Answers, Quiz no.793

The lockdown

Quiz no.793

Total questions= 25

Total marks= 25

Negative mark= -.25

Cut off= 70 %

Time= 15 min

Pool= 30 points

Cap= 10 points

Idioms/ phrases:

1.Over-egg the pudding 

1) to try so hard to improve something that you spoil it 2) fill the pudding excessively with egg. 3) add money to one's account 4) add important details to the content of a story. =Answer= 1

2.Turn over a new leaf 

1) change ones behaviour for the better. 2) read between the pages of a book. 3) do a somersault 4) do a new job. =Answer= 1

3.Take up the hatchet 

1) behave formally 2) pursue a chance 3) be caught in a trap 4) to fight, especially in a violent manner =Answer= 4

4.With might and main 

1) with full risks 2) with full force 3) having full confidence 4) with full blessings =Answer= 2

5.Ruffle somebody's feather s

1) gamble 2) escape responsibility 3) annoy somebody 4) show contempt for =Answer= 3

One word substitution:

6. To break up into small parts as the result of impact or decay

(a) To disintegrate (b) Disharmony (c) To disinherit (d) To denigrate =Answer= a

7. To be indecisive 

(a) To vex (b) To dither (c) Tiff (d) To stew =Answer= b

8. To pull or twist out of shape 

(a) To distort (b) To gnarl (c) Pervert (d) To repudiate =Answer= a

9. Become apparent through the appearance of symptoms.

(a) Manifest (b) Distinct (c) Hunch (d) Divulged =Answer= a

10. To be pushing up daisies

(a) To get up feeling fresh (b) To be dead and buried (c) To smell like flowers (d) Once beautiful but now ugly =Answer= b

11. Down to the wire

(a) Removing the bondage that is keeping on down (b) The last second before the bomb explodes (c) To denote a situation outcome of which is not decided until the very last minute (d) Finishing all of one’s resources to the last penny =Answer= c

Rearrangement:

12. A significant number

P: in the rural non-farm sector

Q: to be created

R: of these jobs will have

(a) QRP (b) RQP (c) PRQ (d) PQR =Answer= b

Rearrangement:

13. There was a second part

P: are ambivalent about

Q: many people

R: of her decision which

(a) QRP (b) QPR (c) PRQ (d) RQP =Answer= d

Choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.

14. IN TOTO (a) Partially (b) Hope (c) Totally (d) Enlarge =Answer= a

15. HOAX (a) Candour (b) Credit (c) Honour (d) Defend =Answer= a

16. CLEMENT (a) Balmy (b) Thrifty (c) Harsh (d) Unreal =Answer= c

17. STRATAGEM (a) Heedful (b) Ruse (c) Cocky (d) Truth =Answer= d

18. Voice:

They have to learn this lesson.

a.This lesson had to be learnt.

b.This lesson have to be learnt.

c.This lesson has to be learnt. =Answer= c

d.This lesson has been learnt.

19. Narration:

She said to me, ''Why have you come late?''

a.She asked me why I had come late?

b.She asked me why I had come late. =Answer= b

c.She asked me why had I come late.

d.She asked to me why I had come late.

Find the correctly spelt word:

20. (A) Internaly (B) Coldlly (C) Fortunetely (D) Uniquely -Answer= d

21. (A) Monarcy (B) Discrapancy (C) Hieararchy (D) Anarchy -Answer= d

Improve the bracketed part:

22. Mr Gupta will conform [with] the guidelines mentioned here.

a.No improvement b.from c.to d.in -Answer= c

23. She assured me [from] her help.

a.on b.No improvement c.in d.of -Answer= d

24. The actor is desirous [for] a big role.

a.in b.No improvement c.of d.at -Answer= c

25. She competed [from] him [to] the first position.

a.with- for / b.to- for / c.from- for / d.No improvement -Answer= a