Vocabulary Test 1

Vocabulary Test 1 - Spelling bee test

Test your vocabulary

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1. What do you call animals whose young are carried in a pouch.

Kangaroos
Mammals
Marsupials
Placentals

2. A group of wolves is called

Pack
Herd
Host
Pride

3. A "Pride" is a group of

Crows
Lions
Apes
Bees

4. What do you call the baby of a cheetah?

cub
calf
kitten
fawn

5. A lover and collector of books is called

Bookworm
bibliomaniac
bibliophile
bibliotaph

6. The smell of rain on dry earth

miasma
whiff
patrichore
petrichor

7. The plastic or metallic coating at the end of the shoelaces

anklet
aglet
bracelet
anglet

8. A person who knows a lot about and enjoys one of the arts, or food, drink, etc. and can judge quality and skill in that subject

Conoisseur
Connossier
Connoisseur
Connoisceur

9. What will you call a person incapable of being corrected

incorrigible
incorrectible
habitual
irreparable

10. A person who hates women

misogamist
misogynist
Misandry
Misanthropist

Kerala Quiz 2

Kerala Quiz 2

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1. Which one of the following rivers in Kerala flows to the east?

Bhavani
Kabani
Pambar
All of these

2. Which is the smallest district in Kerala by area?

Kasaragod
Wyanad
Alappuzha
Thiruvananthapuram

3. Name the first bird sanctuary in Kerala

Thattekkad
Iravikulam
Neyyar
Peruvannamoozhi

4. In which one of the following rivers Idukki dam is situated?

Bharathapuzha
Pamba
Kallada
Periyar

5. Name the northern most and smallest river of Kerala

Korappuzha
Kuttyadi
Manjeswaram
Neeleswaram

6. Name the first Malayalam writer to win the Bharateeya Jnanpith Award

MT Vasudevan Nair
G. Sankara Kurup
Thakazhi Sivasankarapillai
S K Pottekkad

7. Which one of the following is the first malayalam novel?

Indulekha
Dharmaraja
Kundalatha
Marthandavarma

8. Who is the longest serving Chief Minister of Kerala?

EMS Nampoothiripad
K Karunakaran
Oommen Chandy
EK Nayanar

9. Name the first Malayalam movie to get nominated to the Oscar Award

Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha
Anantharam
Vidheyan
Guru

10. Name the largest Wild Life Sanctuary in Kerala

Parambilkulam
Periyar
Wayanad
Neyyar

Kerala Quiz 3

Kerala Quiz 3

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1. Which one of the following is the state animal of Kerala?

Tiger
Cow
Elephant
Varyadu

2. In 2010 this species was named the official state fish of Kerala. Name the fish

Green chromide
Malabar labeo
Catla
Rohu

3. Which is the largest city in Kerala by area?

Thiruvananthapuram
Palakkad
Alappuzha
Idukki

4. In which year did the Portuguese explorer Vasco Da Gama land in Kerala?

1498
1436
1408
1456

5. Who was the first Chief Minister of Kerala state?

Pattom Thanupilla
EMS Nampoothiripad
R. Sankar

6. The highest populated city in Kerala is

Thrissur
Kozhikode
Kochi
Thiruvananthapuram

7. Which is the first computerised panchayat in Kerala?

Vellanad
Eraviperoor
Perumanna
Kavalangadu

8. The first-grama panchayat in Kerala to-provide free WiFi services for the general public

Vellanad
Perumanna
Eraviperoor
Melila

9. Which place is known as 'Rice Bowl' of the Kerala?

Palakkad
Kuttanad
Wayanad
Idukki

10. Which district of Kerala has the highest female population?-

Thrissur
Kannur
Malappuram
Kollam

Kerala Quiz 1

Kerala Quiz 1

The state of Kerala was created on November 1, 1956. November 1 is therefore known as Kerala Piravi Dinam (day) in the state. Here is a quiz on Kerala

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1. How many districts in Kerala have sea coasts?

5
10
12
9

2. Name the highest mountain peak in Kerala

Anamudi
Brahmagiri
Sabarigiri
Malayattoor

3. How many rivers are there in Kerala?

22
35
44
18

4. Which is the largest fresh water lake in Kerala?

Ashtamudi
Sasthamkotta
Kayamkulam
Vembanad

5. Who is known as " Beypore Sultan?

Viakom Muhammed Basheer
Uroob
MT Vasudevan Nair
Keshavadev

6. The area of forest in Kerala is

0.41
0.19
0.085
0.289

7. Which of the following districts in Kerala have the largest forest area?

Palakkad
Idukki
Alappuzha
Pathanamthitta

8. Which is the highest populated districts in Kerala?

Malappuram
Thiruvananthapuram
Ernakulam
Thrissur

9. Which district in Kerala does not have forests?

Thrissur
Thiruvananthapuram
Kasaragod
Alappuzha

10. Which is the first Wild Life Sanctuary in Kerala?

Periyar
Iravikulam
Silent Valley
Neyyar

Current Affairs Quiz 2

General Knowledge Quiz - Current Affairs 2

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1.The Iron Lady of Manipur Irom Sharmila ended her hunger strike on 9 August 2016. For how many years was she on hunger strike?

5
10
16
12

2.India's first ever BIO-CNG plant producing CNG from agricultural residu was inaugurated by Union Minister Nitin Gadkari in August 2016. In which city was it inaugurated?

Delhi
Pune
Kolkata
Mumbai

3.Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently launched a project with an objective to provide safe drinking water to all in Telangana. What is the name of this project?

Project Ganga
Mission Bhagiratha
Mission Kakatiya
Project Komatibanda

4.MAA, a nation-wide breast feeding programme was launched by the Union Health Minister recently. Who is the brand ambassador of the campaign?

Kajol
Priyanka Chopra
Sruthi Hasan
Madhuri Dixit

5. Najma Heptulla, who served as Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha for sixteen years was appointed as the Governor of an Indian state recently. Which state?

Manipur
Nagaland
Tripura
Assam

6.Name the first state to ratify the new GST Bill

Kerala
Maharashtra
West Bengal
Assam

7.Which state has become the first Indian state to approve sewage and waste water policy?

Rajasthan
Madhya Pradesh
Kerala
Uttar Pradesh

8.Who was appointed as the new President of Microsoft India?

Bhaskar Pramanik
Abidali Neemuchwala
Anant Maheshwari
Rajesh Krishnamurthy

9.India's first underground museum will be opened in which of the following cities?

Mumbai
New Delhi
Cochin
Ahmedabad

10.Name the Indian who was selected to receive prestigious French honour, Chevalier de L'Ordre Arts et Lettres (The Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters)?

Aamir Khan
Amitabh Bachan
Rajnikanth
Kamal Hassan

Current Affairs Quiz 1

General Knowledge Quiz - Current Affairs Quiz 1
The first set of questions on Current Affairs

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1.With which country did India start a joint military exercise called "Mithra Sakthi" in October 2016.

Myanmar
Bangladesh
China
Sri Lanka

2.Prime Minister Naredra Modi has recently announced the launch of a gas pipe line project "Urja Ganga". In which city of India the project will be launched?

Mumbai
Varanasi
Patna
Delhi

3.Who won the Man Booker Prize 2016?

Deborah Levy
Graeme Macrae Burnet
Paul Beatty
Madeleine Thien

4.Who among the following is NOT a recipient of Nobel Prize for Physics in 2016?

David J. Thouless
F. Duncan M. Haldane
J. Michael Kosterlitz
Takaaki Kajita

5.BRICS is the acronym for an association of five major emerging national economies. Which one is NOT a member of BRICS?

India
Singapore
Russia
China

6.Which country hosted the 2016 BRICS summit?

Russia
China
India
South Africa

7.World Economic Forum s (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2016 was published recently. What is India's position in the list out of 144 countries?

91
123
55
87

8.India won the Kabbadi World Cup 2016. Which country did India defeat in the finals?

South Korea
Thailand
Iran
Bengladesh

9.Name the Indian who won the Raman Magasasay Award 2016 for "Emergent Leadership" for bringing social inclusiveness in culture.

T.M. Krishna
Bezwada Wilson
Sanjiv Chaturvedi
Arvind Kejriwal

10.Who is the author of the recently released book 'Andhere Se Ujale Ki Aur'?

Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
Jaishankar Prasad
Arun Jaitley
Sushma Swaraj

Environment Quiz - Green Olympiad Practice Questions 15

Environment Quiz - Green Olympiad Practice Questions 15

Plants Quiz 3

This set of questions are mainly about Plant Kingdom.

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1.Xerophytes are found in the which of the following habitats?

Deserts
Rainforests
Grasslands
Wetlands

2.Why do the deciduous trees shed their leaves during or before winter?

To conserve water
Disposal of waste
To preserve food
Because of the heat

3.Which one of the following is the state tree of Gujrat?

Neem
Asoka
Mango
Sandalwood

4.Anabaena is a genus of filamentous cyanobacteria that exist as plankton which form relationships with certain plants, such as the mosquito fern. What kind of relationship is there between the two?

parasitic
symbiotic
Commensalism
mutualistic

5.Seed dispersal�is the movement or transport of�seeds�away from the parent plant. What is the term used to refer to the dispersal of seeds by wind?

anemochory
zoochory
anthropochory
hydrochory

6.Ashoka is the state tree of which Indian state?

West Bengal
Uthar Pradesh
Gujrat
Madhya Pradesh

7.Name the tree that is commonly found in Kashmir and called as the Oriental Plane.

Chinar
Gulmohar
Peach
Silver Oak

8.Which is the largest flower in the world?

Helianthus annuus
Rafflesia arnoldii
Amorphophallus titanum
Corypha umbraculifera

9.This medicine used for the treatment of malaria is obtained from the bark of a tropical tree, cinchona. Name the medicine

Penicillin
Quinine
Morphine
Digoxin

10.Golden shower tree (Cassia fistula) is the state flower of which one of the following Indian states?

Karnataka
Tamil Nadu
Andhra Pradesh
Kerala

Environment Quiz - Green Olympiad Practice Questions 14

Environment Quiz - Green Olympiad Practice Questions 13

Plants Quiz 2

This set of questions are mainly about Plant Kingdom.

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1.Common rhododendron (Rhododendron ponticum) is the state flower of which of the following states?

Arunachal Pradesh and Haryana
Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir
Jharkand and Jammu and Kashmir
Himachal Pradesh and Jharkand

2.In biology, what is the term used for the passive dispersal of seeds by means of external agents?

anemochory
zoochory
anthropochory
allochory

3.Which of the following families of plants do bamboo belong to?

Grass
Shrub
Tree
Weed

4.The cricket bats are usually made from this deciduous tree. Identify the tree

Maple
Pine
Willow
Poplar

5.Which is the most dominant tree species in the Terai ecosystem?

Deodar
Sal
Keekar
Peepal

6.From which plant the oil citronella oil, used extensively as a source of perfumery chemicals, is extracted?

Lemon grass
Bamboo
Dwarf Reedgrass
Rescue Grass

7.Lotus is the state flower of more than one Indian state. Which one of the following is NOT one among them?

Kerala
Karnataka
Haryana
Andhra Pradesh

8.Which is the state flower of Gujarat?

African marigold
Orchid
Lotus
Lady's slipper

9. Margosa oil is produced from

Neem
Pine
Coconut
Flame of the forest

10.A plant that grows on another plant, but do not cause harm to the host plant is called

Mesophyte
Epiphyte
Xerophyte
Parasite

Environment Quiz - Green Olympiad Practice Questions 13

Environment Quiz - Green Olympiad Practice Questions 13

Plants Quiz

This set of questions are mainly about Plant Kingdom.

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1.The cut flower trade began in the Netherlanda in the 1600s. Name the flower with which this trade started.

Tulip
Bong mai
Yellow chrysanthemum
Narcissus

2.What is the scientific study of the relationships that exist between people and plants called?

Ecology
Phytology
Ethnobotany
Anthropology

3.The chemical compounds that occur naturally in plants are called

Herbicides
Phytochemicals
Chloroplasts
Carotenoids

4. Name the American President who authorised the start of Operation Ranch Hand, the U.S. Air Force's herbicide program in Vietnam

George W Bush
John F Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon

5.The herbicides used by US during the Vietnam war is collectively known as

Agent Green
Agent Orange
Operation Ranch Hand
Rainbow herbicides

6.Alstonia scholaris (commonly called blackboard tree, devil tree) is the state tree of which Indian state?

Haryana
Nagaland
West Bengal
Odisha

7.Do you which among the following is the state tree of Madhya Pradesh?

Banyan
Mango
Alder
Alstonia

8.The city owes its name to the names of two Ganges tributaries forming the city's borders. Can you name the city?

Varanasi
Delhi
Patna
Ghazipur

9.The ancient name of the city was "Vadapadraka" and it means Banyan tree leaf. What is the present name of this city?

Vadodara
Vidisha
Vrindavan
Varanasi

10.Nilgiri Hills, which literally means the blue mountains, got their name from the purplish blue flowers of this plant that blossoms gregariously only once in 12 years. Name the plant

Neelakurunji
Bellflower
Blue popy
Blue hibiscus

Nobel Prize Quiz 3

Nobel Prize Quiz 3

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1.Which one of the following about Nobel Prize is correct

Each recipient receives a medal, diploma and cash award
The country with the most recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature is France
The prizes, except one, are awarded in Stockholm
All of these are correct

2.Who among the following is NOT a recipient of Nobel Prize twice?

Linus Pauling
Frederick Sanger
John Bardeen
Niels Bohr

3.Who declined Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964?

Salman Rushdie
Jean-Paul Sartre
Rudyard Kipling
Aung San Suu Kyi

4.Name the famous physicist who was nominated 84 times for Nobel Prize, but never received it

Stephen Hawking
Linus Pauling
Arnold Sommerfeld
Wolfgang Pauli

5.First person to be awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in English

Rudyard Kipling
William Butler Yeats
George Bernard Shaw
Sinclair Lewis

6.Which of the following US Presidents is NOT a recipient of Nobel Prize?

Woodrow Wilson
Jimmy Carter
Barack Obama
George Bush

7.Name the first US President to win a Nobel Prize

Woodrow Wilson
Jimmy Carter
Barack Obama
Theodore Roosevelt

8.From which one of the following countries in the Indian sub-continent there has been NO Nobel Prize recipient?

India
Pakistan
Myanmar
Sri Lanka

9.Linus Pauling, has won two undivided Nobel Prizes in the fields of

Chemistry, Physics
Chemistry, Peace
Medicine, Chemistry
Physics, Literature

10.Which of the following organisations received Nobel Prize THREE times

International Red Cross
Amnesty International
United Nations
Institute of International Law

Nobel Prize Quiz 2

Nobel Prize Quiz 2

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1.Name the invention that Alfred Nobel made which led to the Nobel Prize

Dynamite
Nuclear Fission
Antibiotics
Atom bomb

2.Why Nobel Prize award ceremonies held on December 10 every year?

Date of birth of Alfred Nobel
Date of death of Alfred Nobel
Invention of dynamite
Date of establishment of Swedish Academy

3.Which one of the following Nobel Prizes is NOT awarded in Stockholm

Peace Prize
Literature
Chemistry
Physics

4.Why Nobel Prize for Peace is awarded in Oslo, Norway?

Because it was instituted by Norway
Norway is a peaceful country
Alfred Nobel stated it in his will
Alfred Nobel died there

5.British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1953. In what prize category?

Literature
Peace
Economics
Physics

6.Pick the odd one out

Mahatma Gandhi
Nelsen Mandela
Barack Obama
Kofi Annan

7.She is the first muslim woman and the first Iranian to receive Nobel Prize

Shirin Ebadi
Tawakkul Karman
Malala Yousafzai
Alva Myrdal

8.The first Nobel Prize for Peace was awarded to

Henry Dunant and Frederic Passy
Elie Ducommun and Charles Albert Gobat
William Randal Cremer and Bertha von Suttner
Theodore Roosevelt

9.Nobel Prize was NOT awarded to which of the following fields

Literature
Physics
Chemistry
Biology

10.The first Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded in 1901 to

Sully Prudhomme
Theodor Mommsen
Rudyard Kipling
Paul von Heyse