Answer: D) Viswanathan Anand Explanation: Viswanathan Anand continued his excellent run bagging a bronze in the World Blitz Chess Championship following his gold winning performance in the Rapid section.   The World Blitz Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under blitz time controls. Since 2012, FIDE has held an annual joint rapid and blitz chess tournament and billed it as the World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships.   The current world blitz champion is Magnus Carlsen.

Answer: C) The Civil Rights movement Explanation: The Civil Rights Movement :   The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a struggle by black Americans to gain full citizenship rights and achieve racial equality. Individuals and organizations challenged discrimination with a variety of activities, including protest marches, boycotts, and refusal to abide by segregation laws. Many believe that the movement began with the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 and ended with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Answer: A) 8 months Explanation: Suppose B joined for x months. Given profit is divided in the ratio 3:1. Then, 85000×1242500×x=31  --> x = 8 months.

Answer: A) Intellectual Property Rights Explanation: IPR's stands for Intellectual Property Rights. Intellectual property is the product of the human intellect including creativity concepts, inventions, industrial models, trademarks, songs, literature, symbols, names, brands,....etc.

Answer: A) sand and silicates Explanation: A glass is made of liquid sand. You can make glass by heating ordinary sand and made into a liquid and mix with silicates to form a glass.

Reading is one of the main methods we use to acquire data and information in the contemporary world. In order to read a text, a person should have a basic understanding of how sounds are represented alphabetically. For doing this, a goal could be something like finding the main idea about a reading topic or locating the supporting details for that topic. To improve your reading skills, you need to be aware of these three important areas of reading improvement: 1. Understanding adaptability. 2. Increasing reading comprehension. 3. Increasing reading rate.   Understanding adaptability and Increasing reading comprehension are the most important factors in improving reading skills.

Answer: C) NEO Explanation: This is an alternating series in alphabetical order. The middle letters follow the order ABCDE. The first and third letters are alphabetical beginning with J. The third letter is repeated as a first letter in each subsequent three-letter segment.

Answer: C) 4320 Explanation: Let 'Y' be the youngest player. The last song can be sung by any of the remaining 3 players. The first 3 players can sing the song in (3!) ways. The required number of ways = 3(3!) = 4320.