1) Curcuma longa is the
scientific name of which spice?
A) Cumin
B) Cloves
C) Turmeric
D) Coriander
2) Bones found in the hands and
feet as the percentage of total number of bone in the body of an adult human
being is nearly equal to?
A) 20%
B) 30%
C) 40%
D) 50%
3) Europeans are believed to
have brought potatoes to India in the 18th century. Which region of
the world is believed to be the origin of potato cultivation?
A) Eastern Ghana
B) Southern Peru
C) Portugal
D) West Indies
4) Oymyakon is generally
considered the coldest inhabited area on Earth. Which country Oymyakon is
located in?
A) Magnolia
B) Russia
C) Greenland
D) Iceland
5) Which gland is in the human
body is also known as the “third eye”?
A) Pineal
B) Pituitary
C) Mammary
D) Tear gland
6) Leukemia is a group of
cancers that usually begins in the bone marrow and results in high number of
which abnormal cells?
A) White blood cells
B) Red blood cells
C) Platelets
D) All of these
7) During an earthquake, two
places A and B record its intensity of Richter scale as 4.0 and 6.0,
respectively. In absolute terms, the ratio of intensity of the earthquake at A
to that of B is:
A) 2:3
B) 7:8
C) 141:173
D) 1:100
8) On a cold day in January, the
temperature at a place fell below the freezing point and was recorded as -40°
C. On Fahrenheit scale, the same temperature would be:
A) 32°F
B) -8° F
C) -40°F
D) -72°F
9) Universal Gas Constant, R, is
a property of:
A) Ideal Gases
B) Halogen Gases
C) Inert Gases
D) All of these
10) In which place was the 1st
Science Congress held in January, 1914:
A) Kolkata
B) Allahabad
C) Chennai
D) Pune
11) The class of elementary
particles bosons was named after Satyendra Nath Bose, an India Physicist. Which
of the following Indian Scientist graduated from Presidency College Calcutta as
a classmate of Satyendra Nath Bose?
A) Jagdish Chandra Bose
B) P.C. Mahalanobis
C) Praful Chandra Ray
D) Meghnad Saha
12) To which place Aryabhata, the
great mathematician, went for advanced studies?
A) Taksashila
B) Patliputra
C) Kashi
D) Kaushambi
13) The development of the
world’s first practical design for an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile, A9/10,
was undertaken in Nazi Germany during the World War II. It was intended for use
in bombing:
A) London and other coastal
cities of Britain
B) Northern cities of France,
including Venice
C) New York and other
American cities
D) Interior of USSR to cut off
military supply lines to Moscow
14) Homi Jahangir Bhaba, the
father of Indian Nuclear Programme, was also the founding director of which of
the following institutes?
A) Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research
B) Indian Institute of Science
C) Indian Institute of
Technology, Mumbai
D) Saha Institute of Nuclear
Physics, Kolkata
15) Who headed the Satellite
Launch Vehicle (SLV) project launched by ISRO in 1970?
A) Dr. Vikram Sarabhai
B) Dr. K. Radhakrishna
C) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
D) Dr. G. Madhvan Nair
16) Where was Bhaskra also known
as Bhaskaracharya or Bhaskra II, an Indian Mathematician & Astronomer born?
A) Kanchipuram
B) Thanjaur
C) Bijapur
D) Madura
17) The BrahMos, a short range
supersonic cruise missile, is a joint venture between which foreign country and
Indian agency?
A) USA & ISRO
B) UK & ISRO
C) Russia & ISRO
D) Russia & DRDO
18) Of the sum of 60% of a
fraction number and the number’s square root is 5 greater than one fifth of the
number, then the number is:
A) 6.25
B) 0.25
C) 12.25
D) 2.25
19) If ‘Head’ appears
consecutively in the first three tosses of a fair/unbiased coin, what is the
probability of ‘Head’ appearing in the fourth toss also?
A) 1/8
B) 7/8
C) 1/16
D) ½
20) Archers ‘A’ and ‘B’ take aim
at a target. If the probability of ‘A’ hitting the target is 90% and of ‘B’
missing the target is 90%, what is the probability that both A & B miss the
target?
A) 90%
B) 09%
C) 01%
D) 81%
21) If 12 persons working 12
hours a day dig 12 meters of a tunnel in 12 days, how many men are required to
dig additional 04 meters of the tunnel (of the same dimension) given that they
work 04 hours a day for 04 days?
A) 27
B) 4
C) 12
D) 36
22) A man sells an article at a certain
price incurring 29% loss. If he had sold the same article for Rs 20 more he
would have earned 20% profit. What was the cost price of the said article?
A) 20
B) 40
C) 50
D) 60
23) Numerator of a fraction is
increased by 60%, and at the same time its denominator is decreased by 60%. The
new fraction is:
A) 2.56 times the older fraction
B) Equal to the older fraction
C) 4 times the older
fraction
D) 0.36 times the older fraction
24) In a triangle ABC, one of the
angles is average of the remaining two angles. Which of the following is always
true about the triangle ABC?
A) Isosceles triangle
B) Equilateral triangle
C) One of its angels
measures 60%
D) Right angled triangle
25) If the area of a circle ‘C’
is equal to the area of a square ‘S’, then the ration of the square of the
perimeter of ‘C’ to the square of the perimeter of ’S’ is nearly equal to:
A) 22:7
B) 11:14
C) 88:7
D) 1:1
26) The last digit of the number
32015:
A) 1
B) 3
C) 5
D) 7
27) What is the square root of
47%?
A) 0.7%
B) 7.0%
C) 70%
D) Undefined
28) Log(402-202)
is equal to:
A) Log 3
B) Log 60 + Log 20
C) Log 40 – Log 20
D) Log 20
29) Twelve persons meet in a
conference and each shakes hand with all the others. How many handshakes take
place?
A) 66
B) 72
C) 144
D) 132
30) A man travels uphill to city
C from city B in a car at the speed of 40km/hour, and return to city B at a
faster speed of 60km/hour. What is his average speed for the round trip?
A) 0
B) 48km/hour
C) 50km/hour
D) Data insufficient
31) (7+14+21+28…….700) is equal
to:
A) 35350
B) 42714
C) 49420
D) 56707
32) In a group of 5 persons, P is
taller than Q, but is shorter than both R and S. Both R and T are taller than
Q, but shorter than S. This implies that:
A) R is taller than P, but
shorter than T
B) T is taller than Q, but
shorter than R
C) R is taller than Q, but
shorter than T
D) S is taller than T
while P is shorter than R
33) In a group of Army Officers,
02% of Officers neither take Coffee nor Tea, while rest of them takes either
Tea or Coffee or both. If 60% of the Officers take Tea, while 58% take Coffee,
what percentage of Officers take Tea but do not take Coffee?
A) 02%
B) 20%
C) 40%
D) 60%
34) The original name of Ho Chi
Minh, the president of the Vietnam Democratic Republic, was Nguyen Van Thanh
which he later changed to Ho Chi Minh before becoming the President. The
literal meaning of Ho Chi Minh is:
A) He Who Leads
B) He Who Fights
C) He Who Enlightens
D) He Who Protects
35) In which year, Mahatma Gandhi
travelled to Champaran in Bihar to inspire the peasants to struggle against the
oppressive plantation system?
A) 1914
B) 1915
C) 1916
D) 1917
36) With which objective, CR Dass
and Motilal Nehru formed the Swaraj Party within the Congress?
A) Spearhead the mass struggle
B) Forge Hindu-Muslim unity
C) Participate in
elections to the provincial councils
D) Organize legislative protests
against Rowlett Act
37) The industrial working class
did not participate in the Civil Disobedience Movement in large numbers, except
in:
A) Nagpur region
B) Madras region
C) Surat region
D) Calcutta region
38) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar clashed
with Mahatma Gandhi at the 2nd Round Table Conference demanding:
A) Reservation for Dalits in
Government jobs
B) Reservation for Dalits in
Ministries
C) Separate citizen status for
Dalits
D) Separate Electorate
for Dalits
39) A scene of wrestling match in
Bombay’s Hanging Gardens was shot by Harishchandra Bhatwadekar, & it became
India’s first movie. It was shot in the year:
A) 1896
B) 1907
C) 1913
D) 1925
40) Which famous leader once said, “we would not
have made economic progress, if we had not intervened on very personal matters:
how you live, the noise you make, how you spit…”:
A) Adolf Hitler, Germany
B) Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
C) Mussolini, Italy
D) Lee Kuan Yew,
Singapore
41) Who brought the Printing
Press for the first time to India in the mid-16th century?
A) Dutch cloth merchants
B) British traders
C) Portuguese
Missionaries
D) Arab manuscripts
42) Measures in India to impose
censorship on printed material were initiated in 1798 by the East Indian
Company. It was directed against:
A) Bengali social reformers
B) Englishmen in India
C) Bengali writers
D) Indian Princely States
43) Munshi Premchand was born in
1880 and died in the year 1936. His best-known literary work, ‘Godan’ (The gift
of cow) was published in:
A) 1920
B) 1934
C) 1936
D) 1942
44) The caste-system during early
Vedic age prohibited:
A) Inter caste dining
B) Inter caste marriage
C) Both
D) None of the above
45) In which year, Thums Up, one
of the India’s great brands, which was sold to Coca-Cola a few years ago, was
launched?
A) 1947
B) 1958
C) 1979
D) 1991
46) Which among the below
mentioned Upper Paleolithic places in India is wrongly matched with the state
it is located in?
A) Bhimbetka, Madhya Pradesh
B) Betamcherla, Andhra Pradesh
C) Inamgaon, Maharashtra
D) Singh Bhumi,
Himachal Pradesh
47) Kalidasa’s ‘Kumarasambhavam’ describes
the story of the birth of which mythological character?
A) Sanatkumar
B) Karttikeya
C) Pradyumna
D) Abhimanyu
48) Where and when was the 2nd
Buddhist Council held?
A) Patliputra in 250 BC
B) Sri Lanka in the 1st
Century BC
C) Vaishali in 383 BC
D) Mandalay in 1871 AD
49) In which among the following
cases, the Supreme Court of India propounded the theory of basic structure of
the Constitution?
A) Gopalan vs State of Madras
B) Golak Nath
C) Keshvanand Bharti
D) Minerva Mills
50) The 52nd amendment
to the Constitution of India is most closely related to:
A) Extension of Reservation in
Government Jobs
B) Provision for special status
to Tripura
C) Provision for increasing age
of eligibility for voting
D) Provision against
political defections
51)
Which among the following
political party of India has an election symbol very similar to the election
symbol of Republican Party of USA?
A)
Samajwadi Party
B) Bahujan Samaj Party
C)
Janta Dal (United)
D)
Telugu Desham Party
52)
How many members, the
President of India can nominate to Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha, respectively?
A)
12,2
B) 2,12
C)
2,10
D)
10,2
53)
Which among of the following
amendments to the Constitution of India, designated Delhi as National Capital
Territory (NCT)?
A)
63rd Amendment
B) 69th
Amendment
C)
74th Amendment
Act
D)
76th Amendment
Act
54)
On 29th August
1947, the Drafting Committee for Indian
Constitution was appointed, with Dr. B.R. Ambedkar as the Chairman along with
six other members. Who among the following was not the member of the Drafting
Committee?
A)
N. Gopalaswami Ayengar
B) Jawahar Lal Nehru
C)
Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
D)
Krishnaswamy Iyer
55)
Part IV of Indian
Constitution deals with Directive Principle of State Policy. This feature of
Indian Constitution was influenced by a similar feature of:
A)
Canadian Constitution
B)
Australia Constitution
C)
American Constitution
D) Irish Constitution
56)
Which among the following
schedules of the Indian Constitution deals with Forms of Oaths or Affirmation?
A)
Second schedule
B) Third schedule
C)
Fourth schedule
D)
Fifth schedule
57)
Which of the following is
not a constitutional provision relating to Governors of States?
A)
Same person can be appointed
as Governor for two or more states
B)
He shall be appointed by the
President
C)
He shall hold office during
the pleasure of the President
D) He should have
completed the age of 25
58)
Which Article of Indian
Constitution deals with special provision with respect to the States of
Maharashtra and Gujarat?
A)
Article 370
B) Article 371
C)
Article 371 A
D)
Article 371 B
59)
Indian Constitution provides
for promotion of international peace and security. Which of the following deals
with this provision?
A) Article 51 of the
Directive Principle of State Policy
B)
It is implied by the
Preamble of the Indian Constitution
C)
The 12th Schedule
of the Indian Constitution
D)
Article 392 empowers the
President in this regard
60)
Which article of Indian
Constitution defines the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court?
A)
Article 129
B)
Article 130
C) Article 131
D)
Article 132
61)
Government of India recently
announced constitution of NITI Aayog as a policy think-tank replacing Planning Commission.
NITI stands for:
A) National
Institution of Transforming India
B)
It is not an acronym, but
only a Sanskrit word for Policy
C)
National Initiative for
Technological India
D)
New Initiative for
Transforming India
62)
The power to promulgate
ordinances during recess of Parliament is vested with:
A)
The council of ministers
B)
The Parliamentary Standing
Committee on Urgent Enactment
C) The President
D)
The Prime Minister
63)
In Alternating Current (AC),
the direction and magnitude of the current varies:
A)
Randomly
B) Periodically
C)
Exponentially
D)
Do not vary
64)
Albert Einstein received the
Nobel Prize for Physics in the year 1921 for his work on:
A)
Mass energy equivalence
given by E=mc2
B)
Hydrogen Atom
C)
Theory of Relativity
D) Photoelectric
effect
65)
Sir C.V. Raman received the
Nobel Prize for Physics in the year 1930 for his ground breaking work in the
field of:
A)
Brownian motion
B) Scattering of light
C)
String theory
D)
Nuclear Physics
66)
Which of the following
Indian nationals has been the recipient of Roman Magsaysay Award for Community
Leadership?
A)
Arvind Kejriwal
B)
Kiran Bedi
C)
T.N. Sheshan
D) Dr. M.S.
Swaminathan
67)
Which of the following
awards Satyajit Ray received posthumously?
A)
Dada Saheb Phalke Award
B)
Roman Magsaysay Award
C) Bharat Ratna
D)
Honorary Oscar
68)
In which individual event,
the 1st Olympic medal for Independent India was won at Helsinki
Olympics?
A)
Archery
B)
Boxing
C) Wrestling
D)
Weightlifting
69)
The Gini Coefficient is a
measure of:
A)
Rodent population
B)
Migration rate of Guineas
nationals
C) Income inequality
D)
Ratio of coinage to currency
note
70)
Which of the following
indices is not considered while calculating Human Development Index?
A)
Life Expectancy
B)
Education
C) Housing
D)
Income
71)
For the financial year
2013-14, what percentage of total tax receipts of the Union Government came
from the income tax?
A)
Around 05%
B)
Around 10%
C) Around 20%
D)
Around 40%
72)
India’s industrial GDP
growth rate for the fiscal year 2013-14 (at the factor cost of 2004-05) is
estimated to be around:
A) 0.35%
B)
1.43%
C)
2.58%
D)
4.74%
73)
As per the census 2011 data,
which is the most populated metro city in India?
A)
Delhi
B) Mumbai
C)
Chennai
D)
Kolkata
74)
As per the census 2011 data,
which among the following States has higher sex ratio than the national
average?
A)
Nagaland
B)
Delhi
C)
Arunachal Pradesh
D) Tripura
75)
Professor Arvind Panagariya
was recently appointed as:
A)
Chairman, University Grants
Commission
B) Vice-Chairman NITI
Aayog
C)
Economic Advisor to the
Prime Minister
D)
Governor, Reserve Bank of
India
76)
Till date, 13 serving Heads
of State have received Nobel Peace Prize. Only one Head of the State received
it for Literature. Who was he?
A)
Theodore Roosevelt,
President of USA
B)
Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister
of Japan
C)
Oscar Arias Sanchez, President
of Costa Rica
D) Winston Churchill,
Prime Minister of United Kingdom
77)
The Radcliffe Line is named
after its architect, Sir Cyril Radcliffe. It is a boundary demarcation line
between:
A)
Pakistan & Afghanistan
B)
India & Bhutan
C) India &
Pakistan
D)
India & Myanmar
78)
Which among the following is
the oldest mountain range in India?
A)
The Western Ghats
B) The Aravali Range
C)
The Satpura Range
D)
The Vindhya Range
79)
Which among the following
Indian Rivers flows from east to west, eventually meeting the Arabian Sea?
A) Narmada
B)
Godavari
C)
Krishna
D)
Kaveri
80)
Which of the following
National Parks of India is located in one of the north-eastern States? It is
also a declared UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A)
Belta
B)
Dachigam
C) Manas
D)
Silent Valley
81)
Suzanna Arundhati Roy, an
Indian author and political activist, was born in:
A) Shillong
B)
Chennai
C)
Thiruvananthpuram
D)
Jeddah
82)
Yellow Revolution in Indian
refers to growth of:
A)
Militancy in the north-east
B) Oilseeds production
C)
Advertising industry
D)
Jaundice outbreak
83)
French Revolution ended in
1790 with the ascent of:
A)
Rousseau
B)
King Louis
C) Napoleon Bonaparte
D)
Robespierre
84)
In which subject did Dr.
Bhabendra Nath Saikia, famous, novelist and film director of Assam, obtain PhD
from University of London?
A)
Assamese Literature
B) Physics
C)
Mass Communication
D)
Mathematics
85)
In his youth, Adolf Hitler
aspired to be a/an:
A)
Architect
B) Painter
C)
Singer
D)
Footballer
86)
Many of the famous political
leaders had a University Degree in Law. Which of the following world leaders didn’t
have a Degree in Law?
A)
Nelson Mandela
B)
Fidel Castro
C)
Barack Obama
D) John F Kennedy
87)
Ernesto Che Guevara, the famous
Marxist revolutionary of South America,, was born in:
A)
Bolivia
B)
Cuba
C) Argentina
D)
Guatemala
88)
Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical
weekly, first appeared in 1970 as a successor to another French magazine that
was banned for the death of French President Charles de Gaulle. What was the name
of banned magazine?
A)
Le Mondel
B) Hara Kiri
C)
La Croix
D)
Humanite Hebdo
89)
Vasant Govarikar, who passed
away recently, was a famous personality in which field?
A)
Literature
B) Space science
C)
Classical music
D)
Cinema
90)
Who is non-member who can
participate in the debate of Lok Sabha?
A)
Vice President
B)
Chief Justice of India
C) Attorney General of
India
D)
NOTA
91)
Which of the following is
the wrongly matched word meaning pair?
A)
Indict : Accuse
B)
Onset : Beginning
C) Recite: Propose
D)
Temerity: Boldness
92)
Which of the following sentences
is grammatically correct?
A) Either he or I am
mistaken
B)
He gave me an advice
C)
The sceneries here are very
good
D)
Let you and I do it
93)
Which of the following word
is closest in meaning to the idiom, “cast down”?
A)
Humiliated
B)
Defeated
C) Depressed
D)
Discouraged
94)
The letter, ‘o’ in the word,
‘about’ is pronounced like letter, ‘o’ in the word:
A)
Go
B)
Boy
C)
Got
D) Now
95)
Khali was sitting on the
fence, means Khali was:
A)
Living dangerously
B) Undecided
C)
Stubborn
D)
Annoying
96)
In the sentence, ‘Don’t talk
so loud’ is used as an:
A)
Adverb
B) Adjective
C)
Idiom
D)
Annoying
97)
In the sentence, ‘None but
the brave deserves the fair’, the word ‘but’ is used as:
A)
An adverb
B)
A preposition
C) A conjunction
D)
A pronoun
98)
Which of the following is a
correctly matched adjective-noun pair?
A)
Restless – restlessly
B) Restless –
restlessness
C)
Restless – restive
D)
Restless – restively
99)
His bad eyesight exempted
him___ military service. Fill in the blanks with:
A)
In
B)
Of
C) From
D)
At
100) Which of the following is an incorrectly matched word – meaning pair?
a)
Excursion – Short journey
b)
Homage – Tribute
c)
Sidekick – Close companion
d) Intact – Tactful
Paper II (English
Language)
Essay writing:
1) Right to freedom of expression should be an absolute right
2) Inclusive Growth: A pipedream
3) Intelligence is an important aspect of statecraft
4) It is often safer to be in chains than to be free
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