General Knowledge Questions

A wide inlet of the sea usually concave in shape, is termed as a:

Who was awarded the 2017 Padma Bhushan Award in the field of Art-Music?

In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active voice.
He shall have bought a car.

Zubin Mehta is associated with __________

Which of the following is NOT a form of Monosaccharide Sugar?

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

Crunch time

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

All art is, in an important sense, an escape. There is a sense in which the capacity to escape from his present experience, to use his accumulated consciousness of the past to project a vision of the future, is man's greatest and distinguishing ability. We must not forget the force of Aristotle's argument that poetry is valuable precisely because it shows men not simply as they are, but as they ought to be or (in terms more sympathetic to us today) as they are capable of becoming.

The author believes that man's greatest and distinguishing ability is

Animals in which the cells are arranged in three embryonic layers are called ________.