Classification Questions and Answers

Answer: E

Correct answer: Orion

Virgo, Pisces, Sagittarius and Cancer are all signs of the zodiac, through which the sun appears to pass in the course of a year. Orion is a constellation, and is not one of the twelve zodiacal signs.

Answer: C

Correct answer: DEPARTMENT and MODERATE

In every other pair, each letter of the second word can be found in the first: ORACLE within RECIPROCAL, COUNTER within RECONSTRUCT, VIOLENT within EVALUATION. MODERATE cannot be formed from DEPARTMENT, which contains no letter O at all, so that pair breaks the rule.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Deposit

Withdrawal, deduction and debit all reduce the balance of an account. A deposit adds to it, so it works in the opposite direction.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Church-Monument

In pond-lake, pistol-gun and car-bus the second is a larger member of the same class as the first. A church and a monument are not related in that way at all - one is a place of worship and the other a memorial, and neither is a larger version of the other.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Salary

Insurance, provident fund and shares are all forms of saving or investment, in which money is set aside to grow or to provide against a future need. A salary is income received for work done, and is the source from which such investments are made.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Kohima

Mizoram, Sikkim and Manipur are all states of India. Kohima is a city - the capital of Nagaland - so it belongs to a different order of place altogether.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Amoeba

Bacteria, germs and microbes are all general terms for very small organisms considered as a class. The amoeba is one particular organism, a named protozoan, so it is a member rather than a category.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Whale

Herring, shark and barracuda are all fish, breathing through gills. The whale is a mammal: it breathes air through lungs, is warm-blooded and suckles its young, and merely happens to live in the sea.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Abundance

Plentiful, copious and ample are all adjectives meaning more than enough. Abundance is the corresponding noun, so it differs in part of speech rather than in meaning.

Answer: C

Correct answer: shy

Node, abode and across all contain the letter o. Shy is the only one of the four that does not, and it is also the only one made up entirely of consonants apart from the y.