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1.Which two iron and steel plants have
been setup in collaboration with former Soviet
Union?

(a) Jamshedpur and Rourkela
(b) Durgapur and Bokaro
(c) Bhilai and Durgapur
(d) Bokaro and Bhilai

answer:(d) Bokaro and Bhilai

2.Command Area Development Pro-
gramme was launched to:

(a) ensure that land is given to the tillers
(b) ensure better utilisation of irrigation
potential
(c) development of land under Army’s
Command
(d) poverty alleviation in selected areas

answer: (b) ensure better utilisation of irrigation

3.Which is the river across which Almatti
dam is being built?

(a) Tungabhadra
(b) Godavari
(c) Krishna
(d) Sharvathi

Answer: (c) Krishna

4.Who invented the Microprocessor?

(a) Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore
(b) Georges Claude
(c) Gregory Pincus
(d) Michael de Bakey

answer a) Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore

5.Who amongst the following is renowned
in the field of instrumental music—Shehnai?

(a) Ustad Alla Rakha
(b) Ustad Bismillah Khan
(c) Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
(d) Pt Vishwamohan Bhat

Answer b) Ustad Bismillah Khan

6.Who is the author of An Equal Music?

(a) Dick Francis
(b) Vikram Seth
(c) Salman Rushdie
(d) Anurag Mathur

answer: (b) Vikram Seth

7.Ashoka’s Dhamma can be best
described as:

(a) Modified form of Brahmanism
(b) A socio-ethical code of conduct
(c) Propagation of Bhakti
(d) Modified form of Dharmasastra

answer: (b) A socio-ethical code of conduct

8.Who was the founder of the City of
Agra?

(a) Mohammad Tughlaq
(b) Alauddin Khilji
(c) Sikandar Lodhi
(d) Ibrahim Lodhi

answer c) Sikandar Lodhi

9.After the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte,
Peace Treaty was signed at:

(a) Versailles
(b) Berlin
(c) Vienna
(d) Paris

answer a) Versailles

10.Which of the following States was NOT
annexed under the Doctrine of Lapse?

(a) Satara
(b) Jhansi
(c) Awadh
(d) Nagpur

answer d) Nagpur

11.Which of the following Indian States is
broadly as large as the European nation—
Greece?

(a) Tamil Nadu
(b) Orissa
(c) Bihar
(d) Assam

answer b) Orissa

12.Water from an artesian well flows up
automatically due to:

(a) heavy rainfall in region
(b) volcanic activity
(c) hydrostatic pressure
(d) geothermal energy

answer c) hydrostatic pressure

13.A coal mining area of the Damodar
Valley is:

(a) Korba
(b) Sambhalpur
(c) Singareni
(d) Raniganj

answer: (d) Raniganj

14.Which racial group does the tribals of
Andaman Islands resemble?

(a) Negrito
(b) Mongoloid
(c) Alpinoid
(d) Nordic

answer: (b) Mongoloid

15.If a country ‘devalued’ its currency, it
would be having:

(a) floating exchange rate system
(b) fixed exchange rate system
(c) exports would fall
(d) dirty float

answer: (b) fixed exchange rate system

16.The crucial determinant of the size of
the market is:

(a) Monetary expansion
(b) Inducement for investment
(c) Productivity
(d) Savings

answer b) Inducement for investment

17.Which one of the following is not an
example of direct tax?

(a) Income Tax
(b) Wealth Tax
(c) Gift Tax
(d) Sales Tax

answer: (d) Sales Tax

18.According to the quantity theory, the
quantity of money determines the:

(a) interest rate
(b) level of real output
(c) price level
(d) level of employment

answer: (c) price level

19.A company is said to be “sick” when
the accumulated loss at the end of any finan-
cial year leads to erosion of…. per cent of its
net worth.

(a) 100%
(b) 75%
(c) 50%
(d) 25%

answer: (c) 50%

20.Who is legally competent to declare
war or conclude peace treaty?

(a) The Prime Minister
(b) The Council of Ministers
(c) The President
(d) The Parliament

answer: (c) The President

21.Who decides the disputes regarding
the election of the Vice-President?

(a) The President
(b) The Parliament
(c) The Supreme Court
(d) The Election Commission

answer c) The Supreme Court

22.Which right in India is a constitutional
right, but not a fundamental right?

(a) Right to freedom of religion
(b) Cultural and Educational Rights
(c) Right against exploitation
(d) Right to property

answer d) Right to property

23.Who certifies a bill to be a money bill
in Indian States?

(a) State Assembly Speaker
(d) State Finance Minister
(c) Governor of the State
(d) Chief Justice of the High Court

answer a) State Assembly Speaker

24.The right to freedom from illegal
detention is secured through the writ of:

(a) Mandamus
(b) Prohibition
(c) Quo-warranto
(d) Habeas Corpus

answer d) Habeas Corpus

25.Name the chemical used for
removing air bubbles from glass during its
manufacture.

(a) Soda-ash
(b) Feldspar
(c) Potassium Carbonate
(d) Arsenious Oxide

answer a) Soda-ash

26.Which form of Iron has got the highest
carbon content?

(a) Mild Steel
(b) Stainless Steel
(c) Wrought Iron
(d) Cast Iron

answer b) Stainless Steel

27.A green leaf placed in a dark room
is illuminated by red light. The leaf will
appear:

(a) green
(b) red
(c) yellow
(d) black

(c) yellow

28.Triple vaccine is administered to a
new born child to immunise against:

(a) Whooping cough, tetanus and measles
(b) Whooping cough, tetanus and
diphtheria
(c) Tetanus, measles and rubella
(d) Tetanus, diphtheria and small pox

answer: (b) Whooping cough, tetanus and
diphtheria

29.Rows of trees grown along the coastal
areas to reduce the impact of cyclones are
known as:

(a) Wind breaks
(b) Protection forests
(c) Mangroves
(d) Shelter belts

answer : (c) Mangroves

30.The most effective pesticide for gener-
al use against most garden pests is:

(a) Bordeaux mixture
(b) Carbo furan
(c) Malathion
(d) Phosphamidon

answer c) Malathion

31.Electric current passing through a
metallic wire generates heat because of:

(a) collisions of conduction electrons with
each other
(b) collisions of the atoms of the metal
with each other
(c) the energy released in the ionisation of
the atoms of the metal
(d) collisions of the conduction electrons
with the atoms of the metallic wire

answer: (d) collisions of the conduction electrons
with the atoms of the metallic wire

32.Which one of the following seas is
without a coastline?

(a) White sea
(b) Saragossa sea
(c) Sea of Okhotsk
(d) Tasman sea

answer : (b) Saragossa sea

33.Match List I with List II and select the
correct answer using the codes given below the
Lists:

List I              List II
A. Manju Kapoor     1. An Equal Music
B. Vikram Seth      2. Old Woman
C. Mahasweta Devi   3. Difficult Daughters
D. Romesh Bhandari  4. Goa

Codes:
ABCD
(a) 1 3 2 4
(b) 3 1 2 4
(c) 3 2 1 4
(d) 4 2 1 3

(b) 3 1 2 4

34.Which one of the following is used as
a filler in rubber tyres?

(a) Graphite
(b) Coke
(c) Carbon black (d) Charcoal

answer: (c) Carbon black

35.Concave mirrors are used as shaving
mirrors because they:

(a) do not distort images
(b) always produce real images
(c) produce magnified images
(d) never produce inverted images

answer: (c) produce magnified images

36.Match List I with List II and select the
correct answer using the codes given below the
Lists:
List I List II
A. Vishakhadatta  1. Mrichhakatika
B. Shudraka       2. Ritusamhara
C. Kalidasa       3. Kamasutra
D. Vatsyayana     4. Devichandraguptam

Codes:
ABCD
(a)1 4 2 3
(b)4 1 3 2
(c)1 4 3 2
(d)4 1 2 3

d)4 1 2 3

37.Match List I with List II and select the
correct answer using the codes given below the
Lists:
List I List II
(Item in the (Country from Constitution which derived)
of India)

A. Chapter on           1. United Kingdom
Fundamental
Rights

B. India as ‘a          2. Australia
Union of States’
with more powers
to the Union

C. Parliamentary        3. Ireland
privileges
and procedure of
law making

D. Concurrent List       4. United States of America
in Union-State
relations
5. Canada

Codes:
ABCD
(a) 3 4 1 2
(b) 3 4 1 5
(c) 4 5 1 2
(d) 2 4 5 3

(c) 4 5 1 2

38.Amir Khusrau was the famous poet in
the court of:

(a) Akbar
(b) Shahjahan
(c) Ibrahim Lodi
(d) Alauddin Khalji

(d) Alauddin Khalji

39.Match List I with List II and select the
correct answer using the codes given below the
Lists:

List I                 List II
A. Global warming      1. Oxides of Nitrogen and Sulphur

B. Acid rain
2. Airport
C. Noise pollution     3. Decibel
D. Noise level
4.Greenhouse effect

5. Nuclear tests

Codes:
A B C D
(a) 1 4 3 2
(b) 3 1 2 5
(c) 4 1 2 3
(d) 1 2 3 5

answer: (39c)

40.Which one of the following Mughal
emperors donated land for the construction of
the Golden Temple at Amritsar?

(a) Akbar
(b) Humayun
(c) Jahangir
(d) Shahjahan

(a) Akbar

41.The seasonal movement of animals in
search of pastures is known as:

(a) pastoral farming
(b) nomadic herding
(c) transhumance
(d) shifting cultivation

(c) transhumance

42.Consider the following drugs:

1. Greseofulvin
2. Streptomycin
3. Quinine

Among these, antibiotics would include
(a) 1 and 2
(b) 1 and 3
(c) 2 and 3
(d) 1, 2 and 3

answer: (a) 1 and 2

43.Consider the following statements:
Aurangzeb proceeded to Deccan in 1681
for
1. crushing the Marathas.
2. annexing Golconda and Bijapur.
3. driving out the Portuguese from Goa.
4. subduing the revolts of Mughal
nobility.

Which of these statements are correct?
(a) 1, 2 and 3
(b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 2 and 4
(d) 1, 3 and 4

amswer : (c) 1, 2 and 4

44.Which one of the following structural
components of cell wall of fruits is commer-
cially valuable for the manufacture of food jel-
lies?
(a) Cellulose
(b) Hemicellulose

(c) Lignin
(d) Pectin

(d) Pectin

45.Number of persons expressed in
terms of unit area of agricultural land is
known as:

(a) Agricultural density
(b) Economic density
(c) Physiological density
(d) Arithmetical density

answer : (d) Arithmetical density

46.Match List I with List II and select the
correct answer using the codes given below the
Lists:

List I
List II
A. Basketball   1. Lob
B. Bridge       2. Revoke
C. Golf         3. Pivot
D. Tennis       4. Bunker

Codes:
AB CD
(a)2 3 1 4
(b)2 3 4 1
(c) 3 2 1 4
(d) 3 2 4 1

answer : (d) 3 2 4 1

47.Who among the following, destroyed
the group of Forty Nobles?
(a) Baharam Shah
(b) Iltutmish
(c) Sultan Razia
(d) Balban

answer : (d) Balban

48.The source of “Satyameva Jayathe” is:

(a) Ashoka pillar
(b) Bhagavat Gita
(c) Mundaka Upanishad
(d) Rigveda

answer : (c) Mundaka Upanishad

49.Consider the following statements:
Ammonia is
1. readily soluble in water.
2. used as a refrigerant.
3. used for preparation of polypropylene.
4. used as an additive in cooking gases.

Which of these statements are correct?
(a) 1 and 2
(b) 2 and 4
(c) 3 and 4
(d) 1 and 3

answer : (a) 1 and 2

50.“Repression is repression; if it is legal,
it must be resisted peacefully; but if it is illegal,
it must be illegally met.” Who made this remark?

(a) Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) Gandhiji
(c) Dadabhai Naoroji
(d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

amswer : (d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Answer keys :

1.d )(2b .  ) (3c .)  (4a .  )(  5.b )(6b .)   (7b .)   (8c .)
( 9.a )(10d) . (11b) . (12c) . ( 13d.) (14b) . (15b) . (16b) .
(17d.) (18c) . (19c) . (20c) . ( 21c. ) (22d) . (23a) . (24d) .
( 25a.) (26b) . (27c) . (28b) . ( 29c. ) (30c) . (31d) . (32b)
( 33b.) (34c) . (35c) . (36d) . ( 37c. ) (38d) . (39c) . (40a) .
(41c. ) (42a) . (43c) . (44d) . (45d.) (46d) . (47d) . (48c) .
(49a.) (50d) .