21. If water is called food, food is called tree, tree is called earth, earth is called world, which of the following grows a fruit?

(A) Water (B) Tree

(C) World (D) Earth

Answer: (C)

22. E is the son of A, D is the son of B, E is married to C, C is the daughter of B. How is D related to E?

(A) Brother (B) Uncle

(C) Father-in-law (D) Brother-in-law

Answer: (D)

23. If INSURANCE is coded as ECNARUSNI, how HINDRANCE will be coded?

(A) CADNIHWCE

(B) HANODEINR

(C) AENIRHDCN

(D) ECNARDNIH

Answer: (D)

24. Find the next number in the following series:

2, 5, 10, 17, 26, 37, 50, ?

(A) 63 (B) 65

(C) 67 (D) 69

Answer: (B)

25. Which of the following is an example of circular argument?

(A) God created man in his image and man created God in his own image.

(B) God is the source of a scripture and the scripture is the source of our knowledge of God.

(C) Some of the Indians are great because India is great.

(D) Rama is great because he is Rama.

Answer: (B)

26. Lakshmana is a morally good person because

(A) he is religious

(B) he is educated

(C) he is rich

(D) he is rational

Answer: (D)

27. Two statements I and II given below are followed by two conclusions (a) and (b). Supposing the statements are true, which of the following conclusions can logically follow?

I. Some religious people are morally good.

II. Some religious people are rational.

Conclusions:

(a) Rationally religious people are good morally.

(b) Non-rational religious persons are not morally good.

(A) Only (a) follows.

(B) Only (b) follows.

(C) Both (a) and (b) follow.

(D) Neither (a) nor (b) follows.

Answer: (C)

28. Certainty is

(A) an objective fact

(B) emotionally satisfying

(C) logical

(D) ontological

Answer: (B)

Questions  from based on  the  following  diagram in  which there are  three  intersecting  circles I, S  and  P  where circle  I  stands  for Indians, circle S stands for scientists and circle P for politicians. Different regions of the figure are lettered from a to g.

29. The region which represents non Indian scientists who are politicians.

(A) f (B) d

(C) a (D) c

Answer: (A)

30. The region which represents politicians who are Indians as well as scientists.

(A) b (B) c

(C) a (D) d

Answer: (C)

31. The population of a city is plotted as a function of time (years) in graphic form below:

Which of the following inference can be drawn from above plot?

(A) The population increases exponentially.

(B) The population increases in parabolic fashion.

(C) The population initially increases in a linear fashion and then stabilizes.

(D) The population initially increases exponentially and then stabilizes.

Answer: (D)

In the following chart, the price of logs is shown in per cubic metre and that of Plywood and Saw Timber in per tones.  Study the chart and answer the following questions. 

32. Which product shows the maximum percentage increase in price over the period?

(A) Saw timber

(B) Plywood

(C) Log

(D) None of the above

Answer: (A)

33. What is the maximum percentage increase in price per cubic metre of log ?

(A) 6

(B) 12

(C) 18

(D) 20

Answer: (D)

34. In  which  year  the  prices  of  two products  increased  and  that  of  the third increased ?

(A) 2000

(B) 2002

(C) 2003

(D) 2006

Answer: (B)

35. Which one  of  the  following  is  the oldest  Archival  source  of  data  in India ?

(A) National Sample Surveys

(B) Agricultural Statistics

(C) Census

(D) Vital Statistics

Answer: (A)

36. In a large random data set following normal  distribution, the ratio (%) of number  of  data  points  which  are  in the  range  of (mean  ± standard deviation) to the total number of data points, is

(A) ~ 50%

(B) ~ 67%

(C) ~ 97%

(D) ~ 47%

Answer: (B)

37. Which number system is usually followed in a typical 32-bit computer?

(A) 2

(B) 8

(C) 10

(D) 16

Answer: (B)

38. Which one of the following is an example of Operating System?

(A) Microsoft Word

(B) Microsoft Excel

(C) Microsoft Access

(D) Microsoft Windows

Answer: (D)

39. Which one of the following represents the binary equivalent of the decimal number 23?

(A) 01011

(B) 10111

(C) 10011

(D) None of the above

Answer: (D)

40. Which one of the following is different from other members?

(A) Google

(B) Windows

(C) Linux

(D) Mac

Answer: (A)