Answer: D) Arundhati Roy Explanation: Arundhati Roy was the first Indian woman to win the Man Booker Prize in the year 1997. An Indian writer, Arundhati Roy, was awarded England's prestigious Booker Prize this evening for her first novel, ''The God of Small Things,'' a soaring story about a set of twins struggling to make sense of the world, themselves and their strange and difficult family in southern India.   Kiran Desai was the youngest woman to win the Man Booker Prize. Bernice Rubens became the first woman to win the Booker Prize in 1970. Man Booker Prize is one of the world's richest literary prizes.

Answer: D) 203 Explanation: The given number series is 125,   138,   164,   ?,   255   125   125 + 13x1 = 138   138 + 13x2 = 164   164 + 13x3 = 203   203 + 13x4 = 255       Hence, the missing number in the series is 203.

Answer: B) Water Explanation: Abiotic and biotic factors are what make up an ecosystem.   Abiotic factors are all nonliving components of an ecosystem. These factors include chemical and geological features such as water or lack of water, soil, rocks, and minerals. Other abiotic factors include physical components such as the temperature and weather affecting the ecosystem. The biotic factors in an ecosystem include all living things. All plants, animals, fungi, protists, and bacteria within an ecosystem make up that system's biotic factors. The biotic factors can be broken down further into producers, consumers, and decomposers. The biotic factors present in an ecosystem are highly dependent on the abiotic factors that are present. Even slight changes to either factor can have a major consequence upon the system as a whole.

Answer: D) Can't be determined Explanation: We know that a negative value plus a positive value always count backward and the sign depends on the bigger value sign. When you are adding a negative number to a positive number, then the value counts backward and takes the sign of the biggest number.   For example:: Adding -5 and +2 -5 + 2 = -3 (big number is 5 and its sign is '-')   Adding -3 and  +5 +5 + (-3) = 5 - 3 = +2(big number is 5 and it has sign '+').

Answer: D) Opossum Explanation: The shortest gestation period known is 12 to 13 days, shared by three marsupials: the American or Virginian opossum (Didelphis marsupialis); the rare water opossum, or yapok (Chironectes minimus) of central and northern South America; and the eastern native cat (Dasyurus viverrinus) of Australia. Gestation is the period of time between fertilization and birth in oviparous animals. The elephant has the longest gestation period of about 23 months of any land animal.

Answer: B) Mumbai Explanation: Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), is the governing civic body of Mumbai, the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, Maharashtra is India's richest municipal corporation. The BMC's annual budget exceeds that of some of the smaller states of India.

Answer: A) Dr. Annie Besant Explanation: Annie Besant (1847-1933) – political reformer, women's rights activist, theosophist and Indian nationalist is known as the grand old lady of Indian nationalism.

Answer: A) TB Explanation: Bacteria which causes disease are called Pathogenic Bacteria. TB is caused by bacteria.   Some of the diseases caused by bacteria are:: 1. Tuberculosis, TB (affects the lungs) 2. Salmonella (causes food poisoning) 3. Whooping cough (affects the lungs) 4. Septic Sore Throat