General Knowledge Questions

Which of the following protects the inner lining of the stomach from the action of the hydrochloric acid under the normal conditions?

There are total _________ parliamentary seats (Rajya Sabha constituency) in Odisha.

The instrument used to measure Blood Pressure is

"Forests" is listed in the __________ list given in the Seventh Schedule in the Constitution of India.

Who was conferred with the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature?

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".

With time now available for leisure, my father (discover) a new side to himself

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

Let your hair down

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.

The written word is necessarily confined _________ the things of the understanding because only the understanding has written language; whereas art deals ___________ ideas of a different mental texture, which words can only vaguely ____________. However, there are a large number of people who, _____________ they cannot be said to have experienced in a full sense any works of art, have undoubtedly the impelling desire which a little direction may lead on to a fuller ____________. And it is to such that books on art are useful.

people who, _____________ they cannot be