Questions

Who invented the Centigrade scale?

Who was conferred with the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature?

Which film won the award for Best Film at the 61st Filmfare Award held in 2016?

Who won the ‘Business reformer of the year award’ at the Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excellence?

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.

We now have a peculiar combination _______________ the economic policy of India: a declared attempt at fiscal consolidation, combined with a _________________ to do what it takes to raise tax revenues. This unfortunate ________________ has meant a squeeze _____________ Central government expenditures, and particularly those relating to social spending that directly ____________ most people in the country.

combined with a _________________ to do what it takes to raise tax revenues.

In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

They played with the lambs in the field and saw no human __________ but the shepherd.

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

to drive someone up the wall

In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

The architect was unable to ______ those designs.