Quiz – 273

Quant Quiz

Q1. In an election between 2 candidates, Bhiku gets 65% of the total valid votes. If the total votes were 6000, what is the number of valid votes that the other candidate Mhatre gets if 25% of the total votes were declared invalid?
(a) 1625             (b) 1575             (c) 1675             (d) 1525             (e) None of these

Q2. The population of the village of Gavas is 10,000 at this moment. It increases by 10% in the first year. However, in the second year, due to immigration, the population drops by 5%. Find the population at the end of the third year if in the third year the population increases by 20%.
(a) 12,340             (b) 12,540             (c) 1,27,540             (d) 12,340              (e) 13,240

Q3. In a class, 25% of the students were absent for an exam. 30% failed by 20 marks and 10% just passed because of grace marks of 5. Find the average score of the class if the remaining students scored an average of 60 marks and the pass marks are 33 (counting the final scores of the candidates.)
(a) 37.266             (b) 37.6             (c) 37.8             (d) 36.93             (e) 37.5

Q4. On a shelf, the first row contains 25% more books than the second row and the third row contains 25% less books  than the second row. If the total number of books contained in all the rows is 600, then find the number of books in the first row.
(a) 250             (b) 225             (c) 300             (d) 180             (e) None of these

Q5. Last year, the Indian cricket team played 40 one-day cricket matches out of which they managed to win only 40%. This year, so far it has played some matches, which has made it mandatory for it to win 80% of the remaining matches to maintain its existing winning percentage. Find the number of matches played by India so far this year?
(a) 30             (b) 25             (c) 28             (d) Insufficient Information             (e) None of these

Q6. In the recent, climate conference in New York, out of 700 men, 500 women, 800 children present inside the building premises, 20% of the men, 40% of the women and 10% of the children were Indians. Find the percentage of people who were not Indian?
(a) 73%              (b) 77%             (c) 79%             (d) 83%             (e) None of these

Q7. Out of the total production of iron from hematite, an ore of iron, 20% of the ore gets wasted, and out of the remaining iron, only 25% is pure iron. If the pure iron obtained in a year from a mine of hematite was 80,000 kg, then the quantity of hematite mined from that mine in the year is
(a) 5,00,000 kg             (b) 4,00,000 kg             (c) 4,50,000 kg             (d) None of these

Q8. 4/5 of the voters in Bellary promised to vote for Sonia Gandhi and the rest promised to vote for Sushma Swaraj. Of these voters, 10% of the voters who had promised to vote for Sonia Gandhi, did not vote on the election day, while 20% of the voters who had promised to vote for Sushma Swaraj did not vote on the election day. What is the total no. of votes polled if Sonia Gandhi got 216 votes?
(a) 200              (b) 300             (c)  264             (d) 100             (e) None of these

Q9. The entrance ticket at the Minerva theatre in Mumbai is worth Rs. 250. When the price of the ticket was lowered, the sale of tickets increased by 50% while the collections recorded a decrease of 17.5%. Find the deduction in the ticket price.
(a) Rs. 150             (b) Rs. 112.5             (c) Rs. 105             (d) Rs. 120             (e) None of these

Q10. In the year 2000, the luxury car industry had two car manufacturers—Maruti and Honda with market shares of 25% and 75% respectively. In 2001, the overall market for the product increased by 50% and a new player BMW also entered the market and captured 15% of the market share. If we know that the market share of Maruti increased to 50% in the second year, the share of Honda in that year was:
(a) 50%             (b) 45%             (c) 40%             (d) 35%              (e) None of these

Reasoning Quiz

Directions (Q. 1-5): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
A,B,C,D,E,F,G and H are eight friends sitting around a circle in one arrangement facing outwards,and in a straight line in another arrangement where they face north. One of the immediate neighbours of H in the straight line sits opposite H in the circle.E sits third to the right of B in the circle, while fourth to his left in the straight line.F and C are the immediate neighbours of B in both the arrangements, but C is not at the extreme ends of the line.The one who sits on the extreme left end sits second to the right of E in the circle.H is not on the immediate left of F in both the arrangements.G sits on the immediate left of H in the circle, but they are not immediate neighbours of each other in the straight line.D sits third to the right of F in the straight line.The one who sits on the immediate left of B in the straight line is sitting on the immediate right of B in the circle.

Q1. Who is sitting opposite to F in a cirle?
a. H           b. D              c. E             d. G             e. None of these

Q2.Which of the following pair is sitting at the extreme ends of a straight line?
a. H,D           b. D,A              c. G,D             d. G,C             e. None of these

Q3.Immediate neigbours of A in a circle are
a. B,E            b. E,C            c. E,B             d. E,F             e. None of these

Q4.Who is sitting forth  to the left of C in a circle?
a. A            b. B            c. C             d. D             e. E

Q5.Which of the following statement is true about A in a straight line arrangement?
a.A is sitting in the middle of line            b.C is sitting third to the left of A            c.None of the followingis true
d.G and F are immediate neighbours of A            e.C is sitting third to the right of A

Directions (6-10): In each of the questions below are given four statements (a), (b), (c) and (d) followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts. 

Q6. Statements: a. All flowers are buses.            b. Some buses are cats.            c. All cats are tigers.
Conclusions: I. Some tigers are buses.            II. Some tigers are flowers.            III. Some cats are flowers.
IV. Some buses are tigers.
a) None follows             b) Only I and II follow             c) Only III and IV follow               d) Only I and IV follow
e) Only II and III follow

Q7.Statements: a. No tree is fruit.            b. All fruits are stones.            c. All stones are rains.
Conclusions: I. No stone is tree.            II. No rain is tree.            III. Some rains are fruits.            IV. Some rains are trees.
a) None follows                 b) Only either II or IV and III follow              c) Only either II or III and I follow            d) All follow
e) None of these

Q8.Statements: a. All books are stars.            b. Some stars are windows.            c. All windows are hills.
Conclusions: I. Some windows are books.            II. Some hills are stars.            III. Some hills are books.            IV. Some stars are books.
a) None follows           b) Only I and III follow              c) All follow             d) Only II and IV follow            e) None of these

Q9. Statements: a. No man is sky.            b. No sky is road.            c. Some men are roads.
Conclusions: I. No road is man.            II. No road is sky.            III. Some skies are men.            IV. All roads are men.
a) None follows            b) Only I follows              c) Only I and III follow             d) Only II and III follow            e) None of these

Q10.Statements : a. Some candles are houses.            b. Some houses are trains.            c. Some trains are roads.
Conclusions: I. Some roads are candles.            II. Some trains are candles.            III. Some roads are houses.
IV. Some candles are roads.
a) None follows           b) All follow                c) Only I and II follow             d) Only II and III follow            e) Only III and IV follow

English Quiz

Directions (1-5): In each one of the following sentences, there are two blank spaces. Below each sentence, there are five pairs of words denoted by numbers (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5). Find out which pair of words can be filled up in the blanks .n the sentence in the same sequence to make it, meaningfully complete.

Q1.In a society that abhors ……… , the nonconformist is persistently ………
(a) creativity, glorified            (b) rebelliousness, suppressed            (c) insurgency, heeded            (d) smugness, persecuted
(e) stagnation, denigrated

Q2.The editor expected her reporters to be ……. but the number of …….. in the articles submitted clearly showed that her expectations were often not met.
(a) impartial, cliches            (b) frank, predictions            (c) decisive, facts               (d) creative, errors            (e) accurate, misquotations

Q3. The …….. of Sandra Cisneros’ works, which have sold many thousands of copies, is reflected in her ……. Readership.
(a) variety .    . narrow                (b) popularity .   . wide             (c) provincialism .   . liberal             (d) integrity .   . scattered
(e) control .   . concerned

Q4. The establishment of a woman’s college by the Cherokee nation during the 1850’ is one of many ……. Of the considerable status traditionally …….
(a) illustrations, held              (b) refutations, sustained            (c) demonstrations, relinquished            (d) explications, enjoyed            (e) manifestations, studied

Q5.Because Ruth’s parents often ……. Their plans as soon as they were formed, she assumed all adults were as …… as her parents.
(a) cancelled, indulgent              (b) developed, vivacious            (c) solidified, capricious            (d) changed, mercurial
(e) altered, obstinate

Directions (6-10). Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will he in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is ‘No error’, the answer is ‘5’. (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any).

Q6. Since the online education system (a)/ has been poorly designed there (b)/ are not many institute (c) that offer this facility. (d)/ No error (e)

Q7. Unless the new resolution is (a)/ completely reviewed it (b) will cause a great deal of (c)/ trouble for new employees. (d)/ No error (e)

Q8. After careful scrutiny of the report (a)/ variety mistakes that had been (b)/made by the research (c)/ department were found. (d)/ No error (e)

Q9. His industrious nature (a)/ and calm temperament (b)/ have endeared him (c)/ to his colleagues and one’s superiors. (d)/ No error (e)

Q10. The celebrities that organized (a)/ the marathon were aiming (b)/ to create an awareness (c)/ about the treatment of diabetes. (d)/ No error (e)

Computer Quiz

Q1. What is the full form of DOS in MS DOS?
a) Drive Operating System             b) Disk Operating System             c) Domain Operating System
d) Dialogue Operating System             e) None of the above

Q2. What is a relational database that is designed for query and analysis rather than for transaction processing?
a) Data Warehouse          b) PLSQL             c) Oracle            d) Data Mining            e) Cloud

Q3. In an Excel table, what uses a single formula that adjusts for each row?
a) Calculated column             b) Formula bar             c) New column            d) Array            e) None of the above

Q4. What does MBps stands for?
a) Mega Bits per second            b) Major Bits per second              c) Mega Bytes per second             d) Major Bytes per second
e) None of the above

Q5. Which of the following is not an image file format?
a) JPEG           b) GIF            c) TIF            d) PNG            e) AAC

Q6.The principle of modern computer was first described by ______? 
a) Alan Turing             b) Charles Babbage               c) John Napier            d) Wilhelm Schickard            e) None of the above

Q7. Which of the following is a DBMS software?
a) MySQL           b) ORACLE            c) PostgreSQL            d) Sybase            e) All of the above

Q8. Which of the following is a volatile memory?
a) RAM           b) ROM              c) Both RAM and ROM            d) Neither RAM nor ROM            e) F-RAM

Q9. Which of the following is an input/output device?
a) Processor            b) Scanner             c) RAM            d) Compiler             e) None of the above

Q10. Who among the given options is creator of Java? 
(a) James Gosling             (b) Jonathan Schwartz            (c) Robert Dennard            (d) Ted Hoff            (e) None of the above