General Knowledge Questions

The lowest layer of atmosphere is called _______.

Who invented the modern periodic table?

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".

At the micro level, the dialectical process of development in India (has now heading) towards another direction.

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

A bone of contention

Which of the following is India's highest award in cinema given annually by the Government of India for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema?

The predominant stage of the life cycle of a moss is the gametophyte which consists of two stages. The second stage is the ___________ stage.

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 news has always ____________ predicated on informing the consumer. It speaks of — apart from the day’s most ____________ upheavals — the best and the worst that _____________ has managed to accomplish each day. This includes the medal-winners, the laureates, the record-breakers, the deal-makers _________the criminals, the villains, the corrupt. The news regales us ________ the highlights, a reel of the most provoking ones that made it into a window of a half-an-hour.

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the words/sentence.

Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale