General Knowledge Questions

In each of the questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and click the button corresponding to it.

An axe to grind

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.

"Jim Crow" shuns the mountains for reasons satisfactory to himself; not so the magpie, the raven, and __________ mischief-maker, Clark's nutcracker. All of which keeps the bird-lover from the East in an ecstasy of surprises until he has _____________ accustomed to his changed environment. One cannot help ___________ into the speculative mood in view of the sharp contrasts ______________ the birds of the East and _________ of the West.

the birds of the East and _________ of the West.

The SI unit of acceleration is _______________.

Aurangzeb put his father ___________ under house arrest in Agra Fort.

After which of the following centuries, did the practice of donating land in South India go a long way?

Who won the first T-20 Cricket World Cup?

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the word opposite in meaning to the word given.
Intrepid

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which is opposite in meaning of the given word. Negotiate