COMPETITIVE EXAM QUESTIONS PART 144

1. Which is the world's largest coral reef system?

     Ans: The Great Barrier Reef

2. Who was the first Hindi writer to receive Jnanpith Award?
    A. Mahadevi Verma
    B. Sumitranandan Pant

3. Synonym for Proscribe
    A. prohibit
    B. allow

4. A boatman goes 2 km against the current in 1 hr and goes 1 km along the current in 10 min. How long will he take to go 5 km in stationary water?
    Ans: 1 hr 15 min

5. A train 108 m long moving at a speed of 50 km/hr crosses a train 112 m long coming from opposite direction in 6 seconds. The speed of the second train is:
   A. 48 km/hr
   B. 54 km/hr
   C. 66 km/hr
   D. 82 km/hr

6. Which country shares the longest land frontier with India?
     Ans: Bangladesh

7. The most populous State of India 
     Ans: Uttar Pradesh

8. The process when the computer is switched on and the operating system gets loaded from hard disk to main memory is called
     Ans: Booting

9. Find the two numbers whose mean proportion is 12 and the third proportional is 324.
     A. 6 and 8
     B. 4 and 36

10. When 30% of one number is subtracted from another number, the second number reduces to its four-fifths. What is the ratio of the first to the second number?
      A. 2 : 5
      B. 2 : 3