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Answer - d)
2. Who headed the First Law Commission which drafted the Indian Penal Code in 1860?
a) Lord Mckartney
b) Lord Macaulay
c) Lord Swaraj Paul
d) Dadabhai Naroji
Answer - b)
3. Who presides over a joint sitting of the lower and upper house of the Parliament?
a) President of India
b) Speaker of the Rajya Sabha
c) Speaker of the Lok Sabha
d) Leader of the Opposition
Answer - c)
Answer c)
Answer d)
Answer - a) Under Article 326 of the Constitution, it is stated that Elections to the House of the People and to the
Legislative Assemblies of States to be on the basis of Adult Suffrage.
7. The Preamble to the Indian Constitution describes India as?
a) Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic
b) Union of States
c) Secular Democratic Capitalist
d) As Bharat
Answer a)
8. Till date there have been how many amendments to the Indian Constitution?
a) 93
b) 94
c) 92
d) 95
Answer b)
9. What changes did the forty second amendment to the Constitution made to the Preamble?
a) Substituted the words "sovereign democratic republic" with the words "Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic
Republic"
b) Added the word 'Democratic' to the Preamble.
c) Added the word 'Justice' to the Preamble.
d) Deleted the word 'Constitution' from the Preamble
Answer a)
Answer c)
11. The 'Electoral College' for the election of the President of India constitutes?
a) Members of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha
b) Members of the Lok Sabha
c) Members of the Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and Legislative Assemblies of the States, including National Capital
Territory of Delhi and the Union Territory of Pondicherry .
d) Elected Members of the Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and Legislative Assemblies of the States, including National
Capital Territory of Delhi and the Union Territory of Pondicherry .
Answer d)
Answer b).
Answer a)
14. In which case did the Supreme Court propounded the basic structure doctrine?
a). Keshavanda Bharti v. Union of India
b) People's Union of Civil Liberities v. Union of India
c) Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India
d) Indira Gandhi v. Union of India
Answer a)
15. A minimum of How many judges of the Supreme Court sit in a constitutional law bench
a) 2
b) 10
c) 5
d) 7
Answer c)
Answer d)
17. Which is the biggest parliamentary constituency with the largest electorate after the delimitation?
a) Outer Delhi
b) Unnao
c) Thane
d) Chennai North
Answer b)
Answer a)
19. Who is the current Chief Justice of the International Court of Justice?
a) Judge Nagendra Singh (India)
b) Judge Hisashi Owada (Japan)
c) Judge Dame Rosalyn Higgins (United Kingdom)
d) Judge José Gustavo Guerrero (El Salvador)
Answer b)
20. Who was the first female High Court judge in India?
a) Justice Ruma Pal
b) Justice Leila Seth
c) Justice Aruna Suresh
d) Justice R.P. Desai
Answer b)
Answer d)
22. Which of these has been held by the Supreme Court to not being a government organization?
a) Securities and Exchange Board of India
b) Board of Cricket Control of India
c) Railways
d) Industrial Finance Corporate of India
Answer b)
23. In which case did the largest bench of thirteen judges of the Supreme Court sit?
a) Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India
b) Ashok Thakur v. Union of India
c) Keshavanda Bharti v. Union of India
d) There has never been such a large bench in any case of the Supreme Court
Answer c)
24. The only judge of the Supreme Court to have been elevated directly to the post from being a lawyer?
a) Justice Santosh Hedge
b) Justice B.N. Kirpal
c) Justice Ruma Pal
d) Justice K. G. Balakrishnan
Answer a)
Answer d)
26. The Fundamental Right of Prohibition of Traffic in Human Beings and forced Labour is contained in which Article
of the Constitution?
a) Article 12
b) Article 23
c) Article 19
d) Article 20
Answer b)
27. The number of times Financial Emergency has been declared in India?
a) one
b) two
c) never
d) three
Answer c)
Answer d)
Answer a)
30. Which Article of the Constitution of India states that the Law declared by Supreme Court to be binding on all
courts?
a) Article 141
b) Article 136
c) Article 21
d) Article 126
Answer a)
Answer d)
32. Who amongst these enjoys the post of cabinet rank minister?
a) Chief whip of the majority party
b) Leader of the opposition in the lower house
c) Chief whip of the opposition party
d) Deputy Speaker of the House
Answer b)
33. By which amendment to the Constitution was the minimum voting age reduced from 21 to 18
a) 61st
b) 93rd
c) 2nd
d) 91st
Answer a)
34. Which of the following states were created in the States Reorganization Act, 1956
a) Karnataka, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh
b) Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh
c) Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh
d) Goa, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh
Answer b)
Answer b)
Answer d)
37. Which of the following is a writ issued to a detaining authority to produce the detained person in court to know
cause for detention
a. Certiorari
b. Habeas Corpus
c. Prohibition
d. Mandamus
Answer b.
Answer a)
Answer c).
41. What is the minimum age of standing for election to the Lok Sabha in India?
a). 30
b). 35
c). 21
d). 25
Answer d).
Answer b).
43. Who was the first woman to become a member of the Union Cabinet in free India?
a. Suchitra Kriplani
b. Sarojini Naidu
c. Testa Setalvad
d. Rajkumari Kaur
Answer d.
44. On whose request can the President dissolve the Lok sabha?
a. Prime Minister
b. Majority Members of the Lok Sabha
c. Leader of the Opposition
d. Speaker of the Lok Sabha
Answer a).
45. When were the privy purses of the Princely states abolished by Indira Gandhi?
a. 1968.
b. 1969.
c. 1970
d. 1971
Answer d.
Answer b.
47. Who was the first Indian Judge of the International Court of Justice?
a. Justice Benegal Rama Rau
b. Justice Nagendra Singh
c. Justice Raghunanda Pathak
d. Justice Hyditullah
Answer a.
48. What is the term of the members of the International Court of Justice?
a. 9 Years
b. 5 years
c. 7 years
d. Till there death or voluntary resignation
Answer a.
49. What is the term of the Judges of the Supreme Court of United States?
a. 9 Years
b. 5 years
c. 7 years
d. Till there death or voluntary resignation
Answer d.
Answer c.
51. Which of the following best describes Indian form of legal system?
a. Civil Law
b. Common Law
c. Archaic Law
d. Occidental Law
Answer c.
Answer c.
53. What is the basis of representation of the State in the Rajya Sabha
a. Proportional Representation
b. Direct Representation
c. Decided by the President of India
d. Part IVA of the Representation of the People Act, 1950
Answer d).
54. Where does an appeal lie from against the decision of the National Commission of Consumer of
India?
a. Supreme Court
b. High Court of the state where the dispute orginiated
c. No appeal
d. Reference to the President of India
Answer a).
Answer b.
Answer b.
57. The minimum number of days guaranteed to each citizen of the country under the National Rural
Employment Guarantee Act?
a. 20 days
b. three months
c. 100 days
d. 300 days
Answer c.
Answer d.
Answer c.
60. What happens in case of a conflict between a Union Law and State Law?
a. Union Law prevalis
b. State Law Prevails
c. Both Coexists
d. Matter referred to the Chief Justice of India
Answer a.
61. Who was the first Chief Election Commissioner of Independent India?
a. K.V.K. Sundaram
b. T. N. Seshan
c. Sukumar Sen
d. M. S. Gill
Answer c.
Answer b.
Answer b.
64. The number of Bharat Ratna that have been conferred till date?
a. 5.
b. 100
c. 41
d. 150
Answer c.
65. The only Prime Minister to have been a former Governor of Reserve Bank?
a. Atal Behari Vajyapee
b. Not allowed constitutionally
c. Manmohan Singh
d. Lal Bahadhur Shastri
Answer c.
66. The only United States President to have resigned in the middle of his term
a. Franklin D. Rooselvet
b. John Adams
c. Ronald Regan
d. Richard Nixon
Answer d.
67. The first female to have stood for the Vice-Presedential Elections in the United States?
a. Geraldine Ferraro
b. Hillary Clinton
c. Sarah Palin
d. Caroline Kennedy
Answer a.
68. Under which article of the Constitution does the President has the power to impose emergency in
a state
a. Article 100
b. Article 255
c. Article 356
d. Article 300
Answer c.
Answer c.
Answer d.
Answer c.
Answer a.
73. What is the maximum duration between two sessions of the house?
a. One year
b. Three months
c. two months
d. Six months
Answer d.
Answer c.
Answer b.
Answer b.
77. How many maximum number of seats can a person contest an election under the Representation
of People's Act
a. Two
b. No limit
c. Ony one
d. Five
Answer a.
Answer b.
Answer d.
Answer c.
81. Which is the only regiment in the world with a prescriptio of minimum height of six feet?
a. President of India Bodyguards
b. Royal British Army Guards
c. 6th Batallion of United States
7. KGB recruits
Answer a.
82. The limitation period for filing of a suit is provided under which law?
a. Civil Procedure Code, 1908
b. Constitution of India
c. Criminal Procedure Code, 1973
d. The Limitation Act, 1963
Answer d
83. Who has the power to pardon a death sentence given by a Court?
a. The Chief Justice of India
b. The Governor of the state where the inmate is kept
c. The President of India
d. The Court which passed the sentence
Answer c.
84. In which famous case did the Supreme Court issued guidelines to be taken as law based on India
being a signatory of certain international treatise
a. Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India
b. Vishaka v. Union of India
c. Keshavanda Bharti v. Union of India
d. The Supreme Court has never passed a judgment like this
Answer b.
Answer a.
Answer c.
Answer b.
88. The Minimum age prescribed under the Constitution for a person becoming the Prime Minister of
India is?
a. 25 years
b. 30 years
c. 18 years
d. 35 years
Answer a.
Answer c.
91. When did the General Assembly of the United Nations adopt the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights?
a. 18th August 1950
b. 10th December, 1948
c. 12th Jaunary, 1949
d. 14th April, 1951
Answer b.
Answer b.
Answer d.
Answer a.
Answer c.
Answer c.
Answer d.
Answer a.
Answer c.
Answer b.
Answer c.
Answer a.
103. Which of these five are of the ten non-permanent members of the Security Council
a. India, Congo, Bolivia, Argentina, Netherlands
b. Austria, Turkey, Japan, Mexico, Uganda
c. Pakistan, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Nigeria
d. Spain, Canada, Turkey, Mongolia, Chile
Answer b.
Answer d.
Answer a.
Answer d.
Answer a.
108. Which commission did the readjustment of allocations of seats for legislative assemblies
a. Sarkaria Commission
b. Delimitation Commission
c. Thakur Commission
d. Kalker Commission
Answer b.
110. Who was the first female Judge of the Supreme Court of India?
a. Leila Seth
b. Ruma Pal
c. Zia Mody
d. Fathima Beevi
Answer d.
111. Which of the following cases deals with Regulation of Education in India decided by a bench of
eleven judges?
a. Keshvanda Bharti v. Union of India
b. Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India
c. Tek Chand v. Union of India
d. T.M.A. Pai Foundation v. State of Karnataka
Answer d.
Answer c.
Answer d.
114. A resolution for impeachment of the President of India should be passed by a minimum of how
many members of each house of the Parliament
a. half of the members present and voting in each house
b. half of the total strength of each house
c. two-third of the members present and voting in each house
d. two-third of the total strength of each house
Answer d.
Answer d.
116. A marriage between two people of different religions takes place under?
a. Hindu Marriage Act
b. Special Marriage Act
c. Respective Religious Acts of the two people
d. The law doesn't recognises such marriages
Answer b.
117. Under the law who can adopt and become adoptive parents in India?
a. Only Hindus
b. Person from any religion
c. Hindus and Muslims
d. Hindus, Muslims and Parsis
Answer a.
Answer b.
Answer c.
Answer d.
Answer d.
Answer c.
Answer a.
Answer c.
Answer b.
Answer a.
Answer d.
Answer d.
Answer d.
131. Which Article of the Constitution gives autonomy to the State of Jammu and Kashmir
a. Article 370
b. Article 356
c. Article 329
d. Article 376
Answer a.
132. Which of the Constitution contains the Union, State and Concurrent List?
a. First
b. Fifth
c. Seventh
d. Tenth
Answer c.
133. Which of the following list in the seventh schedule of the Constitution contains the residuary
entry?
a. Union
b. State
c. Concurrent
d. There is no such entry in the Constitution
Answer a
Answer d.
135. Who was the first female chief minister of a state in India?
a. Rabri Devi
b. Jayalalitha
c. Suchitra Kriplani
d. Mayawati
Answer c.
Answer b.
137. When did the United State pass the United States-India Nuclear Cooperation Approval and Non-
proliferation Enhancement Act
a. 2005
b. 2006
c. 2007
d. 2008
Answer d.
139. What does clause 49 of the SEBI's listing agreement deal with
a. Trading of Shares
b. Corporate Governance
c. Takeover of companies
d. Futures Trading
Answer b.
Answer b.
141. Which entry in the seventh schedule deals with foreign affairs?
a. entry 10, Union List
b. Entry 8, State list
c. Entry 14, Concurrent list
d. Entry 10, Concurrent List
Answer a.
Answer b.
143. In protest of which Act of the British Government did Bhagat Singh and the revolutionaries bomb
the Central Legalislative Assembly on April 8, 1929
a. Salt Act
b. Montage Chelmsford Reforms Act
c. Defence of India Act
d. Water Act
Answer c.
144. Which Act was passed by the Parliament of Britian to give Independence to India?
a. Government of India Act
b. Cesseion of India Act
c. Bharat Independence Act
d. Indian Independence Act
Answer d.
145. Which of the following is a writ which is an order of a court of law issued to a subordinate court
or an officer of government or a corporation or any other institution commanding the performance of
certain acts or duties
a. Certiorari
b. Habeas Corpus
c. Prohibition
d. Mandamus
Answer d.
146. What does section 138 of the Indian Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 deals with?
a. Check bouncing
b. Invalid Notes
c. Bankruptcy
d. Powers of the finance secretary of ministry of finance
Answer a.
Answer d.
Answer c.
Answer d.
150. Which of the following is a writ issued against a person who claims or usurps a public office
a. Certiorari
b. Habeas Corpus
c. Quo Warranto
d. Mandamus
Answer c.
Answer c.
152. What is the age of retirement of the Judges of the Supreme Court
a. 60
b. 62
c. 65
d. 70
Answer c.
153. Which of the following is the current female judge of the Supreme Court of India
a. Ruma Pal
b. No one currently
c. Leila Seth
d. Fathima Beevi
Answer d.
Answer a.
Answer c.
156. Which body was decides upon trade disputes between nations ?
a. Supreme Court of India
b. World Trade Organization - dispute settlement body
c. United Nations
d. Through arbitration
Answer b.
Answer a.
158. Which of the following is a writ issued by a higher court to a lower court prohibiting it from taking
up a case because it falls outside the jurisdiction of the lower court?
a. Certiorari
b. Habeas Corpus
c. Prohibition
d. Mandamus
Answer c.
159. Which were the first three High Courts set up by the British in India?
a). Allahabad, Delhi, Calcutta
b). Allahabad, Bombay, Madras
c). Bombay, Madras, Calcutta
d). Delhi, Calcutta, Bombay
Answer c).
160. Which of the following is a writ issued to a lower court directing it that the record of a case be
sent up for review with all the files, evidence and documents with an aim to overrule the judgement of
the lower court
a. Certiorari
b. Habeas Corpus
c. Prohibition
d. Mandamus
Answer a.
Answer d.
Answer b
Answer c.
Answer d.
Answer b.
Answer a.
Answer a.
Answer d.
169. What is 'Manusmriti'?
a. a text on vedic mathematics
b. an introduction to the Bhagwad Gita
c. an ancient treatise on law and polity
d. a love story
Answer c.
Answer a.
Answer a.
172. In which of the following does the police officer need a warrant for arrest
a. Cognizable offence
b. Economic offence
c. Non-cognizable offence
d. Police officer has the authority to arrest anyone
Answer c.
Answer c.
174. In 2008, which State of the United States voted in the affirmative to make 'Physician Assisted
Suicide' Legal becoming the second state do so in the United States?
a. California
b. Texas
c. New York
d. Washington
Answer d.
Answer b.
Answer a.
Answer b.
178. The Constitution of India permits the Supreme Court to sit at?
a. Delhi only
b. Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Calcutta
c. Delhi and Chennai only
d. Anywhere in India
Answer d.
Answer b.
Answer c.
181. Which of these bodies advises and guides Central Government agencies in the field of vigilance.
a. Office of the Chief Investigation Officer
b. Central Bureau of Investigation
c. Home Ministry
d. Central Vigilance Commission
Answer d.
182. Which is the newest member of the United Nations?
a. East Timor
b. Serbia
c. Switzerland
d. Montenegro
Answer d.
183. Which is the High Court which has the maximum number of pending cases?
a. Allahabad High Court
b. Bombay High Court
c. Madras High Court
d. Calcutta High Court
Answer a.
Answer d.
185. How many judges are there in the International Court of Justice
a. 10
b. 12
c. 15
d. 20
Answer c.
Answer c.
187. Right to property as a fundamental right was abolished by which amendment to the Constitution?
a. 1st
b. 40th
c. 12th
d. 44th
Answer d
Answer a.
Answer a
191. What is the animal in the seal of the President of United States?
a. Pigeon
b. Sparrows
c. Eagle
d. Lion
Answer c.
192. The Fundamental Right to reside and settle in any part of the country is provided under which
article of the Constitution?
a. 19(1)(a)
b. 19(1)(c)
c. 19(1)(e)
d. 19(1)b)
Answer c.
Answer b.
194. What is the minimum age for election of a person to the post of the President of India?
a. 20 years
b. 30 years
c. 35 years
d. 45 years
Answer c.
Answer a.
Answer d.
197. In which case was declaration of assets by candidates for the post of legislative assemblies held
mandatory?
a. Keshavanda Bharti v. Union of India
b. Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India
c. People's Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL) v. Union of India
d. T. M. A. Pai v. State of Karnataka
Answer c.
Answer b.
Answer d.
Answer c.
201. Who is the current chariman of the Securities Exchage Board of India?
a. Mr. M. Damodharan
b. Mr. Subbarao
c. Mrs. Usha Thorat
d. Mr. C. B. Bhave
Answer d.