Set1
1. The earliest rock cut caves in
western India are those at—
A.Nasik, Ellora and Ajanta
B. Junnar, Kalyan and Pitalkhora
C. Ajanta, Bhaja and Kondane
D. Bhaja, Pitalkhora and Kondane
Ans : (A)
2. Which of the following is not considered as National
Debt ?
(A) National Savings Certificates
(B) Long-term Government Bonds
(C) Insurance Policies
(D) Provident Fund
Ans : (C)
3. The G-20 recently announced that
economic policies of the world’s seven
largest economies will be reviewed periodically with the objective of
rectifying flaws before they imperil global growth. Which of the following
statements is/are correct?
I.
India is among the Asian economies chosen
II.
The review will be conducted by World Bank
III. Canada is among the seven economies chosen
a)I only
b)I and II only
c)II only
d)III and II only
Ans. b)
4.The name
by which Ashoka is generally referred to in his inscriptions is—
A.Chakravarti
B. Dharmadeva
C. Dharmakirti
D. Priyadarsi
Ans : (D)
5..
The Constitution of India is
A. rigid
B. flexible
C. partly rigid and partly
flexible
D. very rigid
Ans:
C)
6. Personal disposable income is—
(A) Always equal to personal income
(B) Always more than personal income
(C) Equal to personal income minus indirect taxes
(D) Equal to personal income minus direct taxes
Ans : (D)
7. Which
one of the following is a monument constructed by Sher Shah ?
A. Kila-i-Kuhna mosque at Delhi
B. Atala Masjid at Jaunpur
C. Barasona Masjid at Gaur
D. Quiwwat-al-Islam mosque at Delhi
Ans : (A)
.8. What are ‘structural adjustment programmes’?
a) Programmes to increase the spread of financial services
in developing countries
b) Programmes to improve road safety in developing countries
c) Requirements to qualify for World Bank and IMF loans
d) UN building regulations for disaster preparedness
Ans. c)
9. Which
among the following cities is considered as one of the oldest surviving cities
in the world ?
A. Mathura
B. Varanasi
C. Hardwar
D. Ayodhya
Ans : (A)
10. . Who certifies a Bill to be a Money Bill in India ?
(A) Finance Minister
(B) President
(C) Speaker of the Lok Sabha
(D) Prime Minister
Ans : (c)
11. The Constitution of India describes
India as
A. a union of states
B. quasi-federal
C. a federation of states and
union territories
D. partly unitary and partly
federal
Ans.
A)
12.. The
earliest evidence of silver in India is found in the—
A. Harappan culture
B. Chalcolithic cultures of
Western India
C. Vedic texts
D. Silver punch marked coins
Ans : (A)
13. What
is ‘Watergate’?
A.
A gate of dam across Mississippi
B.
2. A dam across Hudson river
C.
3. Scandal in which President Richard
Nixon got entangled
D.
4. A five star hotel in Los Angeles
Ans.C)
14. Which
one of the following is a language of Baluchistan but linguistically Dravidian
?
A. Brahui
B. Kui
C. Parji
D. Pengo
Ans : (A)
15
Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Udan Academy is located at—
(A) Secunderabad
(B) Rae Bareilly
(C) Jodhpur
(D) Delhi
Ans : (B)
16 Which
one of the following is the most fundamental difference between Mahayana
Buddhism and . Hiragana Buddhism ?
A. Emphasis on ahimsa
B. Casteless society
C. Worship of gods and goddesses
D. Worship of stupa
Ans : (C)
17. . The parliamentary system of
government in India is based on the pattern of parliamentary government
existing in
A. France
B. Canada
C. America
D. All of the above
Ans.
B)
10.
11.
The Constitution declares India a "Secular State", which means
A. religious worship is not
allowed
B. religions are patronized by the
state
C. the state regards religions as
a private affair of the citizen and does not discriminate on this basis
D. none of the above
Ans.
C)
12.
The Preamble to the Constitution declares India
A.
a
Sovereign, Democratic Republic
B. a Socialist, Democratic
Republic
C. a Sovereign Socialist Secular
Democratic Republic
D. none
Ans.
C)
13.
The Preamble to the Indian Constitution reads
A. We, the people of India adopt,
enact and give to India this
B. Constitution
C. We, the members of the
Constituent Assembly adopt, enact and give to ourselves this Constitution
D. We, the citizens of India
adopt, enact and give to ourselves this Constitution
E. We, the people of India in our
Constituent Assembly adopt, enact and give to ourselves this Constitution
Ans.
D)
14.
What was the exact constitutional status of the Indian Republic on January 26,
1950, when the Constitution was inaugurated?
A. a Democratic Republic
B. a Sovereign Democratic Republic
C. a Sovereign Secular Democratic
Republic
D. a Sovereign Socialist Secular
Democratic Republic
Ans. B)
16. What
is the name of the building which holds the principal US bullion depository?
A.
Fort
Atkinson
B.
Fort Collins
C.
Fort Knox
D.
Jodrell Bank
Ans
C)
17. Which
country produces the maximum sugar in the world?
A.
USA
B.
India
C.
Cuba
D.
Brazil
Ans
B)
18. What
is the capital of Morocco?
A.
Muscat
B.
Managua
C.
Ulan Bator
D.
Rabat
Ans D)
19.
‘Death Valley’ is located in
A.
California
US
B.
Kerala, India
C.
Israel
D.
Saudi Arabia
Ans
A)
20.
‘Yurts’ are
A.
A
nomadic tribe of the Middle East
B.
A type of milk preparation
C.
A tent of animal skins of the monadic tribes
of Central Asia
D.
A type of land form found in deserts
Ans
C)
21.
‘Galileo Satellites’, named after their discoverer, are four large moons of the
planet
A.
Jupiter
B.
Neptune
C.
Saturn
D.
Uranus
Ans
A)
22. Which
of the following was a goal of the early nineteenth-century liberals?
A.
universal manhood suffrage.
B.
careers open to men of talent.
C.
government regulation of factories and wages.
D.
an established state church.
E.
tariffs on goods imported from colonies.
Ans.
B
23. Which
of the following was a belief shared by utopian and scientific socialists?
A.
The labor of the middle class determines the value of a product.
B.
Class struggle is the necessary means to achieve social change.
C.
Private property should be abolished.
D.
History is determined by economic laws.
E.
Within the family and society, patriarchy should shape power relations
between sexes.
Ans. C
24.
Population when unchecked increases in a geometric ration. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetic
ratio. A slight acquaintance with the
numbers will show the immensity of the first power in comparison with the
second. These statements were used for
which of the following purposes?
A. to
promote laissez-faire.
B.
to encourage class revolution.
C to
explain working-class poverty.
D.
to extend the franchise.
E.
to encourage overseas investments.
Ans. C
25. One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man
Of moral evil and of good
Than all the sages can.
The
views stated in this poem are an example of which of the following
"isms"?
A.
nationalism.
B.
liberalism.
C socialism.
D.
Romanticism.
E.
naturalism.
Ans. D
26.
According to laissez-faire economic philosophy, society benefited when
A.
the
government administered price controls in urban housing.
B.
unions organized and were recognized as
legitimate bargaining units.
C.
the coordination of markets was achieved by
impersonal forces.
D.
a sexual division of labor required women to
tend home and family.
E. government subsidies promoted improvement
in the national infrastructure.
Ans. C
27. One
feature of England that gave it an advantage over France in industrializing
earlier was
A. accessible deposits of raw materials.
B. a national banking system.
C.
an expanding population.
D a stable government in the
hands of the upper classes.
E.
the
absence of internal customs.
Ans. D
28“ Weight of a
liquid displaced by a body floating in it is equal to the weight of the body. “
This theory is related with
- Archemede’s
Principle
- Charle’s
law
- Pascql”s
Law
- None of
these
Ans. A
29.
Temperature 200C is equal
to
- 350C
- 450C
- 680C
- None of
these
Ans. C
30.
How much heat would be required to
change the temperature of 10 kg of water from 250C to 500C
( given specific heat of water = 4200 J/kg0C
- 630KJ
- 1050KJ
- 1050000KJ
- None of
these
Ans. B
- Why gaps
are left between the rail joints?
- To save
the Iron
- To proper
fixing of screw
- For the
expansion of rail pieces dring hotness
- All of
these
Ans. C
- Condensation
is the process
- Like
vaporization
- Like
melting on heating
- Reverse
of vaporization
- None of
these
Ans. C
- Which of
the following would expand the mpost on being heated?
- Water
- Alcohol
- Glass
- Air
Ans. D
- The
process of transfer of heat in a liquid or a gas by the movement of
molecules from the hotter to the colder part of the liquid or gas is
called
- Conduction
- Convection
- Radiation
- None of
these
Ans. B
35. Under which market condition do firms have excess capacity?
(A) Perfect competition
(B) Monopolistic competition
(C) Duopoly
(D) Oligopoly
Ans. A
36. Price theory is also known as
(A)
Macro Economics
(B) Development Economics
(C) Public Economics
(D) Micro Economics
Ans. A
37. At present, India is following
(A)
Fixed exchange rate
(B)
Floating exchange rate
(C)
Pegged up exchange rate
(D)
Pegged down exchange rate
Ans. C
38. Who among the following won the ICC Cricketer
of the Year Award for the year 2009?
(A)
M S Dhoni
(B)
CautamGambhir
(C)
Mitchell Johnson
(D)
TillakartneDilshan
Ans.
A
39.
. A vitamin requires cobalt for its activity.
The vitamin is
A.
Vitamin
B12
B.
Vitamin B2
C.
Vitamin A
D.
Vitamin D
Ans
A
40. One of the constituents of tear gas is
(A)
Ethane
(B)
Ethanol
(C)
Ether
(D)
Chloropicrin
Ans.
D
41. The modulus of rigidity is the ratio of
A.
Longitudinal
stress to longitudinal strain
B.
Volume stress to volume strain
C Shearing stress to shearing strain
D
Tensile stress to tensile strain
Ans. B
42. Plasma
membrane ineukaryotic cells is made up of
(A) Phospholipids
(B) Lipoprotein
(C) Phospholipo-protein
(D) Phospho-protein
Ans. A
43. Which
one of the following is also called the ‘power plants’ of the cell?
(A) Golgi body
(B) Mitochondrion
(C) Ribosome
(D) Lysosome
Ans. B
44. What is
the chemical name of Vinegar?
(A) Citric acid
(B) Pyruvic acid
(C) Acetic acid
(D) Malic acid
Ans. C
45. Which
of the following is not a property of heavy water?
(A) Boiling point of heavy water is higher than
that or ordinary water
(B) Density of heavy water is higher than that of
ordinary water
(C) Freezing point of heavy water is higher than
that of ordinary water
(D) It produces corrosion
Ans. B
46. In
which of the following process is energy
released?
(A) Respiration
(B) Photosynthesis
(C) Ingestion
(D) Absorption
Ans. A
47. Animals
living in the three trunks are known as
(A) Arboreal
(B Volant
(C) Amphibious
(D) Aquatic
Ans. A
48. Arrange
the following in chronological order :
1. Tughlaqs
2. Lodis
3. Saiyids
4. Ilbart Turks
5. Khiljis
A) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
(B) 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
(C) 2, 4, 5, 3, 1
(D)
4, 5, 1, 3, 2
Ans.
A
49. When light travels from air into a glass slab,
which one of the following does not change?
A.
Wave length
B.
Speed
C.
Frequency
D.
Amplitude
Ans. C
5 50.
Concave lens is used in curing of
- Hypermetropia
- Myopia
- Color
blindness
- Astingmatism
Ans. B
