COMPETITIVE EXAM QUESTIONS PART 164

1. Which Indian payments bank recently crossed a mile-stone of two crore customers?

    A. Airtel Payments Bank.

    B. India Post Payments Bank

2. Where is the Headquarters of United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) located?
    Ans: Vienna

3. A walks at a uniform rate of 4 km per hour and 4 hours after his start, B cycles after him at a uniform rate of 10 km per hour. How far from the starting point will B catch A?

   A. 16-7 km

   B. 26-7 km

4. Which of the following is outside the purview of Transplantation of Human Organs Act?

    A. Eyes

    B. Ear drum

    C. Ear bone

    D. Bone marrow

5. The Municipality of a town increases water tax by 20% and water consumption decreased by 20%. Then the percentage of increase or decrease in the monthly expenditure

   A. 4% increase

   B. 4% decrease

6. Who is known for the invention of 'World Wide Web'?

     Ans: Sir Tim Berners Lee

7. All virus are fungus. All bacteria are fungus.

    A. All virus are bacteria.

    B. All bacteria are virus.

    C. All virus are not bacteria.

    D. No conclusion

8. I am slow to _____.

     A. express my opinion

     B. express my viewing

9. In Shakespeare’s day ,---theater audience would often throw fruits and vegetables at actions who failed to live up to their expectations.
     A. doting
     B. ravenous
     C. jingoistic
     D. boisterous 

10. Who is known as ' Little Corporal '?
        A. Adolf Hitler
       B. Napolean Bonaparte

COMPETITIVE EXAM QUESTIONS PART 162

1. The platform of a station 400 m long starts exactly where the last span of a bridge 1.2 km long ends. How long will a train 200 m long and travelling at the speed of 72 km/h take to cover the distance between the starting point of the span of the bridge and the far end of the platform ?

      A. 1.6 min

      B. 1.5 min

2. How many molecules of ATP are obtained by the respiration of one molecule of glucose?

     A. 4

     B. 2

3. Ethiopia is related to Africa in the same way as Brazil is related to 

     A. South America

     B. North America

4. The first Lokpal of India 

     Ans: Pinaki Chandra Ghose

5. With reference to Remote Sensing Technology, what does LIDAR stand for ?

      A. Light Detection and Ranging

      B. Light Direction and Revolving

6. India and Asia's first Dolphin Research Centre will be set up in

     Ans: Patna

7. Which type of thermometer records the lowest temperature?

     A. Alcohol thermometer

     B. Mercurial thermometer

8. Which scientist wrote a book called “A Brief History of Time”?

     Ans: Stephen Hawking

9. Which day is observed as Sports Day of the year?

      Ans: 29 August

10. ‘Action’ is related to ‘Reaction’ in the same way as ‘Stimulus’ is related to ‘________’

        A. Reception

        B. Vision

        C. Response

COMPETITIVE EXAM QUESTIONS PART 161

1. Who assumed the charge of new Controller General of Accounts (CGA)?
     Ans: Soma Roy Burman

2. Tea worth of Rs. 135/kg & Rs. 126/kg are mixed with a third variety in the ratio 1: 1 : 2. If the mixture is worth Rs. 153 per kg, the price of the third variety per kg will be____?
     A. Rs. 169.50
     B. Rs.1700
     C. Rs. 175.50

3. If the diagonal of a rectangle is 17cm long and its perimeter is 46 cm. Find the area of the rectangle.
    A. 110
    B. 120
    C. 130

4. A certain sum of money is interested at the rate of 5% per annum compound interest, the interests of third year and first year is Rs 102.50. Find the sum.
    A. Rs.952.38
    B. Rs.962.48

5. A man walks 5 km toward south and then turns to the right. After walking 3 km he turns to the left and walks 5 km. Now in which direction is he from the starting place?
    A. West
    B. South
    C. North-East
    D. South-West

6. A clock is set right at 8 a.m. The clock gains 10 minutes in 24 hours will be the true time when the clock indicates 1 p.m. on the following day?
     Ans:  48 min. past 12.

7. Who holds chair during joint parliament session?
     Ans: Lok Sabha Speaker

8. Who established the first railway line in India?
      Ans: Lord Dalhousie

9. In a nuclear reactor, which one is used as fuel?
      A. Coal
      B. Uranium

10. Select the option that is related to the third letter-pair in the same way as the second letter pair is related to the first letter-pair
       CH : FP : : GK : ?
       A. JS
       B. MP

COMPETITIVE EXAM QUESTIONS PART 160

1. Synonym for passe
    A. rude
    B. Old-fashioned

2. Two ants starts simultaneously from two ant holes towards each other.The first ant covers 8% of the distance between the two ant holes in 3 hours,the second ant covered 7/120 of the distance in 2 hours 30 minutes.Find the Speed(feet/hr) of the second ant if the first ant travelled 800 feet to the meeting point?

     A. 35 ft/h

     B. 25 ft/h

3. Which of the following is an electromagnetic wave ?
     A. Cathode rays
     B. Sound wave
     C. Ultrasonic wave
     D. Infra red rays

4. Which is the odd one here: 37, 47, 52, 67, 87, 112, 142?
     A. 47
     B. 52

5. If 
    (i) A is older than S 
    (ii) M is older than A but younger than K 
    (iii) K is elder than S
    (iv) S is younger than M
    (v) G is the eldest.
     Who is the youngest?
   Ans: S

6. Which is the odd one here: "5, 8, 20, 42, 124, 246, 736"?

      A. 20
      B. 124

7. Nine persons went to a hotel for taking their meals. Eight of them spent Rs. 12 each over their meals and the ninth spent Rs. 8 more than the average expending of all the nine. Total money spent by them was
    A. 117
    B. 118

8. We must try to understand his momentary ......... for he has .......... more strain and anxiety than any among us.
     A. Vision —— forgotten
     B. Aberration —— undergone

9. The local library has recommended that the books put up for the used book sale should be in good condition and should have no writing in them or be underlined.
  A. And should have no writing in them or be underlined.
   B. And should not have writing in them or not be underlined

10. A fruit seller had some apples. He sells 40% apples and still has 420 apples. Originally, he had:
      A. 588 apples
      B. 700 apples

COMPETITIVE EXAM QUESTIONS PART 159

1. It is time that professors came down from their..........towers and studied the real needs of the students.

    A. gold

    B. silver

    C. clock

    D. isolated

2. ..........my knowledge, Mr. Ashok has a prejudice..........foreigners.
     A. In, for
     B. As, towards

3. His bad driving almost..........an accident.
     A. created
     B. caused

4. Known as a devout and serious person, she also has a..........sense of humour.
     A. better
     B. plentiful
     C. quick
     D. good

5. Survival of mankind itself is in danger due to..........of atomic weapons.
     A. perpetuation
     B. regularisation
     C. provocation
     D. proliferation

6. The writer, like a spider, ..........a web; the creatures caught in the web have no substance, no reality.
     A. spins
     B. catches 

7. A policy that segregates people on the basis of race
     A. Theism
     B. Apartheid

8. To prevent signal loss satellites remained in geostationary orbit above the base i.e,
     A. the satellites were designed for digging soil
     B. the satellites watched the Earth's rotation

9. Speed of a boat along and against the current are 14 km/hr and 8 km/hr respectively. The speed of the
current is
   A. 11 km/hr
   B. 6 km/hr
   C. 5.5 km/hr
   D. 3 km/hr

10. Child: Fire::
       A. Aged: wisdom
       B. Student: examination

COMPETITIVE EXAM QUESTIONS PART 158

1. In a box there are 10 apples and 2/5th of the apples are rotten. If three apples are taken out from the box, what will be the probability that at least one apple is rotten.

    Ans: 5/6

2. The difference between simple and compound interest on a sum of money at 4% per annum for 2 years is Rs. 8. The sum is
     A. Rs. 400
     B. Rs. 800
     C. Rs. 4,000
     D. Rs. 5,000

3. A certain sum of money amounts to Rs. 2,420 in 2 years and Rs. 2,662 in 3 years at same rate of compound interest, compounded annually. The rate of interest per annum is:
   A. 6%
   B. 8%
   C. 9%
   D. 10% 

4. Kuchipudi Dance is a classical dance from which state?
     A. Odisha
     B. Assam
     C. Andhra Pradesh

5. A boy goes to school at a speed of 5 km/h and returns to the village at a speed of 4 km/h. If he takes 4 hours and 30 minutes in all, what is the distance between the village and the school?
    A. 7 km
    B. 10 km

6. 12 persons working 8 hours a day can complete a work in 10 days. In how many days 18 persons working 7 hours day will complete 70% of work? 
    A. 9 days
    B. 5  1/3 days 

7. Who is the winner of the 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, for “A Prayer for Travelers”?
     A. Ruchika Tomar
     B. Wendy Rose

8. Contemporary economic development differs..........from the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century.
     A. usually
     B. specially
     C. literally
     D. markedly

9. An employment advertisement should..........the number of vacancies.
    A. provide
    B. specify

10. Children below the age of 12 can be tried only by the..........Court.
      A. Supreme
      B. High
      C. District
      D. Juvenile

COMPETITIVE EXAM QUESTIONS PART 157

1. ___________ crosses the Himalayas and brings dry and stable weather in winter in India.

   A. Easterly Jet streams

   B. Westerly Jet streams

2. Introduction of Joint Forest Management was an important objective of ____________.
      A. National Forest Policy, 1988
      B. Man and Biosphere Programme

3. Copper is found in large quantities at _____
     A. Durgapur
     B. Ghatshila 

4. Kannada belong to ____________ language group.
     A. Austric 
     B. Aryan
     C. Sino Tibetan
     D. Dravidian

5. The National Fire Service College is located at
     A. Ahmedabad
     B. Chennai
     C. Nagpur

6. Sal tree is found in _______ forest.
     A. Moist tropical
     B. Alpine

7. The Marwar plain is found in ________.
     A. Rajasthan
     B. Gujarat

8. A can do a piece of work in 15 days and B alone can do it in 10 days. B works at it for 5 days and then leaves. A alone can finish the remaining work in
    A. 5 days
    B. 6 days
    C. 7.5 days

9. Worker A takes 8 hours to do a job. Worker B takes 10 hours to do a job. How long should it take both A and B, working together to do same job.
     A. 4/9
     B. 2 4/9

10. Which of the following is the brightest planet?
       A. Mercury
       B. Venus

COMPETITIVE EXAM QUESTIONS PART 156

1. Statements:
    I. All human beings need education.
    II. All teachers need training.
    III. Education is provided by the teachers.
    IV. X is a teacher.
    V. X needs training.
    VI. Students are future of a nation.
The set of statements is:
A. I, II, V
B. II, III, IV
C. II, IV, V

2. Statements:
     I. Some students love reading.
     II. Some adults do not love reading.
     III. Some students are not adult.
     IV. Some students are adult.
     V. No reading lover is an adult.
     VI. Some men do not love reading.
The set of statements is:
  A. I, III, IV
  B. I, V, III

3. The milk and water in two vessels A and B are in the ratio 4 : 3 and 2 : 3 respectively. In what ratio, the liquids in both the vessels be mixed to obtain a new mixture in vessel C containing half milk and half water ?

   A. 7:5

   B. 5:2

4. A is two years older than B who is twice as old as C. If the total of the ages of A, B and C be 27, then how old is B?
    A. 7
    B.10

5. Honour: Governor:: ? : Duke
     A. Excellency
     B. Majesty
     C. Highness

6. Heavy water consists of
     A. Heavy oxygen and heavy hydrogen
     B. Oxygen and heavy hydrogen

7. A can do a piece of work in 80 days. He works at it For 10 days and then B alone finishes the work in 42 days. The two together could complete the work in ?
   A. 24 days
   B. 25 days
   C. 30 days

8. 12 men can complete a work within 9 days. After 3 days they started the work, 6 men joined them to replace 2 men. How many days will they take to complete the remaining work ?
   A. 2
   B. 4  1/2

9. A can do a piece of work in 24 days, while B can do it in 30 days. With the help of C they can finish the whole work in 12 days.How much time is required for C to complete the work, alone?
   A. 100 days
   B. 120 days

10. If A takes 4/5 days as B takes and working together they require 20/3 days to complete the whole work. What is the efficiency of B?
      A. 6 2/3%
      B. 16%

COMPETITIVE EXAM QUESTIONS PART 155

1. If Ocean: Waves, then Desert : ——————

     A. Water 

    B. Sand dunes

2. The telephone . . . . . . . . several times before I answered it.
     A. would ring
     B. had rung

3. He lives near a lonely . . . . . . . . of countryside.
     A. piece
     B. length
     C. stretch

4. I don't . . . . . . . . I shall be . . . . . . . . to go.
     A. know , wanting
     B. consider , desirous
     C. think, able

5. The ratio of width of our National flag to its length is
     A. 03:05
    B. 02:03

6. Brass gets discoloured in air because of the presence of which of the following gases in air?
      A. Oxygen
     B. Hydrogen Sulphide

7. A and B can do a piece of work in 8 days, B and C can do the same work in 12 days and A and C complete it in 8 days. In how many days A, B and C can complete the whole work,working together?
    A. 4
    B. 6

8. Three solid of cubes of sides 1cm, 6cm and 8 cm are melted to form a new cube. Find the total surface area of the cube so formed.
    A. 128 cm2
    B. 346 cm2
    C. 486 cm2

9. The least number, by which 1944 must be multiplied so as to make the result a perfect cube, is
   A. 2
   B. 3

10. The underlying cause of bio diversity loss is
       A. poverty and unsustainable development projects
       B. macroeconomic policies
       C. international trade factors
      D. All of the above

COMPETITIVE EXAM QUESTIONS PART 154

1. The sum of two numbers is 22 and their difference is 14. What is the product of numbers?

    A. 72

    B. 82

2. Which of the following is the national sport of Bangladesh?
    A. Kabaddi
    B. Kho Kho

3. What is true about methanol based economy?
     A. Future economy in which dimethyl ether replace fossil fuels as a means of energy storage
  B. It offers an alternative to the proposed hydrogen economy or ethanol economy
     C. China is the world largest producer of methanol
     D. All of the above

4. Two trains running in opposite directions cross a man standing on the platform in 27 seconds and 17 seconds respectively and they cross each other in 23 seconds. The ratio of their speeds is:
     A. 1 : 3
     B. 3 : 2

5. Who rendered the English version of our National Anthem?
     Ans: Rabindra Nath Tagore

6. Horse latitudes lie within the atmospheric pressure belts of 
    A. Equatorial low
    B. Sub-polar low
    C. Polar high
    D. Sub-tropical high

7. Which river in India flows in a rift-valley?
     A. Cauvery
     B. Tapti
     C. Narmada

8. 10 cylindrical pillars of a building have to be painted. The diameter of each pillar is 70 cm and the height is 4 m. What is the cost of painting at the rate of Rs.5 per square metre?
    A. Rs.400
    B. Rs.440

9. If Black is related to absence then white is related to
     A. Presence
     B. Red

10. Pointing to a photograph, a lady tells Pramod, "I am the only daughter of this lady and her son is your maternal uncle." How is the speaker related to Pramod`s father ?
    A. Sister-in-law
    B. Wife

COMPETITIVE EXAM QUESTIONS PART 153

1. Kunal walks 10 km towards North.  From there he walks 6 km towards South.  Then, he walks 3 km towards East.  How far and in which direction is he with reference to his starting point?

     Ans: 5 km north-east

2. A train overtakes two persons who are walking in the same direction in which the train is going, at the rate of 2 kmph and 4 kmph and passes them completely in 9 and 10 seconds respectively. The length of the train is:
    A. 45 m
    B. 50 m

3. If the sum of a number and its reciprocal be 2, then the number is
     A. 0
     B. 1

4. Ten years ago, P was half of Q's age. If the ratio of their present ages is  3:4, what will be the total of their present ages?
    A. 45
    B. 30
    C. 35

5. MS Office is a ________ software.
    A. System Software
    B. Application Software

6. What sum will amount to Rs 6,600 in 4 years at 8% per annum at simple interest?
      A. Rs. 6,000
      B. Rs. 5,000

7. Who wrote Mudrarakshasa?
     A. Vishakhadatta
     B. Panini

8. Who is the Chief Information Commissioner of India?
     Ans: Bimal Julka

9. All men are chairs. John Doe is a man. In logical language, therefore:
      A. John Doe is a chair
      B. John Doe is a human being and therefore he cannot be a chair
      C. A man cannot be a chair in any case
      D. Chairs can be men

10. Main statement: Only if the teaching standard is destroyed, will examination result be poor.
       I. Examination result is poor.
       II. Teaching standard is not destroyed.
       III. Examination result is not poor.
       IV. Teaching standard is destroyed.
The ordered pair of statements is:
A. II, III
B. II, IV
C. I, III
D. I, II

COMPETITIVE EXAM QUESTIONS PART 151

1. Where was 107th Indian Science Congress held?

     Ans: Bengaluru

2. The price of 2 jeans and 4 caps is Rs 1600. With the same money one can buy 1 Jeans and 6 caps. If one wants to buy 12 caps, how much shall one have to pay?
     A. Rs 2,400
     B. Rs 4,800

3. It was Sunday on Jan 1, 2006. What was the day of the week Jan 1, 2010?
    A. Sunday
    B. Saturday
    C. Friday

4. Who was the sultan of Delhi when Timur invaded the city?
     Ans: Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud Shah Tughluq

5. Which Sikh Guru introduced the Gurmukhi Script?
      A. Guru Angad
      B. Guru Gobind Singh

6. What was the strength of Indus economy?
     A. Agriculture
     B. Business

7. In the afternoon, a student read 100 pages at the rate of 60 pages per hour. In the evening, when she was tired, she read 100 more pages at the rate of 40 pages per hour. What was her average rate of reading, in pages per hour?
    A. 60
    B. 70
    C. 48

8. A man covered a distance of 12 km in 90 min by cycle. How much distance will he cover in 3 h, if he rides the cycle at a uniform speed?
    A. 36 km
    B. 24 km

9. The average height of the basketball team A is 5 ft 11 inches and that of B is 6 ft 2 inches. There are 20 players in team A and 18 players in team B.The overall average height is
    A. 72.42 inches
    B. 72 inches

10. Average weight of 19 men is 74 kg and the average weight of 38 women is 63 kg. What is the average weight(rounded off to the nearest integer) of all the men and the women together?
     A. 59 kg
     B. 65 kg
     C. 69 kg
     D. 67 kg

COMPETITIVE EXAM QUESTIONS PART 150

1. Who discovered benzene?
    Ans: Michael Faraday

2. To cover a distance of 144 km in 3.2 hours what should be the average speed of the car in meters/second?

     A. 12.5

     B. 10

3. A man complete a journey in 10 hours. He travels first half of the journey at the rate of 21 km/hr and second half at the rate of 24 km/hr. Find the total journey in km.
   A. 220 km
   B. 224 km

4. Three numbers are in the ratio 5 : 7 : 12. If the sum of the first and the third is greater than the second by 50. The sum of the three numbers is ?
    A. 125
   B. 120

5. A man is facing west. He turns 45 degree in the clockwise direction and then another 180 degree in the same direction and then 270 degree in the anticlockwise direction. Find which direction is he facing now?
     A. South-west 
     B. West

6. The sum of two positive integers is 52 and their LCM is 168. What is the ratio between the numbers?
     A. 2 : 3
     B. 5 : 4
     C. 7 : 6

7. The new managing director of the International Monetary Fund.
     Ans: Kristalina Georgieva

8. _________ is an example of intrusive igneous rock.
    A. Conglomerate
    B. Shale
    C. Granite

9. Which gland in the human body acts both as an endocrine gland as well as an exocrine gland?
     Ans: Pancreas

10. An accurate clock shows 8 o'clock in the morning. Through how may degrees will the hour hand rotate when the clock shows 2 o'clock in the afternoon?
     A. 144°
     B. 150°
     C. 168°
     D. 180°

COMPETITIVE EXAM QUESTIONS PART 149

1. A sum of Rs. 12,500 amounts to Rs. 15,500 in 4 years at the rate of simple interest. What is the rate of interest?

     A. 3%

    B. 4%

    C. 5%

    D. 6%

2. A can do a piece of work in 12 days, and B in 15 days. They work together for 5 days and then B left. The days taken A to finish the remaining work is :
     A. 3 days
     B. 5 days

3. How many men need to be employed to complete a job in 5 days. If 15 men can complete 1/3 of the job in 7 days?
    A. 20 days
    B.63 days

4. A, B and C individually can do a work in 10 days, 12 days and 15 days respectively. If they start working together, then the number of days required to finish the work is
    A. 2 days
    B. 4 days

5. A and B together can complete a piece of work in 72 days, B and C together can complete it in 120 days, and A and C together in 90 days. In what time can A alone complete the work?
      A. 150 days
     B.120 days

6. A can do a work in 6 days and B in 9 days. How many days will both take together to complete the work?
    A. 5.4 days
    B. 7.5 days
    C. 3.6 days

7. The age of Rakhi is twelve times that of her daughter Anubha. If age of Anubha is 3 years now, then what was the age of Rakhi, 2 years earlier?
    A. 20 years
    B. 34 years

8. Deepak said to Nitin, " That boy playing football is the younger of the two brothers of the daughter of my father wife." How is the boy playing football related to Deepak?
     A. Son
     B. Brother

9. In how many different ways can letters of the word “BELIEVE” be arranged ?
      A. 840
      B. 1680

10. Find the missing term in the series: 8, 15, 28, 53, ?
       A. 106
      B. 100
      C. 102