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Who won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama 'Sweat'?

A) Lynn Nottage B) Hisham Matar
C) Heather Ann Thompson D) Colson Whitehead
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Lynn Nottage

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Where is "The Geysers", the world's largest geothermal field, containing a complex of 22 geothermal power plants, located?

A) Rio B) New Orleans
C) Moscow D) San Francisco
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) San Francisco

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If hiring an extra worker increases a factory's output from 1000 to 1200 units per day, but the factory has to reduce the price of its product from Rs. 25 to Rs. 24 per unit to sell the additional output, the marginal revenue product of the last worker is

A) Rs. 3800 B) Rs. 200
C) Rs. 4000 D) Rs. 100
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Rs. 3800

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Which country is headed towards a confrontation over Gibraltar with Spain?

A) France B) Morocco
C) Germany D) United Kingdom
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) United Kingdom

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

The alpha and the omega

A) Happy and sad B) The beginning and the end
C) The love and the hatred D) Truth and dare
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) The beginning and the end

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Plants utilise ________ from the atmosphere foe photosynthesis

A) oxygen B) nitrogen
C) Carbon dioxide D) hydrogen
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Carbon dioxide

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Choose the most appropriate answer:Who has been awarded the Dada Saheb Phalke Award for the year 2014?

A) Pran B) Shashi Kapoor
C) DilipKumar D) Amitabh Bachchan
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Shashi Kapoor

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In year 2014, Shashi Kapoor has been awarded with Dada Saheb Phalke Award.

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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.

 

Starting late-2014, scientists of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) working _______ satellite data tracking the rift found that the defect in the Larsen C was growing _________. By 2016 the crack became 70 miles long and 300 feet ________. By January 2017 it measured 109 miles in length and 1,500metres in breadth. On July 12, it broke. The broken shelf, now __________ official iceberg, was massive, indeed the ____________-ever such iceberg, weighing 1.1trillion tons and measuring 2,200 square miles.

 

was growing _________. By 2016 the

 

A) steadily   B) steady
C) instead D) instead of
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) steadily  

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