General Knowledge Questions

Which Indian won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2014?

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.

Targeting inflation comes from a belief that policy should be _________ and transparent, so that the private sector can factor this ___________ their decision-making. The question that this ________ is: are there more "complicated" policies which _________ better? I just note that one such policy is called "nominal income targeting". _____________ it is more complicated and the private sector is deemed to be intellectually challenged.

The question that this ________ is

Which of these Indians has not won a Nobel Award?

Bacteria was discovered by

Recently, the 2017 Global Hunger Index is published. What is the position of India in this index?

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".

The bliss of (oversleeping) cuddled up under a warm and cosy blanket is just other-worldly.

The ancient Indian legal document 'Manusmriti' was written in ___.

The absolute refractive index of air is