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BOOKLET B ANSWERS
1) Which of the following countries signed the Tshwane Declaration in October 2006?
Ans : b. India & China
2) Recently the European Union & other six countries including India signed the ITER - International Thermonuclear Experiment Reactor Project. Which one of the following was not a signatory to it?
Ans : a . Canada.
3) Match the Following : Persons & Known as :
Ans : c : a) Bhajan Sopari - Exponent of Santoor.
b) Biriju Maharaj - Kathak Dancer
c) Priyadarshini Govind - Bharathanatyam Dancer
d) T.V.Gopalswami - Mridangam Maestro.
4) Whic one of the following Himalayan Passes was reopened around in the middle of 2006 to facilitate trade between India & China?
Ans : c : Nathula Pass
5) How is Steve Fossett known as?
Ans : b : For completing the longest nonstop flight around the globe.
6) Basel II relates to which one of the following?
Ans : International standards for measuring the adequency of a bank's capital.
7)Match following : Persons & Position or organization?
Ans : c : Nancy pelosi = Speaker, U.S. house of representative.
Margraret chan = WHO
Pascal lamy = WTO
Steve ballmer = Microsoft
8) in which one of the following cities is the Global Automative Research Centre being set up?
Ans : a : Chennai
9) Consider the following statements : U.S. house of representatives.
Ans : b : 2 only : a) republicans won the majority in the U.S. hosue of representatives elections held in year 2006.
b) republican bobby jundal, won a seat in the U.S. house of representatives for 2nd time.
10) what is the broad area in which the Nobel Prize winners for the year 2006 in Physics / Medicine, worked to get the prize?
Ans : b : Flow of genetic information
11) in whic one of the following districts have large reserves of diamond-bearing Kimberlite been discovered in the recent past?
Ans : a : Hoshangabad
12) which one of the following countires is planning to construct a rival to the Panama canal to link Pacific & Atlantic oceans?
Ans : all are correct .
13) consider the following : Full-fledge cryogenic rocketry?
Ans : a : a) in the year 2006, india successfully tested a full-fledge cryogenic stage in rocketry.
b) after USA, russia & china, india is th e only country to have acquired the capability for use of cryogenic stage in rocketry.
14) Consider the following : Prithvi-II :
Ans : c : both 1 & 2 : a) in November 2006, DRDO successfully conducted the interception test using Prithvi-II missile.
b) Prithvi-II is a surface-to-surface missile & can be deployed to guard the metros against air attacks.
15) which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
Ans : b : K.C.Panth - Chairman, 10th finance commission.
16) each small circle question : this has diagram.
Ans : c :
17) Amit has 5 friends : 3 girls & 2 boy. Amits wife also has 5 friends : 3 boys & 2 girls. in how many maximum number of different ways can they invite 2 boys & 2 girls such that two of them are amits friends & two are his wife's?
Ans : c : 46.
18) Five balls of different colors are to be placed in three different boxes such that any box contains at least one ball.what is the maximum number of different ways in which this can be done?
Ans : c : 150
19) all six letters of the name SACHIN are arranged to form different words without repeating any letter in any one word.the words so formed are then arranged as in a dictionary. what will be the position of the word SACHIN in that sequence?
Ans : c : 601
20) Three dice each having 6 faces with each face having one number from 1-6 are rolled.what is the number of possible outcomes such that at least one dice shows the number 2?
Ans : a : 36
21) who among the following is considered as the inventor of WWW?
Ans :c : Tim Berners-lee
22) who was leander pae;s partner when he won Doubles Final in the US open Tennis Tournament, 2006?
Ans :b : Martin Damm
23) Where is Copacabana Beach located?
Ans : c : Rio de Janeiro
24) which one of the following cities has been the venue of the Asian Games for the maximum number of times from the year 1951 to 2006?
Ans : b : Bangkok
25) where are the HQs of teh OIC located?
Ans : b : Jeddah
26) which one of the following is another name of RDX?
Ans : d: Cyclonite. :
a) cyanohydrin
b) dextran
c) cyclohexane
d) cyclonite.
27) which one of the following non-metals is not a poor conductor of electricity?
Ans : D : Phosphorus.
a) sulphur
b) selenium
c) bromine
d) phosphorus
28) which one of the following types of glass can cut off ultraviolet rays?
Ans : a or d : Soda or Crooker glass.
a) soda
b) pyrex
c) jene
d) crooker
29) which one of the following is not a member of teh Shangai cooperation Oraganization?
Ans : c : Ukraine
a) russia
b) kazakhstan
c) ukraine
d) uzbekistan
30) with reference to the steel industry in India , consider the following:
RINL & IISCO question.
Ans : c : both 1 & 2
a) Vizag steel plant has been declared mini ratna
b) merger of IISCO with SAIL has been completed.
31) who among the following wrote the book- Ayodhya:6th dec 1992?
Ans : b : P.V.Narimha Rao
a) chandra shekar
b) P.v. narasimha rao
c) jaswanth singh
d) arun shourie
32) with reference to the international meetings held in the year 2006, which of the following is/are correctly matched?
Ans : b : 1 & 3 : NAM & EU-summit
a) NAM summitt : havana
b) APEC : Bangkok
c) EU-India summitt : helsinki
d) UN climate change conference : geneva
33) The Stilwell road, built in 1940s, which was recently in news, connects which of the following?
Ans : b : Ledo in India & Kunming in china via Myanmar.
a) Agarthala in India & Yangon in Myanmar via bangladesh
b) Ledo in India & Kunming in china via Myanmar.
c) kalimpong in India & Lhasa in Tibet via bhutan
d) Imphal in India & bangkok in Thailand via Myanmar
34) NASA's Deep Impact space mission was employed to take deatiled pictures of which comet nucleus?
Ans : d : Temple I
a) halley's comet
b) hale-bopp
c) hyakutake
d) Temple I
35) Who among the following bowlers have taken moer than 500 wickets in test cricket?
Ans : b : 3 & 4 only. Glen McGroth & Courtney Walsh
a) wasim akram
b) richard hadlee
c) Glen McGroth
d) Courtney Walsh
36) which one of the following places was associated with Acharya Vinoba Bhave's Bhoodan Movement?
Ans : c : Pochamapalli
a) udaygiri
b) rapur
c) ponchampalli
d) venkatgiri
37) Match Person with Company:
Ans : d :
a) vishwapathi trivedi = indian airlines
b) tulsi.r.tanti = suzlon energy
c) shashi ruia = essar group
d) s.bikhchandani = info edge india ( which runs naukri.com)
38) which one of the following is the correct sequence in teh decending order of contribution of different sectors to the GDP of India?
Ans : a :
a) service-industry-agriculture
b) service-agriculture-industry
c) industry-service-agriculture
d) industry-agriculture-service
39) consider following : NATO question:
Ans : b : 2 only
a) North atlantic co-operation council NACC is the name of the new NATO.
b) the USA & UK became the members of NATO when it was formed in the year 1949
40)in how many maximum different ways can 3 identical balls be placed in the 12 squares ( this question contains diagraom ) ?
Ans : a : 144
41) groups each containing 3 boys are to be formed out of 5 boys - A,B,C,D & E that no one group conatins both C & D together. What is the maximum number of such different groups?
Ans : b : 6
42) Six faces of a cube are numbered from 1 to 6 , each face carrying one different number, furthur,
1) the face 2 is opposite to teh face 6
2) the face 1 is opposite to the face 5
3) the face 3 is between the face 1 & face 5.
4) the face 4 is adjacent to teh face 2.
which one of the following is correct?
a) the face 2 is adjacent to face 3.
b) the face 6 is between the face 2 & face 4
c) the face 1 is between the face 5 & face 6.
d) none of the above.
Ans : a : the face 2 is adjacent to face 3.
43) each of 3 persons is to be given some identical items such that product of the numbers of items received by each of teh three persons is equal to 300. in how many maximum different ways can this distribution be done?
Ans : a : 21
44) 6 equidistant vertical lines are drawn on a board. 6 equidistant horizontal lines are also drawn on the board cutting the 6 vertical lines, & the distance between any two consecutive vertical lines. what is the maximum number of squares this formed?
Ans : b :55
45) 8 identical balls : this question has diagram.
Ans : c :
46) Wangari Maathai, the nobel prize winner from Kenya is known for her contribution to which of the following?
Ans : c : Sustainable development
a) Journalism
b) internatinal economis.
c) sustainable development
d) child development
47) Robert Webster is knwon for his work associated with which one of the following?
Ans : b
a) cardiology
b) influenza virus
c) HIV/AIDS
d) alzheimer
48) how is Gabrial Garcia Marquez well-known as?
Ans : c :
a) jnown for research in agriculture]
b) a renowed football coach
c) a great writer who won the nobel prizer for literature
d) known for research in railway engineering
49) MCA-21 is major initiative taken up by the govt of India in which one of the following?
Ans : C :
a) foriegn direct investment in india
b) attracting international tourists
c) e-governance
d) modernization of airports
50)consider following : question is Repo Rate of RBI?
Ans : c
1) the repo rate is the rate at which other banks borrow from the RBI
2) a value of 1 for gini coefficient in a country implies that there is perfectly equal income for eveyone in its population.
51) where was the first conference of the Pugwash conferences on science world affairs held in year 1957?
Ans : c : Nova Scotia (Cananda)
52) for which of the following books did Kiran Desai win the Man Booker prize 2006?
Ans : c : The inheritance of Loss
53) the Pulitzer prize is associated with which one of the following?
Ans : c : Journalism
54) a person has to comletely put each of three liquids :403 litres of petrol, 465 litres of water, 496 litres of Mobil Oil in bottles of equal size without mixing any of the above 3 types of liquids such that bottle is the completely filled. waht is the least possible number of bottles required?
Ans : d
a) 34
b) 44
c) 46
d) none of the above
55)Amit starts from a point A & walks to another point B, & then returns from B to A by his car & thuis takes a total time of 6 hours & 45 minutes. if he had driven both ways in this car, he would have taken 2 hours less. how long would it take for him to walk both ways?
Ans : a
a) 7 hrs 45 min
b) 8 hrs 15 min
c) 8 hrs 30 min
d) 8 hrs 45 min
56)A & B can complete work together in 5 days. if A works at twice his speed & B at half of his speed, this work can be finished in 4 days. how many days would it take for A alone to complete the job?
Ans : a
57) Parimarjan Negi has excelled in which one of the following?
Ans : c :
a) billiards
b) swimming
c) chess
d) weightlifting
58) if all numbers from 500-700 are written, what is the total nubmer of times does the digit 6 appear?
Ans : c
59) The National Housing Board was set up in India as a wholley-owned subsidiary of which of following?
ANs : b
a) SBI
b) RBI
c) ICICI
d) LIC India
60) Famous Vijaya Vittal Temple having its 56 carved pillers emitting musical notes were it is located?
Ans : c
a) belur
b) bhadrachalam
c) hampi
d) srirangam
61) Consider following : question is : Hgh court chief:
1) the hudge inquiry bill 2006 contemplates which will receive compalints against judges of the Supreme courts including the chief justice of High court chief justices & judges.
2) under the protection of women from domestic violence act 2005 a women can file a petition before a 1st class judicial magistrate.
Ans : c : both 1 & 2
62) who among the following is Chile's 1st women president?
Ans : b
a) D.Ortega
b) M.Bachelet
c) e. morales
d) a. garcia
63) which one of the following is also known as Top Slip?
a) simlipal national park
b) periyar wildlife sanctuary
c)manjira wildlife sanctuary
d) indira gandhi wildlife sanctuary & national park
Ans :d
64) what was the purpose of the operation Sukoon launched by the govt of India?
Ans :b
65) Consider following: ques is : removal of HC Judge of India?
Ans : a
1) the mode of removal of a judge of high court in india is same as that of remival of judge of teh supreme court
2) after retirement from the office, a permanent judge of high court cannot or act in any court of before any authority in india.
66) which of following is the correct chronological order of formation of full states of Indian Union?
Ans : b : 2 only
67) Tarapore Committee was associated with which of the following?
a) special economic zones
b) fuller capital account convertibility
c) foriegn exchange reserves
d) effect of oil-prices on the indian economy
ANs : b
68) who served as chief economist of IMF?
a) ashok lahiri
b) sumantra ghoshal
c) saumitra chaudhuri
d) raghuram rajan
Ans : d
69) where are Shevaroy hills located?
a) andhra pradesh
b) karnataka
c) kerala
d) tamil nadu
Ans : d
70) Particitatory notes are associated with which of the following?
a) consolidated fund of india
b) foriegn institutional investors
c) united nations development programme
d) kyoto protocol
Ans : b
71) Train completes journey with few stoppages in between at an average speed of 40 km per hour. if the train had not stopped any where, it would have completed the journey at an average speed of 60 km per hour. on an average, how many minutes per hour does the train stop during the journy?
Ans : a
72) who among follwoing have been the union finance ministers of india?
a) v.p.singh
b) r. venkatraman
c) y.b.chavan
d) pranab mukerjee
ANs : d: 1,2,3,4
73) which one of the follwoing is the correct sequence in decending order of production of the foodgrains in India?
Ans : d
74) which one of the following pairs of countries joined the European Union in Jan 2007?
a) bulgeria & romania
b) bulgeria & belgium
c) romania & slovenia
d) hungary & croatia.
Ans : a
75) what is the average distance between sun & earth approximatley?
Ans : d
76) consider follwoing: question is :Magenta & Yellow colored circles.?
a) if magenta & yellow colored cirlces intersect, teh intersected area will have red color.
b) if cyan & magneta colored circles intersect, the intersected are will have blue colored.
Ans :c
77) consider follwoing: ques is: Sound waves of Flute & rocks.
a) a flute of smaller length produces waves of lower frequency .
b) sound travels in rocks in the form of longitudinal elastic waves only.
Ans: c
78) 4 wires of same material & of dimensions as under are stretched by a load of same magnitude sepeartely, which one of them will be elongated maximum?
Ans : c
79) question is of average salary of 100 employees an office is rs.16,000 per month. the management decided to raise salary of every employee by 5% but stopped a transport allownace of rs.800 per month which was paid earlier to every employee. waht will be the new average monthly salary?
Ans : a
80) Raghu Rai well-known for which one of the following?
a) research in mathematics
b) photography
c) water harvesting
d) pollution control
ANs : b
81) which of following organisations won the CSIR award for science & TEchnology innovation for rural development 2006?
a) CLRI
b) IARI
c) NDDB
d) NDRI
Ans : a
82) which of the following cities does not have teh same clock time as that of other three cities at any given instant?
a) Londan (U.K)
b) Lisbon (portugal)
c) accra ( ghana)
d) Addis ababa ( Ethiopia)
Ans : d
83) which of the following parts of the pitcher plant becomes modified into a pitcher?
a) stem
b) leaf
c) stipule
d) petiole
Ans : b
84) Assertain ques is : council of ministers :
a_ the council of ministers in the union of india is collectively responsible both to the RS & LS
r_ the members of both the LS & RS are eligible to be the ministers of teh union government.
Ans : d
85)Assertain : Wavell plan:
a_ according to the wavell plan, the number of hindu & muslin members in the Executive council were to be equal.
r_ wavell thought that this arrangement would have avoided the partition of india.
Ans : a
86) Assetain: River Kalinadi :
a_ river kalinadi is an east-flowing river in the southern part of india.
r_ the deccan plateau is higher along its western edge & gently slopes towards the bay of bengal in east.
Ans : d
87) Assertain : Tea plantations:
a_ there are no tea plantations in any african country.
r_ tea plants need fertile soil with high humus.
Ans : d
88) Assertain : Mach number of jet aircraft
a_ a jet aircraft moving at mach number equal to 1 travels faster at an altitude of 15 km than while moving at mach number to 1 near sea level.
r_ the velocity of sound depends on the temperature of the surrounding medium.
Ans : a
89) Which of following national Highways passes through Maharashtra , chattisgarh & orissa?
a) NH 4
b) NH 5
c) NH 6
d) NH 7
Ans : c :
90) in human body which structure is appendix attached to?
a) the large intestine
b) small intestine
c) gall bladder
d) stomach
Ans : a
91) Consider: Balaghat & Mijhgawan ques:
a) balghat is known for its daimond mines
b) majhgawan is known for its manganese deposites
Ans : d
92)which of following states of india has lowest density of population?
a) Himachal Pradesh
b) Meghalaya
c) Arunachal Pradesh
d) Sikkim
Ans : c
93) Match city with river :
a) Bangkok = Menam
b) Phonem Penh = mekong
c) Hanoi = red river
d) Yangon = Irrawaddy
Ans : a
94)consider follwoing : two belts 30degree to 35 degree :
Ans : c
95) which one among the following rivers is the longest ?
a) amazon
b) amur
c) congo
d) lena
ANs : a
96) which one of the follwoing rivers originates Amarkantak?
a) damodar
b) mahanadi
c) narmada
d) tapti
Ans : c
97) which one follwoing major cities is most east wards located?
a) Hyderabad
b) Bhopal
c) Lucknow
d) Bengaloor ( Bangalore)
Ans : c
98) Dalbergia species is associated with which of following?
a) cashew nut
b) coffee
c) tea
d) rosewood
Ans : d
99) out of 4 southern states: AP, Karnataka, Kerala & TN which shares boundries with the maximum number if indian states?
a) andhra pradesh
b) karnataka
c) each of AP & Karnataka
d) each of TN & Kerala
Ans : b
100) human body which one of the follwoing harmones regulates blood calcium & phosphate?
a) glucagon
b) growth hormone
c) parathyroid hormone
d) thyroxime.
Ans : c
101) how does most mosquitoes respire?
a) thorugh skin
b) gills
c) by lungs
d) tracheal system
ANs : d
102) human beings normally in which one of the follwoing parts, does the sperm fertilizer teh ovum?
a) cervix
b) fallopian tube
c) lower part of uterus
d) upper part of uterus
Ans : b
103) which one of following parts of human brain is regulating centre of swallowing & vomitting?
a) cerebellum
b) cerebrum
c) medulla oblongata
d) pons
Ans : c
104) production of which one of the follwoing is a function of liver?
a) lipase
b) urea
c) mucus
d) hydrochloric acid
ANs : b
105) which of follwoing countries recently upgraded its defence agency to full defence ministry?
a) italy
b) japan
c) switzerland
d) poland
ANs : b
106)who among follwoing was choosen as FIFA world player of the year of 2006?
a) zinedine zindane
b) fabio canmavaro
c) ronaldinho
d) thierry henry
Ans: a
107) which of the follwoing is not a digestive enzyme in human system?
a) trypsin
b) gastrin
c) ptylin
d) pepsin
Ans b
108) which of the following types of loght are strongly absorbed by plants?
a_ violet & orange
b_ blue & orange
c_ indigo & yellow
d_ yellow & violet.
Ans : b
109) Match person with Known as :
Ans : c
110) which one of the follwoing pairs is not correctly matched?
Ans : b
111) consider following : ques is : India & China
1) china has the observer's status at the SAARC.
2) india has the observer's status at Shanghai cooperation organisation
ANs : b
112) match eminent person with known as:
Ans: d
113) 3 identical vessels(question still is there please refer your booklet)?
ans : c
114) in the latter half of the year 2006, in which of the following countries did a militry coup take place?
a) cambodia
b) laos
c) thailand
d) vietnam
ans : c
115) match aluminium company with location:
ans :b
116) which one follwoing is located in Bastar region?
a) bandhavargh national park
b) dandeli sanctuary
c) rajaji national park
d) indravati national park
Ans : d
117) through which one of the following straits does a tunnel connect the UK & France?
a) davis strait
b) denmark
c) strait of dover
d) strait of gilgraltar
ANs : c
118) consider : ques is : Pacific ocean & atlantic ocean
ans : b
119) largest coral reef in the worlds is found near teh coast of which one of the follwoing countries?
a) australia
b) cuba
c) ghana
d) philippines
Ans : a
120) in which state in the guru shikar peak located?
a) rajastan
b) gujurat
c) madhya pradesh
d) maharashtra
ans : a
121) who wrote the book = ' the story of the integration of teh indian states'?
a) b.n. rau
b) c.rajagopalchari
c) krishna menon
d) v.p.menon
ans : d
122) which of follwoing aroused a wave of popula indignation that led to the massacre by the british at Jallianwalla Bagh?
a) the arms act
b) public safety act
c) the rowlatt act
d) vernacular press act
ans : c
123) who was the speaker of 1st lok sabha?
a) hukum singh
b) g.v. mavalankar
c) k.m.munshi
d) u.n.dhebar
Ans : b
124) at which one of the follwoing places did mahatma gandhi first start his satyagraha in india?
a) ahmedabad
b) bardoli
c) champaram
d) kheda
Ans : c
125) who among the following started the newspaper Shme Prakash?
a) dayananda saraswathi
b) ishwar chandra vidhyasagar
c)raja ram mohanroy
d) surendranath banerjee
Ans : all r correct.
126) the ruler of which of the follwoing states was removed from power by the british on the pretext of misgovernance?
a) awadh
b) jhansi
c) nagpur
d) satara
Ans : a
127) who among Europeans were last to come to preindependence india as traders?
a) dutch
b) english
c) french
d) portugese
Ans : all r correct
128) consider: ques is : Governor-general of india:
1) robert clive was the first governor-general of bengal
2) william bentinck was the first governor-general of india
Ans : c
129) which of follwoing was 1st fort constructed by the british in india?
a) fort william
b) st.george
c) david
d) st.angelo
ans : a
130) consider : ques is : Jawaharlal Nehru:
1) JLN was in his 4th term as the PM of india at the time of his death
2) JLN represented rae bareily constituency as member of parliament
3) the 1st non-congress prime minister of india assumed the office in the year 1977
ans : b
131) match company with major area or product
ans : c
132) which one of the following pairs are not correctly matched?
ans : c
133) which one follwoing is called philosopher's wool?
a) zinc bromide
b) zinc nitrate
c) zinc oxide
d) zinc chloride
ans : c
134) which one of the follwoing does not conatin silver?
a) horn silver
b) german silver
c) ruby silver
d) lunar caustic
ans : b
135) match: town with river near to it:
a) betul : tapti
b) jagdalpur : indravati
c) jabalpur : narmada
d) ujjain : shipra
ans : b
136) consider : ques is : NCLP
ans : b
137)match writer with book
a) v.s.naipul : in a free state
b) salman rushdie : midnight's children
c) paul scot : staying on
d) j.g.farrell : the siege of krishnapur
ans : a
138) song amar sonar bangla
ans : d
139) which of follwoing employed for computed tomography employed for visualisation of the internal structure of human body?
a) X-rays
b) sound waqves
c) magnetic resource
d) radioisotopes.
ans: a
140) Artcle 360
Ans : a
141) council of ministers(question still is there please refer your booklet)?
ans : a
142) consider : international paper size:
1) teh sizes of the international paper sizes is based on A0 size whose area is 0.5 m square.
2) the area of A4 size paper is 1/8th of that of the A0 size paper.
ans : d
143) consider : ques is : Public accounts commiter
ans : a
144) consider :ques is : Red Panda & Slow Loris
1) in india, red panda is naturally found in the western himalayas only.
2) in india, slow loris lives in the dense forest of north east.
ans : b
145) First factory act (question still is there please refer your booklet)?
ans: c
146) Galileo Project has been recently discovered?
ans : d
147) Commonwealth ministry coup:
a) kenya
b) myanmar
c) fiji
d) tanzania.
ans : c
148) Shahgarh area in Jaisalmer(question still is there please refer your booklet)?
ans : a
149) small intenstine(question still is there please refer your booklet)?
ans : b
150) Bahubivah?
a) raja rammohanroy
b) ishwarchandravidhyasagar
c) panditarambai
d) rabindranath-tagore
ans : b