General Knowledge Questions

Which word is named as the Word of the year 2020 as per the most searched words on the Cambridge Dictionary in 2020?

Name the noble gas which is placed in the third period and eighth group of the Modern Periodic table.

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.

This is the arresting and dominant fact about modern social discussion; that the quarrel is __________ merely about the difficulties, but about the aim. We agree about the evil; it is about the good that we should tear each ____________ eyes out. We all admit that a lazy aristocracy is a bad thing. We should not by ________ means all admit that an active aristocracy would be a good thing. We all feel angry with an irreligious priesthood; but some of us would _______ mad with disgust at a really religious one. Everyone is indignant if our army is weak, _____________ the people who would be even more indignant if it were strong.

we should tear each ____________ eyes out.

Which of the following enzymes is responsible for RNA synthesis?

In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one, which best express the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.

Dia said to Pari, "Do you like oranges?”

Cod liver oil from fish is rich in which vitamin?

Kaleidoscope was invented by ________.

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

A bone of contention