Question # 1

The artificial rearing of honey bees is called:

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Sericulture

Apiculture

Sylviculture

Lociculture

The hunting and gathering economy can support only

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1 person per sq. km

3 persons per sq. km

5 persons per sq. km

7 persons per sq. km

Activity of brain is recorded by:

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ECG

EEG

MET

CT

About 80% of the body weight in most organisms is:

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Protein

Water

Minerals

Fat

The inclination of the earth's axis to the orbital plane is:

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21^1/2''

23^1/2''

66^1/2''

90"

what is invented by babbage?

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teletype

zipper

calculating machine

tire

Supernova is:

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An asteroid

A dying star

A comet

A black hole

Which of the following is a skin disease?

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Anaemia

Pellagra

Rickets

Cancer

Solar system was discovered by:

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Kepler

Galileo

Copernicus

Plato

Which one of the following is not a mammal?

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Shark

Dolphin

Seal

Whale

In metabolism, enzymes act as:

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Promotor

Catalyst

Oxident

Reductant

In which country would you find the mountains called the Ghats?

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Saudi Arabia

Russia

China

India

Which of the following is the chief crop of Australia?

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Rice

Maize

Wheat

Potato

The planets are kept in motion in their respective orbits by:

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Gravitation and centrifugal force

The rotation and density

Their great size

Rotation of sun on its axis

The sweetest sugar is:

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Fructose

Sucrose

Glucose

Lactose

Soda water contains:

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Carbon dioxide

Nitrous acid

Carbonic acid

Sulphuric acid

Apiculture is science of Bee keeping. What is ornithology?

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Insects

Bee keeping

Birds

Cancer

Between which two Scandinavian countries would you find the Oresund?

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Sweden and Finland

Sweden and Denmark

Denmark and Norway

Norway and Finland

A person with a stone in a kidney is advised to avoid?

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Lemon

Vineger

Tomato

Lentils

The international Date-line passes through the:

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Bering Strait

Florida Strait

Gibraltar Strait

Malaca Strait

The function of hemoglobin in the body is:

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Transport of oxygen

Destruction of bacteria

Prevention of anemia

Utilization of iron

Which two European countries compose the iberian Peninsula?

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Spain & Porugal

Albania & Greece

Italy & San Marino

Norway & Sweden

Which of the following is biodegradable?

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Paper

D.D.T

Aluminium

Plastic

20 hundred weights are equal to:

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11 tons

1 ton

5 tons

12 tons

In February 1945, Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin met at this town on the Black Sea. What was the town Called?

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Yalta

Sevastopol

Istanbul

Odessa

The gases used in different types of welding would include:

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Oxygen and acetylene

Hydrogen and nitrogen

Oxygen and nitrogen

Hydrogen and helium

Which one of the following countries has the highest agricultural production in Europe?

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France

Switzerland

Denmark

Germany

What is the maximum limit of sound intensity in decibel units beyond which a person cannot hear?

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50

70

85

95

The percentage of carbon is least in:

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Steel

Grey cast iron

White cast iron

Wrought iron

The amount of actual water vapour of air is known as:

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Dew point

Absolute humidity

Relative humidity

Condensation point

Photosynthesis is:

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An exothermic process

An endothermic process

A neutral process

None of these

Which of the following is not a contagious disease?

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Typhoid

Hysteria

Measles

Influenza

Lines joining places receiving equal amount of rainfall are called:

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Isohalines

Isobars

Isotherms

Isohyets

It all the plants of the World die,all the animals will also die due to shortage of:

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Cold air

Oxygen

Food

Shelter

The species to which we belong is:

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Homo sapiens

Homo erectus

Australopithecus rebustus

None of these

Giant Panda is found in:

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Nepal

Bhutan

India

China

What do we call the tubes that carry blood away from the heart?

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Arteries

Intestines

Veins

None of these

Electron was first identified by:

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J.J. Thomson

J.Kepler

Rutherford

Chadwick

Which of the following countries is closest in size to Yemen?

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Myanmar

Syria

Oman

Mali

The incoming short-waves solar radiation is balanced by an equal amount of long wave radiation from earth going back to space.This is known as:

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Heat balance of earth

Wave balance of Earth

Earth radiation

None of these

Lungs are enclosed in:

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Pericardium

Peritoneum

Pleural Membrane

None of these

The sunspots cause:

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Aurora australis and aurora borealis

Magnetic storms on the surface of the sun

Polar auroras

All of these

Which is the largest landlocked country in the world?

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Kazakhstan

Magnolia

South Africa

Afghanistan

carbon dioxide was discovered by:

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harvey

newton

fisher

soddy

The term meteor is applied to an interplanetary body:

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After it enters the atmosphere of the earth

After it enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes in the mind air as a ball of fire

After it enters the earth's atmosphere and lands on the surface of the earth without exploding in mid air

Before it enters the earth's atmosphere

One ton consists of:

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500 kilograms

1000 kilograms

1200 kilograms

1400 kilograms