16: An athlete claimed that his timing for a 100 m dash should be corrected because the starting signal was given by a gun fired from a point 10 m away from him and the timekeeper was standing close to the gun. The error due to this could be (in seconds):
(a) 0.7
(b) 0.5
(c) 0.1
(d) 0.03
17: Ram Singh gives half of his cash reserves to his wife, one half of the remaining to his son and one third of the remaining to his daughter. If his daughter's share is Rs. 12,500, then the total cash reserves with Ram Singh were
(a) Rs. 21,500
(b) Rs. 75,000
(c) Rs. 1,00,000
(d) Rs. 1,50,000
18: The Palk Bay lies between
(a) Gulf of Kachchh and Gulf of Khambhat
(b) Gulf of Mannar and Bay of Bengal
(c) Lakshadweep and Maldive Islands
(d) Andaman and Nicobar Islands
19: Kim Dae-Jung won the Nobel Prize for Peace. He is from which one of the following countries?
(a) South Korea
(b) Vietnam
(c) Japan
(d) Cambodia
20: In the given figure, the site of the Tehri dam has been labelled as
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D