Questions

Who among the following was awarded the Ashok Chakra (posthumous) by President Pranab Mukherjee on the eve of Independence Day 2016 ?

Select the word with the correct spelling.

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.

having or showing an interest in learning things; curious.

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

Enigmatic

Yeast is a ______________

Which type of pathogen causes the water-borne disease Typhoid fever?

In the following items, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentence are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labeled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet.

S1 :One of the many young scientists who chose to throw in their lot with Rutherford was an Oxford physical chemist, Frederick Soddy.
S6:We now know that Gamma rays are a particularly fierce form of X-rays.
P:His association with Rutherford lasted only two years, but that was long enough to change the whole face of physics.
Q:He was just 23.
R:They found that thorium changed into a new element, thorium X, and in the process gave off what was apparently a gas and at the same time a third type of ray, which they named after the Greek letter ‘Gamma’.
S:When he teamed up with Rutherford,they investigated thorium which, as Marie Curie had shown, was radioactive.

The proper sequence should be 

What will you call a system of taxation under which the poorer sections are taxed at higher rates than the richer sections?