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PART-II
(d) Speaker of lower house
GENERAL AWARENESS 56. Silicon Valley of India is located in
51. Gandhiji’s movement of boycotting he (a) Dehradun (b) Bangalore
foreign goods aimed at
(c) Hyderabad (d) Srinagar
(a) full independence 57. The author of the book “India Wins
(b) creating anti-British sentiment Freedom” is

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(c) promotion of welfare state (a) Kuldeep Nayyar
(d) promotion of cottage industries (b) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

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52. What is the maximum age limit prescribed (c) Jawahar Lal Nehru
for the post of the President of India?
(d) Indira Gandhi

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(a) 58 years (b) 60 years 58. The RBI issues currency notes under the
(c) 62 years

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(a) Fixed Fiduciary System
(d) There is no maximum age limit
(b) Maximum Fiduciary System
53. The implementation of Jawahar Rojgar
(c) Fixed Minimum Reserve System
Yojana rests with
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(d) Proportional Reserve System
(a) Gram Panchayats
59. Which day is the International Human
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(b) District Collectors Rights Day?

(c) State Governments
(a) December 10th
(d) Union Government
(b) October 24th
54. What is quorum required for convening the
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(c) November 25th

Lok Sabha?
(d) None of the above
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55. In the Parliamentary form of Government. “He (a) FEMA (b) FETA
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is the first among equal”. Who is he? (c) FENA (d) FELA
(a) President (b) Prime Minister 62. The ‘Emerging Player of the Year 2008’Award
was given by ICC to which Sri Lankan
cricketer?
(a) Ajantha Mendis
(b) Muttiah Murlitharan
(c) C. Kapugedra
(d) M. Mahroof

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63. The term PC means (c) Anil Kumble

(a) Private Computer (d) Saurav Ganguly
(b) Personal Computer 70. Who is the present chief of ISRO?
(c) Professional Computer (a) G. Madhavan Nair
(d) Personal Calculator (b) Anil Kakodkar
64. English is the official language of which one (c) Mohan S. Shetty
of the following Indian States? (d) M. Arvindam

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(a) Nagaland (b) Tripura 71. The relationship between the value of money
(c) Assam (d) Manipur and the price level in an economy is

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65. Right to Information Act was passed in the (a) Direct (b) Inverse
year (c) Proportional

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(a) 2001 (b) 2005 (d) Stable
(c) 2004 (d) 2002 72. Depreciation is equal to—
66. Who has taken over as Chief Election
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Commissioner after the retirement of Shri. N.
Gopalaswami?
(a) Gross national product—Net
(b) Net national product—Gross
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(a) V.S. Sampath
income
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(d) Personal income—Personal taxes

(c) Navin Chawla
73. In an economy, the sectors are classified into
(d) M.S. Gill public and private on the basic of
67. The final of the Sultan Afzal Shah Hockey
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(a) employment conditions

Tournament 2009 was played between
(b) nature of economic activities
(a) India and Malaysia
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(c) ownership of enterprises

(b) India and Pakistan
(d) use of raw materials
(c) Pakistan and Malaysia
74. The author of the book ‘My Experiments
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(d) Malaysia and Japan With Truth’ is

68. The 2011 Cricket World Cup Shall be co- (a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
hosted by
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(b) Govind Vallabh Pant

(a) India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh
(c) M.K. Gandhi
(b) India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
(d) Tara Ali Beg
(c) Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
75. Which one of the following business
(d) Bangladesh, Pakistan and India magnets has been adjudged the ‘Business
69. Which one of the following Indian cricketers Person of the Year 2008’ by The Times of
has been declared ‘The Leading Cricketer of India Survey?
2008’ By Wisden? (a) Ratan Tata (b) Rahul Bajaj
(a) M.S. Dhoni (b) Virender Sehwag

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(c) Aditya Birla 83. Great Stupa at Sanchi is in

(d) Laxmi Mittal (a) Uttar Pradesh
76. An important river of the Indian desert is (b) Madhya Pradesh
(a) Luni (b) Narmada (c) Arunachal Pradesh
(c) Krishna (d) Beas (d) Andhra Pradesh
77. The Nagarjunasagar dam is constructed on 84. What was the age of Akbar at the time of his
the river? coronation as Kalanaur?

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(b) Chambal (c) Eighteen (d) Twenty

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(c) Kosi 85. Which one of the following stages of the life
(d) Sutlej of man in Aryan Society, in ascending order

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of age, is correct?
78. The imaginary lines joining places of same
height at equal intervals are (a) Brahmacharya–Grihastha-Vanaprastha-
(a) Hachures
(c) Spot-heights
(b) Contours
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(b) Grihastha-Brahmacharya-Vanaprastha-
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(d) Isomers
(c) Brahmacharya-Vanaprastha-Sanyasa-
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Grihastha
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(a) stagnation and deflation (d) Grihastha-Sanyasa-Vanaprastha-

(b) stagnation and recession Brahamacharya
(c) stagnation and inflation 86. The resource which can be used
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80. What is Khetri in Rajasthan famous for? (a) Biotic
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(b) Mica mines (c) Non-renewable
(c) Bauxite mines (d) Renewable
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(d) Limestone mines 87. The coast that belongs to Kerala is known
81. Which one of the following rivers forms and as
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estuary? (a) Konkan Coast

(a) Narmada (b) Kaveri (b) Malabar Coast
(c) Krishna (d) Mahanadi (c) Coromandel Coast
82. ‘Charak’ was the famous court physician of (d) Canara Coast
(a) Harsha 88. Anantapur district in Andhra Pradesh is
famous for
(b) Chandra Gupta Maurya
(c) Ashoka (d) Kanishka (a) Copper (b) Zinc
(c) Mica (d) Gold

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89. Bahadur Shah was the 95. A person having AB-group of blood and
(a) last ruler of the Lodis donate blood to person having
(b) successor of Shar Shah Suri (a) A-group (b) B-group
(c) last Mughal ruler (c) AB-group (d) O-group
(d) successor of the Maratha ruler Shivaji 96. Why do birds not have respiratory trouble
at the time of flying at high altitude?
90. Mangal Pandey fired the first shot of the
Revolt of 1857 at (a) Their lungs are very large
(b) They fly inactively

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(a) Barrackpore (b) Meerut
(c) Kanpur (d) Jhansi (c) They have extra air sacs
(d) They use less oxygen

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91. Who said ‘Swaraj is my birthright and I shall
have it’? 97. Source of energy in ecosystem is

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(a) M.K. Gandhi (a) Sun (b) Green plants
(b) B.G. Tilak (c) Sugar produced in photosynthesis
(c) G.K. Gokhale
(d) B.R. Ambedkar ya (d) ATP
98. Which of the following elements is not
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92. Water boils as a lower temperature on the present in stainless steel?
hills because (a) Iron (b) Tungsten
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(a) it is cold on the hills (c) Chromium (d) Nickel

(b) there is less carbon dioxide on the hills 99. Select the one which is not a mixture
(c) there is a decrease in air pressure on the (a) Air (b) Gasoline
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hills (c) LPG (d) Distilled water

(d) there is less oxygen 100. The temperature which has the same reading
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93. After the Chauri-Chaura incident, Gandhiji on both Fahrenheit and Celsius scales is
suspended the (a) 40o (b) -40o
(a) Civil Disobedience Movement (c) -34o (d) -140o
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(d) Quit India Movement

94. Refrigerator keep food un-spoiled because
(a) at its low temperature, bacteria and
moulds are inactive
(b) at its low temperature ,the germs are killed
(c) at its low temperature the germs are
frozen
(d) it sterilises the food

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