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Recent MCQs

If interest payment is added to primary deficit, it is equivalent to:

  1. Budget deficit
  2. Fiscal deficit
  3. Deficit financing
  4. Revenue deficit
Economy

Consider the following statements:

Assertion (A): Muhammad Tughlaq’s scheme of token currency was a failure
Reason (R): Muhammad Tughlaq had no proper control over the issuance of coins.

Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Code:

  1. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
  2. Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A
  3. A is true but R is false
  4. A is false but R is true
Medieval History

Since the start of Planning in India, the total number of years not covered by any five year Plans is:

  1. 6
  2. 7
  3. 5
  4. 4
Economy

Which of the following pairs is NOT correctly matched?
Place Leadership

  1. Sambalpur-Surender Sahi
  2. Ganjam-Radhakrishna Dandsena
  3. Kashmir-Gulab Singh
  4. Lucknow-Liyaqat Ali
Modern Indian History

Which of the following rivers of India does NOT originate from the Western Ghats?

  1. Godavari
  2. Tapti/Tapi
  3. Kaveri
  4. Kabam
Indian Geography

Assertion (A): India's Urban Population exceeds the total population of the USA.
Reason (R): India has made a spectacular growth in urbanisation.

Select the correct answer from the code given below:
Code:

  1. Both A and R are true and R is the correct Explanation of A.
  2. Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
  3. A is true but R is false.
  4. A is false but R is true.
Census

Which of the following statements is not correct?

  1. Air conditioners and air coolers both regulate the temperature
  2. Air conditioners and air coolers both regulate the humidity
  3. Air condition control humidity but air cooler does not control humidity
  4. Both controls the speed of air
General science

Who among the following did not approve the idea of Cooperative farming in India?

  1. Jawahar Lal Nehru
  2. Lal Bahadur Shastri
  3. Charan Singh
  4. Abul Kalam Azad
Misc

Helsinki is a the Capital of

  1. Denmark
  2. Finland
  3. Nake
  4. Sweden
World Geography

Who said 'India is a Quasi-Federal State'?

  1. Lord Bryce
  2. Ivor Jannigs
  3. H.J. Laski
  4. K.C Wheare
Indian Polity

Who were the 'ashta diggaja' in the court of Krishna Deo Raya:

  1. Eight ministers
  2. Eight Telugu poets
  3. Eight great generals
  4. Eight advisors
Ancient Indian History

Which one of the following was the first to impose censorship of the Press?

  1. Wellesley
  2. Hastings
  3. John Adams
  4. Dalhousie
Modern Indian History

Assertion (A): Woollen clothes keep us warm.
Reason (R): Wool fibres are made of a particular protein which is a bad conductor of heat.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

  1. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
  2. Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A
  3. A is true but R is false
  4. A is false but R is true
General science

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:

List  I List  II
A) The Story of My Deportation 1) Surendra Nath Banarji
B) Gita Rahasya 2) Maulana Abdul Kalam Aazad
C) A Nation In Making 3) Lala Lajpat Rai
D) India Wins Freedom 4) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

  1. A-3, B-4, C-1, D-2
  2. A-4, B-2, C-1, D-3
  3. A-2, B-4, C-1, D-3
  4. A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1
Modern Indian History

Which of the following CAN NOT be dissolved but abolished?

  1. House of People
  2. Council of State
  3. Legislative Assembly
  4. Legislative Council
Indian Polity

Which one of the following is NOT correctly matched?

  1. Lord Cornwallis - Permanent Settlemen
  2. Lord Wellesley – Subsidiary Alliance
  3. Lord Dalhousie – Doctrine of Lapse
  4. Lord Canning – Masterly Inactivity
Modern Indian History

Who had led a deputation of Banaras Pandits before the Mughal emperor to seek the abolition of pilgrim tax on Banaras and Allahabad?

  1. Haranth
  2. Jagannath
  3. Kavindracharya
  4. Kavi Hariram
Medieval History

Which of the following statements are true about the Rajasthan Desert? Use the codes given below to select the correct answer:

1. It is the most densely populated desert of the world.
2. It is about 10,000 years old mainly caused by excessive human interference.
3. Here only 40 to 60 percent of the area is suitable for farming.
4. The increase in net sown area has adversely affected the coverage of grazing lands.

Codes:

  1. 1,2 and 3
  2. 2, 3 and 4
  3. 1,2 and 4
  4. 1,2, 3 and 4
Indian Geography

Who among the following has been conferred with Forbes Lifetime Achievement Award, 2008?

  1. Ratan Tata
  2. Lakshmi Mittal
  3. B.K. Birla
  4. Bill Gates
Current Affairs

Blank capsules used in dispensing are made of:

  1. egg-white
  2. gum
  3. starch
  4. gelatine
General science

Which of the following is/are the type/s of poverty?

(1) Absolute poverty
(2) Relative poverty
(3) Subjective poverty
(4) Functional poverty

Choose the correct answer using the code given below—

  1. Only 1 and 2
  2. Only 3 and 4
  3. Only 1, 2 and 3
  4. Only 1 and 4
Economy

In the above diagram, three circles represent businessmen, politicians and the educated respectively. The intersections of the circles give us the numbered space. No 7 refers to:

  1. Some politicians are educated businessmen
  2. Some educated are businessmen
  3. Some educated are politicians
  4. Some businessmen are politicians
Aptitude & Reasoning

The first cereal used by man was:

  1. Wheat
  2. Rice
  3. Barley
  4. Sorghum
Ancient Indian History

Which one of the following is correct sequence of hills of central India located from West to East.

  1. Maikal, Satpura, Mahadeo, Chhotanagpur
  2. Satpura, Mahadeo, Maikal, Chhotanagpur
  3. Maikal, Mahadeo, Satpura, Chhotanagpur
  4. Satpura, Mahadeo, Chhotanagpur, Maikal
Indian Geography