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Q1. Who among the following was responsible for the introduction of Indian Council Act?
Correct answer : 3
Q2. Where was first conference of the Indian National Congress held?
Correct answer : 2
Q3. The year in which the "Sepoy Mutiny" took place is...
Correct answer : 2
Q4. One of the departments below, important in the development of India was introduced in 1854 by Lord Dalhousie is .......
Correct answer : 2
Q5. Lokmanya Tilak was the Editor of which of the following journals?
Correct answer : 3
Q6. Which of these newspaper was started by Surendranath Banerji during the freedom movement?
Correct answer : 2
Q7. The Posts and Telegraph system was introduced during the period of........
Correct answer : 2
Q8. Who among the following was the first to introduce the 'highways' in India?
Correct answer : 3
Q9. Which of the following British policies affected Indian Agriculture during their rule?
Correct answer : 2
Q10. Who among the following was the editor of "Voice of India" newspaper during the freedom struggle?
Correct answer : 2
Q11. Which of the following countries gave us the slogan "liberty, equality and fraternity"?
Correct answer : 3
Q12. Who among the following was responsible for legally stopping the practice of 'sati'?
Correct answer : 2
Q13. In which year the "Brahmo Samaj Act " was passed?
Correct answer : 1
Q14. Who was the founder of the "Prarthana Samaj"?
Correct answer : 3
Q15. Where now lies the famous "Peacock Throne"?
Correct answer : 1
Q16. For which ruler the Peacock Throne was created?
Correct answer : 3
Q17. What was the effect of the outcome of the Battle of Wandiwash (Now known as Vandavasi)?
Correct answer : 3
Q18. In which year Bengal was partitioned?
Correct answer : 2
Q19. The pioneer of maritime trade in India, V.O.Chidambaram was born in.....
Correct answer : 3
Q20. How many people were massacred in the Jalianwala Bagh incident?
Correct answer : 2
Q21. The disadvantage/s of a multi-party system is/are……
Correct answer : 4
Q22. The Rajya Sabha can be dissolved by…..
Correct answer : 1
Q23. The advantage/s of multi-party system is/are……………
Correct answer : 4
Q24. The disadvantage/s of a bi-party system is/are……
Correct answer : 4
Q25. The advantage/s of a bi-party system is/are……
Correct answer : 4
Q26. Democratic Party and Republican Party belongs to which of the following country/ies?
Correct answer : 2
Q27. The disadvantage/s of a single party rule is/are
Correct answer : 4
Q28. The Advantage/s of a single party rule is/are…..
Correct answer : 4
Q29. The normal term of office of Lok Sabha/State Assembly/Local Bodies is …. Years.
Correct answer : 2
Q30. Election held after the normal expiry of the term of Lok Sabha or the state legislature is called as ….
Correct answer : 1
Q31. Who are appointed to oversee the conduct of the elections?
Correct answer : 3
Q32. In order to have a decisive and comprehensive decision in election related matters, the composition of the commission has been made as three Commissioners from…..
Correct answer : 2
Q33. Election Commission is headquartered at…..
Correct answer : 2
Q34. Election Commission is a …..
Correct answer : 2
Q35. To safeguard the philosophy of democratic rule a democratic country must have an independent………..
Correct answer : 2
Q36. The Constitution gives the supreme power to the ……
Correct answer : 3
Q37. The Constitution now has …………parts………schedules and …….Articles.
Correct answer : 4
Q38. When was the Post Office Act enacted in India?
Correct answer : 3
Q39. Number of Official Languages in our country is
Correct answer : 1
Q40. Recognition for a political party as National or State Party is accorded by the ……..
Correct answer : 4
Q41. The Gross Budgetary Support (GBS) in the Eleventh Plan has been fixed nearly I 1.5 per cent higher at .......... .
Correct answer : 4
Q42. What numbers of targets have been proposed in the Eleventh Plan at the national and state levels respectively for poverty eradication, education, health status of women and children, infrastructure and environment?
Correct answer : 3
Q43. Majority of rural people still prefer to go to ..................for their credit needs.
Correct answer : 1
Q44. Which of the following is associated with the issue of the debt burden of farmers?
Correct answer : 4
Q45. The "Ad hoc Treasury Bill System" of meeting budget deficit in India was replaced by "Ways and means Advance System" which has come into force on ......
Correct answer : 3
Q46. If 6 men and 8 boys can do a piece of work in 10 days while 26 men and 48 boys can do the same in 2 days, what is the time taken by 15 men and 20 boys in doing the same type of work? (CDS 2010)
Correct answer : 1
Q47. A person travelled by train for 1 hour at a speed of 50 Kmph. He then travelled by a taxi for 30 minutes at a speed of 32 kmph to complete his journey. What is the average speed at which he travelled during the journey? (CDS 2010)
Correct answer : 1
Q48. The volume of a cone is equal to that of sphere. If the diameter of base of cone is equal to the diameter of the sphere, what is the ratio of height of cone to the diameter of the sphere? (CDS 2010)
Correct answer : 1
Q49. Consider the following statements in respect of any triangle: (1) The three medians of a triangle divide it into six triangles of equal area. (2) The perimeter of a triangle is greater than the sum of the lengths of its three medians. Which of the above statements is/are correct? (CDS 2010)
Correct answer : 3
Q50. ABCD is a square. P,Q,R,S are points on the sides AB,BC,CD,DA respectively such that AP=BQ=CR=DS. What is angle SPQ equal to? (CDS 2010)
Correct answer : 4
Q51. Wry Bill is the only unique bird in the world with a beak that curves sideways. Where is it generally found?
Correct answer : 2
Q52. Which of the following is not a category group of all life in the ocean?
Correct answer : 4
Q53. What are the "antigravity" muscles in the human body?
Correct answer : 4
Q54. Relate "Dam" to any one of the following?
Correct answer : 3
Q55. Where is the Schlemm's Canal in human body?
Correct answer : 3
Q56. An "Octopus" is a/an....
Correct answer : 3
Q57. How many species of the elephant still exist?
Correct answer : 4
Q58. In which part of the body is the Carotid artery located?
Correct answer : 1
Q59. How many humps does a Bactrian Camel have?
Correct answer : 1
Q60. What is the common name for Rubella?
Correct answer : 3
Q61. Two thirds of a person's body weight is made up of Hydrogen and Oxygen in the form of........
Correct answer : 4
Q62. Deficiency of which Vitamin causes "Beri Beri"?
Correct answer : 1
Q63. At which state in its life cycle does the "Silk worm" yield the fibre of commerce (commercial silk)?
Correct answer : 3
Q64. What type of creature is an Indian Runner?
Correct answer : 3
Q65. "Hypnophobia" is the fear of.....
Correct answer : 3
Q66. What is "agyrophobia"?
Correct answer : 3
Q67. Ferric Oxide gives the soil the ..............colour.
Correct answer : 2
Q68. The drug Cocaine is extracted from which medicinal plant?
Correct answer : 1
Q69. Scaphoid bones are located in the .....
Correct answer : 3
Q70. What is "Kriskaidekaphobia"?
Correct answer : 3
Q71. Of the following which one contains both an aldehyde and a Carboxyl group?
Correct answer : 4
Q72. Carboxylic acid is acidic because of .....
Correct answer : 2
Q73. What is the common acid present in fats and oils?
Correct answer : 2
Q74. ........acid is present in vinegar.
Correct answer : 2
Q75. ……………is the IUPAC name of succinic acid.
Correct answer : 1
Q76. ………………is formed when chlorine is passed through aceitic acid in the presence of halogen carrier.
Correct answer : 4
Q77. What can be obtained by heating sodium formate with soda lime?
Correct answer : 2
Q78. Which of the following compound is found in some stony deposit in kidney?
Correct answer : 1
Q79. Carboxylic acids are more acidic than phenol and alcohol due to......
Correct answer : 2
Q80. .......acid cannot be prepared by Grignard reagent.
Correct answer : 2
Q81. .......acid reduces Tollen's reagent.
Correct answer : 1
Q82. What can be obtained by heating a mixture of sodium acetate and soda lime?
Correct answer : 3
Q83. Which is the weakest acid of the following?
Correct answer : 1
Q84. Roschelle salt is employed in the preparation of Fehlling's solution. The salt is......
Correct answer : 1
Q85. ………………….is used as hypnotic substance.
Correct answer : 2
Q86. Example of aromatic unsaturated keto acid is…..
Correct answer : 3
Q87. ………………..used in the preparation of medicine sulphonal.
Correct answer : 3
Q88. …………………is used to prepare tincture benzoin medicine for throat infection.
Correct answer : 3
Q89. 2-pentene on ozonolysis followed by reductive cleavage produce……
Correct answer : 1
Q90. Consider the following: (1) Carbon dioxide (2) Oxides of nitrogen (3) Oxides of sulphur. Which of the above is/are the emission/s from coal combustion at thermal power plants?
Correct answer : 4
Q91. What is the final product when 2-butene is ionised?
Correct answer : 1
Q92. …………………..exhibit functional isomerism.
Correct answer : 2
Q93. The IUPAC name of cinnamaldehyde is.......
Correct answer : 2
Q94. The oxidation state of carbon in aldehyde is........
Correct answer : 1
Q95. What can be obtained by heating benzophenone with solid KOH?
Correct answer : 4
Q96. ………………is obtained when acetophenone reacts with chlorine.
Correct answer : 3
Q97. Of the following statements which one is true about acetaldehyde?
Correct answer : 2
Q98. Benzaldehyde undergoes……….reaction
Correct answer : 1
Q99. Benzaldehyde is converted into…………….by Perkin's reaction.
Correct answer : 3
Q100. Paraldehyde is used as………
Correct answer : 2
Q101. Pick the one from the following that does not undergo iodoform reaction?
Correct answer : 2
Q102. Of the following which one undergoes Cannizaro reaction?
Correct answer : 4
Q103. Aldehydes restore the original pink colour of which of the following?
Correct answer : 2
Q104. Pick the one that gives oxime with hydroxyl amine?
Correct answer : 3
Q105. Reaction of which of the following with Grignard reagent gives primary alcohol?
Correct answer : 2
Q106. Identify the one that is used as an urinary antiseptic?
Correct answer : 1
Q107. What product is obtained when benzaldehyde reacts with ammonia?
Correct answer : 3
Q108. Reaction of acetaldehyde with...... forms Aldimine.
Correct answer : 3
Q109. What is the produce obtained by the reaction of formaldehyde with ammonia?
Correct answer : 2
Q110. What is the final product obtained when acetaldehyde react with HCN followed by hydrolysis?
Correct answer : 1
Q111. When current in a conductor is switched off, the magnetic needle placed near the conductor
Correct answer : 4
Q112. When current in a conductor is switched off, the magnetic needle placed near its conductor .............
Correct answer : 3
Q113. When atom bomb explodes a large amount of ..........
Correct answer : 2
Q114. When an object undergoes acceleration
Correct answer : 3
Q115. When an object starts to fall freely which statemtnet is correct about it?
Correct answer : 4
Q116. When an object reflects all the colours of white light, how does the object appear?
Correct answer : 4
Q117. When an object of 3 cm height is placed in front of a mirror, the magnification produced by the mirror is 8, what is the size of the image formed by the mirror?
Correct answer : 2
Q118. When an object is thrown up, what is the value of g?
Correct answer : 3
Q119. When an object is placed in front of a thick glass mirror how many images are formed?
Correct answer : 3
Q120. When an object is placed between pole and principal focus of a concave mirror, where the image is formed?
Correct answer : 2
Q121. When an object is placed at the focus of a concave mirror, the image formed by the concave mirror is not
Correct answer : 3
Q122. When an object absorbs all the colours of white light the object appears.
Correct answer : 1
Q123. When an object 2 cm high is placed in front of a mirror, the magnification produced by the mirror is 4. What is the size of the image?
Correct answer : 3
Q124. When an insect Walks on the surface of water, the force of surface tension acts
Correct answer : 1
Q125. When an a - particle is emitted the atomic number decreases by
Correct answer : 2
Q126. When an external force of sufficient magnitude is applied on a body of some mass, the body acquires
Correct answer : 3
Q127. When aluminium is bombarded by a-particle which isotope is produced?
Correct answer : 4
Q128. When a wire carries an electric current in it its temperature rises due to conversion of
Correct answer : 3
Q129. When a stone is tied to a string and rotated in a circular path then the tension in the string provides
Correct answer : 2
Q130. When a steel rod is used in the place of soft iron rod in an electric bell .............
Correct answer : 3
Q131. Hailey's comet appeared last in the solar family in the year
Correct answer : 1
Q132. Gulf of Mannar is located ............
Correct answer : 2
Q133. Of the following states, which one is not bisected by the Tropic of Cancer?
Correct answer : 3
Q134. Find the state through which Tropic of Cancer is passing through.
Correct answer : 2
Q135. The satellites of which one of the following countries have helped in the preparation of a detailed and complete map of Antarctica?
Correct answer : 4
Q136. Black Hole is
Correct answer : 4
Q137. As the 7th largest country, our country occupies approximately ......% of world area.
Correct answer : 3
Q138. Areawise our country (India) is ........largest country in the world.
Correct answer : 4
Q139. Trade winds are caused by the
Correct answer : 3
Q140. The state that does not share the Godavari river is ........
Correct answer : 4
Q141. "Malavikagnimitra" is a book on.....
Correct answer : 2
Q142. "Bhakti" is.....
Correct answer : 3
Q143. Which of the following wild life projects and the states is not correctly matched?
Correct answer : 1
Q144. By which of the following tests the semen mark on the dress of Monica Lewinsky was adduced as an evidence against President Clinton?
Correct answer : 3
Q145. Which of the following gods would not be associated with the Vedic period?
Correct answer : 4
Q146. Szent Gyorgi received Nobel Prize for isolating Vit. C from which of the following?
Correct answer : 2
Q147. The institution that has filed more patents than all the individual patents put together in India is......
Correct answer : 3
Q148. Sir Wilson Jones is known for translating a few indian epics in English. Which of the following was not his work?
Correct answer : 4
Q149. The agency that does not fund local bodies for infrastructural development is............
Correct answer : 1
Q150. Leading producers of Asbestos in the world is....
Correct answer : 2
Q151. "Ringgit" is the currency of which country?
Correct answer : 3
Q152. The wild life sanctuaries namely Madei and Natravali are located in.....
Correct answer : 3
Q153. On the intellect side, the Sufis were influenced by a 'hatha-yogic' treatise called.....
Correct answer : 2
Q154. Which country is known as the "Cockpit of Europe"?
Correct answer : 2
Q155. "Annals & Antiquities of Rajasthan" is a book on the history of Rajputs.Who wrote this book?
Correct answer : 2
Q156. How was the Indian Ocean known to the Greeks?
Correct answer : 3
Q157. "A Buddist priest, journeyed by land via South Gobi Desert and Yarkand, entered India through Indus valley in AD 399, spent about 10 years in that region, travelled all over north India, stayed in Pataliputra for about 3 years" Whom are we talking about?
Correct answer : 4
Q158. Whose influence plays heavily on the Gandhara School of Art?
Correct answer : 3
Q159. Pick the wrong combination of cities manufacturing railway equipments.
Correct answer : 1
Q160. Which is the largest tiger reserve of India?
Correct answer : 3
Q161. Who is the first American President to visit India?
Correct answer : 3
Q162. How many NAM Summits have been held in India so far?
Correct answer : 2
Q163. Among the following NAM Summits which one was held in India?
Correct answer : 4
Q164. "Torah" is the sacred book of which of the following?
Correct answer : 4
Q165. The Maha Kumbh Mela which is held once in 3 years is not held at which place below?
Correct answer : 2
Q166. The year 1921, related to the population statistics of India, is known as the ''year of great divide ". Why? a)there was a decline in population b)Indians and Europeans were counted separately c)It was the first census after the Partition of Bengal d)the demographic date included literacy and sex ratio for the first time
Correct answer : 1
Q167. The Kalapani Enclave is an issue with which country?
Correct answer : 2
Q168. Which of the following is not one of the four fundamental principle of Jainism?
Correct answer : 3
Q169. Which of the following statement is not true about Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve?
Correct answer : 1
Q170. Which of the following unique feature is applicable to the Vedic Period?
Correct answer : 3
Q171. Which is the first international airport constructed outside the ambit of the Government of India?
Correct answer : 3
Q172. Which of the following is not a Vedic Tribal Assembly?
Correct answer : 2
Q173. Who wrote the book "The Human Manifesto"?
Correct answer : 4
Q174. India's PSLV - C2 placed the Kitsat 3 satellite of which country into orbit?
Correct answer : 2
Q175. The following question is based on the five three digt numbers given below: 972 526 487 359 251. If the digits in each of the above numbers are written in reverse order which will be the second highest number?
Correct answer : 3
Q176. Study the following information carefully and answer the given question. A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a circle facing the centre. D is fourth to the right of H and second to the left of B. F is fourth to the right of B. C fourth to the right of E who is not an immediate neighbour of B or D. A is not an immediate neighbour of D. Who is to the immediate left of D?
Correct answer : 1
Q177. Pointing to a boy in a photograph Sudhir said, "He is the son of my maternal grandfather's only child". How is the boy related to Sudhir?
Correct answer : 4
Q178. In the question below is given three statements followed by two conclusions numbeFF0000 (1) and (2). You have to take the three given statements to be true even if they seem to at variance from commonly known facts and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts. STATEMENTS: Some doors are tables. Some tables are pots. All pots are dishes. CONCLUSIONS: (1) Some dishes are doors. (2) Some dishes are tables.
Correct answer : 2
Q179. D is brother of K, M is sister of K. R is father of D and S is mother of M. How is K related to R?
Correct answer : 1
Q180. In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive Voice. Out of the options suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active Voice: " The audience loudly cheered the leader's speech"
Correct answer : 1
Q181. Given below are six statements of which the first and the last .. (1) and (6) remains constant. The remaining four are given as (P), (Q),{R} and (S), which are not in the proper order. Arrange them in proper order and find out which order of sentences is correct:
(1) As the girl grew up, she became prettier and prettier (P)
(2)She began to be treated worse than any servant (Q)
(3)After household work she would sleep among the cinders (R)
(4) And the prettier she became, the more the sisters hated her
(S) She was compelled to eat scraps of left overs
(6) This habit earned her the nickname cinderella.
Correct answer : 2
Q182. Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), {C), (D), (E) and (F) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and answer the question that follows: (A) He instructed his stable master to give him the fastest of all the horses he had. (B) Akbar was embarassed and in turn gifted the Sage a horse cart and made the stable master its driver in order to punish him. (C) After a few days Akbar saw the sage walking again and asked him where the horse was. (D) Once Akbar saw a Sage walking and decided to gift him a horse. (E) The Sage answered, ; My Lord, the horse gifted to me was so fast that it crossed the distance from earth to heaven in one night.; (F) However, it so happened that the stable master gave him a frail and sick horse which died the same night it was gifted to the Sage. Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence after rearrangement?
Correct answer : 4
Q183. In the question, a part of the sentence is highlighted. Replace the highlighted part with the options given which may improve the sentence. "Serious charges of corruption were levied against him."
Correct answer : 2
Q184. Even if it rains I shall come ---- means
Correct answer : 3
Q185. This sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect form. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in indirect/direct form: "I said to him, Where have you lost the pen I brought for you yesterday?"
Correct answer : 2
Q186. In the following question, out of the four options, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence: "Practice of employing spies in war".
Correct answer : 2
Q187. Given below are six statements of which the first and the last .. (1) and (6) remains constant. The remaining four are given as (P), (Q),{R} and (S), which are not in the proper order. Arrange them in proper order and find out which order of sentences is correct: (1) George Eliot sees (P) family life (Q) and mutually caring relationships (R) human relationships (S) as the centre of (6) as the centre of life itself.
Correct answer : 4
Q188. Which Indian company operating in Europe, was selected as the best company?
Correct answer : 2
Q189. In commemoration of the International Women's Day on March 8 (2015), the Central Government introduced .......... an exclusive
telephone line for the women to get advices on their empowerment and development
Correct answer : 2
Q190. On which date, the Shree Shakti Award (Puraskar) and Nari Shakthi Award (Puraskar) are presented by the Central Government?
Correct answer : 3
Q191. The basic operations performed by a computer is.........
Correct answer : 4
Q192. The amount of the data CPU can transmit at a time to main memory and to input/output devices is known as
Correct answer : 4
Q193. Expand IBM
Correct answer : 2
Q194. Which of the following is an invalid statement?
Correct answer : 4
Q195. In C language, the variable name may start with
Correct answer : 3
Q196. An algorithm is said to be deterministic, since it has .....
Correct answer : 2
Q197. The System Administrator
Correct answer : 4
Q198. Which type of memory holds only the programe and data that the CPU is presently processing?
Correct answer : 1
Q199. ASM stands for
Correct answer : 1
Q200. .........acts as temporary high-speed holding area between the memory and the CPU thereby improving processing capabilities