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Jan. 31, 1958, at Cape Canaveral, Florida, four 20. (B) The 1930 FIFA World Cup was the inaugural
months after Russia orbited Sputnik. FIFA World Cup, the world championship for
10. (C) In India Tropic of Cancer passes through 8 men's national association football teams. It took
States. ( Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, place in Uruguay from 13 to 30 July 1930.
Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura 21. (C) Guwahati lies between the banks of the
and Mizoram.) Brahmaputra River and the foothills of the
11. (C) Rajendra Prasad Shillong plateau.
12. (D) The speed of that wind can be measured 22. (A) Lord Dufferin (1826-1902) was the Governor
using a tool called an anemometer. An General and Viceroy of India from 1884 to 1888).
anemometer looks like a weather vane, but He had succeeded Lord Ripon in December 1884
instead of measuring which direction the wind is and was known as one of the most successful
blowing with pointers, it has four cups so that it diplomats of his time.
can more accurately measure wind speed. 23. (B) Anuradha Roy
13. (A) Ankit Sharma (born 20 July 1992) is an Indian 24. (B) All except Sarnath are famous battlefields.
athlete who competes in the long jump event. He 25. (A) On 1 November 1954, the four enclaves of
holds the long jump national record of 8.19 Pondichéry, Yanam, Mahe, and Karikal were de
metres set in June 2016 at the G. Kosanov facto transferred to the Indian Union and
Memorial Meet in Almaty, Kazakhstan. became the Union Territory of Puducherry. The
14. (C) Brussels, Belgium de jure union of French India with India did not
15. (B) Tashkent Agreement, (Jan. 10, 1966), accord take place until 1962, when the French
signed by India's prime minister Lal Bahadur Parliament in Paris ratified the treaty with India.
Shastri (who died the next day) and Pakistan's 26. (C) Let the numbers be 3x and 3y.
president Ayub Khan. ∴ 3 + 3 = 36
16. (A) Vishnu Sharma was an Indian scholar and ⟹ + = 12 … ( )
author who is believed to have written the and 3 = 105 . . . ( )
Panchatantra collection of fables. The exact Dividing equation (i) by (ii), we have
period of the composition of the Panchatantra is + = 12
uncertain, and estimates vary from 1200 BCE to 3 3 105
300 CE. Some scholars place him in the 3rd ⟹ + = 4
century BCE. 3 3 35
17. (A) The Ryder Cup is a biennial men's golf Shortcut Method:
1 1 +
competition between teams from Europe and + =
the United States. The competition is contested
every two years with the venue alternating 27. (A) If they are equal number of rows and
between courses in the United States and columns then, √1369 = 37
Europe. The Ryder Cup is named after the English 28. (D) According to the question,

businessman Samuel Ryder who donated the + + + 7 =
2 4 5
trophy. 10 + 5 + 4
18. (C) Salal Dam, also known as Salal Hydroelectric ⟹ + 7 =
20
Power Station, is a run-of-the-river power 19 19
project on the Chenab River in the Reasi district ⟹ 20 + 7 ⟹ ⟹ − 20 = 7
of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. ⟹ = 7 ⟹ = 20 × 7 = 140
19. (B) During this time ships belonging to the 20
29. (A)
company arriving in India docked at Surat, which
was established as a trade transit point in 1608. 2 − 1 = 6
In the next two years, the company established 2 1
its first factory in south India in the town of ⟹ − = 3 [ 2]
4
Machilipatnam on the Coromandel Coast of the 4 1 1
Bay of Bengal. ⟹ + 16 2 − 2 × × 4 = 9