Answer: B) Elastic Explanation: A sponge is a porous material. Rubber is an elastic material.  Since Rubber is not a Massive or solid and not an inflexible thing, it is elastic.

Answer: B) Stocks Explanation: Stock investment may pay the dividends. The amount of dividend will be depended on how many stocks you own and how much is that's company net income in that year For example : If you own 15 % of the company, and the company announced that they will pay Rs. 1,00,000 as dividend this year, you will get dividend payment of Rs. 15,000.

Answer: A) 0 Explanation: The probability of an impossible event is 0. The event is known ahead of time to be not possible, therefore by definition in mathematics, the probability is defined to be 0 which means it can never happen.   The probability of a certain event is 1.

Answer: B) Extol Explanation: Fumble means grope, mishandle, drop, mistake, blunder, bungle. Finesse means skill, grace, elegance, assurance, diplomacy, discretion. So, they are opposites.   Similarly, Malign means slander or criticize. Extol means being kind or good-natured. A person without finesse often fumbles. A person without extol in his heart often maligns. Extol means praise or exalt, benevolence

Answer: C) Both I & II follows Explanation: The situation can be tackled by periodic cuts in supply, and urging people to conserve water. So both the courses follow.

Answer: D) Gloomy Explanation: The given words are related in a way that, an optimist is a person whose outlook is cheerful. Similarly, a pessimist is a person whose outlook is gloomy.   The answer is not (b) because a pessimist does not have to be mean. Options (c) and (a) are incorrect because neither words describe the outlook of a pessimist.   Hence, Optimist is to cheerful as Pessimist is to Gloomy.

Answer: A) 100 Explanation: Given 373+353+283-3x37x35x28372+352+282-37x35-35x28-37x28   It is in the form of  a3+b3+c3-3abca2+b2+c2-ab-bc-ca= a + b + c   Here a = 37, b = 35 & c = 28    => a + b + c = 37 + 35 + 28 = 100       Therefore,   = 100

Answer: D) Manchus dynasty Explanation: It was the Qing Dynasty, who was a Manchu Dynasty whose rule ended in 1911 Chinese revolution.