Questions

The price of a chair is Rs. 500. It has been sold at two succesive discounts of 10% each. What is its selling price?

Who devised the policy of Doctrine of Lapse?

Which of these rivers primarily flows in South Africa?

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.

We get sleepy and wake up, become hungry and thirsty at certain hours, ____________ force of habit. We form the habit of liking a certain chair, or nook, or corner, or path, or desk, and __________ seek this to the exclusion of all others. We ______________ use a particular pitch of voice and type of enunciation in speaking, and this becomes one of our characteristic marks; or we _________ the habit of using barbarisms or solecisms of language in __________, and these cling to us and become an inseparable part of us later in life.

In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

______ a wrench she unscrewed the bolts.

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which is opposite in meaning of the given word.

Baroque

Which amendment of the Constitution of India increased the age of retirement of High Court judges from 60 to 62 years?

To release wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National RuralEmployment Guarantee Scheme direct and faster, anelectronic fund management system has been launched by____________.