Questions

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

A bad patch

Each exterior angle of a regular polygon measures 9 deg. How many sides does the polygon have?

Who among the following was NOT one of the 'Nine Gems' of Emperor Akbar's court?

Who is the Author of the book "You are the Best Wife: A True Love Story"?

A word is represented by only one set of numbers as given in any one of the alternatives. The sets of numbers given in the alternatives are represented by two classes of alphabets as shown in the given two matrices. The columns and rows of matrix-I are numbered from o to 4 and the matrix-II are numbered from 5 to 9. A letter from these matrices can be represented first by its row and next by its column, for example, F can be represented by 13, 21 etc and Y can be represented by 97,98 etc. Similarly, you have to identify the set of the word 'TONE'

How many medals in all did India win at the Rio Olympics 2016?

R. Ashwin of India became the quickest bowler to reach 300 test wickets in just 54 tests. Where was this historic test played?

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

The man who is perpetually hesitating which of the two things he will do first, will do neither. The man who resolves, but suffers his resolution to be changed by the first counter-suggestion of a friend, - who fluctuates from opinion to opinion, from plan to plan, and veers like a weather-cock to every point of the compass, with every breath of caprice that blows-can never accomplish anything great or useful. Instead of being progressive in any thing, he will be at best stationary, and more probably retrograde in all. It is only the man who first consults wisely, then resolves firmly, and then executes his purpose with flexible perseverance, undismayed by those petty difficulties which daunt a weaker spirit that can advance to eminence in any line. Take your course wisely, but firmly; and having taken it, hold upon it with heroic resolution, and the Alps and Pyrenees will sink before you.

What will the man who sticks to his resolve and executes it advance to?