Nalsar 2001

33. The first woman foreign secretary

(a) B.Muthumma (b) Chokila lyer
(c) Sarla Grewal (d) Vina Mazumdar
34. The founder of Servants of India Society is
(a) Gopala Krishna Gokhle (b) Balagangadhar Tilak
(c) Lala Laj Pat Raj (d) Mahatma Gandhi
35. Vishwanathan Anand won the World Chess Championship after defeating
(a) Viadimir Kramnik (b) Alexei Shirov
(c) Halif Khalifman (d) Michael Adams
36. Karanam Malleswari Won the Olympic bronze gold medal for
(a) Shotput (b) Discuss
(c) Weightlifting (d) Longjump
37. The census operation takes place in India
(a) every ten years (b) every twenty years
(c) every five years (d) every fifteen years
38. The Bharata Ratna was awarded this year to
(a) Lata Mangeshkar and Bismillah Khan
(b) Amitab Bachan and Bhupen Hazarika
(c) Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and Lata Mangeshkar
(d) Lalgudi Jairaman and Hosei Norota
39. Joseph Estrada and Slodon Milosevic Former heads of government who are presently in jail
belong to
(a) Malaysia and Spain (b) Phillipines and Yugoslaivia
(c) Bruma and Poland (d) Japan and France
40. The NASSCOM President Dewang Mehta recently died in
(a) U.S.A (b) Australia (c) Singapore (d) Germany
41. According to census 2001 the most populous states in the country are
(a) Kerala, West Bengal, Bihar
(b) Uttar Pradesh, Maharastra, Bihar
(c) Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Gujarat
(d) Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, West Bengal
42. The 2001 All England Badminton Championship was won by
(a) P. Gopichand (b) Peter Gade
(c) Prakash Padakone (d) Ching Hong
43. Theory of separation of powers was expounded by
(a) Hobber (b) Spencer
(c) Montesquier (d) Hegel
44. The Constituent Assembly was formed under the provision of
(a) Cabinet Mission Plan (b) Cripps Misison
(c) Mountbatten Plan (d) None of the above
45. Who made the statement “Freedom is my birth right”
(a) Rajagopalachari (b) Balagangadhara Tilak
(c) B.R. Ambedkar (d) Rajiv Gandhi
46. Mohammed-Bin-Tughlaq shifted his capital from Delhi to Deogiri because
(a) He was fed up with Delhi
(b) He was in danger of the Mongols
(c) He wanted to extend his southern empire
(d) The new capital was more centrally located
47. The title of ‘Mahatma’ is a part of the literary work called
(a) Einstein (b) Rabindranath Tagore
(c) Bankimchandra Chatterjee (d) Vivekananda
48. The song ‘Vandemataram’ is part of the literary work called
(a) Anand math (b) Gora (c) Gitanjali (d) Godan
49. The first Governor - General of Independent India was
(a) C. Rajgopalachari (b) Lord Mountabatten
(c) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (d) Babu Rajendra Prasad
50. The slogan ‘Go Back to Vedas’ was given by
(a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy (b) Swami Vivekanand
(c) Atmaram Pandurang (d) Swami Dayanand Saraswati
51. The first Law Officer of the country is
(a) Attorney General of India
(b) Chief Justice of India
(c) Chairperson of the Law Commission of India
(d) None of the above
52. The prime Minister in a parliamentary democracy is
(a) Head of the Government (b) Head of the State
(c) Chief of the Parliament (d) Leader of the Upper House
53. In the case of clash between the Union and State laws on a subject in the Concurrent List
(a) The State Law prevails (b) The Union Law prevails
(c) Both the laws stand equally (d) None of these
54. What is the maximum age prescribed for a person to be elected as President o India
(a) 58 years (b) 62 years (c) 60 years (d) No such limit
55. Who administers the oath of office to the President?
(a) Chief Justice of India (b) Vice-President
(c) Prime Minister (d) Speaker of the Lok Sabha
56. Who presides over the joint sittings on both Houses of Parliament
(a) President of India (b) Vice-President
(c) Speaker of the Lok Sabha (d) Chief Justice of India
57. The India Union
(a) Destructible union of destructible states
(b) Destructible federation of indestructible states
(c) Indestructible union of destructible states
(d) Indestructible union of indestructible states
58. The resignation of the President should be addressed to
(a) Chief Justice (b) Prime Minister
(c) Vice-President (d) Parliament
59. The states concerned with the Sardar Sarofvar Projedt are
(a) Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Rajashtan
(b) Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh , Karnataka and Tamilnadu
(c) Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh
60. Which of the following is not correctly matched?
(a) Isopeth A line joining places of equal height
(b) Isobar – A line joining places of equal pressure
(c) Isohypet – A line joining places of equal rainfall
61. The longtitude according to which Indian Standard Time (I.S.T) is determined
(a) 82°F East Longitude (b) 0° Longitude of Greenwhich meridian
(c) 108° West Longitude (d) 70° East Longitude
62. The correct north-south sequences of the following major ports located on the eastern coast of
India is
(a) Madras, Tuticorin, Paradip, Vizag
(b) Tuticorin, Madras, Vizag, Paradip
(c) Paradip, Vizag, Madras, Tuticorin
(d) Vizag, Madras, Paradip, Tuticorin
63. Which of the following states has the longest coast line in India?
(a) Kerala (b) Tamil Nadu (c) Karnatak (d) Andhra Pradesh
64. Which of the following states of India does not lie along an international border?
(a) Haryana (b) Rajashthan (c) Bihar (d) West-Bengal
65. Gross domestic product at factor prices refers to
(a) Gross value of goods and services produced in an year
(b) Gross value of all assets in an economy during a year
(c) Gross value of total wealth of a country at point of time
(d) Gross value of incomes plus taxes in the economy
66. According to Law of Demand
(a) Income and price are inversely related
(b) Income and quantity demanded are positively related
(c) Price and quantity demanded are inversely related
(d) Income and quantity demanded are positively related
67. The Rio declaration is about
(a) The seventh round of WTO agreement
(b) The United Nation Child Rights Convention
(c) The North American Free Trade Agreement
(d) The International legal framework for biodiversity and sustainable development
68. Which of the following acts has been repealed during the Union Budget 2001-02?
(a) Sick Industrial Companies Act
(b) Industrial Development Act, 1956
(c) Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1974
(d) Bonded Labour (Regulation) Act, 1976
69. Direct Taxes are taxes on income, and are directly related to the ability to pay. Which one of the
following is not a direct tax?
(a) Income Tax (b) Excise Duty
(c) Corporation Tax (d) Gift Tax
70. Which of the following is incorrect?
(a) SAARC = South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation
(b) NAM = Non-Aligned Movement
(c) NFTA = North American Free Trade Agreement
(d) ASEAN = Asian Solidarity for Economic Development and National Development
71. Structural unemployment refers to
(a) Persons with no jobs because economy does not have the capacity to take on more people
(b) More persons employed for a job which can accommodate less people
(c) Unemployment among the women and older people
(d) None of the above
72. If there were no organic life on the earth, the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere will
(a) remain unchanged (b) be approximately
(c) be almost nil (d) be approximately fifty percent
73. A person is standing near a railway track. A railway engine, blowing its whistle is coming towards
that person with a constant velocity of 50 km/hour. The person will notice that.
(a) both the intensity and frequency of sound remains unaltered
(b) both the intensity and frequency of sound increases
(c) the intensity of the sound increase but its frequency remains unaltered
(d) the intensity of the sound increase but its frequency decreases
74. A dress made out of which of the following materials is safe to wear while cooking?
(a) Terylene (b) Nylon (c) Silk (d) Cotton
75. Seismology is the science of
(a) Silkworm breeding (b) Earthquakes
(c) Atmospheric Phenomenon (d) Study of fossils
76. If a body id moved from the equator to the poles on the mean sea level, then its weight will
(a) Always decreases
(b) Always increase
(c) Increase in winter and decrease in summer
(d) Remain the same
77. Hypochondria is a
(a) disease of eyes
(b) disease of sexual organs
(c) disease of low blood press
(d) state of morbid anxiety about one’s health with complaints of imaginary disorders
78. Human Rights day is observed on
(a) 24 October (b) 10 December (c) 5 June (d) 7 April
79. The five veto power members, who are also called ‘permanent members’ are
(a) U.K., U.S.A., Germany France and China
(b) U.K., U.S.A., Russia, India and China
(c) U.K., U.S.A., Japan, Italy and China
(d) U.K., U.S.A., Russia, India and China
80. Which organization is popularly called the ‘World Bank’
(a) International Monetary Fund
(b) International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
(c) International Development Agency
(d) International Finance Corporation
81. Often government letters are stamped with OIGS which means
(a) Only Indian Government Servable (b) On India Government’s Service
(c) Order in Government Security (d) None of the above
82. Creamy layer has reference to
(a) Richer sections among scheduled castes
(b) Richer sections among scheduled tribes
(c) Richer sections among other Backward classes
(d) All of the above
83. The first case of a Panchayat President being recalled by the electorate has occurred in
(a) Kerala (b) Andhra Pradesh (c) Karnataka (d) Madhya Pradesh
84. The Kyota Treaty deals with
(a) Global warming and reduction of greenhouse emissions
(b) Control of biotechnology
(c) Intellectual property rights of developing countries
(d) Transnational control on cyber crimes
85. The nomination papers of Jayalalitha were rejected in the recent Tamilnadu election because
(a) The returning officer was biased
(b) She was contesting from more than two constituencies
(c) Of her conviction in the TANSI land deal cases
(d) She had infringed the code of conduct
86. Tehelka scam is to be investigaged by
(a) a sitting judge of the Supreme Court
(b) a retired judge of the Supreme Court
(c) a Joint Parliamentary Committee
(d) the Vigilance Commission
87. George Bush assumed the presidency of United States
(a) after a divided U.S. Supreme Court stopped the Florida recount
(b) after winning the Florida recount
(c) after winning the popular electoral
(d) after winning the electoral vote
88. The Lokpal Bill to check corruption in high places has been
(a) Passed by the Lok Sabha (b) Sent to Joint Selection Committee
(c) Passed by Parliament (d) Approved by cabinet