General Knowledge Questions

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.

In a strange ________________, the production and the consumption of the event become cause for concern. _______________ wonders whether newer forms of “non­caring” or violence are appearing. Somehow, silence, even __________________, quietly suppresses a meditation on such events. __________________ a professor, I can recollect the number of occasions when my students have cried as we discussed such events in class. _____________, society seems so indifferent.

Somehow, silence, even __________________, quietly suppresses a meditation on such events.

Who was the first Indian to be elected as a Member of the British House of Commons?

Who discovered television?

Veteran journalist Shujaat Bukhari who was shot dead was the editor of which of the following newspaper?

Which eminent Hindi writer was chosen for the Vyas Samman 2017 for her work Dukham Sukham ?

The commonly used thermometric substance is _____.

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

Digress

Which among the planets is orange in colour with white bands on it?