1. Which root develops from any part of the plant body except the radical?
Answer: Adventitious root
2. Cyclonic rainfall largely occurs in which country?
Answer: India
3. The final defeat of the Maratha Confederacy came during the time of which governor?
Answer: Hastings
4. Which High Court has jurisdiction over the State of Arunachal Pradesh?
Answer: Mumbai
5. Between which bodies is one Astronomical Unit the average distance?
Answer: Earth and the Sun
6. Where are the headquarters of the IMF and World Bank located?
Answer: Both Washington DC
7. What is the Molten rock below the surface of the earth?
Answer: Magma
8. In ‘March 1925, who was elected as the President of the Central Legislative Assembly?
Answer: Vithalbhai Patel
9. Which is a World Bank group of five institutions?
Answer: IDA
10. In plants which one of the following tissues is dead?
Answer: Collenchyma
11. With which does the power to extend or restrict the jurisdiction of the High Court rest?
Answer: With the Parliament
12. What is a chemical weathering process?
Answer: Oxidation
13. In which year did Mahatma Gandhi return to India, leaving South Africa forever?
Answer: 1915
14. Which non-metals is not a poor conductor of electricity?
Answer: Selenium
15. When International Day of Older Persons, recognized by the UN is observed?
Answer: October 1
16. What was the earlier name of the WTO?
Answer: GAD
17. Which country is known as the ‘Sugar bowl of the World’?
Answer: Cuba
18. Mahamastakabhisheka, a great religious event, is associated with and done for whom?
Answer: Bahubali
19. For the implantation of fertilized ova uterus secret which hormone?
Answer: Estrogen
20. A Judge of a High Court wanting to resign addresses his letter of resignation to whom?
Answer: The President
