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A bucket of water is hung from a spring balance. A piece of iron is suspended in the water without touching the sides or touching the bottom of the the bucket. The reading of the spring balance

A) will increase B) will decrease
C) does not change D) varies with the increase of depth of the immersion of the iron piece
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) will increase

Explanation:

When the piece of iron is lowered into the water, the water level in the bucket increases. And so the pressure at the bottom of bucket also increases. Thus the total thrust at bottom also increases. Therefore the spring balance reading increases. Thus (a) is correct.

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Q:

Which colony was farthest north?

A) Massachusetts B) Virginia
C) Georgia D) New Hampshire
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Massachusetts

Explanation:

There are 13 colonies and are ruled by England.

 

The farthest north colony - Massachusetts

The farthest south colony - Georgia

The oldest colony - Virginia

The colony between the 2 parts of Massachusetts - New Hampshire

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The Number of officially recognised languages in india is

A) 12 B) 15
C) 18 D) 21
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 18

Explanation:

India has 18 officially recognised languages - Konkani, Manipur and Nepali were added to the official list of 15 in 1992. The other 15 languages are Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit , Tamil, Telugu , Urdu and sindhi.

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Suppose a customer is attempting to determine what failed during the last boot sequence of the Linux partition. Which of the following can be used to determine the error condition?

A) /var/log/messages B) /proc/startup
C) /usr/sbin/log D) /etc/boot
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) /var/log/messages

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During a Financial Emergency, all Money Bills passed by State Legislatures require the consent of the 

A) Prime Minister B) President
C) Lok Sabha D) Union Finance Minister
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) President

Explanation:

No Financial Emergency has been imposed on the country so far. Article 360 deals with Financial Emergency. (This article, however,shall not apply to the state of Jammu and Kashmir)

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What are rings in Windows NT?

Answer

Windows NT uses protection mechanism called rings provides by the process to implement separation between the user mode and kernel mode.

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Who was awarded the Harvard Humanitarian Award for 2015?

 

A) Malala Yousafzai B) Kailash Satyarthi
C) Tommy Hilfiger D) Lionel Richie
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Kailash Satyarthi

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Q:

Sugar Bowl of the World?

A) Cuba B) Brazil
C) India D) Australia
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Brazil

Explanation:

"Cuba" is the name of the country which was commonly known as the "Sugar Bowl of the World".

It is called by this name because formerly it was the largest producer of Sugar, but now Brazil is currently the largest producer of Sugar.

It is an island country in the Caribbean and is officially called as the Republic of Cuba.

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