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  • A passage is given with 5 questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives. The quest to find life outside the solar system got a big boost with the discovery of seven Earth-size extra-solar planets, or exoplanets, orbiting a dwarf star about 40 light years away. Unlike earlier discoveries of exoplanets, all seven planets could possibly have liquid water ? a key to life as we know it on Earth ? with three planets having the greatest chance. This is by far the largest collection of Earth-like planets in the habitable 'Goldilocks' zone of a star ? neither too close nor too far from a star, which raises the possibility of liquid water being present on the surface. Only Earth has liquid water in the solar system. Since the dwarf star is much cooler than the Sun, the dimming of light each time a planet passes or transits before the star could be easily recorded from Earth unlike in cases when planets transit a Sun-like bright star. Since the initial discovery of three planets was made using the Chile-based Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope, the exoplanet system is called TRAPPIST-1. How many planets in our solar system have liquid water?


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  • A. Two
  • B. Three
  • C. One
  • D. Four

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    • 1. The organic reaction represented by equation CH3 - CH = O + H2NOH gives CH3 - CH - NH + H2O is an example of

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    • A. an addition reaction
    • B. a condensation reaction
    • C. an oxidation reaction
    • D. an elimination reaction
    • Discuss
    • 2. Which of the following is not an isotope of hydrogen?

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    • A. Tritium
    • B. Deuterium
    • C. Protium
    • D. Yttrium
    • Discuss
    • 3. The IBM PC-XT was the first to include a hard drive. What was the capacity of this disk?

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    • A. 20 MB
    • B. 1.44 MB
    • C. 10 MB
    • D. 750 KB
    • Discuss
    • 4. The great Victoria Desert is located in


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    • A. Canada
    • B. West Africa
    • C. Australia
    • D. North America
    • Discuss
    • 5. Nuclear fission is caused by the impact of

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    • A. neutron
    • B. proton
    • C. deuteron
    • D. electron
    • Discuss
    • 6. Which of the following is a warm current?

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    • A. Benguela current
    • B. Labrador current
    • C. Kurosiwo current
    • D. South Pacific current
    • Discuss
    • 7. In which year did Ajay Jadeja make his ODI debut?

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    • A. 1996
    • B. 1985
    • C. 1992
    • D. 1991
    • Discuss
    • 8. 'The Gathering Storm' is written by

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    • A. Winston Churchill
    • B. George Washington
    • C. Voltaire
    • D. Romain Rolland
    • Discuss
    • 9. Which of the following countries is not a member of a SAARC

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    • A. Sri Lanka
    • B. Myanmar
    • C. Maldives
    • D. Bhutan
    • Discuss
    • 10. Each year World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day is celebrated on

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    • A. May 8
    • B. May 18
    • C. June 8
    • D. June 18
    • Discuss


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