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1. Atom 5. At what temperature do the Celsius
a) is the smallest particle of an and Fahrenheit scales will read the
element same?
b) can exist independently a) -32 degree
c) can retain chemical properties
b) 32 degree
of the element
all of the above c) 40 degree
d)
d) Absolute zero
2. Which of the following is not a
method of heat transfer between two 6. Pressure cooker helps us in cooking
bodies? food faster because
a) Conduction
a) it raises the boiling point of
b) Convection
liquids. due to increase in
c) Absorption
pressure.
d) Radiation
b) it can conserve heat being
3. Land breeze and sea breeze are made of special metal.
caused by difference in rate of c) it does not allow atmosphere to
cooling of the Earth and water. Mark cool down the food.
r the correct answer:
d) provides better medium of
a) Sea breeze moves from sea to conduction of heat to food.
land during night.
l b) Sea breeze moves from sea to
land during day.
7. Densities of water and ice are
c) Land breeze moves from sea to a) Equal
land during night. b) Different
d) None of the above. c) Can be equal or different
d) None of the above
4. Woollen clothes keep us warm
during winter, which of the following
facts is incorrect? 8. An aircraft, which is heavier than air,
a) Wool is a bad conductor of flies in air due to
heat. a) Buoyancy
b) Electro-static charge of fibres b) Forward motion of the aircraft
retains heat.
c) Difference in pressure on the
c) Wool keeps air trapped in its
fibres. upper and lower sides of the
WIngs
d) Wool resists escape of body
heat to environment. d) Jet propulsion

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9. Rate of cooling of a body depends on 13. Electric current flows in a conductor
a) Its size and the velocity of air I due to
around it I a) Amperage
b) Difference III
temperature b) Wattage
between the body and the c) Potential difference
surroundings d) None of these
c) Method of heat transfer
Is of the I 14. Vaccines are used to build immunity
d) independent
temperature of surroundings to disease by
a) simulatinK disease in the body
to produce antibodies.
10. When a substance passes from solid
b) injecting antibodies in blood
state to vapour state without passing stream.
through liquid state, the phenomenon c) enhancing immunity by a large
is called dose of vitamins.
a) Vaporisation d) enhancing immunity by a large
b) Mutation dose of enzymes.

c) Condensation
15. Which fact about speed and velocity
d) Sublimation
is incorrect?
a) Speed is the distance travelled
11. Corrected vision of human eye can by a body in a particular time.
be achieved by prescription glasses b) Speed must be in a particular
which use the principle of direction.
a) Reflection c) Velocity is the speed in a
Refraction particular direction.
b)
d) Both speed and velocity
c) Chromatic Aberration
depend on distance and time.
d) None of these
16. Bio-gas plant used for producing
12. Usually the outside rear view mirrors domestic fuel produces
of a motor vehicle are gas(es), which burn(s) without giving
any smoke.
a) Concave mirrors
a) Ethane ..

b) Convex mirrors b) Methane

c) Plane mirrors c) Octane
d) Concavo convex mirrors d) All of the above
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17. A solar water heater cannot be used 22. The, xylem ii'l plants are responsible
to get hot water on for
a) a sunny day a} transport of water
b) a cloudy day b) Transport of food
c) Transport of amino acids
c) a hot day
d) Transport of oxygen
d) a windy day
23. Which one of the following is not a
18. Which of the following constitutes a web browser?
food chain? a) Internet Explorer
a) Grass, wheat and mango b) Windows Explorer
b) Grass, goat and human c) Google Chrome
d) Safari
c) Goat, cow and elephant
d) Grass, fish and goat 24. Adobe Acrobat files have suffix
a) .doc
19. At the time of a short circuit, the b) .xls
current in the circuit c) .pdf
a) reduces substantially d) .mp3
b) does not change
25. CAG has pointed out certain
c) increases heavily irregularities in allotment of
d) varies continuously spectrum to cell phone operators.
What is spectrum? .
20. Which of the following correctly a) It is the territory over which an
describes the magnetic field near a operator can provide services
long straight wire carrying current?
without roaming charges. .
b) It is the frequency channels
a) The field consists of straight which the operator can use for
lines perpendicular to the wire. telecommunication.
b) The field consists of straight c) It is the total number of cell
lines parallel to the wire. phones which an operator can
c) The field consists of radial use on certain frequency.
lines originating from the wire. d) None of the above.
d) The field consists of concentric 26. Which is correct about the radio
circles centred on the wire.
frequencies?
a) Higher the frequency, lower
21. Kidneys in human beings are part of will be the wavplength.
the system for b) Higher the frequency, higher
a) Nutrition will be the wayelength.
b) Respiration c) Higher the frequency, higher
will be the amplitude.
., c) Excretion d) Higher the frequency, lower
d) Locomotion will be the amplitude.
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27. Bhartiya Sahitya Akademi award 31. Which oh~ of the following is not a
winner, Dalip Kaur Tiwana, was traditional Punjabi dal!ce ?
awarded this honour for which of her a) Sammi
writings? b) Vain
a) Eho Hamara Jeewana c) Gidha
d) Bhangra
b) Ik Chhit Chanan Di
c) Ik Mian Do Talwaran 32. What is correct about Singh Sabha ?
d) Adh Chanani Raat a) It was founded in 1907 at
Lahore.
28. Which of the writers and his work b) It aimed at protecting the
have been paired wrongly? interests of Sikhs through
education and literature.
a) Pilo - MirzaSahiban
b) Waris Shah - Heer Ranjah c) It prescribed a sooial code of
conduct for Sikhs.
c) HashamShah - SassiPunnu
d) It was aimed at protecting the
d) KadarYaar - SohniMahinwal honour of Sikh women and
children.
29. Fateh Burj is :
33. Which fact about Punjab is not true?
(i) 100 metres tall
(ii) Is taller than Qutab Minar a) Its area is about 50,000 square
kilometres.
(iii) Is a monument to commemorate
b) Punjab has more than 12000
Baba Banda Singh's win over ;villages.
Sirhind
c) T.here are more Panchayats
(iv) Is located at Chapar Chiri than the number of villages.
Which fact(s) given above is/are d) Population density in Punjab is
correct? about 600 people per square
a) Only (i) and (iii) are correct. kilometre.
b) Only (iii) and (iv) are correct.
34. Kandi area, an important agro-
c) Only (i), (iii) and (iv) are
correct. climatic zone of Punjab, has
following characteristics:
d) All are correct.
(i) Sub-mountainous undulating
terrain
30. What moved Shahid Bhagat Singhiin (ii) Lack of perennial water source
his early life to resist the English (iii) High cost of cultivation
rule?
(iv) Extremely fertile land
a) Non-cooperation movement a) (i) and (iv) are correct
b) Simon Commission b) (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct
c) Jallianwala Bagh Massacre c) (ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct
d) Naujuan Bharat Subah d) (i), (ii) and (iv) are correct
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35. Namdhari movement also called 39. Over the last decade, Punjab has
Kuka movement was started by achieved least growth iy employment
whom and when?
generation in
a) Bhai Dial Singh on I st April, a) Primary Sector
1857
b) Secondary Sector
b) Bhai Ram Singh on 1st April,
1857 c) Tertiary Sector
c) Bhai Dial Singh on 13thApril, d) No growth
1925
d} Bhai Ram Singh on 13thApril, 40.
f925 Sluggish growth in the agriculture
sector in Punjab is due to.
36. a) Per acre yield of crops has
Arrange the following important
events in the history of Punjab in peaked
chronological o~de{: b) Decrease III average land
(i) Jallianwala Bagh Incident holding of farmers
(ii) Kamagata ManI Incident c) Increased dependence on
(iii) The Ghadar Movement ground water
(iv) Battle of Saraghari d) All of the above
a) (i), (ii), (iv) and (iii)
b) (iii), (ii), (i) and (iv)
41. Punjab Land Records Society
c) (iv), (iii), (i) and (ii)
(PLRS) was formed 'by the Punjab
d) (iv), (iii), (ii) and (i) Government to

37.
a) Implement Land Reforms Act
As per 2011 census the most and the
least densely populated districts in b) To study flaws in Land
Punjab are Records
a) Amritsar and Mansa c) Provide efficient Land Record
b) ; Ludhianaand Muktsar related services
c) . Ludhiana and Mansa d) To settle disputes related to
d) Amritsar and Muktsar Land Records

38. In comparison to 2001 census the 42. Balari Rakshak Yojana launched by
\

population of Punjab as per 2011

the Punjab government is aimed at
census has increased
a) From 2.28 crores to 2.77 crores a) Correcting child sex ratio
b) From 2.48 crores to 2.77 crores b) Reducing child mortality
c) From 2.44 crores to 2.77 crores c) Encouraging family planning
d) From 2.58 crores to 2.77 crores d) All of the above
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43. Mealy bug is a pest which affects the 48. UN Department of Economics and
yield of _crop in Punjab. Soc;jal Affairs data showed that in
a) Maize 2000, which of the following countries
b) Oil seeds had female infant mortality rate higher
than male infant mortality?
c) Cotton
a) Pakistan and India
d) Pulses b) Pakistan and Sri Lanka
c) China and India
44. In Punjab the maximum number .of d) Egypt and Iraq
Ministers can be
a) 16 b) 18 49. BRICS Summit 2012 at New Delhi
c) 20 d) 22 was
a) Second BRICS Summit
45. Who is Jin Yong Kim.? b) Third BRICS Summit
c) Fourth BRICS SUlmhit
a) He is a famous tennis player.
b) He is the President of the d) None of the above
World Ban1e
c) 50. The headquarters of the International
He is the new king of MalaysIa.
d) None of the above. Monetary Fund (IMF) is in
a) Geneva
b) Washington D.C.
46. The UN General Assembly elected in
c) Rio de Janeiro
October, 2012, five new non-
d) New York City
permanent members to the Security
Council. They include
51. Which of the following statements is
(i) North Korea and Luxembourg false?
(ii) South Korea and Rwanda
a) India is a secular state with
(iii) Australia and Argentina equality to all religions.
.(iv) India and Brazil b) India does not have an official
a) (i) and (iii) are correct state religion.
b) (ii) and (iii) are correct c) . No . religious instruption is
c) (i) and (iv) are correct given in the govenunent aided
schools.
d) (iii) and (iv) are correct
d) The word 'secular' was
inserted in the Preamble by the
47. The killings of Sarpanches by 44thAmendment, 1976.
militants and their mass resignations
in the news recently, were in 52. The idea of G-20 was proposed by
a) Chhatisgarh a) Paul Martin
b) Assam b) John Major
c) J&K c) Bill Clinton
d) Bihar d) Ge.orgeW Bush
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53. Who is regarded as the Father of 58. Who termed the Right to
Local Self Government in India? Constitutional Remedies as "the heart
a) Lord Mayo and soul of the Constitution" ?
b) B.R. Ambedkar a) Mahatma Gandhi
c) Lord Rippon b) J.L. Nehru
d) None of the above c) Sardar Patel
d) None of the above
54. The 11th Schedule of the Indian
Constitution is concerned with the 59. The AADHAAR program of the
a) Panchayats and Nagarpalikas UIDAI is an important step towards
b) State Fianance Commission a) Creating a database of nurses
c) Minorities b) Creating aw~eness among
d) Panchayats consumers
c) Creating a database of Indian
55. The provision of District Planning citizens

.Committee is given in the d) Creating awareness among

children
a) 73rdAmendment Act
b) 74thAmendment Act
60. The basic structure of the Indian
c) 815tAmendment Act Constitution cannot be altered
d) None of the above because
a) this is clearly mentioned in the
56., Who is the.present Chief Election Constitution itself.
Commissioner of India ?
b) it will negatively affect the vote
a) S.Y. Quraishi bank dfthe ruling party.
b) Navin Chawla c) it has clearly emerged from the
c) N. Gopalaswami judicial interpretation.
d) V.S. Sampath d) none of the above.

57. 86thAmendment, 2002 inserted 61. Expression of 'Fundamental Duties'

a) Right to Education under is a feature of Indian Constitution
Article 21A which was borrowed from

b) Fundamental Duty under a) England

Article 51K b) USA
c) Both of the above c) Former USSR
d) None of the above d) Ireland
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62. A 'Nagar Panchayat is constituted 66. Who has been awarded honorary
ma
Doctorate of Arts by the Edinburgh
a) Small urban area Napier University for out'standing
b) Large urban area. contribution to Indian "'cinema in
2012 ?
c) Metropolitan area
None of the' above a) Amitabh Bachchan
d)
b) Abhishek Bachchan
c) Shahrukh Khan
63. Which of the following statements is i,

d) Sharmila Tagore
correct?
a) A Panchayat constituted after 67. What is SHADE?
mid-term election. shall have a
a) It is a mechanism to check sea
full term of five years.
piracy in Indian Ocean ~y
b) 33% seats in Panchayats shall naval forces of three countries
be reserved for women. jointly.
c) Panchayat Samitis may not be b) It is a new trade pact signed by
constituted in a State having a India, Japan and Bangladesh.
population not exceeding 20 c) It is a new gene discovered in
lakh. maize plant by the UK
d) All of the above statements are scientists.
correct. d) Its national intelligence grid to
access all intelligence data:
64. Which among the following words
68. To explore the planet Mars, NASA
~ppears first in the Preamb,le to ,the last year launched a Rover
Constitution of India ?
nicknamed
a) Equality
a) Crusty
b) Justice
b) Courtesy
c) Liberty c) Curiosity
d) Fraternity d) Cursory

65. 69. Anna Hazare has emerged as' a

In 2012, who said "Coalition politics
popular leader. What is meant' by
has slowed pace of reforms" ?
"Anna" in Marathi ?
a) Manmohan Singh Food
a)
b) Pranab Mukerjee b) Army man
c) P. Chidambaram c) Elder brother
d) Sonia Gandhi d) Social activist
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 70. Which of the following statements is 74. "Dengue" is caused by
true regarding London Olympics- a) Anopheles mosquito
2012 ?
b) Aedes Aegupti mosquito
a) USA topped the medal tally, c) A bacteria
followed by Argentina.
~ d) Climate change
~j b) USA topped the medal tally,
'1
followed by China.
c) USA topped the medal tally, 75. i Vijay KelkarCommitteeReport2012
followed by Great Britain. is a roadmap for:
d) China topped the medal tally, a) Improvement in sports like
followed by USA. hockey
b) Fiscal consolidation
71. The legacy of Kapil Sibal as the
c) Stopping global warming
Union Education Minister does not
include d) None of the above

a) Passage ofRTE Act

b) Making class X board 76. Who is the Chairperson of National
examinations optional Commission for Women?
~
c) Allowing foreign education a) Dr. Girija Vyas
providers b) Smt. Mamta Sharma
d) Replacing marks with grades Smt. Ambika Soni
c)
d) Ms. Jayanti Patnaik
72. Which of the following is incorrectly :;:

matched? .Ii
77. The 16th NAM Summit 2012' was
a) Devdutt Pishorimal Anand -
Dev Anand held at
b) Shivaji Rao Gaikwad - a) New Delhi
Rajnikanth b) Dhaka
c) Jatinder Khanna - Rajesh c) Islamabad
Khanna
d) Tehran
d) Aamir Hussain Khan - Aamlr
Khan
78. Coal allocation controversy came
~. 73. What is the name of the Pak Foreign into light with draft report of the
,~
Minister who visited India last? CAG of India
a) Honey Irani a) Dr. S.Y. Quraishi
b) Hina Rabbani Khar b) Shri Vinod Rai
c) Mohammed Nasheed c) Shri T.N. Seshan
d) None of the above d) Shri R. Srinivasan
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79. The literacy rate of India as per the 83. Which country adopted
Population Census of India in 2011 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
was (CTBT) recently?
a) 65.38% a) India
b) 68.58% b) South Korea
c) 82.04%
c) Indonesia
d) 74.04%
d) None of these

80. Who won Nobel Prize for Medicine

for stem cell research? 84. Who was appointed 'UN Goodwill
John Gordon Ambassador for UNAIDS' recently?
a)
a) Shabana Azmi
b) Shinya Yamanaka
c) Both of the above b) Amitabh Bachchan

d) None of the above c) Shahrukh Khan

d) Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
81. Hurricanes Sandy and Katrina were
in the neWs recently. Why are the 85. .In the light of recent Union Cabinet
hurricanes named? - reshuffle,match the following:
a) To make them easier to
(i) M. Veerappa (1) Human
remember when issuing Moily Resources
warnIngs. Development
b) They are named arbitrarily (ii) Pawan (2) Law
after unpopular female Kumar
characters.
Bansal
c) To remember the names of the
(iii) M.M. Pallam (3) External
people who died in the Titanic. Affairs
Raju
d) All of the above. .
(iv) Salman (4) Petroleum &
Khursheed Natural Gas
82. Which country granted Wikileaks
(5) Railways
founder Julian Assange political
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
asylum?
a) Iran a) (2) (5) (3) (1)

b) Ecuador b) (4) (1) (5) (2)

c) Syria c) (4) (5) (1) (2)
d) Egypt d) (4) (5) (1) (3)
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 86. On the basis of the Planning Conums- 90. The Non-Cooperation Movement did
sion's Environmental Perfonnance not envisage
Index (BPI), which State is named as and
a) reVIVIng hand-spinning
the best perfonning State in tenns of
weaving as part of encouraging
environmentalstandards ?
Swadeshi
a) Sikkim
b) deliberate violation of laws
b) Madhya Pradesh
c) boycott of foreign goods
c) Uttrakhand
d) refusal to cooperate with the
d) Himachal Pradesh
Government

87. Who won the Fonnula 1, Indian

Grand Prix in 2012 ? 91. Pennanent Revenue System of Lord

a) Fernando Alonso Cornwallis proved oppressive to the

tenants because they were
b) Mark Webber
a) forced to produce more
c) Felipe Massa
Sebastian Vettel b) exploited by the Zamindars
d)
c) asked to pay yearly revenue in
advance
88. 2012 has been designated as the'
National Year of - d) asked to pay under military

a) Science pressure

b) Environment

c) Mathematics 92. Nazi ideology was synonymous with

d) Health the Hitler's' worldview. What the
Nazi ideology did not emphasise
89. upon?
Industrial Revolution first took place
In a) Purity of the Nordic Aryan race
a) England b) Make the Aryans stronger
b) America c) Empower women for achieving
c) France the goals
d) Gennany d) Dominate the world
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 93. Whic\1 was not part of the Allies in 98. The Harappan eivilizati;on was
the First World War? -mainly concentrated in
a) England a) Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat
b) Austria
b) Punjab, Rajasthan and
c) France
Madhya Pradesh
d) Russia
c) Punjab, Rajasthan & D.P.
d) Delhi, Bengal and Haryana
94. Napoleon Bonaparte was established
as the Emperor of France in
a) 1804 99. The most common features of all
b) 1814 Indus Valley sites are
c) 1808 a) Elaborate drainage system
d) 1812 and use of baked bricks
b) Desert and Zoological
95. The World War II is said to have features
commenced when Germany attacked
c) Building and burial system
a) Russia
d) Climate, flaura and fauna
b) France
c) Poland
d) Bulgaria 100. Which one of the following is
considered to be the homeland of
96. the Indo-Aryans?
Which one of the following countries
was not attacked by Germany on 10th a) Central Europe
May 1940 ? b) India
a) Belgium Central Asia and Southern
c)
b) Czechoslovakia Russia
c) Netherlands Australia
d)
d) Luxembourg

101. Why Buddha's eight-fold path is

97. German Instrument of Surrender was
known as middle path?
signed on 29thApril 1945 at
a) Prague a) Convergence of all religions

b) Reims b) Eternal truth of all religions.

c) Berlin c) Balanced way of life
d) None of the above d) The divine truth
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102. The war between Chandragupta 106. Which of the following played a
Maurya and Nanda Kings is very important role in the 1857
described in Revolt at Avadh ?
I
a) Dipavamasa a) Nana Sahib Peshwa
b) Puranas
b) Tantia Tope
c) Mudrarakshasa
c) Birjis Qadar
d) None of the above
d) Begum Hazrat Mahal

103. Which of the following Sultans of

107. Which of the following wasn't a
the Slave Dynasty did not belong to
the Ilbari Tribe? reform introduced by William
Bentinck ?
a) Qutabuddin Aibak
a) Abolishment of Slavery
b) Iltutmish
b) Abolishment ofSati
c) Razia Sultana
c) Suppression of the organized
d) Gyasuddin Balban
bands of thugs
d) Removal of disabilities due
104. Which of the following Bhakti
to change of religion
Movement Saints wrote 'Vinay
Patrika' ?
a) Tulsidas 108. Which of the following
b) Sankardev revolutionary activist died in
c) Namdev Lahore jail after 64 days of fast in
1929 ?
d) Tukaram
a) Jatin Das
105. The reason behind Nana Sahib's b) Madanlal Dhingra
t~king leadership of the 1857 c) Chandrashekhar Azad
Revolt was d) Batukeshwar Dutt
a) His claim to Peshwaship was
abolished.
109. Which of the following was not
b) The Britishers refused to one of the people to have
pay him the pension earlier propounded the so called 'two-
paid to his father Peshwa
nation theory' prior to Pakistan
Bajirao II.
resolution ofthe Muslim League?
c) The British humiliated him
a) Sir Sayed Ahmed Khan
by saying that he was not a
natural son of Bajirao II. b) Vir Savarkar
d) His fiiendship with Mangal c) Lord Curzon
Pandey. d) Mohammad Iqbal
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110. Which of the following Indian 114. The link between infrastructure. ,and
revolutionaries was the author of economic development is:- '

'Indian War ofIndependence' ? a) a once for all affair, ,

a) Vinayak Savarkar b) casual and symbiotic

b) Bipin Chandra Pal c) insignificant
c) Madanlal Dhingra d) an ongoing process
d) Bhagat Singh

115. Which one of the followiJ?-gis not

111. The pre-reform economic policy regarded as a social sector indicator?
(1947-91) was marked by a) IMR
a) (Near) public monopoly over b) Hunger ratio
heavy industry c) NNP
b) (Strict) investment licensing for d) Literacy level
private industry
c) import substitution and export
116. The New Agricultural Policy was
, promotion strategy
presented in Parliament in the year
d) All the above 1991
a)
b) 2000
112. The banks were nationalized to 2001
c)
a) ensure their greater penetration 2011
d)
into 'unbanked' /'underbanked'
areas.
117. India's share in the world trade since
b) ensure their reach to the
1950 has
'unreachable' .
a) remained constant
c) Both the above statements are
, b) increased
right.
c) shown a mixed trend
d) Both the above statements are
wrong. d) declined

118. The term Mini-Navratna is used in

113. Ihdiari Economic Planning is regard to
a) totalitarian in nature
a) Micro Enterprises
b) totally centralized
b) Public Sector Enterprises
c) essentially imperative c) Small Enterprises-
d) None of the ' above
d) Co-operative Enterprises
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119. Over time, the share of agriculture in 124. The focus of Eleventh Five Year Plan
the GDP has was
a) nsen
a) Inclusive growth
b) fallen
b) Highergrowth
c) remained stable
c) Balanced growth
d) fluctuated
d) Self-sufficient growth

120. In which Five Year Plan poverty

removal was given top priority? 125. The present base year for the
a) Seventh. computation of National Income at
b) Third constant prices is
c) Tenth a) 2004-05
d) Fifth b) 2001
c) 2010
121. PURA aims to
d) 1993-94
a) strengthen urban infrastructure
b) reduce overall poverty
c) increase rural connectivity 126. The most acceptable indicator of
d) remove overall unemployment economic development is
a) a rise in the Monetary National
Income.
122. Demographic dividend implies
a) improvement in the b) a rise in the Real National
employability of labour force Income.
b) increase in the ratio of labour c) a rise in the Per Capita
force Monetary Income.
c) greater availability of job d) a rise in the Real Per Capita
opportunities Income.
d) All the above

127. Inflation measured in terms ofWPI is

123. The Fiscal Responsibility and Budget called
Management Act aims to control
a) Core inflation
a) Fiscal deficit
b) Food inflation
b) Public expenditure profligacy
. c) Headline inflation
c) Revenue deficit
d) Private sector extravagance d) None of the above

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 128. The National Income Statistics are 132. Which one of the following pairs is
computed by not correctly matched?
a) Planning Commission a) Blue revolution - Fish
b) CSO b) Yellow revolution - Oil seeds
c) NSSO c) GoldenRevolution- Fruits and
Vegetables
d) All of them
d) White revolution - Cotton

129. Of the following which is the most 133. Which one of the following is
important source ofsaving? considered as the best indicator of
development?
a) Households
a) Infant mortality
b) Corporate sector
b) Female literacy
c) Government
c) Per Capita Income
d) None of these d) Degree of urbanization

134. Criteria used by the census of India

130. The objective(s) of the National
to designate settlement as 'urban' are
Manufacturing Policy is to
1. Population size of 5000
a) Increase growth of
, persons.
manufacturing sector to 12 - 14 2. More than 75 percent of its
percent in the medium period. male work force engaged in
b) enable manufacturing to non-agricultural activities.
3. Density of 600 persons per sq.
contribute at least 25 percent of
km.
GDP by 2022.
Which of the criteria given above
c) enhance global competitiveness is/are correct?
of Indian manufacturing. a) 1 and 2 only
d) All the above. b) 2 only
c) 1 and 3 only
131. Which one of the following ports has d) 1, 2 and 3
been developed as Ith major port of
India? 135. Which one among the following
gases is heavier than the others?
a) Tuticorin
a) Carbon dioxide
b) Jawaharlal Nehru (Navasheva) b) Argon
c) Ennore c) Oxygen
d) Kandla d) Nitrogen
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136. The nonnallapse rate throughout the 140. Generally the coral polyps are found
troposphere is between the latitudes of
a) 1 C per 150 metre ascent
a) 5-25N
b) 3 C per 500 metre ascent
b) 5 - 25 S
c) 6.5 C per 1000 metre ascent
d) 2.5 C per 400 metre ascent c) 25 N and 25 S

d) 35 - 65 N and S
137. Which one of the following gases is
not a greenhouse gas ?
a) Ozone 141. Which one of the following types of
b) Methane clouds are often accompanied by
c) Nitrous oxide heavy rains?
d) Chlorine
a) Cumulonimbus

138. Combustion of coal and oil releases b) Stratocumulus

a) Carbon monoxide c) Altocumulus

b) Sulphur dioxide
d) Nimbostratus
c) Nitrogen oxide
d) Non-methane hydrocarbons
147. The subsistence agriculture IS

139. Which is the correct sequence of characterized by

layers of the atmosphere from the
1. Small and scattered holdings
Earth surface?
a) Stratosphere, Thennosphere, 2. Majority of farmers practice it
Troposphere, Mesosphere, 3. Most of the food production is
Exosphere
marketed
b) Troposphere, Mesosphere,
Exosphere, Stratosphere, Select the correct answer using the
Thennosphere codes given below:
c) Thennosphere, Stratosphere,
a) 1 only
Mesosphere, Troposphere,
Exosphere b) 1 and 2 only

d) Troposphere, Stratosphere, c) 2 and 3 only

Mesosphere, Thennosphere,
Exosphere d) 1, 2 and 3

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143. Human Development Index (HDI) is 146. In the 2012 US Presidential Elections,
a composite measure of Barack Obama and Mit Romney
obtained how many electoral votes?
1. Life expectancy a) 303 and 206 respectively
2. Educational attainment b) 287 and 253 respectively
3. c) 31508198 and 27892876
Standard of living
respectively
Select the correct answer using the d) 48962378 and 31685230
codes given below: respectively

a) 1 only
147. Which political leader recently
b) 2 and 3 only stirred a controversy by allegedly
terming Lord Ram as "bad
c) 1 and 3 only husband" ?
d) 1, 2 and 3 a) Sonia Gandhi
b) Salman Khursheed
c) Ram Jethmalani
144. Maximum water-vapour that exists in d) Buta Singh
the atmosphere byits volume of air is
148. In England a bronze bust of Indian
a) 1 - 2 percent
origin woman was unveiled in
b) 3 - 4 percent London recently for her services in
c) 5 - 6 percent France during WorId War II. Her
name IS
d) 8 - 10 percent a) Balbir Kaur
b) Noor Inayat Khan
c) Dalip Kaur
145. 'Horse latitudes' are characterized by
d) Nargis Fatima
1. High pressure condition
2. Subsidence and piling of air 149. Immediately after Sandy which
new storm caused heavy rains in
3. Calm condition with feeble winds New York?
Select the correct featUre/s from the a) Laurin b) Morris
c) Athena d) Terry
above using the code below:
a) 1 and 2 only 150. Doldrums is a zone of

b) 2 and 3 only a) Mid latitudes

b) Inter-tropical convergence
c) 2 only c) Inter-tropical divergence
d) 1, 2 and 3 d) Sub-polar

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