General Knowledge Questions

Friction is caused by the ______________ on the two surfaces in contact.

In 2015, the United Nations Climate Change Conference was held at -

In the following question, four words are given out of which one word is correctly spelt. Select the correctly spelt word.

Pick the odd one out from the following:

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

Keep your chin up

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

Punctilious

A ball of 0.1 kg is dropped from rest. When it falls through a distance of 2 m, the work done by the force of gravity is

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.

the worst that _____________ has managed to accomplish