General Knowledge Questions

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.

According to the author, all art is

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

To take the cake

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 criminal was released on ___________ for a few days so that he could spend time with his ailing mother.

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.

Private companies do not produce new varieties and inputs ______ as a result of their own research.

______________ scheme launched by the Central Government aims at development of rural growth clusters which have latent potential for growth.

The closest example of a centrally planned economy is the __________ for the major part of the 20th Century.

Who appoints the members of the State Public Service Commission ?

______________ scheme was launched by the Central Government to give financial services to weaker section of society.