1511: Pearls are formed inside:
(a) Squids
(b) Snails
(c) Oysters
(d) Mollusks
1512: The approximate age of the Aravallis range is
(a) 370 million years
(b) 470 million years
(c) 570 million years
(d) 670 million years
1513: Who of the following Prime Ministers sent Cripps Mission to India?
(a) Neville Chamberlain
(b) Stanley Baldwin
(c) Winston Churchill
(d) James Ramsay MacDonald
1514: The planning process in the industrial sector in India has assumed a relatively less important position in the nineties as compared to that in the earlier period. Which one of the following is not true in this regard ?
(a) With the advent of liberalisation, industrial investments/development have largely been placed within the domain of private and multinational sectors
(b) With markets assuming a central place, the role of central planning in many sectors has been rendered redundant
(c) The focus of planning has shifted to sectors like human resource development, infrastructure, population control and welfare
(d) The nation's priorities have shifted away from industrial development to rural development
1515: Consider the following statements:
1. A widely used musical scale called diatonic scale has seven frequencies.
2. The frequency of the note Sa- (lk) is 256 Hz and that of Ni- (uh) is 512 Hz.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2