General Knowledge Questions

Q:

The color with the longest wavelength is

A) Red B) Violet
C) Indigo D) Orange
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Red

Explanation:

Each color has a different wavelength.

 

Red has the longest wavelength and violet has the shortest wavelength.

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Q:

Where is the commercial capital of Sri Lanka?

A) Trincomalee B) Colombo
C) Galle D) Kandy
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Colombo

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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 company’s interviews will ______ next month.

 

A) begin on B) began by
C) begin by D) begin at
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) begin by

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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".

 

There is something in a train journey that (was fascinated) a lot of people and I am one of them.

 

A) has fascinated B) have fascinated
C) has fascinate D) no improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) has fascinated

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Q:

Telugu is the official language of _________.

A) Andhra Pradesh B) Arunachal Pradesh
C) Assam D) Bihar
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Andhra Pradesh

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Q:

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

 

A) a reflection of life. B) art
C) an escape D) an important sense.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) an escape

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In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive Voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active Voice.

The students have dedicated an issue of magazine to him.

A) An issue of magazine had been dedicated to him by the students. B) An issue of magazine has been dedicated to him by the students.
C) An issue of magazine have been dedicated to him by the students. D) An issue of magazine is dedicated to him by the students.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) An issue of magazine has been dedicated to him by the students.

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Q:

The passage of an electric current through a conducting liquid causes ___________.

A) Galvanisation B) Evaporation
C) Physical Reaction D) Chemical Reaction
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Chemical Reaction

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