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676.

Consider the diagrams below: The above diagrams show the position of the Earth, the Moon and the Sun where

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677.

A boy carved his initials on the bark of a tree at a height of 2.5 m above the ground when the tree was 5 m tall. In 10 years the tree attained a height of 15 m. The initials carved by the boy 10 years ago will now be found

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678.

An athlete claimed that his timing for a 100 m dash should be corrected because the starting signal was given by a gun fired from a point 10 m away from him and the timekeeper was standing close to the gun. The error due to this could be (in seconds)

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679.

Which one of the following is not correctly matched?

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680.

Amniocentesis is a method for

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681.

Assume that the consumer price index (1970 = 100) is at present 500. This means that

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682.

The oldest Hindu epic is

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683.

Among the sources of energy listed below which one is non-conventional in present day rural India?

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684.

Who among the following have a right to vote in the Vice Presidential election but not in the Presidential election?

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685.

Which one of the following countries has tricameral legislature with one House for each ethnic group?

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686.

The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation broadcasts its programmes on the 25 metre band. Which one of the following is the frequency of this transmission?

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687.

Gujarat has experienced drought for four consecutive years because of

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688.

Man passed from the food gathering stage to the food producing stage in the

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689.

Which of the following chemicals in automobile-exhaust can cause cancer?

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690.

Which one of the following has the lowest density of population per sq km according to the 1981 census?

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691.

Which one of the following is a non-metallic mineral?

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692.

The saliva helps in the digestion of

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693.

The resolving power of an electron microscope is much higher than that of an ordinary light microscope because resolving power increases

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694.

Let E, E, E denote efficiency of a diesel, a petrol and a steam engine respectively. Which of the following is correct?

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695.

Charakasamhita is a work on

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696.

Indian Standard Time (I.S.T.) is determined according to the local time of which one of the following longitudes?

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697.

The latitude marked AA in the map represents

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698.

The area marked ‘Y’ in the map represents

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699.

The location of ‘X’ in the map represents the port of

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700.

About 1.5 crore people are added every year to the total population of India. This means that we are adding every year a population equal to that of

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