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Who is said to have become the chief of the Jain Sangh after the death of Mahavira

A) Jambu B) Bhadrabahu
C) Sthulbhadra D) Sudharma
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Sudharma

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Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

 

I don’t know whether the Madras Photographic Society has anything to do with the recently-publicised Chennai Photo Biennales, the first last year and the next scheduled for 2018, but participant or not, it certainly deserves a bow for being the country’s first photographic society. Its founder was an Army doctor, Alexander Hunter. The Society was founded in 1857, shortly after Lord Canning arrived as Governor-General. Canning and Lady Canning, both photography enthusiasts, were responsible for creating the famed Government series, The People of India. Hunter had still earlier, in 1850, privately started the Madras School of Arts. The School, taken over by Government in 1852, moved from Popham’s Broadway to Poonamallee High Road. There, he and an eight-member committee revised the syllabus, offering two streams, Industrial and Artistic. Hunter was put in charge of the institution, renamed the Government School of Industrial Arts, in 1855. It was the first formal school of Art in the country. In it, Hunter introduced Photography.

Hunter retired in 1868, to be succeeded by Robert Chisholm. No mean photographer, Hunter encouraged the School, it is now the Government College of Arts and Crafts to build up a photographic collection. Unfortunately, little is left of his work, especially the monuments of South India captured by Government photographer Linnaeus Tripe and his assistant C Iyahsawmi. Hunter himself did a series of pictures of the ‘Seven Pagodas’ (Mahabalipuram) and worked with his wards on photographs of the five hill tribes of the Nilgiris. It was at a prize-giving of the School that Hunter urged the Governor to provide it more suitable premises. They came up on the PH Road site in Chisholm’s time and to his design — and remain there.

 

Who is credited for creating the famous ‘People of India’ photography series?

A) Alexander Hunter B) Robert Chisholm
C) Linnaeus Tripe D) Lord Canning
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Lord Canning

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Dr. M.S.Subbalakshmi has distinguished herself in the field of 

A) Kathak B) Bharathanatyam
C) Playing Violin D) Vocal Music
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Vocal Music

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Which one of the following rulers of Magadha was the contemporary of Alexander, the great

A) Mahapadamnanda B) Dhanananda
C) Sukalp D) Chandragupta Maurya
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Dhanananda

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Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Our biological knowledge of even some of the commonest animals is (embarrassed) slight and it is here that zoos can be of inestimable value in amassing information.

A) embarrass B) embarrassingly
C) embarrassing D) No improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) embarrassingly

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Which of the following countries have an unwritten Constitution

A) USA B) UK
C) India D) Pakistan
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) UK

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Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

 

P: Taking this as a small example, we need to set-up an action plan on a war-footing.
Q: Our country had earlier faced the problem with our neighbours backed defense hackers jamming our troop movement communication system giving false commands and creating a situation of uncertainty.
R: But our planning and implementation gap has always been unpardonably long.
S: The National Security Council is already in touch with server ministries like home, defense, communication, oil and natural gas, etc. to draw up plans.

A) QPSR B) PQRS
C) SPRQ D) QPRS
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) QPSR

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Who is the english physicist responsible for the "Big Bang Theory"?

A) Albert Einstein B) Michael Skube
C) George Gamow D) Roger Penrose
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) George Gamow

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George Gamow. Gamow, who died in 1968, was a physicist, who published “Thirty Years that Shook Physics”.

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