General Knowledge Questions

On 5 September 2017, who launched an online quiz competition named ‘Prakriti Khoj’?

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

Delectation

Which kind of cell division is used to repair an injury by the body?

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".

Winds blowing northwards (has took) our kite to a vertiginous height.

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.

necessarily confined _________ the things of

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

Behoove

The famous Sanchi Stupa was commissioned by

By volume, 78% of air is _______________