Questions

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

Ignorance is bliss

Who were the first among the following to establish trade relations with India?

Which was the capital of the first Sri Lankan kingdom?

Which Indian author has chronicled the life in the Kumaon hills in the book 'Things to Leave Behind'?

From the given alternatives, select the word which CANNOT be formed using the letters of the given word.

Mindboggling

Choose the odd word/letters/number/number pair from the given alternatives.

If 12x16 = 188 and 14x18 = 248, then find the value of 16x20 = ?

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.

The woodpeckers of the West (with one exception) are different _______________ those of the East, and so are the flycatchers, the grosbeaks, the orioles, the tanagers, the humming-birds, _____________ many of the sparrows. ____________ of the purple and bronzed grackles (the latter are _______________ seen on the plains of Colorado, but are not common), the Rockies boast of Brewer's blackbird, ______________ habits are not as prosaic as his name would indicate.

the humming-birds, _____________ many of the sparrows.