Exam Year: 2006

In a tournament each of the participants was to play one match against each of the other participants. 3 players fell ill after each of them had played three matches and had to leave the tournament. What was the total number of participants at the beginning, if the total number of matches played was 75?

Which portfolio was held by Dr. Rajendra Prasad in the Interim Government formed in the year 1946?

Who among the following was presented with the Sangeet Natak Akadami Ratna Award, 2005 for her lifetime achievement in dance?

Which one of the following countries is the first country in the world to propose a carbon tax for its people to address global warming?

Who among the following wrote ‘The Communist Manifesto’ along with Karl Marx?

Which one among the following commissions was set up in pursuance of a definite provision under an Article of the Constitution of India?

Which one among the following is not a good source of nutritional calcium?

A watch showed a time of fourteen minutes past nine (9 hrs and 14 minutes). The positions of the hour hand and the minute hand of the watch are exactly interchanged. The new time shown by the watch is closest to which one of the following?

Which one of the following countries is not a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)?

Match List. I with List. II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists:
List. I
(Finding/Invention/ Calculation)
A. Time Taken by the Earth to orbit the Sun
B. Calculation of the value of π
C. Invention of the digit zero
D. The game of snakes and ladders
List. II
(Ancient Indian Scholar)
1. Aryabhatta
2. Bhaskaracharya
3. Budhayana
4. Gyandev