General Knowledge Questions

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

My father is going to build a six bedroom bungalow.

Who has won the most number of Gold Medals in Olympics?

___________ is a typically one­celled, reproductive unit capable of giving rise to a new individual without sexual fusion.

What is called the maximum distance from the Sun in a planet in its orbit?

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?