List of practice Questions

A placement company has to assign 1000 SW personnel who are skilled in Java and Dot Net to a prospective outsourcing company. He finds that 750 are having Dot Net skills and 450 have Java skills. Some have skills in both Java and Dot Net. Find the numbers who have skills in both Java and Dot Net.

Amino acids are found in

'At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.' Who wrote this famous advertising headline?

Choose the option that does not belong with the rest:

Consider a square ABCD with midpoints E, F, G and H of sides AB, BC, CD and DA. Let L denote the line passing through F and H. Consider points P and Q on the line L inside the square such that the angles APD and BQC are both equal 120 degrees. What is the ratio ABQCDP to the remaining area of ABCD?

Embraer is one of the world leaders in the manufacturing of corporate/business jets. Embraer belongs to which country?

Eustace Fernandes who passed away in 2010 was the much admired creator of

Find out the appropriate next number in the series from the options below :
0, 2, 6, 12, 20, 30, 42, ?

Find the mismatch

For what range of values of 'x', will be the inequality \(15x-(\frac 2x)>1\)?

His lie's motto was 'simple living and high thinking'. He was one of the greatest intellectuals and activists of the 19th century and one of the pillars of the Bengal Renaissance. He was a polymath. Sanskrit pundit, educator, social reformer writer and philanthropist. Due to his relentless efforts, on 26th July 1856, widow re-marriage was legalized by the then Government of India. Who is this towering personality?

How many ice cubes can be accommodated in a container?
(I) The length and breadth of the container is 20 cm and 15 cm respectively.
(II) The edge of the ice cube is 2 cm.

How many litres of a 30% alcohol solution should be added to 40 litres of a 60% alcohol solution to prepare a 50% solution?

If C₁ and C₂ are the circumferences of the outer and inner circles respectively. What is C₁ : C₂?
(I) The two circles are concentric.
(II) The area of the ring is \(\frac 23\) the area of greater circle.

If for a particular value of the variable \(x\), the following holds good \(17=\frac {17x}{(1-x)}\), then compute the value of \((2x)x\).

In 1679, Denis Papin, a French physicist, who assisted Robert Boyle, used the latter's scientific discoveries and invented what is today one of the most commonly found kitchen equipment. His invention earned him a membership of the Royal Society of England. What was the invention?

In 1965 Gordon Moore, Co-founder of Intel, made a prediction about the future of computer processing. What does his prediction, known as Moore's Law say?

In which country is the seat of the United Nations International Court of Justice?

India's first Special Economic Zone dedicated to the Aerospace Industry has been launched at

Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger are known for founding

Match the following husband-and-wife team with the awards they have received for exemplary work:

1	Bill and Melinda Gates	i	Right to Livelihood Awards
2	Sankaralingam and Krishnammal	ii	UN Population Award
3	Prakash and Mandakini Amte	iii	Kyoto Prize
4	Peter and Rosemary Grant	iv	Magsaysay Award

Mr. Ratan Tata refused a job with one of the following companies to join Tata Steel in 1962. Which company was it?

Name the failed Chinese pro-democracy activist who won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for his 'long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China.'

'Niyamgiri Hills' was in the news because of

On March 5, 2010, which of the following personalities from India is among 19 members chosen by UN chief Ban Ki-moon for a high-level advisory group on Climate Change Financing tasked with mobilizing funds pledged during the Copenhagen meet to tackle global warming?