selection was wrong)

c#.net

cobol

20) The electrical switches are put in a

live wire

earth wire

neutral wire (Your selection was wrong)

none of these 21) The various distribution circuits are connected in

series

parallel

series or parallel

nothing can be decided 22) The fuse wire is generally made of

silver

copper (Your selection was wrong)

tin-lead alloy

either silver or copper 23) The wire having a black plastic cover is a

live wire

neutral wire

earth wire (Your selection was wrong)

none of these 24) Which is the largest sea in the world?

Arabian Sea

South china sea

Caribean Sea (Your selection was wrong)

Meditteranian Sea 25) Dadabhai Naoroji theorised on the drain of wealth from India in his book

Poverty Under British Rule in India (Your selection was wrong)

Poverty in British Rule in India

Poverty and Un-British Rule in India

Poverty of Economic Drain in British India 26) The King in the Mauryan times was called ' Dharmapravartaka ' by

Kautilya

Megasthenes

Chandragupta (Your selection was wrong)

Asoka 27) Water softening is the process in which

Impurities are removed from the water

Dissolved calcium ions are removed from hard water

Dissolved magnesium ions are removed from hard water

Water is boiled for extracting all salts from it

Both answers 2 and 3 28) The word 'Hindu' as reference to the people of Hind (India) was first used by

The Greeks (Your selection was wrong)

The Romans

The Chinese

The Arabs 29) When is NRI day ?

January 24 (Your selection was wrong)

January 12

January 8

January 9 30) The Indian Luxury Train "The Palace on Wheels" starts from

Old Delhi

New Delhi

Delhi Cantonment

Nizamuddin 31) This is a seaport in Ukraine

Budapest

Odessa

Massawa

Aden (Your selection was wrong) 32) A dog rose is a

Dog

Rose

Star

Cat (Your selection was wrong) 33) The empty Quarter is a vast strech of desert in

Yemen

China

Saudi Arabia

Mauretania 34) Mickie most is the name associated with

Pop music

Theatre

Fashion

Tourism 35) What is Boxing day associated with

Cassius Clay

New Year

Christmas

Joe louis 36) Leonhard Euler was a

German Doctor (Your selection was wrong)

French Astronomer

Belgian Detective

Swiss Mathematician 37) The egyptian bull god

Aten

Apis

Atlas

Alps (Your selection was wrong) 38) The Central Leather Research Institute is in

Chennai

Delhi

Kolkata (Your selection was wrong)

Mumbai 39) In sonotherapy , diseases are treated with

Laughter

Diamond (Your selection was wrong)

Music

Magnets 40) The first petroleum well in the Middle East was drilled in

Dubai

Bahrain

Kuwait (Your selection was wrong)

Abu Dhabi 41) To enter the Qutub Minar Complex , an indian pays Rs. 10 and a foreigner pays

Ten Dollars (Your selection was wrong)

Five Dollars

Seven Dollars

One Dollar 42) The home of the legendary sage Vasishtha

Bikaner

Palitana

Kilimanjaro

Mount Abu 43) Combing hair sometimes produces a crackling sound because

of friction between comb and hair

comb attracts the hair

electric charge is produced by friction

of dryness of hair and comb 44) What is the old name of Jakarta ?

Batavia

Persia

Mesopotamia (Your selection was wrong)

Kecho 45) Which country is called 'the land of cakes' ?

Argentina

Scotland

Holland

Belgium 46) Which country is called 'the land of thunderbolt' ?

Bhutan

Belgium

Angola

Argentina 47) The wire in electric fittings are éarthed' so that

Electricity may not leak

There may be a smooth flow of electricity

Current may pass to the earth in case of a short circuit, without doing any harm

To prevent a short circuit (Your selection was wrong) 48) What does WSDL stand for?

Web Service Description Language.

Web Server Description Language.

Web Services Description Language

Web Services Domain Language (Your selection was wrong) 49) Rose is the symbol of which country ?

Turkey

England

Scotland

Belgium (Your selection was wrong) Brown bear is symbol of which country?

Scotland (Your selection was wrong)

Turkey

Russia

China

Who wrote Alice in Wonderland ?

Lewis Carroll

Charles Dickens (Your selection was wrong)

Anna Sewell

None of these The fear of animals is called ?

zoophobia

plutophobia (Your selection was wrong)

domatophobia

acousticophobia "Long live our beloved king" is national anthem of which country ?

Sri Lanka

Scotland (Your selection was wrong)

Saudi Arabia

Ukraine " Quami Tarana " is national Anthem of which country ?

Sri Lanka

Australia

China

Pakistan Blue Crane is symbol of which country ?

South Africa

Scotland

Bhutan (Your selection was wrong)

India Who is called the father of greek tragedy ?

John Bell

Adam Smith (Your selection was wrong)

Allen Lane

Aeschylus Who is called the father of Railways ?

John Bell

Edward Jenner (Your selection was wrong)

George Stephenson

Robert Byle

Who is called the father of economics ?

John Bell

Adam Smith

Allen Lane

George Stephenson In which year Bleaching Powder was invented ?

1798

1978 (Your selection was wrong)

1789

1880 Who invented Bleaching Powder ?

Tennant

Pascal

Ohain

Dalton Who invented Aeroplane ?

Orville & Wilbur Wright

Pascal

Richard Drew

Adam Smith Who invented Photocopier ?

Adam Smith

Carlson

Louis Pasteur

Kapany McCollum, inventor of Vitamin D was from which country ?

Norway

Germany

USA

Ukraine

When is World's Health Day ?

April 7

May 2

April 11 (Your selection was wrong)

April 10 When is world Red Cross Day ?

May 4

May 8

May 6

May 5 When is world TB day ?

March 24

March 22 (Your selection was wrong)

March 15

March 6 Second world war started in which year?

1919

1935 (Your selection was wrong)

1939

1945 What was the day of the week on 12th January, 1979?

Friday

tuesday

thursday (Your selection was wrong)

monday Number of odd days in (1600 + 300) years = (0 + 1) = 1 odd day. 78 years = (19 leap years + 59 ordinary years) = (38 + 59) odd days = 6 odd days 12 days of January have 5 odd days. Therefore, total number of odd days= (1 + 6 + 5) = 5 odd days. Therefore, the desired day was Friday.

Find the day of the week on 16th july, 1776.

Tuesday

thursday (Your selection was wrong)

monday

wednesday 16th july, 1776 means = 1775 years + period from 1st january to 16th july Now, 1600 years have 0 odd days. 100 years have 5 odd days. 75 years = 18 leap years + 57 ordinary years = (36 + 57) odd days = 93 odd days = 13 weeks + 2 odd days = 2 odd days Therefore, 1775 years have (0 + 5 + 2) odd days = 0 odd days. Now, days from 1st Jan to 16th july; 1776 Jan Feb March April May June July 31 + 29 + 31 + 30 + 31 + 30 + 16 In 8*8 chess board what is the total number of square

64 (Your selection was wrong)

204

68

56 Input, processing, output and storage are the steps in the _____.

information cycle

information processing cycle

data cycle

data processing cycle (Your selection was wrong) The computer can read but not change the information stored in

ROM.

RAM. (Your selection was wrong)

KRAM.

non of the above. The frequency of an AC signal is determined by the:

amplitude of the signal being generated.

peak value of the sine wave

number of cycles per unit of time

all of the above. (Your selection was wrong)

The simplest digital sensor is a:

relay (Your selection was wrong)

switch.

a/c generator

solenoid One cycle per __________ equals one hertz:

second.

minute.

revolution. (Your selection was wrong)

any of the above An analog signal

is either on or off.

is either a 1 or a 0. (Your selection was wrong)

is a varying voltage

any of the above. Digital Signals are:

used to control outputs.

either full voltage (on) or zero voltage (off (Your selection was wrong)

square waveforms

All of the above. Computers rely on ____________ for their input signals:

solenoids

sensors.

actuators (Your selection was wrong)

all of the above The volatile RAM provides for

specific vehicle operating programs

the removal of the ROM

a memory scratch pad for diagnostic capabilities.

all of the above. (Your selection was wrong)