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GENERAL STUDIES
PAPER-01
B
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1. Which of the following authority d) International Monetary Fund

sanctions foreign exchange for 6. Special Drawing Rights (SDR)
the import of goods? facility is available at:
a) Any Nationalised Bank a) International Monetary Fund (IMF)
b) Exchange Bank b) World Bank (IBRD)
c) Reserve Bank of India c) International Development
d) Ministry of Finance Association (IDA)
2. Which of the following was d) Organization of Economic
formed to suggest means for Cooperation and Development
eradicating black money? (OECD)
a) Finance Commission 7. Unemployment which occurs
b) Sarkaria Commission when workers move from one job
c) Shah Commission to another job is known as:
d) Chelliah Committee a) Seasonal unemployment
3. A country is said to be in a debt b) Frictional unemployment
trap if: c) Cyclical unemployment
a) It has to abide by the d) Technological unemployment
conditionalities imposed by the 8. The strategic aim of IRDP is:
International Monetary Fund a) To reduce unemployment
b) It has to borrow to make interest b) To provide the required inputs for
payments increasing agricultural productivity
c) It has been refused loans or aid by c) To provide more opportunities for
creditors abroad rural employment and credit
d) The World Bank charges a very high facilities at concessional rate of
rate of interest on outstanding as interest
well as new loans d) None of these
4. Voting rights in the IMF are 9. Among the following who are
distributed on the basis of: eligible to benefit from the
a) One country, one vote "Mahatma Gandhi National
b) Proportion to the share of the Rural Employment Guarantee
income of the country in the world
Act"?
income
a) Adult members of only the
c) Proportion to contributions given by
scheduled Caste and scheduled
each country
tribe households
d) Proportion to quota alloted to
b) Adult members of below poverty line
countries from time to time
(BPL) households
5. "World Development Report" is an c) Adult members of households of all
annual publication of: backward communities
a) United Nations Development d) Adult members of any household
Programme 10. Tin Bigha Corridor is an issue,
b) International Bank of
between India and:
Reconstruction and Development
a) Pakistan
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b) Nepal
17. By which name does the
c) Myanmar
Brahmaputra enter into India?
d) Bangladesh
a) Manas
11. The world‟s longest sandstone b) Dhansiri
cave has discovered in which c) Dihang
state of India? d) Tsangpo
a) Meghalaya 18. The length of India's coastline
b) Karnataka
is about:
c) Arunachal Pradesh
a) 5900 km
d) Mizoram
b) 6100 km
12. Which state has highest c) 7000 km
number of fully covered tribal d) 7500 km
habitations with the safe drinking 19. Which of the following soil is
water? most suited for tea plantation?
a) Madhya Pradesh a) Acidic
b) Odisha b) Alkaline
c) Rajasthan c) Alluvial
d) Jharkhand d) Regur
13. What is the theme of the 2018 20. How do the western
International Day of Forests? disturbances affect the crops in
a) Forests and Water north India?
b) Forests and Energy a) They cause heavy damage to the
c) Forests and Sustainable Cities standing crops
d) Forests and Life b) They bring in locusts which destroy
14. Ten Degree Channel is the crops
between: c) They are beneficial to the crops by
a) Dover and Calais causing winter rain
b) Alaska and Russia d) They help in keeping the plants
c) Little Andaman and Car Nicobar warm to some extent in winter
d) North Korea and South Korea 21. The Indo- Gangetic Plains of
15. The deepest land locked and India are fertile due to
protected port in India is: a) The heavy and timely rains and
a) Marmugoa forests
b) Visakhaptanam b) Alluvial soils brought by the rivers
c) Mumbai from the mountains
d) Cochin c) Hard labour of the farmers over the
generations
16. Which of the following rivers is d) Better irrigation facilities
known as 'Vridha Ganga'?
a) Godavari 22. PRABAL- DOSTYK is held
b) Krishna between India and which other
c) Mahanadi nation?
d) Cauvery a) Kazakhstan

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b) Pakistan a) Gandhi's ill health

c) Sri Lanka b) The Congress' extremist policies
d) United States c) A fervent appeal by the government
to do so
23. When was the Hindu
d) Violence erupting at Chauri Chaura
Succession Act passed in India?
a) 1948 29. The landmarks of Dalhousie's
b) 1956 administration did not include
c) 1966 a) Indian Railways
d) 1964 b) English as the medium of
instruction
24. The Ilbert Bill introduced In
c) Public works department
Lord Ripon's reign is significant
d) Telegraph
because:
a) It limited the BritishersHPAS Mock Test
political 30. Series
Who had become the first
authority Governor-General of India after
b) It put restrictions onAthe
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vernacular covering
press a) Dr Rajendra Prasad
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c) It debarred Indians from entering b) Jawaharlal Nehru
the civil services c) Lord Pathwick Lawrence
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d) It removed racial discrimination d) Lord Mountbatten
from the judicial services 2 Combined tests
31. The Governor-General was
25. Khilafat Movement was given power to issue ordinances
2 Current
organised to protest against the affairs
bytests
the act of:
injustice done to: a) 1858
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a) Persia b) 1861
b) Turkey c) 1860
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c) Arabia d) 1871
d) Egypt
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26. The immediate forerunner of provided to India by the
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a) --
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33. The Government of India Act
27. Who had rounded the first of 1935 borrowed its preamble
women's university in India? from
a) Rani Ahilya Devi a) The Constitution of the USA
b) Ishwar Chandra Vidayasagar b) The Constitution of Australia
c) Rani of Thomi c) From the Government of India Act of
d) Dhondo Keshav Karve 1919
28. The Non- Cooperation d) From Pitt's India Act
Movement was withdrawn in 1920 34. Which of the following
because of: statements is not correct?

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As per the Act of 1935, the a) Beijing

Federal Court would have b) Cairo
jurisdiction to decide disputes c) Kathmandu
between d) Tibet
a) The Federating Units 40. What rank has India secured
b) The Federating Units and the out of 180 countries on 2018
Federal Government Index of Economic Freedom
c) The Federal Government and a published by the Heritage
Federating Unit Foundation, an American think-
d) The Secretary of State and the tank?
Viceroy's Council a) 117
35. 'August Offer' was issued on b) 130
_____ 1940. c) 113
a) 8 August d) 150
b) 15 August 41. The Chief Minister of which
c) 20 August state launched „QUEST‟, a centre
d) 30 August to evaluate and quantify special
development budget allocations
36. Anti- diuretic hormone is put
and their impact on tribal
into the blood by the:
a) Hypothalamus
development?
b) Pituitary gland a) Madhya Pradesh
c) Liver b) Maharashtra
d) Small intestine c) Andhra Pradesh
d) Tamil Nadu
37. President Ram Nath Kovind
42. United Nations (UN) has
has been conferred with the
launched a UN Road Safety Trust
„Condecoracion‟, the highest
Fund to spur action that could
honour accorded to a non-citizen
save lives and prevent the loss of
by the government of ____?
a) Equatorial Guinea
opportunity associated with road
b) Zambia accidents, with UNECE as the
c) Swaziland secretariat for the trust fund.
d) Libya Expand UNECE?
38. Which state Government has a) UN Economic Council for Europe
come up with Water ATM Policy b) UN Economic Commission for
to provide clean drinking water to Europe
c) UN Economic and Social Council
people at public places?
d) UN Social and Relief Work Council
a) Kerala
43. „Sujalam Sufalam Water
b) Assam
c) Haryana Conservation Initiative‟ to
d) Punjab increase water conservation
39. Cliff carvings of Buddha that capacity was launched by which
are 1,200 years old have been state on 1st May 2018?
discovered in ____? a) Rajasthan

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b) Gujarat b) Propane
c) Maharashtra c) Methane
d) Madhya Pradesh d) Ethane
44. Osmoregulation is control over 50. Iodine can be separated from a
the: mixture of Iodine and Potassium
a) Removal of nitrogen from the body Chloride by?
b) Concentrations of salt and water in a) Filtration
the body b) Sublimation
c) Osmotic properties of cell c) Distillation
membranes d) Sedimentation
d) pH of the blood
51. First law of thermodynamics
45. Oxygen is transported in blood deals with conservation of?
mainly by: a) Mass
a) Leucocytes b) Heat
b) Erythrocytes c) Momentum
c) Thromobocytes d) Energy
d) Blood plasma
52. For a closed system, difference
46. The breathing centre in the between the heat added to the
brain responds to changes in the: system and work done by the
a) Oxygen concentration of the blood gas, is equal to the change in:
b) Carbon dioxide concentration of the a) Enthalpy
blood b) Entropy
c) Glucose in the mitochondria c) Internal energy
d) Acetyl coenzyme A in the d) Temperature
mitochondria
53. Which one among the following
47. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
binds with hemoglobin a) Power of the Parliament: Creating a
irreversibly? new state
a) Carbon dioxide b) Power of state legislature: Altering
b) Carbon monoxide the name of the state
c) Ethane c) Equality before law: Guaranteed to
d) Nitrogen both Indian citizens and noncitizens
48. The nuclear particles which d) Equality of opportunity: Guaranteed
are assumed to hold the nucleons to only Indian citizens
together are? 54. When the Governor of a State
a) Positrons dies in office, who takes over as
b) Neutrons acting Governor?
c) Electrons a) Chief Minister of the State
d) Mesons b) Chief Justice of the State High
49. Which of the following gas is Court
used in cigarette lighters? c) Anyone designated by the President
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55. Which of the following is not a 59. Which one among the following
duty of the Election Commission? is a fundamental duty of citizens
a) To give recognition to political
under the Constitution of India?
parties
a) To provide friendly cooperation to
b) To lay down general rules and
the people of the neighbouring
guidelines for elections
countries
c) To determine constituencies and to
b) To protect monuments of national
prepare the electoral rolls
importance
d) To provide adequate campaign
c) To defend the country and render
funds for the candidates
national service when called upon to
56. Article 14 guarantees equality do so
before law and equal protection of d) To know more and more about the
law to: history of India
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a) All persons living within the 60. Which one of the following
territory of India
A Module of 15 testsStates
covering has granted Sanskrit
b) All Indian citizens living in India
language the status of the second
c) All persons domiciled in India 1500 Quesions
official language of the State?
d) All persons natural as well as
artificial 4 Subject wise Tests
a) Bihar
b) Chhattisgarh
57. The main purpose behind the
2 Combined testsc) Uttar Pradesh
inclusion of the Directive d) Uttarakhand
Principles of State Policy2 in Current
the affairs
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Who, according to the Anti-
Indian Constitution is to: Defection Act, is the final
a) Establish a welfare state 2 HP GK tests
authority to decide whether a
b) Establish a secular state
2 CSAT member of Lok Sabha has
c) Check the arbitrary actions of the tests
Government
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58. The President of India appoints
-- c) Election Commission
the Chief Election Commissioner, d) High Court
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recommendations Panchayati Raj
procedure laid down in the
was introduced in the country
Constitution. This procedure is
was headed by:
the same as the one
a) Balwant Rai Mehta
prescribed for the removal of the: b) Jivraj Mehta
a) Vice- President c) Jagjivan Ram
b) Judges of the Supreme Court d) Shriman Narayan
c) Members of the State Public Service
Commissions 63. Which one among the
d) Members and Chairman of the following commissions was set
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provision under an Article of the and the Colonial British who

Constitution of India? witnessed India’s Partition
a) University Grants Commission c) Initiative to find signs of intelligent
b) National Human Rights Commission life in the universe.
c) Election Commission d) Awareness campaign by acid attack
d) Central Vigilance Commission survivors to protect the rights of and
ensure justice for acid attack victims
64. How many times can the
President of India return a Non- 68. The Doyang reservoir was
money Bill, passed by designated as an Important Bird
Parliament? Area (IBA) following the
a) Twice fulfillment of which one of the
b) Once following criteria?
c) Thrice a) The site holds significant numbers
d) Never of a globally threatened species
b) The site holds a significant
65. Earth Overshoot Day
component of a group of species whose
1. Marks the date when humanity’s breeding distributions occur in an area
annual demand on nature
of less than 20,000 square kms
exceeds what earth can
c) The site holds a significant
regenerate in that year
component of the group of species
2. Advances by at least a day, each whose distributions are largely or
successive year wholly confined to one biome
Select the correct answer using the d) The site holds migratory
code given below: congregations of greater than equal to
a) 1 only 1% of the global population of one or
b) 2 only more species on a regular or
c) Both predictable basis
d) None
69. Which one among the following
66. The first and presently only
Inter-State Water Dispute (ISWD)
state in India to have a
tribunals has NOT been set-up
department of happiness is:
under the ISWD Act?
a) Karnataka
a) Mahadayi WDT
b) Maharastra
b) Godavari WDT
c) Madhya Pradesh
c) Cauvery WDT
d) Himachal Pradesh
d) Mahanadi Water Disputes Tribunal
67. „Breakthrough Listen‟ is a/an:
70. The „Conservation of Asiatic
a) Platform for indigenous peoples to
Cheetah Project‟ is run by:
actively participate in UN Climate
a) The World Wide Fund for Nature
Conferences
b) The International Tiger Project
b) Project of the Ministries of Culture,
c) The Nature Conservancy
Human Resource Development and
d) The UN Development Programme
External Affairs to catalogue the
untold experiences of British Asians 71. Which one among the following
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National Registry of Citizens d) Ministry of Social Justice and

(NRC), first prepared in 1951? Empowerment
a) Jammu and Kashmir 77. Which state has become the
b) Assam India‟s first state to treat
c) Punjab
Hepatitis-C patients through oral
d) Kerala
medicine?
72. River Tsangpo enters India as: a) Telangana
a) River Sikang b) Haryana
b) River Lohit c) Punjab
c) River Dibang d) Karnataka
d) River Siang
78. India‟s first cartoon network
73. Which among the following theme park “Amaazia” will come
states was the first to launch a up Series
in which city?
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scheme that seeks to addressof 15 tests
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covering
rural-agrarian distress? c) Kolkata
1500 Quesions
a) Haryana d) Jaipur
b) Karnataka 4 Subject wise
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President Ramnath Kovind has
c) Madhya Pradesh
launched JOHAR scheme in
d) Uttar Pradesh 2 Combined tests
which state to double income of
74. Species of the genus rural poor?
2 Current affairs
Nyctribatrachus are endemic to tests
a) Chhattisgarh
a) Andaman and Nicobar Islands b) Rajasthan
b) Eastern Himalayas 2 HP GK testsc) Gujarat
c) Western Ghats d) Jharkhand
d) River Ganga
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80. Which of the following was
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NOT supported by Bal Gangadhar
launched She Pad scheme for Tilak?
school girls? ----------------------------------
a) Age of Consent bill
a) Kerala -- b) No-revenue campaign of 1896-97
b) Uttar Pradesh
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d) All were supported by him.
76. Which union ministry 81. Which of the following is the
celebrated Child Rights Week correct order of the food chain,
„Hausla 2017‟? starting from the producers to
a) Ministry of Women and Child the consumers?
Development a) Dinoflagellates - Krills – Herrings
b) Ministry of Rural Development b) Dinoflagellates - Herrings – Krills
c) Ministry of Human Resource c) Krills - Dinoflagellates – Herrings
Development d) Herrings - Dinoflagellates – Krills

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82. Who joined as Chief Minister of 88. In which year first Punjabi
Punjab from Indian National Printing Press was established?
Congress? a) 1844
a) Gopi Chand Bhargava b) 1854
b) Bhim Sen Sachar c) 1864
c) Partap Singh Kairon d) 1874
d) All of the above 89. Chitta Lahu was written
83. Darbara Singh who joined the by…………
office on 6 June 1980 was from a) Nanak Sing
which party? b) Amrita Pritam
a) Indian National Congress c) Khushwant Singh
b) Shiromani Akali Dal d) Balwant Gargi
c) BJP 90. Kule maindan and kule asmani
d) None of these rang was written by…………
a) Bhai Veer Singh
84. Who is the author of legends b) Nanak Singh
for Punjab? c) Puran Singh
a) John Walkins d) Gurbaksh Singh
b) Governor Lawrence
c) Lord Hardinge
91. On which day every year pay
d) Sir Richard temple tribute to heroic soldiers and
celebrated Saragarhi day?
85. Who is the founder of a) 12th Sept.
Pingalwara? b) 15th Sept
a) Bhagar Puran Singh c) 18th Sept
b) Surinder Singh d) 20th Sept
c) Baba Kharak Singh
d) Bhagat Santokh Singh 92. Who prepared the first ever
digest of customary law of Punjab,
86. Archeological survey museum
which is even still referred in
at Ropar belongs to which of the
regard to dispute of customary
historical times?
law.
a) Indus Valley Civilization
a) John Austin
b) Mughal Empire
b) Lord Holland
c) Rigvedic Age
c) Sir Cahrles
d) Gupta Empire
d) Sir W.H. Rattigan
87. In which place, Saanjh, a
93. The first and only lady from
famous festival of Punjab is
Punjab who bagged Masgsaysay
celebrated?
Award?
a) Ludhiana
a) Kiran Bedi
b) Jalandhar
b) Avnit Kaur
c) Ropar
c) Amrita Pritam
d) Amritsar
d) Harsimrat Kaur

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94. First Women Indian Athlete, b) Waris Shah-Heer Ranjha

who belongs to Punjab to won an c) Hasham Shah - Sassi Punnu
individual gold medal in Asian d) Kadar Yaar- Sohni Mahinwal
Games 1970. 98. Forest area cover of Punjab is -
a) Harpal Brar % of the total area of the state?
b) Kamaljit Sandhu a) 8.22 %
c) Arina Brar b) 7.12%
d) Neena Chopra c) 6.12%
95. Who represented India from d) 9.69%
Punjab at London Olympics in 99. What is the percentage of
event of Punjab? geographical area of Punjab
a) Swran Singh compared to that of India?
b) Manjit Singh a) 1.5
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c) Swaroop Singh b) 8.5
d) Both A & B A Module of 15 testsc)covering
5.5
d) 8.6
96. Who was the member of Punjab
1500 Quesions
boundary Commisison in 1966. 100. In which Physiographic region
a) S. Dutt of Punjab the “Cotton Belt” is
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b) M.M. Philips located?
c) Both A& B 2 Combined tests
a) Doaba
d) None b) Majha
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Mohali
97. Which of the writers and his
d) Malwa
work have been paired wrongly?
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a) Pilo - Mirza Sahiban
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