341: Who among the following Governor Generals created the Covenanted Civil Service of India which later came to be known as the Indian Civil Service ?
(a) William Bentinck
(b) Warren Hastings
(c) Wellesley
(d) Cornwallis
342: Many transplanted seedlings do not grow because
(a) the new soil does not contain favourable minerals
(b) most of the root hairs grip the new soil too hard
(c) most of the root hairs are lost during transplantation
(d) leaves get damaged during transplantation
343: Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched ?
Recent Scientific Achievement : Country
(a) Creating the worlds first human chromosome : United Kingdom
(b) Cloning a human embryo for the first time : Germany
(c) Guiding a spacecraft for collision with a comet : USA
(d) Landing a spacecraft on an asteroid : Japan
344: From the third century AD when the Hun invasion ended the Roman Empire, the Indian merchants relied more and more on the
(a) African trade
(b) West-European trade
(c) South-East Asian trade
(d) Middle-Eastern trade
345: Match List-I (Indian Scientist/Scholar) with List-II (Area of work) and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists :
List I
A. C.N.R. Rao
B. Jagdish Bhagwati
C. G.N. Ramchandran
D. Ashok
List II
1. Telecommunication
2. Physics
3. Economics
4. Solid State Chemistry and Material Science
Codes :
A B C D
(a) 4 3 2 1
(b) 2 1 4 3
(c) 4 1 2 3
(d) 2 3 4 1