General Knowledge Questions

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence. The hapless kid (cut a sorry figure) in his first performance on the stage.

In the following passage some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

War and Peace, an epic historical novel by Leo Tolstoy, was_____ published as Voyna i mir in 1865-69. This ____study of early 19th century Russian society, noted for its _____of realistic detail and variety of psychological______is generally regarded as one of the world's greatest novels. War and Peace is_____concerned with the histories of five aristocratic families, the members of which are _____against the_____background of Russian social life during the war against Napoleon. The_____ of war, however, is____to the story of family existence which involves Tolstoy's optimistic belief in the life-asserting ______of human existence.

Noted for its ____ of realistic detail and

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

Surly

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

Allay

Dhamek Stupa was built by?

Which among the following does not have a cell wall?

A   parallel-plate   capacitor,with   air   in between  the  plates,  has  capacitance  C. Now  the  space  between  the  two  plates  of the  capacitor  is  filled  with  a  dielectric  of dielectric constant 7. Then the value of the capacitance will become

Which of the following trees shed their leaves once in a year?