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Organization Railway Recruitment Board - bangalore
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Exam Date 2006
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1. A ball tied with a string to a rotating shaft revolves at uniform speed. as the shaft is suddenly brought to rest the string starts getting round the shaft with the angular velocity of the ball.

a)increasing

b) decreasing

c)remaining constant

d) becoming zero

2. if an apple is released from an orbiting spaceship it will

a) fall towards the earth

b) move along with spaceship at the same speed

c) move at a higher speed

d) move at a lower speed

3. What happens when water is cooled from 8° C to 0°

a) Its volume decreases uniformly, becoming minimum at 0° C

b) Its density increases uniformly, attaining maximum value at 0° C

c) Its volume decreases up to 4° C and then increases

d) Its density decreases up to 4° C and then increases

4. During summer, we feel comfortable under a fan because it

a) throws cool air on us

b) sets the air in motion, thereby increasing the evaporation of sweat

c) produces convection currents

d) produces air which carries heat away from the body

5. Light waves are different from sound waves in that-

a) light waves are electromagnetic but sound waves are not

b) light waves can travel through water but sound waves cannot

c) light travels with the same speed in all media

d) light waves produce

6. Planets are-

a)luminous bodies which twinkle

b) non luminous bodies which twinkle

c) luminous bodies which don't twinkle

d) non luminous bodies which don't twinkle

7. If you move towards a mirror at the speed of 10 then your image will approach you at the speed of-

a) 5 cm/s

b) 10 cm/s

c) 20 cm/s

d) Data inadequate

8. In outer space a spaceman-

a) cannot see stars during day time

b) cannot see stars at all

c) can see stars during day time opposite sun

d) can see stars during day time in all directions

9. The soap bubbles look coloured when viewed in white light due to-

a) scattering of light by thin layer

b) interference of light by thin layer

c) trasmission of light

d) characteristics of the colours of soap solution

10. Which of the following devices changes the electrical energy into mechanical energy?

a) Dynamo

b) Electric motor

c) Inductor

d) Rectifier

11. The function of a moderator in a nuclear reactor is to-

a) moderate the number of secondary neutrons

b) moderate the velocity of secondary neutrons

c) increase the number of fissionable nuclei

d) control the fission reaction

12. Which planets do not have satellites revolving around them?

b) Mercury and Venus

d) Neptune and Pluto

a) Mars and Venus

c) Mars and Mercury

13. The absolute zero of temperature is-

a) the starting point of any scale of temperature

b) the lowest temperature that is theoretically possible

c) the temperature at which the vapours of all liquid substances freeze

d) the temperature at which all substances exists in the vapour phase

14. Heavy water-

a) contains more dissolved air

b) contains more dissolved minerals and salts

c) contains deuterium in place of hydrogen

d) contains organic impurities

15. Animal charcoal is obtained by-

a) the destructive distillation of bones

b) burning the bones of animals in contact with air

c) burning the flesh of animals

d) burning the bones of animals out of contact with air

16. Polythene is industrially prepared by the polymerisation of-

a) Methane

b) Acetylene

c) Ethylene

d) Ethane

17. 'Fixation of nitrogen' implies-

a) the liquefication of nitrogen

b) the conversion of atmospheric nitrogen into useful compounds

c) the conversion of nitrogen into amines

d) the solidification of nitrogen gas of the atmosphere

18. Oxidation is a process which involves-

a) the loss of electrons

b)the gain of hydrogen

c) the gain of electrons

d) no change in electrons

19. The bleaching agent of the colour of the clothes is-

a) Sodium chloride

b) Sulphur dioxide

c) Carbon dioxide

d) Sulphur trioxide

20. Emerald is formed of-

a) Berilium

b)chromium

c) aluminium

d) magnesium

21. On February 20, 1947, British Prime Minister announced the decision of British Government to leave India till-

a) August 1947

b) January 1948

c) June 1948

d) August 1948

22. The objective of Red Shirts movement was-

a) creation of independent Pashtunistan

b) creation of Pakistan

c) activities of trade unions in India

d) free India from the British

23. Find the oddman out of the following sites of Harappa civilization?

a) Kalibanga

b) Mohanjodaro

c) Lothal

d) Surkotada

24. In the world congress of religions in Chicago in 1893 who represented India?

a) Dadabhai Naoroji

b) Swami Dayanand

c) Swami Vivekananda

d) Ramkrishna Paramhans

25. Babar was cremated in ............. as he desired.

b) Peshawar

c) Delhi

d) Agra

26. The SWADESHI movement in India was started during

a) Champaran Satyagraha of Gandhi

b) Movement against partition of Bengal

c) Movement against Rowlat Act

d) First non cooperation movement in 1919 22

27. Fill in the blank with appropriate adjective. Do you have ............ tea in the pot?

a) any

b) some

c) few

d) none

28. What are potato ores?

a) Nodules on the sea bed containing a variety of minerals

b) Seed potato grown in Himachal Pradesh

c) Iron ore having a large concentration of Sulphur

d) Ores of nuclear minerals

29. What is Obra known for?

a) A new refinery

b) Thermal power station

c) An upcoming aluminium plant

d) Bird sanctuary

30. Where are diesel locomotives manufactured?

a) chittaranjam

b) Varansi

c) Bhopal

d) Jamshedpur

31. On which river is the Nagarjunasagar project located?

a) Krishna

b) Godavari

c) Kaveri

d) Tapti

32. What is Operation Flood concerned with?

a) Flood Control

b) The provision of irrigation facilities

c) The creation of buffer stocks of food grains

d) Improving the availability of milk in the cities

33. in which area is the deodar tree commonly found

a) tropical evergreen forests

b) tropical deciduous forests

c) thron forests

d) alpine forests

34. KP Canal joins-

a) Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka

b) Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu

c) Karnataka and Tamil Nadu

d) Andhra Pradesh and Orissa

35. The Niger River falls in-

a) Arctic Ocean

b) Bay of Mexico

c) Gulf of Guinea

d) Pacific Ocean

36. The Annapurna mountain peak is situated in-


a) India

b) Nepal

c) China

d) Pakistan

37. Victoria island is situated in ........

a) Arctic Ocean

b) Indian Ocean

c) North Atlantic Ocean

d) Pacific Ocean

38. Dr. S. Radha Krishnan was .........

a) First President of India

b) First Education Minister

c) First Speaker of Indian Parliament

d) First Vice President of India

39. Apsara is

a) Nuclear reactor

b) Nuclear submarine

c) Tank carrier submarine

d) Mountain peak

40. The first Indian pilotless rocket is-

a) Luna 9

b) Apollo

c) Luna 10

d) Lakshya

41. The famous Vishwanath temple is situated in .......

a) puri

b) Pachmarhi

c) Varanasi

d) Ellora

42. Gomateshwar statue is situated in-

a) Subramanyam road

Ellora

shravanabelagola

d)kolkata

43. Who is known as Gandhi of Bihar?

a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

b) M.K. Gandhi

c) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

d) Lal Bahadur Shastri

44. The International Labour Organisation is headquartered at45.

a) Geneva

b) New York

c) Rome

d) Paris

45. Yakshagan is the folk dance of-

a) Tamil Nadu

b) Kerala

c) Karnataka

d) Andhra Pradesh

46. cMohan Line is an international border line between-

a) Pakistan and Afghanistan

b) India and China

c) India and Pakistan

d) India and Nepal

47. Vaccination is invented by-

a) Edward Jennar

b) Leuis Pastuer

c) wating

d) None of these

48. Basketball team has ........ number of players.

a) 5

b) 6

c) 7

d) 8

49. The strength of the legislative council of a state cannot exceed ...... of the membership of the legislative assembly.

a) one half

b) one third

c) one fourth

d) one fifth

50. The Chief Justice and other judges of the High Court retire at the age of-

a) 60 years

b) 62 years

c) 65 years

d) 70 years

51. Which of the following statements correctly describes a hung parliament?

a) A parliament in which no party has a clear majority

b) The Prime Minister has resigned but the parliament is not dissolved

c) The parliament lacks the quorum to conduct business

d) None of these

52. The final authority to make a proclamation of emergency rests with-

b) the President

the Prime Minister

the Parliament

c) council of Ministers

53. The given figure is a symbol of <img src='./qimages/3399-53.jpg'>

a) FBI

b) Radio

c) Olympics

d) CBI

54. The following graph shows <img src='./qimages/3399-54.jpg'>

a) Low growth

b) Constant growth

c) First moderate then more growth

d) Fall in price

55. A man is walking in a rectangular field whose perimeter is 6 km. If the area of rectangular field be 2 sq km, then what is the difference between the length and breadth of the rectangle?

a)1/2km

b) 1 km

c) 11/2 km

d) 2 km

56. If a watch runs 5 minutes fast every hour, then the angle traversed by a second hand in one minute is

360°

360.5°

390°

380°

57. find odd man out

a) Mahanadi

b) Cauvery

c) Narmada

d) Krishna

58. find odd man out

a) Yuri Gagarin

b) Rakesh Sharma

c) Neil Armstrong

d) Edmund Hillary

59. 563, 647, 479, 815, (.....)

a) 672

b) 386

c) 279

d) 143

60. 12, 20, 30, 42, 56, (.....)

a) 60

b) 64

c) 70

d) 72

61. If FRIEND is coded as HUMJTK, how is CANDLE written in that code.

a) EDRIRL

b) DCQHQK

c) ESJFME

d) FYOBOC

62. In a certain code INSTITUTION is written as NOITUTITSNI. How is PERFECTION written in that code?

a) NOICTEFREP

b) NOITCEFERP

C) NOICTEFREP

c) NOITCEFRPE

63. If water is called blue, blue is called red, red is called white, white is called sky, sky is called rain, rain is called green and green is called air, which of the fold) lowing is the colour of milk?

a) Air

b) Green

c) White

d) Sky

64. A man said to a lady, "Your mother's husband's sister is my aunt." How is the lady related to the man?

a) Daughter

b) Mother

c) Sister

d) Aunt

65. <img src='./qimages/3399-65.jpg'> Which two students who are not wearing glasses are short?

a) Aand F

b) C and E

c) B and F

d) E and F

66. <img src='./qimages/3399-66.jpg'> Which short student of Gandhi House is not wearing glasses?

a) F

b) E

c) B

d) A

67. Which tall student of Gandhi House is not wearing glasses?

a) B

b) C

c) F

d) E

68. How is P related to T and U are the six members of a family in which there are two married couples. Teacher is married to a doctor who is mother of R and U.
(iii) Lawyer Q is married to P. P has a son and a grandson. Out of the two married women one is a house wife. There are one student and a male engineer in the family.

b) Mother

d) Grand mother

a) Maternal father

c) Sister

69. Who is the house wife? T and U are the six members of a family in which there are two married couples. Teacher is married to a doctor who is mother of R and U.
Lawyer Q is married to P.
P has a son and a grandson.
Out of the two married women one is a house wife.
There are one student and a male engineer in the family.

a) P

b)q

c)s

d) none of the above

70. How is R related to T and U are the six members of a family in which there are two married couples. Teacher is married to a doctor who is mother of R and U.
(iii) Lawyer Q is married to P. P has a son and a grandson. Out of the two married women one is a house wife. There are one student and a male engineer in the family.

a) Brother

b) Sister

c) Brother or sister

d) Information inadequate

71. Which of the following groups denote the female group?

T and U are the six members of a family in which there are two married couples.
Teacher is married to a doctor who is mother of R and U.
Lawyer Q is married to P.
P has a son and a grandson.
Out of the two married women one is a house wife.
There are one student and a male engineer in the family.

a) PSR

b) PSU

c) QTR

d) Information inadequate

72. Which of the following is correct with respect to grand daughter in the family?

T and U are the six members of a family in which there are two married couples.
Teacher is married to a doctor who is mother of R and U.
(iii) Lawyer Q is married to P. P has a son and a grandson. Out of the two married women one is a house wife. There are one student and a male engineer in the family.

a) He is a lawyer

b) She is a student

c) He is an engineer

d) Information inadequate

73. Which one of the following Venn diagrams best illustrates the three classes Rhombus, Quadrilaterals, Polygons?

<img src='./qimages/3399-73.jpg'>

74. How many even numbers are there in the following sequence of numbers which are immediately followed by an odd number as well as immediately preceded by an even number?

8 6 7 6 8 9 3 2 7 5 3 4 2 2 3 5 5 2 2 8 11 9

a) Three

b) Five

c) Six

d) None of these

75. In a row of girls, Shilpa is eighth from the left and Reena is seventeenth from the right. If they interchang their positions, Shilpa becomes fourteenth from the left. How many girls are there in the row?

a) 25

b) 27

c) 29

d) None of these

76. Kailash remembers that his brother Deepak's birthday falls after 20th May but before 28th May, while Geeta remembers that Deepak's birthday falls before 22nd May and after 12th May. On what date Deepak's birthday falls?

a) 20th May

b) 21st May

c) 22nd May

d) Cannot be determined

77. If × means means × ÷ means and means then

15 ÷ 19) × 8 6

8

4

2

-1
78. Arrange the following in a meaningful order:

Doctor, Fever, Medicine, Medical shop

a) Medicine, Doctor, Medical shop, Fever

c) fever,doctor,medical shop, medicine.

Doctor, Medical shop, Medicine, Fever

Medical Shop, Medicine, Fever, Doctor

79. Out of the questions solved by a student the number of incorrect solutions was twice the correct answers. He solved 48 questions. How many answers were correctly solved?

a) 12

b) 16

c) 24

d) 18

80. People and horses in the same number were going some where. Half of the owners were riding their horses and the remaining were walking on foot with the horses. If the total number of feet of walkers was 70. How many were the hors-

a) 10

b) 12

c) 14

d) 16

81. select missing number <img src='./qimages/3399-81.jpg'>

82. Find the missing number <img src='./qimages/3399-82.jpg'>

a) 78

b) 82

c) 94

d) 86

83. Find the missing number? <img src='./qimages/3399-83.jpg'>

a) 4

b) 305

c)343

d)729

84. The appropriate meaning of IMPAIR is

a) separate

make worse

make amends

falsify

85. The appropriate meaning of SUBLIME is

a) unconscious

b) respected

c) exalted

d) sneaky

86. The opposite meaning of ANOMALY is87.

a) desperation

b) requisition

c) registry

d) regularity

87. The opposite meaning of BEAUTIFY is-

a) disfigure

b) horrify

c) magnify

d) stupefy

88. Give one word for number of things together'.

a) assemblage

b) series

c) appendage

d) serial

89. Give one word for document written by hand'.

b) backa

a) profile

c) manuscript

d) red tape

90. The meaning of the phrase set the people by ears' is-

a) to punish heavily

b) to insult and disgrace people

c) to box the people

d) to excite people to a quarrel

91. The meaning of the phrase wash dirty line in public' is

a) to quarrel in the open

b) to do some ugly work in public.

c) to discuss dirty and scandalous matters of personal nature in the presence of strangers.

d) to wash one's clothes in the open.

92. Gita bought a saree which ............ two hundred rupees.

a) costed

b) cost

c) had costed

d) was costed

93. As soon as the monsoon .......... transport in the inner city becomes more and more

a) difficult.

b) had started

c) started

d) starts

94. check incorrect spelling

a) Silent

b) silence

c) Prefer

d) Preferene

95. check incorrect spelling

a) Allusion

b) Alluminium

c) Allurement

d) Alignment

96. Choose the word with correct spelling.

a) Commition

b) Commission

c) Comission

d) Commision

97. Choose the word with correct spelling.

a) Pneumonia

b) Neumonia

c) Pnuemonia

d) Pnemonia

98. God made country ......... man made town.

a) an

b) a

c) the

d) no article

99. Do you intend to travel by the water or by ........ land?

a) an

b) a

c) the

d) no article

100. Find the mistake in the appropriate part of given sentence. In case there is no mistake, choose option The master of a ship are still seen in the place where it sank.

No error




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