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2. Geography 15-28
3. Polity 29-40
4. Economics 41-54
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1. Arrange the following in chronological order : 12. Simon Commission was boycotted by the nationalist leaders
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) of India because: (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
1. Tughlaqs 2. Lodis (a) they felt that it was only an eyewash
3. Saiyids 4. Ilbari Turks (b) all the members of the Commission were English
5. Khiljis (c) the members of the Commission were biased against
(a) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (b) 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 India
(c) 2, 4, 5, 3, 1 (d) 4, 5, 1, 3, 2 (d) it did not meet the demands of the Indians
2. Who was the founder of The Servants of India Society? 13. Who among the following British persons admitted the
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) Revolt of 1857 as a national revolt?
(a) G..K. Gokhale (b) M.G. Ranade (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
(c) B.G. Tilak (d) Bipin Chandra Pal (a) Lord Dalhousie (b) Lord Canning
3. Mahatma Gandhi was profoundly influenced by the writings (c) Lord Ellenborough (d) Disraeli
of (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) 14. Which of the following is called the 'shrimp capital of India'?
(a) Bernard Shaw (b) Karl Marx (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
(c) Lenin (d) Leo Tolstoy (a) Mangalore (b) Nagapatnam
4. The monk who influenced Ashoka to embrace Buddhism (c) Kochi (d) Nellore
was (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010)
15. Mention the place where Buddha attained enlightenment
(a) Vishnu Gupta (b) Upa Gupta
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011)
(c) Brahma Gupta (d) Brihadratha
(a) Sarnath (b) Bodh Gaya
5. The Lodi dynasty was founded by
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010) (c) Kapilavastu (d) Rajgriha
(a) Ibrahim Lodi (b) Sikandar Lodi 16. Coronation of Shivaji took place in
(c) Bahlol Lodi (d) Khizr Khan (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011)
6. Harshvardhana was defeated by (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010) (a) 1627 A.D. (b) 1674 A.D.
(a) Prabhakaravardhana (c) 1680 A.D. (d) 1670 A.D.
(b) Pulakesin II 17. The System of Dyarchy was introduced in India in
(c) Narasimhasvarma Pallava (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011)
(d) Sasanka (a) 1909 (b) 1935
7. Who among the following was an illiterate ? (c) 1919 (d) 1945
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010) 18. The Editor of 'Young India' and 'Harijan' was
(a) Jahangir (b) Shah Jahan (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011)
(c) Akbar (d) Aurangazeb (a) Nehru (b) Ambedkar
8. Which Governor General is associated with Doctrine of Lapse ? (c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) Subash Chandra Bose
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010) 19. Who of the following attended all the Three Round Table
(a) Lord Ripon (b) Lord Dalhousie
Conferences? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011)
(c) Lord Bentinck (d) Lord Curzon
(a) B.R. Ambedkar (b) M.M. Malavia
9. The Greek ambassador sent to Chandragupta Maurya's Court
was : (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011) (c) Vallabhbhai Patel (d) Gandhiji
(a) Kautilya (b) Seleucus Nicator 20. Which king is referred to as Devanampiya Piyadassi (Beloved
(c) Megasthenes (d) Justin of the Gods) in the inscriptions? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
10. Identify the European power from whom Shivaji obtained (a) Asoka (b) Harsha
cannons and ammunition: (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011) (c) Bindusara (d) Chandragupta Maurya
(a) The French (b) The Portuguese 21. Name the Maratha Saint who was a contemporary of Shivaji.
(c) The Dutch (d) The English (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
11. The call of "Back to the Vedas" was given by: (a) Saint Eknath (b) Saint Tukaram
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011) (c) Saint Dhyaneshwar (d) Namdev
(a) Swami Vivekananda 22. Which of the following cereals was among the first to be
(b) Swami Dayanand Saraswati used by man? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(c) Aurobindo Ghosh (a) Rye (b) Wheat
(d) Raja Ram Mohan Roy (c) Barley (d) Oat
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25. Who favoured the Artic Home thoery of the Aryans? (c) Mahatma Gandhi
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) (d) Dayanand Saraswati
(a) Pargiter (b) A. C. Das 38. Arrange the following in chronological order:
(c) B. G. Tilak (d) Jacobi (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
26. Who was the teacher of Gautama Buddha? I. Dandi March
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) II. Simon Commission
(a) Panini (b) Alara Kalama III. Poona Pact
(c) Kapila (d) Patanjali IV. Gandhi Irwin Pact
27. The prose collection of the vedic poems are: (a) II, I, III, IV (b) II, I, IV, III
(c) IV, III, I, II (d) IV, III, II, I
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
39. The city of Prayag was named Allahabad - the city of Allah
(a) Samhitas (b) Upanishads
by (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
(c) Aranyakas (d) Brahmanas
(a) Aurangzeb (b) Akbar
28. Non-violence as taught and practised by Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Shahjahan (d) Bahadur Shah Zafar
is rooted in the Indian Doctrine of 40. Who gave the title of "Mahamana" to Madan Mohan
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) Malviya ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(a) Swaraj (b) Swadeshi (a) Bal Gandadhar Tilak
(c) Satyagraha (d) Ahimsa (b) Dada Bhai Naurozi
29. Who was the founder of the Aligarh Movement ? (c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (d) Mahatma Gandhi
(a) Syed Amir Ali 41. Who was the Viceroy of the time of Quit India Movement ?
(b) Maulvi Chiragh Ali (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(c) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan (a) Lord Irwin
(d) Abdul Halim Sharar (b) Lord Mountbatten
30. ‘Prince of Pilgrims’ was the name attributed to (c) Lord Wavell
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (d) Lord Lin Lithgow
(a) Plutarch (b) Hiuen Tsang 42. Who was the other Congress leader who joined with Motilal
(c) Fa-Hien (d) I-Tsing Nehru to start the Swaraj Party in 1923?
31. Where did Buddha deliver his first sermon ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (a) G.K. Gokhale (b) B.G. Tilak
(a) Sarnath (b) Rajagriha (c) Chittaranjan Das (d) M.K. Gandhi
(c) Kapilavastu . (d) Bodh-Gaya 43. What is the first sermon of Buddha called as ?
32. Name the Mughal Prince, who translated Bhagavat Gita into (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
Persian ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (a) Mahaparinivansutta
(a) Dara Shukoh (b) Sulaiman Shukoh (b) Brahmajalasutta
(c) Khusru (d) Murad (c) Dhammachakkapabattanasutta
33. The surgery that was practised in ancient India is known
(d) Kachchayanagottasutta
from the works of which of the following scholars ?
44. From which of the following banks did Madan Mohan
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) Malaviya take loans for financing "The Hindustan Times"?
(a) Atreya (b) Sushruta (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(c) Charaka (d) Vagbhata (a) State Bank of India
34. Who among the following was the First Viceroy of India? (b) Punjab National Bank
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) (c) Bank of Maharashtra
(a) Lord Ripon (b) Lord Curzon (d) Bank of Baroda
(c) Lord Mountbatten (d) Lord Canning 45. Where are the Todas found ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
35. Prithvi Raj Chauhan was defeated in the Second Battle of (a) Madhya Pradesh
Tarain by (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) (b) Tamil nadu
(a) Mahmud Ghazni (b) Muhammad Ghori (c) Rajasthan
(c) Qutbuddin Aibak (d) Yalduz (d) Aruncachal Pradesh
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(c) Arunachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh (a) Bahlol Lodi
(d) Punjab and Chandigarh (b) Sikandar Shah Lodi
48. Which of the following tribes is associated with the “Tana (c) Jalal Khan Lodi
(d) Ibrahim Lodi
Bhagat” movement? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
59. The Gandharva School of art is also known as the
(a) Uraon (b) Munda (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(c) Santhal (d) Kondadora (a) Buddhist-Roman art
49. Who founded the Naujawan Bharat Sabha? (b) Dravidian-Roman art
(a) B. C. Pal (c) Greco-Roman art
(b) G. Subramania Iyer (d) Greco-Roman-Buddhist art
(c) Sardar Bhagat Singh 60. The Bolshevik Revolution of Russia symbolized following:
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(d) Rukmani Lakshmipathi
(a) coming of the Communist Rule
50. The Narendra Mandal or Chamber of Princes was (b) establishment of Republic of Russia
inaugurated in 1921 by (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013) (c) establishment of Democracy in Russia
(a) Lord Curzon (d) overthrow of Romanov Dynasty
(b) Lord Wellesley 61. Which General, who commanded the British forces against
(c) Duke of Cannaught the Americans in their War of Independence later became
(d) Duke of Wellingdon Governor-General of India ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(a) Dalhousie (b) William Bentinck
51. Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha together are known as
(c) Wellesley (d) Cornwallis
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013) 62. Who established the Indian Civil Liberties Union in 1936?
(a) Triratna (b) Trivarga (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(c) Trisarga (d) Trimurti (a) Subhash Chandra Bose
52. Who was called Lichchavi Dauhitra? (b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013) (c) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(a) Chandragupta I (b) Skandagupta (d) Rajendra Prasad
63. Which of the following was established first?
(c) Kumaragupta (d) Samudragupta
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
53. Pulakesin II was the greatest ruler of the (a) Banaras Hindu University
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (b) University of Bombay
(a) Chalukyas of Kalyani (c) Aligarh Muslim University
(b) Pallavas of Kanchi (d) University of Allahabad
(c) Cholas of Tamil Nadu 64. The first Indian Satellite Aryabhatta was launched in
(d) Chalukyas of Badami (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(a) 1972 (b) 1975
54. The Uttaramerur inscription provides information on the
(c) 1977 (d) 1979
administration of the (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) 65. Where did Aurangzeb die? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(a) Pallavas (b) Cholas (a) Pune (b) Aurangabad
(c) Chalukyas (d) Satavahanas (c) Ahmad Nagar (d) Mumbai
55. Pitts India Act of 1784 was a/an (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) 66. Who gave the title of "Sardar" to Ballabh Bhai Patel?
(a) Ordinance (b) Resolution (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(c) White paper (d) Regulation Act (a) Mahatma Gandhi (b) Vinoba Bhave
56. Which one of the following statements is not true in respect (c) Women of Bardoli (d) Peasants of Gujrat
67. What Satyagraha was held at Nagpur in 1923?
of A.O. Hume? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(a) He founded the Indian National Congress.
(a) Salt Satyagraha
(b) He presided over the Congress Annual Sessions twice. (b) Individual Satyagraha
(c) He was an ornithologist. (c) Ryots Satyagraha
(d) He was a member of the Indian Civil Service. (d) Flag Satyagraha
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70. Multan was named by the Arabs as (SSC CGL 2014) (a) Revival of classical learning
(a) City of beauty (b) City of wealth (b) The revolt against authority of pope
(c) City of gold (d) Pink city (c) Rise of absolute monarchy
71. Which one of the following was the book written by (d) Change in attitude of man
82. Swaraj is my Birth Right and I shall have it. This was
Amoghvarsha, the Rashtrakuta King? (SSC CGL 2014)
advocated by : (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(a) Adipurana
(a) Mahatma Gandhi (b) Lala Lajpat Rai
(b) Ganitasara Samgraha
(c) Sardar Patel (d) Lokmanya Tilak
(c) Saktayana
83. Gandhiji's Famous Quit India Movement call to the British
(d) Kavirajamarga
was given in : (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
72. Who built the Kailasanatha Temple at Ellora?
(a) 1940 (b) 1942
(SSC CGL 2014)
(c) 1941 (d) 1943
(a) Rajendra I
84. In which year was the Indian National Congress formed :
(b) Mahendra Varman I
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(c) Krishna I
(a) 1901 (b) 1835 (c) 1875 (d) 1885
(d) Govinda I
85. Bangladesh was created in : (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
73. The land measures of the Second Pandyan Empire was
(a) 1973 (b) 1970 (c) 1972 (d) 1971
mentioned in (SSC CGL 2014)
86. Raja Ram Mohan Roy was the founder of :
(a) Thalavaipuram Copper Plates
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(b) Uttirameru Inscription
(a) Brahmo Samaj
(c) Kudumiyammalai Inscription
(b) Prathna Samaj
(d) Kasakudi Copper Plates
(c) Ram Krishna Mission
74. Who was the greatest ruler of the Satavahanas?
(d) Arya Samaj
(SSC CGL 2014)
87. Who initiated the movement to form the Indian National
(a) Satkarni I
Congress : (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(b) Gautamiputra Satkarni
(a) Annie Besant (b) A.O. Hume
(c) Simuka
(c) W.C. Banerjee (d) Gandhi ji
(d) Hala
88. Kamarup is an ancient name of which region of India?
75. The greatest king of the Pratihara dynasty was
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(a) Bihar (b) Rajasthan
(a) Bhoj (Mihir–Bhoj) (b) Dantidurga (c) Karnataka (d) Assam
(c) Nagbhatta II (d) Vatsaraj 89. Which battle led to the downfall of the Vijayanagar empire?
76. In 1939 Subhash Chandra Bose was elected as President of (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
the Congress Party defeating (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015) (a) Battle of Takkolam (b) Battle of Talikota
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru (c) Battle of Kanwah (d) Battle of Panipat
(b) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad 90. Who introduced Mansabdari system in India?
(c) V.B. Patel (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(d) Pattabhi Sitharamayya (a) Babur (b) Humayun
77. Jallianwala incident took place at (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015) (c) Akbar (d) Jahangir
(a) Lucknow (b) Surat 91. The ‘Cabinet Mission’ of 1946 was led by 1946
(c) Amritsar (d) Allahabad
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
78. Who was the founder of Lodhi dynasty ?
(a) Lord Linlithgow (b) Lord Mountbatten
(a) Sikandar Lodhi (b) Bahlol Lodhi
(c) Sir Pethic Lawrence (d) Sir Mountford
(c) Ibrahim Lodhi (d) Daulat Khan Lodhi
92. What did Gandhiji meant by ‘Sarvodaya’?
79. Which one of the following pair is not correctly matched ?
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(a) Non-violence
(a) Akbar – Todarmal
(b) Upliftment of untouchables or dalits
(b) Chanakya – Chandragupta
(c) The birth of a new society based on ethical values
(c) Vikramaditya – Chaitanya
(d) Satyagraha
(d) Harshvardhan – Hiuen Tsang
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95. Who propounded the "Doctrine of Passive Resistance"? (a) Pulakeshi I (b) Harsha
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) (c) Pulakeshi II (d) Kharavela
(a) Balgangadhar Tilak 106. When did the reign of Delhi Sultanate came to an end ?
(SSC CHSL 2014)
(b) Aurobindo Ghosh
(a) 1498 A.D. (b) 1526 A.D.
(c) Lala Lajpat Rai
(c) 1565 A. D. (d) 1600 A.D.
(d) Bipin Chandra Pal 107. The original founder of the Manuscripts and Editor of
96. The first Muslim to be elected President of 'Indian National Kautilya's Arthashastra was (SSC CHSL 2014)
Congress' was? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) (a) Srikanta Shastri (b) Srinivasa lyangar
(a) Maulana Azad (b) Mohammed Ali (c) R. Shamashastri (d) William Jones
(c) Badruddin Tyabji (d) Shah Wali-ullah 108. Whose army did Alexander, the Greek ruler confront on the
97. The Dandi March of Gandhi-is an example of banks of the river Jhelum ? (SSC CHSL 2015)
(a) Ambi (b) Chandragupta Maurya
(SSC CHSL 2013) (c) Porus (d) Dhanananda
(a) Non-Coopefation (b) Direct Action 109. When was RTI Act enacted in India ? (SSC CHSL 2015)
(c) Boycott (d) Civil Disobedience (a) 15th August 2005 (b) 15th March 2005
th
(c) 15 June 2005 (d) 15th July 2005
98. Which one of the following inscriptions relate to the
Chalukya king, Pulakesin II ? (SSC CHSL 2013) 110. The famous activist Medha Patakar is associated with which
movement ? (SSC CHSL 2015)
(a) Nasik (b) Maski (a) Narmada Bachao Andolan
(c) Hathigumpha (d) Aihole (b) Save the Tiger
99. Who among the following introduced the Mansabdari (c) Preserve the wet lands
system ? (SSC CHSL 2013) (d) Beti Padao Andolan
111. Who built the "Purana Quilla"? (SSC CHSL 2015)
(a) Jahangir (b) Shah Jahan
(a) Babar (b) Shershah
(c) SherShah (d) Akbar (c) Aurangzeb (d) Akbar
100. Which one of the following cities and the personalities 112. Where did Chandragupta maurya spent his last days ?
associated with their establishment is wrongly matched ? (SSC CHSL 2015)
(SSC CHSL 2013) (a) Thaneshwar (b) Kanchi
(a) Calcutta - Robert Clive (c) Patliputra (d) Shravanabelagola
113. Who is the author of 'Indica'? (SSC CHSL 2015)
(b) Pondicherry - Francis Martin (a) Fa–Hien (b) Hiuen Tsang
(c) Ahmedabad Ahmad Shah I (c) Megasthanes (d) Seleucus
(d) Madras - Francis Day 114. Who built the famous Shiva temple at Ellora ?
101. Which one of the following wars decided the fate of the (SSC CHSL 2015)
French in India ? (SSC CHSL 2013) (a) Mauryan Emperor Ashoka
(b) Gupta King Samudra Gupta
(a) Battle of Plassey
(c) Chalukyan King Pulikeshi II
(b) Battle of Wandiwash
(d) Rashtrakuta Ruler Krishna I
(c) First Carnatic War 115. Who composed the Allahabad Pillar inscription ?
(d) Battle of Buxar (SSC CHSL 2015)
102. The Crimean War came to an end by the (a) Mahasena (b) Veerasena
(SSC CHSL 2013) (c) Vishnusena (d) Harisena
(a) Treaty of St. Germain 116. Todar Mal, the brilliant revenue officer served under :
(b) Treaty of Trianon (SSC CHSL 2015)
(c) Treaty of Versailles (a) Bhagwan Das (b) Humayun
(d) Treaty of Paris (c) Baz Bahadur (d) Sher Shah
103. Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas in the reign of 117. When was the League of Nations established ?
(SSC CHSL 2014) (SSC CHSL 2015)
(a) Babar (b) Akbar (a) In 1920 (b) In 1939
(c) Aurangzeb (d) Jahangir (c) In 1914 (d) In 1918
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(SSC CHSL 2012) Congress of Religions" held at Chicago (U.S.) in 1893.
(a) Bengali (b) Brijbhasha (SSC Multitasking 2014)
(c) Avadhi (d) Assamese (a) Basaveshwara (b) Swami Vivekananda
120. The Mansabdari system was introduced by: (c) Ramanuja (d) Madhavacharya
(SSC CHSL 2012) 132. Chhatrapati Shivaji was a follower of
(a) Shah Jahan (b) Jahangir (SSC Multitasking 2014)
(c) Babur (b) Akbar (a) Madhava (b) Kabir
121. When and by whom were the Asokan inscriptions (c) Basava (d) Ramadasa
deciphered for the first time ? (SSC CHSL 2012) 133. Who was the greatest Kushan ruler?
(a) 1787 - John Tower (b) 1825 - Charles Metcalfe (SSC Multitasking 2014)
(c) 1837 - James Prinsep (d) 1810 - Harry Smith (a) Vashiska (b) Vasudeva
122. Amuktamalyada is the work of : (SSC CHSL 2012) (c) Huvishka (d) Kanishka
(a) Krishnadeva Raya (b) Vachcharaj 134. Who was the founder of Arya Samaj?
(c) Kharavela (d) Allasani Peddana (SSC Multitasking 2014)
(a) Kabir Das (b) Shankaracharya
123. Name the Commander of the Arab army who conquered the
(c) Ranade (d) Dayanand Saraswati
Sindh. (SSC Multitasking 2013)
135. The French challenge to British in India came to an end with
(a) Muhammad bin Qasim
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
(b) Al Hazzaz
(a) Battle of Wandiwash
(c) Qutbuddin Aibak
(b) Battle of Srirangapattinam
(d) Allauddin Khilji
(c) Battle of Plassey
124. Who was the chairperson of the Chinese Communist Party
(d) Battle of Buxar
at the time of liberation of China?
136. Identify the medical trio of Ancient India from the following
(SSC Multitasking 2013)
names. (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
(a) Liu Shaoqi (b) Zhou Enlai
(a) Charaka, Susruta and Vagbhata
(c) Deng Xiaoping (d) Mao Zedong
(b) Charaka, Vatsyayana and Vagbhata
125. Who was regarded by Gandhiji as his political Guru?
(c) Charaka, Susruta and Bharata
(SSC Multitasking 2013)
(d) Charaka, Susruta and Patanjali
(a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
137. Match the medieval travellers with their countries :
(b) Lala Lajpat Rai
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
(c) Bipin Chandra Pal
A. Marco Polo 1. Spain
(d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
B. Ibn Battuta 2. Balkh
126. Which among the following movements was not led by
C Antonio Monserrate 3. Italy
Mahatma Gandhi? (SSC Multitasking 2013)
D. Mahmud Wali Balkhi 4. Morocco
(a) Civil Disobedience Movement
A B C D A B C D
(b) Quit India Movement
(a) 4 3 1 2 (b) 3 1 4 2
(c) Swadeshi-Movement
(c) 3 4 1 2 (d) 1 3 2 4
(d) Non-Cooperation Movement
138. Match the following : (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
127. In which session of the Indian National Congress was the
A. Sarojini Naidu 1. Muslim League
“Poorna Swaraj” resolution adopted?
B. M.A. Jinnah 2. Indian National Congress
(SSC Multitasking 2013)
C. Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru 3. Hindu Mahasabha
(a) Karachi Session in 1931
D. V.D. Savarkar 4. Liberal Party
(b) Lucknow Session in 1916
A B C D A B C D
(c) Belgaum Session in 1924
(a) 2 1 4 3 (b) 2 1 3 4
(d) Lahore Session in 1929
(c) 2 4 1 3 (d) 4 1 3 2
128. The school of arts developed during the Kushan Period
139. Which Sultan received a robe of honour from the caliph?
with the mixture of Indian and Greek style is known as
(SSC Multitasking 2013) (SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
(a) Mughal art (b) Kushan art (a) Ala-ud-din Khilji (b) lltutmish
(c) Persian art (d) Gandhara art (c) Balban (d) Qutub-ud-din Albak
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151. The unification of Karnataka was achieved in the year
(i) Malkhed (ii) Vatapi
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2014)
(iii) Warangal (iv) Dwarasamudra
(a) 1956 (b) 1957
(a) (a)-(ii), (b )-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii) (c) 1958 (d) 1960
(b) (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii) 152. Who introduced the Indian University Act?
(c) (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv) (SSC Sub. Ins. 2014)
(d) (a)-(iii), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iv),(d)-(i) (a) Lord Curzon (b) Lord Minto
142. The world's tallest statue of Mahatma Gandhi is in (c) Lord Morelay (d) Lord Rippon
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2013) 153. Chinese travellers visited India primarily because
(a) Champaran (b) Patna (SSC Sub. Ins. 2014)
(c) Lucknow (d) Rajkot (a) they were interested in Buddhism
143. Which one of the following is the principal source of (b) they were invited by the Indian kings
information on Asoka's campaign against Kalinga ? (c) they were interested to study Indian culture
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2013) (d) they were interested to stay in India
(a) Pillar Edict VII (b) Mahavamsa 154. Development that meets the needs of the present, without
(c) Divyavadana (d) Rock Edict XIII compromising the ability of future generations to meet their
144. Gandhi's concept of Trusteeship: (SSC Sub. Ins. 2013) own needs was the focal point of Brundtland commission is
(a) Recognises right of private ownership of property (SSC Sub. Ins. 2014)
(a) sustainable development
(b) Transforms the capitalistic society into an egalitarian
(b) mitigation
one
(c) disaster management
(c) Excludes legislative regulation of the ownership and
(d) capacity building
use of wealth
155. Name the Kingdom which first used elephants in wars?
(d) Does not fix minimum or maximum income
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)
145. Match the following: (SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
(a) Avanti (b) Champa
(a) Hunter's Commission
(c) Magadha (d) Kosala
(b) Wardha Scheme
156. Tulsidas wrote Ramacharitamans during the reign of :
(c) University's Act
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)
(d) Radhakrishnan Commission
(a) Akbar (b) Krishnadeva Raya
(i) 1948 (ii) 1904
(c) Jahangir (d) Rama Raya
(iii) 1937 (iv) 1882
157. Cripps Mission came to India in: (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)
(a) (a)-(iii), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)
(a) 1945 (b) 1946
(b) (a)-(iv), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(i)
(c) 1940 (d) 1942
(c) (a)-(iii) (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
158. Who among the following Sultans tried to prohibit Sati?
(d) (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)
146. The Gandhara art nourished under:
(a) Muhammad Bin Tuglaq (b) Firoz Tuglaq
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2013) (c) Jalaluddin Khilji (d) Alauddin Khilji
(a) the Kushanas (b) the Satavahanas 159. Who constructed Humayun’s Tomb in Delhi ?
(c) the Guptas (d) the Mauryas (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)
147. Most important safeguard of liberty is (a) Haji Begam (b) Babar
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2014) (c) Humayun (d) Akbar
(a) bold and impartial judiciary 160. Who among the following Mughal rulers banned music
(b) well-knit party system and dancing ? (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)
(c) decentralisation of power (a) Jahangir (b) Babar
(d) declaration of rights (c) Aurangzeb (d) Humayun
148. What is the ancient school of law ? (SSC Sub. Ins. 2014) 161. Who was the governor-general during the Second Anglo-
(a) The Philosophical School Mysore War? (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)
(b) The Historical School (a) Lord Wellesley (b) Sir John Shore
(c) The Analytical School (c) Lord Cornwallis (d) Warren Hastings
(d) The Sociological School
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164. The Vedic literature was composed between (c) Shah Jahan (d) Aurangzeb
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2016) 175. The permanent Land Settlement in Bengal was introduced
(a) 3500 B.C. and 1000 B.C. by (SSC Stenographer 2013)
(b) 2500 B.C. and 500 B.C. (a) Warren Hestings (b) Thomas Munro
(c) 3000 B.C. and 1000 B.C. (c) Thomas Reid (d) Lord Cornwallis
(d) 3500 B.C. and 2500 B.C. 176. Din-I-llahi was founded by (SSC Stenographer 2014)
165. Who among the following was the Prime Minister of England (a) Kabir (b) Akbar
when India was given independence? (SSC Sub. Ins. 2016) (c) Shah jahan (d) Guru Nanak Dev
(a) Mountbatten (b) Churchill 177. 'Purna Swaraj' was announced in the Indian National
(c) Attlee (d) Wavell Congress Session of (SSC Stenographer 2014)
166. How many times did Babur invade India before 1526 A.D.? (a) Calcutta (b) Lahore
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2016) (c) Nagpur (d) Karachi
(a) None of these (b) Four times 178. Who chaired the Boundary Commission in 1947, to demarcate
(c) Five times (d) Two times the boundary line between India and pakistan?
167. Which of the following countries has become the first (SSC Stenographer 2014)
country in the world to receive funds from United Nations (a) Krishna Menon (b) McMohan
for its fast growing Solar Home Systems? (c) J. Nehru (d) Henderson Brooks
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2016) 179. Ashoka embraced Buddism (SSC Stenographer 2014)
(a) before the Kalinga war
(a) Afghanistan (b) Burma
(b) after the Kalinga war
(c) Bangladesh (d) Switzerland
(c) just before his death
168. In Indian architecture 'Surkhi' was introduced by
(d) when he was a Crown Prince
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2016)
180. The original name of 'Mahabharata' is
(a) Mughals (b) Kushans
(SSC Stenographer 2016)
(c) Guptas (d) Sultanate Sultans
(a) Rajtarangini (b) Bharat Katha
169. which one of the following land reform measures can be
(c) Kathasaritasagar (d) Jai Samhita
said to have been fully implemented by now in India?
181. Sir Eyre Coote was associated with which of the following?
(SSC Stenographer 2013)
(SSC Stenographer 2016)
(a) Tenancy reforms
(a) Battle of Ambur (b) Battle of Arcot
(b) Abolition of intermediaries (c) Battle of Wandiwash (d) Battle of Adyar
(c) Land ceilings 182. Which among the following is related to Sadr-us-Sadr?
(d) Consolidation of holdings (SSC Stenographer 2016)
170. Which of the following recommended reservation for the (a) Ecclesiastical matters
Other Backward Classes (OBCs)? (SSC Stenographer 2013) (b) Judicial administration
(a) Mandal Commission (c) Military administration
(b) Kothari Commission (d) Land revenue
(c) Sachar Committee 183. Which among the following inscription is known as Prayaga
(d) None of these Prashasti ? (SSC Stenographer 2016)
171. Which of the following was not an aspect of Later Vedic (a) Hathigumpha Inscription
Age? (SSC Stenographer 2013) (b) Aihole Inscription
(a) Importance of Kingship in political life (c) Mehroli Inscription
(b) Discovery of iron (d) Allahabad Pillar Inscription
(c) Polygamy 184. Which of the following pair is NOT correctly matched?
(d) Simple, non-ritualistic worship (SSC Stenographer 2016)
172. Who among the follwing presided over the fourth Buddhist (a) Ibn Batuta - Morocco
Council? (SSC Stenographer 2013) (b) Nikitin - Samarkand
(a) Ashoka (b) Kanishka (c) Marco Polo - Italy
(c) Ashvaghosha (d) Vasumitra (d) Alberuni - Uzbekistan
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Gokhale, who left the Deccan Education Society to
form this association.
3. (d)
4. (b) Upagupta (c. 3rd Century BC) was a Buddhist monk.
According to some stories in the Sanskrit text
Ashokavadana, he was the spiritual teacher of the
Mauryan emperor Ashoka.
5. (c) 6. (b) 7. (c)
8. (b) The doctrine of lapse was an annexation policy
purportedly devised by Lord Dalhousie, who was the
Governor General for the East lndia Company in lndia
between 1848 and 1856.
9. (c) 10. (b) 11. (b) 12. (b) 13. (d)
14. (d) 15. (b) 16. (b) 17. (c) 18. (c)
19. (a)
20. (a) King Asoka assumed the title Devanampiya Piyadasi
which means "Beloved-of-the-Gods, He who Looks
on with Affection".
21. (b) Shivaji, the great Maratha King and founder of a
nationalist tradition was contemporary of Tukaram.
Tukaram introduced Shivaji to Ramdas for his spritual
education.
22. (b) Wheat was the first cereal to be cultivated by man. In
several places in the Middle East it was sowed, tended
and reaped soon after 8000 BC. The people of Jericho
are the first known to have lived mainly from the
cultivation of crops.
23. (c) After approximately 200 years of French rule, Alsace
and the German-speaking part of Lorraine were ceded
to Germany in 1871 under the Treaty of Frankfurt. In
1919, both regions were returned to France.
24. (d) James Princep was an English scholar and antiquary.
From 1832 to 1838 he was assay-master in the India
Government Mint, Kolkata. He is most noted as a
philologist for fully deciphering and translating the
rock edicts of Asoka from the Brahmi script.
25. (c) Tilak propounded the theory of the Arctic home of the
Aryans, meaning that the Aryans originated in the
Arctic region, and later, on the journey south, divided
into two branches. One branch went to Europe, while
the other branch came to India.
26. (b) Alara Kalama was a hermit saint and a teacher of yogic
meditation who lived near Rajagriha. According to the
Pali Canon scriptures, he was one of the teachers of
Gautama Buddha.
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and deities.
28. (d) 29. (c) 30. (b)
31. (a) 32. (a) 33. (b)
34. (d) Lord Canning was the Governor General of India from
1856 - 1862 and the first Viceroy in India from 1
November 1858. Lord Mountbatten was the First
Governor General of Independent India.
35. (b) 1191 - First Battle of Tarain in which Prithviraj Chauhan
defeated Mohd. Ghori.1192 - Second Battle of Tarain
in which Mohd.Ghori defeated Prithviraj Chauhan.
36. (d)
37. (c) The first major attempt in curriculum reconstruction in
India was made in 1937 when Gandhiji propounded the
idea of Basic Education.
38. (b) Simon Commission (1927) > Dandi March (1930) >
Gandhi Irwin Pact (1931) > Poona Pact (1932)
39. (b) Emperor Akbar named Prayag as Allahabad - City of
God- also called Allahabad in 1575 AD. The city of
Allahabad is situated at the confluence of three rivers
- Ganga, Yamuna and the invisible Saraswati. Every
12th year when the waters are felt to be especially
purifying, Allahabad holds a much greater festival called
Kumbh Mela. Built by Emperor Akbar in 1583 AD, the
Allahbad fort stands on the banks of the river Yamuna
near the confluence site i.e SANGAM.
40. (d) Madan Mohan Malaviya was an Indian educationist
and politician notable for his role in the Indian
independence movement and as the two time president
of Indian National Congress. He was respectfully
addressed as Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya and also
addressed as 'Mahamana' by Mahatama Gandhi.
41. (d) Lord Linlithgow was Viceroy of India from 1936 to 1944
and this eight years period was longest reign as Viceroy
of India.
42. (c)
43. (c) The Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta is considered to
be a record of the first teaching given by Gautama
Buddha after he attained enlightenment. The main topic
of this sutra is the Four Noble Truths, which are the
central teachings of Buddhism that provide a unifying
theme, or conceptual framework, for all of Buddhist
thought.
44. (b) 45. (b)

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46. (a) The Rowlatt Act was passed by the Imperial Legislative
Council in London on 18 March 1919, indefinitely
extending "emergency measures" enacted during the
First World War in order to control public unrest and
root out conspiracy. Lord Chelmsford (1916 to 1921) 57.
was the Viceroy of India then.
47. (a) Jawaharlal Nehru inaugurated the first generation of
panchayat raj at Nagaur in Rajasthan on 2 October
1959. It was also implemented in Andhra Pradesh in
the same year as per the recommendations of the 58.
Balwant Rai Mehta Committee.
48. (a) Tana Bhagat movement was apparently initiated in 1914
by a young Oraon tribesman known as Jatra Oraon. 59.
49. (c) The Naujawan Bharat Sabha was founded by Bhagat 60.
Singh in March 1926 and was declared illegal under
the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1908 in September
1934. Its purpose was to forment revolution against
the British Raj by gathering together worker and 61.
peasant youths.
50. (c) The chamber of Princes was instituted on 8 February
1921 . The inauguration ceremony was performed by
His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught in the 62.
Diwan–i–am of Red Fort on be; half of His Majesty the 66.
King Emperor. 70.
51. (a) The Three Jewels (triratna) are the three things that
Buddhists take refuge in, and look toward for guidance,
in the process know as taking refuge. The Three Jewels
are: Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha. 71.
52 (a) Chandragupta I was known as 'Lichchavidauhitra.' His
marriage with the Lichchavi Princess Kumaradevi was
one of the significant events in the Gupta rule. The
importance of this marriage can be known further from
Samudragupta's Allahabad inscription in which he has 72.
described himself as "Lichchhavis–dauhitra or
daughter's son of the Lichchavis.
53. (b) Pulakesin II (610 – 642 AD) was the most famous ruler
of the Chalukya dynasty. In his reign the Chalukyas of
Badami saw their kingdom extend over most of the
Deccan.
54. (b) An inscription of the 8th century AD at Uttaramerur
temple describes the constitution of the local council,
eligibility and disqualifications for the candidates, the 73.
method selection, their duties and delimits their power
in Chola dynasty.
55. (b) The Pitt’s India Act of 1784 was in the nature of a 74.
regulating act as it was intended to address the
shortcomings of the Regulating Act of 1773 by bringing
the East India Company’s rule in India under the control
of the British Government. 75.
56. (b) Allan Octavian Hume was a civil servant, political
reformer and amateur ornithologist and horticulturalist
in British India. He was one of the founders of the
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August 1947 and September 1948.
(a) Bahlul Khan Lodi was the founder of Lodi dynasty of
the Delhi Sultanate in India upon the abdication of the
last claimant from the previous Sayyid rule.
(d) Greco-Roman-Buddhist Art
(a) the Bolshevik Revolution, was a seizure of state power
instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917.
It took place with an armed insurrection in Petrograd
traditionally dated to 25 October 1917.
(b) Lieutenant-General Lord William Henry Cavendish-
Bentinck, GCB, GCH, PC, known as Lord William
Bentinck, was a British soldier and statesman. He
served as Governor-General of India from 1828 to 1835.
(c) 63. (b) 64. (b) 65. (c)
(a) 67. (d) 68. (c) 69. (c)
(c) During the early period, Multan was known as the city
of gold for its large and wealthy temples. The Sun
temple, Suraj Mandir, was considered one of the largest
and wealthiest temples in the entire sub-continent.
(d) Amoghavarsha I was a follower of the Digambara
branch of Jainism. His own writing Kavirajamarga is a
landmark literary work in the Kannada language and
became a guide book for future poets and scholars for
centuries to come.
(c) The Kailasa temple is a famous rock cut monument,
one of the 34 monasteries and temples known
collectively as the Ellora Caves, extending over more
than 2 km.The temple was commissioned and completed
between dated 757-783 CE, when Krishna I ruled the
Rashtrakuta dynasty. It is designed to recall Mount
Kailash, the home of Lord Shiva. It is a megalith carved
out of one single rock. It was built in the 8th century
by the Rashtrakuta king Krishna I.
(a) the Thalavaipuram copper plate, belonging to the period
between 1018 and 1054 brought out by the Pandya
kings, describes giant waves, most possibly a tsunami.
(b) Gautamiputra Satakarni was the greatest of the
Satavahana rulers. His reign period is noted by some
scholars as 80 to 104 and by others from 106 to 130; in
any case he is credited with a rule of 24 years.
(a) Mihira Bhoja was a ruler of the Gurjara Pratihara
dynasty 2of India. Bhoja's empire extended to Narmada
River in the South, Sutlej River in the northwest, and
up to Bengal in the east.

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76. (d) Bose appeared at the 1939 Congress meeting and was
elected president over Gandhi's preferred candidate
Pattabhi Sitaramayya.
77. (c) The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre happened in Amritsar,
in 1919. It is named after the Jallianwala Bagh (Garden)
atAmritsar. On April 13, 1919, British, Indian Army
soldiers started shooting an unarmed gathering of men,
women and children.
78. (b) Bahlol Lodi was the founder of the Lodi dynasty.He
ruled for long thirty-nine years (1451-89). He was the
governor of Lahore and Sirhind during the rule of
Muhammad Shah of Sayyid dynasty.
79. (c) Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu arrived in the empire at the
time of Emperor Prataparudra (Gajapatis)and stayed
for 18 long years at Puri.
80. (c) The instance heat that prevails in the Indian Sub
continent causes a low pressure region over the
northern plains. It is intense enough to attract the
moisture bearing winds from the Indian Ocean .Thus
the south east trade winds from the southern
hemisphere are attracted towards India.
81. (b) Reformation was a 16th-century movement in Western
Europe that aimed at reforming some doctrines and
practices of the Roman Catholic Church and resulted
in the establishment of the Protestant churches.
82. (d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak is considered as "Father of Indian
National Movement". He was a social reformer, freedom
fighter, national leader and a scholar of Indian history,
sanskrit, hinduism, mathematics and astronomy. During
freedom struggle, his slogan "Swaraj is my birthright
and I shall have it" inspired millions of Indians.
83. (b) The Quit India Movement(August Kranti), was a civil
disobedience movement launched in India on 9 August
1942 by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
84. (d) The Indian National Congress was founded on
December 28, 1885, by members of the Theosophical
Society. The founders included a prominent member
of the Theosophical Society, Allan Octavian Hume as
well as Dadabhai Naoroji and Dinshaw Wacha.
85. (d) Modern Bangladesh emerged as an independent nation
in 1971 after achieving independence from Pakistan in
the Bangladesh Liberation War. The Provisional
Government of Bangladesh was formed on 17 April
1971.
86. (a) 'Brahmo Samaj' was founded by Raja Ram Mohan Roy
in 1828.
87. (b) Allan Octavian Hume was a civil servant, political
reformer in British India who initiated the movement to
form the Indian National Congress.
88. (c)
89. (b) The Battle of Talikota (26 January 1565), a watershed
battle fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the
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91. (c) Cabinet Mission was composed of three Cabinet
Ministers of England Sir Pethick Lawrence, Secretary
of State for India, Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the
Board of Trade;
Alexander, the First Lord of the Admiralty. The mission
arrived on March 24, 1946. The objective of this mission
was to Devise a machinery to draw up the constitution
of Independent India. Make arrangements for interim
Government. Thus the mission was like a declaration
of India's independence.
92. (c) Sarvodaya is a Sanskrit term meaning 'universal uplift'
or 'progress of all'. The term was used by Mahatma
Gandhi as the title of his 1908 translation of John
Ruskin's tract on political economy, Unto This Last,
and Gandhi came to use the term for the ideal of his
own political philosophy.
93. (a)
94. (b) The collective term given by the Jainas to their Sacred
literature is called Agamas written in Prakrt.
95. (b) Doctrine of Passive Resistance is authored by
Aurobindo Ghosh. It is based on a series of articles by
Aurobindo Ghosh which were published in April 1907
in the journal Bande Matram. The articles were written
when the Bengal was burning with indignation after
its partition October 16, 1905 by Viceroy Curzon. The
main theme of the articles is the methods and ideology
which could be adopted in face of oppression and
injustice as perpetrated by the contemporary British
rule in India.
96. (c) Badruddin Taiyabji became the Ist Indian Barrister in
Bombay; became the 2nd Indian Chief Justice; was the
founding member of Bombay presidency association
and INC and also presided over the 3rd congress
session in Madras in 1887.
97. (d) The Dandi March of Gandhi was an important part of
the Indian Independence Movement.It was a direct
action campaign of tax resistance and non-violent
protest against British saltmonopoly and triggered the
wider Civil Disobedience Movement.
98. (d) Aihole inscription is found at Aihole in Karnataka state
India, was written by the Ravikriti,court poet of
Chalukya king,Pulakeshin II who reigned from 610 to
642 CE.The poetic verses of Ravikirti,in praise of the
king, can be read in the Meguti temple,dated 634CE.

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came under the military reforms of Akbar. Under this
system each officer was assigned a rank(mansab).
Varying from 10 to 10,000, the mansab carried the Zat(the
personal status and salary) and Sawar (the number of
cavalry men to be maintained.
100. (a) Calcutta with Robert Clive is wrongly matched. Lord
Curzon was associated with Calcutta. Lord Curzon felt
that the Bengal province was too big to be administered
efficiently and so he wanted to split it into two
provinces, one of which had Dacca as its capital.
101. (b) Battle of Wandiwash decided the fate of French in
India. Battle of Wandiwash, (Jan. 22, 1760), in the history
of India, a confrontation between the French, under the
comte de Lally, and the British, under Sir Eyre Coote. It
was the decisive battle in the Anglo-French struggle
in southern India during the Seven Years' War (1756-63).
102. (d) The Crimean War came to an end by the treaty of Paris.
Crimean War, (October 1853-February 1856), war fought
mainly on the Crimean Peninsula between the Russians
and the British, French, and Ottoman Turkish, with
support from January 1855 by the army of Sardinia-
Piedmont.The resulting Treaty of Paris, signed on
March 30, 1856, guaranteed the integrity of Ottoman
Turkey and obliged Russia to surrender southern
Bessarabia, at the mouth of the Danube.
103. (b) Tulsidas wrote Shri Ram-Charit-Manas during the reign
of Mughal Emperor Akbar.Tulsidas started writing this
greatest Hindu 'Granth' on the birth day of Lord Shree
Ram, i.e. Chaitra Navmi (9th day of Hindu month Chaitra)
in year 1574. The life span of Akbar is 1556 1605.
104. (a) Architecture reached a milestone in the Dravidian style
during the reign of Rashtrakutas, the finest example of
which is seen in the Kailasanath Temple or Kailasa
Temple at Ellora.
105. (c) The famous Badami Chalukyas King Pulakeshi II
(610-642 A.D.) was a follower of Vaishnavism. The
inscription of Ravikirti, his court poet, is a eulogy of
the Pulakeshi II and is available at the Meguti temple.
It is dated 634 CE and is written in Sanskrit language
and old Kannada script. The Aihole inscription
describes the achievements of Pulakeshi II and his
victory against King Harshavardhana.
106. (b) The Delhi Sultanate was the name of Delhi-based
Muslim kingdoms that ruled over large parts of India
for 320 years (1206 – 1526). Five dynasties ruled over
Delhi Sultanate sequentially, the first four of which
were of Turkic origin and the last was the Afghan Lodi.
The Lodi dynasty was replaced by the Mughal
dynasty. The five dynasties were the Mamluk dynasty
(1206–90); the Khilji dynasty (1290–1320); the Tughlaq
dynasty (1320–1414); the Sayyid dynasty (1414–51);
and the Afghan Lodi dynasty (1451–1526).
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2005.
110. (a) Indian Social activist Medha Patkar is the founder
member of Narmada Bachao Andolan.
111. (b) Purana Qila was built by the Afghan king Sher Shah
Suri.
112. (d) Chandragupta Maurya is said to have lived as an ascetic
at Shravanabelagola for several years before starving
himself to death, as per Jain Practice of Sallekhana.
113. (c) Megasthenes gave an account of India in his book
‘Indica’.
114. (d) The construction of the famous Shiva temple at Ellora
is often attributed to the Rashtrakuta king Krishna I.
115. (d) Harisena was a 4th century Sanskrit poet. His most
famous poem written in 345 AD is inscribed on the
Allahabad Pillar.
116. (d) Todar Mal started his career as a revenue officer at the
court of Sher Shah Suri. After the Sur dynasty was
overthrown by the Mughals, Todar Mal continued his
service to the then Mughal Emperor Akbar.
117. (d) The League of Nations was an intergovernmental
organisation founded on 10th January 1920 as a result
of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the first World
War.
118. (b) A settlement between Mahatma Gandhi and Viceroy
Lord Irwin known as the Gandhi-Irwin pact was reached
and Gandhi was appointed as the sole representative
of the Congress to the second Round table conference,
1931.
119. (d) Sankaradeva was an erudite scholar, a prolific writer, a
versatile saint-poet of unlimited merit, a lyricist of
universal acceptance, a musician of high calibre, a
pioneer in the field of Assamese prose, drama and
dramatic performances, a painter and above all the
greatest religious teacher-preacher-leader of the
medieval Vaisnava movement in Assam which is rightly
known as the Sankaradeva Movement.
120. (d) 121. (c) 122. (a)
123. (a) Muhammad bin Qasim Al-Thaqafi (c. 31 December 695-
18 July 715) was an Umayyad general who conquered
the Sindh and Punjab regions along the Indus River
(now a part of Pakistan) for the Umayyad Caliphate.
He was born and raised in the city of Taif (in modern
day Saudi Arabia). Qasim's conquest of Sindh and
Punjab enabled further Islamic expansion into India.

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124. (d) Mao Zedong, commonly referred to as Chairman Mao
(December 26, 1893 - September 9, 1976), was a Chinese
communist revolutionary, politician and socio-political
theorist. The founding father of the People's Republic
of China from its establishment in 1949, he governed
the country as Chairman of the Communist Party of
China until his death.
125. (a) Gandhi calls Gokhale his mentor and guide. Gandhi
also recognised Gokhale as an admirable leader and
master politician, describing him as 'pure as crystal,
gentle as a lamb, brave as a lion and chivalrous to a
fault and the most perfect man in the political field'.
126. (c) The Swadeshi movement started with the partition of
Bengal by the Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, 1905 and
continued up to 1911. It was the most successful of
the pre-Gandhian movements. Its chief architects were
Aurobindo Ghosh, Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak,
Bipin Chandra Pal and Lala Lajpat Rai.
127. (d) The Purna Swaraj declaration, or Declaration of the
Independence of India was promulgated by the Indian
National Congress on January 26, 1930, resolving the
Congress and Indian nationalists to fight for Purna
Swaraj, or complete self-rule independent of the British
Empire. The flag of India had been hoisted by Congress
President Jawaharlal Nehru on December 31, 1929, on
the banks of the Ravi river in Lahore, modern-day
Pakistan.
128. (d) Gandhra is noted for the distinctive Gandhra style of
Buddhist art, which developed out of a merger of Greek,
Syrian, Persian, and Indian artistic influence. This
development began during the Parthian Period (50 BC
- AD 75). Gandhran style flourished and achieved its
peak during the Kushan period, from the 1st to the 5th
centuries. It declined and suffered destruction after
invasion of the White Huns in the 5th century.
129. (c) Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer,
navigator, and colonizer, born in the Republic of Genoa,
in what is today northwestern Italy.
130. (c) the earliest inhabitants of India used stones to make
tools and weapons.
131. (b) Swami Vivekanand was the Indian saint to attend '
World Congress of Religion' held at Chicago in 1893.
He is perhaps best known for his inspiring speech
beginning with "Sisters and Brothers of America,"
through which he introduced Hinduism at the opening
session of the Parliament on 11 September. Thereafter
he conducted hundreds of public and private lectures
and classes, disseminating tenets of Hindu philosophy
in America, England and Europe. In America
Vivekananda became India's spiritual ambassador.
132. (d) Chhatrapati Shivaji was a follower of Ramayana and
Mahabharta from his childhood. Shivaji Maharaj did
everything possible to promote Hinduism in every
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during the first and second centuries.
134. (d) Arya Samaj is a Hindu reform movement founded by
Swami Dayananda on 7 April 1875. He was a sannyasi
who promoted the Vedas. Dayananda emphasised the
ideals of brahmacharya. The group found most of its
support in Punjab.
135. (a) 136. (d) 137. (c) 138. (a)
139. (b) Iltutmish received contlnnation of his robe of honour
and title Nasir amir al-muminin (Helper of the
Commander of the Faithful) from the 'Abbasid Caliph
al-Mustansir in 626 (1229) and remained on the throne
for twenty-six years, This added an element of strength
to Iltutmish's authority and gave him a status in the
Muslim world .
140. (b) As a British Overseas Territory, the Falkland Islands
enjoy a large degree of internal self-governance with
the United Kingdom guaranteeing good government
and taking responsibility for their defence and foreign
affairs. In 1982, following Argentina's invasion of the
islands, the two-month-long undeclared Falklands War
between both countries resulted in the surrender of all
Argentine forces and the return of the islands to British
administration.
141. (a) Chalukyas : Vatapi (Badami): Hoysalas : Dwarasamudra:
Rashtrakutas : Malkhed; and Kakatiyas: Warangal.
142. (b) With a towering height of 70 feet, the world's tallest
statute of Mahatma Gandhi was recently unveiled in
Patna in Bihar. Funded by the state government, the
Rs 10 crore statue, inclusive of a 30-feet-high pedestal,
has been built by Delhi-based sculptor Ramsutar and
Sons.
143. (d) The vivid description of Kalinga war is given in 13th
Rock Edict of Asoka. The edict gives description of
the devastation caused to Kalinga due to war and how
the Mauryan emperor felt remorse for it.
144. (b) Trusteeship principle advocated by Gandhiji provides
a means of transforming the present capitalist order of
society into an egalitarian one. He envisaged
trusteeship as a post capitalist arrangement which gives
no quarter to capitalism, but gives the present owning
class a chance of reforming itself (Gandhi Nehru And
Globalization, p 7).
145. (d) Hunter's Commission: 1882; Wardha Scheme: 1937;
University's Act; 1904; and Radhakrishnan
Commission: 1948.
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someone appointed with legal powers to represent them
even in extreme case of deprivation of liberty.
148. (a) The philosophical school of law is the ancient school
of law. It came into existence in 3rd century in Roman
empire.
149. (c) Akbar celebrated his conquest of Rajputana by laying
the foundation of a new capital, 23 miles (37 km) W.S.W
of Agra in 1569. It was called Fatehpur Sikri ("the city
of victory").
150. (a) Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer who
discovered the sea route to India from Europe through
the Cape of Good Hope.
151. (a) The Unification of Karnataka refers to the formation of
the Indian state of Karnataka, then named Mysore
State, in 1956 when several Indian states were created
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religious books and to visit holy places of Buddhism.
154. (a) Sustainable development is development that meets
the needs of the present without compromising the
ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
155. (c) 156. (a)
157. (d) The Cripps mission was an attempt in late March 1942
by the British government to secure full Indian
cooperation and support for their efforts in World War
II.
158. (a)
159. (a) Hamida Banu Begam, also known as Haji Begam,
commenced the construction of Humayun tomb in 1569.
160. (c) 161. (d) 162. (a) 163. (c) 164. (b)
165. (c) 166. (c) 167. (c) 168. (d) 169. (d)
170. (a) 171. (b) 172. (d) 173. (d) 174. (d)
175. (d) 176. (b) 177. (b) 178. (b) 179. (b)
180. (d) 181. (c) 182. (b) 183. (d) 184. (b)
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(a) Tides (b) Tsunami (a) Geological Time Scale
(c) Current (d) Cyclone (b) Radio-Metric Dating
2. The land of maximum biodiversity is(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) (c) Gravity method
(a) Tropical (b) Temperate (d) Fossilization method
(c) Monsoonal (d) Equatorial 13. How much of the Earth's land surface is desert?
3. Indian Standard Time relates to (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
(a) 75.5°E longitude (b) 82.5°E longitude (a) 1/10th (b) 1/5th
(c) 1/3 rd (c) 1/6th
(c) 90.5°E longitude (d) 0° longitude
14. River Indus originates from: (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
4. Which is the second nearest star to the Earth after the Sun?
(a) Hindukush range (b) Himalayan range
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010)
(c) Karakoram range (d) Kailash range
(a) Vega (b) Sirius
15. The lowest layer of the atmosphere is:
(c) Proxima Centauri (d) Alpha Centauri
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
5. The forest in Sundarban is called (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010)
(a) Stratosphere (b) Thermosphere
(a) Scrub jungle (b) Mangrove
(c) Troposphere (d) Mesosphere
(c) Deciduous forest (d) Tundra 16. The Konkan Railway connects:
6. Which of the following Indonesian regions was a victim of (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
massive earthquake in 2004 ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) (a) Goa – Mangalore
(a) Irian Jaya (b) Sumatra (b) Roha – Mangalore
(c) Kalibangan (d) Java (c) Kanyakumari – Mangalore
7. The first non-stop air-conditioned 'DURANTO' train was (d) Kanyakumari – Mumbai
flagged off between (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010) 17. Bark of this tree is used as a condiment–
(a) Sealdah – New Delhi (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
(b) Mumbai – Howrah (a) Cinnamon (b) Clove
(c) Bangalore – Howrah (c) Neem (d) Palm
(d) Chennai – New Delhi 18. The atmospheric air is held to the Earth by:
8. Which one of the following states does not form part of (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
Narmada River basin ? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010) (a) gravity
(a) Madhya Pradesh (b) Rajasthan (b) winds
(c) Gujarat (d) Maharashtra (c) clouds
9. Soil erosion on hill slopes can be checked by (d) rotation of the Earth
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010) 19. The common tree species in nilgiri hills is
(a) Afforestation (b) Terrace cultivation (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010)
(c) Strip cropping (d) Contour ploughing (a) Sal (b) Pine
10. Who coined the word 'Geography'? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010) (c) Eucalyptus (d) Teak
20. Which is the largest living bird on Earth?
(a) Ptolemy (b) Eratosthenese
(a) Emu (b) Ostrich
(c) Hacataus (d) Herodatus
(c) Albatross (d) Siberian Crane
11. Which of the following is called the 'ecological hot spot of
21. Rihand Dam Project provides irrigation to
India'? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010)
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011)
(a) Western Ghats
(a) Gujarat and Maharashtra
(b) Eastern Ghats (b) Orissa and West Bengal
(c) Western Himalayas (c) Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
(d) Eastern Himalayas (d) Kerala and Karnataka
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the following? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011) 36. The biggest planet in the solar system is:
(a) Chennai (b) Mumbai (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
(c) Kolkata (d) Delhi (a) Venus (b) Jupiter
25. The HYV programme in India is also called as (c) Saturn (d) Uranus
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) 37. Peninsular India has the following zonal soil types:
(a) Traditional Agriculture (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
(b) New Agricultural Strategy (a) Red and yellow soil (b) Forest soil
(c) White Revolution (c) Saline soil (d) Alluvial soil
(d) Blue Revolution 38. The land between two rivers is called
26. Railway coaches are manufactured at (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (a) Natural Levees (b) Alluvial Cones
(a) Jamshedpur (b) Chittaranjan (c) Braided Stream (d) Doab
(c) Perambur (d) Varanasi 39. Which year is called as the ‘Demographic divide’ ?
27. A series of lines connecting places having a quake at the (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
same time are called (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (a) 1941 (b) 1921
(a) Homoseismal lines (b) Seismolines (c) 1901 (d) 1931
(c) Coseismal lines (d) Isoseismal lines 40. Which country has a high density of population?
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
28. What would be the impact of global warming on mangrove
(a) India (b) Canada
forests? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(c) Sweden (d) Greenland
(a) They will grow more luxurious
41. The iron and steel plant in Chhattisgarh is at
(b) Large areas of mangroves will be submerged
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(c) Their role as carbon sinks will become more important
(a) Burnpur (b) Salem
(d) Both (a) and (c) above
(c) Bhilai (d) Bokaro
29. The brightest planet is (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
42. The leading sesame producing country in the world is
(a) Venus (b) Mercury
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(c) Jupiter (d) Mars
(a) Mexico (b) U.S.A.
30. Wheat, Barley, Lemon, Orange, rye and pearl millet belong
(c) China (d) India
to: (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
43. Which one of the following is not correctly matched?
(a) the same plant family
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(b) two plant families
(a) Darjeeling - West Bengal
(c) three plant families
(b) Mount Abu - Rajasthan
(d) four plant families (c) Kodaikanal - Tamil Nadu
31. A plant known only in cultivation having arisen under (d) Simla - Uttar Pradesh
domestication is referred to as: 44. The earth is at its maximum distance from the Sun on
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
(a) Scion (b) Cultigen (a) January 30th (b) December 22nd
(c) Cultivar (d) Clone (c) September 22nd (d) July 4th
32. The iron and steel plant in Bihar is at: 45. Consider the following pairs:
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
(a) Visakhapatnam (b) Bokaro Tributary Main River
(c) Burnpur (d) Vijay Nagar 1. Chambal : Yamuna
33. The state which has registered the highest population 2. Sone : Narmada
growth rate according to 2001 census is: 3. Manas : Brahmputra
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) Which one of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?
(a) Kerala (b) Uttar Pradesh (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1 and 2
(c) Nagaland (d) Sikkim (c) 2 and 3 (d) 3 only
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(c) Counter Equatorial drift (a) Towards left in Northern hemisphere and towards right
(d) West Atlantic drift in Southern hemisphere.
48. Ice glacier’s melting is a common phenomenon linked to the (b) Towards right in Northern hemisphere and towards left
rise in a seawater level. The glaciers are predominantly in Southern hemisphere.
present in (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013) (c) Towards right in both the hemisphere.
(a) Greenland (b) Antarctica (d) Towards left in both the hemisphere.
(c) Himalayas (d) Arctic 59. Which one of the following atmospheric layers absorb
49. Which hill station is called as the ‘Queen of the Satpuras’ ultraviolet rays of the sun? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013) (a) Troposphere (b) Stratosphere
(a) Pachmarhi (b) Nilgiri (c) Ionosphere (d) Ozonosphere
(c) Mahenderagiri (d) Cardamom 60. The drainage pattern developed on folded sedimentary rock
50. Which national highway connects Delhi and Kolkata via is termed as (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
Mathura and Varanasi? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013) (a) Trellis (b) Dendritic
(a) NH 4 (b) NH 2 (c) Radial (d) Deranged
(c) NH 10 (d) NH 6 61. Which one of the following is not a line of demarcation
51. The country where drip irrigation is more efficiently used is between two countries ? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013) (a) Durand Line (b) Mac Mahon Line
(a) India (b) Israel (c) Plimsoll Line (d) Maginot Line
(c) Sri Lanka (d) England 62. Water potential remains lowest in (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
52. Which river in India flows in a rift-valley? (a) Water plants (b) Woody plants
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (c) Succulents (d) Halophytes
(a) Narmada (b) Krishna 63. The free living bacterium in the soil which increases the the
(c) Cauvery (d) Tapti yield of rice is (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
53. A narrow strip of land that connects two larger land masses (a) Rhizobium (b) Azotobacter
is called (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (c) Acetobacter (d) Anabaena
(a) Cape (b) Isthmus 64. Frontal cyclones occur characteristically in
(c) Strait (d) Peninsula (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
54. Maps on large scale, representing both natural and man- (a) Equatorial region
made features are called (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (b) Tropical region
(a) Thematic maps (c) Mid-latitudinal region
(b) Atlas maps (d) Polar region
(c) Wall maps 65. "Yosemite" is a (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(d) Topographic maps (a) River (b) Peak
55. The angle between the magnetic meridian and the (c) Waterfall (d) Dam
geographical meridian at a place is (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) 66. Where is the shore based steel plant located?
(a) Declination (b) Latitude (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
(c) Azimuth (d) Dip (a) Tuticorin (b) Salem
56. An irrigation project is categorized as a major project if it (c) Vishakhapatnam (d) Mangalore
covers a cultivable command area of 67. Which two of the following are connected by the North
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013) South corridor? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
(a) less than 2,000 hectares (a) Srinagar and Kanyakumari
(b) 2,000 to 10,000 hectares (b) Mumbai and Chennai
(c) above 10,000 hectares (c) Amritsar and Kolkata
(d) all the above (d) Hyderabad and Bhopal
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(c) Mahadeo hills are in the east of Chhotanagpur Plateau. 79. Which one among the following industries in the maximum

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69. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched? (a) Textile (b) Engineering

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(SSC CGL 2014) (c) Paper and Pulp (d) Thermal Power
(a) Hevea Tree—Brazil 80. Choose the correct option which represents the arrangement
(b) Sumatra Storm—Malaysia of atmospheric layers. (SSC CGL 2015)
(c) Kajan River—Borneo (a) Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Ionosphere,
(d) Dekke Toba fish—Brazil Exosphere
70. Which of the following resources is renewable one? (b) Mesosphere, Ionosphere, Exosphere, Troposphere,
(SSC CGL 2014) Stratosphere
(a) Uranium (b) Coal (c) Ionosphere, Exosphere, Mesosphere, Troposphere,
(c) Timber (d) Natural Gas Stratosphere
(d) Exosphere, Troposphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere,
71. Soil erosion can be prevented by (SSC CGL 2014)
Stratosphere
(a) Increasing bird population
81. Which of the following options correctly explains the term
(b) Afforestation
‘heat budget’? (SSC CGL 2015)
(c) Removal of vegetation
(a) It is the amount of heat which the surface of earth
(d) Overgrazing
receives form the sun.
72. Natural sources of air pollution are (SSC CGL 2014)
(b) It is the radiation from the earth in the form of long
(a) Forest fires
waves
(b) Volcanic eruptions
(c) It is a mode of transfer of heat through matter by
(c) Dust storm
molecular activity.
(d) Smoke from burning dry leaves
(d) It is the balance between incoming and outgoing
73. The 'graded profile' of a river course is a radiation.
(SSC CGL 2015) 82. The layer of atmosphere close to the earth's surface is called:
(a) smooth curve in the upper course (SSC CGL 2015)
(b) smooth curve in the middle course (a) Exosphere (b) Ionosphere
(c) smooth curve in the lower course (c) Stratosphere (d) Troposphere
(d) smooth curve from source to mouth 83. Which of the following plant shows chloroplast dimorphism?
74. Sink hole is a phenomenon of _______ topography. (SSC CGL 2015)
(SSC CGL 2015) (a) Sugarcane (b) Sugar beet
(a) Desert (b) Tundra (c) Rice (d) Wheat
(c) Karst (d) Plain 84. Day and Night are equal at the : (SSC CGL 2015)
75. Kerala is famous for the cultivation of (SSC CGL 2015) (a) Prime Meridian (b) Poles
1. Coconut 2. Black pepper (c) Equator (d) Antarctic
3. Rubber 4. Rice 85. Evergreen type forests are found in : (SSC CGL 2015)
(a) 1, 2 and 4 (b) 2, 3 and 4 (a) Mediterranean region
(c) 1 and 4 (d) 1, 2 and 3 (b) Monsoon climatic area
76. The longest continental Railway in the world is (c) Desert region
(SSC CGL 2015) (d) Equatorial region
(a) Trans Siberian Railway 86. The ash–grey soils of high latitude coniferous forests are
(b) Canadian Pacific Railway known as : (SSC CGL 2015)
(c) Canadian National Railway (a) Grey–Brown soils (b) Red and Yellow soils
(d) Trans Atlantic Railway (c) Tundra soils (d) Podsols
77. Which of the following is FALSE with respect to rain water 87. Equinox occurs when the sun is vertically above
harvesting? (SSC CGL 2015) (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(a) It helps raising water table (a) Tropic of Capricorn
(b) It helps meet rising water demand (b) Tropic of Cancer
(c) It increases run–off losses (c) Poles
(d) It is a device of water conservation (d) Equator
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88. Among the world oceans, which ocean is having the widest 97. With which country, India has the longest international

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(a) Krishna (b) Godavari
(c) Gujarat (d) West Bengal
(c) Cauvery (d) Mahanadi
99. Jog falls in Karnataka is located over which river?
90. Red soil is normally found in India in which regions?
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(a) Kaveri (b) Godavari
(a) Eastern Region only (c) Sharavati (d) Krishna
(b) Southern Region only 100. Which one of the following areas of India is covered by
(c) Eastern & Southern part of the Deccan Plateau tropical evergreen forest? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(d) None of these (a) Semi-arid areas of Gujarat
91. Limestone is a raw material used by which industry? (b) Eastern Ghats
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) (c) Western Ghats
(a) Aluminium (b) Fertilizers (d) Madhya Pradesh
(c) Cement (d) Petrochemicals 101. Which of the following State is surrounded by Bangladesh
from three sides? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
91. Mount Abu is a hill station located in _____ ranges.
(a) Nagaland (b) Assam
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(c) Arunachal Pradesh (d) Tripura
(a) Vindhya (b) Satpuda
102. Earth received heat from the sun is known as:
(c) Aravalli (d) Sahyadri
(SSC CHSL 2012)
92. The only perennial river in Peninsular India is _____ . (a) Insolation (b) Infrared heat
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) (c) Solar radiation (d) Thermal radiation
(a) Godavari (b) Kaveri 103. Spot the odd item in the following: (SSC CHSL 2012)
(c) Krishna (d) Bhima (a) Red sea (b) Black sea
93. When does solar eclipse take place ? (c) Caspian sea (d) Dead sea
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) 104. Match correctly the following, deserts and their location by
(a) When the sun is between the moon and earth choosing the correct response: (SSC CHSL 2013)
(b) When the earth is between the moon and sun Desert Location
(c) When the moon is between the sun and earth a. Kalahari 1. South America
(d) When the moon does not lie on the line joining the sun b. Atacama 2. Australia
and earth c. Thar 3. Africa
d. Great Victoria 4. Asia
94. Strait of Gibraltar connects which of the following?
(a) a-3, b-1, c-4, d-2 (b) a-2, b-3, c-1, d-4
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(c) a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1 (d) a-3, b-2, c-1, d-4
(a) Red Sea-Mediterranean Sea
105. The longest river of peninsular India is
(b) Red Sea-Arabian Sea
(SSC CHSL 2013)
(c) Atlantic Ocean-Mediterranean Sea
(a) Godavari (b) Krishna
(d) Mediterranean Sea-Black Sea (c) Kaveri (d) Narmada
95. The largest solar power plant in India is located at 106. The Himalayan mountain range is an example of
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) (SSC CHSL 2013)
(a) Nagercoil (b) Jaisalmer (a) Fold mountain (b) Volcanic mountain
(c) Madhapur (d) Rann of Kutch (c) Residual mountain (d) Block mountain
96. On which river is the Tehri dam built? 107. Which one of the following is a warm ocean current ?
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) (SSC CHSL 2013)
(a) Alakananda (b) Bhagirathi (a) Gulf Stream (b) Kurile
(c) Ganga (d) Hooghly (c) Canary (d) Labrador
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120. Which of the following Scientist proved that the path of

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109. India is the largest producer and exporter of (a) Galileo (b) Newton
(SSC CHSL 2014)
(c) Copernicus (d) Kepler
(a) Cotton (b) Copper
121. Which of the following rivers originates from Trans
(c) Tea (d) Mica
Himalayas ? (SSC CHSL 2015)
110. The soils which are rich in Calcium are known as
(a) Sindu (b) Saraswathi
(SSC CHSL 2014)
(c) Ganga (d) Yamuna
(a) Pedocals (b) Pedalfers
122. The most suitable soil for the production of cotton is ?
(c) Podsols (d) Laterits
111. Cultivable land is defined as (SSC CHSL 2014) (SSC CHSL 2015)
(a) land actually under crops (a) Black lava soil (b) Loamy soil
(b) Culitivable waste land + fallow land (c) Well drained soil (d) Alluvial soil
(c) Old fallow lands + current fallow lands 123. The largest producer of Lignite in India is:
(d) Total fallow lands + net sown area (SSC CHSL 2015)
112. Which of the following is the largest Biosphere Reserves of (a) Kerala (b) Rajasthan
India ? (SSC CHSL 2014) (c) Tamil Nadu (d) Gujarat
(a) Nilgiri (b) Nandadevi 124. Sex–ratio is calculated as : (SSC CHSL 2015)
(c) Sundarbans (d) Gulf of Mannar (a) No of females per 1,000 males in a Country
113. With what bio-region is the term "Steppe" associated ? (b) No of males per 1,000 females in a Country
(SSC CHSL 2014)
(c) No. of children per 1,000 people in a Country.
(a) Grasslands (b) Tropical Forests
(d) No of people per 1,000 children in a Country.
(c) Savanna (d) Coniferous Forests
125. Which state of India has made rain water harvesting
114. About how much of the world's land area is tropical
compulsory for all houses ? (SSC CHSL 2015)
rainforest ? (SSC CHSL 2014)
(a) 2 percent (b) 7 percent (a) Tamil Nadu (b) Punjab
(c) 10 percent (d) 15 percent (c) Haryana (d) Maharashtra
115. The world's growing appetite for what food product is a 126. The five key indicators of global climate change of our
leading cause of tropical deforestation ? (SSC CHSL 2014) planet are : (SSC CHSL 2015)
(a) Pork (b) Sugar (a) Sea–level, Rising temperatures, Rainfall, Nitrogen and
(c) Lamb (d) Beef Actic Sea ice
116. What is Kyoto Protocol ? (SSC CHSL 2015) (b) None of the options
(a) It is an agreement among countries to takes steps for (c) Arctic sea ice, carbon dioxide, Global temperature, Sea
planting trees to control pollution level and land ice.
(b) It is an agreement among countries to start using (d) Antartic sea ice, Oxygen, Rainfall, Drought and Sea level
nuclear energy 127. The area reserved for the welfare of wild life is called
(c) It is an agreement among countries to take steps for
(SSC CHSL 2015)
reducing global warming
(a) Sanctuary (b) Botanical garden
(d) It is an agreement among countries to takes steps for
reducing acid rain. (c) Forest (d) National pak
117. The largest reservoir of fresh water is : (SSC CHSL 2015) 128. The National Green Tribunal deals with cases relating to ?
(a) Ground Water (b) Ponds (SSC CHSL 2015)
(c) Lakes (d) Glaciers (a) Criminal offenses
118. The most abundant element by number in the living system (b) Issues relating to protection and conservation of
is : (SSC CHSL 2015) historical monuments.
(a) Hydrogen (b) Oxygen (c) Civil cases
(c) Carbon (d) Nitrogen (d) Environmental protection and conservation of forests.
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139. Consider the following sea-ports:

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130. Among the foollowing which country has the highest life

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(c) 1, 2, 4, 3 (d) 2, 1, 3, 4
(a) USA (b) Switzerland
140. Santa Cruz is (SSC Multitasking 2014)
(c) Japan (d) Denmark
(a) an International airport in Chennai
131. The redness in atmosphere at Sunrise and Sunset is due to:
(b) a Domestic airport in Chennai
(SSC CHSL 2015)
(c) an International airport in Mumbai
(a) Dispersion of light (b) Scattering of light (d) a Domestic airport in Mumbai
(c) Refraction of light (d) Reflection of light 141. The Almatti Dam is constructed on the river
132. Which one of the following tribes practices pastoral (SSC Multitasking 2014)
nomadism ? (SSC CHSL 2015) (a) Tungabhadra (b) Krishna
(a) Boro (b) Masai (c) Kaveri (d) Sileru
(c) Pygmies (d) Eskimo 142. The project similar to T.V.A. (Tennessee Valley Authority)
133. Select the High Yielding Varieties of seed-crops developed of U.S.A. in India is (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
under Green Revolution in India. (a) Damodar Valley Project
(SSC Multitasking 2013) (b) Mahanadi Delta Project
(a) Wheat, Rice, Sugarcane, Pulses and Maize. (c) Ramganga Multipurpose Project
(b) Rice, Wheat, Pulses, Oil seeds and Sugarcane (d) Idukki Project
(c) Maize, Black-gram, Jowar, Coffee and Tea. 143. Petrology is the study of (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
(a) rocks (b) soils
(d) Rice, Wheat, Jowar, Bajra and Maize.
(c) earth (d) minerals
134. India is the largest producer and consumer of
144. Match the following : (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
(SSC Multitasking 2013)
A. Rosewood 1. Mangrove forests
(a) Sugar (b) Paddy
B. Bushes 2. Alpine forests
(c) Tea (d) Coffee C. Birch 3. Deciduous forests
135. The busiest rail section in respect to goods transportation is D. Sundari tree 4. Dry forests
(SSC Multitasking 2013) A B C D A B C D
(a) Mumbai – Chennai section (a) 4 3 2 1 (b) 3 4 2 1
(b) Delhi – Kolkata section (c) 1 2 3 4 (d) 2 3 4 1
(c) Kolkata – Chennai section 145. During the period of South-West monsoon, Tamil Nadu
(d) Delhi – Mumbai section remains dry because : (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
136. The Tropic of Cancer does not pass through (a) the winds do not reach this area
(SSC Multitasking 2013) (b) there are no mountains in this area
(c) it lies in the rain-shadow area
(a) China (b) Myanmar
(d) the temperature is too high to let the winds cool down
(c) Nepal (d) Bangladesh
146. Which one of the following is not a line of demarcation
137. The country in East Asia which is most conspicuous for its
between two countries? (SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
decreasing population growth since 1981 is
(a) International Date Line
(SSC Multitasking 2013) (b) MacMahon Line
(a) Japan (b) South Korea (c) Radcliffe Line
(c) Thailand (d) China (d) Durand Line
138. The recently discovered field with oil potential in Krishna- 147. Which state in India occupies the same ranking position in
Godavari Basin is called (SSC Multitasking 2014) respect of area and population? (SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
(a) Ravva Offshore Block (b) Golkunda Block (a) Manipur (b) Meghalaya
(c) Bombay High (d) Telangana Block (c) Nagaland (d) Gujarat
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(a) Tamil Nadu (b) Maharashtra (a) Indonesia (b) Russia
(c) Sri Lanka (d) Chile
(c) Gujarat (d) West Bengal
161. The largest forest which covers 25 percent of the world’s
150. Contour line is the imaginary line joining places of equal:
Forest land is: (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
(a) Monsoon Forest
(a) Rainfall (b) Humidity
(b) Temperate forests of Europe
(c) Elevation (d) Temperature
(c) The tropical Rain forest
151. Which is the first state in India to enact the Food Security (d) Taiga forest of Siberia
Act? (SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
162. The method of age determination called "radioactive uranium
(a) Chhattisgarh (b) Gujarat dating" cannot be used to determine the age of
(c) Tamil Nadu (d) Bihar (SSC Sub. Ins. 2016)
152. The first short based integrated steel plant in the country is (a) the earth (b) rocks
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2014) (c) minerals on earth (d) fossils and plant bodies
(a) Vijaynagar (b) Salem 163. Altocumulus clouds occur at altitude of
(c) Vishakapatnam (d) Bhadravati (SSC Sub. Ins. 2016)
153. Name the condition which influences the development of (a) 10000 m - 12000 m (b) 6000 m - 10000 m
plants into distinctive forms. (SSC Sub. Ins. 2014) (c) 1000 m - 1800 m (d) 2000 m - 6000 m
(a) Climatic conditions 164. The minor irrigation schemes have Cultural Command Area
(b) Soil conditions (CCA) upto (SSC Sub. Ins. 2016)
(c) Environmental conditions (a) 3000 hectares (b) 2500 hectares
(d) Social conditions (c) 1500 hectares (d) 2000 hectares
154. Agriculture should serve as an instrument of income, 165. Which of the following Islands is under direct threat of
livelihood and opportunity to the local community - this rising sea levels due to climate change has appealed for
statement is given by (SSC Sub. Ins. 2014) help from European leaders? (SSC Sub. Ins. 2016)
(a) Palau (b) Tuvalu Islands
(a) Dr Madhavan Nair (b) Dr Manmohan Singh
(c) Marshall Islands (d) Nauru
(c) Dr Abdul Kalam (d) Dr M S Swaminathan
166. Which of the following regions is called the 'granary of the
155. The forests which act as barriers against cyclones are:
world'? (SSC Steno. 2013)
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)
(a) Temperate grasslands
(a) Evergreen forests (b) Mangrove forests
(b) British type vegetation
(c) Monsoon forests (d) Alpine Forest (c) Laurentian type vegetation
156. The resources which are obtained from biosphere and have (d) Tropical grasslands
life are : (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015) 167. Spot the odd item in the following: (SSC Steno. 2013)
(a) Renewable resources (b) Potential resources (a) Prairies (b) Pampas
(c) Biotic resources (d) Abiotic resources (c) Selvas (d) Sundarban
157. In a solar or lunar eclipse, the region of earth’s shadow is 168. Which of the following rovers of India flows in rift-valley?
divided into. (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015) (SSC Steno. 2013)
(a) Four parts (b) Five parts (a) Kaveri (b) Tapti
(c) Two parts (d) Three parts (c) Son (d) Ken
158. What does the word ‘amphibian’ mean ? 169. The largest coral reef in the world is found near the Eastern
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2015) coast of (SSC Steno. 2013)
(a) Two lives (b) Four lives (a) Japan (b) China
(c) Three lives (d) One life (c) Cuba (d) Australia
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(SSC Steno. 2014)
(a) Oil (b) Diamonds
(a) isogonic lines (b) isodynamic lines
(c) Coal (d) Iron ore
(c) aclinic lines (d) isoclinic lines
172. Which one among the following states is smallest in area? 181. 40°N latitude acts as demarcation line between
(SSC Steno. 2014) (SSC Steno. 2016)
(a) Gujarat (b) Karnataka (a) North and South Korea
(c) Tamil Nadu (d) Andhra Pradesh (b) USA and Canada
173. Highest coffee growing state in India is(SSC Steno. 2014) (c) North add South Vietnam
(a) Karnataka (b) Uttar Pradesh (d) Egypt and Sudan
(c) Maharashtra (d) Tamil Nadu 182. Lakes which contain high concentration of humic acid in
174. The rootless plant is (SSC Steno. 2014) water is (SSC Steno. 2016)
(a) lemna (b) banana (a) Desert salt lakes (b) Volcanic lakes
(c) ginger (d) lemon (c) Dystrophic lakes (d) Deep ancient lakes
175. The highest peak of the Eastern ghats of India is 183. The first person ever to reach the South Pole was
(SSC Steno. 2014) (SSC Steno. 2016)
(a) Shevroy hills (b) Mahendragiri (a) Magellan (b) merigo Vespucci
(c) Javadi hills (d) Annaimudi (c) Amundsen (d) Peary
176. Which country is the largest producer of raw jute? 184. It is reported that there is an ongoing decrease in the pH
(SSC Steno. 2014) value of ocean water because of global warming. It happens
(a) Bangladesh (b) Pakistan due to (SSC Steno. 2016)
(c) Myanmar (d) India (a) Larger uptake of atmospheric nitrogen by ocean water.
177. The largest proven oil reserve of the world lies in
(b) Lesser uptake of atmospheric nitrogen by ocean water.
(SSC Steno. 2016)
(c) Larger uptake of CO2 by ocean water
(a) Iran (b) Iraq
(d) Lesser uptake of CO2 by ocean water.
(c) Venezuela (d) Saudi Arabia
185. The largest tea growing country in the World is
178. Kundankulam Project is located in which state ?
(SSC Steno. 2016)
(SSC Steno. 2016)
(a) Telangana (b) Kerala (a) India (b) Brazil
(c) Karnataka (d) Tamil Nadu (c) Sri Lanka (d) China

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1. (b) A tsunami, also known as a seismic sea wave, is a
series of waves in a water body caused by the
displacement of a large volume of water, generally in
an ocean or a large lake.
2. (a) 3. (b) 4. (c)
5. (b) The Sundarbans is a natural region comprising
southern Bangladesh and a part in the Indian state of
West Bengal. It is the largest single block of tidal
halophytic mangrove forest in the world.
6. (b) 7. (a) 8. (b)
9. (b) Terrace cultivation, method of growing crops on sides
of hills or mountains by planting on graduated terraces
built into the slope. Though labour–intensive, the
method has been employed effectively to maximize
arable land area in variable terrains and to reduce soil
erosion and water loss.
10. (b) 11. (a) 12. (b) 13. (b) 14. (d)
15. (c) 16. (b) 17. (a) 18. (a) 19. (c)
20. (b) 21. (c) 22. (c) 23. (b) 24. (a)
25. (b) The New Agricultural Strategy is based on
concentration of high-yielding varieties of seeds and
complementary inputs on selected water-as-sured
areas.
26. (c) Passenger coaches are manufactured at three principal
places : Integral Coach Factory (ICF) at Perambur,
Railway Coach Factory (RCF) at Kapurthala, And
Bharat Earth Movers Ltd. (BEML) at Bangalore.
27. (a) Homoseismal lines is the line on the Earth's surface
connecting points where the seismic wave arrives,
generated by an earthquake, at the same time.
28. (d) Mangrove wetlands are possible sinks/sources for
carbon dioxide and other related greenhouse gases.
Global warming may promote expansion of mangrove
forests to higher latitudes. Elevated CO2 concentration
may increase mangrove growth by stimulating
photosynthesis or improving water use efficiency.
29. (a) There are droplets of sulphuric acid and acidic crystals in
the atmosphere of Venus. The smooth surfaces of these
droplets of sulfuric acid and crystals reflect light very
well, which is one reason why Venus is so bright.
30. (b) Most cereals, including wheat, rye, rice, oats, barley,
corn, sorghum, millet, green bristlegrass and pearl millet
belong to the botanical family Gramineae. Orange and
lemon are citrus fruits.
31. (b) A cultigen is a plant that has been deliberately altered
or selected by humans; it is the result of artificial
selection. These "man-made" or anthropogenic plants
are, for the most part, plants of commerce that are used
in horticulture, agriculture and forestry.
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33. (c) Nagaland had recorded the country’s highest decadal
population growth of 64.41 per cent in 2001 and 56.08
in 1991 respectively.
34. (b) The inclination of the Earth's field is 90°at the North
Magnetic Pole and –90° at the South Magnetic Pole.
35. (c) Bihar with 1,102 persons per square kilometre is the
most densely populated state of India as per the 2011
Census. West Bengal comes second with 1,029
persons per kilometre as per the option.
36. (b) Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun and the largest
planet within the Solar System.
37. (a) Red and Yellow Soil in India is largely available in the
Deccan Plateau.
38. (d) 39. (b) 40. (a) 41. (c) 42. (d)
43. (d) 44. (d) 45. (a) 46. (a)
47. (b) South Atlantic Current is an eastward ocean current,
fed by the Brazil Current. That fraction of it which
reaches theAfrican coast feeds the Benguela Current.
It is continuous with the northern edge of the Antarctic
Circumpolar Current.
48. (b) It is mainly cause crbyo phenomena: global warming
and ozone depletion. Polar ice caps in Antarctica and
other places are–melting fast. This has led to increase
in sea level over the years.
49. (a) Panchmarhi a beautiful hill station in Madhya Pradesh
is known as Queen of Satpura because of its mystic
beauty, it is a known destination for Bollywood film
shootings.
50. (b) National Highway 2, commonly referred as Delhi–
Kolkata Road, is a busy Indian National Highway that
runs through the states of Delhi, Haryana, Uttar
Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal. It
constitutes a major portion of the historical Grand
Trunk. Road along with NH 91 and NH 1 in India.
51. (b) Drip irrigation is a form of irrigation that saves water
and fertilizer by allowing water to drip slowly to the
roots of many different plants, either onto the soil
surface or directly onto the root zone, through a network
of valves, pipes, tubing, and emitters.
Drip irrigation was developed in Israel by Simcha Blass
and his son Yeshayahu.
52. (a) Narmada is the only river in India that flows in a rift
valley, flowing west between the Satpura and Vindhya
ranges. The Tapti River and Mahi River also flow
through rift valleys, but between different ranges.

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53. (b) An Isthmus is a narrow strip of land connecting two
larger land areas, usually with water on either side.
54. (d) A topographic map is a type of map characterized by
large scale detail and quantitative representation of
relief, usually using contour lines in modern mapping,
but historically using a variety of methods.
55. (a) Magnetic declination is the angle between compass
north (the direction the north end of a compass needle
points) and true north (the direction along the earth’s
surface towards the geographic North Pole.
56. (c) Above 10,000 hectares
57. (c) Operation Flood in India, a project of the National Dairy
Development Board (NDDB) was the world's biggest
dairy development program which made India, a milk-
deficient nation, the largest milk producer in the world,
surpassing the USA in 1998, with about 17 percent of
global output in 2010-11, which in 30 years doubled
the milk available per person, and which made dairy
farming India's largest self-sustainable rural
employment generator. All this was achieved not merely
by mass production, but by production by the masses.
58. (b) the law explains that wind is deflected to the right in
the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern
Hemisphere, derived from the application of the Coriolis
effect to air masses.
59. (d) ozone layer, also called ozonosphere, region of the
upper atmosphere, between roughly 15 and 35 km (9
and 22 miles) above Earth's surface, containing
relatively high concentrations of ozone molecules (O3).
60. (b) A dendritic drainage pattern refers to the pattern formed
by the streams, rivers, and lakes in a particular drainage
basin. It usually looks like the branching pattern of
tree roots and it mainly develops in regions underlain
by homogeneous material.
61. (c) Plimsol line is not a line of demarcation between two
countries.
62. (d) A halophyte is a plant that grows in waters of high
salinity, coming into contact with saline water through
its roots or by salt spray, such as in saline semi-deserts,
mangrove swamps, marshes and sloughs, and
seashores. An example of a halophyte is the salt marsh
grass Spartina alterniflora (smooth cordgrass).
63. (b) Azotobacter is a genus of usually motile, oval or
spherical bacteria that form thick-walled cysts and may
produce large quantities of capsular slime.
64. (c) Extratropical cyclones, sometimes called mid-latitude
cyclones or wave cyclones, are a group of cyclones
defined as synoptic scale low pressure weather
systems that occur in the middle latitudes of the Earth
(outside the tropics) not having tropical characteristics,
and are connected with fronts and horizontal gradients
in temperature and dew point otherwise known as
"baroclinic zones".
65. (c) 66. (c) 67. (a)
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are Rasbora tobana.
70. (c) Timber means wood that we obtain from plants are
called renewable in the sense that after cutting a tree if
we plant another tree then it will grow up and again
give us wood and timber whereas all other things given
are non-renewable, once the stock is finished we cannot
get more of it.
71. (a) Revegetation is often used to join up patches of natural
habitat that have been lost, and can be a very important
tool in places where much of the natural vegetation
has been cleared. It is therefore particularly important
in urban environments, and research in Brisbane has
shown that revegetation projects can significantly
improve urban bird populations. The Brisbane study
showed that connecting a revegetation patch with
existing habitat improved bird species richness, while
simply concentrating on making large patches of habitat
was the best way to increase bird abundance.
72. (c) A dust storm or sand storm is a meteorological
phenomenon common in arid and semi-arid regions.
Dust storms arise when a gust front or other strong
wind blows loose sand and dirt from a dry surface.
73. (d) A river profile is a curve which shows the slop of a
river from source to mouth.A stream flowing over
irregular terrain may have waterfalls, rapids and lakes
along its course.Though the stream will wear away the
irregularities to leave a smoothly curving profile called
a graded profile.
74. (c) Karst is a landscape formed from the dissolution of
soluble rocks including limestone, dolomite and
gypsum. It is characterized by sinkholes, caves, and
underground drainage systems.
75. (d) Kerala is famous for the cultivation of coconut, tea,
coffee, cashew and spices.
76. (a) The Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest railway line
in the world. It has a length of 9,289 km which connects
Moscow to Vladivostok.
77. (c) One of the Major objectives and advantages of
rainwater harvesting is to reduce run off loss.
78. (b) Brahmaputra River is one of the largest rivers in the
world. The origin of Brahmaputra River is in
southwestern Tibet as the Yarlung River.
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80. (a) The current sequence is Troposphere-Stratosphere-
Mesosphere-Ionosphere-Exosphere
81. (d) The Earth and the atmosphere are heated by energy
from the sun. The atmospheric heat budget of the Earth
depends on the balance between insolation and
outgoing terrestrial radiation.
82. (d) The troposphere is the first layer above the surface
and contains half of the Earth's atmosphere. Weather
occurs in this layer. This is closest to the Earth's surface,
extending up to about 10-15 km above the Earth's
surface.
83. (a) Sugarcane shows chloroplast dimorphism. The
presence of bundle sheath with chloroplast in the
leaves is granulated and lacking in starch. Such feature
is known as chloroplast dimorphism.
84. (c) The equator receives equal day and night throughout
the year because it does not tilt in relation to the sun's
location. Because of the tilted axis of the Earth, the poles
and locations away from the equator lean towards or away
from the sun as an orbit is completed, while the equator
stays in essentially the same location relative to the sun.
85. (b) The tropical rainforest is earth's most complex biome
in terms of both structure and species diversity. It
occurs under optimal growing conditions, abundant
precipitation and year round warmth. Mean monthly
temperatures are above 64 ° F; precipitation is often in
excess of 100 inches a year. There is usually a brief
season of reduced precipitation. In monsoonal areas,
there is a real dry season but that is more than
compensated for with abundant precipitation the rest
of the year.
86. (a) podsol soil is a soil that develops in temperate to cold
moist climates underconiferous or heath vegetation;
an organic mat over a grey leached layer.
87. (d)
88. (b) The largest shelf - the Siberian Shelf in the Arctic
Ocean - stretches to 1,500 kilometers (930 mi) in width.
The South China Sea lies over another extensive area
of continental shelf, the Sunda Shelf, which joins
Borneo, Sumatra, and Java to the Asian mainland.
89. (b) In terms of length, catchment area and discharge, the
Godavari river is the largest in peninsular India and
had been dubbed as the 'Dakshina Ganga' - the South
Ganges river.
90. (c) 91. (c) 91. (c) 92. (b)
93. (c) A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between
Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring
the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth.
94. (c) Approximately 9 miles (14 km) wide at its narrowest
point, the Strait of Gibraltar is the entry point into the
Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean. It is
bordered by the continents of Africa and Europe, and
the countries of Morocco, Spain, the British colony of
Gibraltar, and the Spanish exclave of Ceuta.
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3,323 Nepal : 1,751 Myanmar : 1,643 Bhutan : 699
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98. (c) Gujarat is strategically located with largest share in
India’s coastline, followed by Andhra Pradesh and
Tamil Nadu.
99. (c) Jog Fall located at southern state of Karnataka is
India’s highest waterfall. Its height is 830 feet and is
located on Sharavati River.
100. (c) 101. (d) 102. (a) 103. (a)
104. (a) Kalahari desert is present in Africa while Atacama
Desert is in South America. Thar Desert is in Australia
and Great Victoria is in Australia.
105 . (a) Godavari is the longest river of peninsular India. From
its source to the Eastern Ghats, the Godavari River
flows through gentle, somewhat monotonous terrain,
along the way receiving the Darna, Purna, Manjra,
Pranhita, and Indravati rivers. Upon entering the
Eastern Ghats region, however, the river flows between
steep and precipitous banks, its width contracting until
it flows through a deep cleft only 600 feet (180 metres)
wide, known as the Gorge.
106. (a) The Himalayan Mountain Range is an example of fold
mountain.They are known as fold mountains because
the mountains extend for 2500 km in length in a series
of parallel ridges or folds and consist of three folds
namely Himadri, Himachal, Shiwalik.
107. (a) Gulf Stream is a warm ocean current. It flows along the
North America and drifts towards western Europe, thus
raising the temperature of western coast considerably.
108. (b) Recharging of ground water is the main advantage of
rain water harvesting. Rainwater harvesting provides
an independent water supply during regional water
restrictions and in developed countries is often used
to supplement the main supply. It provides water when
there is a drought, can help mitigate flooding of low-
lying areas, and reduces demand on wells which may
enable ground water levels to be sustained.
109. (c) India is the largest producer and exporter of tea. The
Indian tea industry has grown to own many global tea
brands and has evolved into one of the most
technologically equipped tea industries in the world.
Tea production, certification, exportation, and all other
facts of the tea trade in India is controlled by the Tea
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class of soil which forms in semiarid and arid regions.
It is rich in calcium carbonate and has low soil organic
matter.
111. (d) Land able to be used for farming is called "cultivable
land". It includes total fallow land and net sown area.
112. (d) Gulf of Mannar with a area of 10500 sq.km. is the largest
biosphere reserve of India.
113. (a) In physical geography, a steppe is an ecoregion,
characterized by grasslandplains without trees apart
from those near rivers and lakes.
114. (a) Covering around 2 percent of the Earth's total surface
area, the world's tropical rainforests are home to
50 percent of the Earth's plants and animals. Rainforests
can be found all over the world from as far north as
Alaska and Canada to Latin America, Asia and Africa.
115. (d) The world's growing appetite for beef is a leading cause
of tropical deforestation.
116. (c) Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty among
countries to reduce greenhouse gases emissions based
on the premise that (i) global warming exists and (ii)
man-made CO2 emissions.
117. (d) Glacial ice or Glaciers are the largest reservoir of
freshwater on Earth.
118. (a)
119. (a) About 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is water-
covered and the oceans hold about 96.5 percent of all
Earth’s water.
120. (d) Johannes Kepler was a German mathematician,
astronomer and astrologer. He is best known for his
laws of planetary motion which stated that the orbit of
a planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one of the two
foci.
121. (a) The Trans-Himalayan rivers originate beyond the great
Himalayas. The name of the rivers are the Indus, the
Sutlej and the Brahmaputra river.
122. (a) Black soil or Black Lava Soil is considered most suitable
for sowing cotton crops.
123. (c) Neyveli lignite field in Tamil Nadu is the largest lignite
coal mine in India.
124. (a) Sex ratio is used to describe the number of females per
1000 males in country. In the Population Census of
2011 it was revealed that the population ratio in India
2011 is 940 females per 1000 of males.
125. (a) In Tamil Nadu, rain water harvesting was made
compulsory for every building to avoid ground water
depletion.
126. (c) NASA has developed a series of interactive a maps
and graphs to describe the global climte and how it
change over time. The focus of 5 key climate indications
include Arctic sea ice, carbon dioxide concentration,
Global surface temperature, Sea level and land ice.
127. (d) The area reserved for the welfare of wildlife is called
National Park.
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132. (c) Pygmies follow practices of pastoral nomadism.
133. (d) High Yielding Variety (HYV) seeds played vital role in
the progress of agriculture. They are considered as
`miracle seeds'. The high yielding programme was
launched in the Kharif season of 1966 in selected areas
having assured rainfall. Seed is the basic and crucial
input for attaining sustained growth in agricultural
production.
134. (c) Tea is an aromatic beverage commonly prepared by
pouring hot or boiling water over cured leaves of the
tea plant, Camellia sinensis. After water, tea is the most
widely consumed beverage in the world.
135. (b) Delhi-Kolkata section
136. (c) The Tropic of Cancer, also referred to as the Northern
tropic, is the circle of latitude on the Earth that marks
the most northerly position at which the Sun may
appear directly overhead at its zenith.
137. (d) The demographics of the People's Republic of China
are identified by a large population with a relatively
small youth division, which is partially a result of
China's one-child policy. Chinese population reached
the billion mark in 1982.
138. (a) The Ravva oil and gas field in the Krishna- Godavari
Basin was developed in partnership with Cairn India,
ONGC, Videocon and Ravva Oil, under a production
sharing contract (PSC) that runs until 2019.
139. (d) Starting from north, Machallipatnam is located in
Andhra Pradesh. Chennai, Nagapatnam and Tuticorin
are present in Tamil Nadu.
140. (d) Santa Cruz is a domestic airport in Mumbai.
141. (b) The Almatti Dam is a dam project on the Krishna River
in North Karnataka, India which was completed in July
2005. The Almatti Dam is the main reservoir of the Upper
Krishna Irrigation Project.
142. (a) Damodar Valley Corporation, commonly known as
DVC, was incorporated on July 7, 1948 by an Act of the
Constituent Assembly of India (Act No. XIV of 1948).
It was the oldest versatile river basin project of
sovereign India. Damodar Valley Corporation has been
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143. (a) Petrology is the branch of geology that studies the
origin, composition, distribution and structure of rocks.
144. (b)
145. (c) The eastern coast of India, particularly in Tamilnadu,
remains relatively dry during the south-west monsoon
period. This is because the Tamilnadu coast lies in the
rain-shadow area of the Arabian Sea current and is
parallel to the Bay of Bengal current.
146. (a) The International Date Line (IDL) is an imaginary line
on the surface of the Earth from the north to the south
pole and demarcates one calendar day from the next. It
passes through the middle of the Pacific Ocean, roughly
following the 180° longitude but it deviates to pass
around some territories and island groups.
147. (b) The position of Meghalaya is 22nd in terms of both
area as well as population. The position of rest of the
states in terms of area and population respectively are:
Nagaland: 25, 24; Manipur: 23, 23 (excludes Mao-
Maram. Paomata. and Purul sub-divisions of Senapati
district of Manipur); and Gujarat: 7, 10.
148. (c) An oxbow lake is a U-shaped body of water formed
when a wide meander from the main stem of a river is
cut off to create a lake. This landform is called an oxbow
lake for the distinctive curved shape, named after part
of a yoke for oxen.
149. (c) Gujarat is the leading state in ship breaking industry
because of its long coastline and a well developed
infrastructure for the industry-specific works. Alang
in Gujarat, considered to be the world's largest, is a
famous ship breaking centre.
150. (c) Contour line is a line on a map or chart joining points
of equal height (elevation) or depth. Closely spaced
contour lines indicate a steeper grade than the more
loosely spaced lines.
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located at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. The plant
was commissioned in August 1992 with a capacity to
produce 3 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) of liquid
steel. The plant has been built to match international
standards with state-of-the-art technology,
incorporating extensive energy saving and pollution
control measures. VSP has an excellent layout capable
of expanding up to 16 MTPA.
153. (c) Environmental conditions play a key role in defining
the function and distribution of plants, in combination
with other factors which influence the development of
plants into distinctive forms.
154. (d) Dr. M S Swaminanthan said the given lines.
Swaminathan is known as "Indian Father of Green
Revolution" for his leadership and success in
introducing and further developing high-yielding
varieties of wheat in India.
155. (b) Mangrove trees act as a natural barrier against
cyclones and storms.
156. (c) 157. (d) 158. (a) 159. (b)
160. (d) Chile is the world's largest copper producer, producing
1.79 million tons in 2013.
161. (d) 162. (d) 163. (d) 164. (d) 165. (b)
166. (a) 167. (d) 168. (b) 169. (d) 170. (c)
171. (b) 172. (c) 173. (a) 174. (a) 175. (b)
176. (a) 177. (d) 178. (d) 179. (a) 180. (a)
181. (c) 182. (c) 183. (c) 184. (c) 185. (d)
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(a) Portuguese (b) Dutch (a) Legislature (b) Executive
(c) German (d) English (c) Political parties (d) Judiciary
2. The term 'Greater India' denotes 13. Sarkaria Commission was concerned with
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010)
(a) Political unity (b) Cultural unity (a) Administrative Reforms
(c) Religious unity (d) Social unity (b) Electoral Reforms
3. Who is rightly called the "Father of Local Self Government" (c) Financial Reforms
in India ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) (d) Centre-State relations
(a) Lord Mayo (b) Lord Ripon 14. The speaker of the Lok-Sabha has to address his/her letter
(c) Lord Curzon (d) Lord Clive of resignation to (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010)
4. The two forms of democracy are (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) (a) Prime Minister of India
(a) Parliamentary and Presidential (b) President of India
(b) Direct and Indirect (c) Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha
(c) Monarchical and Republican (d) Minister of Parliamentary Affairs
(d) Parliamentary and King 15. A Presidential Ordinance can remain in force
5. Which is an extra-constitutional body ? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010)
(a) Language Commission (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) (a) For Three months (b) For six months
(b) Planning Commission (c) For nine months (d) Indefinitely
(c) Election Commission 16. Judicial review in the Indian Constitution is based on:
(a) Rule of Law (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
(d) Finance Commission
(b) Due process of Law
6. The Prime Minister of India is (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010)
(c) Procedure established by Law
(a) Elected (b) Appointed
(d) Precedents and Conventions
(c) Nominated (d) Selected
17. The Drafting of the Constitution was completed on:
7. Which is not an All India Service ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010)
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
(a) Indian Administration Service th
(a) 26 January, 1950 (b) 26th December, 1949
(b) Indian Police Service
(c) 26th November, 1949 (d) 30th November, 1949
(c) Indian Foreign Service
18. Who was the President of the Constituent Assembly?
(d) Indian Forest Service
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
8. The declaration that Democracy is a Government 'of the
(a) Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru (b) Sardar Patel
people' by the people; for the people' was made by
(c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad (d) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010)
19. Which innovative discussion process is introduced by the
(a) George Washington (b) Winston Churchill Indian parliament to the World Parliamentary systems?
(c) Abraham Lincoln (d) Theodore Roosevelt (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
9. India attained 'Dominion Status' on (a) Question hour (b) Zero hour
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010) (c) Resolutions (d) Presidential Speech
(a) 15th January, 1947 (b) 15th August, 1947 20. The judges of the Supreme Court retire at the age of :
(c) 15th August, 1950 (d) 15th October, 1947 (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
10. Despotism is possible in a (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010) (a) 60 years (b) 65 years
(a) One party state (b) Two party state (c) 62 years (d) 58 years
(c) Multi party state (d) Two and multi party state 21. Who was the architect of North and South Blocks of the
11. Marx belonged to (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010) Central Secretariate in Delhi? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
(a) Germany (b) Holland (a) Sir Edward Lutyens (b) Herbert Baker
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23. For the election of President of India, a citizen should have (c) Kollam (d) Ernakulam
completed the age of (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011) 34. The first speaker of Lok Sabha was:
(a) 25 years (b) 30 years (a) S. Radhakrishnan (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
(c) 35 years (d) 18 years (b) M. Ananthasayanam Ayyangar
24. A member of Parliament will lose his membership of (c) Sardar Hukum Singh
Parliament if he is continuously absent from Sessions for
(d) G. V. Mavlankar
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011)
35. The Social Contract theory deals with
(a) 45 days (b) 60 days
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(c) 90 days (d) 365 days
(a) The Purpose of State
25. In India, the Residuary Powers are vested with
(b) The Origin of the State
(a) Union Government (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011)
(c) The Nature of State
(b) State Government
(d) The Functions of State
(c) Both the Union Government and the State Government
36. The Supreme Court of India offers advice to the President
(d) Local Government
on matters of Legal, Public or Constitutional importance
26. The National Commission for Minorities was constituted in
based on (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
the year (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(a) Article-148 (b) Article-129
(a) 1990 (b) 1992
(c) Article-147 (d) Article-143
(c) 1980 (d) 1989
37. Which is the most effective means of executive control of
27. In which of the following systems of government is bi–
cameralism an essential feature? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) administration ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(a) Federal system (b) Unitary system (a) Financial administration
(c) parliamentary system (d) Presidential system (b) Political direction
28. Socialism succeeds in achieveing (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (c) Appointment and removal of top officials
(a) higher standard of living of the people (d) Subordinate legislation
(b) equal distribution of income in the society 38. Violation of‘Rule of Law’ arises mostly from
(c) higher individual welfare in the society (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(d) maximum social welfare in the society (a) Lack of Checks and Balances
29. The seat of Madhya Pradesh High Court is located at (b) Executive’s Quasi-Judicial Powers
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (c) Limited Franchise
(a) Gwalior (b) Indore (d) Delegated Legislation
(c) Bhopal (d) Jabalpur 39. The Constitutional Amendment Act that has introduced
30. Who said that the Directive Principles of State Policy are safeguards against the misuse of proclamation of national
just like “a cheque on bank payable at the convenience of emergency is the (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
the bank”. (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) (a) 42nd Amendment Act (b) 43rd Amendment Act
(a) Pandit Nehru (b) K. T. Shah (c) 44th Amendment Act (d) 45th Amendment Act
(c) B. R. Ambedkar (d) N. G. Ranga 40. The Fundamental Rights can be suspended by the
31. The proposal for the creation of new All-India Services can (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
be considered only: (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) (a) Governor (b) President
(a) if majority of State Legislatures make such demand (c) Law Minister (d) Prime Minister
(b) if Lok Sabha passes a resolution by two-thirds majority 41. The main reason for the growth of communalism in India is
(c) if the Rajya Sabha passes a resolution by two-thirds (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
majority (a) Educational and economic backwardness of minority
(d) None of the above groups
32. The authority to specify which castes shall be deemed to (b) Political consciousness
be scheduled castes rests with the: (c) Social inequalities
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) (d) Imposing ban on communal organisations
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43. Which one of the following does not match? 54. Under which Article of the Constitution of India, can the
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) fundamental rights of the members of the Armed Forces be
(a) Hindu Marriage Act : 1955 specifically restricted? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(b) Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act : 1971 (a) Article 21 (b) Article 25
(c) Domestic Violence on women Act : 1990 (c) Article 33 (d) Article 19
(d) Cruelty against Women : 1995 55. Which Article of the Indian Constitution did Dr. B. R.
44. The vacancy of the office of the President must be filled Ambedkar term as the “Heart and Soul of the Indian
within : (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) Constitution”? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(a) 3 months (b) 6 months (a) Article 356 (b) Article 32
(c) 12 months (d) 1 month (c) Article 14 (d) Article 19
45. In which part of the Indian Constitution, the fundamental 56. Who was the first to use the term ‘State’?
duties are enshrined ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(a) IV (b) IV A (a) Aristotle (b) Machiavelli
(c) IV B (d) V (c) Hobbes (d) Plato
46. Who described the Government of India Act, 1935 as a new 57. Who is the Chairman of the 20th Law Commission?
charter of bondage ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(a) B.R. Ambedkar (b) Mahatma Gandhi (a) Justice K.G. Balakrishnan
(c) Rajendra Prasad (d) Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru (b) Justice D. K. Jain
47. Which of the following is not a fundamental right as per (c) Justice Usha Mehra
the Indian Constitution? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013) (d) Justice J. S. Verma
(a) Right to Education (b) Right to Information 58. Which one of the following is not a function of Election
(c) Right to Speech (d) Right to Life Commission ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
48. Who is custodian of the Indian Constitution? (a) Allotment of symbols
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013) (b) Fixation of election dates
(a) President of India (b) Chief Justice of India (c) Maintaining fairness of election
(c) Prime Minister of India (d) Chairman of Rajya Sabha (d) Selecting the candidates for election
49. Constituent Assembly of India was formulated on the 59. ‘State is a necessary evil’ is associated with
recommendation of (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013) (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(a) Wavel Plan (b) Cripps Mission (a) Individualism (b) Idealism
(c) August Offer (d) Cabinet Mission (c) Marxism (d) Constructivism
50. Which of the following is an essential element of the state? 60. Who was the first President of the All India Trade Union
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013) Congress (AITUC) ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(a) Sovereignty (b) Government (a) C.R. Das (b) V.V. Giri
(c) Territory (d) All these (c) Lala Lajpat Rai (d) Sarojini Naidu
51. Which has become a legal right under 44th Amendment? 61. If there is a deadlock between Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha
(a) Right to Education (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013) over an ordinary bill, it will be resolved by
(b) Right to Property (a) The President (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(c) Right to Judicial Remedies (b) The Council of Ministers
(d) Right to work (c) The Joint Session of Parliament
52. By which Constitution Amendment Act, Right to Property (d) The Supreme Court
ceased to remain a fundamental right? 62. Provisions of citizenship in Indian Constitution, became
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013) applicable in (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(a) 44th (d) 42nd (a) 1950 (b) 1949
(c) 43rd (d) 45th (c) 1951 (d) 1952
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63. The National Emergency in India declared by the President 75. The South East trade winds are attracted towards the Indian

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(a) Individual responsibility (d) the development of cyclone over the equator
(b) Collective responsibility 76. The 'graded profile' of a river course is a
(c) Responsibility to none (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(d) Non-responsibility (a) smooth curve in the upper course
65. Direct legislation in Switzerland has (SSC CGL 2014) (b) smooth curve in the middle course
(a) a natural growth (b) a haphazard growth (c) smooth curve in the lower course
(c) an artificial growth (d) None of the above (d) smooth curve from source to mouth
66. Who gave the idea of "Cabinet Dietatorship"? 77. Sink hole is a phenomenon of _______ topography.
(SSC CGL 2014) (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(a) Muir (b) Lowell (a) Desert (b) Tundra
(c) Marriot (d) Laski (c) Karst (d) Plain
67. In which of the following countries are the judges of the 78. Kerala is famous for the cultivation of
federal court elected by the two Houses of the Federal
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
Legislature? (SSC CGL 2014)
1. Coconut 2. Black pepper
(a) Switzerland (b) Germany
3. Rubber 4. Rice
(c) Canada (d) Both (a) and (b)
(a) 1, 2 and 4 (b) 2, 3 and 4
68. The President of the USA appoints Supreme Court Judges
(c) 1 and 4 (d) 1, 2 and 3
(a) with Senate's consent (SSC CGL 2014)
79. The longest continental Railway in the world is
(b) at his discretion
(a) Trans Siberian Railway (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(c) with consent of the House of Representatives
(b) Canadian Pacific Railway
(d) None of these
69. Which of the following is not a Union Territory ? (c) Canadian National Railway
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015) (d) Trans Atlantic Railway
(a) Lakshadweep (b) Puducherry 80. Who was the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha :
(c) Nagaland (d) Dadra and Nagar Haveli (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
70. The greatest king of the Pratihara dynasty was (a) B.R. Ambedkar (b) G.V. Mavalankar
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015) (c) N. Sanjeev Reddy (d) Dr S.P. Mukherjee
(a) Bhoj (Mihir–Bhoj) (b) Dantidurga 81. What is the plural volting system?
(c) Nagbhatta II (d) Vatsaraj (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
71. In 1939 Subhash Chandra Bose was elected as President of (a) All the citizens caste three votes each
the Congress Party defeating (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015) (b) Eligible voter exercises one vote and some voters with
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru specific qualifications cast more than one vote.
(b) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (c) Only the higher officials caste more than one votes
(c) V.B. Patel (d) Candidates themselves caste more than one vote.
(d) Pattabhi Sitharamayya 82. Voting is : (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
72. Jallianwala incident took place at (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015) (a) The unit of area who constitute a unit for electing
(a) Lucknow (b) Surat representative
(c) Amritsar (d) Allahabad (b) The process by which voters exercise their right to vote
73. Who was the founder of Lodhi dynasty ? (c) The process of selecting representatives
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015) (d) Universal adult franchise.
(a) Sikandar Lodhi (b) Bahlol Lodhi 83. An amendment of the constitution may be initiated.
(c) Ibrahim Lodhi (d) Daulat Khan Lodhi (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
74. Which one of the following pair is not correctly matched ? (a) by introduction by the President of India.
(a) Akbar – Todarmal (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015) (b) by introduction of a Bill in Rajya Sabha.
(b) Chanakya – Chandragupta (c) by the Governors of States.
(c) Vikramaditya – Chaitanya (d) by the introduction of a bill in either House of
(d) Harshvardhan – Hiuen Tsang Parliament.
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84. The Directive Principles of State Policy has been adopted 95. Which one of the following items comes under the

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85. Which type of democracy do we follow in India?
96. Which Amendment of the Constitution deals with Political

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(a) 50th (b) 52th
(c) Representative (d) Dictatorship
86. The Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constituent (c) 60th (d) 44th
Assembly of India was (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) 97. Which schedule of the Indian Constitution prescribes
(a) K.M. Munshi (b) D.P. Khaitan distribution of seats in Rajya Sabha ? (SSC CHSL 2012)
(c) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (d) T.T. Krishnamacharia (a) 4th schedule (b) 5th schedule
87. Who has the right to decide whether a Bill is a money bill or (c) 6th schedule (d) 3rd schedule
not? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) 98. Who said in the Constituent Assembly that the Directive
(a) Speaker of Lok Sabha (b) Prime Minister Principles of the State Policy are like a 'Cheque on a bank
(c) President (d) Finance Minister payable at the convenience of the bank' ?
88. The discretionary powers of a Governor is limited in (SSC CHSL 2012)
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) (a) K.M. Munshi (b) B.R. Ambedkar
(a) Appointment of Chief Minister
(c) Austin (d) K. T. Shah
(b) Dismissal of the Ministry
99. How many members can be nominated to both the Houses
(c) Dissolution of the Legislative Assembly
of the Parliament by the President ? (SSC CHSL 2013)
(d) Assent to Bills
89. Who is the first law officer of the country? (a) 14 (b) 16
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) (c) 10 (d) 12
(a) Chief Justice of India (b) Attorney General 100. Under which Article of the Constitution can an individual
(c) Law Minister (d) Solicitor General move to the Supreme Court directly in case of any violation
90. Which one of the following was established with a definite of Fundamental Rights ? (SSC CHSL 2013)
provision under an Article of the Constitution of India? (a) Article 31 (b) Article 32
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) (c) Article 28 (d) Article 29
(a) Union Public Service Commission 101. Presidential form of government consists of the following :
(b) National Human Rights Commission (SSC CHSL 2013)
(c) Election Commission
(a) Popular election of the President
(d) Central Vigilance Commission
(b) No overlap in membership between the executive and
91. The President can advance money to meet unforeseen
expenses from the (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) the legislature
(a) Consolidated Fund of India (c) Fixed term of office
(b) Grants of the Central Government (d) All the above
(c) Aid from the Union Government 102. The concept of Concurrent List in Indian Constitution is
(d) Contingency Fund borrowed from the Constitution of (SSC CHSL 2013)
92. How many cricketers, who have represented India in test (a) U.S.A. (b) Japan
matches, are presently Lok Sabha members ? (c) Canada (d) Australia
(SSC CHSL 2012) 103. Who admits a new State to the Union of India ?
(a) Two (b) One (SSC CHSL 2014)
(c) Nil (d) Three
(a) President (b) Supreme Court
93. Which one of the following was created by the 'Pitt's India
Act' ? (SSC CHSL 2012) (c) Prime Minister (d) Parliament
(a) Board of Control (b) Board of Revenue 104. Who has got the power to create All India Services ?
(c) Standing Council (d) Court of Directors (SSC CHSL 2014)
94. Term 'Federal' has been used in the Indian Constitution in: (a) Supreme Court (b) The Parliament
(SSC CHSL 2012) (c) Council of Ministers (d) Prime Minister
(a) Part-III 105. In the provisional Parliament of India, how many members
(b) Article-368 were there ? (SSC CHSL 2014)
(c) Nowhere in the Constitution (a) 296 (b) 313
(d) Preamble (c) 318 (d) 316
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106. The 73rd Constitutional amendment act is related to ? 117. According to Karl Marx, the change economic system results

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107. Impeachment Proceedings against the President for 118. The model code of conduct for political parties and

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(a) The Supreme Court (a) laid down in the Consitution of India
(b) The Rajya Sabha
(b) specified in The Representation of the People Act, 1951
(c) Either House of Parliament
(c) enjoined by the Supreme Court
(d) The Lok Sabha
(d) agreed through a voluntary agreement among the
108. Who was the First Speaker of the Lok Sabha ?
recognised political parties
(SSC CHSL 2015)
119. A citizen can directly move the Supreme Court for any
(a) K.S. Hegde (b) Hukum Singh
violation of Fundamental Rights under
(c) Ganesh Vasudev (d) Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy
109. Which Article of the Indian Constitution deals with Election (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
Commission ? (SSC CHSL 2015) (a) Article 31 (b) Article 32
(a) Article 356 (b) Article 360 (c) Article 33 (d) Article 34
(c) Article 324 (d) Article 352 120. Which one of the following sitting Vice-Presidents of India
110. If the President wants to resign, he shall address his letter contested for the post of President and lost the election?
of resignation to : (SSC CHSL 2015) (a) S. Radhakrishnan (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
(a) Vice-President of India (b) Speaker of Lok Sabha (b) V.V. Giri
(c) Chief Justice of India (d) Prime Minister of India (c) Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
111. Constitution of India came into force in (d) Both (B) and (C)
(SSC Multitasking 2013) 121. Which article of the Indian Constitution provides for equal
(a) 1949 (b) 1951 opportunities for all citizen in Public employment?
(c) 1956 (d) 1950 (SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
112. Cold War refers to (SSC Multitasking 2013)
(a) Article-22 (b) Article-16
(a) tension between East and West
(c) Article-20 (d) Article-25
(b) ideological rivalry between Capitalist and Communist
122. Which one of the following is opposite to democratic
world
state? (SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
(c) tension between Superpowers
(a) Despotism (b) Republic
(d) All of the above
113. The concept of Judicial Review has been borrowed from (c) Socialism (d) Monarchy
the Consitution of (SSC Multitasking 2014) 123. Who said: "Where there is no law, there is no freedom"?
(a) France (b) Great Britain (SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
(c) U.S.A. (d) U.S.S.R. (a) Bentham (b) Lenin
114. In the Constitution of India, the budget is known as (c) Marx (d) Locke
(SSC Multitasking 2014) 124. Which one of the following statements about the Chief
(a) Annual Financial Statement Justice of India (CJI) is not correct ?
(b) Annual Revenue Statement (SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
(c) Annual Budget Statement (a) He appoints the Chief Justice of all High Courts.
(d) Annual Expenditure Statement (b) The CJI administers the oath or-office to the President
115. Which of the following countries has a Parliamentary form (c) When both the offices of the President and Vice-
of Government? (SSC Multitasking 2014) President fall vacant simultaneously, the CJI discharges
(a) New Zealand the duties of the President.
(b) Cuba
(d) The CJI can hold his office till he attains the age of 65
(c) United States of America
years.
(d) France
125. A philosophy that the worker should share in industrial
116. Which of the following systems in independent India goes
decisions is termed as (SSC Sub. Ins. 2014)
against the very basis of democracy? (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
(a) industrial democracy (b) worker sovereignty
(a) Caste system (b) Economic system
(c) industrial socialism (d) worker dictatorship
(c) Party system (d) Parliamentary system
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126. Liberty stands for (SSC Sub. Ins. 2014) 135. To whom the President has to submit his resignation ?

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127. When the Vice-President is acting as President he

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(c) Five (d) Six
I. will have all powers and functions of both President
and Vice-President 137. Immunization technique was developed by:
II. gets all the allowances and privileges of the President (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)
III. should continue to work as the Chairman of the Rajya (a) Louis Pasteur (b) Robert Koch
Sabha (c) Joseph Lister (d) Edward jenner
(a) I, II and III (b) I and III 138. Which one of the following chapters in the Indian
(c) I and II (d) II only Constitution guarantees fundamental rights to the people?
128. In Presidential Government, the President is (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2014) (a) Part III (b) Part IV
(a) independent of the Legislature (c) Part I (d) Part II
(b) dependent on the Legislature 139. Mac Iver says ‘Kinship creates society and society at length
(c) dependent on the Judiciary creates ________’. (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)
(d) bound by the advice of the Council of Ministers
(a) Association (b) City State
129. The method of amending the Constitution by popular veto
(c) Nation (d) State
is found in (SSC Sub. Ins. 2014)
140. If the Union Parliament is to assume legislative power over
(a) Britain (b) Switzerland
and subject included in the State List, the resolution to the
(c) Russia (d) India
effect has to be passed by which of the following ?
130. Which of the following is the inalienable attribute of the
parliamentary system of government ? (SSC Sub. Ins. 2014) (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)
(a) Flexibility of the Constitution (a) Lok, Sabha, Rajya Sabha and legislatures of the
(b) Fusion of Executive and Legislature Concerned States.
(c) Judicial Supremacy (b) Both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
(d) Parliamentary Sovereignty (c) Lok Sabha
131. Which one of the following kinds of equality is not (d) Rajya Sabha
compatible with the liberal notion of equality ? 141. Which Article of the Indian constitution defines the duties
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2014) of the Chief Minister? (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)
(a) Legal Equality (b) Political Equality (a) Article 164 (b) Article 166
(c) Social Equality (d) Economic Equality (c) Article 167 (d) Article 163
132. The states recorganisation in 1956 created : 142. Political Science is a science of (SSC Sub. Ins. 2016)
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2015) (a) Economic Engineering (b) Cultural Engineering
(a) 17 States and 6 Union Territories.
(c) Social Engineering (d) Political Engineering
(b) 17 States and 9 Union Territories.
143. Which of the following is not the essential element of the
(c) 14 States and 6 Union Territories.
State? (SSC Sub. Ins. 2016)
(d) 15 States and 9 Union Territories.
(a) Government (b) Sovereignty
133. Reservation for the Scheduled castes and Scheduled tribes
in the service has been provided in the Indian Constitution (c) Population (d) Institutions
under : (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015) 144. Parliamentary Government is a form of Constitutional
(a) Article 365 (b) Article 375 democracy in which (SSC Sub. Ins. 2016)
(c) Article 315 (d) Article 335 (a) the legislature emerge from and is responsible to the
134. The Members of the Constituent Assembly which enacted executive.
the constitution of India were: (b) the executives emerge from and is responsible to the
(a) Nominated by Governor-General. judiciary.
(b) Nominated by the Political Parties. (c) the executive emerge from and is responsible to the
(c) Elected by the Legislative Assemblies of various legislature.
Provinces. (d) the legislatures emerge from and is responsible to the
(d) Directly elected by the People. judiciary.
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(c) Parliament (d) State Government 154. Arrange the names of the President in the order they served.
147. Schedule VII of Indian Constitution contains (SSC Stenographer 2016)
(a) Presidential election (SSC Stenographer 2013) (a) N.S. Reddy, Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, R.
(b) Acts beyond judicial review Venkataraman, Gyani Zail Singh
(c) States and Union territories (b) R. Venkataraman, Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, Gyani Zail
(d) Division of Powers into 3 lists Singh, N.S. Reddy
148. Which Article of the Indian Constitution mentions about (c) N.S. Reddy, Gyani Zail Singh, R. Venkataraman, Dr
financial emergency? (SSC Stenographer 2013) Shankar Dayal Sharma
(a) 360 (b) 350 (d) N.S. Reddy, R. Venkataraman, Gyani Zail Singh, Dr
(c) 340 (d) 330 Shankar Dayal Sharma
149. Maximum age of superannuation for the judges of the 155. Who first gave the concept of "Distributive Justice"?
Supreme Court of India is (SSC Stenographer 2013) (SSC Stenographer 2016)
(a) 62 years (b) 65 years
(a) Machiavelli (b) Locke
(c) 60 years (d) 70 years
(c) Plato (d) Aristotle
150. Name the portfolio held by Sri Pranab Mukherjee before he
156. The reorganization of states on linguistic basis was done in
was elevated as President of India (SSC Stenographer 2014)
(SSC Stenographer 2016)
(a) Railway Minister
(a) 1952 (b) 1956
(b) Finance Minister
(c) 1950 (d) 1951
(c) External Affairs Minister
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(d) Home Minister
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1. (a) 2. (b)
3. (b) The real benchmarking of the government policy on
decentralisation can, however, be attributed to Lord
Ripon who, in his famous resolution on local self-
government on May 18, 1882, recognised the twin
considerations of local government: (i) administrative
efficiency and (ii) political education.
4. (a) 5. (b) 6. (b) 7. (c) 8. (c)
9. (b) 10. (a) 11. (a) 12. (d) 13. (d)
14. (c) 15. (b) 16. (c) 17. (c) 18. (c)
19. (b) 20. (b) 21. (b) 22. (a) 23. (b)
24. (b) 25. (a)
26. (b) The Union Government set up the National
Commission for Minorities (NCM) under the National
Commission for Minorities Act, 1992.
27. (a) Some countries, Such as Argentina, Austria, Australia,
Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Malaysia,
Mexico, Pakistan, Russia, Switzerland and the United
States, link their bicameral systems to their federal
political structure.
28. (b) Socialism is an economic system characterised by
social ownership and/or cannot of the means of
production and cooperative management of the
economy.
29. (d) The Court was established in Nagpur, but after the
reorganisation of states on 1 November 1956, it was
moved to Jabalpur.
30. (b) K.T. Shah said that Dr. Rajendra Prasad won his first
election with 507,400 votes over his nearest rival K.T.
Shah who got 92,827 votes.
31. (c) Article 312 provides that an All India Service can be
created only if the Council of State declares by a
resolution supported by not less than a two-thirds
majority that it is necessary in the national interest to
create one or more such All india Services.
32. (a) In the original Constitution, Article 338 provided for a
Special officer, called the Commissioner for SCs and
STs, to have the responsibility of monitoring the
effective implementation of various safeguards for SCs/
STs in the Constitution as well as other related
legislations and to report to the President.
33. (d) The High Court of Kerala is headquartered at Kochi. It
is located in Ernakulam.
34. (d) Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar, popularly known as
Dadasaheb, was an independence activist, the President
(from 1946 to 1947) of the Central Legislative Assembly,
then Speaker of the Constituent Assembly of India, an
later the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
35. (b) 36. (d) 37. (c) 38. (a) 39. (c)
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41. (a) 42. (d)
43. (c) Domestic Violence on Women Act 2005 is the first
significant attempt in India to recognise domestic abuse
as a punishable offence, to extend its provisions to
those in live-in relationships, and to provide for
emergency relief for the victims, in addition to legal
recourse.
44. (b) 45. (b) 46. (d)
47. (*) Right to Information is a part of fundamental rights
under Article 19 (1) of the Constitution which states
that every citizen has freedom of speech and expression.
The 86th Constitutional amendment making education
a fundamental right was passed by Parliament in 2002.
Right to speech comes under freedom of speech and
expression which is a fundamental right. The
constitution guarantees the right to life and personal
liberty as a fundamental right under article 21.
48. (b) The Constitution has made the Supreme Court as the
custodian and protector of the Constitution. The
Supreme Court decides disputes between the Centre
and the Units as well as protects the Fundamental
Rights of the citizens of India.
49. (d) May preceded by the Shimla Conference of 1945.
50. (d) The state has four essential elements: population,
territory, government and sovereignty. Absence of any
of these elements denies to it the status of statehood.
51. (b) The 44th amendment eliminated the right to acquire,
hold and dispose of property as a fundamental right.
However, in another part of the Constitution. Article
300 (A) was inserted to affirm that no person shall be
deprived of his property save by authority of law.
52. (a) The 44th amendment of 1978 eliminated the right to
acquire, hold and dispose of property as a fundamental
right. The Constitution originally provided for the right
to property under Articles 19 and 31.
53. (c) The Speaker of Lok Sabha presides over the joint
sittings of both Houses of Parliament. The joint session
of parliament is convened by the President of India.
54. (c) Parliament may restrict the application of the
Fundamental Rights to members of the Indian Armed
Forces and the Police, in order to ensure paper
discharge of their duties and the maintenance of
discipline, by a law made under Article 33.
55. (b) Dr. B R Ambedkar, the chairman of the Drafting
committee called the fundamental right to
constitutional remedies as the heart and soul of the
Indian constitution. According to this right, a person
can move the Supreme Court in case of violation of
their fundamental rights. In the Constitution, this right
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56. (b) Machiavelli has been credited with formulating for the
first time the “modern concept of the state”. The term
‘lo state’ appears widely in Machiavelli’s writings,
especially in The Prince, in connection with the
acquisition and application of power in a coercive
sense.
57. (b) Justice D.K Jain, Judge, Supreme Court of India, is the
Chairman of the Twentieth Law Commission of India.
The Twentieth Law Commission was constituted
through a Government Order with effect from 1st
September, 2012.
58. (d) Selecting the candidate of election is the function of
the political party
59. (a) This quote is given by the theory of Individualism
60. (c) The All India Trade Union Congress is the oldest trade
union of India, established in 1920, History of AITUC
is coterminous with the history of organised labour
movement in India. Since its birth, AITUC has had a
major role to play in mass movement phase in India's
freedom struggle.
61. (c) The Joint Session of Parliament resolves the deadlock
between Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha over an ordinary
bill.
62. (a) 63. (a)
64. (b) Cabinet collective responsibility is constitutional
convention in governments is that members of the
Cabinet must publicly support all governmental
decisions made in Cabinet, even if they do not privately
agree with them. This support includes voting for the
government in the legislature. Cabinet collective
responsibility is related to the fact that, if a vote of no
confidence is passed in parliament, the government is
responsible collectively, and thus the entire
government resigns.
65. (a) Switzerland is a small country located in the heart of
western Europe, at the intersection of German, French
and Italian language and culture. Switzerland has been
multicultural in its own way for centuries. Direct
Democracy in particular, has a long, but not undisputed
tradition in this country. Switzerland's unique political
system is today world's most stable democratic system,
offering a maximum of participation to citizens.
66. (a) John Muir was a Scottish-American naturalist, author,
and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in
the United States.
67. (a) The Federal Assembly is bicameral, being composed
of the 200-seat National Council and the 46-seat Council
of States. The houses have identical powers. Members
of both houses represent the cantons, but, whereas
seats in the National Council are distributed in
proportion to population, each canton has two seats
in the Council of States, except the six 'half-cantons'
which have one seat each. Both are elected in full once
every four years, with the last election being held in
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is Kohima. Nagaland became the 16th state of India
from 1 December 1963.
70. (a) Mihira Bhoja was a ruler of the Gurjara Pratihara
dynasty of India. Bhoja's empire extended to Narmada
River in the South, Sutlej River in the northwest, and
up to Bengal in the east.
71. (d) Bose appeared at the 1939 Congress meeting and was
elected president over Gandhi's preferred candidate
Pattabhi Sitaramayya.
72. (c) The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre happened in Amritsar,
in 1919. It is named after the Jallianwala Bagh (Garden)
atAmritsar. On April 13, 1919, British, Indian Army
soldiers started shooting an unarmed gathering of men,
women and children.
73. (b) Bahlol Lodi was the founder of the Lodi dynasty.He
ruled for long thirty-nine years (1451-89). He was the
governor of Lahore and Sirhind during the rule of
Muhammad Shah of Sayyid dynasty.
74. (c) Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu arrived in the empire at the
time of Emperor Prataparudra (Gajapatis)and stayed
for 18 long years at Puri.
75. (c) The instance heat that prevails in the Indian Sub
continent causes a low pressure region over the
northern plains. It is intense enough to attract the
moisture bearing winds from the Indian Ocean .Thus
the south east trade winds from the southern
hemisphere are attracted towards India.
76. (d) A river profile is a curve which shows the slop of a
river from source to mouth.A stream flowing over
irregular terrain may have waterfalls, rapids and lakes
along its course.Though the stream will wear away the
irregularities to leave a smoothly curving profile called
a graded profile.
77. (c) Karst is a landscape formed from the dissolution of
soluble rocks including limestone, dolomite and
gypsum. It is characterized by sinkholes, caves, and
underground drainage systems.
78. (d) Kerala is famous for the cultivation of coconut, tea,
coffee, cashew and spices.
79. (a) The Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest railway line
in the world. It has a length of 9,289 km which connects
Moscow to Vladivostok.
80. (b) G. V Mavalankar was the first speaker of the Lok Sabha.
81. (d) Plural voting is the practice whereby one person might
be able to vote multiple times in an election.
82. (c) Voting is the process of selecting representatives.

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amendment of the Constitution, an amendment can be
initiated only by the introduction of a Bill in either
House of Parliament. The Bill, passed by the required
majority, is then presented to the President who shall
give his assent to the Bill.
84. (c) The concept of Directive Principles of State Policy was
borrowed from the Irish Constitution. The makers of
the Constitution of India were influenced by the Irish
nationalist movement. Hence, the Directive Principles
of the Indian constitution have been greatly influenced
by the Directive Principles of State Policy.
85. (c) 86. (c) 87. (a) 88. (d) 89. (b)
90. (c) 91. (d) 92. (d) 93. (a) 94. (c)
95. (a) 96. (b) 97. (a) 98. (d)
99. (a) According to the Indian Constitution, 14 members can
be nominated to both the houses of parliament by the
President. This is the legislative power of the President
where he nominates 12 members to the Rajya Sabha
and if not adequately represented 2 Anglo-Indian
members to the Lok Sabha.
100. (b) Under Article 32 of the Constitution, an individual can
directly move to the Supreme Court in Case of any
violation of fundamental rights. Fundamental Rights
are those rights which are essential for the growth of
an individual's personality and are enjoyed by every
citizen irrespective of caste, color, creed, race and sex.
101. (d) A presidential system is a republican system of
government where a head of government is also head
of state and leads an executive branch that is separate
from the legislative branch. The United States, for
instance, has a presidential system. Popular election
of President, no overlap in membership and fixed term
of office are the main criteria of Presidential form of
Government.
102. (d) The concept of Concurrent List in Indian Constitution
is borrowed from the Constitution of Australia. The
Concurrent List or List-III is a list of 52 items(though
the last item is numbered 47) given in Part XI of the
Constitution of India, concerned with relations between
the Union and States. This part is divided between
legislative and administrative powers. The legislative
section is divided into three lists: Union List, State List
and Concurrent List.
103. (d) The parliament of India has power to add a new state
to the Union of India. This is done by collecting votes
of Members of Parliament in the favour of new state.
104. (b) the Parliament has the power to create all India Services.
105. (b) The Provisional Parliament of India was consisted of
313 members. The Constitutional Assembly of India
was introduced in 1934. This will become the major
assembly to draft constitution for India (Including
present day Pakistan and Bangladesh). Members of
this assembly was indirectly elected representatives
from across the India. It consists of the members of
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106. (a) 73rd Constitutional amendment act is related to provide
3-tier system of Panchayati Raj for all states having
population of over 20 lakh.
107. (c) Impeachment of the president for violation of
consititution of India may start in either of the two
houses of the Parliament.
108. (c) Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar was the first speaker of
Lok Sabha.
109. (c) The Article 324 of the Indian constitution basically
empowers the Election Commission to exercise its
power to prevent criminals and corrupt persons from
entering politics.
110. (a) If the President wants to resign he/she shall address
his letter of resignation to the Vice-President.
111. (d) The constitution of India came into effect from 26th
January 1950
112. (d) The Cold War, often dated from 1947 to 1991, was a
sustained state of political and military tension between
powers in the Western Bloc, dominated by the United
States with NATO among its allies, and powers in the
Eastern Bloc, dominated by the Soviet Union along
with the Warsaw Pact. This began after the success of
their temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany,
leaving the USSR and the US as two superpowers with
profound economic and political differences.
113. (c) The concept of Judicial Review in the Constitution of
India is borrowed from USA. In the Indian constitution,
Judicial review is dealt with under Article 13. Judicial
Review refers that the Constitution is the supreme
power of the nation and all laws are under its
supremacy.
114. (a) In the Constitution of India, the budget is known as
Annual Financial Statement. The Union Budget of
India, referred to as the Annual Financial Statement[1]
in Article 112 of the Constitution of India, is the annual
budget of the Republic of India, presented each year
on the last working day of February by the Finance
Minister of India in Parliament. The budget, which is
presented by means of the Financial Bill and the
Appropriation bill has to be passed by the House
before it can come into effect on April 1, the start of
India's financial year.
115. (a) New Zealand has parliamentary form of government. A
parliamentary system of government means that the
executive branch of government must have the direct
or indirect support of the parliament. This support is
usually shown by a vote of confidence. The

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relationship between the executive and the legislature
in a parliamentary system is called responsible
government. Parliamentary systems usually have a
head of government and a head of state. The head of
government is the prime minister, who has the real power.
The head of state often is an elected (either popularly
or through parliament) president or, in the case of a
constitutional monarchy, hereditary.
116. (a) 117. (c)
118. (b) The Representation of The People Act , 1951 : An Act
to provide for the conduct of elections to the Houses
of Parliament and to the House or Houses of the
Legislature of each State.
119. (b) A citizen has the right to 'move the supreme court'
(under article 32) directly in case s/he faces any violation 128. (a)
of his/her fundamental rights.
120. (c) Bhairon Singh Shekhawat was the 11th Vice-President
of India. He served in that position from August 2002, 129. (b)
when he was elected to a five-year term, until he
resigned on July 21, 2007, after losing the presidential 130. (b)
election to Pratibha Patil.
121. (b) Article 16 of the Indian Constitution deals with equality
of opportunity in matters of public employment. It states
that no citizen shall, on grounds only of religion, race,
caste, sex, descent. place of birth, residence or any of
them, be ineligible for, or discriminated against in
respect or, any employment or office under the State.
122. (a) Democracy is a political system whereby people elect
their representatives who then administer the region/
nation. Despotism is the opposite of democracy as the
principle of representation is absent in it. It is mostly
associated with autocratic/authoritarian set ups.
123. (d) John Locke in his Second Treatise of Civil Government,
Chapter 6, said that the end of law is not to abolish or 131. (d)
restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.
According to him. in all the states of created beings
capable of laws, where there is no law, there is no
freedom.
124. (a) Judges in a High Court are appointed by the President 132. (c)
of India in consultation with the Chief Justice of India 137. (d)
and the governor of the state. The Constitution confers
the power of appointment of judges on the President 138. (a)
of India.
125. (a) Industrial democracy is an arrangement which involves
workers making decisions, sharing responsibility and
authority in the workplace. 139. (d)
126. (a) Liberty means absence of restraint and assures freedom
of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship. 140. (d)
127. (d) The Vice-President shall, during, and in respect of, the 141. (c)
period while he is so acting as, or discharging the 142. (a)
functions of, President have all the powers and 147. (c)
immunities of the President and be entitled to such 152. (a)
emoluments, allowances and privileges as may be 157. (a)
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Parliament or of a House of the Legislature of any State,
and if a member of either House of Parliament or of a
House of the Legislature of any State be elected Vice-
President, he shall be deemed to have vacated his seat
in that House on the date on which he enters upon his
office as Vice-President.
a system of government in which the powers of the
president are constitutionally separate from those of
the legislature.
The method of amending the Constitution by popular
veto is found in Switzerland.
A parliamentary form of government is a democratic
one where the head of state and head of government
are held by different people and the executive and
legislature branches of government are linked. The
executive and legislature branch are linked because
the executive branch gets its power from the legislative
branch and is held accountable for their actions by
them as well. The leaders of the majority party or alliance
in the legislature become the members of the Cabinet
or Ministry. Naturally, the ministers can easily extend
their influence on the legislature. Consequently, the
programs and policies of the Cabinet are backed by a
majority inside the legislature. This feature is inalienable
in Parliamentary form of government.
Economic equality is not compatible with the liberal
notion of equality. Liberal means free of restraints and
economic equality is about a level playing field where
everyone has the same access to the same wealth;
which is not possible.
133. (d) 134. (c) 135. (d) 136. (b)
Edward Jenner is often called "the father of
immunology".
The Fundamental Rights are defined in Part III of the
Constitution which apply to every Indian citizen
irrespective of race, place of birth, religion, caste, creed
or gender.
"Kinship" says MacIver, creates society and society
at length creates the state."
Article 167 defines the duties of the chief minister.
143. (d) 144. (c) 145. (c) 146. (c)
148. (a) 149. (b) 150. (b) 151. (a)
153. (c) 154. (d) 155. (c) 156. (b)
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1. Formalised system of trading agreements with groups of 11. Which among the following agencies released the report,
countries is known as (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) Economic Outlook for 2009–10 ? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010)
(a) Trading blocks (b) Trade ventures (a) Planning Commission
(c) Trade partners (d) Trade organisations (b) PM's Economic Advisory Council
2. Depression formed due to deflating action of winds are called (c) Finance Commission
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) (d) Reserve Bank of India
(a) Playas (b) Yardang 12. India and U.S. have decided to finalise agreements related
(c) Ventifacts (d) Sand dunes to which of the following ? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010)
3. Which one of the following is not a method of estimating (a) Trade and Investment (b) Intellectual Property
National Income ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) (c) Traditional Knowledge (d) All of the above
(a) Expenditure method (b) Product method 13. The exchange of commodities between two countries is
(c) Matrix method (d) Income method referred as (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010)
4. The monetary policy is India is formulated by (a) Balance of trade (b) Bilateral trade
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) (c) Volume of trade (d) Multilateral trade
(a) Central Government 14. A want becomes a demand only when it is backed by the
(b) Industrial Financial Corporation of India (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010)
(c) Reserve Bank of India (a) Ability to purchase (b) Necessity to buy
(d) Industrial Development Bank of India (c) Desire to buy (d) Utility of the product
5. A short-term government security paper is called 15. The terms 'Micro Economics' and "Macro Economics" were
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) coined by (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010)
(a) Share (b) Debenture (a) Alfred Marshall (b) Ragner Nurkse
(c) Mutual fund (d) Treasury bill (c) Ragner Frisch (d) J.M. Keynes
6. WTO basically promotes (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) 16. During periods of inflation, tax rates should
(a) Financial support (b) Global peace (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010)
(c) Unilateral trade (d) Multilateral trade (a) increase (b) decrease
7. Under which market condition do firms have excess (c) remain constant (d) fluctuate
capacity? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) 17. Which is the biggest tax paying sector in India ?
(a) Perfect competition (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010)
(b) Monopolistic competition (a) Agriculture sector (b) Industrial sector
(c) Duopoly (c) Transport sector (d) Banking sector
(d) Oligopoly 18. "Economics is what it ought to be" – This statement refers
8. Price theory is also known as (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) to (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010)
(a) Macro Economics (b) Development Economics (a) Normative economics (b) Positive economics
(c) Public Economics (d) Micro Economics (c) Monetary economics (d) Fiscal economics
9. At present, India is following (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) 19. The excess of price a person is to pay rather than forego the
(a) Fixed exchange rate consumption of the commodity is called
(b) Floating exchange rate (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010)
(c) Pegged up exchange rate (a) Price (b) Profit
(d) Pegged down exchange rate (c) Producer's surplus (d) Consumer's surplus
10. National Income is the (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) 20. When there is an official change in the exchange rate of
(a) Net National Product at market price domestic currency, then it is called:
(b) Net National Product at factor cost (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
(c) Net Domestic Product at market price (a) Appreciation (b) Depreciation
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Foreign Institutional Investors is called known as (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011) (a) Domestic budgetary source
(a) Foreign Direct Investment (b) Domestic banking source
(b) Portfolio Investment (c) Domestic saving source
(c) NRI Investment (d) Domestic monetary source
(d) Foreign Indirect Investment 35. Sick units are referred to (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
24. Monopolist resorts to price discrimination depending upon (a) SIA (b) DGTD
the (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (c) FIPB (d) BIFR
(a) Elasticity of supply (b) Elasticity of demand 36. The concept ‘Duopoly’ was introduced by
(c) Law of demand (d) Law of supply (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
25. Economic planning is an essential feature of (a) Sweezy (b) Malthus
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (c) Ricardo (d) Cournot .
(a) Socialist economy (b) Capitalist economy 37. Which of the following is the feature of monopolistic
(c) Mixed economy (d) Dual economy competition ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
26. The Rashtriya Barh Ayog (RBA) is related with (a) Single firm (b) Large number of firms
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (c) Group of firms (d) None of the above
(a) Droughts and Floods (b) Poverty Alleviation 38. Which one of the following is an example for a non-economic
(c) Floods (d) Disaster Management good? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
27. Low cost housing is an example for: (a) Doctor’s service (b) Teacher’s service
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) (c) Mother’s service (d) Banker’s service
(a) Mixed wants (b) Social wants 39. Which one of the following committee is associated with
(c) Private wants (d) Merit wants banking sector reforms in India? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
28. Consumption for the sake of enjoying social (a) L. C. Gupta (b) Narsimhan
acknowledgement is called: (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) (c) Chakravarty (d) Kelkar
(a) Rational consumption 40. Which one of the following is not a qualitative credit control
(b) Social consumption measure of the RBI? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
(c) Conspicuous consumption (a) Fixing margin requirements
(d) Demonstration consumption (b) Variable interest rates
29. Of the following economists, whom do you consider to be (c) Open market operations
the Master of “Partial Analysis”? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) (d) Credit rationing
(a) Leon Walras (b) Alfred Marshall 41. The 13th Five Year Plan will be operative for the period.
(c) J. M. Keynes (d) Lionel Robbins (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
30. India making ‘Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements’ (a) 2010 - 2015 (b) 2011- 2016
(DTAA) with other countries for the promotion of: (c) 2012 - 2017 (d) 2013 - 2018
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) 42. The national income of a nation is the
(a) Bilateral trade (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
(b) External commercial borrowings (a) Government’s annual revenue
(c) Foreign direct investments (b) Sum total of factor incomes
(d) Foreign institutional investment (c) Surplus of public sector enterprises
31. Brain drain has been caused by: (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) (d) Exports minus imports
(a) failure to recognise talent in the originating country. 43. Externality theory is the basic theory of the following branch
(b) the lure of high living standards of Economics : (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(c) lack of employment opportunities (a) Macro Economics (b) Environomics
(d) socio-economic instability (c) Fiscal Economics (d) International Economics
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water (d) Taxes on individual income and wealth
(d) their total utility to buyers is higher than that of water 54. High powered money is (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
45. "Functional Finance" is associated with : (a) Banks reserves at Central Bank
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (b) All loans and advances of banks
(a) Abba 'P' Lerner (b) Adolph Wogner (c) Money held by banks
(c) Adam Smith (d) Adams (d) Currency held by public and reserves with the Central
46. Of the following land uses, which is restricted to Special Bank
Economic Zones ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) 55. Hardening interest rate means (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(a) Information Technology Companies (a) interest rate is remaining sticky
(b) Educational Institutions (b) interest rate is very low
(c) Free trade Centres (c) interest rate is increasing
(d) Marketing Centres (d) interest rate is falling
47. As per the TRIPS Agreement-1994, a good originating from 56. “Dumping” is a situation when the seller
a region with specific character/quality/reputation is (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
covered/to a protected under the IPR as (a) supplies mote than the demand for products in the
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013) World Market.
(a) Patent (b) supplies more in the Domestic Market.
(b) Trademark (c) sells a commodity at a lower price in the World Market
(c) Trade secret and charges a higher price in the Domestic Market.
(d) GI (Geographical Indicator) (d) sells a commodity at a higher price in the World Market
48. ‘Gold’ is mainly related to (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011) and charges a lower price in the Domestic Market.
(a) Local market (b) National market 57. Tick the correct option with regards to the contribution
(c) International market (d) Regional market towards GDP (Gross Domestic Product) from Agriculture
49. The demand for labour is called (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(a) Derived demand (b) Factory demand (a) Durin g 1950–51 (GDP 51-88%) and 2011–12
(c) Market demand (d) Direct demand (GDP 14-01%)
50. Which of the following is not an investment expenditure in (b) During 1950–51 (GDP 11-00%) and 2011–12 (GDP 25%)
goods and services? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (c) Durin g 1990–91 (GDP 29-53%) and 2011–12
(a) Purchase of machinery (GDP 66-77%)
(b) An increase in business inventories (d) Durin g 1980–81 (GDP 35-69%) and 2011–12
(c) Expansion of the main plant of a company (GDP 20-69%)
(d) Purchase of a house 58. The principle of maximum social advantage is the basic
51. Which one of the following represents the Savings of the principle of (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
Private Corporate Sector? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (a) Micro Economics
(a) Undistributed profits (b) Macro Economics
(b) Excess of income over expenditure (c) Fiscal Economics
(c) Dividends paid to shareholders (d) Environmental Economics
(d) Total profits of a company 59. Which Five Year Plan is not correct among the following?
52. Social accounting system in India is classified into (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (a) First 1951–56 (b) Second 1956–61
(a) Assets, liabilities and debt position (c) Third 1961–66 (d) Fourth 1966–71
(b) Public sector, Private sector and Joint sector 60. An economic theory is a/an (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(c) Income, product and expenditure (a) Axion (b) Proposition
(d) Enterprise, households and government (c) Hypothesis (d) Tested hypothesis
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(c) 2004 (d) 2006 (c) Input Method (d) Investment Method

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62. According to Marx, the source of value is 74. What does the letter 'e' denotes in the term 'e-banking'?

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(a) Essential Banking (b) Economic Banking
(c) Labour (d) None of the above (c) Electronic Banking (d) Expansion Banking
63. The Community Development Programme was launched in 75. Which among the following is not a Bretton Woods
the year (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) Institution ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(a) 1950 (b) 1952 (a) International Monetary Fund (IMF)
(c) 1951 (d) 1953 (b) World Bank
64. Prof. Milton Friedman was the leader of
(c) Organisaiton of Economic Cooperation an d
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2014) Development (O.E.C.D.)
(a) Ohio school (b) Chicago school
(d) None of these
(c) Cambridge school (d) London school
76. Equilibrium price in the market is determined by the
65. Which one of the following is not a qualitative control of
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
credit by the Central Bank of a country?
(a) equality between total cost and total revenue
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2014)
(b) equality between average cost and average revenue.
(a) Rationing of credit
(b) Regulation of consumer credit (c) equality between marginal cost and marginal revenue
(c) Variation of the reserve ratio (d) equality between marginal cost and average cost.
(d) Regulation of margin requirements 77. In the national context which of the following indicates
66. The market in whcih loans of money can be obtained is Macro Approach ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
called (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2014) (a) Sales of Bata Shoe Company
(a) Reserve market (b) Institutional market (b) Exports of Mangoes to U.K.
(c) Money market (d) Exchange market (c) Income from Railways
67. If the marginal return increases at a diminishing rate, the (d) Inflation in India
total return (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2014) 78. Internal economies (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(a) increases (b) decreases (a) arise in an economy as it makes progress
(c) remains constant (d) becomes zero (b) accrue to a firm when it expands its output
68. The law of Increasing Returns means (c) arise when there is expansion in internal trade
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2014) (d) arise when there is expansion in an industry
(a) increasing cost (b) decreasing cost 79. One of the features of a free market economy is
(c) increasing production (d) increasing income (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
69. Which of the following is the Regulator of the credit rating (a) public ownership of factors of production
agencies in India? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2014) (b) rationing and price control
(a) RBI (b) SBI
(c) consumer's sovereignty
(c) SIDBI (d) SEBI
(d) active state intervention
70. Which is the first Indian Company to be listed in NASDAQ?
80. Gross National Product – Depreciation Allowance = ?
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2014)
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(a) Reliance (b) TCS
(a) Gross Domestic Product
(c) HCL (d) Infosys
(b) Personal Income
71. RRBs are owned by (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2014)
(c) Net National Product
(a) Central Government (b) State Government
(c) Sponsor Bank (d) Jointly by all of the above (d) Per Capita Income
72. The Monetary and Credit Policy is announced by which of 81. The Panchayat Samiti remains accountable for its functions
the following? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2014) to (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(a) Ministry of Finance of Centre (a) The Gram Panchayats and Gram Sabhas
(b) Reserve Bank of India (b) Zilla Parishads
(c) State Bank of India (c) Anchal Panchayats
(d) Planning Commission of India (d) Janpad Panchayats
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82. The one rupee note bears the signature of : (c) NRI deposits

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(a) Governor, Reserver Bank of India 93. Which one of the following is not an instrument of Fiscal

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(b) Finance Minister policy?

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(a) National business for Accounting and Reviewing (d) Public expenditure
(b) National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development 94. In which of the following market forms, a firm does not
(c) National Bank for Aeronautics and Radar Development exercise control over price? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(d) National Bureau for Air and Road Transport (a) Monopoly
84. Surplus budget is recommended during : (b) Perfect competition
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015) (c) Oligopoly
(a) Depression (b) Boom (d) Monopolistic competition
(c) War (d) Famines 95. What is the name of portal launched by RBI recently to
85. Economic profit or normal profit is the same as : check illegal money collection? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015) (a) Sahyog (b) Sahayata
(a) accounting profit (b) optimum profit (c) Sampark (d) Sachet
(c) net profit (d) maximum profit 96. Fiscal policy in India is formulated by?
86. CENVAT is related to which of the following ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) (a) Reserve Bank of India
(a) Sales Tax (b) Excise Duty
(b) Planning Commission
(c) Custom Duty (d) Service Tax
(c) Finance Ministry
87. Malthusian theory is associated with which of the following ?
(d) SEBI
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
97. Open market operation refers to : (SSC CHSL 2012)
(a) Poverty (b) Employment
(a) borrowing by scheduled banks to industry and trade
(c) Diseases (d) Population
(b) purchase and sale of government securities by the rbi
88. Which is the parameter for the economic development ?
(c) deposit mobilisation
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(a) Per capita monetary income (d) borrowing by scheduled banks from the RBI
(b) National income 98. Who are the price-takers under Perfect Competition ?
(c) Per capita rural income (SSC CHSL 2012)
(d) Population (a) industry (b) government
89. A ‘Market Economy’ is one which (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) (c) firms (d) buyers
(a) is controlled by the Government 99. An employment situation where the marginal productivity
(b) is free from the Government control of agricultural labour is zero is known as :
(c) in influenced by international market forces (SSC CHSL 2012)
(d) All of these (a) Seasonal unemployment
90. Regional Rural Banks are sponsored by (b) Cyclical unemployment
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) (c) Disguised unemployment
(a) Nationalised Commercial Bank (d) Disguised unemployment
(b) Reserve Bank of India 100. Which one of the following is a raw material oriented
(c) State Bank of India industry ? (SSC CHSL 2012)
(d) Government of India (a) Sugar industry
91. Who is the Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of (b) Petroleum refinery
India? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) (c) Light engineering industry
(a) Raghu Ram Rajan (b) Arvind Subramanian (d) Ship building
(c) Rajiv Mahirishi (d) Arvind Pangariya 101. The basic object of all production is to (SSC CHSL 2013)
92. Which type of foreign investment is considered as unsafe? (a) increase physical output
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) (b) satisfy human wants
(a) Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) (c) provide employment
(b) Portfolio investment (d) make profits
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102. Inflation is caused by (SSC CHSL 2013)

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(c) increase in money supply (b) a rise in the income of the consumer

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111. Lender of the Last Resort is : (SSC CHSL 2015)
(a) local level (b) within industry (a) IDBI (b) NABARD
(c) national level (d) international level (c) SBI (d) RBI
104. The equilibrium of a firm under perfect competition will be
112. Perfectly inelastic demand is equal to : (SSC CHSL 2015)
determined when (SSC CHSL 2013)
(a) One (b) Zero
(a) Marginal Cost > Average Cost
(c) Infinite (d) Greater than one
(b) Marginal Revenue > Average Cost
113. When price of a substitute of commodity 'x' falls, the demand
(c) Marginal Revenue > Average Revenue
for 'x' (SSC CHSL 2015)
(d) Marginal Revenue = Marginal Cost
(a) remains unchanged
105. Expenditure on advertisement and public relations by an
enterprise is a part of its (SSC CHSL 2013) (b) Increases at increasing rate
(a) fixed capital (c) rises
(b) consumption of fixed capital (d) falls
(c) final consumption expenditure 114. Mixed Economy means : (SSC CHSL 2015)
(d) intermediate consumption (a) Co-existence of public and private sectors
106. Which of the following is not an economic problem ? (b) Co-existence of rich and poor
(SSC CHSL 2014) (c) Co-existence of small and large Industries
(a) Deciding between paid work and leisure. (d) Promoting both agriculture and Industries in the
(b) Deciding between expenditure on one good and the economy
other. 115. By whom was the autonomous investment separated from
(c) Deciding between alternative methods of personal induced investment ? (SSC CHSL 2015)
saving. (a) Malthus (b) Joan Robinson
(d) Deciding between different ways of spending leisure (c) Adam Smith (d) Schumpeter
time. 116. A demand curve will not shift: (SSC CHSL 2015)
107. Which of the following occurs when labour productivity (a) When only prices of substitute products change
rises ? (SSC CHSL 2014) (b) When there is a change in advertisement expenditure
(a) The equilibrium nominal wage falls
(c) When only price of the commodity changes
(b) The equilibrium quantity of labour falls
(d) When only income changes.
(c) Competitive firms will be induced to use more capital
117. The time element in price analysis was introduced by
(d) The labour demand curve shifts to the right
(SSC CHSL 2015)
108. Which of the following are consumer semi-surable goods ?
(a) Alfred Marshall (b) J.S. Mill
(SSC CHSL 2014)
(a) Cars and television sets (c) J.R. Hicks (d) J.M. Keynes
(b) Milk and milk products 118. A camera in the hands of a professional photographer is a
(c) Foodgrains and other food products ___________ good. (SSC Multitasking 2013)
(d) Electrical appliance like fans and electic irons (a) Capital (b) Free
109. Which of the following statements is correct ? (c) Intermediary (d) Consumer
(SSC CHSL 2014) 119. A portion of an individual's total income is spent on
(a) Most workers will work for less then their reservation consumption. The remaining part is called
wage. (SSC Multitasking 2014)
(b) The reservation wage is the maximum amount any firm (a) Savings (b) Deposits
will pay for a worker. (c) Surplus (d) Excess
(c) Economic rent is the difference between the market 120. Phase of increasing returns is otherwise called
wage and the reservation wage. (SSC Multitasking 2014)
(d) Economic rent is the amount one must pay to enter a (a) increasing cost (b) decreasing cost
desirable labour market. (c) increasing revenue (d) decreasing revenue
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121. Monopoly refers to (SSC Multitasking 2014) 128. Which of the following is not a function of the Exim Bank of

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(c) a firm charging different prices to different customers

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(SSC Multitasking 2014) 129. The Social Forestry Scheme was introduced during
(a) Service sector rendering services like banking, (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
transport, etc. which one of the primary importance (a) Fourth Five Year Plan (b) Eighth Five Year Plan
(b) Important enterprises of the manufacturinig sector (c) Second Five Year Plan (d) Sixth Five Year Plan
(c) Indsutrial sector which is of primary importance for 130. Which one of the following iron and steel works in India is
the economy not under public sector? (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
(d) Agriculture and allied activities (a) Bokaro (b) Jamshedpur
123. Liquidity preference theory of interest is propounded by (c) Bhilai (d) Durgapur
(SSC Multitasking 2014) 131. If a firm is operating at loss in the short-period in perfect
combination. it should; (SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
(a) J.S. Mill (b) A. Marshall
(a) decrease the production and the price.
(c) I. Fisher (d) J.M. Keynes
(b) increase the production and the price
124. Which one of the following statements is correct?
(c) continue to operate as long as it covers even the
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
variable costs.
(a) A commodity will value if it is wanted by somebody.
(d) shut-down and leave the industry
(b) A commodity will have value only if it is scarce relative
132. Which of the following is an indirect tax ?
to demand.
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
(c) The value of a commodity depends upon its price.
(a) Capital Gains Tax (b) Excise Duty
(d) The value of a commodity is entirely dependent upon
(c) Wealth Tax (d) Estate Duty
the substitutes.
133. Taxes on professions can be levied by:
125. Which of the following formulae could be used for
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
calculating the per capita income of a country?
(a) State government only
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
(b) both by state and union government
Total familyincome (c) by panchayats only
(a) Number of family members (d) Union government only
134. Which one is not a function of money?
Nationalincome (SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
(b) Total population (a) Transfer of value (b) Store of value
(c) Price stabilisation (d) Value measurement
Totalincomeof various industries
(c) 135. "Closed Economy" means: (SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
Total number of industrial wor kers (a) no provision for public sector
(b) no provision for private sector
TotalGovernment Revenue
(d) (c) economy policy not well defined
Totalpopulation
(d) a country having no imports and exports
126. For controlling inflation, the central bank should 136. At "Break-even point", (SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2012) (a) the industry is in equilibrium in the long-run.
(a) sell Government securities in the open market (b) the producers suffers the minimum losses
(b) lower the bank rate (c) the seller earns maximum profit
(c) purchase Government securities in the open market (d) the firm is at zero-profit point
(d) lower the reserve ratio of the banks 137. In the balance of payments account, unrequited receipts
127. There is no selling cost under (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012) and payments are also regarded as (SSC Sub. Ins. 2014)
(a) Perfect competition (a) bilateral transfers
(b) Monopolistic competition (b) unilateral transfers
(c) Oligopoly (c) capital account transfers
(d) Duopoly (d) invisible transfers
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139. If average cost falls, marginal cost (SSC Sub. Ins. 2014) income and wealth.

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(b) falls at the same rate
(c) increases at a lower rate 147. Demand curve is indeterminate under
(d) falls at a higher rate (SSC Sub. Ins. 2016)
140. Which one of the following disburses long term loans to (a) duopoly (b) monopoly
private industry in India ? (SSC Sub. Ins. 2014) (c) pure competition (d) oligopoly
(a) Food Corporation of India 148. Marginal Revenue is (SSC Sub. Ins. 2016)
(b) Life Insurance Corporation of India (a) Revenue realized on the sale of an extra units.
(c) Primary Credit Society (b) Revenue realized from the sale of all units.
(d) Land Development Banks (c) The average revenue of a firm.
141. A low interest policy is also known as : (d) Revenue realized on every unit sold.
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2015) 149. All economic goods are considered are ................in
economics. (SSC Steno. 2013)
(a) investment policy
(a) Wealth (b) Money
(b) income generating policy
(c) Capital (d) Materials
(c) dear money policy
150. Total demand for goods and services at various levels of
(d) cheap money policy
employment is called as (SSC Steno. 2013)
142. The market equilibrium for a commodity is determined by:
(a) Effective demand (b) National demand
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)
(c) Market Demand (d) Employment demand
(a) the balancing of the forces of demand and supply for
151. Relationship between price of related goods and quantity
the commodity.
of a particular commodity is called as (SSC Steno. 2013)
(b) the intervention of the Government.
(a) Income - demand (b) Market - demand
(c) the market demand of the commodity. (c) Cross - demand (d) Price - demand
(d) the market supply of the commodity. 152. Devaluation means (SSC Steno. 2014)
143. “Economies” of a firm are: (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015) (a) reduction in the external value of currency
(a) an increase in its profits (b) fall in valuation of the essentials in an economy
(b) its dominance of the market (c) depreciation of the fixed assets
(c) saving in its production costs (d) increase in the currency value in terms of foreign
(d) a reduction in its selling expenses currency
144. Regarding money supply situation in India it can be said 153. Disguised unemployment means (SSC Steno. 2014)
that the: (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015) (a) willing to work and not getting the work
(a) Currency with the public is almost equal to the deposits (b) not getting work on all days
with the banks. (c) insufficiency of capital structure to absorb the large
(b) Currency with the public is inconvertible only. force
(c) Currency with the public is more than the deposits (d) more people working, than required
with the banks. 154. The '3 B 's' - brokers, bankers and businessmen were
(d) Currency with the public is less than the deposits with responsible for (SSC Steno. 2014)
the banks. (a) The Great Depression
145. The equilibrium price of a commodity will definitely rise of (b) Russian Revolution
there is a/an: (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015) (c) French Revolution
(a) increase in supply combined with a decrease in (d) First world war
demand. 155. ATM means (SSC Steno. 2014)
(b) increase in demand accompanied by a decrease in (a) All Time Money
supply. (b) Automatic Teller Machine
(c) decrease in both demand and supply. (c) Automated Teller Machine
(d) increase in both demand and supply. (d) Any Time Money
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157. GNP differs from NNP due to (SSC Steno. 2014) 161. One of the following is NOT a component of foreign

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(a) net indirect taxes (b) Direct taxes exchange reserves in India (SSC Steno. 2016)
(c) interest on public debt (d) Depreciation (a) Gold stock of RBI
158. Which one of the following is an example of joint supply? (b) SDR holdings of government
(SSC Steno. 2014) (c) Foreign exchange assets of RBI
(a) Petrol and Bus (d) Foreign exchange assets of government
(b) Ink and Fountain pen 162. The market system in which there are only two buyers facing
(c) Sugar and Coffee a large number of sellers is called (SSC Steno. 2016)
(d) Wool and Cotton (a) monopsony (b) duopsony
159. Who fixes the REPO rate in India ? (SSC Steno. 2016) (c) duopoly (d) oligopoly
(a) WTO - World Trade Organization 163. 'Investing opportunities model' was proposed by
(b) SEBI - Securities and Exchange Board of India (SSC Steno. 2016)
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1. (a) A trade bloc is a type of intergovernmental agreement,
often part of a regional intergovermental organization,
where regional barriers to trade, (tariffs and non-tariff
barriers) are reduced or eliminated among the
participating states.
2. (b) 3. (c)
4. (c) The Reserve Bank of India is India’s central banking
institution, which controls the monetary policy of the
indian rupee. It commenced its operations on 1 April
1935 during the British Rule in accordance with the
provisions of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934.
5. (d) T- bills are issued to meet short-term mismatches in
receipts and expenditure. Bonds of longer maturity
are called dated securities.
6. (d) 7. (b) 8. (d) 9. (b)
10. (b) National income is the total value a country’s final
output of all new goods and services produced in one
year.
11. (b) Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister
(PMEAC) is a non–constitutional, non–permanent and
independent body constituted to give economic advice
to the Government of India, specifically the Prime
Minister. The council serves to highlight key economic
issues facing the country to the government of India
from a neutral viewpoint.
12. (d)
13. (c) A bilateral trade is the exchange of goods between two
countries that facilitates trade and investment by
reducing or eliminating tariffs, import quotas, export
restraints and other trade barriers.
14. (d)
15. (d) Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch was a Norwegian economist
and the co-recipient of the first Nobel Memorial Prize
in Economic Sciences in 1969 (with Jan Tinbergen). He
is known for having founded the discipline of
econometrics, and for coining the widely used term
pair macroeconomics /microeconomics in 1933.
16. (a) 17. (b)
18. (a) Normative economics (as opposed to positive
economics) is a part of economics that expresses value
or normative judgments about economic fairness or
what the outcome of the economy or goals of public
policy ought to be.
19. (c) 20. (c) 21. (d) 22. (c) 23. (d)
24. (b) The act of selling the same article, product under a
single control, at different prices to different buyers is
known as price discrimination. Information on the price
elasticity of demand can be used by business as part
of a policy of price discrimination (also known as yield
management).
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26. (c) The Government of India decide to set up the Rashtriya
Barh Ayog (National Flood Commission) in 1976 to
evolve a coordinated, integrated and scientific
approach to the flood control problems in the country.
27. (d) The concept of a merit good introduced in economics
by Richard Musgrave (1957, 1959) is a commodity
which is judged that an individual or society should
have on the basis of some concept of need, rather
than ability and willingness to pay. Examples include
the provision of food stamps to support nutrition, the
delivery of health services to improve quality of life
and reduce morbidity, subsidized housing and
arguably education.
28. (c) Conspicuous consumption is the purchase of goods
or services for the specific purpose of displaying one's
wealth. It is a means to show ones social status.
29. (b) Alfred Marshall was committed to partial equilibrium
models over general equilibrium on the grounds that
the inherently dynamical nature of economics made
the former more practically useful.
30. (a) These agreements give the right of taxation in respect
of the income of the nature of interest, dividend, royalty
and fees for technical services to the country of
residence. It promotes bilateral trade and investment.
31. (c) Brain drain can be described as the process in which a
country loses its most educated and talented workers
to other countries through migration. The main causes
include seeking employment or higher paying jobs,
political instability and to seek a better quality of life.
32. (a) Demography is the statistical study of human
populations and sub-populations. It encompasses the
study of the size, structure, and distribution of these
populations, and spatial and/or temporal changes in
them in response to birth, migration, aging and death.
33. (c) 34. (a) 35. (d) 36. (d) 37. (c)
38. (c)
39. (b) In order to raise the standards of the banks
internationally, a number of committees were appointed
by RBI. Among them Narasimham committee I (1991),
Narasimham Committee II (1998) and Verma Committee
(1999) were influential in improving international
standards, and led to banking sector reforms, globally
flexible to its deregulation, norms and conditions etc.
The above said committees have basically identified
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40. (c)
41. (c) Here, statement of the question is wrong. The tenure
from 2012 to 2017 is designated as12th Five Year Plan
not 13th Five Year Plan. The tenure of 13th Five-Year
Plan would be 2018 - 2022.
42. (b)
43. (d) In economics, an externality is the cost or benefit that
affects a party who did not choose to incur that cost or
benefit. Economists often urge governments to adopt
policies that "internalize" an externality, so that costs
and benefits will affect mainly parties who choose to
incur them.
44. (c)
45. (a) Functional finance is an economic theory proposed
by Abba P. Lerner, based on effective demand principles
and chartalism. It states that government should
finance itself to meet explicit goals, such as taming the
business cycle, achieving full employment, ensuring
growth, and low inflation.
46. (c)
47. (d) Geographical Indication (GI) means the name of a
region or a locality, a specific place, or, in exceptional
cases, a country, used to describe a product originating
in that region, locality, specific place or country, which
possesses a specific quality, reputation or other
characteristics attributable to that geographical origin,
an d the production and/or processin g and or
preparation of which take place in the defined
geographical area.
48. (c) Gold is mainly related to the international market as of
all the precious metals, it is the most popular as an
investment. Gold has been used throughout history
as money and has been a relative standard for currency
equivalents specifc to economic regions or countries,
until recent times. Gold price has shown a long term
correlation with the price of crude oil.
49. (a) The demand for labour is “derived” from the
production and demand for the product being
demanded. If the demand for the product increases,
either the price will increase or the demand for
production labour will increase until the equilibrium
price and production numbers are met.
50. (d) Investment expenditure refers to the expenditure
incurred either by an individual or a firm or the
government for the creation of new capital assets like
machinery, building etc. The purchase of house cannot
be considered as investment exienditure as it may be for
personal use.
51. (a) For private corporate sector, retained profits adjusted
for non operating surplus/ deficit is considered as its
Net Saving. Retained profits are those which are
ploughed back into business after making
commitments to depreciation provision for various
fixed assets, debts, government and to share-holders.
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54. (a) Bank's reserves at Central Bank
55. (a) Interest rate is remaining sticky
56. (c) Sells a commodity at lower price in the world market
and charges a higher price in the domestic market
57. (a) 58. (c) 59. (d) 60. (b) 61. (d)
62. (c) 63. (b)
64. (b) Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912 - November 16, 2006)
was an American economist, statistician, and writer
who taught at the University of Chicago for more than
three decades. He was a recipient of the 1976 Nobel
Prize in Economic Sciences, and is known for his
research on consumption analysis, monetary history
and theory, and the complexity of stabilization policy.
65. (c) The qualitative or selective methods of credit control
are adopted by the Reserve Bank in its pursuit of
economic stabilization an d as part of credit
management. The four important methods are Margin
Requirements, Credit Rationing, Regulation of
Consumer Credit, Moral Suasion.
66. (c) A segment of the financial market in which financial
instruments with high liquidity and very short
maturities are traded. The money market is used by
participants as a means for borrowing and lending in
the short term, from several days to just under a year.
67. (a) In economics, diminishing returns (also called law of
diminishing returns, law of variable proportions,
principle of diminishing marginal productivity, or
diminishing marginal returns is the decrease in the
marginal (incremental) output of a production process
as the amount of a single factor of production is
incrementally increased, while the amounts of all other
factors of production stay constant.
68. (b) The law of increasing returns is the opposite of the law
of decreasing returns. Where the law of diminishing
returns operates, every additional investment of capital
and labour yields less than proportionate returns. But,
in the case of the law of increasing returns, the return
is more than proportionate.
69. (d) The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is
the regulator for the securities market in India. It was
established in the year 1988 and given statutory powers
on 12 April 1992 through the SEBI Act, 1992.
70. (d) Infosys Ltd is an Indian multinational corporation that
provides business consulting, information technology,
software engineering and outsourcing services. It is
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71. (d) Regional Rural Banks are local level banking
organizations operating in different States of India.
They have been created with a view to serve primarily
the rural areas of India with basic banking and financial
services. The main purpose of RRB's is to mobilize
financial resources from rural / semi-urban areas and
grant loans and advances mostly to small and marginal
farmers, agricultural labourers and rural artisans.
72. (b) The Reserve Bank of India is India's Central Banking
Institution, which controls the Monetary Policy of the
Indian Rupee. It commenced its operations on 1 April
1935 during the British Rule in accordance with the
provisions of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934.
73. (d) The national income of a country can be measured by
three alternative methods: (i) Product Method (ii)
Income Method, and (iii) Expenditure Method.
74. (c) For many people, electronic banking means 24-hour
access to cash through an automated teller machine
(ATM) or Direct Deposit of paychecks into checking
or savings accounts. But electronic banking involves
many different types of transactions, rights,
responsibilities - and sometimes, fees.
75. (c) The Bretton Woods Institutions are the World Bank,
and theInternational Monetary Fund (IMF). They were
set up at a meeting of 43 countries in Bretton Woods,
New Hampshire, USA in July 1944.
76. (c) The price and output under monopoly are determined
by equality between marginal cost and marginal
revenue and not by the intersection of demand and
supply curves.
77. (d) Macroeconomics is a branch of economics dealing with
the performance, structure, behavior, and decision-
making of an economy as a whole, rather than individual
markets. Macroeconomists develop models that explain
the relationship between such factors as national income,
output, consumption, unemployment, inflation etc.
78. (d) Internal economies arise within the firm because of the
expansion of the size of a particular firm. They are called
the economies of scale.
79. (c) In a free market economy there is a freedom of choice
for the consumers to buy goods and services which
suit their tastes and preferences. This is generally called
the principle of consumer sovereignty. This means in
a market economy the consumers are just like a king or
sovereign who dictate what goods and services and
what quantities of them are produced.
80. (c) Net national product (NNP) refers to gross national
product (GNP), i.e. the total market value of all final
goods and servicesproduced by the factors of
production of a country or other polity during a given
time period, minus depreciation.
NNP = GNP – Depreciation
81. (b) Zilla Parishad is the apex body of the PR(Panchayati
Raj) system located at the district level. Chairpersons/
Presidents of Panchayat Samitis come within its
jurisdiction.
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84. (b) Surplus budget is the order of the economies in boom
time.
85. (b) Economic profit is the difference between total revenue
and total opportunity cost. If a firm's total opportunity
cost is less than the total revenues then the firm is
making economic profit. If a firm's total opportunity
cost is greater than the total revenues then the firm is
making economic losses. It is similar to optimum profit.
86. (c) Concept relating to Central Excise Duty and Service
Tax:- For. a proper understanding what is CENVAT,
some basic knowledge about Central Excise duty,
Service Tax etc, is necessary.
87. (d) 88. (b) 89. (b) 90. (a) 91. (b)
92. (b)
93. (a) The major instruments of fiscal policy are as follows:
A. Budget B. Taxation C. Public Expenditure D. Public
Works E. Public Debt.
94. (b)
95. (d) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor,
RaghuramRajan, on 4 August 2016 launched Sachet
portal, sachet.rbi.org.in, tocheck illegal money
collection.
96. (c) 97. (b) 98. (c) 99. (c) 100. (a)
101. (b) The basic object of all production is to satisfy human
wants. In terms of Economics, satisfaction of human
wants comes first, second comes the provision of
employment, third comes the profit motive and at last
comes the increase of physical outputs.
102. (b) Inflation is caused by increase in money supply and
decrease in production. In economics, inflation is a
sustained increase in the general price level of goods
and services in an economy over a period of time. It
can be defined as too much money chasing too few
goods. When the general price level rises, each unit
of currency buys fewer goods and services.
103. (d) Dumping is a form of price discrimination at the
international level.In economics, "dumping" is a kind
of predatory pricing, especially in the context of
international trade. It occurs when manufacturers
export a product to another country at a price either
below the price charged in its home market or below
its cost of production.
104. (d) The equilibrium of a firm under perfect competition
will be determined when marginal revenue equals
marginal cost. In the short run, perfectly-competitive
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(MC=AC). They are allocatively efficient, as output
will always occur where marginal cost is equal to
marginal revenue (MC=MR).
105. (d) Expenditure on advertisement and public relation by
an enterprise is a part of its intermediate consumption.
Visibility through advertising and promotion builds
an enterprise' reputation with the customer. Although
most advertising is through word of mouth, that word
of mouth starts with awareness that customers have
gained about the enterprise through their advertising
and promotions.
106. (d) Deciding between different ways of spending leisure
time is not an economic problem.
107. (d) When labour productivity rises, the labour demand
curve shifts to the right. As the productivity increases,
the production function shifts up and simultaneously
the labour demand curve shifts out and right. At a
given real wage, more workers are hired and output
increases.
108. (c) Semi durable consumer goods are products with
durability of about one year. E.g., food grains and food
products.
109. (c) Economic rent is the difference between the market
wage and the reservation wage.
110. (a) Other things being equal, a decrease in quantity
demanded of a commodity can be caused by a rise in
the price of the commodity.
111. (d) As a Banker to Banks, the Reserve Bank of India acts
as the “lender of the last resort”.
112. (b) When the price elasticity of demand for a good is
perfectly inelastic i.e. Ed = 0.
113. (d) It is because demand for goods which have substitutes
is more elastic because when price of a substitute falls
in relation to its commodity, the demand for the
commodity also falls.
114. (a) Mixed economy means an economic system in which
both the private enterprise and a degree of state
monopoly (usually in public services, defense,
infrastructure, and basic industries) coexist.
115. (d) 116. (b)
117. (a) Alfred Marshall Propounded the theory that price is
determined by both demand and supply and also gave
great importance to the time element in the
determination of price.
118. (a) Camera is a capital for a photographer because he earns
his livelihood as it is his occupation
119. (a) If a portion of individuals income is spent on
consumption, the remaining portion will be saving.
Since whatever is not consumed must be saved, as
soon as we specify a consumption function we have
necessarily specified a savings function. "Function"
just means that one thing depends on another thing or
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122. (d) The primary sector of the economy is the sector of an
economy making direct use of natural resources. This
includes agriculture, forestry, fishing and mining. This
is contrasted with the secondary sector, producing
manufactured goods, and the tertiary sector, producing
services.
123. (d) J.M. Keynes propounded what has come to be known
as the liquidity preference theory of interest. According
to this theory, the rate of interest is determined by the
demand for and supply of money.
124. (b)
125. (b) Per capita income, more simply known as income per
person, is the mean income within an economic
aggregate such as a country or city. It is calculated by
taking a measure of all sources of income in the
aggregate (such as GDP or Gross national income) and
dividing it by the total population.
126. (a) The Central Bank can use various different methods
for reducing inflation. To control inflation, central bank
sells the government securities to the public through
the banks. This results in transfer of a part of bank
deposits to central bank account and reduces credit
creation capacity of the commercial banks.
127. (a) In perfect competition, there must be large number of
buyers and sellers. According to Scitovsky buyers and
sellers are price takers in the purely competitive market.
Each seller (or firm) sells its products at the price
determined by the market. Similarly, each buyer buys
the commodity at the price determined by the market.
128. (b)
129. (d) Social forestry means the management and protection
of forests and afforestation on barren lands with the
purpose of helping in the environmental, social and
rural development. This scheme was introduced in Sixth
Five Year Plan.
130. (b) At present all important steel plants except TISCO (Tata
Iron and Steel co. Ltd) which is located in Jamshedpur
are under public sector.
131. (c) The situation when a firm is operating at loss in the
short period in perfect competition arises when the
price is so low that total revenue is not even enough to
cover the variable cost of production. Shut down point
is that point at which the price is equal to average
variable costs or the firm covers its variable costs. So
it should operate as long as it covers even the variable
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132. (b) Some examples of indirect taxes include value added
tax, excise duty, sales tax, stamp duty and custom duty
levied on imports. These are taxes levied by the state
on expenditure and consumption, but not on property
or income.
133. (a) In India, the professional tax is imposed at the state
level. However, not all the states impose this tax.
Business owners, working individuals, merchants and
people carrying out various occupations comes under
the purview of this tax. Professional tax is levied by
particular Municipal Corporations.
134. (c) Generally, economists have defined four types of
functions of money which are as follows: (i) Medium
of exchange (transfer of value) (ii) Measurement of
value. (iii) Standard of deferred payments. and (iv) Store
of value. Price stabilization is a function of monetary
policy.
135. (d) Closed economy is an economy in which no activity is
conducted with outside economies. A closed economy
is self-sufficient, meaning that no imports are brought
in and no exports are sent out. The goal is to provide
consumers with everything that they need from within
the economy's borders.
136. (d) The break-even point (BEP) is the point at which cost
or expenses and revenue are equal: there is no net loss
or gain, and one has "broken even." For businesses,
reaching the break-even point is the first major step
towards profitability.
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decrease of the output of a single seller has no effect
on the total supply and market place.
139. (b) Marginal cost and average cost curves are related. If
average costs falls, marginal cost falls at the same rate.
140. (d) Land development bank (LDB) disburses long term
loans to private industry in India.The main objective
of the LDB is to promote the development of land,
agriculture and increase the agricultural production.
The LDB provides long-term finance to members
directly through its branches
141. (d) Cheap Money policy is a monetary policy through
which a bank sets low interest rates so that credit is
easily achievable.
142. (a) Market equilibrium is a market state where the supply
in the market is equal to the demand in the market.
143. (d) 144. (d) 145. (b) 146. (d) 147. (d)
148. (a) 149. (d) 150. (c) 151. (c) 152. (a)
153. (b) 154. (a) 155. (c) 156. (a) 157. (d)
158. (d) 159. (c) 160. (a) 161. (c) 162. (c)
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(a) real and erect (b) virtual and erect (a) Respiration (b) Photosynthesis
(c) real and inverted (d) virtual and inverted (c) Ingestion (d) Absorption
2. A vitamin requires cobalt for its activity. The vitamin is 12. Animals living in the three trunks are known as
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(a) Vitamin B12 (b) Vitamin D (a) Arboreal (b) Volant
(c) Vitamin B2 (d) Vitamin A (c) Amphibious (d) Aquatic
3. One of the constituents of tear gas is 13. In input frequency of a full wave rectifier be n, then output
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(b) Volume stress to volume strain (c) (d) 2n
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(c) shearing stress to shearing strain
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(d) tensile stress to tensile strain
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(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) (a) Conduction (b) Convection
(a) adiabatic compression and refraction (c) Absorption (d) Advection
(b) isothermal compression and rarefaction 15. Noise is measured in (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010)
(c) isochoric compression and rarefaction (a) Watt (b) REM
(d) isobaric compression and rarefaction (c) Centigrade (d) Decibel
6. An stomic clock is based on transitions in 16. The bats can fly in the dark because
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(a) Sodium (b) Caesium (a) they can see the objects in darkness
(c) Magnesium (d) Aluminium (b) they have weak legs and are likely to be attacked by
7. Plasma membrane in eukaryotic celle is made up of predators
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(c) they generate flashes of light
(a) Phospholipid (b) Lipoprotein
(d) they generate ultrasonic sound waves
(c) Phospholpo-protein (d) Phospho-protein
17. What changes will happen to a bow of ice and water kept at
8. Which one of the following is also called the 'power plants'
of the cell ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) exactly zero degree Celsius? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010)
(a) Golgi body (b) Mitochondrion (a) All ice will melt
(c) Ribosome (d) Lysosome (b) All water will become ice
9. What is the chemical name of vinegar ? (c) No change will happen
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) (d) Only some ice will melt.
(a) Citric acid (b) Acetic acid 18. The art and science of map making is called
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10. Which of the following is not a property of heavy water ? (a) Remote Sensing (b) Cartography
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(c) to convert static friction into kinetic friction
(a) U-235 (b) U-238
(d) just for convenience
(c) U-234 (d) U-236
35. 'Shock–absorbers' are usually made of steel as it:
23. The acceleration due to gravity at the equator
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010) (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
(a) is less than that at the poles (a) is not brittle
(b) is greater than that at the poles (b) has lower elasticity
(c) is equal to that at the poles (c) has higher elasticity
(d) does not depend on the earth's centripetal acceleration (d) has no ductile property
24. Which of the following is not a nucleon ? 36. Which of the following could be used as fuel in propellant or
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010) rockets? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
(a) Proton (b) Neutron (a) Liquid Hydrogen + Liquid Nitrogen
(c) Electron (d) Positron (b) Liquid Oxygen + Liquid Argon
25. The material used in the manufacture of lead pencil is (c) Liquid Nitrogen + Liquid Oxygen
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010) (d) Liquid Hydrogen + Liquid Oxygen
(a) Graphite (b) Lead 37. The addition of gypsum to portland cement helps in:
(c) Carbon (d) Mica (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
26. Angle of friction and angle of repose are (a) increasing the strength of cement
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010) (b) rapid setting of cement
(a) equal to each other (c) preventing rapid setting of cement
(b) not equal to each other (d) reduction in the cost of cement
(c) proportional to each other 38. White lung disease is prevalent among the workers of:
(d) None of the above (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
27. What happens to a person who receives the wrong type of (a) Paper industry (b) Cement industry
blood? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010)
(c) Cotton industry (d) Pesticide industry
(a) All the arteries constrict
39. lodoform is used as an: (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
(b) All the arteries dialates
(a) antipyretic (b) analgesic
(c) The RBCs agglutinate
(c) antiseptic (d) anaesthetic
(d) The spleen and lymphnodes deteriorate
40. An artificial ecosystem is represented by:
28. If all bullets could not be removed from gun shot injury of a
man, it may cause poisoning by (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010) (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
(a) Mercury (b) Lead (a) pisciculture tank (b) agricultural land
(c) Iron (d) Arsenic (c) zoo (d) aquarium
29. Ringworm is a ................ disease. (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010) 41. The constituents of automobile exhaust that can cause
(a) Bacterial (b) Protozoan cancer is are: (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
(c) Viral (d) Fungal (a) Oxides of nitrogen
30. Pituitary gland is situated in (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010) (b) Carbon monoxide
(a) the base of the heart (c) Polycyclic hydrocarbons
(b) the base of the brain (d) Lead
(c) the neck 42. The optimum dissolved oxygen level (in mg/litre) required
(d) the abdomen for survival of aquatic organisms is:
31. Saliva helps in the digestion of: (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011) (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
(a) Fats (b) Starch (a) 4 – 6 (b) 2 – 4
(c) Proteins (d) Vitamins (c) 8 – 10 (d) 12 – 16
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(b) Sir Alexander Fleming (a) Pyrex glass (b) Flint glass
(c) Edward Jenner (c) Ordinary glass (d) Cobalt glass
(d) Louis Pasteur 58. The element which is used for vulcanizing rubber
45. BT seed is associated with (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011) (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011)
(a) Rice (b) Wheat (a) Sulphur (b) Bromine
(c) Cotton (d) Oil seeds (c) Silicon (d) Phosphorus
46. Which one of the following minerals is found in Monazite 59. Which of the following is responsible for the extra strength
sand? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011) of pyrex glass? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011)
(a) Potassium (b) Uranium (a) Potassium Carbonate (b) Lead Oxide
(c) Thorium (d) Sodium (c) Borax (d) Ferric Oxide
47. In coriander, the useful parts are (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011) 60. The noble gas used for the treatment of cancer is
(a) roots & leaves (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011)
(b) leaves & flowers (a) Helium (b) Argon
(c) leaves & dried fruits (c) Krypton (d) Radon
(d) flowers & dried fruits 61. Fertilization occurs normally in the
48. Which plant is called Herbal Indian Doctor? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011) (a) Cervix (b) Vagina
(a) Amla (b) Mango (c) Fallopian tube (d) Uterus
(c) Neem (d) Tulsi 62. People consuming alcohol in heavy quantities generally die of
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
49. The pH of human blood is (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011)
(a) liver or stomach cancer
(a) 7.2 (b) 7.8
(b) weakening of heart muscles leading to cardiac arrest
(c) 6.6 (d) 7.4
(c) blood cancer
50. Which amongst the following is largest endocrine gland in
(d) Cirrhosis
the body? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011)
63. The organisms at the base of the grazing food-chain are
(a) Thyroid (b) Parathyroid
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(c) Adrenal (d) Pituitary
(a) Carnivores (b) Decomposers
51. Which amongst the following is the largest mammal?
(c) Producers (d) Herbivores
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011)
64. The mass of 10 moles of water is (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(a) Elephant (b) Whale
(a) 90 g (b) 45 g
(c) Dinosaur (d) Rhinoceros
(c) 18 g (d) 180 g
52. Which part becomes modified as the tusk of elephant? 65. Vitamin A is rich in (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011) (a) Carrot (b) Lime
(a) Canine (b) Premolar (c) Beans (d) Rice
(c) Second incisor (d) Molar 66. The high boiling point of water compared to hydrogen
53. Optical fibres are based on the phenomenon of sulphide or hydrogen chloride is due to
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011) (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(a) Interference (a) Dipole insulation
(b) Dispersion (b) Van der Waal's attraction
(c) Diffraction (c) Polar covalent bonding
(d) Total Internal Reflection (d) Hydrogen bonding
54. Now–a–days yellow lamps are frequently used as street 67. Which of the following determines the chemical properties
lights. Which of the following gases is used in these lamps? of an element? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011) (a) Number of electrons
(a) Sodium (b) Neon (b) Number of neutrons
(c) Hydrogen (d) Nitrogen (c) Number of protons
55. 'Mirage' is an example of (d) All of the above
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011) 68. 'Lumen' is the unit of (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(a) refraction of light only (a) Illuminance (b) Brightness
(b) total internal reflection of light only (c) Luminous flux (d) Luminous intensity
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69. Which one of the following forces is a 'dissipative force'? 83. We receive sunlight on earth surface. What type of light

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70. If a resistive wire is elongated, its resistance 84. Polar-bears hold cures for:

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(c) increases (d) All of the above 85. Which colour/colours of light has the highest velocity
71. If a magnet has a third pole, then the third pole is called through vacuum? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (a) Blue (b) Red
(a) defective pole (b) consequent pole (c) Green (d) All of the above
(c) extra pole (d) arbirary pole 86. The ultimate source of energy in a hydroelectric power
72. The sweet taste of fruits is due to (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) station is: (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
(a) Lactose (b) Fructose (a) solar energy
(c) Maltose (d) Ribose (b) the potential energy of water
73. Which is NOT a correct statement? (c) the kinetic energy of water
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) (d) the electro-chemical energy of water
(a) Phenols are acidic 87. The disease that kills more people than lung cancer as a
(b) In benzene all the atoms lie in one plane consequence of air pollution is: (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
(c) Methylated spirit contains only methanol (a) chronic bronchitis (b) asthma
(d) Dilute solutions contain less amount of solute (c) emphesema (d) heart attack
74. The infective stage of Malaria is: 88. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched?
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
(a) Gametocyte (b) Ring stage (a) Milk of lime–sodium sulphate
(c) Sporozoite (d) Merozoite (b) Glauber’s salt–calcium sulphate
75. Which of the following is meant for the ex-situ conservation (c) Salt petre–potassium nitrate
of various species? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) (d) Gypsum–calcium hydroxide
(a) Sperm bank (b) Blood bank 89. ‘Eutrophication’ is associated with
(c) Germplasm bank (d) Herbarium (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
76. An algae type ocean deposit is: (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) (a) Nitrates and Phosphates
(a) Neritic remains (b) Diatom Ooze (b) Sewage
(c) Pteropod Ooze (d) Pelagic deposits (c) Silt load
77. Photosynthetic vesicle found in bacteria is called a: (d) Vegetation
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) 90. The best way to maintain a natural equilibrium between the
(a) Mesosome (b) Chromatophore pest and predator is by using (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(c) Genophore (d) Pneumatophore (a) insecticides (b) biological control
78. What type of mirror is used in a view finding mirror of a (c) pesticides (d) herbicides
vehicle? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) 91. ‘Dry ice’ is the condensed form of
(a) Convex mirror (b) Plane mirror (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(c) Concave mirror (d) Paraboloidal mirror (a) sulphur tri-oxide
79. Pyroligneous acid obtained from wood contains: (b) carbon dioxide
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) (c) highly cooled water
(a) 10% Formaldehyde (b) 10% Acetic acid (d) oxygen
(c) 10% Formic acid (d) 10% ethanol 92. The materials which are strongly attracted by magnet are
80. Union Carbide India Ltd. manufactured essentially: called (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) (a) ferro-magnetic substances
(a) Heavy water (b) Petrochemicals (b) universal substances
(c) Fertilizers (d) Leather goods (c) para-magnetic substances
81. Drying oils contain a fairly large proportion of: (d) dia-magnetic substances
(a) Unsaturaled fatty acids (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
93. In a pin-hole camera, we usually get
(b) Fats
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(c) Proteins
(a) erect impression (b) inverted impression
(d) Saturated fatty acids
(c) erect image (d) inverted image
82. The red, orange and yellow colours of leaves are due to:
94. What happens to the kinetic energy of gas molecules with
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
rise of temperature ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(a) Carotenoids (b) Aldehydes
(a) Remains same (b) Fluctuates
(c) Tannins (d) Lignins
(c) Increases (d) Decreases
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95. The sex of a child is determined (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) 108. During respiration, the gases enter into the blood and leave

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(a) Decomposers (b) Predators (a) Cardiac muscle (b) Involuntary muscle
(c) Producers (d) Consumers (c) Voluntary muscle (d) Smooth muscle
97. Which one of these primates is closest to the modern man? 110. The soil salinity is measured by (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (a) Conductivity meter (b) Hygrometer
(a) Orang-utan (b) Chimpanzee (c) Psychrometer (d) Auxanometer
(c) Gorilla (d) Gibbon 111. Which of the following is a fungal disease?
98. A gram of fertile agricultural soil may contain bacteria upto (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (a) Leucoderma (b) Eczema
(a) five million (c) Ringworm (d) Elephantiasis
(b) one billion and above 112. Chickenpox is caused by (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
(c) fifty thousand (a) DNA virus (b) Variola virus
(d) five hundred thousand (c) Streptococcus (d) Vibrio cholerae
99. A reduction reaction involves (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) 113. Instruments can be shielded from outside magnetic effects
(a) addition of oxygen by surrounding them with (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
(b) addition of nitrogen (a) Iron shield (b) Rubber shield
(c) addition of hydrogen (c) Brass shield (d) Glass shield
(d) None of the above 114. Find the odd one. (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
100. An antiknock for petrol is (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (a) Marble (b) Chalk
(a) Sodium hydroxide (b) Ethanol (c) Limestone (d) Slaked lime
(c) Sodium benzoate (d) Lead tetraethyl 115. The following is a pseudo-force: (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
101. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched ? (a) Centrepetal force
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (b) Centrifugal reaction force
(a) Vitamin C - Scurvy (c) Centrifugal force
(b) Vitamin K - Clotting of blood (d) Strong nuclear force
(c) Vitamin A - Night blindness 116. The hydraulic brake used in automobiles is a direct
(d) Vitamin E - Rickets application of (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
102. The fibre that will yield ammonia when destructively distilled (a) Archimedes’ principle
is (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (b) Torricellean law
(a) Wool (b) Cellulose acetate (c) Bernoulli’s Theorem
(c) Cotton (d) Silk (d) Pascal’s law
103. During respiration, energy is derived from 117. Amides can be converted to amines by the reaction named
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
(a) ATP (b) Chlorophyll (a) Perkin (b) Claisen
(c) RNA (d) DNA (c) Hoffman (d) Clemmesen
104. When was a global network of daily temperature records 118. The base used as an antacid is (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
created ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (a) Calcium hydroxide
(a) Around 1890 (b) Around 1920 (b) Barium hydroxide
(c) Around 1800 (d) Around 1850 (c) Magnesium hydroxide
105. Sex hormones are (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (d) Silver hydroxide
(a) Vitamins (b) Alkanes 119. A process which is not helpful in the prevention of rusting
(c) Carbohydrates (d) Steroids of iron is (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
106. A form of condensation that reduces visibility and causes (a) annealing (b) applying grease
breathing problems is (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) (c) galvanising (d) painting
(a) Dew (b) Frost 120. Denatured alcohol (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
(c) Smog (d) Mist (a) is a form of alcohol
107. Green glands are associated with (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) (b) is unfit for drinking as it contains poisonous substances
(a) Reproduction (b) Excretion (c) contains coloured impurities
(c) Respiration (d) Digestion (d) is sweet to taste
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121. Phenolics as pollutants can be removed from waste water 132. The disease that has been eradicated from the world, is :

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(c) Reverse osmosis method 133. In dicots the pollen grains possess :

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122. The stability of a pond ecosystem depends on (a) one germ pore (b) two germ pores

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(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) (c) three germ pores (d) four germ pores
(a) micro-organisms and fishes 134. 'Farad' is the unit of : (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(b) micro-organisms and zoo planktons (a) Conductnce (b) Capacitance
(c) fishes and reptiles (c) Inductance (d) Resistance
(d) producers and consumers 135. Steel is more elasitc than rubber because it :
123. Supersonic air planes create a shock wave called (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) (a) is harder than rubber
(a) Transition wave (b) Ultrasound (b) requires larger deforming force
(c) Transverse wave (d) Sonic boom (c) is never deformed
124. The danger signals are red while the eye is more sensitive to (d) is deformed very easily
yellow because (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) 136. Identify the old term amongst the following group :
(a) absorption in red is less than yellow and hence red is (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
visible from a distance (a) Coaxial cable (b) Optical fibre
(b) scattering in yellow light is less than red (c) Twisted pair wire (d) Microwaves
(c) the wavelength of red light is more than yellow light 137. Stains of rust on clothes can be removed by :
(d) none of the above reasons (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
125. Transboundary pollution (or) Acid rain is caused by : (a) H2O2 (b) Oxalic acid
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (c) Petrol (d) Alcohol
(a) Nitrogen oxide and sulphur dioxide 138. The percentage of nitrogen present in ammonium sulphate
(b) Carbon monoxide is : (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(c) Carbon dioxide (a) 18% (b) 21%
(d) Hydrocarbon (c) 25% (d) 30.5%
126. Which of the following is an endemic species? 139. Ethanol containing 5% water is known as :
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(a) Nicobar pigeon (b) Horn bill (a) Absolute alcohol (b) Dilute alcohol
(c) Indian Rhino (d) Pink head duck (c) Power alcohol (d) Rectified spirit
127. The natural disaster in which carbon-di-oxide suddenly 140. The hormone used as an oral contraceptive is :
erupts from a deep lake water is known as __________. (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (a) Aldesterone (b) Cortisone
(a) Liminic (b) Lacaustrine (c) Progesterone (d) Testosterone
(c) Fluvial (d) Glacial 141. Expand the term IPCC: (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
128. Blood group was discovered by : (a) International Pollution Control Council
(a) Alexander Fleming (b) William Harvey (b) International Panel of Climate Control
(c) Landsteiner (d) Pavlov (c) Interim Panel of Climate Change
129. Pick out the correct match : (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (d) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(a) Egg yolk Protein and Fat 142. Acceptable "Noise Pollution Level" in India range between:
(b) Fleshy foods Calcium and Protein (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(c) Fish Starch and Vitamin (a) 10-15 dec (b) 16-35 dec
(d) Milk Fibre and Minerals (c) 40-45 dec (d) 70-100 dec
130. Blood is a : (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) 143. Endosulfan spray on cashew crop resulted in the pollution
(a) reproductive tissue (b) connective tissue to the tune of tragedy in : (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(c) epithelial tissue (d) muscular tissue (a) Tamil Nadu (b) Kerala
131. DPT vaccine is administered to prevent diseases like : (c) Andhra Pradesh (d) Karnataka
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) 144. Hypothensmia occurs due to loss of excessive heat from
(a) Diphtheria, Pertussis and Typhoid body due to sudden low body temperature in :
(b) Diphtheria, Pertussis and Tetanus (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(c) Dengue, Pertussis and Typhoid (a) Snakes (b) Frogs
(d) Dengue, Polio and Tetanus (c) Human beings (d) Lizards
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(a) electron (d) proton (c) Pituitary (d) Adrenals
(c) neutron (d) hydrogen nucleus 159. The seat of intelligence is situated in the
147. A television channel is characterised by (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013) (a) cerebrum (b) cerebellum
(a) frequency of transmitted signal (c) medulla (d) thalamus
(b) velocity of transmitted signal 160. What is the Normal Blood Volume in human adult?
(c) physical dimension of television screen (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
(d) size of picture tube (a) One litre (b) Three litres
148. The density of water is 1 g/cc. This is strictly valid at (c) Five litres (d) Seven litres
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013) 161. The fasting blood glucose level in adults in mg/100 ml is
(a) 0°C (b) 4°C (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
(c) 25°C (d) 100°C (a) 200 (b) 160
149. The process of photosynthesis involves conversion of (c) 100 (d) 60
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013) 162. Entomology is the study of (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
(a) chemical energy into radiant energy (a) Birds (b) Insects
(b) chemical energy into mechanical energy (c) Fossils (d) Fungi
(c) solar energy into chemical energy 163. Exobiology is a science that deals with
(d) mechanical energy into solar energy (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
(a) extinct forms
150. A colloidal system in which a liquid is dispersed in a liquid
(b) life in other planets
is called. (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
(c) life in the outer space
(a) gel (b) emulsion
(d) life in marine habitat
(c) sol (d) precipitate
164. In radio-communication, the signals emitted by transmitting
151. The antiseptic compound present in dettol is
antenna are reflected on (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
(a) stratosphere (b) ozonosphere
(a) Iodine (b) Enloroxylenol
(c) ionosphere (d) troposphere
(c) Biothional (d) Cresol
165. Tiny marine animals which constitute limestone skeletons
152. Genomic (DNA) studies in camel have been completed
are called (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
recently by the scientists of (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
(a) Coral reefs (b) Diatoms
(a) South Africa (b) India
(c) Clamitomonous (d) Foraminifera
(c) China (d) Pakistan
166. Which of the following plant pigments absorbs in red and
153. Air quality depicting PM 2.5 is more hazardous to
far-red region of light? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
(a) Phytochrome (b) Cryptochrome
(a) Archaeological Monuments (c) Carotenoide (d) Chlorophyll
(b) National Parks 167. The process through which excess of light energy is
(c) Botanical Gardens dissipated in photosynthesis is known as
(d) Old Men and Women (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
154. Piped Natural Gas (PNG) is used for (a) Photolysis (b) Photophosphorylation
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013) (c) Quenching (d) Scavenging
(a) Mining (b) Welding 168. AIDS virus destroys (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(c) Anaesthesia (d) Cooking (a) Neutrophils (b) Basophils
155. Greenpark Stadium is in (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013) (c) Lymphocytes (d) Monocytes
(a) Bengaluru (b) Dehradun 169. The device used for measuring the wavelength of X-rays is
(c) Chandigarh (d) Kanpur (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
156. Which of the following is an endangered species? (a) Bragg Spectrometer
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013) (b) Mass Spectrometer
(a) Black buck (b) Blue sheep (c) G. M. Counter
(c) Gangetic dolphin (d) Mithun (d) Cyclotron
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(c) Calcium (d) Fluorine (a) Grit chamber (b) Detritus tank
172. The type of tail found in Shark is (c) Skimming tank (d) Trickling filter
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) 185. The most affected sulphur containing amino acid by PAN is
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(a) Heterocercal (b) Diphycercal
(a) Cysteine (b) Methonine
(c) Protocercal (d) Homocercal
(c) Proline (d) Globuline
173. The Sigmoid Colon is part of (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
186. Which of the following has zero electron affinity ?
(a) Large Intestine (b) Ileum
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(c) Small Intestine (d) Anal Canal (a) Oxygen (b) Fluorine
174. A good conductor while carrying current is (c) Nitrogen (d) Neon
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) 187. The human body’s largest blood vessel is
(a) positively charged (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(b) electrically neutral (a) Pulmonary artery (b) Aorta
(c) alternately charged positive and negative (c) Renal artery (d) Coronary artery
(d) negatively charged 188. In human body, which one of the following hormones regulates
175. Coating of solid waste with imperviouos material is known blood calcium and phosphate ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
as (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (a) Glucagon
(a) Landfill (b) Capping (b) Growth hormone
(c) Encapsulation (d) Chemical fixation (c) Parathyroid hormone
176. Ultraviolet rays can be used in water treatment as (d) Thyroxine
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) 189. How do most insects respire ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(a) Hydrolyser (b) Disinfectant (a) Through skin (b) Through gills
(c) By tracheal system (d) By lungs
(c) Flocculator (d) Precipitator
190. In nuclear reactions, there is conservation of
177. Thiamidine dimer formation in DNA is caused by
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(a) mass only (b) momentum only
(a) b and g-rays (b) UV-rays (c) energy only (d) mass, energy and momentum
(c) IR-rays (d) X-rays 191. When a particle and an antiparticle come in contact with
178. Silicone is a polymer of (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) each other, they (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(a) Dialkyl dichloro silane (a) repell each other (b) annihilate each other
(b) Silane (c) go undisturbed (d) spin about a common axis
(c) Tetraalkyl silane 192. Photoelectric effect is (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(d) Silicon tetrachloride (a) an instantaneous process
179. Which is a natural colloid? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (b) delayed process
(a) Cane-sugar (b) Blood (c) emission of protons
(c) Sodium chloride (d) Urea (d) emission of neutrons
180. Which one of the following does not contain Silver? 193. For a particle moving with a constant speed along a straight
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) line PQ, the hodograph is (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(a) German Silver (b) Horn Silver (a) a straight line parallel to PQ
(c) Ruby Silver (d) Lunar Caustic (b) a straight line perpendicular to PQ
181. The presence of Cobalt in Vitamin B12 was established for (c) a point
(d) a circle
the first time by (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
194. Aluminium is obtained by the electrolysis of pure Al2O3
(a) Borax-Bead test (b) Sodium Nitroprusside test
dissolved in (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(c) Hydrolysis test (d) Spectroscopy
(a) Bauxite (b) Cryolite
182. Which bacterial strain developed from natural isolates by (c) Feldspar (d) Alumina
genetic manipulations can be used for treating oil spills? 195. Complete hydrolysis of cellulose gives
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(a) Clostridium (b) Nitrosomonas (a) D-fructose (b) L-glucose
(c) Pseudomonas (d) Agrobacterium (c) D-glucose (d) L-fructose
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197. The pollutants which move downward with percolating (c) neutrons in atoms

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ground water are called (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (d) nucleus in atoms

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(a) Leachates (b) Pollutates 210. When a metal is heated in a flame, the electrons absorb energy

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(c) Earthites (d) Percolates and jump to higher energy state. On coming back to the
198. Lungs are located in the (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) lower energy state, they emit light, which we can observe in
(a) abdominal cavity (b) pericardial cavity (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(c) peritoneal cavity (d) pleural cavity (a) Raman spectra (b) Absorption spectra
199. Which one of the following is the ideal food for newborn (c) Emission spectra (d) Fluorescence
babies? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) 211. Blood pressure may be increased by the excessive secretion
(a) Water (b) Sugar of (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(c) Honey (d) Milk (a) Thyroxine (b) Testosterone
200. Transcription means the synthesis of (c) Estradiol (d) Estrol
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) 212. The Concept of 'Green House Gases" was postulated by
(a) Lipids (b) Protein (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(c) DNA (d) RNA (a) Joseph Furier (b) Abdul Kalam
201. Hydrochloric acid is secreted by the cells lining the (c) M. S. Swaminathan (d) Richael Carlson
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) 213. "Bhopal gas tragedy" 1984 is related to
(a) Oral cavity (b) Stomach (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(c) Ileum (d) Colon (a) Aluminium Phosphide
202. Emulsification is (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (b) Methyl bromide
(a) breaking fats into small globules
(c) Methyl isocyanate
(b) digestion of fats
(d) Carbon dioxide
(c) absorption of fats
214. The Particulate Matter (PM–10) exhaled from the polluted
(d) storage of fats
atmosphere is often filtered out during the process of
203. Taxonomy is a science that deals with
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(a) Coughing (b) Sneezing
(a) Morphology (b) Anatomy
(c) A and B (d) Urination
(c) Classification (d) Economic uses
215. The animal who can consume more salt among the following
204. Which of the following is responsible for the working of
is (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
Newton's colour disc experiment? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(a) Sheep (b) Camel
(a) Formation of pure spectra
(c) Donkey (d) Dog
(b) Formation of impure spectra
(c) Persistence of vision 216. Cactus is referred to as (SSC CGL 2014)
(d) Principle of complementary colour (a) Hydrophyte (b) Mesophyte
205. The dimension MLT–2 corresponds to (c) Xerophyte (d) Epiphyte
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) 217. Which of the following is not a renewable resource?
(a) force (b) work done (SSC CGL 2014)
(c) acceleration (d) velocity (a) Thorium (b) Geothermal heat
206. Who is the founder of quantum theory of radiation? (c) Tidal power (d) Radiant energy
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) 218. How many neck canal cells are found in the archegonium of
(a) Einstein (b) Bohr a fern? (SSC CGL 2014)
(c) Plank (d) S.N. Bose (a) One (b) Two
207. Fiber optics cable used in communication, works on the (c) Three (d) Four
principle of (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) 219. Which angiosperm is vesselless? (SSC CGL 2014)
(a) regular reflection of light (a) Hydrilla (b) Trochodendron
(b) diffuse reflection of light (c) Maize (d) Wheat
(c) refraction of light 220. Who was the first child born after operative procedure?
(d) total internal reflection of light (SSC CGL 2014)
208. The outer skin most of the crustaceans are made up of a (a) Caesar (b) Huxley
carbohydrate. This carbohydrate is (c) William (d) Pasteur
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) 221. Myrmecology is study of (SSC CGL 2014)
(a) cellulose (b) galactose (a) Insects (b) Ants
(c) chitin (d) starch (c) Crustaceans (d) Arthropods
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223. Fleming's right hand rule is used to find the direction of the

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(SSC CGL 2014) (a) Voltmeter (b) Anemometer
(a) Alternate current (b) Direct current (c) Wattmeter (d) Ammeter
(c) Induced current (d) Actual current 236. Photoperiodisrn affects (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(a) Flowering (b) Vegetative growth
224. The unit of electrical power is (SSC CGL 2014)
(c) Fruiting (d) All of these
(a) Volt (b) Watt
237. Match the following : (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(c) Kilowatt hour (d) Ampere
I II
225. The resistance of the human body (dry condition) is of the
A. Ascorbic acid 1. Photosynthetic
order of (SSC CGL 2014)
pigment
(a) 101 Ohm (b) 102 Ohm B. Chlorophyll 2. Quencher
(c) 103 Ohm (d) 104 Ohm C. Carotenoid 3. Enzyme
226. Certain substances loose their electrical resistance D. Superoxide 4. Vitamin–C
completely at super low temperature. Such substances are dismutase
called (SSC CGL 2014) A B C D
(a) super conductors(b) semi conductors (a) 4 2 1 3
(c) dielectrics (d) perfect conductors (b) 2 4 1 3
227. The section of the CPU that selects, interprets and monitors (c) 4 1 3 2
the execution of program instructions is (SSC CGL 2014) (d) 4 1 2 3
(a) Memory (b) Register unit 238. Allantois of Embryo helps in (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(c) Control unit (d) ALU (a) respiration (b) excretion
228. Brass contains (SSC CGL 2014) (c) protection (d) digestion
(a) Copper and Zinc 239. Which one of the following animals belongs to mollusca ?
(b) Copper and Tin (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(c) Copper and Silver (a) Hare (b) Hydra
(d) Copper and Nickel (c) Hyla (d) Haliotis
229. Which is the purest commercial form of iron? 240. Outside the nucleus DNA is found in
(a) Pig iron (b) Steel (SSC CGL 2014) (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(c) Stainless steel (d) Wrought iron (a) Mitochondria
230. In galvanization, iron is coated with (SSC CGL 2014) (b) Ribosome
(c) Endoplasmic reticulum
(a) Copper (b) Zinc
(d) Golgi bodies
(c) Tin (d) Nicked
241. Animal protein is called first class protein because it is
231. Which one of the following is also known as solution?
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(a) A compound (SSC CGL 2014)
(a) delicious in taste
(b) A homogeneous mixture
(b) cheaper in the market
(c) A heterogeneous mixture (c) rich in essential amino acids
(d) A suspension (d) easily digestible
232. The cells which are closely associated and interacting with 242. It is easy to burst a gas filled balloon with a needle than with
guard cells are (SSC CGL 2014) a nail. It is because (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(a) Transfusion tissue (a) nail exerts more pressure than needle on the balloon
(b) Complementary cells (b) needle exerts more pressure than nail on the balloon
(c) Subsidiary cells (c) gas is reactive with the needle
(d) Hypodermal cells (d) nail is more longer than needle
233. Conversion of starch to sugar is essential for 243. The velocity of sound in moist air is more than in dry air
(SSC CGL 2014) because the moist air has (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(a) Stomatal opening (a) less pressure than dry air
(b) Stomatal closing (b) more pressure than dry air
(c) Stomatal formation (c) more density than dry air
(d) Stomatal growth (d) less density than dry air
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244. X–rays can be used (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015) 256. Reverse transcription was discovered by :

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245. Ice is packed in saw dust because (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015) (d) Har Govind Khorana

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(b) saw dust is a good conductor of heat.
caused by boiling water because: (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(c) saw dust does not stick to the ice.
(d) saw dust will not get melted easily. (a) Steam pierces through the pores of body quickly
246. What happens when a drop of glycerol is added to crushed (b) Temperature of steam is higher
KMnO4 spread of a paper ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015) (c) Steam is gas and engulfs the body quickly
(a) There is a violent explosion (d) Steam has latent heat
(b) There is no reaction 258. Which among the following is the sweetest sugar?
(c) The paper ignites (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(d) There is a crackling sound. (a) lactose (b) maltose
247. Most commonly used bleaching agent is (c) glucose (d) fructose
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015) 259. Ultra purification of a metal is done by :
(a) Alcohol (b) Carbon dioxide (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(c) Chlorine (d) Sodium chloride (a) smelting (b) leaching
248. The least penetrating power ray is
(c) zone melting (d) slagging
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
260. Microbial degradation of nitrates into atmospheric nitrogen
(a) a–Ray (b) b–Ray
is known as : (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(c) g–Ray (d) X–Ray
249. Hydrogen peroxide is an effective sterilizing agent. Which (a) Ammonification (b) Denitrification
one of the following product results when it readily loses (c) Putrefacation (d) Nitrifcation
active oxygen ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015) 261. The best milch breed in the world is :
(a) Water (b) Hydrogen (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(c) Ozone (d) Nasant Hydrogen (a) Deoni (b) Holstein – Friesian
250. The maximum fixation of solar energy is done by (c) Sindhi (d) Chittagong
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015) 262. Muddy water is treated with alum in purification process, it
(a) Bacteria (b) Fungi is termed as : (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(c) Green plants (d) Protozoa (a) absorption (b) adsorption
251. The term 'brown air' is used for (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015) (c) coagulation (d) emulsification
(a) Photochemical smog 263. An enzyme produced by HIV that allows the integration of
(b) Sulfurous smog
HIV DNA into the host cell's DNA is:
(c) Industrial smog
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(d) Acid fumes
252. Peroxyacetyl nitrate is a (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015) (a) DNA gyrase (b) Ligase
(a) Plant hormone (c) Integrase (d) Helicase
(b) Vitamin 264. The two specific heats of gases are related by :
(c) Secondary pollutant (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(d) Acidic dye (a) Cp / Cv = R (b) Cp – Cv = RJ
253. Which of the following particles has the dual nature of (c) Cp – Cv = R/J (d) Cp + Cv = RJ
particle–wave ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015) 265. The antibiotic penicillin is obtained from which of the
(a) Neutron (b) Electron following ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(c) Meson (d) Proton (a) synthetic process (b) a bacterium
254. The metal ion present in vitamin B12 is : (c) fungus (d) virus infected cells
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015) 266. Which of the following is indicated by the colour of a star ?
(a) nickel (b) cobalt (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(c) iron (d) zinc
(a) weight (b) distance
255. Who of the following has given the term rhizosphere :
(c) temperature (d) size
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(a) Alexopolus 267. Atomic number of an atom gives the number of which of the
(b) Garret following ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(c) Hiltner (a) electrons (b) protons
(d) None of the given options (c) neutrons (d) neutrons and protons
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(d) A combined vaccine

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(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) (a) Bacteria (b) Protozoa
(a) Anthracite (b) Bituminous (c) Fungi (d) Green plants
(c) Lignite (d) Peat 281. 'Parsec' is the unit measurement of
270. For which one of the following, ‘Diodes’ are generally used (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
for? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) (a) Density of stars
(a) Rectification (b) Amplification (b) Astronomical distance
(c) Modulation (d) Filtration (c) Brightness of heavenly bodies
271. An anemometer measures which of the following ? (d) Orbital velocity of giant stars
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) 282. At room temperature, the metal that remains liquid is:
(a) Speed of light (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(a) Mercury (b) Platinum
(b) Speed of wind
(c) Lead (d) Zinc
(c) Speed of water current
283. Which is known as carbolic acid? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(d) Speed of satellites (a) Phenol (b) Ethanol
272. Which cell disorder in our body is responsible for colour (c) Acetic acid (d) Oxalic acid
blindness? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) 284. Which one of the following substances is normally found in
(a) WBC (b) Cone cell urine? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(c) Rod Cell (d) Neuron (a) Blood proteins (b) Creatinine
273. Which one of the following forms the base of vegetable (c) Red blood cells (d) White blood cells
fibres? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) 285. The thymus gland produces a hormone called
(a) Cellulose (b) Proteins (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(c) Fats (d) Oils (a) thyroxine (b) thymosin
274. A particle is thrown vertically upward. When it reaches the (c) thyronine (d) calcitonin
highest point, it has __________. 286. Blood group AB has (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(a) No antigen
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(b) No antibody
(a) a downward acceleration
(c) Neither antigen nor antibody
(b) an upward acceleration (d) Both antigen and antibody
(c) a downward velocity 287. Which vitamins are those, if taken in excess can be dangerous
(d) a horizontal velocity as they are stored in the body? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
275. During fermentation of sugar, the compound which is always (a) B Complex (b) E and C
formed is (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) (c) B and C (d) A and D
(a) Methyl Alcohol (b) Ethyl Alcohol 288. Atomic explosion is triggered by (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(c) Acetic Acid (d) Ethylene (a) thermo nuclear reaction
276. The quality or tone of a musical sound produced by a (b) chemical reaction
stringed instrument depends on (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) (c) controlled chain reaction
(a) frequency of vibration (d) uncontrolled chain reaction
289. The phenomenon of change in direction of light when it
(b) length of the strings in the instrument
passes from one medium to another is called
(c) Amplitude of vibration
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(d) waveform of the sound (a) Propagation (b) Reflection
277. Removal of carbon particles from air involves the principle (c) Refraction (d) Dispersion
of (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) 290. When ice cubes are made, the entropy of water
(a) Precipitation (b) Filteration (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(c) Electrophoresis (d) Sedimentation (a) does not change
278. Which light is least effective in photosynthesis? (b) decreases
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) (c) increases
(a) Blue light (b) Green light (d) may either increase or decrease depending on the
(c) Red light (d) Sunlight process used
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291. Two vectors are said to be equal if 304. Which enzyme is obtained from Red gram ?

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(a) only their magnitudes are same (a) Zymase (b) Maltase

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(c) both magnitude and direction are same 305. A radioactive substance has a half-life of four months.

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viruses is (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) (a) 8 months (b ) 12 months
(a) proteins (b) lipids (c) 4 months (d) 6 months
(c) DNA (d) RNA 306. Chiropterophily means: (SSC CHSL 2012)
293. Which is used as an Air pollution indicator? (a) production of flowers (b) pollination by wind
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) (c) pollination by bat (d) production of leaves
(a) Algae (b) Fungi 307. Which one among the following is a solid lubricant ?
(c) Bacteria (d) Lichens (SSC CHSL 2012)
294. Salination of soil is caused by (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) (a) Germanium (b) Sulphur
(a) Pesticides (b) soil erosion (c) Graphite (d) Indium
(c) excess irrigation (d) crop rotation 308. Longest cell in human body is: (SSC CHSL 2012)
295. Which enzyme digests proteins in the stomach? (a) Blood cell (b) Bone cell
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) (c) Nerve cell (d) Muscle cell
(a) Trypsin (b) Pepsin 309. The acid rain destroys the vegetation because it contains:
(c) Salivary amylase (d) Pancreatic canal (SSC CHSL 2012)
296. Fermentation is a type of _____ _______ process. (a) Ozone (b) Carbon monoxide
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) (c) Sulphuric acid (d) Nitrates
(a) Aerobic Respiration 310. Activated sludge treatment is called: (SSC CHSL 2012)
(b) Anaerobic Respiration (a) Preliminary treatment (b) Biological treatment
(c) Exothermic Reaction (c) Pre treatment (d) Chemical treatment
(d) Transpiration 311. Caustic soda is : (SSC CHSL 2012)
297. Which part of the plant is used as 'saffron'? (a) deliquescent (b) oxidant
(SSC CHSL 2012) (c) reductant (d) efflorescent
(a) Petals (b) Stamens 312. Red light is used in traffic signal for stopping the traffic
(c) Style and Stigma (d) Sepals because: (SSC CHSL 2012)
298. Suspended colloidal particles in the water can be removed (a) eye is more sensitive to red light.
by the process of : (SSC CHSL 2012) (b) it is least scattered and hence can be easily noticed
(a) Filtration (b) Adsorption from long distance.
(c) Absorption (d) Coagulation (c) it is very pleasant to the eye.
299. Grave's disease is caused due to: (SSC CHSL 2012) (d) it is visible even to longsighted people.
(a) hyperactivity of thyroid 313. What is a neuron ? (SSC CHSL 2013)
(b) hypoactivity of thymus (a) Basic unit of nervous system
(c) hypoactivity of thyroid (b) Basic unit of energy
(d) hyperactivity of thymus (c) Particle released during radioactivity
300. A white solid ‘A’ on heating gives off a gas which turns lime (d) The anti-particle of neutron
water milky. The residue is yellow when hot but turns white 314. A cellulosic wall is found in the cells of (SSC CHSL 2013)
on cooling. The solid A is: (SSC CHSL 2012) (a) plants (b) animals
(a) Zinc Carbonate (b) Lead Sulphate (c) bacteria (d) fungi
(c) Lead Carbonate (d) Zinc Sulphate 315. The filtration unit of kidney is (SSC CHSL 2013)
301. Which of the following is the strongest coagulant ? (a) yellow fiber (b) axon
(SSC CHSL 2012) (c) nephron (d) neuron
(a) Zinc Chloride (b) Aluminium Chloride 316. The nutritive tissue in the seeds of higher plants is known
(c) Barium Chloride (d) Magnesium Sulphate as (SSC CHSL 2013)
302. The property which is seen in light wave but not in sound (a) nucellus (b) hypocotyl
wave is : (SSC CHSL 2012) (c) embryo (d) endosperm
(a) Diffraction (b) Refraction 317. Yeast is an important source of (SSC CHSL 2013)
(c) Polarization (d) Interference (a) protein (b) vitamin B
303. Iron and manganese are removed in water by the process (c) invertase (d) vitamin C
of : (SSC CHSL 2012) 318. Enzymes are (SSC CHSL 2013)
(a) Chlorination (b) Filtration (a) Lipids (b) Steroids
(c) Lime-soda treatment (d) Aeration (c) Carbohydrates (d) Proteins
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320. The most electronegative element among the following is 330. Glucose is a type of (SSC CHSL 2014)

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(c) Sodium (d) Chlorine 331. Number of mitochondria in bacterial cell is
321. Mark the compound which possesses ionic, covalent and (SSC CHSL 2014)
co-ordinate bonds. (SSC CHSL 2013) (a) one (b) two
(a) H2O (b) NH4C1 (c) many (d) zero
(c) SO3 (d) S02 332. Rainbow is formed due to (SSC CHSL 2014)
322. The depletion of Ozone layer is mainly due to (a) refraction and dispersion
(b) scattering and refraction
(SSC CHSL 2013)
(c) diffraction and refraction
(a) Chlorofluorocarbons
(d) refraction and reflection
(b) Volcanic eruptions
333. Golden view of sea shell is due to (SSC CHSL 2014)
(c) Aviation fuels
(a) Diffraction (b) Dispersion
(d) Radioactive rays
(c) Polarization (d) Reflection
323. Match correctly the infectious agents given in List I with
334. An object covers distance which is directly proportional to
the diseases caused by them given in List II : the square of the time. Its acceleration is (SSC CHSL 2014)
(SSC CHSL 2013) (a) increasing (b) decreasing
List I List II (c) zero (d) constant
a. Bacterium 1. Kala-azar 335. If the horizontal range of a projectile is four times its maximum
b. Fungus 2. Tuberculosis height, the angle of projection is (SSC CHSL 2014)
c. Protozoan 3 Influenza (a) 30° (b) 45°
d. Virus 4. Ringworm
æ1ö -1 æ 1 ö
(a) a-4, b-2, c-3, d-1 (b) a-1, b-2, c-4, d-3 (c) sin -1 ç ÷ (d) tan ç ÷
(c) a-2, b-4, c-1, d-3 (d) a-3, b-1, c-2, d-4 è4ø è 4ø
324. Matter waves are (SSC CHSL 2013) 336. Which of the following metals has least melting point ?
(a) Longitudinal waves (SSC CHSL 2014)
(b) de Broglie waves (a) Gold (b) Silver
(c) Electromagnetic waves (c) Mercury (d) Copper
(d) Transverse waves 337. The gas produced in marshy places due to decomposition
325. When the milk is churned vigorously the cream from it is of vegetation is (SSC CHSL 2014)
separated out due to (SSC CHSL 2013) (a) Carbon monoxide (b) Carbon dioxide
(a) Centrifugal force (b) Centripetal force (c) Sulphur dioxide (d) Methane
338. In cactue, the spines are the modified (SSC CHSL 2014)
(c) Gravitational force (d) Frictional force
(a) stem (b) sripules
326. Gas thermometers are more sensitive than the liquid
(c) leaves (d) buds
thermometers because the gases (SSC CHSL 2013)
339. The smallest known prokaryotic organism is
(a) have high specific heat (SSC CHSL 2014)
(b) have large coefficient of expansion (a) Microcystis (b) Mycoplasma
(c) are lighter (c) Bacteria (d) Chlorella
(d) have low specific heat 340. According to your text, what can "be thought of as the
327. Which of the following is not caused by atmospheric genetic library that keep life going on Earth" ?
refraction of light ? (SSC CHSL 2013) (SSC CHSL 2014)
(a) Sun becoming visible two or three minutes before actual (a) A bio-engineering lab
sunrise (b) Human genes
(b) Sun appearing red at sunset (c) The human genome project
(c) Twinkling of stars at night (d) Biodiversity
(d) Sun appearing higher in the sky than it actually is 341. The boiling point of water decreases at higher altiudes is
328. From which part of Opium Plant we get morphine ? due to (SSC CHSL 2014)
(SSC CHSL 2014) (a) low tenperature
(a) Leaves (b) Stem (b) low atmospheric pressure
(c) high temperature
(c) Bark (d) Fruit coat
(d) high atmospheric pressure
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342. The chemical name of "Hypo"commonly used in 354. Maximum oxygen is available from : (SSC CHSL 2015)

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photography is (SSC CHSL 2014) (a) Green forests (b) Deserts

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(c) Sodium nitrate (d) Silver iodide 355. In a reaction of the type A + B ® C + D one could ensure it

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to be a first order reaction by : (SSC CHSL 2015)

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343. Soldering of two metals is possible because of the property

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of : (SSC CHSL 2015) (a) Increasing the concentration of a reactant

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(a) Osmosis (b) Viscosity (b) Adding a catalyst

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(c) Surface tension (d) Cohesion (c) Increasing the temperature
344. Stalactites & Stalagmites form due to the precipitation of : (d) Increasing the concentration of a product
(SSC CHSL 2015) 356. The amount of matter in a ball of steel is its :
(a) CaCl2 (b) MgCO3 (SSC CHSL 2015)
(c) MgCl2 (d) CaCO3 (a) Mass (b) Density
345. Which of the following is a form of sexual reproduction : (c) Volume (d) Weight
357. Transpiration increases in : (SSC CHSL 2015)
(SSC CHSL 2015)
(a) Hot, damp and windy condition
(a) Fission (b) Fragmentation
(b) Cool, damp and windy condition
(c) Budding (d) Harmaphroditism
(c) Cool, dry and still condition
346. In which region of electromagnetic spectrum does the Lyman
(d) Hot, dry and windy condition
series of hydrogen atom lie ?
358. If xylem and phloem are arranged in the same radius, such a
(SSC CHSL 2015) vascular bundle is called : (SSC CHSL 2015)
(a) x–ray (b) Ultraviolet (a) bicollateral (b) concentric
(c) Visible (d) Infrared (c) radial (d) collateral
347. An electrochemcial cell which is used as a source of direct 359. Plank's constant has the dimensions of :
electrical current at constant voltage under standard (SSC CHSL 2015)
conditions is called a : (SSC CHSL 2015) (a) linear momentum (b) angular momentum
(a) Power transistor (c) force (d) energy
(b) Battery 360. The most abundant element by number in the living system
(c) Generator is : (SSC CHSL 2015)
(d) Uninterrupted power supply (UPS) (a) Hydrogen (b) Oxygen
348. A light wave is incident over a plane surface with velocity (c) Carbon (d) Nitrogen
X. After reflection the velocity becomes : 361. Which of the following phenomenon helps to conclude that
(SSC CHSL 2015) light is a transverse wave ? (SSC CHSL 2015)
(a) x (b) 2x (a) diffraction (b) polarisation
(c) refraction (d) interference
x x
(c) (d) 362. Among the following districts of Tamil Nadu, which district
4 2 is unfit for cultivation due to increased salinity :
349. The area reserved for the welfare of wild life is called (SSC CHSL 2015)
(SSC CHSL 2015) (a) Tiruchirapalli (b) Negapattinam
(a) Sanctuary (b) Botanical garden (c) Ramanathapuram (d) Coimbatore
(c) Forest (d) National pak 363. Natural system of classification was proposed by ____
350. The gas dissolved in water that makes it basic is ? botanists. (SSC CHSL 2015)
(SSC CHSL 2015) (a) German (b) Swedish
(a) ammonia (b) hydrogen (c) British (d) Indian
(c) sulphur dioxide (d) carbon dioxide 364. Minamata disease is caused by pollution of water by :
351. Yellow complexion, Medium stature, Oblique eye with an (SSC CHSL 2015)
epicanthic fold is the characteristic feature of : (a) tin (b) methyl isocyanate
(SSC CHSL 2015) (c) mercury (d) lead
(a) Australoids (b) Negroid 365. The "King of Metals" is : (SSC CHSL 2015)
(a) Silver (b) Iron
(c) Mengoloid (d) Cancosoid
(c) Aluminium (d) Gold
352. Chromosome designation of Turner syndrome is :
366. Amino acids are required for the synthesis of :
(SSC CHSL 2015)
(SSC CHSL 2015)
(a) 44A + XO (b) 44A + XXY (a) Lipids (b) Proteins
(c) 44A + XXX (d) 44A + XYY (c) Carbohydrates (d) Alkaloids
353. Distant objects are visible as a little out of focus in this 367. The most suitable unit for expressing nuclear radius is:
condition : (SSC CHSL 2015) (SSC CHSL 2015)
(a) hypermetropia (b) presbiopia (a) fermi (b) angstrom
(c) astigmatism (d) myopia (c) micron (d) nanometre
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369. Christmas factor is involved in : (SSC CHSL 2015) 382. The hottest part of the gas flame is known as

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370. Who is the author of the book “Romancing with Life ”. (c) non-luminous zone (d) luminous zone
(SSC CHSL 2015) 383. Which of the following radiations has the least wavelength?
(a) Dev Anand (b) Shashi Tharoor (SSC Multitasking 2013)
(c) Bill Clinton (d) Kapil Dev (a) b-rays (b) X-rays
371. Which one out of the following helps in burning (c) a-rays (b) g-rays
(SSC Multitasking 2013) 384. The earth is a (SSC Multitasking 2013)
(a) Carbon dioxide (b) Oxygen (a) bad absorber and bad radiator of heat
(c) Carbon monoxide (b) Nitrogen (b) good reflector of heat
372. In organic compounds, nitrogen is estimated by (c) non-absorber of heat
(SSC Multitasking 2013) (d) good absorber and good radiator of heat
(a) Dumas’ method 385. BCG vaccination is given at the age of
(b) Carius method (SSC Multitasking 2013)
(c) Victor-Meyer’s method (a) Within 15 days (b) 2 – 3 years
(d) Liebig’s method (c) 10 years (d) Newborn
373. Master copy of genetic information is 386. Which of the following atmospheric gases constitute
(SSC Multitasking 2013) greenhouse gases? (SSC Multitasking 2013)
(a) DNA (b) Nucleus 1. Carbon dioxide 2. Nitrogen
(c) r-RNA (d) m-RNA 3. Nitrous oxide 4. Water vapour
374. Contraceptive pills in the market contain Select the correct answer using the codes given below.
(SSC Multitasking 2013) (a) 1, 2 and 4 (b) 1, 3 and 4
(c) 1 and 4 (d) 1 and 3
(a) Steroid-hormones
387. Hydrogen bomb is based on the principle of
(b) Inorganic compounds
(SSC Multitasking 2014)
(c) Herbicides
(a) Double decomposition
(d) Antibiotics
(b) Artificial radioactivity
375. Nematocysts are present in (SSC Multitasking 2013)
(c) Nuclear fission
(a) Sea anemone (b) Starfish
(d) Nuclear fusion
(c) Ascaris (d) Centipede
388. The commonly used safety fuse-wire is made of
376. Which of the following micro-organisms is used in milk
(SSC Multitasking 2014)
curdling? (SSC Multitasking 2013)
(a) an alloy of Nickel and Lead
(a) Lactobacillus (b) Acctobacter
(b) an alloy of Tin and Lead
(c) Leuconostoc (d) Bacillus
(c) an alloy of Tin and Nickel
377. Which of the following is present in Chlorophyll molecule? (d) an alloy of Lead and Iron
(SSC Multitasking 2013) 389. At what temperature is the density of water the maximum?
(a) K (b) Mn (SSC Multitasking 2014)
(c) Mn (d) Fe (a) 2°C (b) 4°C
378. When a body falls from an aeroplane, there is increase in its (c) 0°C (d) 1°C
(SSC Multitasking 2013) 390. The linear expansion of a solid rod is independent of its
(a) Potential energy (b) Kinetic energy (SSC Multitasking 2014)
(c) Mass (d) Acceleration (a) increase in temperature
379. What does ‘Ozone Layer’ absorb? (b) time of heat flow
(SSC Multitasking 2013) (c) initial length
(a) g-rays (b) Infrared rays (d) material
(c) Ultraviolet rays (d) X-rays 391. Cathode rays when obstructed by metal cause emission of
380. In a water lifting electric pump, we convert (SSC Multitasking 2014)
(SSC Multitasking 2013) (a) g- rays (b) X-rays
(a) Electrical energy into Kinetic energy (c) a-rays (d) b-rays
(b) Electrical energy into Potential energy 392. Who is the father of biology? (SSC Multitasking 2014)
(c) Kinetic energy into Electrical energy (a) Lamarck (b) Robert Hooke
(d) Kinetic energy into Potential energy (c) Aristotle (d) Pasteur
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409. Vegetation is effective in absorbing (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)

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394. Arenchyma is present in (SSC Multitasking 2014)

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(c) Aquatic plants (d) Xerophytic plants (c) High frequency sound (d) Pollutant metals

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395. The deficiency of vitamin A causes 410. When a person cries, there is a watery discharge from the
(SSC Multitasking 2014) nose due to activation of (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
(a) Scurvy (b) Night blindness (a) Salivary gland (b) Lachrymal gland
(c) Beri-Beri (d) Dermatitis (c) Thyroid gland (d) Endocrine gland
396. Clove is a (SSC Multitasking 2014) 411. The fundamental role of root hairs in plants is
(a) Dried flower bud (b) Flower (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
(c) Fruit (d) Seed (a) to protect the young root from damage by coarse soild
397. On heating, Gypsum loses certain percentage of its water particles
content and becomes (SSC Multitasking 2014) (b) to protect the root from soil microbes
(a) Chalk (b) Calcium sulphate (c) to absorb water and mineral salts from the soil
(c) Plaster of Paris (d) a pearl (d) to bind soil particles to the root for firm fixation of the
398. The name of the scientist who discovered neutron is plant
(SSC Multitasking 2014) 412. Catch crops are (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
(a) Fermi (b) Rutherford (a) crops palnted to attract certain insect pests to be
(c) Chadwick (d) Bohr destroyed
399. The bubbles in Champagne and Soda are (b) crops planted to attract certain useful insects to be
(SSC Multitasking 2014) used for biological control of pests
(a) Nitrogen (b) Oxygen (c) crops to be cut and fed green to the cattle
(c) Carbon dioxide (d) Hydrogen (d) substitute crops planted after the regular crop has failed.
400. Gobar gas contains mainly (SSC Multitasking 2014) 413. The pigment that protects plants form UV damage is
(a) Butane (b) Carbon monoxide (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
(c) Methane (d) Carbon dioxide (a) Chlorophyll (b) Xanthophyll
401. "Carbon Credit" is a term associated with the (c) Phycocyanin (d) Carotenoids
(SSC Multitasking 2014) 414. A bioenergy source obtained by fermentation to supplement
(a) Global deforestation fossil fuel petrol is (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
(b) Offshore banking (a) Kerosene (b) Ethanol
(c) Protection of environment (c) Diesel (d) Methane
(d) Deforestation in India 415. The substance that causes the worst air pollution is
402. The green colour of plant leaves is due to (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
(SSC Multitasking 2014) (a) Smoke (b) Sulphur dioxide
(a) Protein (b) Chlorophyll (c) Carbon dioxide (d) Carbon monoxide
(c) Cellulose (d) Starch 416. A liquid is said to boil when its (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
403. Temperature is measured by the instrument called (a) vapour pressure equals the surrounding pressure
(SSC Multitasking 2014) (b) vapour pressure vanishes to zero
(a) Voltmeter (b) Calorimeter (c) vapour pressure is greater than the surrounding
(c) Thermometer (d) Ammeter pressure
404. The pH of pure water is (SSC Multitasking 2014) (d) vapour pressure is less than the surrounding pressure
(a) Seven (b) Foruteen 417. Which is not correct regarding covalent compounds?
(c) Zero (d) One (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
405. The process of separation of pure water from impurities is (a) The reaction is slow
called (SSC Multitasking 2014) (b) The reaction is fast
(a) Fractional crystallisation (b) Decantation (c) Compounds are usually liquids and gases
(c) Distillation (d) Sublimation (d) Boiling points and melting points are low
406. H2SO4 cannot be used as (SSC Multitasking 2014) 418. Choose the correct statement
(a) Disinfectant (b) Food preservative (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
(c) Drying agent (d) Dehydrating agent (a) The components of a mixture cannot be separated
407. The red colour of ripe tomatoes is due to the presence of (b) The properties of a mixture are the same as those of its
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2012) components
(a) Hormones (b) Vitamins (c) Mixtures are homogeneous
(c) Chlorophyll (d) Carotenoids (d) In a mixture the components are present in a fixed ratio
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431. Wilting of plants occurs due to excessive :

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420. To eliminate the glare of headlights in motor cars,

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(c) thin films are used (d) filters are used (c) Absorption (d) Transpiration
421. The substances which have infinite electrical resistance are 432. Gypsum is used for improvement of:
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
called (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
(a) Alkaline soils (b) Saline soils
(a) insulators (b) condensers
(c) Podsols (d) Acidic soils
(c) conductors (d) resistors
433. Indicate the correct arrangement for electromagnetic
422. Stainless steel is an alloy of (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
radiation in order of their increasing wavelength.
(a) iron, chromium and nickel (SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
(b) iron, chromium and carbon (a) Microwave. infrared, visible. X-rays
(c) iron, carbon and zinc (b) X -rays. visible, infrared, microwave
(d) iron, zinc and manganese (c) Visible. infrared. microwave. X-rays
423. Enriched uranium used in a nuclear reactor is (d) X - rays, infrared, visible, microwave.
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2012) 434. The rapidly growing mass of phytoplankton covering the
(a) uranium free of all impurities surface water of a lake or pond is known as:
(b) uranium treated with radiation (SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
(c) uranium alloyed with aluminium (a) Eutrophication (b) Water bloom
(d) uranium with a high percentage of a particular isotope (c) Water pollution (d) Water hyacinth
424. In a refrigerator, cooling is produced by 435. Wings of birds are: (SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2012) (a) Modified hind limbs
(a) the ice which deposits in the freezer (b) New structure
(b) the sudden expansion of a compressed gas (c) Integumentary outgrowth
(c) the evaporation of a volatile liquid (d) Modified fore limbs
(d) None of these 436. Spontaneous change is one in there is:
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
425. Which one of the following statements about PYROLYSIS.
(a) A lowering of entropy
which is a process for solid waste treatment is incorrect?
(b) A lowering of free energy
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
(c) Increase in free energy
(a) It converts the waste into solid, liquid and gas of which
(d) An increase in Internal energy
the resultant liquid and gas can be used to produce 437. Sandstone is metamorphosed to : (SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
energy. (a) Shale (b) Slate
(b) The process occurs at a temperature above 430°C at (c) Quartzite (d) Marble
atmospheric pressure. 438. Instrument used to study the behaviour of a vibrating string
(c) The process occurs under high pressure at temperature is : (SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
above 430°C. (a) Barometer (b) Hydrometer
(d) It is a thermochemical decomposition of organic waste (c) Hygrometer (d) Sonometer
426. Which of the following supports particle nature of photons? 439. The casual organism of Polio is : (SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2013) (a) A fungi (b) A virus
(a) Diffraction (b) Polarization (c) A worm (d) A bacteria
(c) Photoelectric effect (d) Interference 440. Panda belongs to the same family as that
427. The heaviest naturally occurring element is: (SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2013) (a) Kangaroo (b) Porcupine
(a) Mercury (b) Polonium (c) Whale (d) Bear
(c) Thorium (d) Uranium 441. The pancreas secretes (SSC Sub. Ins. 2014)
428. Haptens are: (SSC Sub. Ins. 2013) (a) Insulin (b) Bile juice
(a) Pseudoantigens (b) Incomplete antigens (c) Peptic juice (d) None of these
442. When we touch leaves of "Touch me not plant", they close,
(c) Antibodies (d) Isoantigens
these movements are called (SSC Sub. Ins. 2014)
429. Sulphur dioxide bleaches colouring matter by :
(a) photonastic movements
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
(b) nyctinastic movements
(a) Reduction (b) Dehydration
(c) seismonastic movements
(c) Decomposition (d) Oxidation
(d) chemonastic movements
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444. Beak is formed by (SSC Sub. Ins. 2014) (SSC Sub. Ins. 2014)

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445. Pinna (external ear) is present in (SSC Sub. Ins. 2014) 457. A reversible and an irreversible engine are working between
(a) Amphibian (b) Fish the same limits of temperature. The efficiency of.
(c) Mammal (d) Reptile (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)
446. Purity of a metal can be determined with the help of (a) The reversible engine is greater than the irreversible
(a) Pascal's law (SSC Sub. Ins. 2014) engine.
(b) Boyle's law (b) Each engine is 100%.
(c) Archimedes principle (c) The two engines are equal
(d) Conservation of mass principle (d) The irreversible engine is greater than the reversible
447. If both the mass and the velocity of a body is increased to engine.
twice of their magnitude, the kinetic energy will increase by 458. Which of the following is used in the treatment of cancer?
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2014)
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)
(a) 2 times (b) 4 times
(a) Electrotherapy (b) Psychotherapy
(c) 8 times (d) 16 times
(c) Chemotherapy (d) Physiotherapy
448. Two bodies kept at a certain distance feel a gravitational
459. The most abundant element is : (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)
force F to each other. If the distance between them is made
(a) Silicon (b) Calcium
double the former distance, the force will be
(c) Nitrogen (d) Oxygen
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2014)
460. An electron microscope gives higher magnifications than
1
(a) 2F (b) F an optical microscope because : (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)
2
(a) The electrons have more energy than the light
1 particles.
(c) 4F (d) F
4 (b) The electron microscope uses more powerful lenses.
449. Stationary wave is formed by (SSC Sub. Ins. 2014) (c) The wavelength of electrons is smaller as compared
(a) a transverse wave superposing a longitudinal wave to the wavelength of visible light.
(b) two waves of the same speed superposing (d) The velocity of electrons is smaller than that of light.
(c) two waves of same frequency travelling in the same 461. What does the word ‘amphibian’ mean ?
direction (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)
(d) two waves of same frequency travelling in the (a) Two lives (b) Four lives
opposite direction (c) Three lives (d) One life
450. In an oxygen molecule, two atoms are united by 462. Nitrogen in water is commonly found in the form of:
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2014) (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)
(a) the bond (b) two bonds (a) Nitric oxide (b) Nitrous oxide
(c) three bonds (d) four bonds (c) Nitrate (d) Nitrite
451. The inert gas which is substituted for nitrogen in the air 463. Immunization technique was developed by:
used by deep sea divers for breathing is (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2014) (a) Louis Pasteur (b) Robert Koch
(a) Neon (b) Krypton (c) Joseph Lister (d) Edward jenner
(c) Argon (d) Helium 464. The hydrophilic nature of DNA is due to the presence of.
452. How many neutrons are there in 92U238 atom ? (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2014) (a) a number of hydrogen bonds
(b) phosphate group
(a) 92 (b) 238
(c) deoxyribose sugar
(c) 146 (d) 330
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453. Root pressure is measured by (SSC Sub. Ins. 2014)
465. The sense of balance is achieved by:
(a) Barometer (b) Atmometer
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(c) Manometer (d) Auxanometer
(a) Cerebellum equilibrium
454. Cell becomes turgid because of (SSC Sub. Ins. 2014)
(b) Thalamus equilibrium
(a) Plasmolysis (b) Exosmosis
(c) Cerebrum equilibrium
(c) Endosmosis (d) Diffusion
(d) Spinal cord equilibrium
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(SSC Sub. Ins. 2015) (b) DNA hybridization / DNA
(a) mycoplasma (b) fungi (c) Serotyping
(c) virus (d) bacteria (d) Phage typing
469. The first law of thermodynamics is simply the case of: 477. Starch is insoluble in water but still it is stored in large
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2015) quantity in potato because (SSC Sub. Ins. 2016)
(a) Charle’s law. (a) soil microorganisms deposit it in the tuber.
(b) the law of conservation of energy. (b) it is synthesized in potato root.
(c) the law of heat exchange.
(c) it is useful for human.
(d) Newton’s law of cooling.
(d) it is translocated in the form of sugar from leaves.
470. Red rot of sugarcane is caused by: (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)
478. Viruses that infect bacteria are called (SSC Sub. Ins. 2016)
(a) Colletotriehum falcatum
(a) Basal body (b) Basidiospores
(b) Cercospora personata
(c) Bacteriophages (d) Basophils
(c) Alternaria alternata
479. A dispersion indicates (SSC Sub. Ins. 2016)
(d) Phylophthora Infestans
(a) the value of standard deviation.
471. A clone is a group of individuals obtained through :
(b) spread of data around central measure.
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)
(a) self pollination (b) micropropagation (c) the value of mean
(c) hybridisation (d) cross pollination (d) the value of mode
472. Chemical name of Gammaxane is: (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015) 480. The principle involved in the absorption of water by soil is
(a) Aniline (b) Toluene (SSC Sub. Ins. 2016)
(c) Benzene hexachloride (d) Chloro benzene (a) Suction action (b) Condensation
473. The fleshy thalamus is edible in: (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015) (c) Capillary action (d) Principal of absorption
(a) Mango (b) Orange 481. Which of the following is present in maximum amount in
(c) Tomato (d) Apple acid rain? (SSC Sub. Ins. 2016)
474. A new molecule Heat Shock Protein 90 (HSP90) was (a) HNO3 (b) H2SO4
discovered in 2014 by the Didier Picard. The new discovery (c) H2CO3 (d) HCL
could help in effective treatment of ____ 482. The lethal dose required to kill 50% of the lab animals tested
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2016) under standard is referred as (SSC Sub. Ins. 2016)
(a) TB (b) AIDS (a) MLD (b) ID50
(c) Malaria (d) None of these (c) LD50 (d) ID
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of the brain and nervous system, and the formation of 40. (d) 41. (d) 42. (a) 43. (a) 44. (c)
red blood cells. 45. (c) 46. (c) 47. (c) 48. (a) 49. (d)
3. (d) 4. (b) 5. (a) 6. (b) 7. (a) 50. (a) 51. (b) 52. (c) 53. (d) 54. (a)
8. (b) Acetic acid, also known as ethanoic acid, is an organic 55. (c) 56. (d) 57. (b) 58. (a) 59. (c)
chemical compound best recognized for giving vinegar 60. (d)
its sour taste and pungent smell. It is one of the 61. (c) This process usually occurs in the upper third of the
simplest carboxylic acids and has the chemical formula fallopian tube of the woman.
CH3COOH. 62. (d) Cirrhosis is a condition in which the liver does not
9. (b) function properly due to long-term damage. Cirrhosis
10. (a) Boiling point of heavy water is lower than that or is most commonly caused by alcohol, hepatitis B,
ordinary water hepatitis C, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
11. (a) Typically, more than two or three drinks per day over a
12. (a) Arboreal animals are creature who spend the majority number of years is required for alcoholic cirrhosis to
of their lives in trees. They eat, sleep and play in the occur.
63. (c) The food webs we see are grazing food chains since at
tree canopy. There are thousands of species that live
their base are producers which the herbivores then
in trees, including monkeys, koalas, possums, sloths,
graze on.
various rodents, parrots, chameleons, geckos, tree
64. (c) A single mole is set to the number of particles found in
snakes and a variety of insects.
12.000 grams of carbon-12. A mole of water has 6.022 x
13. (a)
1023 water molecules. One mole of water weighs 18.0152
14. (d) Advection is the transfer of heat or matter by the flow
grams.
of a fluid, especially horizontally in the atmosphere or
65. (a) Carrot is rich in Vitamin A and it improves eyesight.
the sea. 66. (d) The reason for this is the hydrogen bonding between
15. (d) neighboring water molecules. Because hydrogen
16. (d) Bats are good at flying at night because they use bonding is a relatively strong intermolecular force, high
sound rather than sight to navigate. Bats send pulses heat energy is required to break up the force.
of sound through their mouths or noses, and these 67. (a) Valence electrons are important in determining how an
pulses echo back outlining the objects in the bats elements reacts chemically with other elements. Since
flight path. The ears of a bat are large and oddly the valence electrons are the electrons in the highest
constructed but they help it to determine where the energy level, they are the most exposed of all the
echoes are coming from. electrons, so they are the electrons that get most
17. (c) No change will happen. involved in chemical reactions.
18. (b) Cartography, the art and science of graphically 68. (c) The lumen is the SI derived unit of luminous flux, a
representing a geographical: area, usually on a flat measure of the total "amount" of visible light emitted
surface such as a map or chart. It may involve the by a source.
superimposition of political, cultural, or other non 69. (d) A dissipative force counteracts motion. Its direction is
geographical divisions onto the representation of a opposite to the direction of the velocity vector.
geographical area. Dynamic friction is a dissipative (non-conservative)
19. (c) force : it dissipates energy (mainly through heat and
20. (d) An antiknock agent is a gasoline additive used to sound), and energy lost by moving in one direction.
reduce engine knocking and increase the fuel's octane 70. (c) Poisson strain is defined as the negative ratio of the
rating by raising the temperature and pressure at which strain in the traverse direction (caused by the
auto ignition occurs. contraction of the bar's diameter) to the strain in the
The typical antiknock agents in use are: Tetraelhyllead longitudinal direction. As the length increases and the
(Still in use as a high octane cross sectional area decreases, the electrical resistance
21. (b) 22. (a) 23. (a) of the wire also rises.
24. (d) A positron is a particle of matter with the same mass as 71. (b) Consequent Poles are magnetic poles that exist where
an electron but an opposite charge. It is a form of the specimen has been successively magnetized in
antimatter because, when a positron encounters an different sections to create more than two poles ; e.g.,
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monosaccharide, along with glucose and galactose,
which is absorbed directly into the bloodstream during
digestion.
73. (c) Methylated spirit contains mostly ethanol. Ethanol is 87.
slightly soluble in water (mixing 50 ml of ethanol and
water will make 80 – 90 ml of mixture, not 100ml).
74. (c) A sporozoite is the cell form that infects new hosts. In
plasmodium, for instance, the sporozoites are cells that
develop in the mosquito’s salivary glands, leave the 88.
mosquito during a blood meal, and enter liver cells
(hepatocytes) where they multiply.
75. (c) Ex-situ conservation is the process of protecting an
endangered species of plant or animal outside of its 89.
natural habitat. Zoos and botanical gardens are the 94.
most conventional methods of ex-situ conservation. 99.
Endangered plants may also be preserved in part 104.
through seed banks or germplasm banks. 106.
76. (b) Diatom ooze (formed from microscopic unicellular algae
having cell walls consisting of or resembling silica) is
the most widespread deposit in the high southern
107.
latitudes.
109.
77. (b) Photosynthetic Chromatophores vesicles found in
some purple bacteria constitute one of the simplest
light-harvesting systems in nature.
78. (a) Convex mirrors reflect light outwards; therefore they
are not used to focus light. So, the convex mirror has
a wide field of view and hence is used as rear view
mirror as it gives a clear diminished and an erect image
of the traffic that is behind. 110.
79. (b) The principal components of pyroligneous acid are 111.
acetic acid, acetone and methanol. It was once used as
a commercial source for acetic acid.
80. (b) UCIL produced batteries, carbon products, welding
equipment, plastics, industrial chemicals, pesticides,
and marine products. 112.
81. (a) Most drying oils owe their drying properties to the 115.
presence of a large percentage of linolenic acid (which
derives its name from "linseed"), which is highly
unsaturated.
82. (a) Carotenoids are tetraterpenoid organic pigments that
are naturally occurring in the chloroplasts and 116.
chromoplasts of plants and some other photosynthetic 118.
organism like algae, some bacteria, and some types of
fungus. 119.
83. (a) The variations in sunlight affect different latitudes
differently, as we might expect from the different angles
at which sunlight falls on the earth's surface at different 120.
latitudes. 124.
84. (a) Polar bears, which pile on fat to survive hibernation
and yet do not become diabetic, hold clues for treating
Type II diabetes, a disease associated with obesity
that afflicts more than 190 million people worlwide, 125.
reaching epidemic proportions in many countries.
85. (d) All electromagnetic waves regardless of their
wavelengths, including all colors of light, have the
same identical speed in a vacuum.
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(c) Potassium Nitrate occurs as a mineral niter and is a
natural solid source of nitrogen. Potassium nitrate is
one of several nitrogen-containing compounds
collectively referred to as saltpeter.
(a) 90. (b) 91. (b) 92. (a) 93. (b)
(c) 95. (d) 96. (a) 97. (b) 98. (b)
(c) 100. (d) 101. (d) 102. (a) 103. (a)
(b) 105. (d)
(c) Two pollutants emitted by motor vehicles react to form
ground-level ozone or smog which can cause
respiratory problems and reduce visibility.
(b) 108. (b)
(c) Cardiac muscle is an involuntary striated muscle tissue
found only in the organ heart. Involuntary muscles are
smooth muscles that are not directly controllable at
will. For example You don't have to remind yourself to
make your heart beat, so it is involuntary. Voluntary
muscles are controllable like those found in your arms,
legs, hands, etc.
(b)
(c) Ringworm is common disease, especially among
children. It is caused by a fungus, not a worm like the
name suggests. It is a common and highly infectious
skin infection that causes a ring-like red rash on the
skin.
(a) 113. (c) 114. (d)
(c) Centrifugal force is an example of a pseudo-force, that
is, an apparent force to someone whose frame of
reference is not at rest or moving with a constant
velocity. In the case of centrifugal force, the frame of
reference is rotating.
(d) 117. (c)
(c) An antacid is a substance which neutralizes stomach
acidity.
(a) Annealing is the process by which both metal and
glass are treated with heat in order to change their
properties.
(b) 121. (d) 122. (d) 123. (d)
(c) This is because the scattering in red light is less than
that of yellow colour. The longest visible wavelength
is red and the shortest is violet. The wavelength of red
light is more than yellow light.
(a) Transboundary pollution is the pollution that
originates in one country but is able to cause damage
in another country's environment, by crossing borders
through pathways like water or air. Acid rain is a classic
example of a transboundary pollution because it can

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be blown anywhere by the wind. Sulphur dioxide and
nitrous oxides are the two main chemicals that react
with water to make acid rain. The chemicals are
commonly released from power stations, factories and
transport.
126. (a) The Nicobar pigeon is a pigeon found on small islands
and in coastal regions from the Nicobar Islands, India,
east through the Malay Archipelago, to the Solomons
and Palau. It is the only living member of the genus
Caloenas and the closest living relative of the extinct
dodo..
127. (a) A limnic eruption, also referred to as a lake overturn,
is a rare type of natural disaster in which dissolved
carbon dioxide (CO2) suddenly erupts from deep lake
waters, forming a gas cloud that can suffocate wildlife,
livestock and humans.
128. (c) The inventor of blood group is Karl Landsteiner, was
born in Vienna, June 14, 1868.
He is a scientist in the field of bio-treatment. He was
awarded Nobel Prize for Medicine and Fisiologi field in
1930. This is because the classification of all types of
blood into four namely; A, B, AB, and O in the year
1909.
129. (a) 130. (b)
131. (b) DPT refers to a class of combination vaccines against
three infectious diseases in humans: diphtheria,
pertussis (whooping cough), and tetanus. The vaccine
components include diphtheria and tetanus toxoidsand
kills whole cells of the organism that cause pertussis
(wP).
132. (a) 133. (c) 134. (b) 135. (b) 136. (d)
137. (b) The oxalic acid is an ideal chemical for cleaning
purposes. Its bleach-like qualities make it perfect for
sterilizing household items. It is also efficient in
removing rust on various different surfaces. Stains on
counters, bathtubs and kitchen sinks can be removed
through careful application of this chemical.
138. (b)
139. (d) Rectified spirit, also known as neutral spirits,
rectified alcohol, or ethyl alcohol of agricultural
origin is highly concentrated ethanol which has been
purified by means of repeated distillation, a process
that is called rectification. It is 95.5% alcohol and 4.5%
water. It is treated with CaO to form lime of alcohol,
which undergoes fractional distillation to give ethanol.
140. (c)
141. (d) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) is a scientific and intergovernmental body
under the auspices of the United Nations, set up at the
request of member governments, dedicated to the task
of providing the world with an objective, scientific view
of climate change and its political and economic impacts.
142. (c) 143. (b)
144. (c) Hypothermia is a medical emergency that occurs when
your body loses heat faster than it can produce heat,
causing a dangerously low body temperature. Normal
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electron has a mass (9.1093829140) × 10–31 kg) that is
approximately 1/1836 that of the proton. The mass of
neutron is slightly larger than that of a proton. The mass
of the hydrogen nucleus is 1.7 × 10–27 kg. The heaviest
of these particles is the neutron.
147. (a) A television channel is a physical or virtual channel
over which a television station or television network is
distributed. Channel numbers represent actual
frequencies used to broadcast the television signal.
For example, in North America. "Channel 2" refers to
the broadcast or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with
carrier frequencies of 55.25 MHz for NTSC analog video
(VSB) and 59.75 MHz for analog audio (FM), or 55.31
MHz for digital ATSC (8VSB).
148. (b) Water never has an absolute density because its
density varies with temperature. Water has its maximum
density of lg/cm3 at 4 degrees Celsius. When the
temperature changes from either greater or less than 4
degrees, the density will become less than 1 g/cm3.
149. (c) Photosynthesis is the process by which light energy
is converted into chemical energy by organisms.
Carbon dioxide and water are the raw materials of this
process. The light energy comes from the sun and its
end products are oxygen and glucose.
150. (b) An emulsion is a mixture of two or more liquids that are
normally immiscible (nonmixable or unblendable).
Emulsions are part of a more general class of two–
phase systems of matter called colloids. In an emulsion,
one liquid (the dispersed phase) is dispersed in the
other (the continuous.
151. (b) The active ingredient in Dettol that confers its antiseptic
property is chloroxylenol (C8H9CIO), an aromatic
chemical compound. Chloroxylenol comprises 4.8% of
Dettol's total mixture, with the rest composed of pine
oil, isopropanol, castor oil soap caramel and water.
152. (c) Researchers in Mangolia and China completed studies
to unravel the genomic Peculiaritces behind the
physiological tricks that camels use to survive in the
harshest of conditions. They described the genomes
of wild and domesticated Bactrian camels.
153. (d) Fine particles known as PM10 and PM25can penetrate
deep into the lungs, creating health problems. People
with heart or lung diseases, older adults, and children
are most likely to have problems because of contact
with particle pollution. Short–term exposure to PM
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154. (d) PNG is a mixture consisting mainly methane CH4 with a
small percentage of other higher hydrocarbons. The
ratio of carbon to hydrogen is least in methane and
hence it burns almost completely making it the cleanest
fuel. Domestic PNG customers, also known as
Residential customers, use gas for cooking purpose
and also for heating water through gas geysers.
155. (d) Green Park Stadium is a 60,000 capacity floodlit multi–
purpose stadium located in Kanpur, India, and the
home of the Uttar Pradesh cricket team.
156. (c) According to the Red list of 2012. Ganges River
Dolphin is one of critically endangered species in lndia
Endangered species in India comprise large varieties
of rare species of wild animals, aquatic animals and
insects.
157. (c) Arson is the crime of intentionally and maliciously
setting fire to buildings, wild land areas, vehicles or
other property with the intent to cause damage, Distinct
from spontaneous combustion and natural wildfires, it
is considered to be a man–made disaster which is
socially induced.
158. (b) The thyroid gland, is one of the largest endocrine gland
in the throat, and consists of two connected lobes. It
is found at the front of the neck, below the Adam’s
apple. The thyroid gland secretes thyroid hormones,
which influence the metabolic rate, protein synthesis,
and have a wide range of other effects, including on
development.
159. (b) The cerebrum is the seat of intelligence and provides
us with the ability to read, write and speak: make
calculations and compose music; remember the past
and plan for the future; and create works.
160. (c) The average adult has a blood volume of roughly 5
liters, which is composed of plasma and several kinds
of cells. By volume, the red blood cells constitute about
45% of whole blood, the plasma about 54.3%, and white
cells about 0.7%.
161. (c) The normal range of, conentration of fasting blood
sugar is 80 to 120 mg/ml; in the testing of true blood
sugar, the normal range of concentration is 70 to 100
mg/ml. so normal glucose levels fall between 70 and
150 mg. Higher levels may indicate diseases such as
diabetes mellitus.
162. (b) Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch
of arthropodology, which in turn is a branch of biology.
It is derived from the Greek word 'entomos' which
means "that which is cut in pieces or engraved/
segmented", hence "insect".
163. (a)
164. (c) The ionosphere is a region of Earth's upper atmosphere,
from about 60 km (37 mi) to 1,000 km (620 mi) altitude
and includes the thermosphere and parts of the
mesosphere and exosphere, it is ionized by solar
radiation, plays an important part in atmospheric
electricity and forms the inner edge of the
magnetosphere. It has practical importance because,
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of the visible spectrum and regulates germination of
seeds.
167. (c) Quenching is a process in which absorbed light energy
is dissipated as heat and does not take part in
photochemistry. The phenomenon involves
quenching of chlorophylla (Chla) fluroescence, which
is induced under steady-state illumination.
168. (c) AIDS virus destroys the T-cells inside of the immune
system. T cells or T lymphocytes belong to a group
of white blood cells known as lymphocytes, and play
a central role in cell – mediated immunity.
169. (a) Bragg Spectrometer is an instrument used to analyze
crystal structure by using X– rays. In it, a beam of
collimated X–rays strikes the crystal, and a detector
measures the angles and intensities of the reflected
beam.
170. (a) Alpha particles consist of two protons and two
neutrons bound together into a particle identical to a
helium nucleus, which is generally produced in the
process of alpha decay.
171. (c) The human body requires more calcium than any other
mineral. At least 99% of the calcium is found in the
bones and teeth, giving them strength and rigidity.
172. (a)
173. (a) The sigmoid colon is the part of the large intestine. It
forms a loop that averages about 40 cm in length.
174. (d) Electrons carry current in a good conductor of
electricity and they are negatively charged. This makes
a good electrical conductor negatively charged.
175. (c) Containment of toxic or hazardous constituents in
industrial solid wastes is curr ently being
accomplished using: (i) coating grains of waste material
with an inert and non-reactive impervious material
(microencapsulation), and (ii) coating blocks of waste
material with an inert, non-reactive impervious material
(microencapsulation).
176. (b) UV radiation can be an effective viricide and
bactericide. Disinfection using UV radiation is
commonly used in wastewater treatment applications
and is finding an increased usage in drinking water
treatment.
177. (b) When cells are exposed to sunlight, radiant energy
can damage the DNA. For example, ultraviolet
irradiation cause covalent bond formation between
adjacent thymines on the same strand of DNA.
Ultraviolet light is absorbed by a double bond in
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178. (a) In order to manufacture silicones, alkyl-substituted
chlorosilanes are used as starting material. Since
dimethylsilane contains – OH group at the end of the
chain, polymerization and chain length increases.
However, the hydrolysis of alkyl trichlorosilane gives
very complex cross linked polymer.
179. (b) Examples of natural coloids can be found in our body
itself : blood consists of colloidal sized red blood
corpuscles (RBC) which provide the vital oxygen to
all the body tissues.
180. (a) Nickel silver, also known as German silver, is a copper
alloy with nickel and often zinc. The usual formulations
is 60% copper, 20% nickel and 20% zinc. Nickel silver
is named for its silvery appearance, but it contains no
elemental silver unless plated.
181. (d) Atomic absorption spectroscopy is an analytical
chemistry technique used for determining
concentration of particular metal element and is widely
used in phar maceutics. It was used for the
determination of cobalt in Vitamin B12.
182. (b) Nitrosomonas is a genus comprising rod shaped
chemoautotrophic bacteria. This rare bacteria oxidizes
ammonia into nitrite as a metabolic process.
183. (a) Devarda's alloy , is an alloy of aluminium (44% - 46%),
copper (49% - 51%) and zinc (4% - 6%). Devarda's
alloy is used as reducing agent in analytical chemistry
for the determination of nitrates after their reduction to
ammonia under alkaline conditions. It owes its name to
the Italian chemist Arturo Devarda (1859-1944), who
synthezised it at the end of the 19th century to develop
a new method to analyze nitrate in Chile saltpeter.
184. (a) Grit chambers are long narrow tanks that are designed
to slow down the flow so that solids such as sand,
coffee grounds, and eggshells will settle out of the
water. Grit causes excessive wear and tear on pumps
and other plant equipment. Its removal is particularly
important in cities with combined sewer systems, which
carry a good deal of silt, sand, and gravel that wash off
streets or land.
185. (a) Cysteine (abbreviated as Cys or C) is an a-amino acid
with the chemical formula HO2CCH(NH2)CH2SH. It is
a semi-essential amino acid, which means that it can be
biosynthesized in humans. The thiol side chain in
cysteine often participates in enzymatic reactions,
serving as a nucleophile.
186. (d) Neon is a chemical element with symbol Ne and atomic
number 10. It is in group 18 (noble gases) of the periodic
table. Neon is a colorless, odorless, inert monatomic
gas under standard conditions, with about two-thirds
the density of air.
187. (b) The aorta is the largest artery in the human body,
originating from the left ventricle of the heart and
extending down to the abdomen, where it bifurcates
into two smaller arteries (the common iliac arteries).
The aorta distributes oxygenated blood to all parts of
the body through the systemic circulation.
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189. (c) by tracheal system
190. (c) In nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry, a nuclear
reaction is semantically considered to be the process
in which two nuclei, or else a nucleus of an atom and a
subatomic particle (such as a proton, neutron, or high
energy electron) from outside the atom, collide to
produce one or more nuclides that are different from
the nuclide(s) that began the process.
191. (b) annihilate each other
192. (a) In the photoelectric effect, electrons are emitted from
solids, liquids or gases when they absorb energy from
light. Electrons emitted in this manner may be called
photoelectrons.
193. (d) a circle
194. (b) Cryolite (Na3AlF6, sodium hexafluoroaluminate) is an
uncommon mineral identified with the once large
deposit at Ivigtût on the west coast of Greenland,
depleted by 1987.
195. (c) Glucose (C6H12O6, also known as D-glucose, dextrose,
or grape sugar) is a simple monosaccharide found in
plants. It is one of the three dietary monosaccharides,
along with fructose and galactose, that are absorbed
directly into the bloodstream during digestion.
196. (b) Any of the homologous segments, lying in a
longitudinal series, that compose the body of certain
animals, such as earthworms and lobsters. Also called
somite.
197. (a) 198. (d) 199. (d) 200. (c) 201. (b)
202. (a) 203. (c) 204. (c) 205. (a) 206. (c)
207. (d) 208. (c) 209. (d) 210. (c) 211. (a)
212. (a) 213. (c) 214. (b) 215. (b)
216. (c) Succulent plants store water in their stems or leaves.
They include the Cactaceae family, which has round
stems and can store a lot of water. The leaves are often
vestigial, as in the case of cacti, wherein the leaves are
reduced to spines, or they do not have leaves at all.
Water is stored in the bulbs of some plants, at or below
ground level. They may be dormant during drought
conditions and are, therefore, known as drought
evaders.
217. (a) Thorium is an element which are used in radioactive
chemicals where all other three options are power
generating systems which are regenerated.
218. (a) chegonium, the female reproductive organ in ferns
and mosses. An archegonium also occurs in some
gymnosperms, e.g., cycads and conifers. A flask-
shaped structure, it consists of a neck, with one or
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219. (b) Trochodendron is a genus of flowering plants with
one living species, Trochodendron aralioides, and six
extinct species known from the fossil record.
220. (a) A Caesarean section (often C-section, also other
spellings) is a surgical procedure in which one or more
incisions are made through a mother's abdomen
(laparotomy) and uterus (hysterotomy) to deliver one
or more babies. The first modern Caesarean section
was performed by German gynecologist Ferdinand
Adolf Kehrer in 1881. But in ancient medical history
Julius Caesar was the first person to be borne by this
method and thus the operation named after him.
221. (b) Study of ants is called Myrmecology.
222. (a) A Reverse transcriptase (RT) is an enzyme used to
generate complementary DNA (cDNA) from an RNA
template, a process termed reverse transcription. RT is
needed for the replication of retroviruses (e.g., HIV),
and RT inhibitors are widely used as antiretroviral
drugs.
223. (c) Fleming's right-hand rule (for generators) shows the
direction of induced current when a conductor moves
in a magnetic field. The right hand is held with the
thumb, first finger and second finger mutually
perpendicular to each other (at right angles).
224. (b) The watt (symbol: W) is a derived unit of power in the
International System of Units (SI), named after the
Scottish engineer James Watt (1736-1819).
225. (d) The NIOSH states "Under dry conditions, the
resistance offered by the human body may be as high
as 100,000 Ohms. Wet or broken skin may drop the
body's resistance to 1,000 Ohms," adding that "high-
voltage electrical energy quickly breaks down human
skin, reducing the human body's resistance to 500
Ohms."
226. (a) The critical temperature for superconductors is the
temperature at which the electrical resistivity of a metal
drops to zero. The transition is so sudden and complete
that it appears to be a transition to a different phase of
matter; this superconducting phase is described by
the BCS theory.
227. (c) A central processing unit (CPU) is the electronic
circuitry within a computer that carries out the
instructions of a computer program by performing the
basic arithmetic, logical, control and input/output (I/
O) operations specified by the instructions.
228. (a) Brass is an alloy made of copper and zinc; the
proportions of zinc and copper can be varied to create
a range of brasses with varying properties.
229. (d) Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon
content, in comparison to steel, and has fibrous
inclusions, known as slag. This is what gives it a "grain"
resembling wood, which is visible when it is etched or
bent to the point of failure. Wrought iron is tough,
malleable, ductile and easily welded.
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present is also a solution.
232. (c) The plant epidermis consists of three main cell types:
pavement cells, guard cells and their subsidiary cells
that surround the stomata.
233. (a) As sugar concentration increases in the guard cells,
as a result water enters the guard cells. The guard cells
become turgid (swollen with water). The thin outer walls
bulge out and force the inner wall into a crescent shape.
In this way a stoma or pore is formed between each
pair of guard cell.
234. (c) Mahyco, an Indian seed company based in Jalna,
Maharashtra, has developed the Bt brinjal. The
genetically modified brinjal event is termed Event EE 1
and Mahyco have also applied for approval of two
brinjal hybrids.
235. (d) Electric current is measured using a device called an
ammeter.
236. (d) Photoperiodism is the physiological reaction of
organisms to the length of day or night. It occurs in
plants and animals. It affects Flowering,Vegetative
growth and fruiting in plants.
237. (d) The correct match is as follows:
Ascorbic acid- Vitamin C
Chlorophyll- Photosynthetic pigment
Carotenoid- Quencher
Superoxide dismutase- Enzyme
238. (b) Allantois is a part of a developingamniote's conceptus
which primarily involved in nutrition and excretion, and
is webbed withblood vessels.
239. (d) Haliotis belongs to Mollusca.
240. (a) Although most DNA is packaged in chromosomes
within the nucleus, mitochondria also have a small
amount of their own DNA. This genetic material is
known as mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA
241. (c) First class proteins contain all the essential amino acids
in sufficient amounts.Animal proteins are obtained from
milk, egg, fish, meat etc. are first classproteins. These
are also called adequate proteins.
242. (b) Needle exerts more pressure than nail on the balloon.
243. (c) The speed of sound is greater in moist air than in dry air.
244. (b) X rays are frequently used to check the defects in
Diamonds and other precious stones.
245. (a) When ice is kept on saw dust then it does not melt
quickly as it's an insulator of heat and air does not
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246. (a) When a drop of Glycerol is added to crushed KMnO4
spread on a paper there is a violent explosion.
247. (c) A bleaching agent is a material that lightens or whitens
a substrate through chemical reaction. The most
common bleaching agents generally fall into two
categories: chlorine and its related compounds (such
as sodium hypochlorite) and the peroxygen bleaching
agents, such as hydrogen peroxide and sodium
perborate.
248. (a) Alpha particles are the least penetrating as they are
the most densely ionizing. The penetrating power of
nuclear radiation depends upon the ionizing power of
the radiation. The more localised the ionization the less
penetrating power it will possess.
249. (a) Hydrogen- peroxide is an effective sterilizing agent.
Water results when it readily loses active oxygen.
250. (c) The maximum fixation of solar energy is done by green
plants.The energy is stored in the plants as
carbohydrates for their metabolic activities as
growth,respiration etc.
251. (a) The term 'brown air' is used for photochemical smog.
The brown color is cause by the presence of a various
Nitrous Oxides.
252. (c) Peroxyacetyl nitrate is a secondary pollutant present
in photochemical smog. It is thermally unstable and
decomposes into peroxyethanoyl radicals and nitrogen
dioxide gas.
253. (b) Wave particle duality is a quantum mechanics effect. It
means the electron sometimes acts like a particle and
sometimes it acts like a wave. It depends on the
situations.
254. (b) Vitamin B12 consists of a class of chemically related
compounds (vitamers). It contains the biochemically
rare element cobalt.
255. (d) In 1904 the German agronomist and plant physiologist
Lorenz Hiltner first coined the term "rhizosphere" to
describe the plant-root interface, a word originating in
part from the Greek word "rhiza", meaning root.
Hiltner described the rhizosphere as the area around a
plant root that is inhabited by a unique population of
microorganisms influenced, he postulated, by the
chemicals released from plant roots.
256. (c) Reverse transcription were discovered by Howard
Temin and independently isolated by David Baltimore.
257. (d) Steam will produce more severe burns than boiling
water because steam has more heat energy than water
due to its latent heat of vaporisation.
258. (c) Fructose is the sweetest of all natural sugar types.
259. (c) Zone melting, any of a group of techniques used to
purify an element or a compound or control its
composition by melting a short region (i.e., zone) and
causing this liquid zone to travel slowly through a
relatively long ingot, or charge, of the solid.
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262. (c) Coagulation removes dirt and other particles suspended
in water. Alum and other chemicals are added to water
to form tiny sticky particles called "floc" which attract
the dirt particles. The combined weight of the dirt and
the alum (floc) become heavy enough to sink to the
bottom during sedimentation.
263. (c) Retroviral integrase (IN) is an enzyme produced by a
retrovirus (such as HIV) that enables its genetic material
to be integrated into the DNA of the infected cell.
264. (b) 265. (d) 266. (c) 267. (a) 268. (d)
269. (a) High grade (HG) and ultra high grade (UHG) anthracite
are the highest grades of anthracite coal.
270. (a)
271. (b) Anemometer is an instrument for measuring the speed
of the wind, or of any current of gas.
272. (b) 273. (a) 274. (a) 275. (b) 276. (d)
277. (c) 278. (b) 279. (c) 280. (d)
281. (b) A parsec (symbol: pc) is a unit of length used to
measure large distances to objects outside our Solar
System.
282. (a)
283. (a) Phenol, also known as carbolic acid, is an aromatic
organic compound with the molecular formula
C6H5OH. It is a white crystalline solid that is volatile.
The molecule consists of a phenyl group (–C6 H5 )
bonded to a hydroxyl group (OH).
284. (b)
285. (b) It grows larger until puberty and then begins to shrink.
The gland produces thymosins, which are hormones
that stimulate the development of antibodies.
286. (b) 287. (d) 288. (d) 289. (c)
290. (b) 291. (c) 292. (a)
293. (d) Lichens can be used asair pollution indicators,
especially of the concentration of sulfur dioxide in the
atmosphere. Lichens are plants that grow in exposed
places such as rocks or tree bark. They need to be
very good at absorbing water and nutrients to grow
there.
294. (c) Soil salinity is the salt content in the soil; the process
of increasing the salt content is known as salinization.
Salts occur naturally within soils and water. Salinization
can be caused by natural processes such as mineral
weathering or by the gradual withdrawal of an ocean.
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297. (c) Saffron, a spice derived from the dried stigmas of the
saffron crocus. (crocus sativus) a small plant about a
foot tall. Each flower has three female parts. (stigmas)
two male parts. (stamens) each stigmas is red or dark
red in color towards the top and yellow towards the
bottom of the stigma, where it is attached to the flower.
298. (d) 299. (a) 300. (a) 301. (b) 302. (c)
303. (d) 304. (d) 305. (a) 306. (c) 307. (c)
308. (c) 309. (c) 310. (b) 311. (a) 312. (b)
313. (a) The basic unit of nervous system is known as neuron.
The nervous system consists of nerves, brain and
spinal cord. They control the working of various
organs of the body. The part of brain and spinal cord
is called the Autonomic Nervous System.
314. (a) A cellulosic wall is found in the cells of plants.Cellulose
is an important structural component of the primary
cell wall of green plants, many forms of algae and the
oomycetes. Some species of bacteria secrete it to form
biofilms. Cellulose is the most abundant organic
polymer on Earth.
315. (c) The filtration unit of kidney is known as nephron.
Kidneys filter the nitrogenous waste products of the
body through nephron and throw them out in the form
of urine. Kidneys and skin are the chief organs of
excretion.
316. (d) The nutritive tissue in the seeds of higher plants is
known as endosperm. Endosperm is the tissue
produced inside the seeds of most flowering plants
around the time of fertilization. It surrounds the embryo
and provides nutrition in the form of starch, though it
can also contain oils and protein.
317. (b) Yeast is an important source of vitamin B. Yeasts is
eukaryotic microorganisms classified in the kingdom
Fungi, with 1,500 species (estimated to be 1% of all
fungal species). Yeasts are unicellular, although some
species with yeast forms may become multicellular
through the formation of strings of connected budding
cells known as pseudohyphae, or false hyphae, as
seen in most molds.
318 (d) Enzymes are proteins. Enzymes are large biological
molecules responsible for the thousands of metabolic
processes that sustain life. They are highly selective
catalysts, greatly accelerating both the rate and
specificity of metabolic reactions, from the digestion
of food to the synthesis of DNA. Most enzymes are
proteins, although some catalytic RNA molecules have
been identified.
319. (c) Heating of ore below its melting point in the absence
of air is known as calcinations. Calcinations is a thermal
treatment process in presence of air or oxygen applied
to ores and other solid materials to bring about a
thermal decomposition, phase transition, or removal
of a volatile fraction
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321. (b) NH4Cl is the compound which possesses ionic,
covalent and coordinate bonds. Ammonium chloride,
an inorganic compound with the formula NH?Cl, is a
white crystalline salt, highly soluble in water. Solutions
of ammonium chloride are mildly acidic. Sal ammoniac
is a name of the natural, mineralogical form of
ammonium chloride
322. (a) The depletion of Ozone layer is mainly due to
chlorofluorocarbons. A chlorofluorocarbon is an
organic compound that contains only carbon, chlorine,
and fluorine, produced as a volatile derivative of
methane, ethan e, and propane. They are also
commonly known by the DuPont brand name Freon.
323. (c) Bacterium is associated with tuberculosis, Fungus
with ringworm, Protozoan with kaala-azaar and virus
with influenza.
324. (b) Matter waves are de Broglie waves. In quantum
mechanics, the concept of matter waves or de Broglie
waves reflects the wave-particle duality of matter. The
theory was proposed by Louis de Broglie in 1924 in
his PhD thesis. The de Broglie relations show that the
wavelength is inversely proportional to the momentum
of a particle and is also called de Broglie wavelength.
325 (a) When the milk is churned vigorously, the cream is
separated out due to centrifugal force. Centrifugal
force is the apparent force that draws a rotating body
away from the center of rotation. It is caused by the
inertia of the body as the body's path is continually
redirected.
326. (b) Gas thermometers are more sensitive than liquid
thermometers because the gases have large coefficient
of expansion. Coefficient of Thermal expansion is the
tendency of matter to change in volume in response
to a change in temperature, through heat transfer.
When a substance is heated, its particles begin moving
more and thus usually maintain a greater average
separation.
327. (b) Sun appearing red at sunset is not caused by
atmospheric refraction of light. Refraction is
essentially a surface phenomenon. The phenomenon
is mainly in governance to the law of conservation of
energy and momentum. Due to change of medium, the
phase velocity of the wave is changed but its
frequency remains constant. This is most commonly
observed when a wave passes from one medium to
another at any angle other than 90° or 0°.
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fertilizer loss, power and time consumption, and wear 344. (d) Stalactites and Stalagmites are formed due to the
on machines, as well as to increase crop yields and
reduce erosion. Contour farming is most effective
345. (d) Hermaphroditism is a form of sexual reproduction in
when used in conjunction with such practices as strip
cropping, terracing, and water diversion.
330. (b) Glucose has the molecular formula C6H12O6 and is
thus a hexose sugar. 346. (b) Lyman series of hydrogen atom spectral lines in the
331. (d) Bacteria are prokaryotes, which, by definition, are cells
that don't possess membrane-bound organelles. 347. (b) An electric battery is a devices consisting of two or
Mitochondria are membrane-bound organelles.
332. (d) The rainbow comes from the reflection and refraction
of the sunlight in the falling drops; its colors are mainly
due to dispersion, which means that the refractive index 348. (b)
of water depends on the wavelength of light.
333. (c) When a ray of light falls on sea shell, then its small
amount gets refracted (slightly polarised) and rest
almost gets reflected back (fully polarised).
334. (d) An object covers distance which is directly
proportional to the square of the time. Its acceleration
is constant.
335. (b) If the horizontal range of a projectile is four times its
maximum height, the angle of projection is 45 degrees. 349. (d)
Range is the total horizontal distance covered during
u 2 sin 2 q 350. (a)
the time of flight. It is calculated as , where
g 352. (a)
q is the angle of projection.
336. (c) Mercury has the least melting point of the following
metals (–38.83°C). Gold, silver and copper have 1064°C, 353. (d)
961.8°C and 1085°C respectively.
337. (d) Marsh Gas or methane gas is produced when
vegetation decomposes in water. Methane, also called 354. (d)
marsh gas, colourless, odourless gas that occurs
abundantly in nature as the chief constituent of natural
gas, as a component of firedamp in coal mines, and as
a product of the anaerobic bacterial decomposition of
vegetable matter under water.
338. (c) In cactus, spines are modified leaves, and thorns are 355. (a)
modified branches. 357. (d)
339. (b) Mycoplasma are the smallest bacterial cells yet
discovered, can survive without oxygen and are 358. (d)
typically about 0.1 µm in diameter.
340. (d) Biodiversity can be thought of as the genetic library
that keeps life going on Earth. Biodiversity, short for
biological diversity, is the term used to describe the
359. (b)
variety of life found on Earth and all of the natural
processes. This includes ecosystem, genetic and
cultural diversity, and the connections between these
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which an organism can self-fertilize or mate with another
individual of the same species.
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energy into electrical energy.
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The area reserved for the welfare of wildlife is called
National Park.
351. (c)
Turner Syndrome, represented by 44A + XO. This occur
in females in which one of the X-chromosome is
missing.
Myopia also known as short sightedness is a condition
of the eye where one looking at a distant object seems
a little out of focus.
In the process of photosynthesis, phytoplankton
release oxygen into the water. Half of the world’s
oxygen is produced from phytoplankton
photosynthesis. The other half is produced via
photosynthesis on land by trees, shrubs, grasses and
other plants.
356. (a)
Rate of Transpiration increases in hot, dry and windy
condition.
Collateral Bundle is a type of vascular bundle in which
the phloem and xylem lie on the same radius, with the
phloem located towards the periphery of the stem and
xylem towards the centre.
The Planck constant has dimensions of physical action,
these are the same as those of angular momentum. In
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360. (a)
361. (b) Polarization is a property of waves that can oscillate
with more than one orientation. Electromagnetic waves
such as light exhibit polarization, as do some other
types of wave, such as gravitational waves.
362. (c) Ramanathapuran district of Tamil Nadu has vast
stretches of saline and alkaline soils in the wastal
region. The permeability rate of the sandy soil is upto
5 cm/hour and therefore, water availibility for the
cultivation of crops is very less.
363. (b)
364. (c) Minamata disease is a neurological syndrome caused
by severe mercury poisoning.
365. (d) Gold is often referred as king of metals.
366. (b)
367. (a) Fermi is the unit of length used to measure nuclear
distances. The unit is named after the Italian physicist
Enrico Fermi.
368. (b)
369. (d) Christmas factor is one of the proteases of the
coagulation system.
370. (a) “Romancing with life” is a memoir written by leading
Bollywood star, Dev Anand.
371. (b) Highly concentrated sources of oxygen promote rapid
combustion. Fire and explosion hazards exist when
concentrated oxidants and fuels are brought into close
proximity; however, an ignition event, such as heat or
a spark, is needed to trigger combustion. Oxygen itself
is not the fuel, but the oxidant.
372. (a) The Dumas method in analytical chemistry is a method
for the quantitative determination of nitrogen in
chemical substances based on a method first described
by Jean-Baptiste Dumas in 1826.
373. (a) Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a molecule that
encodes the genetic instructions used in the
development and functioning of all known living
organisms and many viruses. DNA is a nucleic acid;
alongside proteins and carbohydrates, nucleic acids
compose the three major macromolecules essential for
all known forms of life.
374. (a) A steroid hormone (abbreviated as sterone) is a steroid
that acts as a hormone. Steroid hormones can be
grouped into five groups by the receptors to which
they bind: glucocorticoids, mineralocorticoids,
androgens, estrogens, and progestogens. Vitamin D
derivatives are a sixth closely related hormone system
with homologous receptors, though they are
technically sterols rather than steroids. Steroid
hormones help control metabolism, inflammation,
immune functions, salt and water balance, development
of sexual characteristics, and the ability to withstand
illness and injury.
375. (a) nematocyst, minute, elongated, or spherical capsule
produced exclusively by members of the phylum
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376. (a) Lactobacillus, also called Döderlein's bacillus, is a
genus of Gram-positive facultative anaerobic or
microaerophilic rod-shaped bacteria.
377. (c) Chlorophyll is a green pigment found in cyanobacteria
and the chloroplasts of algae and plants. Its name is
derived from the Greek words chloros (“green”) and
phyllon (“leaf ”). Chlorophyll is an extremely important
biomolecule, critical in photosynthesis, which allows
plants to absorb energy from light.
378. (b) In physics, the kinetic energy of an object is the energy
which it possesses due to its motion. It is defined as
the work needed to accelerate a body of a given mass
from rest to its stated velocity. Having gained this
energy during its acceleration, the body maintains this
kinetic energy unless its speed changes.
379. (c) The ozone layer is a layer in Earth's atmosphere that
absorbs most of the Sun's UV radiation. It contains
relatively high concentrations of ozone (O3), although
it is still very small with regard to ordinary oxygen, and
is less than ten parts per million, the average ozone
concentration in Earth's atmosphere being only about
0.6 parts per million. The ozone layer is mainly found in
the lower portion of the stratosphere from
approximately 20 to 30 kilometres (12 to 19 mi) above
Earth, though the thickness varies seasonally and
geographically.
380. (a) Airlift pumps are often used in deep dirty wells where
sand would quickly abrade mechanical parts. (The
compressor is on the surface and no mechanical parts
are needed in the well). However airlift wells must be
much deeper than the water table to allow for
submergence. Air is generally pumped at least as deep
under the water as the water is to be lifted. (If the water
table is 50 ft below, the air should be pumped 100 feet
deep).
381. (a) The passenger-side mirror on a car is typically a convex
mirror. In some countries, these are labeled with the
safety warning “Objects in mirror are closer than they
appear”, to warn the driver of the convex mirror's
distorting effects on distance perception. Convex
mirrors are preferred in vehicles because they give an
upright, though diminished, image. Also they provide
a wider field of view as they are curved outwards.
382. (c) non-luminous zone
383. (d) Gamma radiation, also known as gamma rays, and
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radiation, and are thus biologically hazardous.
384. (a) Gives us atmospheric pressure - Ozone layer shields
earth from UV radiation - Ionosphere layer allows radio
waves to be bounced off and radios to work - Prevents
water from vaporising off the earth thanks to
atmospheric pressure.
385. (d) Bacillus Calmette-Guérin is a vaccine against
tuberculosis that is prepared from a strain of the
attenuated live bovine tuberculosis bacillus,
Mycobacterium bovis, that has lost its virulence in
humans.
386. (b) A greenhouse gas (sometimes abbreviated GHG) is a
gas in an atmosphere that absorbs and emits radiation
within the thermal infrared range. This process is the
fundamental cause of the greenhouse effect. The
primary greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere
are water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous
oxide, and ozone.
387. (d) Hydrogen bomb is based on the principle of nuclear
fusion. Hydrogen bomb or H-bomb, weapon deriving
a large portion of its energy from the nuclear fusion of
hydrogen isotopes. The hydrogen bomb functions by
the fusion, or joining together, of lighter elements into
heavier elements. The end product again weighs less
than its components, the difference once more
appearing as energy. Because extremely high
temperatures are required in order to initiate fusion
reactions, the hydrogen bomb is also known as a
thermonuclear bomb.
388. (b) The commonly used safety fuse wire is made up of an
alloy of tin and lead. Fuse is a safety device used in
any electrical installation, which forms the weakest link
between the supply and the load. It is a short length of
wire made of lead / tin /alloy of lead and tin/ zinc having
a low melting point and low ohmic losses. A fuse wire
should always have a high resistance and low melting
point. High resistance to heat up soon and low melting
point to melt away due to the heat produced by high
resistance so that the circuit is not damaged
389. (b) When cooled from room temperature liquid water
becomes increasingly dense, as with other substances,
but at approximately 4 °C (39 °F), pure water reaches
its maximum density. As it is cooled further, it expands
to become less dense.
390. (b) The linear expansion of a solid rod is independent of
the time of heat flow. It is directly dependent on the
temperature, length of the rod and material of the rod.
391. (b) X-rays are produced as a result of obstruction of
cathode rays with metal.
392. (c) Aristotle is the father of Biology and Zoology.
393. (a) the smallest unit of classification is species. The
hierarchy of biological classification's major taxonomic
ranks is as follows: species< genus< family < order<
class< phylum < kingdom < domain<life.
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it can also lead to impaired immune function, cancer,
and birth defects.
396. (a) Cloves are the aromatic flower buds of a tree in the
family Myrtaceae, Syzygium aromaticum. They are
native to the Maluku Islands in Indonesia, and are
commonly used as a spice.
397. (c) Heating gypsum partially dehydrates the mineral by
driving off approximately 75% of water contained in its
chemical structure. The partially dehydrated mineral is
called calcium sulfate hemihydrate or calcined gypsum
commonly known to be Plaster of Paris.
398. (c) Neutron was discovered by a British Physicist named
Sir James Chadwick. In1932, Chadwick showed that
the radiation from the element beryllium, caused by
the bombardment of alpha particles is actually a stream
of electrically neutral particles. He called these particles
neutrons. He also studied some other properties of
these particles. Neutrons directly emitted from atomic
nuclei are termed as fast neutron.
399. (c) Carbonated beverages like soda get their name from
the carbon dioxide dissolved in the beverage. Most
gases will dissolve in water (which is the main
component of soda) but carbon dioxide is particularly
good at dissolving and it adds a nice slightly sour
taste to the beverage. It may also be added to make it
reminiscent of the carbonation found in fermented
beverages like champagne.
400. (c) Bio gas is a clean unpolluted and cheap source of
energy in rural areas. It consists of 55-70% methane
which is inflammable. Bio gas is produced from cattle
dung in a bio gas plant commonly known as gobar gas
plant through a process called digestion.
401. (c) Carbon credit is a permit which allows a country or
organization to produce a certain amount of carbon
emissions and which can be traded if the full allowance
is not used. It is associated with protection of
environment.
402. (b) A green leaf is green because of the presence of a
pigment known as chlorophyll, which is inside an
organelle called a chloroplast. When they are abundant
in the leaf's cells, as they are during the growing
season, the chlorophylls' green color dominates and
masks out the colors of any other pigments that may
be present in the leaf. Thus the leaves of summer are
characteristically green

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most common devices for measuring temperature is
the glass thermometer. This consists of a glass tube
filled with mercury or some other liquid, which acts as
the working fluid. Temperature increase causes the fluid
to expand, so the temperature can be determined by
measuring the volume of the fluid. Such thermometers
are usually calibrated so that one can read the
temperature simply by observing the level of the fluid
in the thermometer.
404. (a) At 25° C the pH of pure water is very close to 7. Acids
have a pH less than 7 while bases have a pH greater
than 7. Because it has a pH of 7, water is considered to
be neutral. It is neither an acid nor a base, but is the
reference point for acids and bases.
405. (c) Distillation is a process of separating the component
substances (impurities) from a liquid mixture by
selective evaporation and condensation. The end
result is pure water.
406. (b) H2SO4 is the sulphuric acid which is a highly corrosive
strong mineral acid . It cannot be used in food industry
as a preservative.
407. (d) The deep red colour that is present in tomatoes, pink
grapefruit, guava and watermelon is caused by
lycopene, a carotenoid.
408. (d) 409. (a)
410. (b) When a person cries there is a watery discharge from
the nose due to activation of lachrymal fluid through
nasal cavity.
411. (c) The functions of root hairs is to collect water and
mineral nutrients present in the soil and take this
solution up through the roots to the rest of the plant.
As root hair cells do not carry out photosynthesis
they do not contain chloroplasts.
412. (d) In agriculture, a catch crop is a fast-growing crop that
is grown simultaneously with, or between successive
plantings of a main crop.
413. (d) Carotenoids protect the plant from damage from UV
light and this protection is attributed to their antioxidant
properties: they are able to absorb the harmful oxidative
chemicals produced during photosynthesis, the
process whereby plants make energy from sunlight.
414. (d)
415. (d) The substance that causes the worst air pollution is
carbon monoxide (CO).
416. (a) 417. (b) 418. (b) 419. (a) 420. (a)
421. (a) 422. (a) 423. (d) 424. (c)
425. (b) Pyrolysis is a thermo-chemical decomposition of
organic material at elevated temperatures in the absence
of oxygen (or any halogen). Pyrolysis generally takes
place well above atmospheric pressure at temperatures
exceeding above 430 °C.
426. (c) Light is made up of photons. so it has some particle
properties. In the photoelectric effect. light hits some
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protons, which is presently element 118, ununoctium.
Unnoctium is the heaviest element, but it is man-made.
The heaviest naturally-occurring element is uranium
(atomic number 92, atomic weight 238.0289).
428. (b) Haptens are small molecules that react with a specific
antibody but cannot induce the formation of antibodies
unless bound to a carrier protein or other large antigenic
molecule. They are incomplete or partial antigens.
429. (a) Sulphur dioxide gas exhibits bleaching properties in
presence of moisture. It dissolves in water liberating
nascent hydrogen. Nascent hydrogen removes oxygen
atoms from the coloring matter (reduces coloring matter)
and it loses its color.
430. (c) Zirconium is a lustrous, grey-white. strong transition
metal that resembles titanium. Zirconium is mainly used
as a refractory and opacifier, although it is used in
small amounts as an alloying agent for its strong
resistance to corrosion.
431. (d) Plant wilting occurs after excessive loss of water by
transpiration and lesser absorption. On a hot day, plants
transpire heavily and cannot absorb water speedily to
keep pace with transpiration loss, even when there is
enough water.
432. (b) Gypsum is calcium sulphate which is essential to the
sustainability of most irrigated soils. Irrigated land
eventually leads to sodicity and salinity unless extreme
care is taken. It improves sodic (saline) soils by
removing sodium from the soil and replacing it with
calcium.
433. (d) The Electromagnetic spectrum in order of decreasing
energy, thus increasing wavelength : Gamma Rays-
wavelength: 0.01 nm : X-rays -1 nm ; Ultra-violet Rays-
O.l micrometres ; Visible Light-Red light : 0.7
micrometres. Violet Light: 0.4 micrometres ; Infrared
Radiation-0.01 mm ; Microwaves -less than 10 cm.
usually 1 cm : Radiowaves- Long, Medium and Short
Waves : 2 km-l0 m ; and Very High frequency (VHF)
and Ultra High Frequency (UHF): 10 m-l 0 cm.
434. (a) Eutrophication is the eco-system response to the addi-
tion of artificial or natural substances, such as nitrates
and phosphates. through fertilizers or sewage to an
aquatic system. One example is the "bloom" or great
increase of phytoplankton in a water body as a
response to increased levels of nutrients.
435. (d) The wings are modified forelimbs of birds which are
the key to bird flight. Each wing composed of three
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the Free Energy which, under conditions of constant
temperature and pressure, determines the direction of
spontaneous change. All spontaneous processes have
a negative change in free energy.
437. (c) Sandstone can be turned into a metamorphic rock by
being either heated up to a point where it undergoes a
significant change or subjected to high pressures, or
subjected to chemically active fluids, or some
combination thereof. A common result of the
metamorphosis of sandstone is the creation of
quartzite.
438. (d) A Sonometer is a device for demonstrating the
relationship between the frequency of the sound
produced by a plucked string, and the tension, length
and mass per unit length of the string. These
relationships are usually called Mersenne's laws after
Marin Mersenne (1588-1648), who investigated and
codified them.
439. (b) Polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus.
Its causative agent, poliovirus, was identified in 1908
by Karl Landsteiner. The polio virus invades the
nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a
matter of hours.
440. (d) It is generally considered that the Panda belongs to
the bear family, though differences persist. Some DNA
studies have shown that the giant panda is closer to
the bear family while the red panda is indeed closer to
the raccoon family.
441. (a) The pancreas is a glandular organ in the upper
abdomen, but really it serves as two glands in one: a
digestive exocrine gland and a hormone-producing
endocrine gland. Functioning as an exocrine gland,
the pancreas excretes enzymes to break down the
proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and nucleic acids in
food. Functioning as an endocrine gland, the pancreas
secretes the hormones insulin and glucagon to control
blood sugar levels throughout the day.
442. (b) Due to the action of motor cells at the base of the
petiole and leaflets, the leaves of touch me not plant
closes. The motor cells are activated by touch of the
sensitive hairs present on the surface of touch-me-not
plant. Like a number of other plant species, it undergoes
changes in leaf orientation termed "sleep" or nyctinastic
movement. The foliage closes during darkness and
reopens in light.
443. (c) The theoretical basis for plant tissue culture was
proposed by Gottlieb Haberlandt, German Academy of
science in1902 on his experiments on the culture of
single cell.
444. (d) Beak is technically only the external surface of a bird's
mouth. The entire mouth structure of a bird is called
the bill. The bill (or rostrum) consists of a bony
framework, a vascular layer containing the blood
vessels and nerves, a layer of connective tissue, which
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humans, unlike most other mammals, do not have this
ability.
446. (c) Archimedes used the principle of buoyancy to find
the purity of gold. According to which a body immersed
in fluid experiences a buoyant force equal to the weight
of the fluid it displaces. With the help of this principle,
the density of the golden crown and solid gold was
compared by balancing the crown on a scale with a
reference piece, this set up is then immersed in water. If
the crown is less dense than gold, it will displace more
water, and thereby will experience a greater buoyant
force than the reference piece.
447. (c) The kinetic energy of a non-rotating object of mass m
1 2
traveling at a speed v is mv . If m and v are increased
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448. (d) The gravitational force is inversely proportional to the
square of the distance: If you double the distance
between the two bodies, the force of gravity is reduced
to one-fourth its original value.
449. (d) Stationary wave can occur because the medium is
moving in the opposite direction to the wave, or it can
arise in a stationary medium as a result of interference
between two waves travelling in opposite directions
450. (b) Two oxygen atoms can both achieve stable structures
by sharing two pairs of electrons joined in a double
bond. O=O. Each line represents one pair of shared
electrons.
451. (d) Helium is used by deep sea divers in their diving tanks
as a substitute of nitrogen. The trouble with nitrogen
in this situation is that nitrogen is a fairly heavy gas,
and is soluble in blood at high pressure. Long term use
of nitrogen can cause a strange sense of euphoria, or
well being called nitrogen narcosis. This is a bit like
being drunk, and makes the diver unable to assess
dangers. Divers who work at depth or for long periods
use a mixture of 20% Oxygen and 80% Helium. Helium
is used for a number of reasons - It is light, cheap, and
does not dissolve in blood the same way that nitrogen
does. Being inert it cannot be toxic to the diver or
corrosive to equipment.
452. (c) The atomic number of uranium is 92, and the mass
number of the isotope is given as 238. Therefore, it has
92 protons, 92 electrons, and 238 – 92 = 146 neutrons.
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into the cell by osmosis, and the vacuole swells and 47% of the earth's mass.
pushes against the cell wall. Endosmosis is the 460. (c) 461. (a) 462. (c)
movement of water molecules from outside to inside of
463. (d) Edward Jenner is often called "the father of
a cell through osmosis process.
immunology".
455. (c) Imbibition is a process by which a photographic print
464. (c) 465. (a)
is produced by absorption of a water-soluble dye by a
466. (d) Potash Alum is used to reduce bleeding in minor cuts
relief image or a differentially absorbing image in gelatin
and abrasions, nosebleeds, and haemorrhoids.
or a similar medium or in which a previously formed
dye image is transferred by absorption from one layer 467. (a)
into another layer 468. (c) Interferon is produced by the body's cells as a
456. (b) A physical phenomenon known as osmosis causes defensive response to viruses.
water to flow from an area of low solute, high water 469. (b) The first law of thermodynamics is a version of the law
concentration to an area of high solute, low water of conservation of energy.
concentration, until the two areas have an equal ratio 470. (a) 471. (a) 472. (c) 473. (d) 474. (d)
of solute to water. Normally, the solute diffuses toward 475. (b) 476. (b) 477. (a) 478. (c) 479. (a)
equilibrium as well; however, all cells are surrounded 480. (c) 481. (c) 482. (c)
by a lipid bilayer cell membrane which permits the flow
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1. The messenger satellite launched by NASA is to study (c) North–East
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) (d) Indo–Pak Border in Punjab and Rajasthan
(a) Mercury (b) Venus 10. The Headquarters of MCF (Master Control Facility) – the
(c) Satrun (d) Jupiter nerve centre of the entire space craft operations in India is at
2. An Intelligent terminal (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011)
(a) has a microprocessor, but can-not be programmed by (a) Hyderabad – Andhra Pradesh
the user (b) Thumba – Kerala
(b) can process small data processing jobs, with the use of (c) Sriharikota – Andhra Pradesh
a large CPU
(d) Hassan – Karnataka
(c) interacts with the user in English
11. In which of the following areas, a spreadsheet software is
(d) cannot take data from the user more useful? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011)
3. Which of the following countries has recently become the (a) Psychology (b) Publishing
third largest market for Twitter ? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010)
(c) Statistics (d) Message sending
(a) China (b) India
12. A Group Ware is a (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011)
(c) Brazil (d) Indonesia
(a) Hardware (b) Network
4. Processor's speed of a computer is measured in
(c) Software (d) Firmware
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010)
13. The transfer of date from a CPU to peripheral devices of
(a) BPS (b) MIPS
computer is achieved through (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(c) Baud (d) Hertz
(a) interfaces (b) buffer memory
5. 'C' language is a (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010)
(c) modems (d) computer ports
(a) Low level language
14. Which of the following items is not used in Local Area
(b) High level language
Networks (LANs)? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(c) Machine level language
(a) Interface Card (b) Cable
(d) Assembly level language
(c) Computer (d) Modem
6. Window 7, the latest operating system from Microsoft
Corporation has .............. Indian languages fonts. 15. What is m-commerce? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010) (a) machine commerce (b) mobile commerce
(a) 14 (b) 26 (c) money commerce (d) marketing commerce
(c) 37 (d) 49 16. Who invented the modem ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
7. The first computer made available for commercial use was: (a) Apple Computers Inc.
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011) (b) Digital Equipment Corporation
(a) MANIAC (b) ENIAC (c) Wang Laboratories Ltd.
(c) UNIVAC (d) EDSAC (d) AT&T Information Systems
8. A communication network which is used by large 17. What is the name given to the smallest unit of data space
organizations over regional, national or global area is called: available in a spreadsheet software application ?
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011) (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(a) LAN (b) WAN (a) Row (b) Block
(c) MAN (d) VAN (c) Cell (d) Pixel
9. Indian Army's Operation 'Saiyam' was related to : 18. An alternate name for the completely interconnected network
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011) topology is (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
(a) Kashmir (a) Mesh (b) Star
(b) Indo–China Border in the Central Region (c) Tree (d) Ring
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digital circuits ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (a) Multiprogramming
(a) Hexadecimal system (b) Multitasking
(b) Binary system (c) Memory Management
(c) Both hexadecimal and binary system (d) Networking
(d) Only Roman system 31. A computer executes programs in the sequence of :
21. Which of the following is an impact printe ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (a) Decode, Fetch, Execute
(a) Daisy wheel printer (b) Execute, Fetch, Decode
(b) Ink jet printer (c) Fetch, Decode, Execute
(c) Bubble jet printer (d) Store, Fetch, Execute
(d) Laser printer 32. Which of the following is in the ascending order of Data
22. A television channel is characterised by hierarchy ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2015)
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013) (a) Bit–Byte – Record – Field – Database – File
(a) frequency of transmitted signal (b) Byte – Bit – File – Record – Database – Field
(b) velocity of transmitted signal (c) Bit– Byte – Field – Record – File – Database
(c) physical dimension of television screen (d) Field – Byte – Bit – Record – File– Database
33. Data in database at a particular point of time is called as?
(d) size of picture tube
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
23. Who is the founder of “Facebook” which is currently the
No. 1 social networking website in India? (a) Intension (b) Extension
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (c) Back up (d) Application
(a) Orkut Buyukkokten (b) Mark Zuckerberg 34. CPU Scheduler is also known as _____ .
(c) Bill Gates (d) Martin Cooper (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
24. Which computer was the first to use the magnetic drum for (a) Job Scheduler
memory ? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013) (b) Resource Scheduler
(a) IBM - 650 (b) IBM - 7090 (c) Short-term Scheduler
(c) IBM - 701 (d) IBM - 360 (d) Process Scheduler
25. Identify the FIFO (First In First Out) structure among the 35. Which of the following is not an operating system?
following : (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013) (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(a) Stack (b) Queue (a) Android (b) Vista
(c) De-queue (d) Array (c) iOS (d) Opera
26. Which was the first electronic computer constructed at the 36. In IT, the technique of delaying outgoing acknowledgements
Moore School of Engineering? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) temporarily is known as (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(a) EOVAC (b) ONIVAC (a) AR Acknowledgement
(c) ENIAC (d) EDSAC (b) AR request
27. Which among the following standard protocols is the most (c) Piggybacking
widely used by the Internet? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (d) Piggyframing
(a) HTTP (b) TCP/IP 37. CPU performance is often measured in:
(c) SMTP (d) SLIP (SSC CHSL 2012)
28. Who among the following introduced the world's first laptop (a) MHz (b) MIPS
computer in the market? (SSC CGL 2014) (c) Band rate (d) G B
(a) Hewlett-Packard 38. The indentations on CDs and DVDs are called:
(b) Epson (SSC CHSL 2012)
(c) Laplink travelling software Inc (a) pits (b) clusters
(d) Microsoft (c) tracks (d) lands
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41. In HTML, tags consists of keywords enclosed within (c) Transistors
(SSC CHSL 2013) (d) Integrated chips
(a) flower brackets { } 52. In a _____________ network, all devices are connected to
(b) angular brackets < > a device called a hub and they communicate through it.
(c) parentheses ( ) (SSC Multitasking 2014)
(d) square brackets [ ] (a) Ming (b) Mesh
42. printer cannot print more than one character at a time. (c) Bus (d) Star
(SSC CHSL 2013) 53. Which one of the following acts as a mediator between the
user’s program and the hardware?
(a) Line (b) Daisy-wheel
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
(c) Laser (d) Dot-matrix
(a) Compiler (b) Editor
43. The waste generated by end life personal computers is
known as (SSC CHSL 2013) (c) Operating System (d) Browser
(a) E-waste (b) PC-waste 54. If you use a font that is not supported by a browser, then
the text (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
(c) Physical waste (d) Computer waste
(a) will be displayed in the default font
44. Telnet stands for (SSC CHSL 2014)
(b) will not be displayed
(a) Telephone Network (b) Television Network
(c) will be displayed using ‘ARIAL’ font only
(c) Teletype Network (d) Telefax Network
(d) willl be displayed with a particular background
45. In operating system, Round Robin Scheduling means:
55. The telephone line is connected through the______on
(SSC CHSL 2015)
the computer. (SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
(a) A kind of scheduling (a) USB (b) Modem
(b) A process allocation policy (c) Ethernet (d) PS2
(c) A memory allocation policy 56. In the nuclear reactors, moderators are used to :
(d) Repetition policy (SSC Sub. Ins. 2013)
46. FORTRAN is called : (SSC CHSL 2015) (a) Accelerate neutrons
(a) Floppy Translator (b) Formula Translator (b) Absorb the neutrons
(c) File Translator (d) Format Translator (c) Slow down the neutrons
47. All forms of ROM are also known as __________. (d) Generate neutrons
(SSC CHSL 2015) 57. Which is not an extension of a picture file on a computer ?
(a) Middleware (b) Firmware (SSC Sub. Ins. 2014)
(c) Shareware (d) Freeware (a) .jpeg (b) .png
48. The Simplest CUP scheduling algorithm is (c) .gif (d) .mdb
(SSC CHSL 2015) 58. Which measure of memory is the largest ?
(a) Round-robin scheduling algorithm (SSC Sub. Ins. 2014)
(b) Multilevel scheduling algorithm (a) MB Megabyte (b) GB Gigabyte
(c) FCFS scheduling algorithm (c) TB Terabyte (d) KB Kilobyte
(d) SJF scheduling algorithm 59. Which of the following is the maximum number of electrons
49. In MS-Excel, _________ provide a visual representation of that can be present in M-shell?
the values in a worksheet. (SSC Multitasking 2013) (SSC Sub. Ins. 2014)
(a) Views (b) Charts (a) 2 (b) 8
(c) Formulae (d) Templates (c) 18 (d) 32
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62. One strategy of allocating kernel memory is known as a computer ? (SSC Stenographer 2016)
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2016) (a) BAUD (b) Byte
(a) frames allocation (c) SYPS (d) MIPS
(b) register allocation 67. DHCP is mainly used to (SSC Stenographer 2016)
(c) slab allocation (a) Converting IP address to domain name
(d) resource allocation (b) Multicasting
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holds text and numbers. (SSC Stenographer 2013) (d) Routing
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1. (a) 2. (a) 3. (c)
4. (b) Acronym for million instructions per second. A old
measure of acomputer's speed and power, MIPS
measures roughly the number of machine instructions
that a computer can execute in one second.
5. (b) 6. (d) 7. (c) 8. (b)
9. (d) 10. (d) 11. (c) 12. (c)
13. (a) In computing, an interface is a shared boundary across
which two separate components of a computer system
exchange information. The exchange can be between
software, computer hardware,peripheral devices,
humans and combinations of these.
14. (c) Interface Card, Ethernet Cable and Routers are used in
setting up a LAN. The router can be plugged directly
into the modem via an Ethernet cable, and all other
computers are eventually connected in some fashion
to the route. In terms of LAN, a computer cannot be
said to be an item which constitutes this network.
15. (b) Mobile Commerce, also known as
M-Commerce or mCommerce, is the ability to conduct
commerce using a mobile device, such as a mobile
phone, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), a
smartphone, or other emerging mobile equipment.
16. (d) 17. (c) 18. (a) 19. (c) 80. (b)
21. (a) Daisy wheel printing is an impact printing technology
invented in 1969 by David S. Lee at Diablo Data
Systems. It uses interchangeable pre-formed type
elements, each with typically 96 glyphs, to generate
high-quality output comparable to premium typewriters
such as the IBM Selectric, but two to three times faster.
22. (a) A television channel is a physical or virtual channel
over which a television station or television network is
distributed. Channel numbers represent actual
frequencies used to broadcast the television signal.
For example, in North America. "Channel 2" refers to
the broadcast or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with
carrier frequencies of 55.25 MHz for NTSC analog video
(VSB) and 59.75 MHz for analog audio (FM), or 55.31
MHz for digital ATSC (8VSB).
23. (b) Mark Elliot Zuckerburg is an American computer
programmer and internet entrepreneur. He is best
known as one of five co-founders of the social
networking website Facebook.
24. (a) The IBM 650 Magnetic Drum Data-Processing
Machine was one of IBM's early computers, and the
world's fir st mass-produced computer. It was
announced in 1953 and almost 2000 systems were
produced, the last in 1962. Support for the 650 and its
component units was withdrawn in 1969.
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the "fourth revolution in personal computing", it is
generally considered both the first notebook and
handheld computer.
29. (c) A parity bit, or check bit is a bit added to the end of a
string of binary code that indicates whether the number
of bits in the string with the value one is even or odd.
Parity bits are used as the simplest form of error
detecting code.
30. (c) Memory management is the process of controlling and
coordinating computer memory, assigning portions
called blocks to various running programs to optimize
overall system performance.It involves components
that physically store data, such as RAM (random
access memory) chips, memory caches, and flash-
based SSDs (solid-state drives).
31. (c) The first step the CPU carries out is to fetch some data
instructions from main memory then store them in its
own internal temporary memory areas. The next step is
for the CPU to make sense of the instruction it has just
fetched this process is called Decode. Execute is the
part of the cycle when data processing actually takes
place.
32. (c) · Bit (Binary digit) = a bit can only have one of two
possible values.
· Byte = 1 byte = 8 bits
· Field = one or more bits/bytes holding a single
piece of information about a single entity
· Record (Logical) = all the fields which apply to a
single entity (except for "Inverted" files)
· File = all the records which apply to a collection
of entities
· Database = a related collection of Files.
33. (b) The data in the database at a particular point of time is
known as database instance or database sate or
snapshot. The database state is also called an
extension of the schema.
34. (c) The short-term scheduler (also known as the CPU
scheduler) decides which of the ready, in-memory
processes is to be executed (allocated a CPU) after a
clock interrupt, an I/O interrupt, an operating system
call or another form of signal.
35. (d) 36. (c) 37. (b) 38. (c) 39. (b)
40. (c) A nibble is equal to 4 bits. In computing, a nibble (often
nybble or even nyble to match the vowels of byte) is a
four-bit aggregation, or half an octet. As a nibble
contains 4 bits, there are sixteen possible values, so a
nibble corresponds to a single hexadecimal digit (thus,
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angular brackets. In the HTML syntax, most elements
are written with a start tag and an end tag, with the
content in between. An HTML tag is composed of the 53. (c)
name of the element, surrounded by angle brackets. 55. (b)
An end tag also has a slash after the opening angle
bracket, to distinguish it from the start tag.
42. (b) Daisy wheel printer cannot print more than one
character at a time. The daisy - wheel is named after its
shape. The individual characters are arranged on
flexible petals (or spokes) 'radiating' from the centre of 56. (c)
the wheel. Each petal has a raised character at its end.
The spoke hits the ribbon when it is struck by the
hammer.
43 (a) The waste generated by end life personal computers
are known as e-waste. E-waste or "Electronic waste"
may be defined as discarded computers, office
electronic equipment, entertainment device electronics, 57. (d)
mobile phones, television sets, and refrigerators.
44. (a) The acronym TELNET stands for Telephone Network.
45. (b)
46. (b) FORTRAN is derived from Formula Translator.
47. (b) Firmware is the permanent software programmed into
a read-only memory.
48. (c)
49. (b) charts
50. (a) Image files can be sent along with the e-mail using 58. (c)
attachments.An e-mail attachment is a file that is
attached to an e-mail message. For example, you may
attach a graphic, a spreadsheet, or a word processing
document.
51. (d) The invention of integrated chips led to the third
generation of computers. During the period of 1964 to 59. (c)
1971 third generation computers were developed. The
third generation computers emerged with the
development of IC (Integrated Circuits). IC is a single
component containing a number of transistors. It made
the computers more fast and reliable.
52. (d) Star networks are one of the most common computer
network topologies. In its simplest form, a star network 60. (c)
consists of one central switch, hub or computer, which 64. (a)
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A moderator is a medium that reduces the speed of fast
neutrons, thereby turning them into thermal neutrons
capable of sustaining a nuclear chain reaction involving
uranium-235. Commonly used moderators include
regular (light) water (roughly 75% of the world's
reactors), solid graphite (20% of reactors) and heavy
water (5% of reactors).
.mdb is not a picture file. It is a database file used by
Microsoft Access. Though Access is tied into the
Microsoft Office, MDB is Access's own format, which
is based on the Access Jet Database Engine..jpeg; .gif;
and .png files are graphic files. The PNG, JPEG, and GIF
formats are most often used to display images on the
Internet. JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts
Group. PNG stands for Portable Network Graphics. GIF
stands for Graphics Interchange Format.
Terrabyte (TB) is the largest measure of memory. 1 Bit
= Binary Digit; 8 Bits = 1 Byte;
1024 Bytes = 1 KB (Kilo Byte);1024 KB = 1 MB (Mega
Byte); 1024 MB = 1 GB(Giga Byte)
1024 GB = 1 TB(Terra Byte). Thus TB > GB> MB > KB
> Byte > Bit
Maximum number of electrons present in M-shell are
18. The maximum number of electrons that can occupy
a specific energy level can be found using the following
formula.
Electron Capacity = 2n2, the variable n represents the
Principal Quantum Number. Shell M has principle
quantum number 3.
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1 The book titled 'The Indian War of Independence' was 11. The 'Project Snow Leopard' to conserve the endangered
written by (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) species, launched by the Union Ministry of Environment
(a) Krishna Verma (b) Madame Cama and Forests covers the states of: (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
(c) B.G. Tilak (d) V.D. Savarkar (a) Jammu & Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh only
2. Who among the following captured his third consecutive (b) Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand
National Billiards title in the year 2009 ? only
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) (c) Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and
(a) Pankaj Advani (b) Devendra Joshi Arunachal Pradesh only
(c) Geet Sethi (d) Dhruv Sitawala (d) Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand,
3. What was the name of the ship that sank near the Paradip Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim
Port in September, 2009 causing an oil spill ? 12. The 2010 FIFA World Cup Final was held at:
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
(a) Red Rose (b) Black Rose (a) Paris (b) Berlin
(c) White Rose (d) Green Rose (c) Johannesburg (d) London
4. Who among the following has been honoured with the 13. Who of the following received– Sangeet Natak Akademi's
prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2007 ? Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puruskar for 2009 in 'Hindustani
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) Vocal Music'? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
(a) Yash Chopra (b) Ustad Amjad Ali Khan (a) Ornkar Shrikant Dadarkar
(c) Manna Dey (d) A. Nageshwara Rao (b) Ragini Chander Shekar
5. Who among the following won the 'ICC Cricketer of the (c) Abanti Chakravorty and Sukracharya Rabha
Year Award' for the year 2009 ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2010) (d) K. Nellai Manikandan
(a) M.S. Dhoni (b) Gautam Gambhir 14. Which of the following folk/tribal dances is associated with
(c) Mitchell Johnson (d) Tillakaratne Dilshan Uttar Pradesh? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
6. NIS stands for (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010) (a) Veedhi (b) Thora
(a) National Infectious diseases seminar (c) Tamasha (d) Rauf
(b) National Irrigation Schedule 15. Which of the following books has been written by Atiq
(c) National Immunisation Schedule Rahimi? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
(d) National Information Sector (a) Earth and Ashes (b) This Savage Rite
7. Who discovered cement ? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2010) (c) The Red Devil (d) Witness the Night
(a) Agassit (b) Albertus Magnus 16. Who is the recepient of the Sahitya Akademi Award 2010 in
(c) Joseph Aspdin (d) Janseen Hindi Literature category? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011)
8. Red data book gives information about species which are: (a) Uday Prakash (b) Laxman Dubey
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011) (c) Nanjil Nandan (d) Mangat Badal
(a) extinct (b) endangered 17. First Indian Prime Minister to visit Siachen has been
(c) dangerous (d) rare (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011)
9. Which of the following is the smallest bird? (a) Rajiv Gandhi (b) Inder Kumar Gujaral
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011) (c) Man Mohan Singh (d) None of the above
(a) Pigeon (b) Parrot 18. Which of the following books has been written by Kishwar
(c) Humming bird (d) House sparrow Desai? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011)
10. The world's only floating national park is situated in: (a) The Red Devil
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2011) (b) Witness the Night
(a) Manipur (b) Kuala Lumpur (c) Tonight This Savage Rite
(c) Bilaspur (d) Dispur (d) Earth and Ashes
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21. Vasundhara Summit was held in (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2011) (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
(a) USA (b) UK (a) Chemist (b) Economist
(c) Brazil (d) Australia (c) Indologist (d) Archaeologist
22. The first Indian who was chosen as the Secretary General of 36. The 34th National Games were held in 2011 in:
Commonwealth is (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
(a) Rakesh Verma (b) Gopalaswami (a) Uttarakhand (b) Kerala
(c) Krishna Murthy (d) Kamalesh Sharma (c) Karnataka (d) Jharkhand
23. Kuldip Nayer, a journalist, was appointed as a High 37. Torah is the scared book of: (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
Commissioner in (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (a) Zoroastrianism (b) Confucianism
(a) Sri Lanka (b) Australia (c) Taoism (d) Judaism
(c) UK (d) Pakistan 38. The 98th Indian Science Congress was held in 2011 at:
24. The National Policy for Empowerment of Women was (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
adopted in the year (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (a) Bengaluru (b) Bhopal
(a) 2001 (b) 2005 (c) Chennai (d) Bhubaneshwar
(c) 1991 (d) 1995 39. Which bank was the first to introduce ATMs to the world?
25. Ballots were first used in (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
(a) Australia (b) USA (a) Hong Kong Bank
(c) Ancient Greece (d) England (b) Standard Chartered Bank
26. Which of the following criteria is not used for the (c) Bank of America
classification of human races? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (d) Citi Bank
(a) Nose (b) Hair 40. Mamta Sharma was appointed in 2011 as the chairperson
of: (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
(c) Eyes (d) Ear
(a) National Commission for Minorities
27. The study of lake is called (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(b) National Commission for Protection of Child Right
(a) Topology (b) Hydrology
(c) National Commission for women
(c) Limnology (d) Potomology
(d) National Commission for BCs
28. The Central Drug Research Institute of India is located at
41. Human Development index was formulated by:
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
(a) Madras (b) Lucknow
(a) ASEAN (b) IBRD
(c) Delhi (d) Bangalore
(c) UNDP (d) UNCTAD
29. How many spokes are there in the Dharmachakra of the 42. Who is the author of the book ‘Pakistan: Beyond the Crisis
National Flag? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) State’? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012)
(a) 14 (b) 18 (a) Khuram Iqbal (b) Maleeha Lodhi
(c) 22 (d) 24 (c) Amir Mir (d) M. J. Akbar
30. The latest official language of the U.N. is 43. What is the name of the currency of Bangladesh ?
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(a) Russian (b) Arabic (a) Taka (b) Lek
(c) Chinese (d) Spanish (c) Dinar (d) Peso
31. The latest book 'Kurukshetra to Kargil' is written by 44. The famous car (chariot) festival is held at
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(a) Suryanath Singh (b) Kunal Bhardwaj (a) Puri (b) Gwalior
(c) Karan Singh (d) Kuldip Singh (c) Bhopal (d) Konark
32. The organisation involved primarily with environmental 45. The most literate Union Territory in India is
planning is (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012)
(a) CIFRI (b) ICAR (a) Chandigarh (b) Lakshadweep
(c) CSIR (d) NEERI (c) Delhi (d) Pondicherry
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(a) Jamil Ahmad (b) Khatija Akbar (b) China
(c) Khurram Iqbal (d) M.J. Akbar (c) Myanmar
48. Which of the following cities in India is considered the (d) Arunachal Pradesh
greenest ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) 58. Non Residential Indians (NRI) Day is marked on:
(a) Delhi (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(b) Thiruvananthapuram (a) January 7 (b) January 9
(c) Bangalore (c) January 17 (d) January 19
(d) Chandigarh 59. "Whether I earned your vote or not, I have listened to you,
49. Synagogue is the place of worship of I have learned from you. You have made me a better
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2012) President", was said by : (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(a) Zoroastrianism (b) Taoism (a) Pranab Mukherjee (b) Barack Obama
(c) Judaism (d) Shintoism (c) George Bush (d) APJ Abdul Kalam
50. One of the following Chief Ministers received the Highest 60. First Hindu American to enter the US House of
Civilian Award “Bharat Ratna” (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) Representative as senator is : (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(a) Lalu Prasad Yadav of Bihar (a) Tulsi Gabbard (b) Sunita Williams
(b) Late M. G. Ramachandran of Tamilnadu (c) Jyoti Sengupta (d) Ami bera
(c) Jyothi Basu of West Bengal 61. Who was not a politician ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
(d) Late N. T. Rama Rao of Andhra Pradesh (a) H.N. Bahuguna (b) I.K. Gujral
51. Which one of the following film-actors has been conferred (c) S.L. Bahuguna (d) J.Jayalalitha
the Honorary Doctorate in Arts and Culture by the Bedford 62. Which of the following crop cultivation is banned by the
University, London? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) Hon’ble Supreme Court of India?
(a) Shahrukh Khan (b) Amir Khan (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
(c) Saif Ali Khan (d) Anil Kapoor (a) Lathyrus (Khesari)
52. Who advocated the adoption of ‘PURA’ model to eradicate (b) Genetically modified brinjal
rural poverty? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) (c) Bt cotton for export
(a) Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Bt cotton for local use
(b) Sri Abhijit Sen 63. Who is known for establishing-the “Anand Van”?
(c) Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
(d) Prof. A. M. Patha (a) Jubilant Buddha (b) H. N. Bahuguna
53. Which one of the following though called a garden is infact, (c) Baba Amte (d) Motilal Nehru
not a garden? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2012) 64. The civilian Airport of highest altitude is in
(a) Vrindavan Garden of Mysore (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
(b) Hanging Garden of Mumbai (a) Tibet (d) Nepal
(c) Eden Garden of Kolkata (c) India (d) China
(d) Shalimar Garden of Kashmir 65. Greenpark Stadium is in (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
54. Who wrote the book "Why Socialism"? (a) Bengaluru (b) Dehradun
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (c) Chandigarh (d) Kanpur
(a) Jayaprakash Narayan 66. Human Environment Conference-1972 was held at
(b) Mahatma Gandhi (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
(c) Acharya Narendra Dev (a) Stockholm (b) Paris
(d) M.N. Roy (c) Geneva (d) Australia
55. Multi purpose river valley projects are the "New temples of 67. Who said “Truth is the ultimate reality and it is God”?
modern India ". (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru (b) Motilal Nehru (a) Swamy Vivekananda (b) Rabindra Nath Tagore
(c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) Rajiv Gandhi (c) M. K. Gandhi (d) Radhakrishnan
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(c) R. K. Narayan (d) Ved Mehta
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80. Who is the first British Author to win the Man Booker Prize
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for fiction twice ? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
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(a) Peter Carey (b) J.M. Coetzee
(a) Tiananmen Square - Beijing
(c) Hilary Mantel (d) None of the above
(b) Tahrir Square - Abu Dhabi 81. Which one of the following is wrongly paired?
(c) Trafalgar Square - London (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
(d) Red Square - Moscow Country Currency
71. The term of a non-permanent member of the U.N. Security (a) Japan Yen
Council is (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (b) Iran Rand
(a) 1 year (b) 2 years (c) Bangladesh Taka
(c) 3 years (d) 6 months (d) Bhutan Ngultrum
72. Julia Gillard is the Prime Minister of 82. The Red Data Books published by the International Union
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
(a) Canada (b) Australia enumerate (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
(c) New Zealand (d) Belgium (a) Biodiversity parks and wild life sanctuaries in different
73. Which is the first state in India to pass the Food Security countries.
Law? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (b) Centres of origin of cultivated plants.
(a) Chhattisgarh (b) Gujarat (c) Centres of origin of all economically important plants.
(c) Punjab (d) Kerala (d) Threatened species of plants and animals.
74. Who among the following Presidents of MCC was a non- 83. The two South American countries, which are members of
professional cricketer? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
are (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
(a) Peter May
(a) Ecuador and Brazil
(b) Christopher Martin Jenkins
(b) Ecuador and Bolivia
(c) Ted Dexter
(c) Ecuador and Venezuela
(d) Colin Cowdrey
(d) Venezuela and Brazil
75. Who won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2012 ?
84. Who is the Chairperson of the National Green Tribunal ?
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
(a) International Atomic Energy Agency (a) Markandey Katju (b) Swatantra Kumar
(b) Liu Xiaobo (c) Satyananda Mishra (d) K.G. Balakrishnan
(c) European Union 85. Which is the capital of Mali ? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
(d) U. N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (a) Mopti (b) Barmako
76. Who won the Jnanpith Award for 2011? (c) Cairo (d) Nairobi
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) 86. Which was the first film of Jaspal Bhatti ?
(a) Sachidananda Routray (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
(b) Pratibha Ray (a) Power Cut
(c) Gopinath Mohanty (b) Mahaul Theek Hai
(d) Sitakant Mahapatra (c) Thank You Jijaji
77. Environmental impact assessment was first formally (d) None of the three above
established in 1969 in which country ? 87. Who was the first recipient of the "Bharat Ratna" Award
(SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013) posthumously ? (SSC CGL 2nd Sit. 2013)
(a) United Kingdom (b) United States (a) K. Kamaraj (b) Lal Bahadur Shastri
(c) France (d) Netherlands (c) M.G. Ramachandran (d) B.R. Ambedkar
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(c) China (d) Tibet
90. "Martyr's Day" is marked on (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (a) Dhaka (b) New Delhi
(a) January 1 (b) January 15 (c) Colombo (d) Kathmandu
(c) January 30 (d) January 9 103. First Nobel Prize to India was given for :
91. Which of the following is only domestic Airport? (SSC CGL 2015)
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (a) Physics (b) Literature
(a) Dabolin Airport, Goa (c) Medicine (d) Chemistry
(b) Srinagar Airport 104. Who was the Indian women president of the United Nations
General Assembly ? (SSC CGL 2015)
(c) Devi Ahilyabai Holkar Airport
(a) Margret Thatcher (b) Golda Mayer
(d) None of the above
(c) Sarojini Naidu
92. Second India–Africa Forum Summit–2011 was held in
(d) Vijya Lakshmi Pandit
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013)
105. What is the currency of Saudi Arabia ? (SSC CGL 2015)
(a) Eretrea (b) Ethiopia
(a) Riyal (b) Pound
(c) Sudan (d) Nigeria
(c) Lira (d) Dinar
93. NIN (National Institute of Nutrition) Central Office is located
106. Reserve Bank of India was nationalised in :
at (SSC CGL 2014)
(SSC CGL 2015)
(a) Hyderabad (b) Mumbai
(a) 1951 (b) 1947
(c) Bengaluru (d) Kolkata
(c) 1935 (d) 1949
94. "Bull's eye" is used in the game of (SSC CGL 2014)
107. Which among the following is a folk dance of India.
(a) Boxing (b) Basketball
(SSC CGL 2015)
(c) Polo (d) Shooting
(a) Kathakali (b) Mohiniattam
95. Pablo Picasso, the famous painter was (SSC CGL 2014)
(c) Manipuri (d) Garba
(a) French (b) Italian
108. Radio activity was discovered by : (SSC CGL 2015)
(c) Flemish (d) Spanish
(a) Curie (b) Beequeral
96. To whom the line 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever' is
(c) Soddy (d) Rutherford
attributed ? (SSC CGL 2015)
109. ’Mission Indradhanush’ Campaign in India is associated
(a) John Keats (b) Dr. Charles Dickens
with? (SSC CGL 2016)
(c) Dr. Jonathan Swift (d) William Wordsworth
(a) Nutrition to Pregnant Women
97. The birthday of which of the following leaders is celebrated
(b) Awareness of Diabetes
as 'Teachers Day' in India? (SSC CGL 2015)
(c) Eradication of blindness
(a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad (b) S. Radhakrishnan
(d) Vaccination of children
(c) C. Rajgopalachari (d) Lala Lajpat Rai
110. Who is the recipient of Man Booker International Prize 2016
98. The award given for outstanding performance in sports is for the novel ‘The Vegetarian’? (SSC CGL 2016)
(SSC CGL 2015) (a) Orhan Pamuk (b) Han Kang
(a) Bharat Ratna (b) Padma Shri Award (c) Elena Ferrante (d) Tonkin
(c) Arjuna Award (d) Dronacharya Award 111. The novelist, poet and critic of which language has been
99. Which hill station's name means place of the thunderbolt'? conferred with Jnanpith Award for 2015?
(SSC CGL 2015) (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(a) Shillong (b) Oottacamand (a) Bengali (b) Telugu
(c) Darjeeling (d) Gangtok (c) Odia (d) Gujarati
100. The ship building yard––Mazgaon Dock is located at – 112. Which one of the following countries is not a member of the
(SSC CGL 2015) "BRICS" group? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(a) Kochi (b) Kolkata (a) Brazil (b) Russia
(c) Mumbai (d) Vishakhapatnam (c) China (d) Indonesia
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(b) T.M. Krishna and Arvind Adiga 125. The concept of 'Carbon credit' originated from :

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114. At Rio Olympics, what was the final position of Dipa (b) Kyoto Protocol
Karmakar in her category? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) (c) Montreal Protocol
(a) 4 (b) 5 (d) None of the above
126. Minorities Rights Day is observed in India on
(c) 6 (d) 7
(SSC CHSL 2013)
115. The study of mountains is known as
(a) 18th December (B 23rd December
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016)
(c) 5th September (d) 1st December
(a) Oncology (b) Lithology
127. Which one of the following institutes in List I is wrongly
(c) Orology (d) Ornithology matched with its location indicated in List II ?
116. The famous Vishnu temple at Angkor Wat in Cambodia was (SSC CHSL 2013)
built by ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) List-I List-II
(a) Shrutavarman (b) Suryavarman II (a) Central Institute of Mining Dhanbad
(c) Indravarman (d) Aniruddha and Fuel Research
117. The new symbol of Indian currency is designed by? (b) Central Building Research Roorkee
(SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) Institute
(a) Santosh Kumar (b) Y.V. Reddy (c) Central Arid Zone Jodhpur
(c) Udayakumar (d) Dr. Rangarajan Research Institute
118. What is MUDRA? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2016) (d) Central Drug Research Kanpur
(a) Development and Refinance Agency Institute
(b) Scheme for Agricultural Insurance 128. Match the two lists given below: (SSC CHSL 2013)
(c) New Planet Discovered List-I List-II
(d) Development and Regulatory Authority for Urban a. London 1. St. Peter's Square
Township b. Vatican City 2. Times Square
119. Which day is observed as “International Day of Non- c. Moscow 3. Trafalgar Square
Violence” (SSC CHSL 2012) d. New York 4. Red Square
(a) 1 st May (b) 2 nd October (a) a-1, b-3, c-2, d-4 (b) a-2, b-4, c-3, d-1
(c) 24 th October (d) 30 th January (c) a-3, b-1, c-4, d-2 (d) a-4, b-2, c-1, d-3
120. Which country is the largest producer of wool ? 129. Who among the following women tennis players has won
the Grand Slam titles for the maximum number of times ?
(SSC CHSL 2012)
(SSC CHSL 2013)
(a) U.S.A. (b) Australia
(a) Serena Williams (b) Venus Williams
(a) Britain (d) Canada
(c) Steffi Graf (d) Margaret Court
121. Which one of the following African countries in not a
130. In which one of the following films did Pran act as a character
member of OPEC ? (SSC CHSL 2012)
artist and not in the role of a villain? (SSC CHSL 2013)
(a) Angola (b) Libya (a) Himalaya Ki Godh Mein
(c) South Africa (d) Algeria (b) Ram aur Shyam
122. Which one of the following National Park/Sanctuary is not (c) Zanjeer
in Rajasthan ? (SSC CHSL 2012) (d) Madhumati
(a) Sariska National Park 131. Who was the first posthumous recipient of Bharat Ratna?
(b) Sambar Wildlife Sanctuary (SSC CHSL 2013)
(c) Rajaji National Park (a) M.G. Ramachandran (b) B.R. Ambedkar
(d) Rhanthambore National Park (c) K. Kamraj (d) Lal Bahadur Shastri
123. Which one of following is called the primary pace maker of 132. Which country won the ICC Women’s World Cup held in
the heart ? (SSC CHSL 2012) February 2013 ? (SSC CHSL 2013)
(a) A. V. Node (b) Chordae tendinae (a) India (b) New Zealand
(c) A.V. Septum (d) S.A. Node (c) England (d) Australia
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133. Which country’s currency is Ngultrum ? 146. "Life Divine" is a book written by (SSC CHSL 2014)

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134. "Sattriya Nritya” recognised as a classical dance form of (SSC CHSL 2014)

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India by the Sangeet Natak Akademi only in 2000, originated (a) Charlie Chaplin (b) Alfred Hitchcock

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(a) Tripura (b) Assam 148. Who among the following is not a Bharatanatyam dancer ?
(c) Karnataka (d) Gujarat (SSC CHSL 2015)
135. Grammy Award is given in the field of (SSC CHSL 2014) (a) Sitara Devi (b) Leela Samson
(a) Acting (b) Music (c) Geeta Ramachandran (d) Sonal Mansingh
(c) Singing (d) Boxing 149. Ryder Cup is a famous tournament of :
136. The first woman to get the Bharat Ratan Award is (SSC CHSL 2015)
(SSC CHSL 2014) (a) Badminton (b) Golf
(a) Mother Teresa (b) Indira Gandhi (c) Cricket (d) Lawn Tennis
(c) Lata Mangeshker (d) Sarojini Naidu 150. Kanha National Park is located in : (SSC CHSL 2015)
137. Karl Marx wrote (SSC CHSL 2014) (a) Tamil Nadu (b) Bihar
(a) Asian Drama (b) Em ma (c) Andhra Pradesh (d) Madhya Pradesh
(c) Das Kapital (d) Good Earth 151. Who wrote 'Discovery of India'? (SSC CHSL 2015)
138. The religious text of the Jews is named as (a) Mahatma Gandhi (b) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(SSC CHSL 2014) (c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (d) APJ Abdul Kalam
(a) The Analectus (b) Torah 152. Who is the first woman IPS officer in India ?
(c) Tripitaka (d) Zend-Avesta (SSC CHSL 2015)
139. "Meghdoot" was written by (SSC CHSL 2014) (a) Sarojini Naidu (b) Kiran Bedi
(a) Humayun Kabir (b) Khushwant Singh (c) Bachendri Pal (d) Indira Gandhi
(c) Banabhatta (d) Kalidasa 153. Which of the following is the right expansion of ILO?
140. Who among the following is a famous English writer ? (SSC CHSL 2015)
(SSC CHSL 2014) (a) International Labour Organization
(a) Amrita Pritam (b) Mahadevi Verma (b) Indian Legal Orientation
(c) Ashapurna Devi (d) Mulk Raj Anand (c) Internatioanl Law and Order
141. In which year were the States reorganized on a linguistic (d) Inter–State Lawful Ordinance
basis ? (SSC CHSL 2014) 154. In 2010 a newspaper published its 70,000th issue. Which
(a) 1951 (b) 1947 was the newspaper ? (SSC CHSL 2015)
(c) 1950 (d) 1956 (a) The Oxford Gazette
142. The "Mein Kampf" was written by (SSC CHSL 2014) (b) The Washington Post
(a) Hitler (b) Mussolini (c) The Times of London
(c) Bismarck (d) Mazzini (d) The Hindustan Times
143. It was decided to observe Mahatma Gandhi's birthday 155. Project tiger programme was launched in :
October 2 as the International Nonviolence Day at (SSC CHSL 2015)
(SSC CHSL 2014) (a) 1994 (b) 1973
(a) International lndology Conference (c) 1975 (d) 1971
(b) Setyagraha Centenary Conference 156. Which Indian newspaper has the largest readership ?
(c) Congress Foundation Day Celebration (SSC CHSL 2015)
(d) None of these (a) The Malayala Manorama
144. ISRO's Master Control Facility is in (SSC CHSL 2014) (b) Indian Express
(a) Andhra Pradesh (b) Orissa (c) The Hindu
(c) Gujarat (d) Karantaka (d) The Dainik Jagran
145. Which place is called as "Silicon Valley" of India ? 157. Which day is celebrated as International Yoga Day ?
(SSC CHSL 2014) (SSC CHSL 2015)
(a) Delhi (b) Pune (a) April 23 (b) September 21
(c) Bengaluru (d) Hyderabad (c) July 21 (d) June 21
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159. Who was the first Secretary General of UNO?

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(c) 1995 (d) 2000
160. Earth day is celebrated on : (SSC CHSL 2015)
174. The worldwide Great Depression took place in
(a) April 22 (b) September 17
(SSC Multi Tasking 2013)
(c) February 16 (d) April 4 (a) 1930 (b) 1936
161. What is the number of players on each side in Rugby (c) 1929 (d) 1928
Football? (SSC CHSL 2015) 175. Which one of the following is not an All India Service?
(a) 16 (b) 12 (SSC Multi Tasking 2013)
(c) 11 (d) 15 (a) Indian Police Service
162. Which was the first linguistic state to be created ? (b) Indian Foreign Service
(SSC CHSL 2015) (c) Indian Forest Service
(a) Tamil Nadu (b) Andhra Pradesh (d) Indian Administrative Service
(c) Maharashtra (d) Kerala 176. The Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project (SSCP) is supposed
163. The headquarters of the Survey of India Dept. (department) to reduce the distance between Chennai and Tuticorin by
is located at : (SSC CHSL 2015) _________ nautical miles. (SSC Multi Tasking 2013)
(a) Dehradun (b) Hyderabad (a) 305 (b) 361
(c) New Delhi (d) Jaipur (c) 434 (d) 243
164. The Lalit Kala Academy is devoted to the promotion of : 177. Cities with population from one to five million are called
(SSC Multi Tasking 2013)
(SSC CHSL 2015)
(a) Cosmopolitan (b) Conurbation
(a) Literature (b) Music
(c) Million City (d) Metropolitan
(c) Dance and Drama (d) Fine Arts
178. ‘Kyoto Protocol’, an agreement signed by various countries,
165. World wild life fund was founded in : (SSC CHSL 2015) is associated with (SSC Multi Tasking 2013)
(a) 1969 (b) 1992 (a) Deep Sea Oil and Mineral Exploration
(c) 1961 (d) 1965 (b) Clean Environment and Climate Change
166. Arundhati Roy is the author of : (SSC CHSL 2015) (c) Building common food stock to save human beings
(a) Disgrace (b) The Tin Drum from any natural disaster
(c) My Childhood Days (d) God of Small Things (d) International Trade
167. The first Bio-sphere Reserve in India has been established 179. Sanjukta Panigrahi was famous for the dance
in : (SSC CHSL 2015) (SSC Multi Tasking 2013)
(a) Nilgiri (b) Nanda Devi (a) Odissi (b) Bharatnatyam
(c) Hazaribagh (d) Kanha (c) Kathak (d) Manipuri
168. Kimono is a dress style of which Asian Country ? 180. ‘White Revolution’ is related to
(SSC CHSL 2015) (SSC Multi Tasking 2013)
(a) Korea (b) Laos (a) Fish production (b) Wheat production
(c) China (d) Japan (c) Milk production (d) Flood control
169. Dr. P. Rama Rao Committee is related to which of the 181. Who proposed the adage “Survival of the fittest”?
following ? (SSC CHSL 2015) (SSC Multi Tasking 2013)
(a) Lamarck (b) Darwin
(a) Defence (b) Industry
(c) William (d) Huxley
(c) Agriculture (d) Taxes
182. What is the name given to Moon Mission in India?
170. Kathakali is a dance prevalent in which state ?
(SSC Multi Tasking 2014)
(SSC CHSL 2015)
(a) Vikram I (b) Chandrayaan I
(a) Andhra Pradesh (b) Tamil Nadu
(c) Kalpana II (d) Astrosat
(c) Orissa (d) Kerala 183. Lira was the currency of which country?
171. Rand is the currency of : (SSC CHSL 2015) (SSC Multi Tasking 2014)
(a) Iran (b) Romania (a) China (b) Australia
(c) Norway (d) Namibia (c) Japan (d) Italy
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185. Which is The second most populous State of India as per 197. Who among the following was named as “Haryana

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Hurricane” ? (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)

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(c) Maharashtra (d) Bihar (c) Kapil Dev (d) Ajay Jadeja
186. United Nations Conference on Environment and 198. What does the word ‘amphibian’ mean ?
Development is called (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)
(a) Earth Summit (b) Water Summit
(a) Two lives (b) Four lives
(c) Air Summit (d) Resource Summit
(c) Three lives (d) One life
187. The headquarters of International Atomic Energy Agency
is located at (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012) 199. The founder of the ‘Arya Samaj’ was:
(a) Geneva (b) Washington (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)
(c) Vienna (d) Sydney (a) Dayananda Saraswati (b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
188. The first woman to conquer Mount Everest twice is (c) Vivekananda (d) Annie Besant
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2012) 200. The book "Globalization, Democratization and Distributive
(a) Surja Lata Devi (b) Jyoti Randhawa Justice" has been authored by (SSC Steno 2013)
(c) Santosh Yadav (d) Suma Shirur (a) Mool Chand Sharma (b) Karan Bajaj
189. Which Indian hockey player has road named after him in (c) Salman Rushdies (d) Anita Nair
Germany? (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012) 201. Which of the following has become the first airport in the
(a) Dhyan Chand (b) Zafar Iqbal world to fully operation all on solar power?
(c) Roop Singh (d) Dhanraj Pillai (SSC Steno 2013)
190. What is the name of the first research station established (a) Lokpriya Gopinath Bardoli International Airport.
by India in the Antarctica? (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012) (b) Amritsar International Airport.
(a) Dakshin Gangotri (b) Maitri (c) Netaji Subash Chandra Bose International Airport.
(c) Agnihotri (d) Aryabhatta (d) Cochin International Airport Ltd. (Kerla).
191. The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council 202. Which of the following countries has become the first
are (SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
country in the world to receive funds from United Nations
(a) China, France, Russia, U.K. and U.S.A. for its fast growing Solar Home Systems?
(b) China, Canada, France, U.S.A and Germany
(SSC Steno 2013)
(c) China, Germany, Russia, U.K. and U.S.A.
(a) Afghanistan (b) Burma
(d) China, Germany, U.S.A., U.K and Canada
(c) Bangladesh (d) Switzerland
192. Which of the following is not correctly paired?
203. Who of the following is not one of the recipients of Arjuna
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2012)
Award 2015? (SSC Steno 2013)
(a) Jwala Gutta — Tennis
(a) Anoop Singh (Wrestling)
(b) Virat Kohli — Cricket
(c) Harbhajan Singh — Kabaddi (b) Dipa Karmakar (Gymnastics)
(d) Saina Nehwal — Badminton (c) Jitu Rai (Shooting)
193. Which of the following States has the largest gap in male (d) P. R. Sreejesh (Hockey)
and female literacy as per 2011 Census (provisional data)? 204. Who wrote 'Communist Manifesto'? (SSC Steno 2013)
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2012) (a) Marx and Engels (b) Mao
(a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Madhya Pradesh (c) Lenin (d) Che - Cuevara
(c) Rajasthan (d) Kerala 205. Where is the permanent headquarters of SAARC?
194. Among the following states, which one has adopted me (SSC Steno 2013)
"Neem" tree as the state tree? (SSC Sub. Ins. 2013) (a) New Delhi (b) Kathmandu
(a) Maharashtra (b) Tamil Nadu (c) Thimphu (d) Dhaka
(c) Kerala (d) Andhra Pradesh 206. The only foreign national to receive the highest Bangladesh
195. When was the Geological Survey of India established ? Award ''Bangladesh Swadhinata Sammanona'' is
(SSC Sub. Ins. 2014) (SSC Steno 2013)
(a) 1841 (b) 1851 (a) P.V. Narasimha Rao (b) Indira Gandhi
(c) 1941 (d) 1951 (c) Sonia Gandhi (d) Rajiv Gandhi
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208. Who was the Captain of Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL - V? 219. 'Statue of Liberty' is the National Emblem of

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(a) UK (b) USA
(c) Gautam Gambhir (d) Saurav Ganguly
(c) Germany (d) Russia
209. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched?
220. Ozone Day is celebrated on (SSC Steno 2014)
(SSC Steno 2013)
(a) April 21 (b) September 16
(a) Kuchipudi - Andhra Pradesh
(c) September 25 (d) June 5
(b) Kathakali - Tamil Nadu
221. The book 'Gokhale, My Political Guru' was written by
(c) Kathak - Manipur
(SSC Steno 2014)
(d) Bharatnatyam - Kerala
210. The term of a non-permanent member og the U. N. Security (a) Shaukat Ali (b) C.R. Das
Council is (SSC Steno 2013) (c) M.A. Jinnah (d) M.K. Gandhi
(a) 6 months (b) 1 year 222. Who amongst the following is the author of the book 'Name
(c) 2 years (d) 3 years Sake'? (SSC Steno 2014)
211. Free and compulsory education for all children is provided (a) Kiran Desai (b) Shobha De
until they attain the age of (SSC Steno 2014) (c) Vikram Seth (d) Jhumpa Lahiri
(a) 16 years (b) 18 years 223. National Science Day is observed on (SSC Steno 2014)
(c) 21 years (d) 14 years (a) 14th March (b) 2nd June
212. The Indian recipient of Noble Peace Prize is (c) 5th January (d) 28th February
(SSC Steno 2014) 224. Which was the first National news Agency of free India ?
(a) Hargovind Khurana (b) Rabindra Nath Tagore (SSC Steno 2016)
(c) Mother Teresa (d) Amartya Sen (a) The Associated Press of India
213. London is situated on the banks of river (b) None of these
(SSC Steno 2014) (c) The Indian Review
(a) Tiber (b) Danube (d) The Free press of India
(c) Tigris (d) Thames
225. The book 'Problem of Human Geography' was written by
214. Identify the odd sportman among the following
(SSC Steno 2016)
(SSC Steno 2014)
(a) Jean Brunches (b) None of these
(a) Narain karthikeyan (b) Vijay Hazare
(c) Albert Demangeon (d) De Mortonne
(c) Sachin Tendulkar (d) Sunil Gavaskar
226. Philadelphia is famous for (SSC Steno 2016)
215. First Indian to make a speech in Hindi before the UN General
Assembly was (SSC Steno 2014) (a) Locomotives (b) Dairy industry
(a) AB Vajpayee (b) Lal Bahadur Shastri (c) Ship building (d) Silk textiles
(c) Lal Krishna Advani (d) Morarji Desai 227. Which one among the following book is centered around
216. Which of the following awards is given for excellence in 'environment'? (SSC Sub. Ins. 2016)
sports coaching? (SSC Steno 2014) (a) Here I Stand
(a) Sahitya Academi Award (b) And Then One Day
(b) Dronacharya Award (c) The Late, Great Planet Earth
(c) Arjun Award (d) Silent Spring
(d) Dada Saheb Phalke Award 228. An international movement with its motto to save the world
217. Who is the winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize by involving itself with environmental problems is
2013? (SSC Steno 2014) (SSC Sub. Ins. 2016)
(a) Haruki Murakami (b) Eleanor Catton (a) Clean En (b) Eco-friend
(c) Malala Yousufzai (d) Vikram Seth (c) Green-field (d) Green-peace

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1. (d) 2. (a) 3. (a)
4. (c) Prabodh Chandra Dey known by his stage name Manna
Dey, was an Indian playback singer. He debuted in the
film Tamanna in 1942, by this song “Upar Gagan Bishal”
and went on to record more than 4,000 songs from 1942
to 2013. The Government of India honoured him with
the Padma Shri in 1971, the Padma Bhushan in 2005
and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2007.
5. (b) 6. (d)
7. (c) Joseph Aspdin was an English cement manufacturer
who obtained the patent for Portland cement on 21
October 1824.
8. (b) 9. (c) 10. (a) 11. (d) 12. (c)
13. (a) 14. (b) 15. (a) 16. (a) 17. (c)
18. (b) 19. (a) 20. (c) 21. (c)
22. (d) Mr. Kamlesh Sharma, an Indian diplomat, became
Commonwealth Secretary-General on 1 April 2008. He
was appointed to the post by Commonwealth Heads
of Government at their meeting in Kampala, Uganda, in
November 2007.
23. (c) He was appointed High Commissioner to Great Britain
in 1990.
24. (a) The National Policy for Empowerment of Women 2001
has as its goal bringing about advancement,
development and empowerment of women in all spheres
of life through creation of a more responsive judicial
and legal system sensitive to women and
mainstreaming a gender perspective in the development
process.
25. (a) First used in the Australian state of Victoria in 1857, the
paper ballot listing all the candidates was first known
as "the Australian ballot. "In 1889, New York became
the first American state to use these ballots.
26. (d) The term race or racial group usually refers to the
concept of dividing humans into populations or groups
on the basis of various sets of characteristics. The
most widely used human racial categories are based
on visible traits (especially skin colour, cranial or facial
features and hair texture), and self-identification.
27. (c) Limnology is the story of lakes and other freshwater
basins.
28. (b) CDRI, is located at Lucknow was inugurated in 1951
by the then Prime Minister of India, Jawahar lal Nehru.
29. (d) The spokes in the Ashok Chakra represent 24 states as
24 were the number of states at that time.
30. (b) In 1980, the General Assembly made Arabic an official
and working language of all its committees and
subcommittees.
31. (d) The author is Brigadier (Retired) Kuldip Singh. This
book is an effort to understand now the future will
unfold in Asia 2030.
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Nagpur in 1958.
33. (d) The Dhole is on the edge of extinction. Also called the
Asiatic wild dog or Indian wild dog, it is a species of
canid native to South and Southeast Asia.
34. (a) The Analects of Confucius is an anthology of brief
passages that present the words of Confucius and his
disciples, describe Confucius as a man, and recount
some of the events of his life. The Analects includes
twenty books, each generally featuring a series of
chapter that encompass quotes from Confucius, which
were compiled by his disciples after his death.
35. (c) Ram Sharan Sharma was an eminent historian of Ancient
and early Medieval India.
36. (d) The 2011 National Games, also known as the 34th
National Games of India, was held from 12 February
2011 to 26 February 2011 in Ranchi, Jharkhand.
37. (c) The Torah is Judaism's most important text. It is
composed of the Five Books of Moses. The term
"Torah" means instruction and offers a way of life for
those who follow if.
38. (c) Indian Science congress Association (ISCA) is a
premier scientific organisation of India with
headquarters at Kolkata, West Bengal. The 98th session
was held at SRM University, near Chennai in January
2011.
39. (d) The Citibank of New York was the first such bank.
40. (c) Former Rajasthan Mahila Congress President chief
Mamta Shrma was appointed as National Commission
for Women (NCW) chairperson. The appointment was
cleared by the Prime Minister's Office.
41. (c) The origins of the HDI are found in the annual Human
Development Reports of the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP). These were devised
and launched by Pakistani economist Mehboob ul Haq
in 1990.
42. (b) Maleeha Lodhi is a journalist, academic and diplomat
from Pakistan. She was the High Commissioner of
Pakistan to the United Kingdom and is a former
Pakistani Ambassador to the United States.
43. (a) 44. (a) 45. (b) 46. (d) 47. (d)
48. (d) 49. (c) 50. (b) 51. (a) 52. (a)
53. (c) 54. (a) 55. (a) 56. (a)
57. (c) Aung San Suu Kyi, also called Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
(born June 19, 1945, Rangoon, Burma [now Yangon,
Myanmar]) politician and opposition leader of
Myanmar, daughter of Aung San (a martyred national
hero of independent Burma) and Khin Kyi (a prominent

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Burmese diplomat), and winner of the Nobel Prize for
Peace in 1991. She has held multiple governmental
posts since 2016.
58. (b)
59. (b) Barack Hussein Obama II who is the 44th and current
President of the United States. He is the first African
American to hold the office and the first president born
outside the continental United States.
60. (a)
61. (c) Sunderlal Bahuguna (born 9 January 1927) is a noted
Garhwali environmentalist, Chipko movement leader
and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of
Non-violence and Satyagraha.
He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second
highest civilian honour, on 26 January 2009.
62. (a) Grass pea also known as khesari dal was banned for
consumption in 1961 as it was believed that Beta–N–
Oxalylaminoalanine, a neuro–toxic amino–acid in the
legume, caused neurolathyrim or a paralysis of the
lower limbs,
63. (c) Founded in 1948 by noted social activist, Baba Amte,
Anandwan, located near Arora in Chandrapur district
in the state of Maharashtra. India, is an ashram, and a
community rehabilitation centre for leprosy patients
and the disabled from downtrodden sections of
society.
64. (d) Daocheng Yading Airport in A southwest China's
Sichuan Province is the world's highest–altitude
civilian airport. It is located at a height of 4,411 meters
above sea level
65. (d) Green Park Stadium is a 60,000 capacity floodlit multi–
purpose stadium located in Kanpur, India, and the
home of the Uttar Pradesh cricket team.
66. (a) The conference was held in Stockholm. the capital of
Sweden. in 1972. The conference agreed upon a
declaration containing 26 principles concerning the
environment and development.
67. (c) Gandhi was known to have considered truth something
similar to that. Baruch Spinoza considered ultimate truth
as the ultimate reality of a rationally ordered system
that is God.
68. (b) Mark Elliot Zuckerburg is an American computer
programmer and internet entrepreneur. He is best
known as one of five co-founders of the social
networking website Facebook.
69. (b) Mark Tully is the author of No Full Stops in India
(1998). Its collection of journalistic essays, was
published in the US as The Defeat of a Congress-man.
70. (b) Tahrir Square, also known as “ Martyr Square”, is a
major public town square in Down town Cairo. Tahrir
Square was the focal point of the 2011 Egyptain
Revolution against former president Hosni Mubarak.
71. (b) There are 10 non-permanent members in the United
Nations Security Council, with five elected each year
to serve two-year terms.
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74. (b) Christopher Martin - Jen - kins was a British cricket
journalist and a past President of the MCC. He was
also a commentator for Test Match Special (TMS) on
BBC Radio from 1973 until diagnosed with terminal
cancer in January 2012.
75. (c) The Nobel Peace Prize 2012 was awarded to European
Union (EU) “for over six decades contributed to the
advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy
and human rights in Europe”.
76. (b) Pratibha Ray is an Indian academic and writer who
won the Jnanpith Award in 2011. She was the first
woman to win the Moortidevi Awards in 1991.
77. (b) Environmental impact assessments commenced in the
1960s, as part of increasing environmental awareness.
EIAs involved a technical evaluation intended to
contribute to more objective decision making. In the
United States, environmental impact assessments
obtained formal status in 1969, with enactment of the
National Environmental Policy Act.
78. (a) Sir Clyde Leopold Walcott, KA, GCM (17 January 1926
- 26 August 2006) was a West Indian cricketer. Walcott
was a member of the "three W's", the other two being
Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell: all were very
successful batsmen from Barbados, born within a short
distance of each other in Bridgetown, Barbados in a
period of 18 months from August 1924 to January 1926;
all made their Test cricket debut against England in
1948. In the mid-1950s, Walcott was arguably the best
batsman in the world. In later life, he had an active
career as a cricket administrator, and was the first non-
English and non-white chairman of the International
Cricket Council.
79. (b) The Jnanpith Award is a literary award in India. Along
with the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship. It is one of the
two most prestigious literary honours in the country.
The award was instituted in 1961. Any Indian citizen
who writes in any of the official languages of India is
eligible for the honour. It is presented by the Bharatiya
Jnanpith, a trust founded by the Sahu Jain family, the
publishers of the The Times of India newspaper.
80. (c) Hilary Mary Mantel is an English writer whose work
ranges in subject from personal memoir and short story
to historical fiction and essay. She has twice been
awarded the Booker Prize. She won her first Booker
Prize for the 2009 novel, Wolf Hall, a fictional account
of Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in the court of
Henry VIII. She won her second Booker Prize for the

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2012 novel, Bring Up the Bodies, the second instalment
of the Thomas Cromwell trilogy. Mantel was the first
woman to receive the award twice.
81. (b) The currency of Iran is Rial.
82. (d) The Red Data Book is the state document established
for documenting rare and endangered species of
animals, plants and fungi as well as some local sub-
species that exist within the territory of the state or
country. This book provides central information for
studies and monitoring programmes on rare and
endangered species and their habits.
83. (c) OPEC is an intergovernmental organization that was
created at the Baghdad Conference on September 10-
14, 1960, by Iraq, Kuwait, Iran, Saudi Arabia and
Venezuela. Later it was joined by nine more
governments: Libya, United Arab Emirates, Qatar,
Indonesia, Algeria, Nigeria, Ecuador, Angola, and
Gabon. OPEC was headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland
before moving to Vienna, Austria, on September 1, 1965.
84. (b) Swatantra Kumar is the Chairperson of National Green
Tribunal.
85. (b) Barmako is the capital of Mali.
86. (b) Jaspal Singh Bhatti (3 March 1955 - 25 October 2012)
was an Indian television personality famous for his
satirical take on the problems of the common man. He
is most well known for his television series Flop Show
and mini capsules Ulta Pulta which ran on Doordarshan,
India's national television network, in the late 1980s
and early 1990s. In 2013, he was honoured with the
Padma Bhushan (posthumously), India's third highest
civilian award
87. (b) Lal Bahadur Shastri was the second Prime Minister of
the Republic of India and a leader of the Indian National
Congress party. Shastri joined the Indian independence
movement in the 1920s.
88. (b) 89. (d) 90. (c) 91. (d) 92. (b)
93. (a) The National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) is an Indian
Public health, Biotechnology and Translational
research center located in Hyderabad, India. The
institute is one of the oldest research centers in India,
and the largest center, under the Indian Council of
Medical Research, located in the vicinity of Osmania
University.
94. (d) Bullseye, also known as conventional pistol, is a
shooting sport in which participants shoot handguns
at paper targets at fixed distances and time limits.
95. (d) Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso,
was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist,
stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most
of his adult life in France.
96. (a) Endymion is a poem,written by John Keats. It begins
with the line "A thing of beauty is a joy forever". The
poem tells about how nature and its wonder mesmerize
us and take away all the sorrow that surrounds us from
time to time.
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98. (c) The Arjuna Awards are given by the Ministry of Youth
Affairs and Sports, government of India to recognize
outstanding achievement in National sports.
99. (c) "Place of the Thunderbolt" is associated with
Darjeeling(west Bengal). The word Darjeeling is a
combination of two words 'dorje,' which means
'thunderbolt' and 'ling', which means 'place'. Hence the
word Darjeeling means 'the Land of Thunderbolt'.
100. (c) The Ship building yard Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL)
is located in Mumbai(Maharashtra).It is India's prime
shipyard. It manufactures warships and submarines
for the Indian Navy and offshore platforms and
associated support vessels for offshore oil drilling.
101 (d) Aga Khan Cup is related to Football. When Prince
Aga Khan IV of Iran visit in 1958, expressed his interest
to start a major international football club tournament
in the region. The football authorities of East Pakistan
in collaboration with Asian Football Confederation
(AFC) decided to start this event.
102. (a) The first summit was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 7-
8 December 1985 and was attended by president of
Bangladesh, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, the
kings of Bhutan and Nepal, and the prime minister of
India.
103. (b) Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian ever to
receive a Nobel Prize. He was awarded the Nobel Prize
for Literature in recognition of his work Geetanjali, a
collection of poems, in 1913.
104. (d) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit became the first woman to be
elected president of the UN General Assembly in 1953.
She was an Indian diplomat, politician, and a sister of
India's first prime-minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. She was
active in the Indian freedom movement and held high
national and international positions.
105. (a) The currency of Saudi Arabia is Saudi Riyal.
106. (d) After independence, the government passed Reserve
Bank (Transfer to Public Ownership) Act, 1948 and
took over RBI from private shareholders after paying
appropriate compensation. Thus, nationalisation of RBI
took place in 1949 and from January 1, 1949, RBI started
working as a government owned central bank of India.
107. (d) Garba is a folk dance of state of Gujarat.
108. (b) Antoine-Henri Becquerel (1852-1908) is known for his
discovery of radioactivity, for which he received the
Nobel Prize for Physics jointly with Marie Curie) and
Pierre in 1903 and the contributions he made to that
field. Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity, and
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109. (d) Mission Indradhanush was launched by Union Health
Minister J.P Nadda on 25 December 2014. It aims to
immunize all children under the age of 2 years and
pregnant women against seven vaccine preventable
diseases namely diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus,
poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, measles and Hepatitis B
by 2020. In addition to this, vaccines for Japanese
Encephalitis (JE), rotavac and Haemophilus influenzae
type B (HIB) are also being provided in selected states.
110. (b) 111. (d)
112. (d) BRICS is the acronym for an association of five major
emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India,
China and South Africa. Originally the first four were
grouped as “BRIC” (or “the BRICs”), before the
induction of South Africa in 2010.
113. (a) Bezwada Wilson and TM Krishna are included in the
list of the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award
winners for the year 2016.
114. (a) Dipa Karmakar returned empty handed from the Vaults
final at the Gymnastics event of Rio 2016 Olympics
after she finished the event at fourth rank.
115. (c) Orology is the study of mountains.An example of
orology is research on how a particular mountain came
to be formed.
116. (b) It was built by the Khmer King Suryavarman II in the
early 12th century.
117. (d) The Indian rupee sign is the currency sign for the Indian
rupee, the official currency of India. Designed by D.
Udaya Kumar, it was presented to the public by the
Government of India on 15 July 2010, following its
selection through an "open" competition among Indian
residents.
118. (a) Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency Bank
(or MUDRA Bank) is a public sector financial
institution in India.
119. (b) 120. (b) 121. (c) 122. (c)
123. (d) 124. (b) 125. (b)
126. (a) Minorities Rights Day is observed in India in 18th
December. National Commission for Minorities
celebrated Minorities Rights Day on 18 December 2012.
Minorities Rights Day is celebrated on 18th December
every year. The day is celebrated to protect rights of
the minorities communities as well as bringing the better
understanding among religious minorities in India.
127. (d) Central Drug Research Institute is wrongly matched
with Kanpur. The Central Drug Research Institute is a
multidisciplinary research laboratory in Lucknow, India,
employing scientific personnel from various areas of
biomedical sciences.
128. (c) Trafalgar Square is associated with London, St.Peter's
Square is associated with Vatican City, Red Square is
associated with Moscow and Times Square is
associated with New York.
129. (d) Margaret Court has won the Grand Slams title for the
maximum number of times. She has won 24 Grand Slams
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extends beyond his role as an actor.
131. (d) Lal Bahadur Shastri was the first posthumous recipient
of Bharat Ratna in 1966. Lal Bahadur Shastri was the
third Prime Minister of the Republic of India and a
leader of the Indian National Congress party. Shastri
joined the Indian independence movement in the 1920s.
132. (d) Australia won the ICC Women's World Cup held in
February 2013. The 2013 Women's Cricket World Cup
was the tenth Women's Cricket World Cup, which was
hosted by India for the third time. India previously
hosted the World Cup in 1978 and 1997. Australia won
the tournament for the sixth time, beating West Indies
by 114 runs in the final.
133. (a) Bhutan's currency is known as Ngultrum. n 1974, the
ngultrum was introduced, replacing the rupee at par.
The ngultrum is equal in value to the Indian rupee and
it does not exchange independently with other nations'
currencies but is interchangeable with the Indian rupee.
134. (b) "Sattriya Nritya" is a classical dance form of India and
has originated in Assam. Sattriya or Sattriya Nritya , is
one among the eight principal classical Indian dance
traditions. In the year 2000, the Sattriya dances of
Assam received recognition as one of the eight
classical dance forms of India.
135. (b) A Grammy Award is an accolade by the National
Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS)
of the United States to recognize outstanding
achievement in the music industry.
136. (b) Indira Gandhi was the first woman of India who received
the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award of the
Republic of India, in 1971.
137. (c) Das Kapital by Karl Marx, is a critical analysis of
political economy, intended to reveal the economic laws
of the capitalist mode of production.
138. (b) The Torah is written on scrolls and kept in a special
cabinet called the aron hakodish, the holy ark, in
synagogues. The Torah is read with a pointer called a
yad (hand) to keep it from being spoiled. Each week,
one section is read until the entire Torah is completed
and the reading begins again.
139. (d) Meghdoot is a lyric poem written by Kalidas,
considered to be one of the greatest Sanskrit poets.
140. (d) Mulk Raj Anand was an Indian writer in English, notable
for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in
traditional Indian society. One of the pioneers of Indo-
Anglian fiction, he together with R. K. Narayan, Ahmad
Aliand Raja Rao, was one of the first India-based writers
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141. (d) The States Reorganisation Act, 1956 was a major reform
of the boundaries of India's states and territories,
organising them along linguistic lines.
142. (a) Mein Kampf is an autobiographical manifesto by Nazi
leader Adolf Hitler, in which he outlines his political
ideology and future plans for Germany.
143. (d) On 15 June 2007, the United Nations General Assembly
voted to establish 2 October as the International Day
of Non-Violence. The resolution by the General
Assembly asks all members of the UN system to
commemorate 2 October in "an appropriate manner and
disseminate the message of non-violence, including
through education and public awareness
144. (d) The Master Control Facility (MCF) is a facility set up
by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in
the city of Hassan in the Indian state of Karnataka.
145. (c) The Silicon Valley of India is a nickname of the Indian
city of Bangalore. The name signifies Bangalore's status
as a hub for information technology (IT) companies in
India and is a comparative reference to the original
Silicon Valley, based around Santa Clara Valley,
California, a major hub for IT companies in the United
States.
146. (d) Shri Aurbindo has written 'Life Divine' which deals with
theoretical aspects of Integral Yoga.
147. (c) Walt Disney has won the most Oscar awards.
148. (b) Leela Samson is a Bharatanatyam dancer,
choreographer instructor and writer from India.
149. (b) Ryder Cup is a biennial men’s gold competition
between teams from Europe and the United States.
150. (d) Kanha Tiger Reserve, also called “Kanha National
Park” is one of the tiger reserve of India and the largest
national Park of Madhya Pradesh.
151. (b) The Discovery of India was written by India’s first
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru during his imprisoment
in 1942-46 at Ahmednagar fort in Maharashtra.
152. (b) Kiran Bedi was the first woman IPS officer in India.
Bedi joined the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972.
153. (a) ILO stands for International Labour Organisation which
is a United Nations agency dealing with Labour issues.
154. (c) The Times of London in 2010 Published its 70,000th
issue.
155. (b) Project Tiger was launched in 1973 by the Government
of India during Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s tenure.
156. (d) According to the figures compiled by Media Research
Users Council (MRUC) in the Indian Readership
Survey (IRS) 2014, the Indian newspaper with the
largest readership is the Dainik Jagran.
157. (d) International Yoga day is celebrated annually on June
21.
158. (d) World AIDS Day is observed on 1st December, to raise
awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread
of HIV infection.
159. (c) Trygve Lie was the first secretary General of UNO.
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163. (a) The Survey of India Dept. is headquartered at
Dehradun. It has 18 civil engineering divisions ranging
from the prediction of tides to aerial survey.
164. (d) The Lalit Kala Academi or National Academy of Art is
India’s national academy of fine arts. Its headquarters
are at Ravindra Bhawan, Ferozshah Road, New Delhi.
165. (c) The World Wildlife Fund is an international non-
governmental organization founded on 29th April, 1961.
166. (d) The God of Small Things (1997) is the debut novel of
Indian writer Arundhati Roy.
167. (a) Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve is India’s first and foremost
biosphere reserves with a heritage rich in flora and
fauna.
168. (d) The Kimono is a traditional Japanese garment.
169. (a) Dr. P. Rama Rao committee is related to defence.
170. (d) Kathakali is a traditional dance from the south Indian
state of Kerala.
171. (d)
172. (a) Magnetization technique can be used to seperate the
iron fillings from the heterogenous mixture assuming
the other element of the mixture are non-magnetic.
173. (b) Amartya Kumar Sen, (born 3 November 1933) is an
Indian economist and a Nobel laureate. He has made
contributions to welfare economics, social choice
theory, economic and social justice, economic theories
of famines, and indexes of the measure of well-being of
citizens of developing countries. He was awarded the
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for
his work in welfare economics.
174. (a) The Great Depression was a severe worldwide
economic depression in the decade preceding World
War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied
across nations, but in most countries it started in 1930
and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s. It was
the longest, most widespread, and deepest depression
of the 20th century.
175. (b) The Indian Foreign Service is the foreign service under
Group A and Group B of the Central Civil Services of
the executive branch of the Government of India. It is
the body of career diplomats of India. The Indian
Foreign Service is part of the Central Civil Services of
the Government of India. The Foreign Secretary of India
is the administrative head of the Indian Foreign Service.
176. (c) Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project is a proposed
project that would link Palk Bay and the Gulf of Mannar
between India and Sri Lanka by creating a shipping
channel through the shallow sea called Sethusamudram
and through a chain of islands collectively called

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Adam's Bridge, Ramar Palam , Ram Sethu and similar
names. This would provide a continuously navigable
sea route in and around the Indian Peninsula.
177. (d) A metropolitan area, sometimes referred to as a metro
area or metro, is a region consisting of a densely
populated urban core and its less-populated
surrounding territories, sharing industry, infrastructure,
and housing. A metropolitan area usually comprises
multiple jurisdictions and municipalities:
neighborhoods, townships, cities, exurbs, countries,
and even states.
178. (b) The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an
international treaty that sets binding obligations on
industrialised countries to reduce emissions of
greenhouse gases. The UNFCCC is an environmental
treaty with the goal of preventing "dangerous"
anthropogenic (i.e., human-induced) interference of the
climate system.
179. (a) Sanjukta Panigrahi (24 August 1944 - 24 June 1997) [1]
was a dancer of India, who was the foremost exponent
of Indian classical dance Odissi. Sanjukta was the first
Oriya girl to embrace this ancient classical dance at an
early age and ensure its grand revival.
180. (c) The father of the White Revolution in India was
Verghese Kurien. The white mentioned is milk
production. He was able to implement programs that
took India from a country with very little dairy
production to the world's largest producer.
181. (b) Charles Robert Darwin, FRS (12 February 1809 - 19
April 1882) was an English naturalist and geologist,
best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory.
He established that all species of life have descended
over time from common ancestors, and in a joint
publication with Alfred Russel Wallace introduced his
scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution
resulted from a process that he called natural selection,
in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect
to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding.
182. (b) Chandrayaan-1 was India's first lunar probe. It was
launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation
in October 2008, and operated until August 2009.
183. (d) Lira was the currency of Italy between 1861 and 2002.
Between 1999 and 2002, the Italian lira was officially a
national subunit of the euro.
184. (c) The President of India is the Supreme Commander of
the Indian Armed Forces. The Indian Armed Forces
are under the management of the Ministry of Defence
(MoD), which is led by the Union Cabinet Minister of
Defence.
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189. (c) Roop Singh Bais was an Indian hockey player. He was
part of the celebrated Indian field hockey team which
won gold medals for India at 1932 and 1936 Olympic
Games. After the final of the 1936 Summer Olympics,
Germans were so impressed with him that they named
a street after him.
190. (a) In 1981 with the first Indian expedition to Antarctica.]
The program gained global acceptance with India's
signing of the Antarctic Treaty and subsequent
construction of the Dakshin Gangotri Antarctic
research base in 1983 superseded by the Maitri base
from 1990.
191. (a) 192. (c)
193. (c) Rajasthan has the dubious distinction of having the
highest difference in male-female literacy in the country
at 28%, against the national average of 16.7%.
194. (d) Azadirachta indica, also known as Neem, is the state
tree of Andhra Pradesh. Products made from Neem trees
have been used in India for over two millennia for their
medicinal properties: Neem products are believed to
be anthelmintic, antifungal, antidiabetic. antibacterial,
antiviral, contraceptive and sedative.
195. (b) The Geological Survey of India (GSI), established in
1851, is a government organization in India which is an
office attached to the Ministry of Mines of Union
Government of India for conducting geological surveys
and studies.
196. (c) Sunmeet Kaur Sawhney, a Punjabi woman, is the winner
of Rs 5 crore on TV game show Kaun Banega
Crorepati 6.
197. (c) Kapil Dev's fast pace earned him the nickname,
'Haryana Hurricane'.
198. (a)
199. (a) Arya Samaj is an Indian religious reform movement
founded by Swami Dayananda on 7th April 1875.
200. (a) 201. (d) 202. (c) 203. (a) 204. (a)
205. (b) 206. (b) 207. (d) 208. (c) 209. (a)
210. (c) 211. (d) 212. (c) 213. (d) 214. (a)
215. (a) 216. (b) 217. (b) 218. (d) 219. (b)
220. (b) 221. (d) 222. (d) 223. (d) 224. (a)
225. (c) 226. (d) 227. (d) 228. (d)
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1. Which of the following symbiotic associations forms a 9. Which of the following is not a laid down principle of the
lichen? Panchsheel ?
(a) An algae and a fungus (a) Mutual respect for each other's territorial
(b) An algae and a bryophyte integrity
(c) A bacterium and a fungus (b) Mutual non-aggression
(d) A bacterium and a gymnosperm (c) Mutual support for each other in world
2. The headquaters of which one of the following organizations forum
(d) Mutual non-interference in each other's
is not in Geneva?
internal affairs
(a) Food and Agricultural Organisation
10. Denatured alcohol
(b) World Meteorological Organisation (a) is a form of alcohol
(c) World Health Organisation (b) is unfit for drinking as it contains poisonous
(d) World Trade Organisation substances
3. The opportunity cost of a factor of production is (c) contains coloured impurities
(a) what it earns in its present use. (d) is sweet to taste
(b) what it can earn in the long period. 11. The city of Prayag was named Allahabad - the city of Allah
(c) what it can earn in some other use. by
(d) the cost of production. (a) Aurangzeb
4. Which Amendment Act is referred as mini constitution? (b) Akbar
(a) 7th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1956 (c) Shahjahan
(b) 24th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1971 (d) Bahadur Shah Zafar
(c) 42nd Constitutional Amendment Act, 1976 12. Arrange the following historical events chronologically
(d) 44th Consitutional Amendment Act, 1978 choosing the correct response:
I. French Revolution
5. Inflation is caused by
II. Glorious Revolution
(a) decrease in production
III. American War of Independence
(b) increase in money supply and decrease in
IV. Russian Revolution
production (a) I II III IV
(c) increase in money supply (b) II III I IV
(d) increase in production (c) II I IV III
6. The equilibrium of a firm under perfect competition will be (d) III II I IV
determined when 13. Chromosomes are made up of
(a) Marginal Cost > Average Cost (a) DNA (b) Protein
(b) Marginal Revenue > Average Cost (c) DNA and Protein (d) RNA
(c) Marginal Revenue > Average Revenue 14. While the computer executes a program, the program is held
(d) Marginal Revenue = Marginal Cost in
7. Which one of the following cities and the personalities (a) RAM (b) ROM
associated with their establishment is wrongly matched? (c) Hard Disk (d) Floppy Disk
(a) Calcutta – Robert Clive 15. Presidential form of government consists of the following?
(b) Pondicherry – Francis Martin (a) Popular election of the President
(c) Ahmedabad – Ahmad Shah I (b) No overlap in membership between the executive and
(d) Madras – Francis Day the legislature
8. Arihant is a (c) Fixed term of office
(a) Multi barrel rocket launcher (d) All of the above
(b) Airborne Early Warning and Control 16. Which of the following places of Sikh religious heritage is
System not in India?
(c) Unmarmed Combat Aerial Vehicle (a) Nankana Sahib (b) Nanded
(d) Nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (c) Paonta Sahib (d) Keshgarh Sahib
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(a) absorption in red is less than yellow and hence red is (c) Device for measuring sound intensity
visible from a distance (d) Measuring instrument for electric power
(b) scattering in yellow light is less than red 24. Which acid is used in rubber, textile, leather and
(c) the wavelength of red light is more than yellow light electroplating industries ?
(d) none of the above reasons (a) Ethanoic acid
19. Who was the author of "India of My Dreams" ? (b) Methanoic acid
(a) J.B. Kripalani (b) M.K. Gandhi (c) Malanic acid
(c) G.K. Gokhale (d) Jawaharlal Nehru (d) Butairic acid
20. How many players are there in a Polo team ? 25. What is the theme of 2016 National Statistics Day?
(a) 4 (b) 7 (a) Social Development
(c) 8 (d) 6 (b) Trees and their calcualtive lives
21. Hemophilia is – (c) Human empowerment
(a) caused by bacteria (b) caused by virus
(d) Agriculture and Farmers’ welfare
(c) caused by pollutants (d) a hereditary defect
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9. (c) Option (c) is not in the list of principles of panchsheel. that of yellow colour. The longest visible wavelength
This agreement stated the five principles as: is red and the shortest is violet. The wavelength of red
1. Mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity
light is more than yellow light.
and sovereignty.
19. (b)
2. Mutual non-aggression.
20. (a) There are 4 players in a polo team.
3. Mutual non-interference in each other's internal
affairs. 21. (d) Hemophilia is a hereditary defect.
4. Equality and cooperation for mutual benefit. 22. (a) In human body, vitamin A is stored in the liver.
5. Peaceful co-existence. 23. (b) Ondometer is a measuring instrument for frequency
10. (b) of electromagnetic waves.
11. (b) Emperor Akbar named Prayag as Allahabad - City of 24. (b) Methanoic acid is a colorless, pungent smelling liquid
God- also called Allahabad in 1575 AD. The city of with a boiling point 373.5 K. Due to the presence of
Allahabad is situated at the confluence of three rivers aldehyde-like hydrogen, it is powerful reducing
- Ganga, Yamuna and the invisible Saraswati. Every agent.It reduces Tollen's reagent and Fehling's solution.
12th year when the waters are felt to be especially It is used in rubber, textile, dyeing, leather and
purifying, Allahabad holds a much greater festival called electroplating industries.
Kumbh Mela. Built by Emperor Akbar in 1583 AD, the 25. (d)
Allahbad fort stands on the banks of the river Yamuna
near the confluence site i.e SANGAM.
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1. Which Article of the Indian Constitution guarantees rights 12. Tattvabodhini Sabha was founded by ………....... In 1839
to arrested persons ? (a) Swami Vivekanand
(a) Article 22 (b) Article 35 (b) Keshav Chandra Sen
(c) Article 20 (d) Article 42
(c) Dabendranath Tagore
2. For a person having hypermetropia, the near point is
(d) Swami Sahajanamd
…………………..
13. After the revolt of 1857, British pursued the policy of
(a) Greater than 20 cm (b) Lesser than 25cm
(c) Greater than 25cm (d) Lesser than 30cm ……………
3. Cryogenic is a science deals with (a) Divide and Policies
(a) High Temperatures(b) Low Pressure (b) Rules and Regulation
(c) High Pressure (d) Low Temperature (c) Divide and Rule
4. ..................... is an active factor of production (d) Unity and Poliy
(a) Product (b) Labour 14. Prithvi-I missile was inducted into the ..................in 1994
(c) Wages (d) Price (a) Indian Army (b) Indian Air Force
5. When total utility becomes maximum, then marginal utility (c) Indian Navy (d) All of these
will be 15. 2018 FIFA World Cup to be held in …………….
(a) Maximum
(a) China (b) Russia
(b) Minimum
(c) India (d) Brazil
(c) Either maximum or minimum
16. .…………………is issued by the court in case of illegal
(d) Zero
detention of a person
6. Revealed Preference Theory was propounded by
……………….. (a) Quo Warranto (b) Habeas Corpus
(a) Robbins (b) Smith (c) Mandamus (d) Certiorari
(c) Samuelson (d) Schumpter 17. At the time of Emergency, the Indian State become unitary
7. One Carat of diamond is equal to ..…………… from …………………….
(a) 200m (b) 100m (a) Semi Federal (b) Federal
(c) 150m (d) 300m (c) Unitary (d) Quasi-federal
8. Wood Spirit is which of the following ? 18. The book titled 'The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler' is penned
(a) Ethyl Alcohol (b) Propanol by
(c) Methyl Alcohol (d) Butanol (a) Z.A. Bhutto
9. Which of the following is chief source of Napthalene ? (b) James Cross Giblin
(a) Moth balls (b) Mothflakes
(c) J.M. Barrie
(c) Tar Camphor (d) Coal tar
(d) Gunnar Myrdal
10. Study of crop production is ………………
19. Bos Taurus is a scientific name of ………………..
(a) Entology (b) Ecology
(c) Botany (d) Agronomy (a) Buffalo (b) Horse
11. Who was the last guru of the Sikhs ? (c) Cow (d) Cat
(a) Guru Granth Sahib 20. …………….. includes all prokaryotic organism likes bacteria,
(b) Guru Gobind Singh cynobacterioa and archiobacteria
(c) Guru Angad (a) Animalia (b) Protista
(d) Guru Amar Das (c) Monera (d) Planatae
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Nations Organisations?
(a) International Labour Organisation
(b) Security Council
(c) International Court of Justice
(d) General Assembly
23. The treaty of Mangalore was signed between
(a) the English East India Company and Haidar Ali
(b) the English East India Company and Tipu Sultan
(c) Haidar Ali and the Zamorin of Calicut
(d) the French East India Company and Tipu Sultan
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Parliament. The bill will facilitate the changing of the names
of which two high courts?
(a) Bombay High Court and Calcutta High Court
(b) Bombay High Court and Madras High Court
(c) Calcutta High Court and Madras High Court
(d) Bombay High Court and Gauhati High Court
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2. (c) Hypermetropia Myopia is corrected by spectacles
having concave lens.Near point of aperson suffering
from hypermetropia is more than 25cm.
3. (d) Cryogenics is the study of the production and
behaviour of materials at very low temperatures.
4. (b) Some of the important factors of production are: (i) Land
(ii) Labour (iii) Capital (iv) Enterprnuer. Land is a passive
factor whereas labour is an active factor of production
5. (d) When total utility is maximum at the 5th unit, marginal
utility is zero
6. (c) Revealed preference theory, pioneered by American
economist Paul Samuelson, is a method of analyzing
choices made by individuals
7. (a) One carat is equal to 0.2 grams
8. (c) Wood spirit is a poisonous colorless liquid used as a
solvent and fuel; ingestion may cause blindness or
death. Called also methyl or wood alcohol.
9. (d) Naphthalene is an organic compound with formula C
10H 8. It is the simplest polycyclic. Naphthalene is the
most abundant single component of coal tar.
10. (d) Agronomy is the science and technology of producing
and using plants for food, fuel, fiber, and land
reclamation
11. (b) Guru Gobind Singh was The Tenth Nanak or the last of
the Sikhpreachers to live.
12. (c) The Tattwabodhinl Sabha ("Truth Propagating/
Searching Society") was a group started in Calcutta on 6
October 1839 as a splinter group of the Brahmo Samaj,
reformers of Hinduism and Indian Society. The founding
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14. (a) Prithvi (Sanskrit: prthvi "Earth") is a tactical surface-
to-surface short-range ballistic missile .This class of
Prithvi missile was inducted into the Indian Army in
1994
15. (b) FIFA's decision to award Russia the right to host the
2018 World Cup surprised many - including some of
the country's leaders
16. (b) Habeas corpus ("You may have the body") is a recourse
in law whereby a person can report an unlawful
detention or imprisonment before a court, usually
through a prison official
17. (d) Professor K.C. Wheare, who regards the American
constitution as the model of a true federation has
described the Indian constitution as 'quasi federal', that
is 'a unitary state with subsidiary federal features rather
than a federal state with subsidiary unitary features
18. (b) Many people believe Hitler was the personification of
evil. In this Sibert Medal-winning biography, James
Cross Giblin penetrates this façade and presents a picture
of a complex person-at once a brilliant, influential
politician and a deeply disturbed man. Giblin explores
the forces that shaped the man as well as the social
conditions that furthered his rapid rise to power.
19. (c) Cows are raised in many different countries around
the world, mainly for the cowsnatural resources such
as milk, meat
20. (c) Monera Kingdom- All the organisms of this kingdom
are prokaryotes
21. (a) Anupama Mohan is one of the best-known disciples
of Kuchipudi.
22. (a) 23. (b) 24. (a) 25. (b)
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1. Which one of the following is not a computer language? 11. Which one of the following Schedules of the Constitution
(a) Cobol (b) Visual Basic of India includes the disqualification of a Legislator on
(c) HTML (d) Netscape grounds of defection?
2. Who among the following was the first Governor General of (a) 8th Schedule (b) 7th Schedule
India? (c) 9th Schedule (d) 10th Schedule
(a) Lord Amherst 12. Which one of the following causes the chikungunia
(b) Lord William Bentinck disease?
(c) Sir Charles Metcalfe (a) Bacteria (b) Helminthic worm
(d) Robert Clive (c) Protozoan (d) Virus
3. Which one of the following is not a constituent of biogas? 13. Who among the following recommends to the Parliament
(a) Methane (b) Carbon dioxide for the abolition of the Legislative Council in a State?
(c) Hydrogen (d) Nitrogen dioxide (a) The President of India
4. In which one of the following sessions was the Indian (b) The Governor of the concerned State
National Congress split into moderates and extremists? (c) The Legislative Council of the concerned State
(a) Nagpur (b) Allahabad (d) The Legislative Assembly of the concerned State
(c) Surat (d) Calcutta 14. Which one of the following vitamins helps in clotting of
5. Bar is a unit of which one of the following? blood?
(a) Force (b) Energy (a) Vitamin-A (b) Vitamin-B6
(c) Pressure (d) Frequency (c) Vitamin-D (d) Vitamin-K
6. Which of the following metals are present in 15. The ‘Thomas Cup is associated with
haemoglobin and chlorophyll, respectively? (a) Table Tennis (b) Lawn Tennis
(a) Fe and Mg (b) Fe and Zn (c) Badminton (d) Billiards
(c) Mg and Zn (d) Zn and Mg 16. Which one among the following pairs is correctly matched?
7. A mother of blood group O has a group O child. What could (a) The Second Battle : Defeat of Jaichand
be the blood group of father of the child? of Tarain of Kannauj
(a) Only O (b) A or B or O by Muhammad of Ghori
(c) A or B (d) Only AB (b) The First Battle of : Defeat of Sikander
8. Who among the following was the founder of the Muslim Panipat Lodhi by
League? Babur
(a) Muhammad Ali Jinnah (c) The Battle of : Defeat of Humayun
(b) Shaukat Ali Chausa by Sher Shah
(c) Nawab Salimullah (d) The Battle of : Defeat of Rana
(d) Aga Khan Khanwa Pratap by Akbar
9. Which one among the following is not a source of tax 17. What is the purpose of adding baking soda to dough?
revenue for the Central Government in India ? (a) To generate moisture
(a) Income tax (b) Customs duuties (b) To give a good flavour
(c) Service tax (d) Motor Vehicle tax (c) To give good colour
10. Which of the following does not form part of current account (d) To generate carbon dioxide
of Balance of Payments? 18. The ‘Arthasastra’ is a treatise on which one of the following?
(a) Export and import of goods (a) Economics
(b) Export and import of services (b) Environment
(c) Income receipts and payments (c) Political Philosophy
(d) Capital receipts and payments (d) Religion in Administration
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21. The book "The mind of the terrorist: the Psychology of 24. As of now, how many countries are members of Nuclear
terrorism from the IRA to al-Qaeda" has been authored by Suppliers Group (NSG)?
whom? (a) 48 (b) 56
(a) Amitav Ghosh (c) 64 (d) 96
(b) Ashwin Sanghi 25. India's first AYUSH university will be set up in which state
(c) Kunal Basu of India?
(d) Jerrold M. Post (a) Sikkim
22. The Government of India (GoI) has extended the ban on the
(b) Haryana
import of milk and milk products of China till which year?
(c) Karnataka
(a) June 2017 (b) March 2017
(d) West Bengal
(c) December 2017 (d) January 2017
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3. (d) Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is not a component of biogas.
4. (c) The 23rd Session (1907) of the Congress was held at
Surat.In the session, there was an open clash between
the Moderates and the Extremists and ultimately it led
to a split in the Congress.
5. (c) 1 Bar = 105 Pa. Both bar and Pa are the unit of pressure.
6. (a) Fe and Mg metals are present in haemoglobin and
chlorophyll respectively.
7. (b) The blood group of father of the child could be A or B
or O.
8. (c) The All India Muslim League, a political organization
was founded in 1906 by Aga Khan under the Nawab of
Dhaka Salimullah. Its main purpose was to safeguard
the political rights of Muslims in India.
9. (d) Motor Vehicle tax is not a source of tax revenue for the
central government in India.
10. (d) Capital receipts and payments do not form part of
current account of Balance of Payment.
11. (d) The 10th Schedule to the Indian Constitution is known
as Anti-Defection Law. It was inserted by the 52nd
Amendment Act 1985 to the Constitution. It sets the
provisions for disqualification of elected members on
the grounds of defection to another political party.
12. (d) Chikungunia is caused by chikenguniya virus which
is an insect borne virus of genus Alphavirus.
Symptoms show high fever, maculopapular rash,
headache, etc.
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16. (b) First Battle of Panipat (1526) was fough between two
mega-powers- Babur, then ruler of Kabul and Ibrahim
Lodhi, king of Delhi Sultanate. It was fought near
Panipat (present day Haryana). Babur won the battle
and established the Mughal Empire.Second Battle of
Panipat (1556) was fought between Akbar (Ruler of
Mughal Dynasty) and Muhammad Adil Shah (ruler of
Pashtan Suri Dynasty), along with his Prime Minister
Hemu. Third Battle of Panipat (1761) was fought
between the Afghans and the Marathas. The battle
lasted for two months which ultimately resulted in the
defeat of Marathas and end of their dominance in
India.
17. (d) Baking soda has sodium bicarbonate as the chief
constituent. It decomposes on heating giving carbon
dioxide. This causes dough, cakes, biscuits etc. to
expand and become light.
18. (c) The Arthasastra is a treatise on Political philosophy.
The book, written in Sanskrit, discusses theories and
principles of governing a state. The meaning
ofArthashastrais 'Science of Polity'. It is written by
Kautilya.
19. (b) Thyroid gland in human body contains iodine.
Deficiency of iodine creates goitre disease. Which is
observed by the enlargement of larynx.
20. (a) 21. (d) 22. (b) 23. (a)
24. (a) 25. (b)
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1. Which one of the following is a programme that converts 10. In the human body, Cowper's glands form a part of which
high level language to machine language? one of the following system?
(a) Linker (b) Assembler (a) Digestive system
(c) Interpreter (d) Compiler (b) Endocrine system
2. Classification of an enterprise into public or private sector (c) Reproductive system
is based on (d) Nervous system
(a) number of employees in the enterprise 11. Mist is a result of which one of the following
(b) ownership of assets of the enterprise (a) Condensation
(c) employment conditions for workers in the enterprise (b) Evaporation
(d) nature of products manufactured by the enterprise (c) Sublimation
3. Which one of the following glands produces the growth (d) Saturation
hormone (somatotrophin)? 12. ‘Dyarchy’ was first introduced in India under
(a) Adrenal (b) Pancreas (a) Morley-Minto reforms
(c) Pituitary (d) Thyroid (b) Montford reforms
4. Who among the following was elected as the President of (c) Simon Commision plan
All India Khilafat Conference met at Delhi in 1919? (d) Government of India Act, 1935
(a) Motilal Nehru (b) Mahatma Gandhi 13. When Lord Mountbatten became the first Governor-General
(c) M A Jinnah (d) Shaukat Ali of India, who among the following became the Governor-
5. Which one of the following Indian states does not have a General for Pakistan?
common international border with Bangladesh? (a) Lord Mountbatten
(a) Manipur (b) Paschim Banga (b) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
(c) Tripura (d) Asom (c) Liaquat Ali Khan
6. Who among the following is the author of the book. ‘The (d) Shaukat Ali
Namesake’? 14. Fiscal Policy in India is formulated by
(a) Arundhati Roy (b) Amitava Ghosh (a) the Reserve Bank of India
(c) Jhumpa Lahiri (d) Kiran Desai (b) the Planning Commission
7. Who among the following was not a member of the (c) the Finance Ministry
Constituent Assembly? (d) the Securities and Exchange Board of India
(a) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 15. Fat can be separated from milk in a cream separation because
(b) Acharya JB Kriplani of
(c) Lok Nayak Jayprakash (a) cohesive force
(d) K M Munshi (b) gravitational force
8. Carbon dioxide is called a greenhouse gas because (c) centrifugal force
(a) its concentration remains always higher than other (d) centripetal force
gases 16. The average fixed cost curve will always be
(b) it is used in photosynthesis (a) a rectangular hyperbola
(c) it absorbs infrared radiation . (b) a downward sloping convex to the origin curve
(d) it emits visible radiation (c) a downward sloping straight line
9. Laser is a device to produce (d) a U-shaped curve
(a) a beam of white light
17. Malaria in the human body is caused by which one of the
(b) coherent light following organisms?
(c) microwaves (a) Bacteria (b) Virus
(d) X-rays (c) Mosquito (d) Protozoan
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(c) Kakori Conspiracy Case (a) Davíd Oddsson
(d) Meerut Conspiracy Case
(b) Olafur Ragnar Grimsson
20. The Indian Research Station 'Himadri' is located at
(c) Gudni Johannesson
(a) Siachen (b) Darjeeling
(d) Andri Snaer Magnason
(c) Arctic Region (d) Antarctica
25. Which of the following countries has become the newest
21. What is the theme of the first-ever "National Yoga Olympiad",
member of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)?
which has been organized by the NCERT?
(a) Canada (b) India
(a) Yoga for Peace and Dhyana
(c) Brazil (d) Poland
(b) Yoga for Health and Harmony
(c) Yoga fo r Kriya and Harmony
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1. (d) A compiler is a special programme that processes 13.
statements written in a particular programming
language and turns them into machine language or
"code" that a computer's processor uses.
2. (b) A company organized for commercial purposes is
called an enterprise. Classification of an enterprise into
public or private sector is based on ownership of
assets of the enterprise.
3. (c) Somatotrophin is produced by the anterior pituitary. 14.
It is a peptide hormone that induces growth, cell
reproduction and regeneration.
4. (b) Gandhiji was elected President of the All-India Khilafat
Conference which met at Delhi on November 23, 1919.
They decided to withdraw all cooperation from the
government if their demands were not met.
5. (a) Manipur does not have boundary with Bangladesh. 15.
6. (c) The Namesake (2004) is the first novel by Jhumpa 16.
Lahiri.
7. (c) The Constitution of India was drafted by the
constituent assembly and it was set up under the 17.
cabinet Mission plan on 16 May 1946. The members
of the constituent assembly were elected by the
Provincial assemblies by method of single transferable
vote system of proportional representations.Members
of the committee: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, K. M. 18.
Munshi,Acharya J.B kriplani . Lok Nayak Jai Prakash
was not the member of the constituent assembly. 19.
8. (c) Greenhouse gases catch the sun's radiation on its way
back into space and reflect some of that warmth back
to Earth, increasing temperatures. Carbon dioxide is
known as greenhouse gas because of their ability to
trap and reflect the sun's radiation back to Earth.
9. (b) A laser is a device that emits coherent light through a
process called stimulated emission.
10. (c) Cowper’s gland is related to reproductive system.
Cowper’s gland is the bulbourethal gland found in
human males. They are found in pair and secrete
viscous secretion called pre ejaculate that helps in
coitus. 20.
11. (a) Mist is a thin fog resulting from condensation in the
air near to the earth's surface.
12. (a) Dyarchy was a system of double government
introduced by British India. 21.
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Jinnah worked to establish the new nation's
government and policies, and to help settle the millions
of Muslim migrants who had emigrated from the new
nation of India to Pakistan after the partition. He is
revered in Pakistan as Quaid-i-Azam.
(c) The Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) under
Ministry of Finance is the nodal agency of the Union
Government to formulate and monitor country's
economic policies and programmes having a bearing
on domestic and international aspects of economic
management.
(c) Centrifugal force separates fat from milk.
(a) Total fixed costs are constant, so the average fixed
cost curve diminishes with the output. Thus, the
average fixed cost curve is a rectangular hyperbola.
(d) Malaria is a mosquito borne disease of humans and
other animals caused by Plasmodium protozoan.
Severe disease is largely caused by Plasmodium
falciparum whereas mild forms are due to P vivax, P
oval and P malariae.
(b) The focal length of a convex lens is shorter for blue
light than for red.
(c) Ram Prasad Bismil was the famous freedom fighter
who was involved in the historic Kakori train robbery.
He was born in 1897 at Shahjahanpur,Uttar Pradesh.
On 9th August, 1925, Ram Prasad Bismil along with
his fellow followers looted the money of the British
government from the train while it was passing through
Kakori, Lucknow. Except Chandrashekhar Azad, all
other members of the group were arrested. Ram Prasad
Bismil along with others was given capital punishment.
This great freedom fighter of India was executed on
19th December, 1927.
(c) Himadri Station is India's first Arctic research station
located at Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway. It was
inaugurated on the 1st of July, 2008 by the Minister of
Earth Sciences.
(b) 22. (a) 23. (a) 24. (c) 25. (a)
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and Quit" movement ? Property is a –
(a) 1945 (b) 1943 (a) Fundamental Right
(c) 1944 (d) None of these (b) Directive Principle
2. What is the ratio of money held by the public in currency to (c) Legal Right
that they held in deposit ? (d) Social Right
(a) The currency deposit ratio 11. Babar declared himself as an emperor first at –
(b) The reserve deposit ratio (a) Samarqand
(c) Cash reserve ratio
(b) Farghana
(d) Cash deposit ratio
(c) Kabul
3. The chemical behavior of an atom depends upon –
(d) Panipat
(a) the number of Neutrons in the nucleus
(b) the number of Nucleons in the nucleus 12. How many times has financial emergency been declared in
(c) the number of Protons in its nucleus India, so far?
(d) the number of Electrons orbiting around the nucleus (a) Five times (b) Four times
4. 88th amendement of the Indian Constitution is related to – (c) Once (d) Never
(a) The demarcation of new boundaries between states 13. Economy is in the "Liquidity Trap" when –
(b) The Constitution of the National Judicial Commission (a) Rate of interest on bonds is minimum
(c) Empowering the Centre to levy and appropriate Service (b) Rate of interest on bonds is maximum
tax (c) Transaction demand for money is maximum
(d) Readjustment of electroal constituencies on the basis (d) None of the above
of the population census 2001 14. Who is the author of "The Unseen Indira Gandhi"?
5. The joint sitting of both Houses of Indian Parliament is held (a) K.P. Mathur
in connection with – (b) Bilal Siddique
(a) Constitutional amendment bill (c) Anurag Mathur
(b) Ordinary bill (d) N.R. Narayana Murthy
15. What is 'biomagnification'?
(c) Money bill
(a) blowing up of environmental issues by man
(d) Election of the Vice – President of India
(b) growth of organisms due to food consumption
6. Many Fungi belonging to the genera Microporum (c) reduction of dissolved O2 caused by microbial
Trichophyton and Epidermophyton are responsible for – organisms
(a) Filarial (b) Cancer (d) increase in the concentration of nondegradable
(c) Ringworms (d) AIDS pollutants as they pass through food chain
7. A boat will submerge when it displaces water equal to its 16. Subhash Chandra Bose formed the government for
own – independent India in Singapore, on –
(a) volume (b) weight (a) 22nd September, 1943
(c) surface area (d) density (b) 20th October, 1943
8. Which organ of Human body is affected by Alzheimer (c) 21st October, 1943
(d) 22nd October, 1943
disease ?
17. 'Laffer Curve" shows the relationship between –
(a) Brain
(a) Government Revenue and Government Expenditure.
(b) Bone Marrow (b) Tax Rates and Tax Revenue.
(c) Lung (c) Direct Taxes and GDP.
(d) Intestine (d) None of the above
9. What is the chemical name of vitamin E ? 18. 'Cerebral palsy' is a brain disorder found generally in –
(a) Calciferol (a) Old people
(b) Tocopherol (b) Drug addicts
(c) Riboflavin (c) Small children
(d) Phylloquinone (d) Only in ladies
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(a) Concave Mirror (b) Convex Mirror (a) Argentina
(c) Plane Mirror (d) None of these (b) Colombia
21. A.T.F. is related to – (c) Chile
(a) Civil Aviation (b) Railways (d) Peru
(c) Road transport (d) None of these
25. Which historical site has been declared as the SARRC
22. A hybrid computer is the one having the combined properties
cultural capital for 2016-17?
of
(a) Super and micro computers (a) Bamiyan
(b) Mini and micro computers (b) Maynamati
(c) Analog and digital computers (c) Shilaidah
(d) Super and mini computers (d) Mahashangarh

Practice Set-5
HINTS & EXPLANATIONS
1. (b) The communal question had become a baffling one as
the Muslim League tightened its demand for Pakistan.
Against the congress demand of “quit India”, the
Muslim League’s new slogan was “Divide and quit”.
On March 21, 1943, Muslim League observed as
Pakistan Day.
2. (a) The currency deposit ratio shows the amount of
currency that people hold as a proportion of aggregate
deposits. An increase in cash deposit ratio leads to a
decrease in money multiplier. An increase in deposit
rates will induce depositors to deposit more, thereby
leading to a decrease in cash to Aggregate Deposit
ratio.
This will in turn lead to a rise in Money Multiplier.
3. (d) The chemical behaviour of an atom depends upon the
number of Electrons orbiting around the nucleus.
4. (c) 5. (b) 6. (c)
7. (b) A boat will float when the weight of the water displaces
equals the weight of the boat and anything will float if
it is shaped to displace its own weight of water before
it reaches the point where it will submerge. Floating of
the boat works on the principle of buoyancy force which
is an upward force exerted by a liquid, gas or other
fluid, that opposes the weight of an immersed object.
8. (a) Alzheimer’s disease affects the brain. The disease
causes degeneration of brain tissues and nerve cells.
9. (b) Chemical namee of Vitamin E is Tocopherols.
10. (c) The Indian Constitution does not recognize the
property right as a fundamental right. In the year 1977,
the 44th amendment eliminated the right to acquire, hold
and dispose of property as a fundamental right.
However, in another part of the Constitution, Article
300 (a) was inserted to affirm that no person shall be
deprived of his property by the authority of law.
11. (d) Babur declared himself as the emperor at Panipat.
12. (d) Financial emergency in India has never been declared
so far.
13. (a) A liquidity trap is a situation, described in the
Keynesian Economics, in which injections of cash into
the private banking system by a central bank fail to
dec rease interest rates and hence make monetary
policy ineffective. A liquidity trap is caused when
people hoard cash because they expect an adverse
event s uch as defl ati on, insufficient aggregate
demand, or war. Common characteristics of a liquidity
trap are interest rates that are close to zero and
fluctuations in the money supply that fail to translate
into fluctuations in price levels.
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for nearly 20 years till her assassination in 1984. The
foreword of the book was written by her granddaughter
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. The book provides some
interesting peeps into the responses of Mrs. Gandhi’s
to challenges both personal and political.
15. (d) Biomagnification, also known as bioamplification or
biological magnification, is the increasing concentration
of a substance, such as a toxic chemical, in the tissues
of organisms at successively higher levels in a food
chain.
16. (c) On 21st October, 1943, Subhas Chandra Bose
proclaimed the formation of the Provisional
Government of Free India at the Cathay Cinema Hall.
Two days later, he declared war on Britain and the
United States. With help from the Japanese, he
reorganised and rejuvenated the Azad Hind Fauj (also
called the Indian National Army). He lobbied
aggressively for funds in Malaya and other parts of
Southeast Asia and launched a recruitment drive for
the Azad Hind Fauj.
17. (b) The Laffer curve, invented by Arthur Laffer, shows
the relationship between tax rates and tax revenue
collected by governments. The chart below shows
the Laffer Curve:
18. (c) Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of permanent movement
disorders that appear in early childhood. Signs and
symptoms vary between people. Often, symptoms
include poor coordination, stif f muscles, weak
muscles, and tremors. There may be problems with
sensation, vision, hearing, swallowing, and speaking.
Often babies with cerebral palsy do not roll over, sit,
crawl, or walk as early as other children their age.
Difficulty with the a bi lity to think or reason and
seizures each occurs in about one third of people with
CP.
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- International Development Association (IDA),
established in 1960, provides concessional financing
(interest-free loans or grants), usually with sovereign
guarantees;
- International Centre for Settlement of Investment
Disputes (CSID), established in 1965, which works
with governments to reduce investment risk;
- Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA),
established in 1988, which provides insurance against
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20. (d) A search light produces an intense parallel beam of
light. This requires a reflector of large aperture. When
a source is placed at the focus of a large concave
mirror only the paraxial rays (not the marginal rays)are
reflected as parallel beam, but when a source is placed
at the focus of parabolic mirror all the rays are reflected
as an intense parallel beam.
21. (a) ATF is Aviation Turbine Fuel related to Civil Aviation.
22. (c)
23. (d) Dhanush is the naval variant of the Prithvi missile.
24. (c) 25. (d)
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The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad– Twinkle Khanna The Unseen Indira Gandhi–Dr KP Mathur

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Citizen and Society–Hamid Ansari
The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human
History–Sanjeev Sanyal
R D Burmania: Panchamemoirs–Chaitanya Padukone
India Rising: Fresh Hope, New Fears–Ravi Velloor
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the
Unthinkable–Amitav Ghosh
Courage & Commitment–Margaret Alva
India vs Pakistan: Why Can’t we just be Friends?–Husain
Haqqani
Chaos and Caliphate: Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for
the Middle East–Patrick Cockburn
A Call to Mercy: Hearts to Love, Hands to Serve–Mother
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The Kiss of Life–Emraan Hashmi
Anything But Khamosh: The Shatrughan Sinha Biography–
Bharathi S Pradhan
Gandhi: An Illustrated Biography–Pramod Kapoor
Fixed! Cash and Corruption in Cricket–Journalist Shantanu
Guha Ray
“Who was Shivaji?”–Govind Pansare
A Kingdom for His Love–Vani Mahesh, Shinie Antony
Nathuram Godse: The Story of an Assassin–Anup Ashok
Sardesai
The Turbulent Years, Volume II–President Pranab Mukherjee
The Z Factor–Subhash Chandra
Jawaharlal Nehru and The Indian Polity in Perspective–
Hamid Ansari
Maru Bharat Saru Bharat–Jain Acharya Maharaj

IMPORTANT APPOINTMENTS 2016

JANUARY Mar 15, Htin Kyaw elected as first civilian President of
Jan 1, Amitabh Kant appointed CEO of NITI (National 2016 Myanmar.
2016 Institution for Transforming India) Aayog. Mar 23, Justice Permod Kohli appointed as Chairman of
Jan 4, RK Mathur sworn in as 8th Chief Information 2016 Central Administrative Tribunal.
2016 Commissioner (CIC). APRIL
Jan 25, K Durga Prasad appointed as DG of CRPF April 7, CP Gurnani appointed as Chairman of
2016 (Central Reserve Police Force). 2016 NASSCOM (National Association of Software
FEBRUARY and Services Companies).
MAY
Feb 2, Archana Ramasundram becomes 1st woman DG
2016 of Sashastra Seema Bal. May 3, Bhupendra Kainthola takes charge as FTII (Film
2016 and Television Institute of India) Director.
Feb 3, DJ Pandian appointed AIIB (Asian Infrastructure
May 31, Admiral Sunil Lanba takes charge as Navy chief.
2016 Investment Bank) Vice-President.
2016
Feb 13, Ashok Chawla appointed as new Chairman of
JUNE
2016 TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute).
June 3, Navin Agarwal appointed as DG of NADA
Feb 23, KN Vyas appointed as Director of Bhabha Atomic
2016 (National Anti Doping Agency).
2016 Research Centre.
June 15, Peter Thomson elected as President of 71st session
Feb 25, 2016 of United Nations General Assembly.
Rajendra Singh appointed as DG of Coast Guard.
2016
June 15, Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway appointed as
Feb 29, Former CJI HL Dattu takes over as Chairman of 2016 UN Women Goodwill Ambassador.
2016 NHRC (National Human Rights Commission).
June 22, Ken Miyauchi appointed as President and COO of
MARCH 2016 SoftBank Group.
Mar 2, Vice Admiral Atul Kumar Jain appointed as Chief June 23, BCCI appoints Anil Kumble as the head coach of
2016 of Staff of Eastern Naval Command. 2016 Indian Cricket Team.
Mar 11, Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan appointed as June 27, Sujoy Bose appointed as first CEO of NIIF
2016 Chairman of 21st Law Commission of India. 2016 (National Investment and Infrastructure Fund).
Mar 12, Lt Gen N P S Hira appointed Deputy Chief of June 28, NS Vishwanathan appointed as deputy governor
2016 Army. 2016 of RBI.
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July 19, Guruprasad Mohapatra appointed as Chairman of Geneva.
2016 Airports Authority of India. Oct 21, Vice Admiral SV Bhokare assumes office as the
July 21, Ajay Bhushan Pandey appointed as CEO of 2016 Commandant of Indian Naval Academy.
2016 UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India). Oct 27, Karnal Singh appointed as Director of Enforcement
AUGUST 2016 Directorate.
Aug 1, Rani Singh Nair appointed as Chairman of CBDT NOVEMBER
2016 (Central Board of Direct Taxes). Nov. 7, M Rajeshwar Rao new RBI Executive Director.
SEPTEMBER 2016
Sep 4, Urjit Patel assumes charge as 24th Governor of Nov. 24, Yudhvir Singh Malik appointed as new Chairman
2016 Reserve Bank of India. 2016 of NHA.
Sep 19, DECEMBER
Alka Sirohi appointed UPSC chairman.
2016 Dec 5, Senior AIADMK leader O Panneerselvam
Sep 28, World Bank reappoints Jim Yong Kim for second 2016 appointed as the new AIADMK chief and the new
2016 term as President. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister.

OBITUARY IN 2016
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Former-Jammu Jun 22, 2016 Amjad Sabri–a famed Pakistani Qawwal.
Jan 7, 2016
and Kashmir Chief Minister. Jun 29, 2016 KG Subramanyan–Renowned painter.
Jan 10, 2016 David Bowie–Legendary artist. Ramchandra Chintaman Dhere–Eminent
Jul 1, 2016
Jan 19, 2016 Ravindra Kalia–Noted Hindi writer. Marathi literary scholar.
Jan 21, 2016 Mrinalini Sarabhai–Legendary dancer. Jul 20, 2016 Mohammed Shahid – Indian Hockey legend.
Kalpana Ranjani–Noted Malayalam film Jul 28, 2016 Mahasweta Devi–Writer and social activist.
Jan 25, 2016
actress. Pandit Lacchu Maharaj–Veteran tabla
Jul 28, 2016
Feb 2, 2016 S S Tarapore–Former RBI Deputy Governor. maestro.
Feb 2, 2016 Intizar Hussain–Veteran Urdu writer. Aug 14, 2016 Na Muthukumar–Tamil Lyricist.
Sushil Koirala–Former Nepal Prime Aug 8, 2016 Mahim Bora–Eminent Assamese litterateur.
Feb 9, 2016 Kalikho Pul–Former Chief Minister of
Minister. Aug 9, 2016
Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan–Veteran singer of Arunachal Pradesh.
Feb 18, 2016 Sellapan Ramanathan–Singapore’s longest
Gwalior Gharana. Aug 22, 2016
Feb 19, 2016 serving president.
Bhubaneswari Mishra–Renowned singer.
Sep 2, 2016 Islam Karimov–President of Uzbekistan.
Purno Agitok Sangma–Former Lok Sabha
Mar 4, 2016 Sep 5, 2016 Lindsay Tuckett–World’s oldest cricketer.
Speaker.
Sep 24, 2016 Reoti Saran Sharma–Hindi and Urdu writer.
Mar 5, 2016 Ray Tomlinson–inventor of E-mail.
Syed Shamsul Haq–Renowned Bangla
Ustad Ali Ahmad Hussain–Famous Shehnai Sep 27, 2016
Mar 16, 2016 writer.
exponent. Shimon Peres–Former Israeli Prime
Mar 26, 2016 Jim Harrison–Renowned American author. Sep 28, 2016
Minister.
Barbara Turner–Hollywood actress and Oct 13, 2016 Bhumibol Adulyadej–King of Thailand.
Apr 5, 2016
screenwriter. M. Balamuralikrishna–Indian Carnatic
Apr 14, 2016 Satyanand Munjal–Hero Group co-founder. Nov 22, 2016
musician and composer
Apr 21, 2016 Prince Rogers Nelson–Music legend. Fidel Castro - Cuban Politician, Prime
Apr 27, 2016 V T Thomas–Kerala cartoonist. Nov 25, 2016
Minister.
May 11, 2016 Tony Cozier–Renowned commentator. Dilip Padgaonkar–Journalist, Editor in
Nov 25, 2016
May 27, 2016 RG Jadhav – Noted Marathi writer. Chief.
Jun 3, 2016 Muhammad Ali–American Boxer. Jayalalithaa Jayaraman- Indian actor and
Dec 5, 2016
Jun 12, 2016 Achyut Lahkar–Noted Playwright and Actor. Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.

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BILLS AND ACTS 2016
Maternity Benefits (Amendment) Bill, 2016
• Rajya Sabha has passed this bill on August 11, 2016 which
aims to raise maternity leave for women from 12 to 26 weeks.
• The Maternity Benefit Act, 1961, protects the employment
of women during the time of maternity and entitles them
of a full paid absence from work to take care for the child.
The amendment bill seeks to increase maternity leave to 26
weeks in all establishments, including private sector.
• The act is applicable to all establishments employing
10 or more persons. The bill also provides 12 weeks leave
for commissioning and adopting mothers and makes it
compulsory to provide crèche facility for establishment where
the number of workers is 50 and above. Adopting mother is
the woman who legally adopts a child below 3 months of age.
A commissioning mother is a biological mother who uses her
egg to create an embryo implanted in another woman.
• There is already a provision of 26-week or 6-month
maternity leave for the government employees, most private
sector firms offer maximum three months of such leave. The
bill may also have an enabling provisions to allow working
mothers to exercise work-from-home option.
The Constitution (122nd Amendment) (GST) Bill, 2014
• Rajya Sabha gave its approval on August 3, 2016 and Lok
Sabha on August 8, 2016 for the crucial 122nd Constitutional
Amendment to turn the bill into law. The Lok Sabha had
already passed the key provisions of the bill on May 06,
2015.  2016 was passed by the Rajya Sabha. It was already passed
• The Bill amends the Constitution to introduce the goods and
services tax (GST).
• Parliament and state legislatures will have concurrent
powers to make laws on GST. Only the Centre may levy an
integrated GST (IGST) on the interstate supply of goods and
services, and imports.
• Alcohol for human consumption has been exempted from the
purview of GST. GST will apply to five petroleum products
at a later date.
• The GST Council will recommend rates of tax, period of levy
of additional tax, principles of supply, special provisions to
certain states, etc. The GST Council will consist of the Union
Finance Minister, Union Minister of State for Revenue, and
state Finance Ministers.
• The Bill empowers the Centre to impose an additional tax of
up to 1%, on the inter-state supply of goods for two years or
more. This tax will accrue to states from where the supply
originates.
• Parliament may, by law, provide compensation to states for
any loss of revenue from the introduction of GST, up to a five
year period.
• India’s 29 states currently levy their own sales taxes,
dividing the Indian market. GST aims to provide a uniform
tax structure across the country.
Motor Vehicle (Amendment) Bill, 2016
• The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra
Modi has given its approval on August 03, 2016 for Motor
Vehicle (Amendment) Bill 2016.
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• For offences by juveniles, the guardian/owner shall be deemed
to be responsible. They will have to pay a fine of ` 25,000
apart from three-year imprisonment. The juvenile will be
tried under the Juvenile Justice Act and registration of his or
her motor vehicle will be cancelled.
• In the area of road safety, bill proposes to raise penalties to
act as restraint against traffic violations. Stricter provisions
are being proposed in respect of offences like juvenile
driving, drunken driving, driving without license, dangerous
driving, over-speeding, overloading, etc. Stricter provisions
for helmets have been introduced along with provisions for
electronic detection of violations.
• To bring agreement of the registration and licensing process,
it is proposed to create National Register for Driving Licence
and National Register for Vehicle registration through
“Vahan” & “Sarathi” platforms. This will assist uniformity
of the process across the country.
Benami Transaction Bill 2016
• The Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Bill,
by Lok Sabha in the last week of July 2016.
• The bill has provision for confiscating ‘benami’ (proxy)
assets.
• The bill seeks to establish adjudicating authorities and an
appellate tribunal to deal with benami transactions as also
specify penalty for entering into benami transactions.
• The bill is part of measures planned by the Government to
tackle the problem of black money.
• A transaction is considered as benami (meaning nameless)
where a property is transferred to or is held by a person and
the consideration for such property has been provided or paid
by another person.
• People keeping ‘benami’ properties to evade taxes will get
up to seven years rigorous imprisonment and fine, as per a
new law aimed at checking black money in real estate sector.
Lokpal and Lokayukta (Amendment) Bill, 2016
• The Lokpal and Lokayukta (Amendment) Bill, 2016 was
passed by the Lok Sabha on July 27, 2016.
• The bill seeks to amend the Lokpal and Lokayukta Act, 2013
which provides Lokpal (at Centre) and Lokayukta (at States)
statutory backing to inquire into allegations of corruption
against certain public functionaries and for related matters.
Key Provisions
• The bill enables the leader of the single largest opposition
party in the Lok Sabha in the absence of a recognised Leader
of Opposition to be a member of the selection committee that
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• It amends section 44 of parent Act that deals with provision
of furnishing of details of assets and liabilities of public
servants within 30 days of joining the government service.
• The amendment has removed the period of 30 days. Now
the public servants will make declaration of their assets
and liabilities in the form and manner as prescribed by
government.
• It gives extension of the time given to public servants
and trustees and board members of Non-Governmental
Organisations (NGOs) to declare their assets and those of
their spouses.
• In this case public servants and trustees and board members
of NGOs must be receiving government funds of more than
` 1 crore or foreign funding of more than ` 10 lakh.
Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation)
Amendment Bill, 2016
• Lok Sabha has passed the Child Labour (Prohibition and
Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2016, despite opposition by
several MPs.
• The Bill, passed by the Rajya Sabha on July 19, 2016.
• The Bill seeks to improve the Child Labour (Prohibition and
Regulation) Act, 1986, which prohibits the employment of
children below 14 years in 83 hazardous occupations and
processes. The amendment extends this ban on employment
of children under 14 across all sectors, prohibits the
employment of adolescents aged 14-18 years in risky
occupations and introduces more severe jail term and fines
for offenders: a jail term of six months to two years and a fine
of ` 20,000 to ` 50,000.
• The opposition by members was mainly to the fact that
children under 14 years will be allowed to work in family
businesses, outside of school hours and during holidays, and
in entertainment and sports. MPs objected to the definition of
family which includes not only parents and siblings but also
the siblings of either parent.
• The Bill brings down the list of hazardous
occupations from the earlier 83 to just three: mining,
inflammable substances, and hazardous processes under the
Factories Act. Read together, with the family enterprises
clause, critics say, children can be made to work in carpet,
zari and bidi units, mica or diamond cutting, scavenging,
brick kilns, slaughterhouses, handling e-waste or as domestic
help. Several MPs objected to the clause that also gives the
Centre the right to add to the list of non-hazardous work.
Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016
• The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016
was approved by the Union Cabinet on July 21 to protect
transgenders from discrimination. Through this Bill the
Union Government has evolved a holistic mechanism for
the social, economic and educational empowerment of
marginalized transgenders community.
Key Facts
• The Bill will benefit a large number of transgender persons,
mitigate the stigma, discrimination and abuse against them
and also bring them into the mainstream of society.
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• They face problems ranging from social exclusion, ostracism
and discrimination, as well as verbal, physical and sexual
abuse.
• They also lack of access to education and employment
opportunities, ending up into organised groups, forced
begging or demanding money.
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code Bill, 2016
• Rajya Sabha passed the major economic reform Bill moved
by the Government i.e. ‘Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code,
2016’ on 11th May 2016.
• The Lok Sabha had earlier passed the Bill on 5th May, 2016.
• The objective of the new law is to promote entrepreneurship,
availability of credit, and balance the interests of all
stakeholders by consolidating and amending the laws
relating to reorganization and insolvency resolution of
corporate persons, partnership firms and individuals in a time
bound manner and for maximization of value of assets of
such persons and matters connected therewith or incidental
thereto.
• The essential idea of the new law is that when a firm defaults
on its debt, control shifts from the shareholders/promoters
to a Committee of Creditors, who have 180 days in which to
evaluate proposals from various players about resuscitating
the company or taking it into liquidation.
• The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code is a comprehensive
and systemic reform, which will give a quantum leap to the
functioning of the credit market.
Mines and Minerals Amendment Bill, 2016
• Parliament passed the Mines and Minerals (Development
and Regulation) Amendment Bill 2016. The Bill amends
the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act,
1957.
• The Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha on 16th March 2016
and in the Rajya Sabha on 2nd May 2016.
• The Bill allows for the transfer of mining leases which have
been granted through procedures other than auction, and
where the minerals are used for captive purpose.
• The Bill adds a definition of leased area, as the area within
which mining operations can be undertaken. This will also
include the non-mineralised area required for the activities
defined under mine in the Mines Act, 1952.
• The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act,
1957 regulates the mining sector in India and specifies the
requirement for obtaining and granting leases for mining
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Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016
• Rajya Sabha passed the Real Estate (Regulation and
Development) Bill, 2016 which aims to guard the interests
of numerous aspiring house buyers alongside enhancing
the credibility of construction industry by promoting
transparency, accountability and efficiency in execution of
projects.
• The Bill seeks to set up an effective regulatory mechanism
for orderly growth of the sector which is the second largest
seasonal employer after agriculture.
• It provides that 70% of sale proceeds will have to be kept
aside by the developer in an escrow account which is a
financial instrument held by a third party on behalf of the
other two parties in a transaction.
• The Bill will set up state-level real estate regulatory authorities
and appellate tribunals to monitor transactions relating to
both residential and commercial projects and their timely
completion and handover. It will also look after complaints
at both appellate tribunals and regulatory authorities within
60 days ensuring timely resolution of disputes.
• The Real Estate Bill enables the people meet their genuine
aspirations of owning a house including those of urban poor
by giving a fillip to affordable housing initiative under which
the Government intends to enable construction of 2 crore by
the year 2022 under Prime Minister’s Awas Yojana (Urban).
Industries (Development and Regulation)
Amendment Bill, 2015
• The Industries (Development and Regulation) Amendment
Bill, 2015 was passed by the Parliament on April 29,
2016. The Bill amends the Industries (Development and
Regulation) Act, 1951. It was first was passed in Lok Sabha
in December 2015 and later in Rajya Sabha in April 2016.
Now it will go for Presidential assent as per Article 111 of the
Indian Constitution.
Key facts
• The bill seeks to bring industries engaged in the manufacture
of potable alcohol under the exclusive control of States in all
respects.
• The bill amends 1st schedule of the parent Act to bring
required changes for regulating industries manufacturing
potable alcohol. However, Union Government will continue
to be responsible for formulating policy and regulating
foreign collaboration for all products of fermentation
industries, including industrial and potable alcohol.
Jat Reservation Bill
The Haryana Backward Classes (Reservation in services
and admission in educational institutions) Bill, 2016 was
unanimously passed by the Haryana Legislative Assembly in
May 2016.
Key Provisions of the bill
• It seeks to provide reservation in services and admission in
educational institutions to persons belonging to backward
classes including Jats and five other castes.
• The backward classes have been divided into three blocks as
Block A, Block B and Block C. Jats, Jat Sikhs, Ror, Bishnoi,
Tyagi and Mulla/Muslim Jat have been included in the Block C.
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by the Union Government on March 28. The Act will provide
statutory backing for transfer of subsidies and benefits to eligible
people having Aadhaar (UID) number.
Key facts
• The act seeks to provide efficient, transparent and targeted
delivery of subsidies, benefits and services to individuals
residing in India by assigning them unique identity numbers
(UID) or Aadhaar number.
• It will be used for all benefit that will be linked to consolidated
fund of India or the expenditure incurred from it.
• Both Central and state governments can use Aadhaar for
disbursal for benefits and subsidies. However the Aadhaar
number cannot be used as a proof of citizenship or domicile.
• The Act gives statutory for establishment of the Unique
Identification Authority of India consisting of a Chairperson
(part time or full time) and two Members (part time).
• Those individuals not having Aadhaar number shall be
offered alternate and viable means of identification for
delivery of the subsidies, benefits or service.
Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities)
Amendment Act, 2015
• The amended law for prevention of atrocities against the
Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes was enforced
from January 26, 2016 after the Central Government’s
approval.
• The SC/ST Bill was unanimously passed by the Rajya Sabha
on December 21, 2015 without a debate, and had been
awaiting a formal notification. The Lok Sabha had passed
the bill on 4thAugust, 2015.
• After the enforcement, there will be stricter prosecution
for new offences of atrocities, such as tonsuring of head,
moustache, or similar acts, which are derogatory to the
dignity of members of the SC/ST community, garlanding
with chappals, denying access to irrigation facilities or
forest rights, dispose or carry human or animal carcasses,
or to dig graves, using or permitting manual scavenging,
dedicating an SC/ST woman as devadasi, abusing in caste
name, perpetrating witchcraft atrocities, imposing social or
economic boycott, preventing SC/ST candidates from filing
of nomination to contest elections, hurting an SC/ST woman
by removing her garments, forcing a member of these
communities to leave house, village or residence, defiling
objects sacred to members of SC/ST, touching or using
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The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of
Children) Act, 2015
• The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act,
2015 has come into force from January 15, 2016 and repeals the
Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000.
• The Bill was passed by Lok Sabha on 7th May, 2015
and Rajya Sabha on 22nd December, 2015 and received
Presidential assent on 31st December, 2015.
• Under Section 15, special provisions have been made to
tackle child offenders committing heinous offences in the
age group of 16-18 years.
President assent to the Sugar Cess (Amendment)
Bill, 2015
• President Pranab Mukherjee gave his assent to the Sugar
Cess (Amendment) Bill, 2015 on 8th January, 2016.
• This will raise the ceiling of the impost from ` 25 to ` 200 per
quintal, a measure that will help sugarcane growers and cash
starved mills.
• The Sugar Cess (Amendment) Bill, 2015 was introduced
in the Lok Sabha by Mr. Ram Vilas Paswan, Minister
of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution on
December 11, 2015. The Bill proposes to amend the Sugar
Cess Act, 1982.
Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016  • Prohibits any individual from publishing information or
• Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra
Modi gave its approval for introduction of the “Surrogacy
(Regulation) Bill, 2016” on 24th August.  National Water Framework Bill, 2016
• The Bill will regulate surrogacy in India by establishing
National Surrogacy Board at the Central level and State
Surrogacy Boards and Appropriate Authorities in the State
and Union Territories. The legislation will ensure effective
regulation of surrogacy, prohibit commercial surrogacy and
allow ethical surrogacy to the needy infertile couples.  Constitution the law will be not binding on States for adoption.
• All infertile Indian married couple who want to avail ethical
surrogacy will be benefited. Further the rights of surrogate
mother and children born out of surrogacy will be protected.
The Bill shall apply to whole of India, except the state of
Jammu and Kashmir.  her socio-economic factors.
• The major benefits of the Act would be that it will regulate the
surrogacy services in the country. While commercial surrogacy
will be prohibited including sale and purchase of human
embryo and gametes, ethical surrogacy to the needy infertile
couples will be allowed on fulfillment of certain conditions
and for specific purposes. As such, it will control the unethical
practices in surrogacy, prevent commercialization of surrogacy
and will prohibit potential exploitation of surrogate mothers
and children born through surrogacy.  Managing water at river basin-level and right measurement
• No permanent structure is proposed to be created in the Draft
Bill. Neither there are proposals for creating new posts. The
proposed legislation, while covering an important area is
framed in such a manner that it ensures effective regulation
but does not add much vertically to the current regulatory
structure already in place at the Central as well as states.
Accordingly, there will not be any financial implications
except for the meetings of the National and State surrogacy
Boards and Appropriate Authorities which will be met out of
the regular budget of Central and State governments.  and management plan and graded pricing system.
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• Prevent and control the spread of HIV and AIDS. It prohibits
discrimination against persons with HIV and AIDS. No
person will be compelled to disclose his HIV status except
with his informed consent, and if required by a court order
establishments keeping records of information of PLHIV
must adopt data protection measures.
• Obligations on establishments to safeguard rights of persons
living with HIV arid create mechanisms for redressing
complaints. Lists various grounds on which discrimination
against HIV-positive persons and those living with them is
prohibited.
• These include the denial, discontinuation, termination or
unfair treatment with regard to employment, educational
establishments, health care services, renting property etc.
Prohibits, requirement for HIV testing as a pre-requisite for
obtaining employment or accessing health care or education.
advocating feelings of hatred against HIV positive persons
and PLHIV.
The Central Government has brought final draft of the National
Water Framework Bill, 2016 to provide uniform national legal
framework to manage water in a better and efficient way. The
comprehensive draft Bill proposes model law for all states.
However, water being a State subject under VII Schedule of
Key Features of Bill
• Every person has a right to sufficient quantity of safe water
for life within easy reach of the household regardless of his/
• All basin states have equitable rights over the use of river
water provided such use does not violate the right to water
for life of any person in the river basin. States must recognise
the principle that the rivers are public trustees and not owned
by the basin-States.
• All the basin States are equal in rights and status, and there
is no hierarchy of rights among them. Here equality of
rights means not equal but equitable shares in river waters.
of State’s contribution to river system in order to resolve
conflicts.
• Establishing River Basin Authority (RBA) for each inter-
State basin to ensure optimum and sustainable development
of rivers and valleys. Establishing institutional arrangements
to deal with inter-state water disputes in order to “obviate”
disputes through negotiations, mediation or conciliation.
• Proposes other mechanisms such as National water quality
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Merchant Shipping Bill, 2016
Union Cabinet approved the introduction of Merchant Shipping
Bill, 2016 in the Parliament. Simultaneously, the Cabinet also
approved repealing of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 and the
Coasting Vessels Act, 1838.
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 has been amended 17 times
between 1966 and 2014 resulting in an increase in the number of
sections to more than 560 sections. However, these provisions
have been shortened to 280 sections in the Bill.
Salient Features
• It allows substantially-owned vessels and vessels on Bare
Boat-cum-Demise (BBCD) to be registered as Indian flag
vessels.
• It recognises Indian controlled tonnage as a separate category.
• It provides for issuing the licences to Indian flag vessels
for coastal operation and for port clearance by the Customs
authorities.
• It calls for making separate rules for coastal vessels to
develop and promote coastal shipping.
• It introduces welfare measures for seafarers by providing
them with the wages till they are released from hostage
captivity of pirates and reach back home safely.
• It directs owners of vessels to take insurance of crew engaged
on vessels including fishing, sailing, etc. This applies for the
vessels whose net tonnage is less than 15 tons.
• It says that the requirement of signing of articles of agreement
by the crew will no longer be necessary.
• It calls for registration of few residuary category of vessels
not covered under any statute and makes provisions for
security-related aspects.
• It adds provisions relating to seven different conventions-
Intervention Convention 1969, Search and Rescue
Convention 1979, Protocol for Prevention of Pollution from
Ships Annex VI to Marine Pollution Convention, Convention
for Control and Management of Ships Ballast Water and
Sediments 2004, Nairobi Wreck Removal Convention 2007,
Salvage Convention 1989 and International Convention for
Bunker Oil Pollution Damage, 2001.
POLICIES AND SCHEMES 2016
Pashudhan Bima Yojana
Haryana Government launched the Pashudhan Bima Yojana
in Jhajjar on 29th July. The Yojna was launched by the state’s
Animal Husbandry and Dairying Minister, O P Dhankar. The
Yojana was started in accordance to the recommendations
made in Swaminathan Report. Animal Husbandry and Dairying
Department has set a target to cover one lakh cattle under
Pashudhan Bima Yojana.
Key Facts
• Pashudhan Bima Yojana will provide insurance cover to
cattle breeders in the state at different premium rates for
different animals.
• Insurance cover will be provided at a premium of ` 100 for
cows, buffaloes, bulls, camels and at ` 25 for sheep, goat and
pig for a period of three years.
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and Investment Regime for Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan
Yojana, 2016 (PMGKY), an anti-poverty scheme. It seeks to
attract more people to disclose their unaccounted cash and also
to put in a framework in place to use that for the welfare of
the people especially in the rural areas. It also ensures that tax
defaulting assessees and black money holders are subjected to
tax at a higher rate and stringent penalty provision
Key features of Bill
• Mandatory for black money declarants to deposit 25% of
amount disclosed in Pradhan Mantri Garibi Kalyan Yojana
(PMGKY) 2016 for a 4 year lock-in period without interest.
• Those who choose to declare their ill-gotten wealth stashed
till now in banned `1,000 and Rs. 500 currency notes under
the PMGKY scheme will have to pay a tax at the rate of
30% of the undisclosed income.
• Additionally, 10% penalty will be levied on the undisclosed
income and PMGK Cess (Surcharge) at the rate of 33% of
tax (33% of 30%).
• Further, the declarants will have to deposit 25% of the
undisclosed income in a scheme to be notified by the
government in consultation with the Reserve Bank of India
(RBI).
• The money from PMGK will be used for projects in
irrigation, infrastructure, primary education, primary
health, housing, toilets and livelihood so that there is justice
and equality.
• For those who continue to hold onto undisclosed cash and
are caught they will be levied with flat 60% tax plus a
surcharge of 25% of tax (15%), which will amount a levy
of 75%.
• Besides, if the assessing officer can charge a 10% penalty in
addition to the 75% tax.
• Under it, the insurance companies would give compensation
in case of death of animal (cattle). The scheme is free of cost
for cattle breeders from the scheduled castes.
• The state Animal Husbandry and Dairying Department has
set a target to cover one lakh cattle under Pashudhan Bima
Yojana.
Sewage & Waste Water Policy in Rajasthan
Rajasthan has become the first state to give go-ahead to the
sewage and waste water policy, in the country. The state cabinet
meeting chaired by the Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje in Jaipur
approved the first-of-its-kind policy.
Key Facts
• Under this policy, all district headquarters, heritage cities, and
cities in the state which have more than one lakh population
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agricultural work. The requirement of next 30 years will be
covered in this poilcy.
• It will be compulsory for every house in the state to connect
with sewage system in those cities which have 100% sewage
system in next five years.
KVK Portal
The Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Radha
Mohan Singh formally launched Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK)
portal (http://kvk.icar.gov.in) on 8th July in New Delhi.
Features of the Portal
• The portal provides provisions for online monitoring of
KVKs which will include reporting of major events on
regular basis and submission of monthly reports online.
• The portal will also provide information on different services
being provided by different KVKs.
• Weather and Market related informations can also be
accessed by the farmers and others.
• The forthcoming programmes will also be available on the
website which will benefit farmers and youth in joining
different training programmes being organized by KVKs.
• Question and answer facility will also be available for the
farmers.
• Agriculture related information of the districts will also be
available on the portal.
• The farmers and the Agricultural Officers may register
themselves and seek different informations related to KVKs.
‘Namami Gange’ programme
Union Minister Uma Bharti on 7th July launched 43 projects worth
` 250 crore under Namami Gange programme in Uttarakhand.
The Government has lined up 1,000 projects in different states
including Delhi, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand
and West Bengal as part of the National Mission for Clean
Ganga. Bharati said the second phase of the project will begin
by October 2018.
Key Facts
• The Namami Gange Programme aims at cleaning the holy
river and ensuring its unfettered flow. Union Government
has allocated ` 20,000 crore budget for it.
• Under it, projects such as modernization and redevelopment
of ghats, crematoriums and other development activities will
be undertaken.
• Besides it will also undertake project for development
of sewage infrastructure and treatment, tree plantation,
afforestation, pilot drain project, interceptor drain project, trash
skimmers and conservation of biodiversity.
• The projects were launched simultaneously in five basin states
of the river Ganga viz. Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar,
Jharkhand and West Bengal. Besides, projects were also
launched in Delhi and Haryana through which Ganga’s
largest tributary Yamuna passes.
• In Uttar Pradesh alone total 112 projects were launched
through this ambitious scheme. 47 projects were inaugurated
at various locations in Uttrakhand. 20 projects were
inaugurated at various locations in West Bengal. 26 projects
were inaugurated in Bihar.
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Entrepreneurship (MSDE). It provides for incentivizing
employers to engage apprentices. 25% of the total stipend
payable to an apprentice would be shared with employers
directly by Government of India. It is for the first time a
scheme has been designed to offer financial incentives
to employers to engage apprentices. In addition, it also
supports basic training, which is an essential component
of apprenticeship training. 50% of the total expenditure
incurred on providing basic training would be supported by
Government of India.
• The Scheme will catalyze the entire apprenticeship
ecosystem in the country and it will offer a win-win situation
for all stakeholders. It is expected to become one of the most
powerful skill-delivery vehicle in the country.
• The National Policy of Skill Development and
Entrepreneurship, 2015 launched by the Prime Minister
focuses on apprenticeship as one of the key components
for creating skilled manpower in India. The present scheme
also aims to achieve the objective as stated in the National
Policy, 2015. The policy proposes to work pro-actively with
the industry including MSME to facilitate ten fold increase
opportunities in the country by 2020.
National Green Highways Mission
Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways and Shipping
Nitin Gadkari launched the initial plantation drive on 1,500 km
of National Highways at a cost of about ` 300 crore under the
National Green Highways Mission in New Delhi on 1st July.
Key features
• NGHM was launched under the Green Highways Policy,
2015 to provide a holistic vision of developing eco-friendly
and green National Highways.
• The mission aims to provide a green canopy along 100,000
km of highways and create jobs for 1 million youth.
• It has been initiated to engage corporates, Public Sector
units, Government organizations and other institutions for
developing green corridor along National Highways through
plantation and allied activity on median, avenue and other
available nearby land patches .
• The funds for the mission will be met by Green Fund corpus
which is 1% of the total project cost set aside for plantation
purposes. The afforestation across National Highways is
expected to help in sequestering approximately 12 lakh
metric ton carbon annually.
• It will also generate jobs and can be a game-changer for
agriculture and rural economy. In future, the mission will be
linked with the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment
Guarantee (MNREG) scheme.

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Chandranna Bima Yojana
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has launched
Chandranna Bima Yojana in Vijayawada on 1st May. The Yojana
launched on the occasion of May Day is an insurance scheme
for the working class people.
Salient features of the scheme
• All unorganised workers in the State in the age group of
18 to 70 years are eligible to be registered as unorganised
workers and enrolled as beneficiaries of the Chandranna
Bima Scheme.
• All unorganised workers will be registered under the
Unorganised Workers Social Security Act, 2008 and enrolled
as beneficiaries under Chandranna Bima Scheme.
• SERP shall facilitate registration of unorganised workers and
their enrollment in the Chandranna Bima Scheme, data entry,
maintenance of data base, hard copies of signed applications
and other connected matters.
• Assistant Labour Officer of the Labour Department shall be
the Registering Authority.
• The registered unorganised workers will be enrolled as
members under State Accident Death and Disability Scheme
and under Aam Admi Bima Yojana (AABY) and will also
be covered under the Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana
(PMSBY).
UJALA Scheme
The National LED programme – Unnat Jyoti by Affordable
LEDs for All (UJALA) was launched by the Union Government
on May 1. The scheme was launched by Union Minister for
State (IC) for Power, Coal and Renewable Energy Piyush Goyal
in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
Key facts
• The UJALA scheme is being implemented by Energy
Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), a joint venture of PSUs
under the Union Ministry of Power.
• It is LED based Domestic Efficient Lighting Programme
(DELP).
• Under the scheme, 3 crore LED Bulbs will be distributed in
Madhya Pradesh in the next 6 months.
• People of Madhya Pradesh will get subsidised 9W energy
efficient LED bulbs by paying just 85 rupees per LED bulb.
• The scheme will help reduce electricity bills of consumers,
contribute to the energy security of India and also help in
environment protection.
• It will help in saving energy around 24 crore units every year.
One Rank One Pension Scheme
One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme was given ex-post facto
approval on 7 April by the Union Cabinet for implementation of
retrospectively with effect from 1st July, 2014. Decision in this
regard was taken by Union Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. OROP will provide ex-
servicemen of the same rank and same length of service uniform
pension regardless of date of retirement.
Key facts
• The benefits of OROP will be given with effect from 1st
of July 2014 and it will benefit ex-servicemen of all three
services- Army, Navy and Air Force.
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covered under OROP scheme. However, it will be applicable
to personnel who have already retired prematurely.
Stand up India scheme for SC/ST & Women
The Stand-up India scheme was launched on April 6 by
Prime Minister Narendra Modi to provide credit to Scheduled
Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), and women borrowers
in the non-farm sector. The scheme is intended to promote
entrepreneurship among SC/ST and women and further gives a
push to government’s financial inclusion programme.
Main features of the scheme
• Composite loan between 10 lakh rupees and up to 1 crore
rupees will be provided to SC/ST and women and also
inclusive of working capital component for setting up any
new enterprise.
• Debit Card (RuPay) for withdrawal of working capital:
Credit history of borrower to be developed of these under-
banked sections of society.
• Refinance window through Small Industries Development
Bank of India (SIDBI) with an initial amount of 10,000 crore
rupees.
• Creation of a corpus of 5,000 crore rupees for credit guarantee
through National Credit Guarantee Trustee Company
(NCGTC).
• Handholding support for borrowers with comprehensive
support for pre loan training needs, facilitating loan,
factoring, marketing, etc.
• Web Portal for online registration and support services will
be provided.
• Under the scheme, 1.25 lakh bank branches will provide loans
up to 1 crore rupees to SC/ST and women entrepreneurs. Thus
it will help in creating 2.5 lakh entrepreneurs throughout the
country.
Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana – Gramin
The implementation of the rural housing scheme of Pradhan
Mantri Awaas Yojana- Gramin was given approval by the Union
Cabinet on March 25. Under the scheme, financial assistance
will be provided for construction of pucca houses to all houseless
and households living in dilapidated houses.
Key facts
• The expenditure involved in implementing the project is `
81975 crore in a span of 3 years from 2016-17 to 2018-19.
• Under the scheme, it is proposed to provide assistance to one
crore households for construction of pucca house.
• It will be implemented in rural areas throughout the country
except in Delhi and Chandigarh.
• The beneficiaries will be identified using Socio Economic and
Caste Census (SECC)-2011 data ensuring total transparency
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• The cost of houses would be shared between Centre and
States Governments in the ratio 60:40 in plain areas and
90:10 for North Eastern and hilly states.
• Under this scheme, annual list of beneficiaries will be
identified from the total list through participatory process by
the Gram Sabha.
• Funds will be transferred electronically directly to the
account of the beneficiary.
• He will be able to track the progress of his payments through
the app. Inspection will be done through a mobile app.
• Locally appropriate house designs, will be mainly practised
to address the natural calamities.
• The beneficiary is entitled to 90 days of unskilled labour
from MGNREGA. This will be ensured through a server
linkage between PMAY and MGNREGA.
• The additional requirement of building materials, bricks
using cement stabilised earth or fly ash will be taken up
under MGNREGA.
• National Technical Support Agency will be established
to provide technical support to the Centre and
States to ensure their quality of construction of the houses.
Udyam Aakansha scheme
Chhattisgarh Government has launched ‘Udyam Aakansha’
Scheme for promoting micro, small and medium enterprises in
the state on February 9.
Highlights of the scheme
• The scheme would facilitate free online registration and
self-certification to the investors interested in investment on
micro, small and medium enterprises and service businesses.
• The investors can enrol themselves online through website
of the Industries department which will be based on self-
certification process.
• For the online registration, investors need not submit any
documents nor have to pay any fee.
• Chhattisgarh is among some leading states where this scheme
has been initiated.
• Keeping in view the objective of promoting the ease of doing
business, the process of registration and self-certification for
entrepreneurs has been simplified.
National Capital Goods Policy 2016
National Capital Goods Policy 2016 was unveiled by Union
Ministry of Heavy Industries on 15 February 2016. The policy,
with the theme Building India of Tomorrow, seeks to achieve
the vision of Make in India initiative and establishes India as a
global manufacturing hub by unlocking the potential for capital
goods sector.
Main Features
• Vision: To increase the share of capital goods contribution
from present 12 to 20% of total manufacturing activity by
2025.
• Mission: To become one of the top capital goods producing
nations of the world by raising the total production to over
twice the current level.
• To raise exports to a significant level of at least 40% of total
production and thus gain 2.5% share in global exports of
capital goods.
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process improve domestic capacity utilization to 80-90%.
• To improve skill availability by training 50 lakhs people by
2025.
• To improve ‘technology depth’ in capital goods sub-sectors
by increasing research intensity in India from 0.9% to at least
2.8% of GDP.
Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana
On May 1, the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) was
launched. The scheme will benefit the poor, especially the
women. The scheme aims to provide cooking gas connections
to five crore below-poverty-line beneficiaries over the next three
years.
Salient features of the scheme
• Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved
8000 crore rupees for the next 3 years starting from financial
year 2016-17.
• PM Ujjwala Yojana will provide 5 crore LPG connections to
BPL Families.
• A budgetary provision of the scheme is 2000 crore rupees.
• 5 crore LPG connections will be provided to BPL families
with a support of 1600 rupees.
• Connections will be given in the name of women beneficiaries.
• Identification of BPL families will be made in consultation
with State Governments and Union territories.
• EMI Facility for meeting the cost of Stove and Refill cost.
Pradhan Mantri Yuva Yojana
The Union Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
(MSDE) launched the Pradhan Mantri YUVA Yojana to boost up
an ecosystem of entrepreneurship for young people.
Highlights of the Yojana
• The scheme was launched for the time period of over five
years (2016-17 to 2020-21) with a project cost of 499.94
crore rupees.
• It will offer entrepreneurship education and training to
around 7 lakh students in 5 years through 3050 Institutes.
• It will also offer easy access to information and mentor
network, credit and advocacy to build a way-out for the
youngsters.
• The institutes under the Yojana include 2200 Institutes
of Higher Learning (colleges, universities, and premier
institutes), 300 schools, 500 ITIs and 50 Entrepreneurship
Development Centres.
• These institutes will carry out the training through Massive
Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
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Entrepreneurship awards for first generation achievers below
30 years for the very first time. The Entrepreneurship Awards
will be given on 16 January 2017.
Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan
The scheme aims at providing pregnant women ante-natal
services and required treatment for free at government health
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for all pregnant women. It will provide medical checkups
completely free to pregnant women.
• The checkups will take place at the medical centres,
government and private hospitals and private clinics across
the country.
• These free of cost tests will include blood pressure, sugar
level, weight, haemoglobin test, blood test and screening.
• Women will be marked differently using coloured stickers
based on their health problems so that doctors can easily
detect the problem.

INDIAN STATES AND UNION TERRITORIES

INDIAN STATES & UNION TERRITORIES
India/State Capital Area Language Establishment Sex Literacy Pop. Festivals Dance Tribes
(Sq.Km) Year Ratio Average Density
/1000 % (Sq. Km)
INDIA New Delhi 3.3 No National 15-08-1947 940 73% 382 G.Jayanti, – –
Million Language I.Day. &
R. Day
1. Andhra Hyderabad 160205 Telugu, 01-10-1953 992 67.7% 308 Sankranti, Kuchipudi Andh, Bagata,
Pradesh Urdu Ugadi Bhil, Konda
2. Arunachal Itanagar 83,743 English 20-02-1987 920/ 66.95% 17 Losar” or The Bardo Chham Abor, Aka,
Pradesh 1000 New Year Apatani
3. Assam Dispur 78,550 Assamese, 1st April 1912 – – 397 Bihu Ankia Naat Mikirs, Khasis,
(Assom) Bengali, (Onkeeya) Nagas, Boro
4. Bihar Patna 99,200 Bhojpuri, 1st April 1936 916 63.4% 1,102 Chhath Bidesia Kajari Gonda,
Maithili Mundas, Gaur
5. Chhattisgarh Raipur 135,194 Chattisgarhi, 1-11-2000 991 71.04% 189 Bastar Panthi, Rawat Agariya, Andh,
Hindi Dussere, Nacha Baiga, Bhaina,
Bhoramdeo
6. Goa Panaji 3,702 Konkani 30-05- 1987 968 88.70% 394 per Ganesh Dekhnni, Fugdi Dhodia, Dubla
sq km. Chaturthi (Halpati),
7. Gujarat Gandhinagar 196,204 Gujarati 01-05-1960 918 79.31% 310 Makar Rass-garba Bhils, Barda,
Sankranti Bavacha
8. Haryana Chandigarh 44,212 Punjabi, 01-11-1966 877 76.64% 573 Haryali Teej, Saang, Dhamal Meo, Ror
Haryanvi Lohri,
9. Himachal Shimla 55,673 Pahari, 25-01-1971 974 83.78% 123 Kullu, Losar Shona Bhot, Bodh,
Pradesh Kangri Shoolini Chuksam Gaddi, Gujjar
10. J & K Srinagar 222,236 Kashmiri, 26-10-1947 883 66.7% 56 Hemis, Urs Dumhal, Rouff Balti, Beda,
Urdu Bot, Boto
11. Jharkhand Ranchi 79,714 Santhali, 15-11-2000 947 67.6% 414 Jhumar, Paika, Karam, Vat Asur, Agaria,
Mundari, Ho Chau, Agni savitri Baiga, Banjara
12. Karnataka Bengaluru 191,791 Kannada 01-11-1956 968 75.60% 320 Mysore Bharatanatyam, Adiyan, Barda,
Dasara, Ugadi Bolak-aat Bavacha, Bhil
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17. Meghalaya Shillong 22,429 Khasi,Garo 21-01-1972 986 75.84% 130 Nongkrem, Nongkrem` Chakma,
Wangala Dimasa, Garo
18. Mizoram Aizawl 21,087 Mizo 20-02-1987 975 91.58% 52 Chapchar Kut, Cheraw, Chakma,
Thalfavang Khuallam Dimasa, Garo
Kut,
19. Nagaland Kohima 16,579 English 01-12-1963 931 80.11% 119 Hornbill, Zeliang Naga, Kuki,
Sekrenyi Mikir, Garo
20. Odisha Bhubaneshwar 155,820 Odia, Eng- 01-04-1936 978 73.45% 270 Ganesh Odissi Agata, Bathudi,
lish Chaturthi Birhor
21. Punjab Chandigarh 50,362 Punjabi 15-08-1947 893 76.68% 550 Bandi Chhor, Bhangra, –
Vaisakhi, Giddha
Lohri
22. Rajasthan Jaipur 342,239 Hindi, 01-11-1956 926 67.68% 201 Gangaur, Teej, Ghoomar –
Rajasthani Gogaji
23. Sikkim Gangtok 7,096 Nepali, 16-5-1975 889 82.2% 86 Maghe, Losar Singhi Chham Bhutia, Lepcha,
Bhutia Limboo
24. Tamil Nadu Chennai 130,058 Tamil 26-01-1950 995 80.33 % 550 Pongal Bharata-natyam Adiyan,
Aranadan,
25. Telangana Hyderabad 114,840 Telugu, 02-06-2014 – 66.50% 310 Ugadi Kuchipudi Andh, Konda
Urdu
26. Tripura Agartala 10,491.69 Bengali , 21-01-1972 961 94.65% 350 – Goria, Jhum Bhil, Bhutia,
Kokborok Chaimal
27. Uttarakhand Dehradun 53,483 Garhwali, 9-11-2000 963 79.63% 189 Kandali, Langvir Nritya Bhotia, Buksa,
Kumaoni Ramman Jaunsari, Raji
28. Uttar Pradesh Lucknow 243,286 Hindi, Urdu 01-04-1937 908 69.7% 820 Makar Sankranti, Kathak Bhotia, Buksa,
Chhath Tharu, Baiga
29. West Bengal Kolkata 88,752 Bengali and 15-08-1947 947 77.08% 1,000 Durga Puja, Chau dance Asur, Baiga,
English Kali Puja Bedia, Chero
Union
Territory
1. Andaman and Port Blair 8,073 English, 01-11-1956 878 86.27% 46 – – Andamanese,
Nicobar Islands Hindi Chariar, Chari
2. Chandigarh Chandigarh 114 Punjabi 01-11-1966 818 81.9% 9,300/ Lohri Bhangra –
3. Dadra and Silvassa 102 English, 11-08-1961 775 77.65% 698 Pongal Tarpa, Bhavada Warlis, dublas
Nagar Haveli Gujarati
4. Daman and Daman 102 Gujarati, 30-05-1987 618 87.07% 2169 Garba Mando, Vira Dhodia, Dubla
Diu Marathi (Halpati)
5. Lakshadweep Kavaratti 32 English, 01-11-1956 946 92.28% 2013 Eid-Ul-Fitr, Lava, Kolkali Koya, Malmi
Malayalam Muharram
6. NCT of Delhi New Delhi 1,484.0 Hindi 01-02-1992 866 86.34% 11,297 Diwali, Eid – –
ul-Fitr
7. Puducherry Pondicherry 492 Malayalam, 07-01-1963 1,038 86.34% 2,500 Pongal Garadi Grulas, Villi
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Gujarat Asiatic lison (Panthera leo persica) Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus)
Haryana Blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) Black Francolin (Francolinus francolinus)
Himachal Pradesh Snow Leopard (Uncia uncia or Panthna uncia) Jujurana Western Irogapa (Trogopan melanocephalus)
Jammu and Kashmir Kashmir Stag (Cervus elaphus hanglin) Black-necked crane (Grus nigricollis)
Jharkhand Indian Elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) Asian koel (Eudynamys scolopacea)
Karnataka Indian Elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) Indian Roller (Coracias benghalensis)
Kerala Indian Elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) Great Hornbill (Buceros bicornis)
Madhya Pradesh Barasingha (Rucervus duvaucelii) Asian Paradise Flycatcher (Trepsiphone paradisi)
Maharashtra Indian Giant Squirrel (Ratufa indica) Yellow footed green pigeon (Treron phoenicoptera)
Manipur Sangai (Cervus eldi) Mrs. Humes Pheasant (Syrmaticus humiae)
Meghalaya Clouded Leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) Hill Myna (Gracula religiosa)
Mizoram Hoolock gibbon (Hoolock hoolock) Mrs. Humes pheasant (Syrmaticus humaie)
Nagaland Gaur (Bos gaurus) Blyth’s Tragopan (Tragopan blythii)
Odisha Sambar (Rusa unicolor) Indian Roller (Coracias benghalensis)
Punjab Blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra) Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis)
Rajasthan Chinkara (Gazella bennettii) Great Indian Bustard (Ardeotis nigps)
Sikkim Red panda (Ailurus fulgens) Blood pheasant (Ithaginis cruentus)
Tamil Nadu Nilgiri Tahr (Nilgiritragus hylocrius) Emerald Dove (Chalcophaps indica)
Telangana Chital (Zinka) Pala Pitta (Coracias benghalensis)
Tripura Phayre’s Langur (Trachypithecus phayrel) Green Imperial Pigeon (Dacula genea)
Uttarakhand Musk deer (Moschus cupreus) Himalayan Monal (Lophophorus impejanus)
Uttar Pradesh Swamp Deer (Rucervus duvaucelii) Sarus Crane (Grus antigone)
West Bengal Fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus) White-breasted Kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis)
Lakshadweep House Sparrow (Passer Domesticus)
National Capital House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
Territory of Delhi
Puducherry Squirrel Sciuridae ratufinae Asian Koel (Eudynamys scolopaceus)

Four Ends of India Foundation day of States

Easternmost point of India is known as Kibithu; situated on right 1st January Nagaland Day
bank of river Lohit separating India from China-Tibet region. 21st January Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura Day
It is a small village at the altitude of 3,350 metre in Arunachal 6th February Jammu and Kashmir Day
Pradesh. Westernmost point is situated in Kuch area of Gujarat
20th February Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh day
called as Ghuar Mota. The region is famous for its harsh climate
11th March Andman and Nicobar Islands Day
with 45°C in summer and 20°C in winter. During monsoon
22nd March Bihar Day (Bihar Diwas)
season this region looks like a tortoise surrounded by sea water.
30th March Rajasthan Day
Northernmost point of India has been in controversies ever since
India’s independence. The Siachen Glacier in the state of J&K is 1st April Utkal (Odisha) Day
the northern boundary of India according to the official division 14th April Tamil Nadu Day
of India during the time of independence. The Southernmost 15th April Himachal Pradesh Day
point of the mainland of India is Kanyakumari District in the state 1st May Gujarat and Maharashtra Day
of Tamil Nadu. Kannyakumari, formerly was known as Cape 16th May Sikkim Day
Comorin. It is the second largest and urbanized of Tamil Nadu. 1st November Chattisgarh
Indira Point is a village in the Nicobar district of Andaman and 9th November Uttaranchal (Now Uttarakhand) Day
Nicobar Islands, India. It is located in the Great Nicobar tehsil. 15th November Jharkhand Day (Jharkhand Diwas)
It is the location of the southernmost point of India’s territory. 2nd June (2014) Telangana Day
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Bharat Ratna
The highest civilian award of India.
• The first three recipients of Bharat Ratna: C. Rajagopalchari,
Dr. S. Radhakrishnan and DR. C.V.Raman (1954)
Padma Awards
• Padma Vibhushan : The second highest civilian award given
for exceptional and distinguished service.
• Padma Bhushan : The third highest civilian award given for
distinguished service of a high order.
• Padma Shri : The fourth highest civilian award given for
distinguished service.
Bharatiya Jnanpith Award
• Instituted in 22 May, 1961, carries a cash prize of ` 5 lakh, a
citation and a bronze replica of Vagdevi (Saraswati).
• This award is given for the best literary writing by an Indian
citizen in a language listed in eight schedule of the Indian
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persons who have done outstanding work for international
peace, disarmament and development.
Dadasaheb Phalke Award
• It is India’s highest award in cinema.
• It is presented annually at the National Film Awards
ceremony by the Directorate of film festival.
Borlaug Award
• Instituted in 1973, carries a cash prize of ` 1 lakh.
• Instituted to honour outstanding agricultural scientists.
Sahitya Akademi Award
• Awarded for outstanding literary work and carries a cash
prize of ` 1 lakh.
• Sahitya Academi gives 22 awards for literary works in the
languages which has recognized works.

INDIA’S POLITICAL JOURNEY 70 YEARS

Date/ Period Events
1946 The Constituent assembly elected in 1946 served as the Parliament
15 Aug. 1947 • India became independent
• Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the 1st P. M. of Independent India
30 Jan. 1948 • Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead by Nathuram Godse
• India sends troops and took over the State of Hyderabad 
• Sheikh Abdulla became the Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
• Pakistan adopted Guerrilla War in J & K but India recaptured Dras, Kargil and Poonch.
26 Nov. 1949 Constitution of India was adopted with a Preamble, 395 Articles & 8 Schedules.
26 Jan. 1950 • Constitution of India was enforced & India was declared a Republic State
• Rajendra Prasad, 1st President of India
• Home Minister Vallabhbhai Patel died on 15 Dec. 1950.
1951 • India’s first general/Lok Sabha election ( 25 Oct. 1951 to 21 Feb. 1952) & Indian National Congress won
with full majority (75%)
1953 • Sheikh Abdulla was dismissed, arrested and Ghulam Mohammed became the Prime Minister of Jammu and
Kashmir.
1954 • French finally gave up its territory Pondicherry to India.
1956 Death of B. R. Ambedkar on 6 Dec. 1956
1957 • Second general elections held in India & Congress won  371 seats
1959 • Mrs. Indira Gandhi was elected the president of Indian National Congress.
1960 • The states of Gujarat and Maharashtra came into being on May 1, 1960 & Bombay got allocated to
Maharashtra.
1961 • Indian troops liberated Goa from Portuguese colony by Operation Vijay
1962 • Congress retained its majority in the general elections (361 seats out of 494).
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• Gulzarilal Nanda was (once again) sworn in as acting prime minister.
• Indira Gandhi became PM on Congress president Kamraj endorsement for which Morarji Desai was interested.
• Punjab and Haryana divided into separate states.
1967 • 4th general elections held in February & INC got 283 seats.
1969 14 banks were nationalized which was opposed by then Finance Minister Morarji Desai
1971 • The Indo-Pakistan War of 1971  over Bangladesh liberation. Pakistani troops surrendered & Provisional
Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh came into being.
• 5th general elections of India was held 14 months before scheduled time and Congress returned with 362
seats out of 520
1975 • On 26th June 1975 national emergency was declared.
• Opposition leaders, including, Jayprakash Narayan, Morarji Desai, were sent to jail. Sanjay Gandhi became
leading political executive overshading Indira Gandhi
1977 • Mrs. Gandhi dissolved Lok Sabha and general elections were held.
• The Congress lost around 200 seats. Both Indira Gandhi and Sanjay Gandhi lost.
• Janata Party came with majority & Morarji Desai became PM of India.
1979 • Morarji Desai resigned after Janata Party splits into three parts: headed by Morarji Desai, Jagjivan Ram and
Charan Singh.
• Charan Singh was sworn as Prime Minster, but a month later Indira’s Congress (I) withdrew support, which
forced a mid-term election.
1980 General elections of India was held & INC won 353 seats as a result Mrs.I. Gandhi became PM. Sanjay Gandhi
died in a plane accident.
1984 • Indira Gandhi shot dead by two of her Sikh personal bodyguards.
• Rajiv Gandhi became Prime Minister of India.
• 8th general elections of India was held & INC won 404 seats.
1989 General elections of India was held & INC won 197 seats. The Janata Dal led by V P Singh secured 143 seats,
BJP 85 & Left Parties 45 seats. V.P. Singh became PM with support of BJP & Left parties.
1991 • Rajiv Gandhi assassinated by suicide bomber sympathetic to Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers(LTTE).
• 10th General elections were held. INC+ got 244, BJP+ 120 & NF got 69 seats. P.V. Narasimha Rao became
PM with the support of Left parties.
1992 Babri Mosque in Ayodhya was demolished, triggering widespread Hindu-Muslim violence.
1996 • General elections were held. UF 192(Janata Dal+) won 192, BJP 187, & INC 140 seats.
• AB Vajpayee became PM only for 13 days followed by H.D. Deve Gowda & IK Gujral (Janata Dal). The 11th
Lok Sabha produced three Prime Ministers in two years.
1999 General elections were held. NDA(BJP+) won 254(182+), INC+ 144 & UF 64 seats. AB Vajpayee became PM.
1999 Kargil war between India & Pakistan. India came as victorious.
2004 General elections were held. UPA got 218, NDA 181 seats & Manmohan Singh became PM of India.
2009 General elections were held. UPA got 262, NDA 159 seats & Manmohan Singh became PM of India.
2014 General elections were held. BJP got 282, INC 44. Narendra Modi became PM of India.
2016 India got entry into Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) group.
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19th August: World Humanitarian Day
26th January: Republic Day 29th August: National Sports Day
29th January: National Newspaper Day 5th September: Teacher’s Day
30th January: Martyr’s Day 8th September: International Literacy Day
2nd February: World Wetlands Day 14th September: Hindi Day
4th February: World Cancer Day 15th September: World Engineer’s Day
13th February: World Radio Day 16th September: World Ozone Day
14th February: St. Valentine’s Day 18th September: International Day of Peace
21st February: International Mother Language Day 21st September: Biosphere Day
28th February: National Science Day 24th September: Girl Child Day
8th March: International Women’s Day and Mother’s day 25th September: Social Justice Day, World Maritime Day
13th March: No Smoking Day 27th September: World Tourism Day
15th March: World Consumer Rights Day 1st October: International Music Day
22nd March: World Water Day 2nd October: Gandhi Jayanti, International Non-Violence Day
23rd March: World Meteorological Day 3rd October: World Habitat Day
24th March: World Tuberculosis Day
8th October: National Air force Day
27th March: World Theatre Day
9th October: World Postal Day National Postal Week (9th
2nd April: World Autism Awareness Day October to 14th October)
7th April: World Health Day 12th October: World Sight Day
18th April: World Heritage Day 16th October: World Food Day
22nd April: World Earth Day 31st October: National Integration Day
25th April: World Malaria Day 7th November: World Cancer Awareness Day
30th April: World Jazz Day 11th November: National Education Day
1st May: International Labour Day 14th November: Children’s Day
3rd May: World Asthma Day 16th November: National Press Day
5th May: World Athletics Day
21st November: World Fisheries Day, World Hello Day, World
8th May: International Red Cross Day Television Day
11th May: National Technology Day 25th November: International Day for the Elimination of
17th May: World Telecommunications Day Violence against Women
20th May: World Refugee Day 26th November: National Constitution day
21st May: Anti-terrorism Day 26th November: National Milk day
24th May: Commonwealth Day 30th November: Flag Day
31st May: World No Tobacco Day 3rd December: World Conservation Day
1st June: World Milk Day 5th December: World Soil Day
5th June: World Environment Day 7th December: Armed Forces Flag Day
8th June: World Ocean Day 9th December: International Day against Corruption, National
20th June: International Refugee Day Immunization Day
21st June: International Yoga Day 10th December: World Human Rights Day, International
23rd June: International Olympic Day Broadcasting Day
27th June: World Diabetes Day 11th December: UNICEF Day
1st July: World Doctor’s Day Van Mahotsav Week (1st July to 14th December: National Energy Conservation Day
7th July) 16th December: Vijay Diwas
11th July: World Population Day 22nd December: National Mathematics Day
26th July: Kargil Victory Day 23rd December: Kisan Diwas (Farmers’ Day)
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Rohini RS-D1 31-May-81 SLV-3
Experiment (SRE-1)
Ariane Passenger 19-Jun-81 Ariane-1 (V-3)
INSAT-4B 12-Mar-07 Ariane-5ECA
Payload Experiment
INSAT-4CR 2-Sep-07 GSLV-F04
Bhaskara -II 20-Nov-81 C-1 Intercosmos
INSAT-1A 10-Apr-82 Delta 3910 PAM-D CARTOSAT-2A 28-Apr-08 PSLV-C9
Rohini RS-D2 17-Apr-83 SLV-3 IMS-1 (Third World 28-Apr-08 PSLV-C9
INSAT-1B 30-Aug-83 Shuttle [PAM-D] Satellite – TWsat)
Stretched Rohini 24-Mar-87 ASLV Chandrayaan-1 22-Oct-08 PSLV-C11
Satellite Series RISAT-2 20-Apr-09 PSLV-C12
(SROSS-1) ANUSAT 20-Apr-09 PSLV-C12
IRS-1A 17-Mar-88 Vostok Oceansat-2 (IRS-P4) 23-Sep-09 PSLV-C14
Stretched Rohini 13-Jul-88 ASLV GSAT-4 15-Apr-10 GSLV-D3
Satellite Series CARTOSAT-2B 12-Jul-10 PSLV-C15
(SROSS-2)
StudSat 12-Jul-10 PSLV-C15
INSAT-1C 21-Jul-88 Ariane-3
GSAT-5P / INSAT-4D 25-Dec-10 GSLV-F06
INSAT-1D 12-Jun-90 Delta 4925
RESOURCESAT-2 20-Apr-11 PSLV-C16
IRS-1B 29-Aug-91 Vostok
INSAT-2DT 26-Feb-92 Ariane-44L H10 Youthsat 20-Apr-11 PSLV-C16
Stretched Rohini 20-May-92 ASLV GSAT-8 / INSAT-4G 21-May-11 Ariane-5 VA-202
Satellite Series GSAT-12 15-Jul-11 PSLV-C17
(SROSS-C) Megha-Tropiques 12-Oct-11 PSLV-C18
INSAT-2A 10-Jul-92 Ariane-44L H10 Jugnu 12-Oct-11 PSLV-C18
INSAT-2B 23-Jul-93 Ariane-44L H10+ RISAT-1 26-Apr-12 PSLV-C19
IRS-1E 20-Sep-93 PSLV-D1 SRMSAT 26-Apr-12 PSLV-C18
Stretched Rohini 4-May-94 ASLV GSAT-10 29-Sep-12 Ariane-5 VA-209
Satellite Series SARAL 25-Feb-13 PSLV-C20
(SROSS-C2) IRNSS-1A 1-Jul-13 PSLV-C22
IRS-P2 15-Oct-94 PSLV-D2 INSAT-3D 26-Jul-13 Ariane-5
INSAT-2C 7-Dec-95 Ariane-44L H10-3
GSAT-7 30-Aug-13 Ariane-5
IRS-1C 29-Dec-95 Molniya
Mars Orbiter Mission 5-Nov-13 PSLV-C25
IRS-P3 21-Mar-96 PSLV-D3
(MOM)
INSAT-2D 4-Jun-97 Ariane-44L H10-3
GSAT-14 5-Jan-14 GSLV-D5
IRS-1D 29-Sep-97 PSLV-C1
IRNSS-1B 4-Apr-14 PSLV-C24
INSAT-2E 3-Apr-99 Ariane-42P H10-3
IRNSS-1C 10-Nov-14 PSLV-C26
Oceansat-1 (IRS-P4) 26-May-99 PSLV-C2
GSAT-16 7-Dec-14 Ariane-5
INSAT-3B 22-Mar-00 Ariane-5G
IRNSS-1D 28-Mar-15 PSLV-C27
GSAT-1 18-Apr-01 GSLV-D1
GSAT-6 27-Aug-15 GSLV-D6
Technology 22-Oct-01 PSLV-C3
Astrosat 28-Sep-15 PSLV-C30
Experiment Satellite
(TES) GSAT-15 11-Nov-15 Ariane 5 VA-227
INSAT-3C 24-Jan-02 Ariane-42L H10-3 IRNSS-1E 20-Jan-16 PSLV-C31
Kalpana-1 (METSAT) 12-Sep-02 PSLV-C4 IRNSS-1F 10-Mar-16 PSLV-C32
INSAT-3A 10-Apr-03 Ariane-5G IRNSS-1G 28-Apr-16 PSLV-C33
GSAT-2 8-May-03 GSLV-D2 Corbo Set-2C 22-Jun-16 PSLV-C34
INSAT-3E 28-Sep-03 Ariane-5G Insat 3DR 8-Sep-16 GSLV-F05
RESOURCESAT-1 17-Oct-03 PSLV-C5 SCATSAT-1 26-Sep-16 PSLV-C35
(IRS-P6) GSAT-18 5-Oct-16 Ariane 5 ECA VA-231
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First Governor of Bengal Lord Clive (1757-60) The first Prime Minister of India who Charan Singh

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(1833-1835) The first Indian to cross English Mihir Sen
The first British Viceroy of India Lord Canning (1856- Channel
62) The first Person to receive Jnanpith Sri Shankar Kurup
The first Governor General of free Lord Mountbatten award
India (1947-1948) The first Speaker of the Lok Sabha Ganesh Vasudeva
Mavalankar
The first and the last Indian to be C. Rajgopalachari
Governor General of free India (1948-1950) The first Vice-President of India Dr. Radhakrishnan
The first President of Indian Republic Dr. Rajendra Prasad The first Education Minister Abdul Kalam Azad
The first Prime Minister of free India Pt. Jawahar Lal The first Home Minister of India Sardar Vallabh Bhai
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The first Indian Air Chief Marshal S. Mukherjee
The first Indian to win Nobel Prize Rabindranath Tagore
The first Indian Naval Chief Vice Admiral R.D.
The first President of Indian National W.C. Banerjee
Katari
Congress
The first Judge of International Court Dr. Nagendra Singh
The first Muslim President of Indian Badruddin Tayyabji of Justice
National Congress
The first person to reach Mt. Everest Sherpa Anga Dorjee
The first Muslim President of India Dr. Zakir Hussain without oxygen
The first man who introduced printing James Hicky The first person to get Param Vir Major Somnath
press in India Chakra Sharma
The first Indian to join the I.C.S Satyendra Nath The first Chief Election Commissioner Sukumar Sen
Tagore The first person to receive Magsaysay Acharya Vinoba
India’s first man in Space Rakesh Sharma Award Bhave
The first Prime Minister of India who Morarji Desai The first person of Indian origin to Hargovind Khurana
resigned without completing the full receive Nobel Prize in Medicine
term The first Chinese traveller to visit India Fa-hein
The first Indian Commander-in-Chief General Cariappa The first person to receive Stalin Prize Saifuddin Kitchlu
of India The first person to resign from the Shyama Prasad
The first Chief of Army Staff Gen. Maharaj Central Cabinet Mukherjee
Rajendra Singhji The first person to receive Nobel Prize Amartya Sen
The first Indian Member of the S.P.Sinha in Economics
Viceroy’s Executive Council The first Chief Justice of Supreme Justice Hirala J.
The first President of India who died Dr. Zakir Hussain Court Kania
while in office The first Indian Pilot J.R.D. Tata (1929)
FIRST IN FEMALE
The first lady to become Miss World Rita Faria The first woman President of Indian Mrs Annie Besant
The first woman judge in Supreme Mrs. Meera Sahib National Congress
Court Fatima Bibi The first woman pilot in Indian Air Harita Kaur Dayal
The first woman Ambassador Miss C.B. Muthamma Force
The first woman Governor of a state in Mrs Sarojini Naidu The first woman Graduates Kadambini Ganguly
free India and Chandramukhi
The first woman Speaker of a State Shanno Devi Basu, 1883
Assembly The first woman Airline Pilot Durga Banerjee
The first woman Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi The first woman Honours Graduate Kamini Roy, 1886
The first woman Minister in a Rajkumari Amrit The first woman Olympic medal Winner Karnam Malleswari,
Government Kaur 2000
The first woman to climb Mount Everest Bachhendri Pal The first woman Asian Games Gold Kamlijit Sandhu
The first woman to climb Mount Everest Santosh Yadav Medal Winner
twice The first woman Lawyer Cornelia Sorabjee
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district court in 1937) The first woman to cross English Aarti Saha
The first woman Chief Justice of High Mrs Leela Seth Channel
Court (Himachal Pradesh The first woman to receive Nobel Prize Mother Teresa
High Court) The first woman to receive Bharat Ratna Mrs Indira Gandhi
The first woman Judge in Supreme Kumari Justice M. The first woman to receive Jnanpith Ashapurna Devi
Court of India Fathima Beevi Award

FIRST IN OTHERS
First Wax statue of a Living Indian Mahatma Gandhi at Madame Tussaud’s in 1939
First Exclusive internet magazine Bharat Samachar
First Miss India to participate in Miss Universe Indrani Rehman
First Judge in International Court of Justice Dr. Nagender Singh
First Graduate in Medicine Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chukerbutty
India’s First University Nalanda University
India’s First Open University Andhra Pradesh Open University
India’s First Lok Sabha Member to be elected with a record P.V.Narasimha Rao
maximum number of votes
First Indian to reach Antarctica Lt. Ram Charan
First Test tube baby of India Indira (Baby Harsha)
First Post Office opened in India Kolkata(1727)

SUPERLATIVES
Structures
•• Highest Tower ( Minaret ) – Qutub Minar
•• Higher Gateway – Buland Darwaza at Fatehpur Sikri near
Agra. Built by Akbar (53.5 m /175 ft High)
•• Highest Dam – Bhakra Dam
•• Highest Bridge – Chenab Bridge
•• Highest Airport- Leh Air Port in Ladakh (3256 m/ 16080 ft
high)
•• Highest Hydel Power Station- Rongtong Hydel Project in
Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh.
•• Highest Mountain Peak- Kanchenjunga
•• Highest Road- Road at Khardungla in the Leh-Manali Sector
•• Highest Waterfall- Jog Waterfall, Karnataka
•• Largest Residence – Antilia Bhawan built by Mukesh
Ambani
•• Largest Cinema Hall – Prasad Max, Hyderabad
•• Largest Museum – National Museum Delhi
•• Largest River Barrage – Farakka Barrage
•• Biggest Auditorium (Mumbai) – Sri Shanmukhanand Hall
•• Largest zoo – Arignar Anna Zoological Park
•• Largest Cave Temple – Ellora
•• Largest Gurudwara – Golden Temple, Amritsar
•• Largest Mosque – Jama Masjid, Delhi (built by Shah Jahan
in 1644-58)
•• Largest Man-made Lake – Govind Sagar (Bhakra)
•• Largest Dome – Gol Gumbaz (Karnataka)
•• Largest Cantilever Bridge – Howrah Bridge
•• Longest Railway Tunnel- Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel (11 km)
•• Longest Road Tunnel - 9.2 km long tunnel on Jammu-
Srinagar National Highway
•• Largest Public Sector Bank- State Bank of India
•• Largest Botanical Garden - National Botanical Garden in
Kolkata
•• Largest Church- Se Cathedral at Old Goa, 10 km from Panaji.
•• Largest Delta- Sunderbans (75,000 sq km) formed by the Ganga
and Brahmaputra in West Bengal and Bangladesh
•• Largest Stupa- Kesariya Stupa in Bihar
•• Largest Library- National Library, Kolkata
•• Largest Planetarium- Birla Planetarium, Kolkata.
•• Largest Prison- Tihar Jail, Delhi
•• Largest Concentration of Scheduled Tribes- Madhya Pradesh
•• Largest Scheduled Caste- Community Santhal
•• Longest River Bridge – Bandra-Worli sea link which is 5.6
km.
•• Largest Corridor – Rameshwaram Temple Corridor
•• Largest irrigation Canal-Indira Gandhi Canal or Rajasthan
Canal (959 km long)
•• Longest Dam-Hirakund Dam on Mahanadi river in Odisha
(24.4 km long)
•• Longest Glacier-Siachen Glacier on the Indo-Pakistan
border (75.6 km long and 2.8 km wide)
•• Longest Railway Bridge Nehru Setu Bridge (4.62 km) long
•• Fastest Train-Gatiman Express between New Delhi and
Agra at a speed of 160 kmph
•• Tallest Light House – Jakhau, light hour, Gujarat
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•• Tallest Chimber – Hanuman Swami statue with 135ft. tall.
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Natural •• Sri Lanka—D.S.Senanayeke
•• Longest River – Ganges •• Tanzania—Julius Nerera
•• Largest Desert – Thar ( Rajasthan) •• Turkey—Musthafa Kamal
•• Largest Lake – Wular Rajasthan
•• Largest Fresh Water Lake-Kolleru in Andhra Pradesh
Founders of Towns in India
•• Largest Cave- Amarnath (about 44 km from Pahalgam in •• Agra- Sikandar Lodhi
Jammu and Kashmir) •• Ahmedabad - Ahmed Shah
•• Ajmer- Ajaypal Chauhan
Founders of Indian Institutions •• Allahabad- Akbar
•• Arya Samaj-Swami Dayanand Saraswati •• Calcutta- Job Charnock
•• Athmiya Sabha-Raja Ram Mohan Roy •• Delhi- Anankapalan
•• Brahma Samaj-Raja Ram Mohan Roy •• Fatehpur Sikri - Akbar
•• Deccan Education Society-G.G.Agarkar, M.G.Ranade, •• Hisar- Ferozshah Tuglaq
V.G.Gibhongar •• Hyderabad - Quli Qutabshah
•• Dharma Sabha-Radhakanthadev •• Jodhpur- Rao Jodha
•• Indian Brahma Samaj-Keshav Chandra Sen •• Mahabalipuram - Narasimhawarman
•• Manavadharma Sabha-Durgaram Manjaram •• Siri- Alauddin Khilji
•• Prarthana Samaj-Athmaram Pandurang •• Vijayanagaram - Hariharan 1
•• Pune Sewa Sadan-Smt.Remabhai Ranade, G.K.Devdhar
•• Ramakrishna Mission-Swami Vivekananda Agricultural Revolution
•• Sadharan Brahma Samaj-Shivananda Sashtri, Anand Mohan •• Blue Revolution - Fisheries Development
Bose •• Brown Revolution - Leather Production
•• Servants of India Society-Gopalakrishna Gokhale •• Grey Revolution - Housing Development
•• Sewa Sadan-Bahuramji M.Malabari •• Green Revolution - Agriculture Production
•• Sewa Samithi-H.N.Kunsru •• Pink Revolution - Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
•• Social Service League-N.M.Joshi •• Silver Revolution - Egg Production
•• Thathwabodhini Sabha-Debendranatha Tagore •• White Revolution - Dairy Development
•• Theosophical Society-Madam H.P.Blavadski, Col.H.L.Olkott •• Yellow Revolution - Oil Seed Production

SOBRIQUETS
A sobriquet is a nickname, occasionally assumed and often Manitas de Plate Flamenco guitarist Ricardo
given by another. Baliardo
Person Primary Names Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
Anna C N Annadurai Nightingale of India Sarojini Naidu
Badshah Khan/ Frontier Gandhi Abdul Ghaffar Khan Panditji Jawahar Lal Nehru
Buddha Siddhartha Gautama Punjab Kesari Lala Lajpat Rai
Chacha Jawahar Lal Nehru Rajaji C Rajagopalachari
Deenabandhu C F Andrews Saint of the Gutters Mother Teresa
Deshbandhu C. R. Das Father of the Nation Mohandas Karamchand
Father of the Nation Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Gandhi Haryana Hurricane Kapil Dev
Grand Old Man of India Dadabhai Naoroji
Prince of Kolkata Saurav Ganguly
Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore
Places Primary Names
Guruji M S Gohlwalkar
Bengal’s Sorrow Damodar River
Kaviguru Rabindranath Tagore
Blue Mountain Niligiri Hills
Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan City of Golden Temple Amritsar
Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas K. Gandhi City of Palaces Kolkata
Man of Peace Lal Bahadur Shastri Diamond City in India Surat, Gujarat
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The City of Joy
The City of Palaces
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Queen of Arabian Sea
Garden City of India
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Kolkata •• The Land of Jungles & Jharis (Bushes) – Jharkhand
•• God’s own country – Kerala
Kolkata
•• Heart of India – Madhya Pradesh
Alleppey •• Gateway of the East – Manipur
Kochi •• The adobe of the clouds – Meghalaya
Bangalore •• Land of the hill people – Mizoram
Niligiri Hills •• Falcon capital of the world-Nagaland
Bengaluru •• Granary of India, India’s bread-basket – Punjab
•• Land of the Gods – Uttarakhand
Chandigarh
•• Hindi Heartland of India – Uttar Pradesh

HISTORY
LITERATURE OF MUGHAL PERIOD
Book Author Contents Nuriyya-i- Abdul Haq Theory of Kinship during
Sultaniyya Mughal Period
Tuzuk-i-Baburi Babur Describes military tactics and
administrative organisation Waqt-i- Nimat Khan Aurangzeb's Golconda conquest
during Babur’s reign Hyderabad Ali
Qanun-i- Khwand Describes Humayun’s Futuhat-i- Ishwar Das Aurangzeb's history
Humayu Amair administration, festivities and Alamgiri
buildings of that period Nuskha-i- Bhimsen Analysis of Aurangzeb's rule
Humayun Nama Gulbadan Biography of Humayun Dilkusha Saxena and character
Begum Khulasat-ul- Sujan Raj History of Aurangzeb's rule
Tawarikh Khatri
Akbar Nama Abul Fazl Gives a history of Akbar’s
reign Padshah Namah Abdul Hamid History of Shah Jahan's reign
Lahori
Tobaqat-i- Khwajah -do-
Akbari Nizamuddin Padshah Namah Muhammad -do-
Ahmad Baksh Waris
Shahjahan Muhammad -do-
Tuzuk-i- Jahangir Memoirs of his own reign
Jahangiri Namah Salih
Shahjahan Inyat Khan -do-
Iqbalnama-i- Muhammad History of Jahangir's reign Namah
Jahangiri Khan
Hamlai-Haidri Muhammad History of Aurangzeb's rule
Chahar Chaman Chandra History of Shah Jahan's rule Rafi Khan
Bhan
Brahman Namah-e- Aquil Khan -do-
Alamgiri Zafar
Alamgir-nama Munshi Mirza Gives an account of
Sirr-i-Akbar Dara Shikoh Urdu translation of
Muhamma Aurangzeb's first 10 years of
Upanishad
Kazin rule
Safinat-ul- -do- Biographies of Sufi Saints
Massir-i- Saqi Mustaid Official history of Auliya
Alamgiri Khan Aurangzeb’s reign written
after his death Majma-ul- -do- Philosophical ideas discussed
Bahrain
Ain-i-Akbari Abul Fazl History of Akbar's reign
Raqqat-e- Aurangzeb A compendium of his letters
Muntakhab-ul- Badauni History of Akbar's rule Alamgiri
Tawarikh
Hasmat-ul- Dara Shikoh Religious ideas discussed
Tawarikh-i-Alfi Mulla Daud -do- Arifin
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1906 Dadabhai Naoroji became the president of National Congress and clearly declared their goal to be self-
government or Swaraj like the other colonies.
30 Dec. 1906 All India Muslim League was formed by Aga Khan III and the founding meeting was hosted by Nawab Sir
Khwaja Salimullah.
1909 The Indian Councils Act or Morley-Minto Reform was announced.
1911 Government announced the withdrawal of Partition of Bengal.
1913 Ghadar Party founded by Punjabi Indians in the United States and Canada aiming at securing India’s
independence.
April, 1915 First session of Hindu Mahasabha was held under the presidentship of Maharaja of Kasim Bazar.
26 Dec. 1916 Lucknow Pact was signed dealing with the structure of the government of India and with relation to the Hindu
and Muslim communities.
1917 Indigo Satyagraha started by M.K. Gandhi in Champaran, Bihar.
1918 Edwin Montagu, then the Secretary of State and Lord Chelmsford, the Viceroy produced a scheme of
constitutional reform which was called as the Montague-Chelmsford reforms.
1919 Enactment of the Government of India Act.
March, 1919 Rowlatt Act was passed which enabled government to imprison people without trial.
13 April, 1919 Unarmed crowd gathered at Jallianwala Bagh to protest against the arrest of Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew and Dr.
Satyapal was attacked by the British army as commanded by General Dyer.
31 August, 1920 Khilafat Committee launched a non-cooperation Movement.
1 February, 1922 M.K. Gandhi announced mass Civil Disobedience movement.
5 Feb. 1922 Protesters participating in the Non-cooperation Movement turned violent, leading to police opening fire in
Chauri Chaura. Congress as a result halted the non-cooperation Movement.
1925 Communist Party came into existence.
Nov. 1927 Simon headed commission was set up to submit report on working of Indian constitution established by
Government of India Act, 1919.
17 Nov. 1928 Lala Lajpat Rai died due to the injuries by the beating of local police during a protest demonstration at Lahore.
Dec. 1928 Gandhi joined back the active politics at Calcutta session.
26 Jan. 1930 Was fixed as the First Independence Day and since then was celebrated every year up to 1947.
Feb. 1930 Chandra Shekhar Azad was shot dead in a park called Azad Park at Allahabad, in an encounter with British police.
12 March, 1930 Dandi March lead by M.K. Gandhi took place. Together with 78 companions he walked 375 km from
Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi.
6 April, 1930 Gandhi reached Dandi and broke the Salt law.
12 Nov. 1930 First round table conference was held in London, was chaired by British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
5 March, 1931 Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed between Gandhi and then viceroy of India Lord Irwin. According to which
British agreed to withdraw all ordinances and end prosecutions and release all political prisoners.
24 August, 1932 Poona Pact was signed between Gandhi and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar at Yerwada Central Jail.
1935 Government of India Act was passed according to which All India Federation was established including
British India and Princely States (representative were appointed by the rulers) forming a bicameral federal
legislature.
October, 1940 Gandhi gave an order for limited satyagraha (for few individuals only).
8 August, 1942 Quit India Movement was launched by M.K.Gandhi.
1945 Congress working committee adopted a resolution to abolish landlordism.
2 Sept. 1946 Interim government of India formed the newly elected Constituent Assembly of India. This idea was rejected
by Muslim league.
9 Dec. 1946 The Constituent Assembly met for the first time.
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of India 12 to 35) USA & France except Art. 20 & 21 16, 19, 29, 30

Fundamental Rights

Right to Equality Right to Freedom Right Against Exploitation Right to Freedom of Cultural and Right to Constitutional
Religion Educational Rights Remedies

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(14) Equality before Law (19) 6 Rights: Freedom of (23) Prohibition of traffic in (25) Freedom of conscience & (29) Protection of Includes writs:
& Equal protection speech & expression, human beings & forced free profession, practice & interests of (1) Habeas Corpus
of law. Assembly, Association, labour. propagation of religion. minorities.
POLITY

(2) Mandamus
Movement, Residence & (3) Prohibition
Fundamental Rights

Profession. (4) Certiorari

(5) Quo–Warranto
(15) Prohibition of (20) Protection in respect of (24) Prohibition of (26 ) Manage religious affairs. (30) Right of minorities
discrimination on conviction for offences. employment of to establish
grounds of religion, children in factories & administer
race, sex etc. etc. educational
institutions.
(16) Equality of (21) Protection of life & (27) Freedom from payment of
opportunity in personal liberty. taxes for promotion of any
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Upper House Lower House

Also known as House of People

council of states Maximum Leg. Council or Leg. Assembly or
Total members-250 Strength - 552 Vidhan Parishad Vidhan Sabha

238 12 530 20 2 (Nominated Lower House

Indirectly Nominated (States) (UTs) members from Upper House
Anglo-Indian Maximum
elected Maximum
Community) Strength - 500
Permanent Body Strength - 1/3 rd
Members are of total strength Minimum
directly elected of Assembly. Strength - 60
Term of individual
member - 6 years Term - 5 years Minimum Members are
Strength - 40 directly elected
1/3 rd members Presiding Officers by people
Members are
retires at expiration indirectly Term - 5 years
of every 2nd year. elected
Speaker Deputy
Speaker Permanent body
Presiding officers
Qualification 1/3rd of its members
retire every second
Chairman Deputy year.
Chairman Citizen Not less Term - 6 years
of India than 25
Qualification years.

Citizen of Not less than

India 30 years

GEOGRAPHY
MAJOR STRAIT OF THE WORLD Taurus Strait Arafura Sea & Gulf of Papua New Guinea -
Name Joins Location Papua Australia
Bass strait Tasman Sea & South Australia
Malacca Strait Andaman Sea & South Indonesia - Malaysia
Sea
China Sea
Bering Strait Bering Sea & Chukchi Alaska-Russia
Palk Strait Palk Bay & Bay of India-Sri Lanka
Sea
Bengal
Bonne-Fasio Mediterranean Sea Corsika-Sardinia
Sunda Strait Java Sea & Indian Indonesia
Strait
Ocean
Bosphorus Black Sea and Marma- Turkey
Yucatan Strait Gulf of Mexico and Mexico-Cuba
Strait ra Sea
Caribbean Sea
Dardanelle Marmara Sea and Ae- Turkey
Messina Strait Mediterranean Sea Italy-Sicily
Strait gean Sea
Otranto Strait Adriatic Sea & Ionian Italy-Albania Davis strait Baffin Bay & Atlantic Greenland-Canada
Sea Ocean
Bab-el-Man- Red Sea & Gulf of Yemen-Djibouti Denmark North Atlantic and Greenland-Iceland
deb Strait Aden strait Arctic Ocean
Cook Strait South Pacific Ocean New Zealand (N & S Dover strait English Channel & England-France
islands) North Sea
Mozambique Indian Ocean Mozambique - Mala- Florida Strait Gulf of Mexico and USA-Cuba
Strait gasy Atlantic Ocean
North Chan- Irish Sea & Atlantic Ireland-England Hormuz strait Gulf of Persia & Gulf Oman-Iran
nel Ocean of Oman
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Tsugaru Strait Japan Sea and Pacific Japan (Hokkaido-Hon- Gulf of Oristano, near Oristano on the Western Sardinian
Ocean shu island) coast
Tatar Strait Japan Sea & Okhotsk Russia (E Russia-
Gulf of Panama in the Pacific Ocean south of Panama
Sea Sakhalin Island)
Persian Gulf between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula
MAJOR GULFS AND THEIR LOCATION Gulf of Roses, the most northeastern bay on the Catalan coast
Gulf of Aden of the southwestern corner of the Arabian Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the world’s largest estuary and the
Peninsula outlet of the Saint Lawrence River into the Atlantic Ocean
Gulf of Alaska in the Pacific Ocean south of the state of Alaska Gulf St Vincent, separated from Spencer Gulf by the Yorke
Amundsen Gulf in the Arctic Ocean northwest of Canada Peninsula
Gulf of Aqaba in the northern end of the Red Sea, leading to Gulf of Sidra, just north of Libya in the Mediterranean
Israel and Jordan Spencer Gulf, near Port Lincoln, South Australia
Gulf of Bahrain, part of the Persian Gulf Gulf of Suez, in the northern end of the Red Sea, leading to
Gulf of Bothnia, part of the Baltic Sea between Sweden and the Suez Canal
Finland Gulf of Thailand, just south of Thailand in the Indian Ocean
Gulf of Cádiz, part of the Atlantic Ocean off the southern Gulf of Tonkin, just east of North Vietnam in the Pacific
border of Spain and Portugal
Ocean
Gulf of California in the Pacific Ocean in northwestern
Gulf of Tunis, in the Mediterranean off the coast of Tunisia
Mexico
Gulf of Carpentaria a large bay off northern Australia Tribal Groups of India
Gulf of Cazones a large gulf in southern Cuba Tribal Region Tribal Region
Group Group
Gulf of Corinth, which extends into Greece from the
Mediterranean Abhor Arunachal Pradesh Kharia Jharkhand,
Odisha
Davao Gulf in the Philippines
Adivasi A.P, Bihar, Odisha, Kol Madhya Pradesh
Gulf of the Farallones, westward from the opening of the San Jharkhand, Madhya
Francisco Bay and Drakes Bay to the Farallon Islands Pradesh, Maharashtra,
Gulf of Finland, between the southern coast of Finland and Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu,
the northern coast of Estonia in the Baltic Sea. Some Northeastern
States, West Bengal, An-
Gulf of Genoa inside the Ligurian Sea on the northwestern
daman and Nicobar
coast of Italy
Ahgani Manipur Kolam Maharashtra,
Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Equatorial Andhra Pradesh,
Africa Telengana, M.P
Gulf of Izmir in the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece. Apatani Arunachal Pradesh Kota Karnataka
It was formerly called the Gulf of Smyrna.
Baiga Madhya Pradesh Kuki Mizoram
Gulf of Khambhat in the Arabian Sea, formerly known as the Bakar- Jammu and Kashmir Lahaula Himachal
Gulf of Cambay wal Pradesh
Gulf of Kutch in the Arabian Sea Bhil M.P and Rajasthan Lepcha Sikkim
Lingayen Gulf of western Luzon, the Philippines, in the South Birhor M.P and Bihar Lushai Mizoram,
China Sea Manipur
Gulf of Lion, a bay on the Mediterranean coastline of Chang Nagaland Muria Chhattisgarh
Languedoc-Roussillon and Provence in France Chench- Telengana, Karnataka Miha Rajasthan
Gulf of Maine, off the State of Maine, New Brunswick, and uas
Nova Scotia in the Atlantic Ocean Sutiya Assam Moplah Malabar
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Gujjar Rajasthan Onges Andaman &
Nicobar BIOSPHERE RESERVES IN INDIA AREA-WISE
Irula Tamil Nadu Singpho Assam, Arunachal Name State Key Fauna
Pradesh
Nilgiri Tamil Nadu, Nilgiri tahr, lion-tailed macaque
Jaintia Meghalaya Santhal WB, Odisha,
Bihar, Jharkhand, Biosphere Kerala and
Assam Reserve Karnataka
Jarawa Andaman, Islands Sangtam Nagaland Nanda Devi Uttarakhand Himalayan musk deer, mainland
National Park serow, Himalayan tahr
Kanikar Tamil Nadu and Kerala Sema Nagaland & Biosphere
Kalkari Maharashtra Sentine- Andaman & Reserve
lese Nicobar Gulf of Tamil Nadu Dugong or sea cow
Kharia Maharashtra Shompen Andaman & Mannar
Nicobar
Nokrek Meghalaya Red panda
Khond Jharkhand Toda Tamil Nadu
Sundarbans West Bengal Royal Bengal tiger
Khasi Meghalaya Uralis Kerala
Manas Assam Golden langur, red panda
Wancho Arunachal
Pradesh Simlipal Odisha Gaur, Royal Bengal tiger, elephant
Warli Maharashtra, Dihang- Arunachal Mishmi takin, red goral, musk
Daman and Diu, Dibang Pradesh deer
Bihar, Madhaya Pachmarhi Madhya Giant squirrel, flying squirrel
Pradesh, West Biosphere Pradesh
Bengal Dadra and Reserve
Nagar Haveli Achanakmar- Madhya Four horned antelope (Tetracerus
WILDLIFE SANCTUARIES IN INDIA Amarkantak Pradesh, quadricornis), Indian wild dog (Cuon
Biosphere Chhattisgarh alpinus), Saras crane (Grus antigone),
Name of the Location Major Species Reserve Asian white-backed vulture (Gyps
Sanctuary bengalensis), Sacred grove bush frog
Gir Wildlife Sasan Gir, Lion, Leopard, Chausinga, Chital, (Philautus sanctisilvaticus)
Sanctuary Junagadh, Hyena, Sambar, Chinkara, Great Rann Gujarat Indian wild ass
Amreli Herpetofauna, Crocodiles and birds of Kutch
Wild Ass Little Rann Wild Ass, Chinkara, Blue Cold Desert Himachal Snow leopard
Sanctuary of Kachchh bull, Houbara bustard, Wolf, Pradesh
Waterfowls, Herpetofauna Khangchendzonga Sikkim Snow leopard, red panda
Hingolgadh Hingolgadh, Chinkara, Blue bull, Wolf, AgasthyamalI Kerala, Nilgiri tahr, elephants
Sanctuary Rajkot Hyena, Fox, Birds, Herpetofauna Biosphere Tamil Nadu
Marine Gulf of Sponges, Corals, Jellyfish, Reserve
Sanctuary Kachchh, Sea horse, Octopus,Oyster, Great Andaman Saltwater crocodile
Jamnagar Pearloyster, Starfish, Lobster, Nicobar and Nicobar
Dolphin, Dugong, waterfowls Biosphere Islands
Simlipal Odisha Elephant, Tiger, Leopard, Gaur, Reserve
Sactuary Cheetal Dibru- Assam Golden langur
Kutch Great Rann Chinkara, Hyena, Fox, Flamingo, Saikhowa
Desert of Kachchh Pelicans & other waterfowls, Seshachalam Andhra Yellow-throated bulbul
Sanctuary Herpetofauna Hills Pradesh
Rampara Rampara, Blue bull, Chinkara, Wolf, Fox, Panna Madhya Tiger, chital, chinkara, sambhar
Sanctuary Rajkot Jackal, Birds, Herpetofauna Pradesh and sloth bear
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Gastric Juice Pepsin, Rennin Proteins, Casein Proteoses and peptones, Calcium caseinate
Pancreatic Juice Trypsin, Chymotrypsin, Carboxyl Proteins, Proteins Peptides Proteoses and peptides Peptides Amino
peptidases acid.
Intestinal juice Amino peptidase, Dipeptidase Peptides Amino acids
Vitamin Required by the Body
Vitamin Chemical Name Function in Body Deficiency Disease Sources
B1 Thiamine Part of coenzyme for respirationBeri-beri: nerve and heart disorders Cereals, legumes, beans,
pyrophosphate nuts.
B2 Riboflavin Part of coenzyme FAD needed for Ariboflavinosis: skin and eye Milk, yogurt, meat, leafy
respiration disorders greens, whole grains.
B12 Cyanoco-balamin Coenzyme needed for making red Pernicious anaemia Meat, fish, poultry,
blood cells, bone, blood and nerve shellfish, eggs, cheese,
changes milk.
B5 Nicotinic Part of coenzymes NAD, NADP Pellagra: skin, gut and nerve Widespread in foods.
acid (‘niacin’) used in respiration disorders
C Ascorbic acid Not precisely known Scurvy: degeneration of skin teeth Citrus fruits, e.g. lemon.
and blood vessels.
A Retinol Not fully known but forms part of Xeropthalmia: ‘dry eyes’ Milk, eggs, meat, fish liver
visual pigment, rhodopsin oils, Green leafy vegetables.
D Cholecalciferol Stimulates calcium absorption by Rickets: bone deformity Exposed to sunlight, Dairy
small intestine, needed for proper products, egg yolk, fish
bone growth liver oils, oysters, yeast.
E Tocopherol Not precisely known Infertility Plant oils, green, leafy
vegetables, egg yolk, nuts,
seeds, and liver.
K Phylloquinone Involved in blood clotting Possible haemorrhage Bacterial synthesis in the
digestive tract. Green
leafy vegetables, cabbage
and milk

DISEASE AND DEFENCE MECHANISM

Pratozoan Diseases Bacteria Diseases
Disease Pathogen Disease Pathogen
Malaria Plasmodium
Amoebiasis Enta moeba histolylica Dysentery Shigella
Giardiasis Giardia lambia Plague Pasteurellapestis
Sleeping sickness Trypanosoma
Leshmanis Leishmania Diphtheria Corynebacterium diphtheriae
Trichomoniasis Trichomonas vaginalis Cholera Vibrio cholerae
Fungal diseases Tuberculosis Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Disease Pathogen Tetanus Clostridium tetani
Aspergillosis Aspergillus fumigatuo Whooping cough Bordetella pertussis
Candidiasis Candida albicens
Leprosy Mycobacterium leprae
Ringworm Trichoplyton
Blastomycosis Blasto myces dermatitidis Anthrax Bacillus anthrasis
Sporotnichosis Sporothrix Schenckii Weil’s disease Leptospira
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Rabies Rabies virus Small Pox Edward Jenner England 1796

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Cholera Louis Pasteur France 1880

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Influenza Influenza virus Diphtheria and Emil Adolf Von Behring Germany/ 1891

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Tetanus and Shibasaburo Kitasato Japan

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Measles Rubeola virus

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TB Vaccine Albert Calmette and France 1922
German measles Rubella virus

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Mumps Mumps virus
Polio Vaccine Jonas E. Salk US 1952
Chicken pox Varicella zoster
Oral Polio Albert Bruce Sabin US 1955
Small pox Variola virus Vaccine
Polio Polio virus Measles Vaccine John F. Enders, Thomas US 1953
Chikungunya Chikungunya (CHIK) Virus peeble
Avian flu H5N1 virus Rabies Vaccine Louis Pasteur France 1885
H1N1(Swine flu) H1N1 virus Typhus Vaccine Charles Nicolle France 1909

SPORTS
TROPHIES ASSOCIATED WITH SPORTS
NATIONAL Merdeka Cup Football (Asia)
Name of the Trophy Related game Thomas Cup World Badminton (Men)
Aga Khan Cup Hockey Uber Cup World Badminton (women)
Barna Bellack Cup Table Tennis US-Open Lawn Tennis
French-Open Lawn Tennis
Beighton Cup Hockey
Australian Open Lawn Tennis
Bombay Gold Cup Hockey
Wimbledon Lawn Tennis
Burdwan Trophy Weight Lifting Masters Champions Trophy Hockey
D.C.M. Trophy Football British Open Golf
Dhyan chand Trophy Hockey Malaysian Open Badminton
Dr. B.C. Roy Trophy Football Tata Open Lawn Tennis
Duleep Trophy Cricket
Durand Cup Football
Number of Players on Each Side
Ezra Cup Polo Badminton 1 or 2 Polo 4
I.F.A Shield Football Baseball 9 Rugby Football 15
Lady Ratan Tata Trophy Hockey Basketball 5 Tennis and Table tennis 1 or 2
Moin ud daula Gold Cup Cricket Cricket 11 Water Polo 7
Rangaswami Cup Hockey Football 11 Volleyball 6
Hockey 11 Kabaddi 7
Ranji Trophy Cricket
Chess 1
Santosh Trophy Football
Scindia Gold Cup Hockey National Sports of Famous Countries
Subroto Mukherjee Cup Football (Inter-School) Name National game
Wellington Trophy Rowing Australia Cricket
INTERNATIONAL Brazil Football
Canada Ice Hockey
Name of the Trophy Related game China Table Tennis
Nehru Trophy Hockey England Cricket
American Cup Yatch Racing India No Game
Ashes Cup Cricket (Australia-England) Japan Judo or Ju Jitsu
Azlan Shah Hockey Malaysia Badminton
US Masters Golf Pakistan Hockey
Hopman Cup Lawn Tennis Russia Chess, Football
Colombo Cup Trophy Football Scotland Rugby, Football
Davis Cup Lawn Tennis Spain Bull Fighting
Kings Cup Race Air Races (England) United States of America Baseball
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Boat Race Cox Polo Bunder, Chuckker, Mallet.

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Boxing Hook, Jab, Knock-out, Punch, Upper cut. Rifle Shooting Bull’s eye.

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Revoke, Ruff, Tricks, Trump. Swimming Stroke.
Volley ball Booster, Deuce, Love, Service, Spikers.
Chess Check, Checkmate, Gambit, Stalemate
Wrestling Half Nelson, Heave.
Cricket Bowling, Bouncer, Crease, Cover point, Drive,
Duck, Follow on, Googly, Gulley, Hat Trick, Hit SPECIFIC NAMES OF PLAYING AREAS
wicket, L.B.W. (Leg Before Wicket), Leg Break, Sport Name of Sport Name of Playing
Leg spinner, Leg bye, Maiden over, No ball, Pitch, Playing Area Area
Run, Silly point, Stumped, Wicket keeper. Badminton Court Golf Link, Green**
Football Dribble, Drop Kick, Foul, Hattrick, Off-side, Penalty, Baseball Diamond Lawn Tennis Court
Throw in, Touch Down. Boxing Ring Ice Skating Rink
Golf Bogey, Caddie, Hole, Links, Put, Putting the green, Cricket Pitch* Wrestling Ring, Arena
Stymie, Tee. * Pitch in fact is the space between the wickets and not the entire cricket field.
** It is the area around the hole only.