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(d) transmit or absorb light of different colours 11. Which of the following is not a weighted code? 1. ATM is the abbreviated form of: (a) Excess 3 – Code (a) Automatic Teller Machine (b) Binary Number System (b) Automated Teller Machine (c) Decimal number System (c) All Time Money (d) BCD Number System (d) Automatic Tally Machine 12. ‘Residex’ is associated with: 2. The Chairman of NITI Ayog is……… (a) Share prices (a) Industry Minister (b) Price inflation (b) Prime Minister (c) Mutual fund prices (c) Finance Minister (d) Land prices (d) Commerce Minister 13. Ozone saves the biosphere by absorbing high energy 3. The film ‘Phoolan Devi’ was directed by: radiations called……. (a) Raj Kapoor (a) Infra-red (IR) (b) Shashi Kapoor (b) Gamma rays (c) Shekhar Kapoor (c) Ultraviolet rays (UV) (d) Anik Kapoor (d) X-rays 4. Which of the following is not a scheme/programme started 14. Birju Maharaj is a well known exponent of: by the NDA Government? (a) Manipuri dance (a) Mission Indradhanush (b) Kathak (b) Jan Dhan Yojana (c) Odissi (c) Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (d) Kathakali (d) MNREGA 15. In the absence of the earth’s atmosphere, sky would 5. We are able to walk on earth without slipping because of: appear………. (a) Gravitational force (a) blue (b) Frictional force (b) deep red (c) Viscous force (c) white (d) Centrifugal force (d) black 6. Majority of the fungal bionts of lichens belong to: 16. Who was elected the Prime Minister of Nepal recently? (a) Baridiomycetes (a) Keshav Kumar Budhathoki (b) Ascomycetes (b) Khadga Prasad Sharma Koli (c) Gomycetes (c) Sushil Koirala (d) Deuteromycetes (d) Pushpakamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ 7. Which of the following has open vascular system? 17. Which lobe of human brain is associated with hearing? (a) Cockroach (a) Frontal lobe (b) Human (b) Parietal lobe (c) Rat (c) Temporal lobe (d) Birds (d) Occipital lobe 8. The warm and cold ocean currents are caused by: 18. Which of the following is not soluble in water? (a) Prevailing winds (a) Lead sulphate (b) Earth’s rotation (b) Zinc sulphate (c) Variations in density of sea water (c) Potassium sulphate (d) All of these (d) Sodium sulphate 9. Who was known as the Second founder of the Maratha 19. Activated charcoal is used to remove colouting matter from Empire? pure substances by………… (a) Balaji Bishwanath (a) Bleaching (b) Balaji Baji Rao (b) Oxidation (c) Baji Rao I (c) Adsorption (d) Madhav Rao (d) Reduction 10. Purpose of an optical filter is to: 20. Chernobyl disaster is the result of pollution by………. (a) reflect lights of different colours (a) Oil spill (b) dispense light into component colours (b) Acid rain (c) refract light to different colours (c) Carbon dioxide For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 1

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(d) Radioactive waste (c) Carbon 21. Which of the following caused radioactive pollution along (d) Silver the coast of Kerala? 31. Which mechanism is used by the computer virus ‘worm’ to (a) Plutonium duplicate itself? (b) Zinc (a) Swap (c) Thorium (b) Increment (d) Radium (c) Spawn 22. In mammals, an important role of excretion is played by: (d) Swarm (a) Large intestine 32. The second Green Revolution aims at increasing agricultural (b) Kidneys output to promote: (c) Lungs (a) Availability of easy credit to big farmers (d) Liver (b) Co-operative farming 23. Pellagra and Scurvy are caused by which pair of vitamin (c) Inclusive growth deficiency respectively………… (d) Development of rural sector (a) Vitamin C and Vitamin D 33. The Union Government of 22 May, 2016 appointed whom as (b) Vitamin B-12 and Vitamin C the new Lieutenant governor of the Union Territory (UT) of (c) Vitamin C and Vitamin A Pondicherry? (d) Vitamin A and Vitamin B-12 (a) 24. Who appoints the Finance Commission in ? (b) Kalyan Singh (a) Governor, R.B.I. (c) Ram Naik (b) CAG of India (d) Mukul Sangma (c) 34. The rate of tax increase as the amount of the tax base (d) Central Finance Minister increases in called: 25. The term ‘Macro Economics’ was used by…… (a) Proportional tax (a) J.M. Keynes (b) Progressive tax (b) Ranger Frisch (c) Regressive tax (c) Ranger Nurkse (d) Degressive tax (d) Prof. Knight 35. Vikram Shila University was founded by : 26. Who was the first chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia (a) Chandra Gupta Maurya University at Aligarh? (b) Kanishka (a) Abdul Ghaffar Khan (c) Dharampala (b) Rajkumari Amrit Kaur (d) Pulakesin II (c) Hakim Ajmal Khan 36. The tree species most commonly used in social forestry is : (d) Sir Sayyad Ahmad Khan (a) Peepal 27. Who were the patrons of Sangama Literature? (b) Gulmohar (a) Nayakas (c) Eucalyptus (b) Chandellas (d) Mango (c) Pandyas 37. The most productive ecosystem in the biosphere is : (d) Solankis (a) Desert 28. Where in India was the first French factory established? (b) Open Ocean (a) Surat (c) Estuary (b) Pondicherry (d) Tundra (c) Chandannagore 38. What type of force acts on a car moving around a curve? (d) Masulipatnam (a) Centrifugal force 29. Which algorithm is used to decide the path to transfer the (b) Cohesive force packets from source to destination? (c) Centripetal force (a) Routing (d) Gravitational force (b) Pathing 39. Which phenomenon is responsible for the echo of sound (c) Selecting wave? (d) Directing (a) Reflection 30. Which one of the following is an ohmic conductor? (b) Refraction (a) Germanium (c) Interference (b) Silicon (d) Polarization For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 2

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40. In the following list of devices, which device is used in (a) Mrs Sucheta Kripalani datalink layer? (b) Miss Padmaja Naidu (a) Repeaters (c) Mrs Tarkeswari Sinha (b) Routers (d) Mrs Sarojini Naidu (c) Application gateway 51. Which of the following is an application protocol? (d) Bridge (a) HTTP 41. Which of the metals has the maximum thermal conductivity? (b) TCP (a) Iron (c) IP (b) Aluminium (d) UDP (c) Silver 52. Which one of the following is not a scheme/project of the (d) Copper present Government? 42. Who is the author of Meghdoot? (a) AMRUT (a) Shundraka (b) Swachh Bharat (b) Vishakhadatta (c) AYUSH (c) Kalidasa (d) Jan Dhan Yojana (d) Chanakya 53. Which of the following was India’s first interplanetary 43. One of the best solutions to get rid of non-biodegradable mission? waste is : (a) Chandrayaan Mission (a) Burning (b) Mangalyaan Mission (b) Dumping (c) Aryabhatta Mission (c) Burying (d) Philae Mission (d) Recycling 54. Why the Earth is having its own atmosphere? 44. The Sharda Act is related to : (a) Winds (a) Upliftment of scheduled tribes (b) Clouds (b) Upliftment of minorities (c) Gravity (c) Child Marriage (d) Rotation of the Earth (d) Empowerment of women 55. Stars twinkle but planets do not twinkle because: 45. In the battle of Panipat, Babar faced the armies of : (a) they emit light of a constant intensity (a) Jaichand (b) their distance from the earth does not change with time (b) Hemu (c) they are very far away from the earth resulting in (c) Daulat Khan decrease in intensity of light (d) Ibrahim Lodi (d) they are nearer to the earth and hence we receive a 46. “Smart Money” term is used for : greater amount of light and therefore minor (a) Credit Card variations in intensity are not noticeable (b) Internet Banking 56. Which of the following in not true about X-rays? (c) e-Banking (a) have low penetrating power (d) Cash with Public (b) travel with the speed of light 47. The supply-side economics lays greater emphasis on……. (c) can be reflected or refracted (a) Producer (d) can affect photographic plates (b) Global economy 57. Sending a frame to a group stations is knows as : (c) Consumer (a) Single casting (d) Middle Man (b) Spreading 48. The founding father of “Theory of bureaucracy” was: (c) Multicasting (a) F. W. Taylor (d) Casting (b) Max Weber 58. Prince of Wales Cup is associated with ……… . (c) Elton Mayo (a) Rugby (d) Herbert Simon (b) Golf 49. The United Nations Organisation came into existence in: (c) Polo (a) 1947 (d) Chess (b) 1950 59. A drainage pattern where a river is joined by its tributaries (c) 1945 approximately at right angles is : (d) 1946 (a) Dendritic 50. Who was the first lady Governor of an Indian State? (b) Trellis For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 3

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(c) Rectangular (a) Global warming (d) Radial (b) Salination 60. Who was the founder of the Indian Reform association in (c) Eutrophication 1870? (d) Biomagnification (a) Debendranath Tagore 70. Which of the following pairing is incorrect? (b) Keshab Chandra Sen (a) Hygrometer –Water vapour content of the atmosphere (c) Rammohan Roy (b) Lactometer –Specific gravity of liquids (d) Dayanand Saraswati (c) Anemometer –Speed of the wind 61. Which Constitutional Amendment Act deals with the (d) Seismograph –Earthquakes disqualification of MPs and MLAs? 71. Money transfer through mobile is called : (a) 42nd Amendment Act (a) IFSC (b) 52nd Amendment Act (b) ATM (c) 62nd Amendment Act (c) IMPS (d) 32nd Amendment Act (d) IFS 62. Which of the following increases the rate of heart beat? 72. The founder of Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save Child (a) Peripheral nerves Movement) is : (b) Sympathetic nerves (a) Malala Yousafzai (c) Parasympathetic nerves (b) Sane Guruji (d) Cranial nerves (c) Salman Khan 63. The deficiency of Niacin-a vitamin of B complex group (d) Kailash Satyarthi causes the disease……. . 73. If an electron and photon have the same wavelength, then (a) Marasmus they will have the same : (b) Pellagra (a) Velocity (c) Rickets (b) Linear momentum (d) Night-blindness (c) Angular momentum 64. The core of the earth is also known as : (d) Energy (a) Lithosphere 74. Pandit Lachhu Maharaj, who passed away recently, was (b) Mesosphere associated with : (c) Barysphere (a) Flute (d) Centrosphere (b) Table 65. Iron and manganese present as pollutants in water cannot be (c) Kathak removed by……… . (d) Bharatnatyam (a) oxidation followed be settling and filtration 75. A tropical deciduous plant special to the Deccan plateau is : (b) chlorination (a) Teak (c) ion exchange process (b) Shisam (d) lime soda process or manganese zeolite process (c) Sandalwood 66. A pair of contrasting characters controlling the same trait is (d) Sal called: 76. Kalarippayatt is the martial art of which State of? (a) factors (a) Madhya Pradesh (b) Loci (b) Mizoram (c) Allele (c) Nagaland (d) Lineage (d) Kerala 67. The antiparticle of an electron is : 77. Leptospirosis is a disease caused by : (a) Positron (a) Virus (b) Proton (b) Fungus (c) Alpha particles (c) Protozoa (d) Beta particles (d) None 68. The polar regions are sparsely populated because of : 78. The most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust is : (a) lack of minerals (a) Zinc (b) unsuitable climatic conditions (b) Copper (c) infertile land (c) Aluminium (d) mountainous topography (d) Iron 69. Algal bloom results from : 79. Hepatitis affects which organ of the human body? For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 4

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(a) Liver 89. In bio fortification technique plant breeders use breeding to (b) Pancreas overcome: (c) Spleen a) Loss due to insect pests (d) Small intestine b) Decrease in food production 80. Mohammed Shahid, who recently passed away, was c) Deficiencies of micronutrients and vitamins associated with which sport? d) Loss due to plant diseases (a) Badminton 90. Which institution has the final authority to interpret the (b) Hockey ? (c) Football a) Parliament (d) Cricket b) 81. A ‘Market Economy’ is one which : c) President (a) is controlled by the Government d) Attorney general of India (b) is free from the government control 91. Which institution is known as ‘Soft Loan Window’ of World (c) in influenced by international market forces Bank? (d) All of these (a) IDBI 82. The novelist, poet and critic of which language has been (b) IDA conferred with Jnanpith Award for 2015? (c) IMF (a) Bengali (d) RBI (b) Telugu 92. Which curve shows the inverse relationship between (c) Odia unemployment and inflation rates? (d) Gujarati (a) Supply curve 83. The ‘Cabinet Mission’ of 1946 was led by : (b) Indifference curve (a) Lord Linlithgow (c) IS curve (b) Lord Mountbatten (d) Phillips curve (c) Sir Pethic Lawrence 93. The longest sea beach in India is : (d) Sir Mountford (a) Chapora beach 84. Mount Abu is a hill station located in……… ranges. (b) Diu beach (a) Vindhya (c) Aksa beach (b) Satpuda (d) Marina beach (c) Aravalli 94. The Jammu and State Legislative Assembly has a (d) Sahyadri tenure of…….. 85. The only perennial river in Peninsular India is……….. . (a) 6 years (a) Godavari (b) 5 years (b) Kaveri (c) 4 years (c) (d) 7 years (d) Bhima 95. Which one of the following Committees is described as the 86. Which one of the following forms the base of vegetable ‘twin sister’ of the Estimates Committee? fibres? (a) Public Accounts Committee (a) Cellulose (b) Committee on Public Undertakings (b) Proteins (c) Departmental Standing Committee (c) Fats (d) Privilege Committee (d) Oils 96. Potato is a : 87. A particle is thrown vertically upward. When it reaches the (a) Root highest point, it has……… . (b) Stem (a) a downward acceleration (c) Bud (b) an upward acceleration (d) Fruit (c) a downward velocity 97. English education was introduced in India by : (d) a horizontal velocity (a) Curzon 88. CPU Scheduler is also known as….. . (b) Macaulay (a) Job Scheduler (c) Dalhousie (b) Resource Scheduler (d) Bentick (c) Short-term Scheduler 98. Short term contractions and expansions in economic activity (d) Process Scheduler are called………. For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 5

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(a) Expansions (d) Hindi (b) Recession 108. Ultraviolet radiation in the stratosphere is absorbed by : (c) Deficits (a) So2 (d) The business cycle (b) Ozone 99. Which one of the following region is most rich in coal (c) Oxygen deposits? (d) Argon (a) Brahmaputra valley 109. All isotopes of the same element have……. (b) Damodar valley (a) different atomic numbers and different atomic mass (c) Mahanadi valley (b) different atomic numbers and the same atomic mass (d) Godavari valley (c) the same atomic number but different atomic masses 100. Rainfall caused by intense evaporation in equatorial areas is (d) the same atomic number and the atomic mass called : 110. Nitric acid does not react with : (a) Orographic rainfall (a) Gold (b) Cyclonic rainfall (b) Copper (c) Frontal rainfall (c) Zinc (d) Convectional rainfall (d) Iron 101. Haematopoiesis is take place in : 111. Nanda devi peak is located in…… State. (a) Lungs (a) (b) Pancreas (b) (c) Liver (c) Uttar Pradesh (d) Bone marrow (d) Sikkim 102. ……..is a hormone that regulates the amount of glucose in 112. Which one of the following industries is known as ‘Sunrise the blood. Industry’? (a) Glucogen (a) Iron and Steel (b) Thyroxine (b) Cotton Textile (c) Oxytocin (c) Information Technology (d) Insulin (d) Tea and coffee 103. Wall Street collapse led to……… 113. The material used in electric heater is : (a) World War II (a) Tungsten (b) Recession (b) Nichrome (c) U.S. attack on Iraq (c) Brass (d) Great Depression (d) Steel 104. Gandhara Art is the combination of : 114. Kutir Jyoti Scheme is associated with : (a) Indo – Roman (a) promoting cottage industry in villages (b) Indo – Greek (b) promoting employment a,ong rural unemployed youth (c) Indo – Islamic (c) providing electricity to rural families living below (d) Indo – China poverty line 105. If electric resistance is to be decreased, then the number of (d) all of these resistances should be connected in : 115. The system of Budget was introduced in India during the (a) Series Viceroyalty of : (b) Parallel (a) Canning (c) Mixed arrangement (b) Dalhousie (d) None of these (c) Ripon 106. Related to computers, what is ‘Wetware’? (d) Elgin (a) Computer programs 116. Which river in the Southern Peninsula has the second largest (b) Circuitory river basin in India? (c) Human brain (a) Godavari (d) Chemical storage devices (b) Krishna 107. Indira Goswami, the famous editor, poet, scholar and writer (c) Cauvery won the Jnanpith award in which language? (d) Mahanadi (a) Bengali 117. Which among the following has the maximum life span? (b) Odia (a) Eagle (c) Assamese (b) Tortoise For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 6

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(c) Tiger (b) Viscosity and buoyancy (d) Elephant (c) Air current over the liquid and buoyancy 118. Which one of the following is a water soluble vitamin? (d) Up thrust and surface tension (a) A 128. Zeolite is : (b) C (a) Hydrated ferric oxide (c) K (b) Hydrated sodium aluminium silicate (d) D (c) Sodium hexameta phosphate 119. Biofortification is a : (d) Sodium tetra borate (a) method of breeding crops to increase their nutritional 129. The boiling point of liquids vary as : value (a) pressure varies (b) strategy to combat unwanted nutrients in plants (b) temperature varies (c) method of developing resistance to insect pests (c) volume varies (d) method of plant breeding for disease resistance (d) density varies 120. The force which makes a vehicle to stop when break is 130. The largest source of pollution in the world is : applied is called : (a) Herbicides and insecticides (a) Gravitational force (b) Automobile exhausts (b) Vander-walls force (c) Sewage and garbage (c) Frictional force (d) Industrial effluents (d) Co-valant force 131. The country which tops in the production of cocoa is : 121. Synthetic detergents are prepared from : (a) Ghana (a) potassium salts of higher fatty-acids (b) Brazil (b) sodium salts of higher fatty-acids (c) Ivory Coast (c) hydrocarbons of petroleum (d) Nigeria (d) glycerides 132. Increased RBC’s in the blood leads to a condition called : 122. All doubts and disputes in connection with election of the (a) Anemia President are inquired into and decided by……… (b) Haemophilia (a) the Election Commission (c) Polycythemia (b) the Supreme Court (d) Leukaemia (c) the Parliament 133. The spring balance works on the principle of…….. (d) the Prime Minister (a) Boyle’s Law 123. The Taj Mahal is called ‘a dream in marble’. Which (b) Hooke’s Law monument is called as ‘a dream in stone’? (c) Bernoulli’s principle (a) The Rang Mahal (d) Pascal’s Law (b) The Panch Mahal 134. If there were no gravity, which of the following will not be (c) The Red Fort there for a fluid? (d) The Bahai temple (a) Viscosity 124. Sex-ratio in India is measured as : (b) Surface Tension (a) Number of males per thousand females (c) Pressure (b) Number of females per thousand males (d) Upward Thrust (c) Number of males per hundred females 135. Calcium salts used as fertilizer is : (d) Number of females per hundred males (a) Calcium Carbide 125. Companion cells are unique to : (b) Calcium Carbonate (a) Bryophytes (c) Calcium Cyanide (b) Pteridophytes (d) Calcium Sulphate (c) Angiosperms 136. The Jawaharlal Nehru Award is given for……. (d) Gymnosperms (a) Government service 126. Which one of the following is an insulator? (b) Literary work (a) Copper (c) International understanding (b) Wood (d) Social work (c) Mercury 137. Which of the following is called ‘Queen of the Adriatic’? (d) Aluminium (a) Venice 127. Bubbles of air rise up through liquids due to : (b) Rome (a) Surface tension and adherence (c) Flanders For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 7

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(d) Lisbon (c) A private enterprise located in Bihar 138. The liberation of oxygen during photosynthesis is due to : (d) A non Government organization (a) Hydrolysis of carbohydrates 148. Which is the highest gallantry Award in India? (b) Photolysis of water (a) Vir Chakra (c) Reduction of CO2 (b) Param Vishist Seva Medal (d) Breakdown of chlorophyll (c) Kirti Chakra 139. Formic acid is produced by…….. (d) Param Vir Chakra (a) White ants 149. Who was recently appointed as the first woman president of (b) Cockroaches Napal? (c) Red ants (a) Sita Subedi (d) Mosquitoes (b) Pampha Bhusal 140. Which one of the following forms of phosphorus is most (c) Urmila Rana reactive? (d) Bidhya Devi Bhandari (a) Black phosphorus 150. In which field is Pulitzer Prize awarded for outstanding (b) White phosphorus work? (c) Violet phosphorus (a) Environment study (d) Red phosphorus (b) Science and Technology 141. Who was the revolutionary leader who ended his days as a (c) Literature and Journalism Swami of Ramakrishna Mission? (d) International Understanding (a) Ajit Singh 151. Why is Carbon Monoxide a pollutant? (b) Aurobindo Ghosh (a) Reacts with hemoglobin (c) Jatindranath Bandopadhyay (b) Makes nervous system inactive (d) Hemachandra Kanungo (c) It reacts with Oxygen 142. The “Red Shirts” movement was led by: (d) It inhibits glycolysis (a) Maulana Azad 152. Why is Rann Of Kutch of India famous for? (b) Mohammed Ali (a) Tidal and flats (c) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (b) Fertile soil (d) Asfaqulla Khan (c) Dense Vegetation 143. In the context of non-conventional energy, what is the (d) All are correct meaning of ‘OTE’? 153. Commercial banks lend to which of the following Priority (a) Ocean Tidal Energy sectors? (b) Ocean Thermal Energy (a) Heavy Industries (c) Ocean Tidal Electricity (b) Agriculture, Small scale industries (d) Other Thermal Energy (c) Foreign Companies 144. The atomic bomb is based on the principle of: (d) State government in emergency situation (a) Uncontrolled nuclear fusion 154. What is the accounting year of the Reserve Bank of India? (b) Uncontrolled nuclear fission (a) April-March (c) Controlled nuclear fission (b) July-June (d) Controlled nuclear fusion (c) October-September 145. Systems running more than one process concurrently are (d) January-December called………….. 155. Which of the following is a tertiary activity? (a) Multiprocessing (a) Farming (b) Multiprogramming (b) Manufacturing (c) Real time (c) Dairying (d) Batch processing (d) Trading 146. Butter is colloid formed when: 156. The compound used in prickly-heat powder to prevent (a) Proteins are dispersed in water excessive sweating is : (b) Water is dispersed in fat (a) Boric acid (c) Fat globules are dispersed in water (b) Phosphoric acid (d) Carbohydrates are dissolved in water (c) Carbonic acid 147. What is Damodar Valley Corporation? (d) Sulphonic acid (a) Statutory body 157. Which of the following is least likely to be an effect of global (b) Municipal Corporation looking after Damodar Valley warming? For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 8

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(a) Increased frequency of hurricanes (d) Saluva (b) Loss of fertile delta region as for agriculture 167. Which of the following sultans died while playing Polo or (c) Decreased rate of photosynthesis in vegetation Chaugan? (d) Shrinking of the polar ice regions (a) Qutb-ud-din-Aibak 158. Which state in India has introduced FAT tax on junk food? (b) Balban (a) Rajasthan (c) Iltutmish (b) Kerala (d) Nasiruddin Muhammad (c) 168. Molten rock below the surface of the earth is called…….. (d) Bihar (a) Basalt 159. Gandhiji’s first Satyagraha in India was held at……… . (b) Laccolith (a) Champaran (c) Lava (b) Ahmedabad (d) Magma (c) Kheda 169. What is the position of the Earth when it is at the greatest (d) Allahabad distance from the sun? 160. Golden Quadrilateral Project for the development of National (a) Aphelion Highways was initiated by : (b) Antipode (a) P.V. Narasimha Rao (c) Perihelion (b) I. K. Gujral (d) Aldiatc (c) Manmohan Singh 170. Which of the following causes rainfall during winters in the (d) Atal Bihari Vajpayee north-western part of India? 161. Which of the following sources has the largest share in power (a) Western disturbances generation in India? (b) Cyclonic depression (a) Atomic power (c) Southwest monsoon (b) Thermal power (d) Retreating monsoon (c) Hydro power 171. The ‘Blue Water policy’ was introduced by the Portugese (d) Wind power leader: 162. National Income of India is compiled by : (a) Franscisco-de-Almeida (a) Finance Commission (b) Alfonso de Albuquerque (b) Indian Statistical Institute (c) Francis Caron (c) National Development Council (d) Francis Martin 172. Who among the following is not a member of the National Central statistical Organization Development Council? 163. Zubin Mehta is associated with………. (a) The Prime Minister (a) Literature (b) The Member of NITI Aayog (b) Painting (c) The Chief Ministers of States (c) Music (d) The President of India (d) Journalism 173. ……changes each time it is installed to avoid detection by 164. The minimum short-term natural hazard is….. antivirus software. (a) blizzard (a) Polymorphic virus (b) earthquake (b) worm (c) volcanic eruption (c) logic bomb (d) bolt of lightning (d) trojan horse 165. DOTS is a treatment given to patients suffering from……….. 174. Which one of the following weeds is effective in controlling (a) Polio water pollution caused by industrial effluents? (b) AIDS (a) Parthenium (c) Hepatitis (b) Elephant grass (d) Tuberculosis (c) Water hycinth 166. Which dynasty was ruling in Vijaynagar empire at the time (d) Mogar grass of the Battle of Talikota? 175. One of the following is also called as World Bank: (a) Sangam (a) IMF (b) Aniridu (b) IBRD (c) Tuluva (c) WTO (d) IDA For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 9

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176. The book entitled, ‘Playing it my way’ has been authored by: 186. Among the following States, …….. has the lowest birth rate (a) Sachin Tendulkar in India. (b) V.V.S. Laxman (a) Kerala (c) Saurav Ganguly (b) Uttar Pradesh (d) Chetan Chauhan (c) Bihar 177. The depletion in Ozone layer is caused by……. (d) West Bengal (a) Nitrous oxide 187. The Secretarial of SAARC is set up at……. (b) Carbon dioxide (a) Washington (c) Chlorofluorocarbons (b) Kathmandu (d) Methane (c) Hague 178. Sariska and Ranthambore are the reserves for which of the (d) New following? 188. The outermost range of Himalayas is called……… (a) Lion (a) Kali (b) Deer (b) Shiwaliks (c) Tiger (c) Dehradun (d) Dear (d) Kumaon 179. The prestigious ‘Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International 189. Who is generally considered to be the father of the Indian Understanding’ is instituted by : Renaissance? (a) National Centre for Art and Culture (a) (b) Department of Youth and Sports (b) Raja Rammohan Roy (c) Nehru Memorial Museum (c) Mahatma Phule (d) Indian Council for Cultural relations (d) M.G.Ranade 180. Phosphorus is kept in water because: 190. The longest river of peninsular India is: (a) its ignition temperature is very high (a) Narmada (b) its ignition temperature is very low (b) Godavari (c) its critical temperature is high (c) Mahanadi (d) its critical temperature is low (d) Cauvery 181. Which of the following is an example of Cartel? 191. ……….gives hardness to stainless steel. (a) OPEC (a) Zinc (b) IMF (b) Lead (c) WTO (c) Carbon (d) UNO (d) Tin 182. Sullage water is………. 192. Which of the following is responsible for transport of food (a) Waste water released from kitchen and other substances in planes? (b) Waste water released from toilets (a) Xylem (c) Waste water released from factories (b) Phloem (d) Waste water released hospitals (c) Chloroplast 183. Who was the first woman Chief Minister Uttar Pradesh? (d) None of these (a) Annie Besant 193. Trickle down theory ignores the impact of economic growth (b) Mayawati on : (c) Vijayalakshmi Pandit (a) Investment (d) Sucheta Kriplani (b) Savings 184. The most pure form of carbon among the options is: (c) Income distribution (a) Anthracite (d) Consumption (b) Lampblack 194. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India does not audit (c) Graphite the receipts and expenditure of: (d) Wood Charcoal (a) Central Government 185. Chalukya tenples (Jain temples) at Dilwara are situated in: (b) Local Bodies (a) Madhya Pradesh (c) State Government (b) Uttar Pradesh (d) Government Companies (c) Rajasthan 195. In which year did the Kakori conspiracy case take place? (d) (a) 1925 (b) 1924 For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 10

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(c) 1926 205. Where is the Great Barrier Reef located? (d) 1927 (a) Pacific Ocean 196. The biogas used for cooking is a mixture of which of the (b) Indian Ocean following? (c) Atlantic Ocean (a) Carbon dioxide and oxygen (d) Arctic Ocean (b) Isobutane and propane 206. In a Parliamentary form of Government…………. (c) Methane and carbon monoxide (a) The Legislature is responsible to the Judiciary (d) Methane and carbon dioxide (b) The Executive is responsible to the legislature 197. From the following, who was the first women speaker of Lok (c) The Legislature is responsible to the Executive Sabha? (d) The Judiciary is responsible to the Legislature (a) Sushma Swaraj 207. Which of the following statements is correct about the (b) Margret Alva President of India? (c) Meera Kumar (a) Addresses first session of Parliament after each (d) Sarojini Naidu General Election. 198. Which of the following wind is blowing from the (b) Addresses first session of Parliament at the beginning of Mediterranean sea to the North Western parts of India? each year (a) Western disturbances (c) Addresses every session of Parliament (b) Norwesters (d) Never addresses Parliament (c) Loo 208. Which State in India has the largest coastline? (d) Mango showers (a) Tamil Nadu 199. Azolla increases soil fertility for: (b) Andhra Pradesh (a) maize cultivation (c) Gujarat (b) wheat cultivation (d) West Bengal (c) barley cultivation 209. Jog falls in is located over which river? (d) rice cultivation (a) Kaveri 200. Which of the following is not provided in the constitution? (b) Godavari (a) Election Commission (c) Saraswati (b) Finance Commission (d) Krishna (c) Public Service Commission 210. In which of the following market forms, a firm does not (d) Planning Commission exercise control over price? 201. What is the popular name of Monolithic rock shrines at (a) Monopoly Mahabalipuram? (b) Perfect competition (a) Rathas (c) Oligopoly (b) Prasadas (d) Monopolistic competition (c) Mathika 211. Charcoal can be made at home by burning: (d) Gandhakuti (a) Wood in absence of air 202. What is the name of the device used to convert alternating (b) Coal in absence of air current into direct current? (c) Coal in an insufficient supply of air (a) Ammeter (d) Wood in an insufficient supply of air (b) Galvanometer 212. Depletion of ozone layer causes: (c) Rectifier (a) Breast cancer (d) Transformer (b) Skin cancer 203. Why does ice covered in sawdust not melt quickly? (c) Lung cancer (a) Sawdust does not allow the air to touch the ice (d) Blood cancer (b) The water is absorbed by sawdust 213. SMOG is a combination of: (c) Sawdust is a bad conductor of heat (a) Air and water Vapour (d) Sawdust is good conductor of heat (b) Water and smoke 204. Which layer of the earth’s atmosphere contains the ozone (c) Fire and water layer? (d) Smoke and fog (a) Troposphere 214. The washing machine works on the principle of……… (b) Mesosphere (a) Dialysis (c) Ionosphere (b) Diffusion (d) Stratosphere (c) Reverse osmosis For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 11

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(d) Centrifugation (d) No-confidence motion 215. Which is not an external storage device? 224. The major objective of monetary policy is to : (a) CD-ROM (a) increase government’s tax revenue (b) DVD-ROM (b) revamp the Public Distribution System (c) Pen Drive (c) promote economic growth with price stability (d) RAM (d) weed out corruption in the economy 216. Which of the following is the correct description of the term 225. The only viceroy to be assassinated in India was : sex-ratio as used in the context of the census of population? (a) Lord Harding (a) Number of males per 1000 females (b) Lord Northbrook (b) Number of females per 1000 males (c) Lord Ellenborough (c) Number of females per 100 males (d) Lord Mayo (d) Number of females in a sample of 1000 persons 226. Which one is not the main objective of fiscal policy in India? 217. The atomic power station in Rajasthan is situated at: (a) To increase liquidity in the economy (a) Pokhran (b) To promote price stability (b) Suratgarh (c) To minimize the inequalities of income and wealth (c) Rawatbhata (d) To promote employment opportunity (d) Chittorgarh 227. Who was the founder of the Theosophical Society? 218. The Sahitya Akademi Awards are given for best writings in (a) Justice Ranade how many Indian languages? (b) Madam Blavatsky (a) 12 (c) Annie Besant (b) 15 (d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (c) 20 228. India recently signed land boundary agreement with which (d) 24 country? 219. Right to Privacy comes under……. (a) China (a) Article 19 (b) Nepal (b) Article 20 (c) Bhutan (c) Article 21 (d) Bangladesh (d) Article 18 229. Who among the following Indians is one who has been 220. The foreign traveler who visited India during the reign of selected on july 27,for the Ramon Magsaysay Award, 2016? Shahjahan was….. (a) Bezwade Wilson (a) Thomas Roe (b) Kailash Satyarthi (b) William Hawkins (c) Kiran Bedi (c) Ibn Batuta (d) (d) Manucci 230. The first Field Marshall in India was : 221. The GST (Goods and Services Tax), recently passed by (a) A.S. Vaidya Government will be levied on which of the following (b) K.M. Cariappa products? (c) Sunderji (a) Petroleum crude (d) S.H.F.J. Manekshaw (b) Tobacco 231. “Earth provides enough to satisfy everyman’s need but not (c) Natural Gas everyman’s greed”. Who said this? (d) Aviation Turbile Fuel (a) Guru Nanak Dev 222. In India which of the following taxes is levied by the State (b) Mahatma Gandhi governments? (c) Pope Paul VI (a) Excise duty on liquor (d) Smt. Indira Gandhi (b) Capital gains tax 232. Who won the first medal for India at the Rio Olympics? (c) Customs tax (a) Babita Kumari (d) Corporation tax (b) Narsingh Yadav 223. After question hour, a motion moved by a Member of (c) P.V. Sindhu Parliament to drew the attention of Executive of for (d) discussing a definite matter of public importance is: 233. The most serious air pollutant causing health hazard is : (a) Privilege motion (a) Sulphur dioxide (b) Calling attention Motion (b) Carbon monoxide (c) Adjournment motion (c) Ozone For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 12

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(d) Nitrogen oxide (c) Southern blotting 234. Helium is added to the oxygen supply of deep sea divers (d) Cloning because it is ………. 244. Morphology of Chromosomes can be best studied at: (a) less poisonous than nitrogen (a) Interphase (b) lighter than nitrogen (b) Prophase (c) readily miscible with oxygen (c) Metaphase (d) less soluble in blood than nitrogen at high pressure (d) Zygotene 235. Terylene is a condensation polymer of ethylene glycol and 245. The ‘Choke’ used with a tube light is basically………… which acid? (a) An inductor (a) Benzoic Acid (b) A capacitor (b) Salicylic acid (c) A transformer (c) Phthalic acid (d) A resistor (d) Terephthalic acid 246. Curie is a unit of ……. . 236. In IT, ……….. means that the data available in the database (a) Radioactivity is both accurate and consistent. (b) Energy of Gamma rays (a) Data Security (c) Intensity of Gamma rays (b) Data Availability (d) Work function (c) Data Binding 247. In Networks, WEP stands for: (d) Data Integrity (a) Wireless Equivalent Privacy 237. Abdul Fazal was the son of which Sufi saint? (b) Wired Extra Privacy (a) Sheikh Mubarak (c) Wired Equivalent Privacy (b) Hazarat Khwaja (d) Wireless Embedded Privacy (c) Nasiruddin Chirag 248. For extinguishing fire, we use…… (d) Baba Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki (a) Hydrogen 238. French revolution broke out in the year: (b) Carbon Monoxide (a) 1917 (c) Carbon Dioxide (b) 1911 (d) Marsh gas (c) 1789 249. The chemical name of quartz is………. (d) 1790 (a) Calcium oxide 239. The song “Vande Mataram” occurs in the book………. (b) Calcium phosphate (a) Geetanjali (c) Sodium phosphate (b) Anandmath (d) Sodium silicate (c) Indian People 250. Continuous chain of mountains that rise abruptly more or less (d) Poverty and Un-British Rule in India parallel to the coastline of India is: 240. Which mosquito is the carrier of Zika virus? (a) Aravalli (a) Culex (b) Sutpura (b) Aedes (c) Eastern ghats (c) Anopheles (d) Western ghats (d) Culiseta 251. The biggest reserves of thorium are in……….. 241. Geothermal energy is maximum utilized in………. (a) China (a) Iceland (b) USA (b) New Zealand (c) India (c) Russia (d) France (d) Japan 252. Which of the following became the first country in the world 242. Root cap is derived from: to legalise euthanasia? (a) Dermatogen (a) Belgium (b) Calyptrogen (b) Nathelands (c) Protoderm (c) Denmark (d) Histogen (d) Canada 243. The blotting technique used to identify the isolated protein 253. Which of the following countries won Euro Cup 2016 is…….. (football)? (a) Northern blotting (a) France (b) Western blotting (b) Germany For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 13

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(c) Portugal b) President (d) Iceland c) Prime minister 254. Shivkumar Sharma is famous playing the…….. d) Parliament (a) Sitar 264. What is the name of the deadly volcano in Indonesia that (b) Flute erupted again in May 2016? (c) Santoor (a) Mount Singabung (d) Table (b) Mount Merapi 255. Who among the following is popularly known as ‘Blade (c) Mount Rinjani Runner’? (d) Mount Agung (a) Usain Bolt 265. The world’s largest and deepest rail tunnel Gotthard Base (b) Oscar Carl Pistorious Tunnel is located in which country? (c) Carl Lewis (a) Belgium (d) Ben Johnson (b) Austria 256. FCRA administered by the Ministry of Home Affairs stands (c) Switzerland for…….. (d) Sweden (a) Foreign Currency Regulation Act 266. SIDO is related to the development of. (b) Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (a) Small industries (c) Foreign Contract Regulation Act (b) Steel Industry (d) Foreign Cartel Restriction Act (c) Soap Industry 257. Silver gets corroded due to …..to air. (d) Sugar Industry (a) Oxygen 267. The Wheeler Island has been renamed as : (b) Hydrogen Sulphide (a) Vikram Sarabhai island (c) Cardon dioxide (b) Satish Dhawan island (d) Nitrogen (c) Abdul kalam island 258. Which of the following is a radioactive element? (d) C.V. Raman island (a) Cobalt 268. Which is the biggest building at Mohenjodaro? (b) Uranium (a) Great Bath (c) Argon (b) Great Granary (d) Chromium (c) Assembly Hall 259. Right to Constitutional Remedies comes under ………. (d) Rectangular Building (a) Legal rights 269. The transfer of minerals from top soil to subsoil through soil- (b) Fundamental rights water is called : (c) Human rights a) Percolation (d) Natural rights b) Conduction 260. Which of the digestive organs contains acid? c) Leaching (a) Stomach d) Transpiration (b) Small intestine 270. Heat is transmitted from higher temperature to lower (c) Appendix temperature through the actual motion of the molecules in: (d) Colon a) Conduction 261. Which country is separated from India by a narrow channel b) Convection of sea formed by the Palk Strait and the Gulf of Mannar? c) Radiation (a) Bangladesh d) Both conduction and convection (b) Myanmar 271. Polio is caused by: (c) Sri Lanka a) Bacteria (d) Pakistan b) Virus 262. Which of the following fibres is considered as the strongest c) Fungus natural fibre? d) Protozoa (a) Cotton 272. Which country is in the process of building the largest single (b) Jute aperture radio telescope- FAST? (c) Wool a) Japan (d) Silk b) China 263. Appointments for all Indian Services are made by: c) USA a) UPSC d) Russia For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 14

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273. The kovvada nuclear park project is proposed to be setup in (c) Newton’s third law of motion which state? (d) Newton’s first law of motion a) Rajasthan 283. Which of the following statement is true? b) Uttar Pradesh (a) A Primary key is also a candidate key c) Andhra Pradesh (b) Each relation has at least one foreign key d) Karnataka (c) Foreign keys can’t have null values 274. Fixed foreign exchange rate can be changed by: (d) A Primary key is also an alternate key a) RBI 284. Which of the following is used as non-stick coating for b) SEBI cooking utensils? c) Ministry of finance (a) Perspex d) FIPB (b) Styrofoam 275. Tax on inheritance is called……… (c) Polystyrene (a) Excise duty (d) Teflon (b) Estate duty 285. “Tsunami” is the name given to which of the following? (c) Gift tax (a) Earthquake (d) Sales tax (b) Cyclone 276. Who among the following was the first grammarian of the (c) Tidal Waves Sanskrit language? (d) Undersea Waves (a) Kalhana 286. In hydel power station, the motion produced in turbines is (b) Maitreyi due to : (c) Kalidasa (a) flow of water (d) Panini (b) burning of coal 277. The term ‘dumping; refers to : (c) burning of diesel (a) the sale of a substandard commodity (d) production of steam (b) sale in a foreign market of a commodity at a price 287. Which of the following gases is known as “Laughing Gas”? below marginal cost (a) Nitrous oxide (c) sale in a foreign market of a commodity just at marginal (b) Nitrogen peroxide cost with too much of profit (c) Nitrogen (d) smuggling of goods without paying any customs duty (d) Nitric oxide 278. When does the sun shine vertically on the Equator? 288. The ‘solid waste’ is also known as : (a) Throughout the year (a) Sedge (b) For six months (b) Toxic waste (c) Twice a year (c) Sludge (d) Once a year (d) Scrubber 279. Lichen is an association between which of the two? 289. If waste materials contaminate the source of drinking water, (a) Algae and fungus which of the following diseases will spread? (b) Algae and tree (a) Scurvy (c) Fungus and tree (b) Typhoid (d) Bacteria and legume plant (c) Malaria 280. Among the given nutrients, milk is a poor source of which of (d) Anaemia the following? 290. Kalamkari painting refers to : (a) Vitamin ‘C’ (a) a hand painted cotton textile in (b) Calcium (b) a handmade drawing on bamboo handicrafts in (c) Protein North-East India (d) Carbohydrate (c) a block painted woolen cloth in Western Himalayan 281. What is Pepper plant? region of India (a) Bush (d) a hand painted decorative silk cloth North-Western India (b) Shrub 291. Which of the following areas make the largest contribution to (c) Vine national income in India? (d) Tree (a) Industry 282. Why does a cannon recoil after firing? (b) Services (a) Conservation of energy (c) Agriculture (b) Backward thrust of gases produced (d) Mining For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 15

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292. Chachnama records the history of which conquest? a) B (a) Kushanas b) AB (b) Hunas c) A (c) Arabs d) O (d) Greeks 302. What is the total strength of the ? 293. The deepest trench of the Indian Ocean is : (a) 250 (a) Java trench (b) 260 (b) Aleutian trench (c) 270 (c) Atacama trench (d) 280 (d) Tizard trench 303. Which of the following is done at a Stock Exchange? 294. “Abhivan Bharat” was founded in 1904 as a secret society of (a) Commodities are bought and sold at wholesale price revolutionaries by : (b) Commodities are bought and sold at retail price (a) Damodar Chapekar (c) Securities are bought and sold (b) V.D. Savarkar (d) None of these (c) Praffula Chaki 304. Which of the following is India’s military offensive against (d) Khudiram Bose Pakistan in the Kargil war? 295. Ideal of welfare state are contained in : (a) Operation Kargil (a) Fundamental Rights (b) Operation LOC (b) Directive Principles of State Policy (c) Operation Vijay (c) Preamble of the constitution (d) Operation Success (d) Part VII 305. Who gave the title ‘Nightingale of India’ to Sarojini Naidu? 296. Which of the following is called the ‘Land of the Golden (a) Jawaharlal Nehru Pagoda’? (b) Rabindranath Tagore (a) Myanmar (c) Rajendra Prased (b) China (d) Mahatma Gandhi (c) Japan 306. The headquarters of RBI is in : (d) North Korea (a) Delhi 297. Which Indian author in May 2016 won the prestigious 2016 (b) Kanpur scholastic Asian Book Award for her work ‘Codex: The Lost (c) Mumbai Treasure of the Indus’? (d) Nasik (a) Anita Desai 307. Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana has now been (b) Aditi Krishna Kumar restructured as : (c) Rupa Iyer (a) Prime Minister’s Rojgar Yojna (d) Preethi Nair (b) National Rural Livelihoods Mission 298. Pneumonia is a bacterial disease caused by the type of (c) Jawahar Gram Samriddhi Yojana bacteria called………. . (d) Sampoorna Gramin Rojgar Yojana (a) Bacilli 308. Neeraj Chopra is associated with which sports? (b) Cocci (a) Kabaddi (c) Sprilli (b) Cricket (d) Vibrio (c) Javelin Throw 299. Intensive cultivation refers to : (d) Wrestling (a) production with intensive use of labour 309. Which of the following is not a commercial source of (b) production with intensive use of fertilizer energy? (c) raising production by intensive use of existing land (a) Coal (d) raising production by large scale use of imported inputs (b) Petroleum 300. Upon winning Wimbledon Women’s Tennis Tournament (c) Natural Gas 2016, Serena Williams equaled record 22 Grand Slam wins (d) Firewood of : 310. Who is the runners-up in the recently held UEFA Euro-16? a) Martina Navratilova (a) Germany b) Steffi Graf (b) Portugal c) Martina Hingis (c) France d) Maria Sharapova (d) U.K. 301. A universal donor has the blood group : For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 16

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311. Taoism, is an ancient tradition of Philosophy and religious (c) Grass belief deeply rooted in : (d) Town (a) Taiwanese custom and world view 321. The chemical that is used to ripen mangoes is : (b) Chinese custom and world view (a) Calcium sulphide (c) Japanese custom and world view (b) Calcium carbide (d) Vietnamese custom and world view (c) Calcium carbonate 312. Which of the following is an emergency hormone in humans? (d) Calcium chloride (a) Thyroxine 322. The term ‘Smasher’ is associated with which sport? (b) Insulin (a) Hockey (c) Adrenalin (b) Boxing (d) Progesterone (c) Volley Ball 313. Beginning from the Financial Year 2017-18 NITI Ayog plans (d) Cricket to replace the 5 year with which of the following? 323. ………involves traversing the entire file system, marking (a) 5 year Vision Document everything that can be accessed. (b) 10 year Vision Document (a) Index pointer (c) 15 year Vision Document (b) Garbage collection (d) 20 year Vision Document (c) File system s 314. The connective tissue that connects a muscle to a bone is : (d) Stack pointer (a) Cartilage 324. Nylon threads are made of (b) Ligament (a) Polyester polymer (c) Tendon (b) Polyamide polymer (d) Interstitial fluid (c) Polyvinyl polymer 315. Indian Citizenship is granted by : (d) Polysaccharide (a) The president of India 325. The longest railway line in the world connects……….. . (b) The prime Minister (a) New York and Seattle (c) The Minister of Home Affairs (b) Leningrad and Vladivostok (d) The Minister of External affairs (c) Trivandrum and Guwahati 316. Which of the following taxes is levied by the State (d) Perth and Sydney Government only? 326. The people of the Indus valley civilization worshipped (a) Wealth tax ………..? (b) Entertainment tax a) Vishnu (c) Income tax b) Pashupati (d) Gift tax c) Indra 317. HDI is an aggregate measure of progress in which of the d) Brahma three dimensions? 327. The Upanishads are the…………? (a) Health, Education, Income a) Great Epics (b) Food Security, Employment, Income b) Story Books (c) Agriculture, Industry, Services c) Source of Hindu philosophy (d) Height, Weight, Colour d) Law Books 318. The Working Committee of National Congress sanctioned 328. Tsangpo is the other name in Tibet for….? the resolution named ‘Quit India’ at: a) Kosi (a) Wardha b) Gandak (b) Nagpur c) Brahmaputra (c) Mumbai d) Ganga (d) Delhi 329. The largest herbarium of India is located at: 319. Preservation of historical articles is done in science of : a) Kolkata (a) Iconography b) (b) Numismatic c) Mumbai (c) Museology d) Coimbatore (d) Epigraphy 330. Temperature of distant luminous bodies can be determined 320. “Alfalfa” is the name of a …… . by: (a) Mineral a) Mercury thermometers (b) Tribe b) Gas thermometers For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 17

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c) Pyrometers (a) Hindustani Music d) Colour thermometers (b) Folk Music 331. In IT terminology failure in the kernel is called as: (c) Chinese Music a) Crash (d) Western Music b) Crash dump c) Dump d) Kernel error 341. Which one among the following components can not be 332. Which of the following institution was not founded by developed within an “integrated circuit”? Mahatma Gandhi? (a) Diode a) Sabarmati ashram (b) Triode b) Sevagarm ashram (c) Transformer c) Vishwa bharti (d) Transistor d) Phoenix ashram 342. What is the transplantation of graft between genetically 333. Which of the following state has become India’s first carbon identical individuals? free state? (a) Autograft a) Himachal Pradesh (b) Isograft b) Madhya Pradesh (c) Allograft c) Uttar Pradesh (d) Xenograft d) Maharashtra 343. is associated with which sport? 334. Energy travels from sun to Earth through: (a) Discus Throw a) Conduction (b) Wrestling b) Convection (c) Shooting c) Radiation (d) Pole Vault d) Modulation 344. Which of the following green house gases has the greatest 335. C.K. Naidu Cup is associated with which of the following heat-trapping ability? sporting events? (a) Chlorofluoro carbon a) Tennis (b) Methane b) Cricket (c) Carbon dioxide c) Hockey (d) Nitrous oxide d) Golf 345. Which State of India is leading in solar energy generation? 336. Pump priming should be resorted to at a time of: (a) Gujarat a) Inflation (b) Rajasthan b) Deflation (c) Haryana c) Stagflation (d) Uttar Pradesh d) Reflation 346. Diamond does not conduct electricity, because : 337. Which is the highest award for gallantry during peacetime? (a) It’s structure is very compact a) Vir chakra (b) It is of crystalline nature b) Param vir chakra (c) There are only carbon atoms present in it c) Ashok chakra (d) No free electrons are present in it d) Mahavir chakra 347. Ganga is a result of confluence of rivers bhagirathi and 338. At barren island, the only active volcano in India is situated Alakananda at which place? in: (a) Dev Prayag a) Andaman islands (b) Karan Prayag b) Nicobar islands (c) Gangotri c) Lakshadweep (d) Rudra Prayag d) Minicoy 348. What are Aldehydes? 339. The minimum age limit for the membership of the Vidhan (a) Mild oxidising agents Parishad is ………. . (b) Strong oxidising agents (a) 21 years (c) Strong reducing agents (b) 25 years (d) Mild reducing agents (c) 30 years 349. Which circuit is used to store one bit of data? (d) 35 years (a) Register 340. Ten thaats or scales, belong to which system of music? For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 18

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(b) Flip Flop (c) Gall bladder (c) Vector (d) Liver (d) Encoder 360. National Anthem of Bangladesh ‘Amar Sonar Bangla’ was 350. Why is weightlessness experienced while orbiting the earth written by : in space ships? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (a) Inertia (b) Sarojini Naidu (b) Acceleration (c) Kazi Nazrul Islam (c) Zero gravity (d) Taslima Nasrin (d) Orbital motion 361. The largest producer of Lac in India is : 351. Which is the largest gland in human body? (a) Chhattisgarh (a) Liver (b) Jharkhand (b) Thyroid (c) West Bengal (c) Pituitary (d) Gujarat (d) Salivary gland 362. Regional Rural Banks are sponsored by : 352. Who was the President of at the (a) Nationalized Commercial Bank time of Indian independence? (b) Reserve Bank of India (a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (c) State Bank of India (b) J. B. Kriplani (d) (c) Jawahar Lal Nehru 363. Removal of carbon particles from air involves the principle (d) Rajendra Prasad of : 353. What is the minimum age for membership to Rajya Sabha? (a) Precipitation (a) 20 years (b) Filteration (b) 25 years (c) Electrophoresis (c) 30 years (d) Sedimentation (d) 35 years 364. Which light is least effective in photosynthesis? 354. What is an octroi? (a) Blue light (a) Tax (b) Green light (b) Tax collection centre (c) Red light (c) Tax processing centre (d) Sunlight (d) Tax information centre 365. Which of the following acts as best adsorbent? 355. Sextant is an instrument used in which of the following? (a) Charcoal (a) Gynaecology (b) Activated Charcoal (b) Navigation (c) Activated Coconut Charcoal (c) Birth control (d) Carbon Black (d) Medical treatment 366. The maximum fixation of solar energy is done by : 356. Which of the following is not correctly matched? (a) Bacteria (a) The Mhakaal temple – Ujjain (b) Protozoa (b) Sringeri Matha – Chikkmanglur district (c) Fungi (c) The Sun Temple – Konark (d) Green plants (d) Jain temples – Khajuraho 367. Harsha moved his capital from……… to……….. . 357. What is Gol Gumbadh? (a) Thanesar , Kannauj (a) Mausoleum of Hyder Ali (b) Delhi , Deogiri (b) Mausoleum of Aurangazeb (c) Kamboj , Kannauj (c) Mausoleum of Chand Bibi (d) Valabhi , Delhi (d) Mausoleum of Mohammed Adil Shah 368. Who is the Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of 358. Where is a transistor most likely to be found? India? (a) Wrist watch (a) Raghu Ram Rajan (b) Fuse (b) Arvind Subramanian (c) Heating aid (c) Rajiv Mahirishi (d) Fluorescent lamp (d) Arvind Pangariya 359. Which organ of human body secretes Insulin? 369. Which type to foreign investment is considered as unsafe? (a) Pancreas (a) Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) (b) Kidney (b) Portfolio investment For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 19

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(c) NRI Deposits (c) Godavari (d) External commercial Borrowing (d) Tapi 370. The Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constituent 380. Babita Kumari represented India in the Rio Olympics 2016 in Assembly of India was : which sport? (a) K.M. Munshi (a) Boxing (b) D.P. Khaitan (b) Wrestling (c) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (c) Hockey (d) T.T. Krishnamachari (d) Badminton 371. Which of the following brings out the ‘Consumer Price Index 381. Which one of the following is commonly used for pulp Number’ for Industrial workers? bleaching in the paper industry? (a) RBI (a) Mild sulphuric acid (b) The Labour Bureau (b) Glucose isomerase (c) Commerce Department (c) Hydrogen peroxide (d) NITI Ayog (d) Iodine and water 372. The basis of determining dearness allowance to employees in 382. The official language of the Delhi Sultanate was : India is…… (a) Urdu (a) National Income (b) Arabic (b) Consumer Price Index (c) Persian (c) Standard of Living (d) Hindi (d) Inflation Rate 383. Yeast is a…..….. . 373. An Indifference curve measures the same level of……… . (a) Bacteria (a) output from two factors (b) Fungi (b) satisfaction from two commodities (c) Algae (c) satisfaction from Income and capital (d) Bryophyte (d) satisfaction from expenditure and savings 384. Mutiny of 1857 was described as the First Indian War of 374. The largest committee of Parliament of India is : Independence by : (a) public accounts committee (a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (b) estimates committee (b) Subhash Chandra Bose (c) committee on public undertakings (c) Bhagat Singh (d) joint parliamentary committee (d) V.D. Savarkar 375. Which of the following State has bicameral legislature? 385. Bandhavgarh National Park is located in which State? (a) Tamil Nadu (a) Maharashtra (b) Punjab (b) Madhya Pradesh (c) Sikkim (c) Gujarat (d) Jammu and Kashmir (d) Jharkhand 376. Cod liver oil from fish is rich in which vitamin? 386. C.P.U. consists of : (a) Vitamin A (a) Arithmetic and Logical unit and Register (b) Vitamin D (b) Arithmetic and Logical unit, Register and Control (c) Vitamin C unit (d) Vitamin B (c) System unit and Memory 377. Isolines joining places of equal rainfall are called……….. . (d) Hard disk and Control unit (a) Isohyets 387. Which of the following is not connective tissue? (b) Isotherms (a) Bone (c) Isobars (b) Cartilage (d) Contours (c) Blood 378. The Swadeshi Boycott Movement is related to : (d) Skeleral muscle (a) Partition of Bengal in 1947 388. The first Commonwealth Games in 1930 was held in which (b) Partition of Bengal in 1905 country? (c) Non cooperation movement in 1921 (a) Australia (d) Partition of Punjab in 1947 (b) England 379. Which river does not form a delta? (c) New Zealand (a) Ganga (d) Canada (b) Brahmputra For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 20

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389. The gentle ‘seaward sloping’ surface from the coasts is (c) New Guinea called……….. (d) Madagascar (a) Continental shelf 399. Sea water is saltier than rain water because : (b) Continental rise (a) Sea animals are salt producing (c) Abyssal plains (b) The air around the sea is saltish (d) Submarine ridges (c) Rivers wash away salts from earth and pour them 390. The aim of Differentiated Interest Scheme was to provide into the sea concessional loans to………. (d) Sea beds have salt producing mines (a) weaker section of the society 400. Pannalal Ghosh played which of the following musical (b) Public Sector Industries instruments? (c) Public Limited Companies (a) Flute (d) big exports (b) Sitar 391. Anemometer is an instrument meant for measuring……….. (c) Violin (a) velocity (d) Santoor (b) air masses 401. Rio Summit is associated with : (c) wind speed (a) Convention on Biological Diversity (d) temperature (b) Green house gases 392. The silver coin ‘tanka’ was introduced by….. (c) Ozone depletion (a) Qutubuddin Aibak (d) Wet lands (b) Iltutmish 402. The source of energy that causes the least global warming is (c) Balban (a) coal (d) Bahram khan (b) Geothermal energy 393. Which of the following international prizes/awards is given (c) Natural Gas for outstanding contribution in the field of Journalism? (d) Petroleum (a) Oscar Award 403. The purest form of water in nature is (b) Booker Prize (a) Rain water (c) Pulitzer Prize (b) Lake water (d) Sullivan Award (c) River water 394. The commonly used coolant in refrigerators is : (d) Sea water (a) Ammonia 404. The constellation 'Sapta Rishi' is known to Westerners as the (b) Nitrogen (a) Seven Monks (c) Freon (b) Alpha Centauri (d) Oxygen (c) Big Dipper 395. The complete form of ‘IC’ in electronics is : (d) Small Bear (a) Internal Circuit 405. Bridge is the technique used in (b) Independent Circuit (a) Athletics (b) Wrestling (c) Integrated Circuit (c) Weight lifting (d) Inbuilt Circuit (d) Karate 396. Who among the following did Gandhiji regard as his political 406. Which of the following books is called the 'Bible of Guru? Socialism'? (a) Mahadev Desai (a) Economics of Welfare (b) Dayanand Saraswati (b) Das Capital (c) Acharya Narendra Dev (c) Value and Capital (d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale (d) Asian Drama 397. Which of the following constitutional Amendment Act, deals 407. Which country recently detonated its first hydrogen bomb? with the Elementary as a Fundamental Right? (a) North Korea th (a) 84 Amendment Act (b) South Korea (b) 85th Amendment Act (c) Iran (c) 86th Amendment Act (d) Libya (d) 87th Amendment Act 408. The Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rojgar Yojna (SJSRY) mainly 398. The World’s largest island is : aims at creating employment opportunities for (a) Greenland (a) both self employment and wage employment in urban (b) Iceland areas For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 21

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(b) self employment in urban areas only (a) Number of chromatids (c) wage employment in urban areas only (b) Structure of genes (d) None of these (c) Number of chromosomes 409. Who is known as the 'Father of Green Revolution' in India? (d) Structure of chromosomes (a) G. Paul 419. Which South Korean author in May 2016 won the 2016 Man (b) Norman Borlaug Booker International Prize for her novel ‘The Vegetarian’? (c) Van Neil a) Hong kang (d) Dr. Mithchell b) Yiyun Li 410. The component used for tuning a radio is basically a variable c) Tami Hoag ____. d) Taya Zinkin (a) Resistor 420. Special Drawing Rights were created by : (b) Condenser (a) IBRD (c) Inductor (b) ADB (d) Transformer (c) IMF 411. Which of the following is not a donor atom? (d) WTO (a) Phosphorus 421. In which of the following State India’s first Green Rail (b) Antimony Corridor was recently launched? (c) Arsenic (a) Karnataka (d) Aluminium (b) Maharashtra 412. Which one of the following party was founded by Subhash (c) Himachal Pradesh Chandra Bose? (d) Tamil Nadu (a) Abhinav Bharat 422. The Andaman is separated from Nicobar by which water (b) Azad Hind Sena body? (c) Revolutionary Army (a) 110 Channel (d) Forward Block (b) 100 Channel 413. 0°K is equivalent to (c) Palk Strait (a) 273°C (d) Gulf of Mannar (b) -273°C 423. The suicidal bags of the cell are : (c) 0°C (a) Lysosomes (d) 100°C (b) Ribosomes 414. The oxygen liberated during photosynthesis comes from (c) Dictyosomes (a) Water (d) Phagosomes (b)Carbon dioxide 424. In arc welding, Argon is used because of its: (c) Glucose (a) Low reactivity with metal (d) Chlorophyll (b) Ability to lower the melting point of the metal 415. First national park of India that was established in 1936 was (c) High flammability named as (d) High calorific value (a) Kanha National Park 425. In India, which city is also known as ‘City of Palaces’? (b) Bharatpur National Park (a) Jaipur (c) Hailey National Park (b) Kolkata (d) Rajaji National Park (c) Gwalior 416. Who is the 1st Indian female amputee to climb Mount (d) Udaipur Everest? 426. Inert geses are : (a) Arunima Sinha (a) Miscible with water (b) Bachendri Pal (b) Not stable (c) Santosh Yadav (c) Chemically unreactive (d) Premlata Agarwal (d) Chemically very active 417. The term 'Higgs Boson' is associated with 427. Chemical name of vinegar is : (a) Nano Technology (a) Acetone (b) Oncology (b) Acetic acid (c) God Particle (c) Formaldehyde (d) Stem Cell Research (d) Ethanol 418. Polyploidy arises due to change in the : 428. Jalikattu is associated with which Indian festival? For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 22

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(a) Onam 438. Which one of the following processes is responsible for the (b) Pongal glittering of air bubble rising through water? (c) Bihu (a) Reflection of light (d) Hornbill (b) Refraction of light 429. Aung San Suu Kyi is the ; (c) Total internal reflection of light (a) Prime Minister of Myanmar (d) Scattering of light (b) President of Myanmar 439. In an optical fibre the signal is transmitted : (c) Foreign Minister of Myanmar (a) in a straight line path (d) Home Minister of Myanmar (b) in a curved path 430. The amount of insurance over provided by Indian Railways (c) due to total internal reflection for passengers at a premium of rupee 1 is : (d) due to refrection (a) 1 lakh 440. In IT, the method for updating the main memory as soon as a (b) 50 thousands word is removed from the cache is called : (c) 10 lakhs (a) Write-through (d) 5 lakhs (b) Write-back 431. The members of the Rajya Sabha are elected by ; (c) Protected-write (a) Elected members of the Legislative Assembly (d) Cache-write (b) Elected members of Legislative Council 441. Which one of the following is not a non-conventional source (c) The people of energy? (d) Lok Sabha (a) Solar Energy 432. Which of these is a dwarf planet? (b) Natural Gas (a) Neptune (c) Wind Energy (b) Titan (d) Tidal Power (c) Eris 442. The space shuttle which took beyond earth (d) Hydra was : 433. The concept of joint sector implies cooperation between : (a) Challenger (a) Public sector and private sector industries (b) Galileo (b) State Government and Central Government (c) Discovery (c) Domestic and Foreign Companies (d) Voyager-2 (d) None of these 443. Selling cost have to be incurred in case of : 434. What was the chief objective of the ‘Wahabi movement’? (a) Perfect Competition (a) Forge cordial relations with the British (b) Monopoly (b) Purify Islam (c) Monopolistic Competition (c) Improve the condition of women (d) None of the given options (d) Adopt rational education 444. The earliest reference to Sati custom is made in which of the 435. The Ghatampur thermal power plant recently approved by following inscriptions? Cabinet is to be setup in : (a) Allahabad Pillar inscription (a) Rajasthan (b) Eran inscription of Bhanugupta (b) Uttar Pradesh (c) Aihole inscription of Pulkesin II (c) Karnataka (d) Bhitan inscription of Skandgupta (d) Madhya Pradesh 445. Which is the heaviest metal among the following? 436. Who among the following is credited with starting the work (a) Gold on plant tissue culture? (b) Silver (a) F.C. Steward (c) Iron (b) P. Maheshwari (d) Copper (c) P. R. White 446. The first Indian citizen to get commercial Pilot’s Licence was (d) Haberlandt (a) Vijaypat Singhania 437. What causes the mottling of the dental enamel? (b) J.R.D. Tata (a) High levels of chlorine in the water (c) Captain Gopinath (b) High levels of nitrate in the water (d) Vijay Mallya (c) High levels of fluorides in the water 447. During fermentation of sugar, the compound which is always (d) High levels of calcium in the water formed is : (a) Methyl Alcohol For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 23

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(b) Ethyl Alcohol (c) The Prime Minister in Consultation with the Election (c) Acetic Acid Commission (d) Ethylene (d) The President in Consultation with the Election 448. Which type of democracy do we following in India? Commission (a) Direct 457. In ……..forests, trees shed their leaves in a particular season. (b) Presidential (a) evergreen (c) Representative (b) mangrove (d) Dictatorship (c) deciduous 449. Social activist Irom Chanu Sharmila, who has recently (d) thorny announced to end 16 year old hunger strike belongs to which 458. The famous poet Amit Khusrau was contemporary of all State? except following : (a) Mizoram (a) Alauddin Khilki (b) Manipur (b) Ghiyasuddin Balban (c) Uttar Pradesh (c) Iltutmish (d) Maharashtra (d) Jaladuddin Khilji 450. The quality or tone of a musical sound produced by a 459. G-20 is the Group of Twenty largest economies represented stringed instrument depends on : by their : (a) frequency of vibration (a) Prime Ministers only (b) length of the strings in the instrument (b) Finance Ministers inly (c) amplitude of vibration (c) Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (d) waveform of the sound (d) Heads of States 451. What did Gandhiji meant by ‘Sarvodaya’? 460. Cache memory works on the principle of…….. . (a) Nonviolence (a) Locality of data (b) Upliftment of untouchables or (b) Locality of reference (c) The birth of a new society based on ethical values (c) Locality of memory (d) Satyagraha (d) Locality of memory and reference 452. When does solar eclipse take place? 461. Where is the headquarters of National Film Archives of India (a) When the sun is between the moon and earth (NFAI) located? (b) When the earth is between the moon and sun (a) Pune (c) When the earth is between the sun and earth (b) Chennai (d) When the moon does not lie on the line joining the (c) Bangalore sun and earth (d) Mumbai 453. Strait of Gibraltar connects which of the following? 462. In India, the Black Revolution is related to the manufacturing (a) Red Sea-Mediterranean Sea of which product? (b) Red Sea-Arabian Sea (a) Charcoal (c) Atlantic Ocean-Mediterranean Sea (b) Crude petroleum (d) Mediterranean Sea-Black Sea (c) Diamond 454. The largest solar power plant in India is located at : (d) Black gram (a) Nagercoil 463. Who introduced Western education? (b) Jaisalmer (a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy (c) Madhapur (b) Lal Bahadur Shastri (d) Ran of kutchh (c) Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose 455. Which of the following was not a purpose for building (d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Farakka Barrage? 464. Bridgmanite is : (a) Checking water flowing into Bangladesh (a) a bridge on the river Thames (b) Checking silting of Kolkata Port (b) name of a game (c) Preventing erosion of Kolkata Port (c) earth’s most abundant mineral (d) Facilitating navigation in Ganga river (d) name of a music 456. Who decides disputes regarding disqualification of members 465. The 18th Asian Games also known as ‘Asiad’ will be held in of Parliament? 2018 in : (a) The Supreme Court (a) Bangkok (b) The Election Commission (b) Jakarta (c) Beijing For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 24

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(d) Seoul (c) Two light nuclei combine to form a heavy nucleus 466. The Asiatic society was established in Calcutta by : (d) A light nucleus breaks up spontaneously (a) Warren Hastings 475. Arrange the following cities in an order from North to South : (b) Sir William Jones a. Bhubaneshwar (c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy b. Chennai (d) Macaulay c. 467. Every hot object emits………. . d. Cochin (a) X-rays (a) 1, 3, 2, 4 (b) visible light (b) 1, 2, 3, 4 (c) infrared rays (c) 1, 2, 4, 3 (d) ultraviolet rays (d) 1, 3, 4, 2 468. Ozone protects biosphere from…….. 476. British achieved political power in India after which of the (a) X-rays following? (b) bamma rays (a) Battle of Plassey (c) ultraviolet rays (b) Battle of Panipat (d) linfrated rays (c) Battle of Buxar 469. Which of the following is/are ‘rain cloud’? (d) Battle of Wndiwash a. Cirrus 477. The number of permanent members of the U.N. security b. Nimbostratus Council is : c. Cumulonimbus (a) 5 d. Altocumulus (b) 15 (a) 1 and 2 (c) 10 (b) 2 and 3 (d) 25 (c) 3 and 4 478. Match list-I with list-II (d) 1 and 4 List-I list-II 470. According to the Indian Constitution, who has the power to A) SARAS 1. Battle tank declare emergency? B) BHISHMA 2. Multipurpose civil Aircraft (a) Prime Minister C) BRAHMOS 3. Satellite (b) President D) INSAT-3C 4. Misslle (c) Chief Justice A B C D (d) Parliament (a) 1 2 3 4 471. Particulates (< 1µ m size) remaining suspended in air (b) 3 2 4 1 indefinitely and transported by wind currents are called : (c) 4 3 1 2 (a) Mists (d) 2 1 4 3 (b) Fumes 479. “World Economic Outlook” report is published by which of (c) Aerosols the following? (d) Smoke (a) IMF 472. The least preferred technique in the disposal of Municipal (b) World Bank Solid Waste is : (c) RBI (a) Incineration (d) UNCTAD (b) Composting 480. Bilateral monopoly situation is : (c) Land filling (a) when there are only two sellers of a product (d) Bricketting (b) when there are only two buyers of a product 473. A bomb explodes on the moon. You will hear its sound on (c) when there is only one buyer and one seller of a earth after……… . product (a) 20 min (d) when there are two buyers and two sellers of a product (b) 2 hours 20 min 481. Lorenz curve shows : (c) 3.7 hours (a) Inflation (d) You cannot hear the sound of explosion (b) Unemployment 474. Which one of the following takes place during a nuclear (c) Income distribution fusion? (d) Poverty (a) A heavy nucleus bombarded by neutrons breaks up 482. The preventive Detention Act curtailed : (b) A heavy nucleus breaks up spontaneously (a) Right to Freedom For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 25

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(b) Right to Equality (c) Keystroke logger (c) Right to Property (d) Logic bomb (d) Education Right 493. Sum appears red in colour at sunrise and sunset due to : 483. Ornithophily is effected by : (a) the fact that sun emits only red colour at that time (a) Snails (b) red light having longer wave length scatters away (b) Bats (c) that sun comes out of the mountains (c) Insects (d) that all other colours scatter away except red (d) Birds 494. What is the main purpose of white blood corpuscles? 484. To which ganaraiya Gautam Buddha belonged? (a) to carry nutrients (a) Shibi (b) to combat infection (b) Shakya (c) to carry oxygen (c) Saurasena (d) to give strength (d) Shabara 495. The layer where the decrease in temperature with increasing 485. Which of the following is not an Igneous Rock? altitude is totally absent is : (a) Dolomite (a) Troposphere (b) Granite (b) Ionosphere (c) Basalt (c) Stratosphere (d) Gabbro (d) Mesosphere 486. Which of the following vitamins help in the absorption of 496. At hill stations, the boiling point of water will be : calcium? (a) same as at sea level (a) Vitamin A (b) less than that at sea level (b) Vitamin D (c) more than that at sea level (c) Vitamin B (d) equal to the melting point of ice (d) Vitamin C 497. Gandhiji’s Satyagraha meant an attachment to the following 487. The outermost layer of sun is called : two elements : (a) Lithosphere (a) Knowledge and religion (b) Chromosphere (b) Truth and non-violence (c) Photosphere (c) Truth and chastity (d) Corona (d) Love for motherland and hate for colonial masters 488. Constantly running system-program processes are known as : 498. What do you mean by ‘Density of Population’? (a) Daemons (a) Ratio of people living below poverty line to total (b) Processes population (c) Process Block (b) Number of persons live per square kilometer (d) Process Control Block (c) Number of persons in a city 489. Which of the following vitamins contain nitrogen? (d) Number of persons living per kilometer (a) Vitamin A 499. Which of the following is not a feature of a capitalist (b) Vitamin B economy? (c) Vitamin C (a) Right to private property (d) Vitamin D (b) Existence of competition 490. Science dealing with study of soil is called : (c) Service motive (a) Pedology (d) Freedom of choice to consumers (b) Pedagogy 500. Sunita Williams is a : (c) Ecology (a) Astronaut (d) Pomology (b) Missile scientist 491. With which sport is P.V. Sindhu associated? (c) Nuclear scientist (a) Shooting (d) Astro physicist (b) Boxing 501. Who is the writer of the famous book ‘Kabuliwala’? (c) Swimming (a) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (d) Badminton (b) Ravindra Nath Tagore 492. Which of the following uses the spawn mechanism to (c) Munshi Prem Chand duplicate itself? (d) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (a) Trojan horse 502. The term ‘bully’ is connected with which sport? (b) Worm (a) Cricket For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 26

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(b) Hockey 512. Which of the following is called ‘the Land of White (c) Badminton Elephants’? (d) Tennis (a) Thailand 503. Who amongst the following wrestlers has been the recipient (b) Africa of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award? (c) Cuba (a) (d) Turkey (b) 513. On April 10, 2016, a huge fire broke out during fireworks (c) Anand Kumar Singh display at one of the following temples of Kerala : (d) Zoravar Singh Faujdar (a) Chhotanikkara temple 504. Siderosis is a disease caused by the inhalation of : (b) Puttingal temple (a) silica dust (c) Vishnuvira temple (b) iron dust (d) Mannarasala temple (c) zinc dust 514. Which of the following games was included in Rio Olympics (d) coal dust after more than 100 years? 505. The term ‘Doab’ means : (a) Diving (a) a land between two mountains (b) Taekwondo (b) a land between two lakes (c) Beach volleyball (c) a land between two rivers (d) Golf (d) a land between two seas 515. One of the following is ‘Labour’ in Economics : 506. Which of the following is used as anaesthetics? (a) A musician performing for a benefit fund (a) N2 (b) A painter working for his own pleasure (b) N2O (c) Reading a book as a hobby (c) CH4 (d) A Mother teaching her own son (d) CO2 516. Which of the following is fish? 507. Clove is obtained from : (a) Jelly fish (a) Root (b) Lobster (b) Stem (c) Salmon (c) Leaves (d) Whale (d) Flower buds 517. The disconnected lines drawn on a map for showing slope : 508. What is Dakshin Gangotri? (a) Bench marks (a) River valley in Andhra Pradesh (b) Contours (b) Unmanned station located in Antarctica (c) Form lines (c) Second source of River Ganga (d) Hachure (d) Island in the Indian Ocean 518. A man standing close to the platform at a railway station 509. Japan is called the ‘Land of the rising sun’ because : experiences a pulling force towards a fast moving train (a) Sun rises there as soon as it sets because of….. (b) Sun always remains in the eastern part of the sky (a) gravitational force between train and man throughout the day in Japan (b) illusion of the man (c) Japan being the Eastern most country in the world, it (c) the centripetal force has the earliest sunrise (d) pressure difference due to fast moving air in between (d) The rays of the sun get reflected from the waters of the 519. The Network is overloaded with enormous data sent by many sea and make the sunrise beautiful in Japan computers within the network. The inability of the network to 510. Who was the first Englishman to appear in the Mughal Court deliver the data is termed as : during Jahangir’s reign? (a) Access control (a) Paul Canning (b) Congestion (b) Captain William Hawkins (c) Error propagation (c) William Edward (d) Deadlock (d) Ralph Fitch 520. Who is referred to as ‘Frontier Gandhi’? 511. Which of the following is usually not an air-pollutant? (a) Sheikh Abdullah (a) Hydrocarbons (b) Manilal Gandhi (b) Sulphur dioxide (c) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (c) Carbon dioxide (d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale (d) Nitrous oxide 521. The weight of an object is maximum : For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 27

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(a) on the equator (d) The gravitational effect of the Moon on the Earth (b) on the surface of the earth 531. The five permanent members of the UN security council are : (c) at the centre of the earth (a) USA, China, france, Russia and Canada (d) on the poles of the earth (b) China, France, Russia, UK and USA 522. Which of the following plays an important role in (c) Japan, Germany, Russia, UK and USA photosynthesis? (d) Germany, China, USA, Russia and UK (a) Chloroplast 532. Which of the following is not correctly paired? (b) Centrosome (a) Sania Mirza - Tennis (c) Tonoplast (b) - Badminton (d) Nematoblast (c) Jhoolan Goswami - cricket 523. The impact of Green Revolution was felt most in the case of : (d) Jeev Milikha Singh - Chess (a) Wheat 533. Aryabhatta and Kalidasa were in the court of which Gupta (b) Rice Emperor? (c) Pulses (a) Kumara Gupta I (d) Oil seeds (b) Chandra Gupta II 524. What is a bank rate? (c) Samudra Gupta (a) Rate at which Central bank of a country advances (d) Skanda Gupta loans to other banks in the country 534. What process takes place during the youthful stage of a river? (b) Rate at which banks advance loans to the customers (a) Valley widening (c) Rate at which banks lend among themselves (b) River rejuvenating (d) Rate at which banks lend to money lenders (c) Valley deepening 525. Which of the following tax systems will help to reduce (d) Meandering economic inequalities in India? 535. During whose Viceroyalty, the capital of India was shifted (a) Regressive Tax from Calcutta to Delhi? (b) Progressive Tax (a) Lord Canning (c) Flat Rate Tax (b) Lord Harding (d) None of these (c) Lord Lytton 526. President on India can be removed from his office by : (d) Lord Clive (a) Prime Minister of India 536. Who among the following was the court physician of (b) Chief Justice of India Kanishka? (c) Parliament (a) Vasumitra (d) Lok Sabha (b) Nagarjuna 527. A broad, low embankment built up along the banks of a river (c) Charaka channel during floods is called : (d) Patanjali (a) Delta 537. The region which is a water divide between the Ganga and (b) Levee Indus river systems is : (c) Flood Plain (a) Haridwar (d) Dune (b) Namchobarva 528. At which stage in its life cycle does the silkworm yield the (c) Alakananda fiber of commercial use: (d) Ambala (a) Larva 538. Subordinate courts are supervised by………… . (b) Egg (a) Supreme Court (c) Pupa (b) District Court (d) Imago (c) High Court 529. Quality of a musical note depends on : (d) Parliament (a) Fundamental frequency 539. Which of the following is the world’s top environmental (b) Amplitude of the wave conservation award? (c) Harmonics present (a) Golden Bear Award (d) Velocity of sound in the medium (b) Golden Panda Award 530. The tides in the sea are primarily due to: (c) Golden Globe Award (a) The atmospheric effect of the Earth (d) Golden Palms Award (b) The gravitational effect of Venus on the Earth 540. A galvanometer can be converted to a voltmeter by (c) The gravitational effect of the Sun on the Earth connecting : For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 28

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(a) a high resistance in parallel 550. If the name of a tribe has to be excluded from the list of (b) a high resistance in series Scheduled Tribe, who has the power for such exclusion? (c) a low resistance in series (a) President (d) a low resistance in parallel (b) Parliament 541. Bee sting contains ….. . (c) National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (a) an acidic liquid (d) Union Council of Ministers (b) a salt solution 551. Project ‘Sankalp’ started for the purpose………. (c) an alkaline liquid (a) to eradicate illiteracy (d) a corrosive liquid (b) to eradicate Polio 542. Which scheduling service is used to handle traffic with (c) to eliminate AIDS/HIV different priorities? (d) to eliminate unemployment (a) Traffic management 552. Ring of Fire is found commonly in : (b) QoS traffic scheduling (a) Pacific Ocean (c) QoS Scheduler (b) Atlantic Ocean (d) Qos Manager (c) Indian Ocean 543. The outer most layer of Sun is known as : (d) Arctic Ocean (a) Chromosphere 553. Which of the following bacterium causes crown gall disease (b) Photosphere in plants? (c) Radioactive zone (a) Bacillus thurigiensis (d) Corona (b) Agrobacterium tumefaciens 544. Highest percentage of carbon is found in which form of coal? (c) Pseudomonas fluorescens (a) Anthracite (d) None of these (b) Bituminous 554. Eustachian Tube is located in which part of human body? (c) Peat (a) Nose (d) Lignite (b) Ear 545. Which country has the largest internet users? (c) Eyes (a) USA (d) Throat (b) China 555. Which part of the brain plays an important role in motor (c) India control? (d) Russia (a) Cerebellum 546. The xylem in plants are responsible for : (b) Cerebrum (a) Transport of water (c) Medulla (b) Transport of food (d) Pons (c) Transport of amino acids 556. The frequency of direct current is : (d) Transport of oxygen (a) Zero 547. Which of the following cities is the new capital of (b) 50 Hz Seemaandhra? (c) 60 Hz (a) Amaravati (d) 100 Hz (b) Secunderabad 557. The vade which deals with the rituals is known as……… (c) Vijayawada (a) Rigveda (d) Vishakhapatnam (b) Yajurveda 548. Which State Government has recently abolished “agriculture (c) Samaveda income tax”? (d) Atharvaveda (a) Karnataka 558. Prime Minister’s ‘Ujjwala Yojana’ is related to : (b) Rajasthan (a) free distribution of LPG connections to socially (c) Bihar backward classes (d) Assam (b) free electric connections to members of Scheduled 549. Which of the following is not a method of estimating national Castes and Scheduled Tribes income? (c) mass immunization campaign for children (a) Expenditure method (d) None of these (b) Output method 559. ‘Agronomy’ is the practice of raising ………. (c) Matrix method (a) plants and animals (d) Income method (b) crop plants For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 29

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(c) agriculture (a) USA (d) fruit plants only (b) UK 560. Besides CO2, the other green house gas is : (c) Germany (a) CH4 (d) Russia (b) N2 570. The main protein found in milk is………. . (c) Ar (a) Albumin (d) O2 (b) Globulin 561. The Chairman of the National Disaster Management (c) Globin Authority (NDMA) is : (d) Casein (a) National Security Advisor 571. Which organ gets affected in Weil’s disease? (b) Prime Minister of India (a) Liver (c) Chief of DRDO (b) Lung (d) Home Minister of India (c) Heart 562. When the offices of the President and Vice-president fall (d) Kidney vacant simultaneously, who acts as President? 572. Which of the following was the Official slogan for the 2016 (a) Prime Minister of India Rio Olympic and Para Olympic Games? (b) The Chief Justice of India (a) Welcome Home (c) The Speaker Of Lok Sabha (b) A New World (d) The Comptroller ad auditor General of India (c) Love & Save Nature 563. Goitre is caused by the deficiency of ………. . (d) Inspire a Generation (a) Zinc 573. The Daily Weather Map of India is prepared and printed at : (b) Calcium (a) Kolkata (c) Iodine (b) Mumbai (d) Chlorine (c) New Delhi 564. For photoelectric effect of take place, the metal used as the (d) Pune cathode should have ……. . 574. The capital of the Mauryan Kingdom was located at : (a) high melting point (a) Pataliputra (b) low melting point (b) Vaishali (c) low work function (c) Lumbini (d) low resistance (d) Gaya 565. The Speaker of the Lok Sabha can be removed from his 575. Golden Hand Shake scheme is the name of : office by….. (a) Retirement Scheme (a) the President (b) Voluntary Retirement Scheme (b) the Prime Minister (c) One Rank One Pension Scheme (c) a resolution passed by both houses of Parliament (d) Private Sector Retirement Scheme (d) a resolution passed by the Lok Sabha 576. Indian Constitution can be amended according to the 566. What does Section 124A of Indian Penal Code deal with? procedure laid down in the following Article. (a) Atrocity against women (a) Article 368 (b) Sedition (b) Article 345 (c) Crime for demanding dowry (c) Article 351 (d) Atrocity against SC/ST (d) Article 333 567. Which instrument is used for photographing the Sun? 577. Who is the Vice Chairperson of NITI Aayog? (a) Galvanometer (a) Dr. Bidek Debroy (b) Potentiometer (b) Dr. V.K. Saraswat (c) Spectrophoto meter (c) Dr. Arvind Panagariya (d) Spectroheliograph (d) Arun Jaitley 568. Which country won 2016 Men’s Hockey Champions 578. The city of Vijayanagar is also Known as : Trophy? (a) Halebidu (a) India (b) Chandragiri (b) Germany (c) Hampi (c) Belgium (d) Kondavidu (d) Australia 579. Which of the following Sultans of Tughlaq dynasty issued 569. Which of the following countries is not a member of G-8? copper coins instead of silver ones? For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 30

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(a) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq 588. Security Council of the UN comprises of 10 non-permanent (b) Muhammad bin Tughlaq members and their tenure is…… (c) Firoz Shah Tughlaq (a) 5 years (d) Mahmud Tughlaq (b) 4 years 580. Which of the following areas or regions is most prone to (c) 3 years earthquakes? (d) 2 years (a) Deccan Palaeau 589. ‘Tripitakas’ are sacred books of ……. . (b) Ganga – Brahmaputra Valley (a) Hindus (c) Plains of northern India (b) Jains (d) Western Ghats (c) Parsis 581. Honey that has high concentration of sugar does not decay (d) Buddhists because : 590. If a country devalues its currency, its ……….. . (a) Bacteria cannot survive is an active state as it is totally (a) Exports become cheaper and imports become deprived of oxygen costlier. (b) It contains natural antioxidant that prevents bacterial (b) Exports become costlier and imports become cheaper. attack (c) Exports value is equivalent to imports value. (c) Bacteria cannot survive in an active state in a (d) No effect on exports and imports value. solution of high osmotic strength as water is drawn 591. Which one of the following non-metals shows allotropy in out the liquid state? (d) None of these (a) Carbon 582. At low temperature, Lead behaves as a : (b) Sulphur (a) Semi conductor (c) Phosphorous (b) Super conductor (d) Bromine (c) Insulator 592. Sectoral distribution of GDP index measures ………. . (d) Conductor (a) Agriculture development of a country 583. In networks, a small message used to pass between one (b) Economic development of a country station to another is known as …….. . (c) Social development of a country (a) Token (d) Socio-Economic development of a country (b) Byte 593. Ragini is a popular form of folk song belonging to the State (c) Word of…… . (d) Ring (a) Kashmir 584. Which of the following is a natural polymer? (b) Kerala (a) Bakelite (c) Haryana (b) Nylon (d) Manipur (c) Polythene 594. Which of the following border is known as Radcliffe line? (d) Starch (a) India and China 585. Which of the following mammals lay eggs? (b) India and Bangladesh (a) Bat (c) India and Pakistan (b) Whale (d) India and Afghanistan (c) Weasel 595. Deepika Kumari is associated with which of the following (d) Platypus sports? 586. Akbar’s tomb is located at which of the following places? (a) Archery (a) Sikandara (b) Gymnastics (b) Agra (c) Badminton (c) Fatehpursikri (d) Athletics (d) Allahabad 596. What does the term ‘Ebola’ stand for? 587. Pt. Bhimsen Joshi is associated with which of the following (a) A viral disease outbreak in West Africa fields? (b) A viral disease outbreak in Bangladesh (a) Literature (c) A city in Syria destroyed by ISIS. (b) Social Services (d) None of these (c) Classical Music 597. The virus of AIDS affects the growth of …….. . (d) Politics (a) Haemoglobin (b) RBCs in blood For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 31

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(c) T cells in blood (d) Rajatarangini (d) Grey cells in brain 608. The northern part of the west coast in India is known as : 598. Which of the following is not a nitrogenous fertilizer? (a) Konkan coast (a) Ammonium sulphate (b) Coromandel coast (b) Urea (c) Malabar coast (c) Ammonium nitrate (d) Godavari Coast (d) Superphosphate 609. The elements known as primary nutrients for plants: 599. The absolute zero is a temperature at which ……….. . (a) Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium (a) Molecular motion in a gas would cease (b) Nitrogen, Oxygen and Silicon (b) Water freezes (c) Potassium, Boron and Nitrogen (c) All gases become liquid (d) Nitrogen, phosphorus and Iron (d) All gases become solid 610. Which sanctuary in India is famous for Rhinoceros and in 600. Which of the following states has the lowest literacy rate? which state is it located? (a) Kerala (a) Gir, Gujarat (b) Rajasthan (b) Kaziranga, Assam (c) Bihar (c) Ranthambore, Rajasthan (d) Maharashtra (d) Corbett, Uttarakhand 601. On which date is India likely to experience the shortest day? 611. ‘Davis Cup’ is associated with the game of : (a) December 22 (a) Cricket (b) March 21 (b) Lawn Tennis (c) June 22 (c) Badminton (d) September 23 (d) Table Tennis 602. Precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow is 612. The unit of measurement of noise is : called: (a) Decibel (a) Drizzle (b) Hertz (b) Hail (c) Amplifier (c) Sleet (d) Acoustics (d) Snow 603. Fuse wire is made of an alloy of : (a) Tin and Lead 613. Among the following states, the literacy rate is highest in : (b) Tin and Copper (a) Orissa (c) Lead and Copper (b) Punjab (d) Copper and Silver (c) Maharashtra 604. Bacterial decomposition of biological material under (d) Mizoram anaerobic condition is : 614. The minimum number of members that must be present to (a) Fermentation hold the meeting of the Lok Sabha is : (b) Fertilization (a) One-fourth of the total membership (c) Contamination (b) One-tenth of the total membership (d) Composting (c) Fifty percent strength of the Lok Sabha 605. Which of the following has the lowest frequency? (d) At least hundred members (a) Visible light 615. India’s population growth is characterized by : (b) Gamma rays (a) An increase in rate of death (c) X-rays (b) An increase in the ratio of females (d) Ultra violet rays (c) An increase in the birth rate and declining death rate 606. UDP is a : (d) Increasing number of old people (a) Connection oriented protocol 616. What will you call a system of taxation under which the (b) Connectionless protocol poorer sections are taxed at higher rates than the richer (c) User-defined protocol sections? (d) Security protocol (a) Progressive tax 607. The important book written by kautilya is : (b) Proportional tax (a) Arthashastra (c) Regressive tax (b) Indica (d) Degressive tax (c) Arya Manju Sri Mula Kapa For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 32

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617. The most important function of an interest group is to : 627. A genetically engineered form of brinjal known as the BT- (a) form the government brinjal has been developed. The objective of this is : (b) alter government policies to its liking (a) to make it pest resistant (c) build up public opinion (b) to improve its taste and nutritive value (d) contest elections (c) to make it drought resistant 618. Which among the following is not correctly paired? (d) to make its shelf-life longer (a) Shivaji-Afzal Khan 628. Three crops that contribute maximum to global food grain (b) Nurjahan-Mahabat Khan production are …….. . (c) Akbar-Rana Pratap (a) wheat, rice, barley (d) Babar-Bairam khan (b) rice, maize, sorghum 619. Which of the following deserts is rich in gold reserves? (c) wheat, maize, sorghum (a) Arabian (d) wheat, rice, maize (b) Thar 629. Magnesium is a constituent metal of…….. (c) Mongolian (a) Chlorophyll molecule (d) Atacama (b) DNA 620. Lacrymal glands are situated in the : (c) Mitochondria (a) Palms (d) Ribosomes (b) Buccal cavity 630. Which one among the following components is used as an (c) Eye orbit amplifying device? (d) Stomach (a) Transformer 621. The most extensive use of molasses after fermentation is for (b) Diode producing : (c) Capacitor (a) Methanol (d) Transistor (b) Sugar 631. A ……..is an agreement between the communicating parties (c) Ethanol on how communication is to proceed. (d) Sugarcane (a) Path 622. Acid rain is caused due to pollution of atmosphere by : (b) SLA (a) oxides of nitrogen and sulphur (c) Bond (b) oxides of nitrogen and phosphorous (d) Protocol (c) oxides of carbon and nitrogen 632. Name the gas used in preparation of bleaching powder. (d) oxides of nitrogen and methane (a) Oxygen 623. Charles Darwin, the famous evolutionist, proposed his theory (b) Hydrogen in which one of his books? (c) Nitrogen (a) The families of flowering plant (d) Chlorine (b) The origin of species 633. The famous Dilwara temples of Mount Abu are a sacred (c) The life on earth pilgrimage place for the : (d) The story of the living world (a) Buddhists 624. ‘Green Banking means: (b) Jains (a) Banks financing agriculture (c) Sikhs (b) Banks financing irrigation projects (d) Parsis (c) Banks financing farmers (d) Banks financing pro-environmental projects 625. Who was the first Indian governor General of Independent 634. The dispute over Siachin Glacier is between : India? (a) India and China (a) Rajendra Prasad (b) India and Afghanistan (b) C. Rajagopalachari (c) India and Pakistan (c) A. Kriplani (d) India and Nepal (d) Lord Mountbatten 635. Who wrote the famous line: ‘A thing of beauty is a joy 626. A fresh egg when placed in salt water will : forever’? (a) sink and go to the bottom (a) John Keats (b) sink but will not go to the bottom (b) V.S. Naipaul (c) float (c) Sir Richard Burton (d) burst For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 33

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(d) Larry Collins (c) Marble 636. On a clean glass plate a drop of water spreads to form a thin (d) Slate layer whereas a drop of mercury remains almost spherical 645. Which of the following is a commercial source of energy? because ……… (a) Agricultural waste (a) Mercury is a metal (b) Dried dung (b) Density of mercury is greater than that of water (c) Sun (c) Cohesion of mercury is greater than its adhesion with (d) Natural gas glass 646. Backward bending supply curve belongs to which market? (d) Cohesion of water is greater than its adhesion with glass (a) Capital 637. The smallest island country in the Indian Ocean is : (b) Labour (a) Maldives (c) Money (b) Sri Lanka (d) Inventories (c) Mauritius 647. In IT, associative memory is called as : (d) Madagascar (a) Virtual memory 638. The Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of the (b) Cache memory Parliament is appointed by the. (c) Content addressable memory (a) President of India (d) Main memory (b) Prime Minister of India 648. Addition of suitable impurities into semiconductor, is called : (c) Speaker of Lok Sabha (a) Doping (d) Chairman of Rajya Sabha (b) Mixing 639. Bank earn interest on : (c) Forming (a) Deposits (d) Diluting (b) Loans 649. Kyoto Protocol is associated with: (c) Demand Drafts (a) Species conservation (d) Bills of Exchange (b) Climate change 640. Which is the most important factor that determines whether (c) Wetland Conservation advertising by manufacturing sector will lead to higher sales? (d) Medicinal plants (a) Demand is elastic 650. Ebraham Alkazi is an eminent personality in which one of (b) Demand is inelastic the following areas? (c) The product can be differentiated (a) Heart surgery (d) The product can be homogenous. (b) Civil aviation 641. Which among the following is true for the Supreme Court of (c) Theatre India? (d) Painting (a) Federal Court 651. Skoda, which launched sedan ‘Rapid’, is an automobile (b) Court of Appeal manufacturer based in : (c) Guardian of the Constitution (a) Japan (d) All of these (b) France (d) (c) South Korea 642. The power of the Supreme Court of India to decide disputes (d) Czech Republic between the Centre and the States falls under its : 652. Sattriya is a classical dance form of ……….. (a) Advisory jurisdiction (a) Manipur (b) Original Jurisdiction (b) Uttar Pradesh (c) Appellate jurisdiction (c) Assam (d) Jurisprudence (d) Andhra Pradesh 643. The word ‘Satyameva Jayate’ have been derived from which 653. P.V. Sindhu defeated Wang Yihan to enter the semi final of Upanishad? women’s singles of badminton at the Rio Olympics. Wang (a) Akshi Upanishad Yihan belongs to ………. (b) Mundaka Upanishad (a) Indonesia (c) Garuda Upanishad (b) Taiwan (d) Mahavakya Upanishad (c) China 644. When Granite rocks get metamorphosed, they form : (d) Japan (a) Quartzite 654. If a budget is defeated in the legislature of a state, then : (b) Gneiss (a) the Finance Minister alone has to resign For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 34

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(b) the Finance Minister concerned has to be suspended (d) Damage to green painted buildings (c) the council of Minister along with the Chief Minister 664. General Dyer, who was responsible for Jallianwalan Bagh has to resign massacre, was shot dead by: (d) re-election have to be ordered (a) Hasrat Mohini 655. Which one of following papers was edited by Gandhiji in (b) Vir Savarkar South Africa? (c) Udham Singh (a) Indian Opinion (d) Jatin Das (b) Harijan 665. The innovation theory of profit was proposed by : (c) Young India (a) Marshall (d) Indian Mirror (b) Clark 656. In which of the following cities India’s first water metro (c) Schumpeter project was recently launched? (d) Joan Robbinson (a) Kolkata 666. The most abundant element in the earth’s atmosphere is : (b) Kochi (a) Argon (c) Vishakhapatnam (b) Nitrogen (d) Mumbai (c) Oxygen 657. Meibomian glands are located in: (d) Krypton (a) Eye 667. Who was the first Indian to be elected as a Member of the (b) Ear British House of Commons? (c) Nose (a) (d) Skin (b) Dada Bhai Naoroji 658. In which city is India’s first Post Office ATM opened? (c) Ram Manohar Lohia (a) Chennai (d) Sarojini Naidu (b) New Delhi 668. Mohammed Bin Tuglaq transferred his capital from: (c) Hyderabad (a) Delhi to Warangal (d) Mumbai (b) Delhi to Devagiri 659. Arsenic problem in India is primarily due to : (c) Delhi to Madurai (a) Overexploitation of coal in Bihar and Bengal (d) Delhi to Vijayanagar (b) Overexploitation of arsenopyrite in the hinterland 669. Winds blowing constantly in one direction in rocky deserts (c) Overexploitation of ground water in the affected form: areas (a) Chimneys (d) Overexploitation of surface water in the affected areas (b) Mushrooms rocks 660. Men’s Singles Wimbledon championship 2016, is bagged by: (c) Yardangs (a) Andy Murray (d) Demoiselles (b) Milos Ravnic 670. Sphygmomanometer measures the blood pressure in the : (c) Roger Federer (a) Veins (d) Novak Dijokovic (b) Arteries 661. Which of the following vitamins are water soluble? (c) Eyes (a) Vit. A and Vit. B (d) Synovial (b) Vit. B and Vit. C 671. The reverse effect of X-ray emission is: (c) Vit. C and Vit. D (a) Raman effect (d) Vit. A and Vit. K (b) Compton effect 662. In terms of economics, if it is possible to make someone (c) Zeeman effect better-off without making someone worse-off, then the (d) Photo-electric effect situation is : 672. WIMAX stands for: (a) Inefficient (a) Wireless Interoperability for Microwave Access (b) Efficient (b) Wired Interoperability for Microwave Access (c) Optimal (c) Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (d) Pareto-superior (d) Worldwide infrastructure for Microwave Access 663. Green House Effect means : 673. India is developing Chabahar Port in which of the following (a) Pollution in houses in tropical region countries? (b) Prevention of ultra-violet radiation by the ozone layer (a) Iraq (c) Trapping of solar energy due to atmospheric gases (b) Oman For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 35

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(c) Iran (d) Paulov (d) Afghanistan 683. Magnetic Meridian is a : 674. Dipa Karmakar is the first Indian women to have qualified (a) Line parallel to the equator of the Earth for Rio Olympic Games in which sport? (b) Latitude (a) Archery (c) Line joining the geographic north and geographic south (b) Boxing of Earth (c) Badminton (d) Plane passing through the magnetic north and (d) Gymnastics magnetic south of Earth 675. How many Constitutional Amendments of the Constitution of 684. Programs that duplicate the functionality of one system on India have been made so far? another system is known as : (a) 122 (a) Emulators (b) 121 (b) Simulators (c) 120 (c) Evaluators (d) 119 (d) PCB 676. The rate at which RBI gives short term loan to commercial 685. The manufacturing of iron from iron-ore involves the process banks is called : of : (a) Repo rate (a) Oxidation (b) Reverse Repo rate (b) Reduction (c) Bank rate (c) Electrolysis (d) Cash Reserve rate (d) Fractional distillation 677. The nationalisation of major commercial banks took place in 686. In a rainforest, the vegetation that grows under the shade of a : canopy is known as : (a) 1947 (a) Crown (b) 1956 (b) Canopy (c) 1969 (c) Understory (d) 1980 (d) Forest floor 678. Lok Sabha secretariat comes under the direct control of : 687. The term “roll-in” is used in : (a) Minister of Home Affairs (a) Cricket (b) Minister of Parliamentary Affairs (b) Tennis (c) Speaker of Lok Sabha (c) Hockey (d) President (d) Golf 679. Which of the following Act introduced separate electorates 688. Which of the following is the busiest International sea port in (communal representation) for Muslims? India? (a) 1892 Act (a) Mumbai (b) Act of 1909 (b) Kolkata (c) Reforms of 1919 (c) Kochi (d) Government of India Act of 1935 (d) Tuticorin 680. Where is the Brihadeshwar temple, built during the Chola 689. The word “Secular” was added to the Preamble of the period, located? Constitution of India by which Constitutional Amendment? (a) Mysore (a) 41st Constitutional Amendment (b) Mahabalipuram (b) 42nd Constitutional Amendment (c) Tanjavur (c) 43rd Constitutional Amendment (d) Kanyakumari (d) 44th Constitutional Amendment 681. The first protocol to ban the emissions of 690. Who coined the slogan “Inquilab Zindabad”? choloroflurocarbons in the atmosphere was made in : (a) Subash Chandra Bose (a) Montreal (b) Balagangadhar Tilak (b) Osaka (c) Bhagat Singh (c) Geneva (d) Sukhdev (d) Florida 691. “Great Barrier Reef”, the world’s largest Coral reef is located 682. Blood group was discovered by : in : (a) Alexander Fleming (a) Caribbean Islands (b) William Harvey (b) Australia (c) Landsteiner (c) Philippines For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 36

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(d) Indonesia (b) 120 days 692. Decoding and interpretation of visual information in brain is (c) 100 days associated with : (d) 90 days (a) Frontal lobe 702. Scheduled bank is a bank which is: (b) Occipital lobe (a) Nationalized (c) Temporal lobe (b) Not nationalized (d) Parietal lobe (c) Based in foreign country 693. Flemings “le hand Rule” is associated with the effect of : (d) Included in the second schedule of RBI (a) Electric field on current 703. Black soil us also known by which of the following name? (b) Magnetic field on magnet (a) Khaddar Soil (c) Electric field on magnet (b) Bangar Soil (d) Magnetic Field on current (c) Alluvial Soil 694. An emulsion is a colloidal solution of : (d) Regur Soil (a) Liquid in liquid 704. What is the name of the book written by Panini? (b) Solid in liquid (a) Mahabhashya (c) Gas in solid (b) Mitakshara (d) Solid is solid (c) Madhyamika karika 695. ………..is a byproduct of sewage treatment and can be (d) Ashtadhyayi decomposed to produce bio-gas. 705. Which dynasty was started by Khizr Khan? (a) Sewage (a) The Sayyads (b) Sludge (b) The Lodhis (c) Sewer (c) The Rajputs (d) Scum (d) The Khiljis 696. The BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) is headquartered 706. The instrument used for measuring air pressure is called : at : (a) Anemometer (a) Shanghai (b) Barometer (b) New Delhi (c) Hygrometer (c) Brasilia (d) Thermometer (d) Moscow 707. Gustation refers to the sense of which of the following? 697. Which one of the following cities of Iraq is located on Tigris (a) Smell river? (b) Hearing (a) Baghdad (c) Tactile (b) Mousul (d) Taste (c) Kirkuk 708. Intensity of any wave is proportional to which of the (d) Basra following? 698. Human Development Index is prepared by : (a) Amplitude (a) UNDP (b) Square of amplitude (b) WHO (c) Square root of amplitude (c) IMF (d) Cube of amplitude (d) WHO 709. In the following list of devices which device is used in 699. Uber Cup is associated with : network layer? (a) Football (a) Repeaters (b) Handball (b) Router (c) Badminton (c) Application Gateway (d) Squash (d) Switch 700. The food in Onion is stored in the form of …….. . 710. NTPC is a Central Public Sector Enterprise in which sector? a) Cellulose (a) Education b) Protein (b) Health c) Starch (c) Power d) Sugar (d) Transport 701. What is the maximum number of days of employment a rural 711. Which State government has launched the Smart Village poor would get under ‘MGNREGA’? Programme, to improve public facilities in village? (a) 180 days (a) Maharashtra For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 37

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(b) Rajasthan (a) Kenya (c) Odisha (b) Chile (d) Gujarat (c) Congo 712. Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte emerged winner in 2006 (d) Libya presidential elections of which country? 722. Which leader of British Labour Party was recently elected the (a) Mexico first Muslim Mayor of London? (b) The Philippines (a) Sadiq Khan (c) Spain (b) Ataullah Khan (d) Singapore (c) Firdauz Zaidi 713. What is commonly known as ‘white plague’? (d) Karim Shaikh (a) Typhoid 723. ‘Lady Trophy’ is related to which game? (b) Malaria (a) Basketball (c) Tuberculosis (b) Hockey (d) Plague (c) Kho-Kho 714. What are gilt-edged securities? (d) Cricket (a) Securities issued by the multinational companies 724. Which instrument is used for measuring humidity of (b) Securities issued by the Government atmosphere? (c) Securities issued by the private sector (a) Barometer (d) Securities issued by the joint venture companies (b) Anemometer 715. In whose consultation does the President convene and (c) Thermometer prorpgue all sessions of Parliament? (d) Hygrometer (a) The Speaker 725. Pankaj Advani is associated with which sport? (b) The Prime Minister (a) Billiards (c) The Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition in (b) Boxing Lok Sabha (c) Cricket (d) The Council of Ministers (d) Badminton 716. With which religion is Kaivalya associated? 726. “The General Equilibrium Analysis” was developed by : (a) Buddhism (a) Marshall (b) Jainism (b) Ricardo (c) Hinduism (c) Walras (d) Sikhism (d) Adam Smith 717. Bauxite is used as raw material by which industry? 727. Insider trading is related to : (a) Aluminium (a) Trade sector (b) Iron (b) Share market (c) Steel (c) Credit market (d) Gold (d) Horse racing 718. The large collection of stars, dust and gas held together by 728. The operational period of 12th Five Year Plan is : gravitational attraction between components is known as : (a) 2007-12 (a) Cluster (b) 2012-17 (b) Atmosphere (c) 2015-20 (c) Galaxy (d) 2005-10 (d) Sun family 729. A unitary form of government is that in which all the powers 719. Thermal electricity is generated by using which of these? are concentrated in the hands of : (a) Coal only (a) Local government (b) Coal and Natural Gas only (b) Central government (c) Coal, Natural Gas and Petroleum (c) Provincial government (d) None of these (d) Panchayats 720. When iron rusts, its weight..….. 730. The school of Indian art which is also known as name of (a) decreases Greco-Roman, Budhist art’ is the……school. (b) increases (a) Mauryan (c) remains the same (b) Shunga (d) first increases and then decreases (c) Gandhara 721. The driest location on Earth is in which country? (d) Gupta For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 38

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731. Which of the following Pallava Kings assumed the title of (d) Population ‘Vatapikonda’ after defeating and slaying the great 741. An amendment of the constitution may be initiated………… Chalukyan King Pulekesin II ? (a) by introduction be the President of India (a) Narsingh Varman I (b) by introduction of a Bill in Rajya Sabha (b) Mahendra Varman I (c) by the Governors of States (c) Parameshwar Varman I (d) by the introduction of a bill in either House of (d) Nandi Varman Parliament 732. The land forms formed by wave erosion is : 742. kamarup is an ancient name of which region of India? (a) Spit (a) Bihar (b) Beach (b) Rajasthan (c) Cave (c) Karnataka (d) Barrier island (d) Assam 733. Which one among the following is not an electro-magnetic 743. Which is the parameter for the economic development? wave? (a) Per capita monetary income (a) X-Ray (b) National income (b) R-Ray (c) Per capita rural income (c) Cathode Ray (d) Population (d) Infrared Ray 744. Equinox occurs when the sun is vertically above: 734. Which one of the following is a good electrical conductor? (a) Tropic of Capricorn (a) Graphite (b) Tropic of Cancer (b) Diamond (c) Poles (c) Peat (d) Equator (d) Charcoal 745. Which battle led to the downfall of Vijaynagar empire? 735. Growing agricultural crops between rows of planted trees is (a) Battle of Takkolam known as : (b) Battle of talikota (a) Social forestry (c) Battle of Kanwah (b) Jhum (d) Battle of Panipat (c) Taungya system 746. The antibiotic penicillin is obtained from which of the (d) Agro forestry following? 736. Name the longest lake in India. (a) Synthetic process (a) Pangong Lake (b) A bacterium (b) Pulicat Lake (c) Fungus (c) Kolleru Lake (d) Virus infected cells (d) Vembanad Lake 747. Among the world oceans, which ocean is having the widest 737. Red Data Book provides an account of : continental shelf? (a) extinct animals only (a) Antarctic Ocean (b) endangered plants and animals (b) Arctic Ocean (c) endangered plants only (c) Indian Ocean (d) fossil plants (d) Atlantic Ocean 738. Suez Canal connects : 748. Data in database at a particular point of tome is called as : (a) Red Sea and Arabian Sea (a) Intension (b) Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea (b) Extension (c) Arabian Sea and Mediterranean Sea (c) Back up (d) North Sea and Baltic Sea (d) Application 739. CENVAT is related to which of the following? 749. Which is the largest peninsular river in India? (a) Sales Tax (a) Krishna (b) Excise Duty (b) Godavari (c) Custom Duty (c) Cauvery (d) Service Tax (d) Mahanadi 740. Malthusian theory is associated with which of the following? 750. Red soil is normally found in India in which regions? (a) Poverty (a) Eastern Region only (b) Employment (b) Southern Region only (c) Diseases (c) Eastern and southern part of the Deccan Plateau For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 39

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(d) None of these (c) Eradication of blindness 751. Who introduced Mansabdari system in India? (d) Vaccination of children (a) Babur 761. Who is the new Director of Film and Television Institute of (b) Humayun India (FTII)? (c) Akbar (a) Prashant Pathrabe (d) Jahangir (b) Amol Palekar 752. Limestone is a raw material used by which industry? (c) Shabana Azmi (a) Aluminium (d) Bhupendra Kainthola (b) Fertilzers 762. Which cell disorder in our body is responsible for colour (c) Cement blindness? (d) Petrochemicals (a) WBC 753. The Directive Principles of State Policy has been adopted (b) Cone cell from which Constitution? (c) Rod cell (a) U.S. Constitution (d) Neuron (b) British constitution 763. Who is the recipient of Man Booker International Prize 2016 (c) Irish Constitution for the novel ‘The Vegetarian’? (d) French constitution (a) Orhan Pamuk 754. Which of the following is indicated by the colour of a star? (b) Han Kang (a) Weight (c) Elena Ferrante (b) Distance (d) Tonkin (c) Temperature 764. Saving is that portion of money income that is : (d) Size (a) spent for development of Industries 755. Atomic number of an atom gives the number of which of the (b) not spent on consumption following? (c) spent on health and education (a) Electrons (d) spent for consumer durables (b) Protons 765. In which field did Amartya Sen win the Nobel Prize? (c) Neutrons (a) Micro Economics (d) Neutrons and protons (b) Welfare economics 756. DPT vaccine is categorized as which of the following? (c) Economic Growth Model (a) Anti viral vaccine (d) Input-Output Model (b) Anti protozoan vaccine 766. Raja Ravi Verma was a great painter of which of the (c) Anti rickettsial vaccine following? (d) A combined vaccine (a) Bengal 757. Which is the highest quality of hard coal? (b) Bihar (a) Anthracite (c) Punjab (b) Bituminous (d) Kerala (c) Lignite 767. Who was the founder of the Theosophical society of India? (d) Peat (a) Annie Besant 758. For which one of the following, ‘diodes’ are generally used (b) Womesh Chandra Bannerjee for? (c) Ram Prasad Bismil (a) Rectification (d) Subhash Chandra Bose (b) Amplification 768. Who coined the Chipko slogan “Ecology is Permanent (c) Modulation Economy”? (d) Filtration (a) Chan Prasad Bhatt 759. An anemometer measures which of the following? (b) Sundarlal Bahuguna (a) Speed of light (c) Shayam Prasad Bahuguna (b) Speed of wind (d) Bachni Devi (c) Speed of water current 769. Which of the following is study of fossils? (d) Speed of satellites (a) Ethology 760. ‘Mission Indradhanush’ Campaign in India is associated with (b) Etiology : (c) Anthropology (a) Nutrition to Pregnant Women (d) Palaeontology (b) Awareness of Diabetes 770. Chemical properties of isotopes : For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 40

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(a) must be same d) Gujarat and Daman and Diu (b) must be different 779. In which way the president can assign any of the functions of (c) need not be same the union government to the state Government? (d) need not be different a) In his discretion 771. Which of the following is the operation executed on data b) In consultation with the chief justice of India stored in registers? c) In consultation with the Government of the state (a) Bit-operation d) In consultation with the state governor (b) Macro-operation 780. Where is the Indian National Rail Museum situated? (c) Micro-operation a) Delhi (d) Byte-operation b) Uttar Pradesh 772. Sour taste of lemon is due to the presence of which of the c) Punjab following? d) Himachal Pradesh (a) Citric acid 781. Which of the following is not true about Ajanta caves? (b) Acetic acid a) They are in Maharashtra (c) Oxalic acid b) They are decorated with Buddhist art (d) Formic acid c) They depict the techniques used in ancient India 773. Which State has the longest coastline? d) They do not contain paintings of flora and fauna (a) Andhra Pradesh 782. Who was the founder of Arya samaj? (b) Maharashtra a) Acharya Narendra Dev (c) Gujarat b) Dayanand saraswati (d) Karnataka c) Raja ram mohan roy 774. Which among the following cities in India is not located in d) Acharya golden quadrilateral Road Network? 783. Who among the following Sikh Gurus had laid the (a) Kolkata foundation of Amritsar? (b) Mumbai (a) Guru Amar Das (c) New Delhi (b) Guru Ram Das (d) Chandigarh (c) Guru Arjan Dev 775. Which is the first Indian State to go wholly organic? (d) Guru Har Govind (a) Meghalaya 784. In the 42nd Constitutional Amendment 1976, which word (b) Sikkim was added to the Preamble? (c) Manipur (a) Democratic (d) Assam (b) Equality 776. What is the role of “Ombudsman” in a bank? (c) Secular (a) To provide quality and speedy redressal of grievances (d) Socialist of customers 785. Which monument is known as ‘The National Monument of (b) To provide suggestions for innovative schemes in the India’? banks (a) India Gate (c) To inspect the internal working of the branches (b) Gateway of India (d) To monitor the poverty alleviation programmes (c) Raj Ghat undertaken by or implemented by the bank (d) Red Fort 777. Which of the following schedules contains special provisions 786. Which of the following country has recently declared 3 for the administration of tribal areas in the four north-eastern month emergency following a failed military coup? states of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram? (a) Sudan (a) First schedule (b) Turkey (b) Second schedule (c) Maldives (c) Third schedule (d) Syria (d) Sixth schedule 787. The award which, the famous writer and social activist 778. The ‘Narmada water dipute tribunal was constituted to Mahasweta Devi, who passed away recently, did not win? resolve the water sharing between: (a) Sahity Akademi Award a) Gujarat and Rajasthan (b) Jwanpith Award b) Gujarat and Maharashtra (c) Magsaysay Award c) Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Madhya (d) Padam Vidhushan Pradesh 788. Which place is said to be the Mahchester of South India? For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 41

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(a) Coimbatore (c) conduction (b) Salem (d) convection (c) Thanjavur 798. At the Rio Olympics, who was the flagbearer of the Indian (d) Madurai contingent? 789. A galvanometer can be converted into a voltmeter by (a) Narsingh Yadav connecting with it a : (b) (a) high resistance in parallel (c) Dipa Karmakar (b) how resistance on parallel (d) Sania Mirza (c) high resistance on series 799. A landscape which is caused due to the fissure in the earth (d) low resistance in series along which one side has moved down with reference to the 790. In computer processing, ……… selects processes from the other is known as : pool and loads them into memory for execution. (a) Rift valley (a) Job Scheduler (b) U shaped valley (b) Resource Scheduler (c) V shaped valley (c) CPU Scheduler (d) Hanging valley (d) Process scheduler 800. The largest artery in human body is : 791. Name the first cricketer to score 1000 runs in an innings in (a) Aorta any competitive match. (b) Capillary (a) Prithvi Shaw (c) Vena cava (b) Pranav Dhanawade (d) Pulmonary vein (c) Virat Kohli 801. An eudiometer measures : (d) Shikhar Dhawan (a) atmospheric pressure 792. The beach sands of Kerala are rich in : (b) time (a) calcium (c) volume of gases (b) radium (d) vapour pressure (c) thorium 802. Trinitrotoluene is : (d) manganese (a) Used to melt metals 793. During which of the following operating conditions of an (b) Used to fuse two metals automobile, carbon monoxide content in exhaust gas is (c) Used as an abrasive maximum? (d) Used as an explosive (a) Acceleration 803. In a cut motion, when the amount of demand is reduced by (b) Cruising 100/-, it is known as: (c) Idle running (a) Disapproval of policy cut (d) Deacceleration (b) Economy cut 794. India’s first Railway University will come up at : (c) Vote on account (a) Vadodara, Gujarat (d) Token cut (b) Bengaluru, Karnataka 804. One of the leading producers of asbestos in the world is : (c) Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (a) Australia (d) Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh (b) Russia 795. The Himalayas is the example of……… (c) Canada (a) Fold mountains (d) Armenia (b) Block mountains 805. Beighton Cup is associated with which of the following (c) Ancient mountains game? (d) Residual mountains (a) Cricket 796. The largest irrigation canal in India is……… (b) Hockey (a) Yamuna canal (c) Football (b) Indira Gandhi canal (d) Volleyball (c) Sirhand canal 806. If Reserve Bank of India reduces the cash reserve ratio, it (d) Upper Bari Doab canal will ; 797. Even after sunset, the air near the Earth’s surface continue to (a) increase credit creation receive heat due to : (b) decrease credit creation (a) insolation (c) have no impact on credit creation (b) terrestrial radiation (d) have no definite impact on credit creation For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 42

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807. nitrification is the biological process of converting : (c) Crossed lens (a) N2 into nitrate (d) Cylindrical lens (b) N2 into nitrite 815. Iolex, a pain relief balm, has the smell of………. (c) Ammonia into nitrite (a) methyl salicylate (d) Ammonia into N (b) ethyl salicylate 808. During the reign of which was the Great Wall of China (c) propyl salicylate constructed? (d) butyl salicylate (a) Sung 816. Who appoints the members of the State Public Service (b) Tang Commission? (c) Han (a) Chief Minister (d) Chin (b) Governor 809. Which of the following was published by Gandhji during his (c) Chief Justice stay in South Africa? (d) Vice President (a) Young India 817. Who was the first Indian to be elected as the leader of the (b) Indian Opinion Communist International? (c) Nav Jivan (a) Jawaharlal Nehru (d) None of these (b) P.C. Joshi 810. What was the immediate aim of the Treaty of Purander in (c) Sardar Vallabhabhai Patel 1665? (d) M.N. Roy (a) To gain goodwill of Shivaji 818. What is the source of natural energy of the hot springs at (b) To sow seeds of contention between Shivaji and Manikaran in Himachal Pradesh? Sultan of Bijapur (a) Geothermal Energy (c) To deceive Shivaji (b) Biomass Energy (d) To make Shivaji a puppet of Mughals (c) Thermal Energy 811. Match the following : (d) Hydro Energy A. Mohenjodaro 1. Statue of a priest 819. Which of the following is a Dominant Autosomal Disorder? B. Harappa 2. Port (a) Albinism C. Kalibangan 3. Plough marks (b) Cystic Fibrosis D. Lothal 4. The Great Bath (c) Phenyl Ketorunia A B C D (d) Alzheimer’s Disease 820. Glycol is used to manufacture which of the following? (a) 4 1 3 2 (a) Nylon (b) 3 2 4 1 (b) Artificial silk (c) Terylene (c) 2 3 1 4 (d) Rubber 821. The movement inside the Earth’s crust is studied by which of (d) 1 4 2 3 the following? 812. Blood is red in colour due to the presence of…………. (a) Geology (a) cytochrome (b) Seismology (b) chlorophy II (c) Plate tectonics (c) hemocyanin (d) Pantograph (d) heamoglobin 822. “Lona” is related to which game? 813. Which one of the following events in a botanical garden is (a) Kho Kho never directly influenced by light? (b) Kabaddi (a) Flowering (c) Lawn Tennis (b) Photosynthesis (d) Badminton (c) Transpiration 823. If a healthy freshwater fish is placed in salt water, what will (d) Fertilization be the expected consequence? 814. What type of lens is used to correct vision of a person (a) The fish becomes dehydrated and dies suffering from Myopia? (b) The fish becomes bloated and dies (a) Convex lens (c) The fish suffers from fungal or bacterial disease and dies (b) Concave lens (d) There is no observable effect on the fish provided there is sufficient food For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 43

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824. Which country is known as ‘Land of Midnight sun’? 833. ‘Do or Die’ is associated with which of the movement in (a) Sweden India’s freedom struggle? (b) Norway (a) Dandi March (c) Germany (b) Non-Cooperation Movement (d) Finland (c) Khilafat Movement 825. Which river basin is shared by more than 10 States of India? (d) Quit India Movement (a) Indus 834. ‘Parsec’ is the unit measurement of : (b) Brahmaputra (a) Density of stars (c) Ganges (b) Astronomical distance (d) Damodar (c) Brightness of heavenly bodies 826. The molecular mass of a gas is…….. . (d) Orbital velocity of giant stars (a) twice its vapour pressure 835. A collective term used by the Jains for their sacred books is : (b) equal to its vapour pressure (a) Prabandhas (c) half its vapour pressure (b) Angas (d) not related to its vapour pressure] (c) Nibandhas 827. ‘Stand up India’ scheme launched by the Prime Minister (d) Charits recently is related with : 836. Which one of the following is not an instrument of Fiscal (a) Promotion of entrepreneurship among SC, ST and policy? women (a) Open Market Operations (b) Promotion of rights of Divyangs (b) Taxation (c) Promotion of compulsory education for women (c) Public borrowing (d) Promotion of Indian exports in western countries (d) Public expenditure 828. Which one of the following institutions is also called “World 837. At room temperature, the metal that remains liquid is : Bank”? (a) mercury (a) International Bank of Reconstruction and (b) platinum Development (c) lead (b) International Monetary Fund (d) zinc (c) UNICEF 838. Which is known as carbolic acid? (d) IFC (a) Phenol 829. Which is called the “Lake District of India”? (b) Ethanol (a) Nainital (c) Acetic acid (b) (d) Oxalic acid (c) Sikkim 839. On which river is the Tehri bam built? (d) Matheran (a) Alakananda 830. Which of the following set of taxes belongs to Central (b) Bhagirathi Government? (c) Ganga (a) Excise duty, Sales tax and Custom duty (d) Hooghly (b) Income tax, Custom duty and House tax 840. With which country, India has the longest international (c) Excise duty, Custom duty and Income tax boundary? (d) Custom duty, Entertainment tax and Income tax (a) Nepal 831. Brown stains in vessels and clothes indicate the presence of (b) Pakistan high quantities of………. in water. (c) China (a) magnesium (d) Bangladesh (b) calcium 841. Male mosquitoes take their food from : (c) manganese (a) human blood (d) chromium (b) standing water 832. Which one of the following countries is not a member of the (c) sap of plants “BRICS” group? (d) dung and debris (a) Brazil 842. The range that acts as watershed between India and Turkistan (b) Russia is : (c) China (a) Zaskar (d) Indonesia (b) Kailash (c) Karakoram For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 44

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(d) Ladakh (a) Pepsin 843. Kolattam and Chholiya are the dance forms of which of the (b) Renin two States? (c) Amylase (a) Kerala and Karnataka (d) Urobilin (b) Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh 853. Where are coins minted in India? (c) Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh (a) Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata (d) Karnataka and Bihar (b) Delhi, Kolkata, Hyderabad 844. Which parliamentary committee in India is normally chaired (c) Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore by a prominent member of the opposition? (d) Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Noida (a) Committee on Government Assurances 854. What is the phenomenon which established the transverse (b) Estimates Committee nature of light? (c) Privileges Committee (a) Reflection (d) Public Accounts Committee (b) Interference 845. The specific role of Vitamin K is in the synthesis of : (c) Diffraction (a) Albumin (d) Polarization (b) Antibodies 855. What is the name of a memory buffer used to accommodate a (c) Globulin speed differential? (d) Prothrombin (a) Cache 846. From the national point of view, which of the following (b) Stack Pointer indicates micro approach? (c) Accumulator (a) Study of sales of mobile phones by BSNL (d) DISC (b) Unemployment among women 856. What is contained in Chlorophyll? (c) Per capita income in India (a) Sodium (d) Inflation in India (b) Potassium 847. Money market is a market for……..? (c) Manganese a) Short term fund (d) Magnesium b) Long term fund 857. Epigraphy is the study of which of the following? c) Negotiable instruments (a) Coins d) Sale of shares (b) Inscriptions 848. India shares longest international boundary with which (c) Temples country? (d) Birds a) Bangladesh 858. Who won the Women’s Singles Wimbledon Championship b) China 2016? c) Nepal (a) Angilique Kuber d) Bhutan (b) Serena Williams 849. The Residuary powers of legislation under Indian (c) Venus Williams Constitution rests with: (d) Steffi Graff a) President 859. In which field is B.C.Roy Award given? b) Prime minister (a) Music c) Parliament (b) Journalism d) States (c) Medicine 850. Mahatma Gandhi’s concept of ‘Ram Rajya’ was: (d) Environment (a) A centralised government 860. Which one of the following areas of India is covered by (b) A totalitarian state tropical evergreen forest? (c) A stateless society (a) Semi-arid areas of Gujarat (d) Power in the hands of religious leaders (b) Eastern Ghats 851. Credit Rationing in India is done by: (c) Western Ghats (a) RBI (d) Madhya Pradesh (b) SBI 861. Which one of the following substances is normally found in (c) LIC urine? (d) Finance Ministry (a) Blood proteins 852. The human faeces is yellow in colour due to the presence of a (b) Creatinine pigment called: (c) Red blood cells For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 45

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(d) White blood cells (b) Ionosphere 862. The thymus gland produces a hormone called : (c) Stratosphere (a) Thyroxine (d) Mesosphere (b) Thymosin 872. The First Woman President of the Indian National Congress (c) Thyronine was: (d) Calcitonin (a) Sarojini Naidu 863. Blood group AB has : (b) Vijayalakshmi Pandit (a) no antigen (c) Annie Besant (b) no antibody (d) Kadambani Ganguli (c) neither antigen nor antibody 873. Which of the following programmes meet the credit needs of (d) both antigen and anibody poor women? 864. Which vitamins are those, if taken in excess can be (a) Mahila Samriddhi Yojna dangerous as they are stored in the body? (b) Rashtriya Mahila Kosh (a) B Complex (c) Indira Mahila Yojna (b) E and C (d) Mahila Samakhya Programme (c) B and C 874. The Comptroller and Auditor-General of India submits his (d) A and D report relating to the accounts of the Union to the: 865. Atomic explosion is triggered by : (a) Finance Minister (a) thermo nuclear reaction (b) Prime Minister (b) chemical reaction (c) President (c) controlled chain reaction (d) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (d) uncontrolled chain reaction 875. The first Buddhist Council was held at…….. 866. The phenomenon of change in direction of light when it (a) Kashmir passes from one medium to another is called : (b) Rajagriha (a) propagation (c) Pataliputra (b) reflection (d) Vaishali (c) refraction 876. Where do the Western and Eastern Ghats meet? (d) dispersion (a) Nilgiri hills 867. Who has the right to decide whether a Bill is a money bill or (b) Cardamom hills not? (c) Palani hills (a) Speaker of Lok Sabha (d) Annamalai hills (b) Prime Minister 877. Who was the founder of the Satvahana Empire? (c) President (a) Kanha (d) Finance Minister (b) Simuka 868. Motor skills are associated with which part of the brain? (c) Hala (a) Frontal Lobe (d) Gautamiputra (b) Parietal Lobe 878. Indian National Congress split for the first time in its session (c) Temporal Lobe at: (d) Occipital Lobe (a) Allahabad 869. Which enzyme is present in all members of the animal (b) Calcutta kingdom except Protozoa? (c) Surat (a) Insulin (d) Lahore (b) Pepsin 879. Silica gel is a: (c) Renin (a) Moisturizer (d) Amylase (b) Flavouring agent 870. At boiling point of liquids, its ………. (c) Drying agent (a) Temperature increases (d) Delicious food (b) Atmospheric pressure increases 880. Which Superfast train has AC Coach having Braille Signals? (c) Temperature remains constant (a) Purushottam Express (d) Vapour pressure decreases (b) Shramjeevi Express 871. A level of atmosphere which is composed partly of electrons (c) Himgiri Express and positive ions is called : (d) Purva Express (a) Troposphere 881. Biofertilizers convert nitrogen to….. For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 46

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(a) nitrates (c) Distribution maps (b) ammonia (d) Land use maps (c) nitrogenase 891. Bhakra Nangal Project is constructed across which river? (d) amino acids (a) Ganga 882. Shiva Thapa is associated with which of the following (b) Sutlej sports? (c) Cauvery (a) Boxing (d) Brahmaputra (b) Golf 892. The group of solar cells joined together in a definite pattern is (c) Shooting called a : (d) Badminton (a) Battery 883. Which term is not associated with sound wave? (b) Solar heater (a) Hertz (c) Solar cooker (b) Decibel (d) Solar cell panel (c) Candela 893. Chemical composition of cement is: (d) Mach (a) Limestone and Clay 884. In computer science, data hazard occurs when : (b) Limestone, Clay and Gypsum (a) pipeline changes the order of read/write access to (c) Limestone and Gypsum operands (d) Clay and Gypsum (b) performance loss 894. A stretch of sea water, partly or fully separated by a narrow (c) machine size is limited strip from the main sea is called : (d) some functional unit is not fully pipelined (a) Bay 885. During the period of which Governor General/viceroy was (b) Isthmus the Indian Civil Service introduced? (c) Lagoon (a) Dalhousie (d) Strait (b) Curzon 895. The sigmoid colon is a part of : (c) Bentinck (a) Small Intestine (d) Cornwallis (b) Large Intestine 886. Which of the following is the uppermost layer of the (c) Pharynx atmosphere? (d) Rectum (a) Stratosphere 896. The natural habitat of Rhinoceros in India is: (b) Mesosphere (a) Bharatpur (c) Ionosphere (b) Gir forest (d) Exosphere (c) Khaziranga 887. The first Commercial Civilian Aircraft developed by India is (d) Nilgiris (a) Pawan Hans 897. Which country recently voted to leave the European Union (b) Tejas (EU)? (c) Gajraj (a) Greece (d) Saras (b) Spain 888. Wedded neck is a characteristic of : (c) United Kingdom (a) Down’s syndrome (d) Germany (b) Turner’s syndrome 898. ‘Capital gains’ refers to goods which: (c) Klinefelter’s syndrome (a) serve as a source of raising further capital (d) Cri-du-chat syndrome (b) help in the further production of goods 889. The World Trade Organisation, which replaced GATT, has (c) directly go into the satisfaction of human wants its headquarters in : (d) find multiple uses (a) Vienna 899. The President can dismiss a member of the Council of (b) Brussels Ministers………… (c) New York (a) with the consent of the Speaker (d) Geneva (b) only under emergency conditions 890. One of the common forms of representing remote sensing (c) on the recommendation of the Prime Minister data as information is in the form of : (d) on his own (a) Thematic maps 900. Securities and Exchange Board of India is a : (b) Political maps (a) Quasi Judicial Body For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 47

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(b) Regulatory Body (c) Development of fisheries in rural areas (c) Advisory Body (d) Development of multiple cropping in hilly region (d) Constitutional Body 910. Who among the following Indians has been honoured by a 901. Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi were jointly special Oscar? presented with which award? (a) Mahesh Bhatt (a) Magsaysay Award (b) (b) Nobel Peace Prize (c) Mira Nair (c) Gandhi Peace Prize (d) G.P. Sippy (d) Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding 911. What situation would result if Government expenditure 902. Warming Ammonium chloride with sodium hydrochloride in exceeds the Government revenue on Current Account? a test tube is an example of : (a) Deficit budgeting (a) Open system (b) Zero-based budgeting (b) Closed system (c) Performance-based budgeting (c) Isobaric system (d) Surplus budgeting (d) Isothermal system 912. Disguised unemployment in India is mainly related to: 903. Which of the following is the cleanest source of energy? (a) Agricultural Sector (a) Biofuel (b) Rural Area (b) Fossil fuel (c) Factory Sector (c) Nuclear power (d) Urban Area (d) Wind energy 913. Which of the following is not guaranteed by Indian 904. The first woman of Indian origin who undertook a space Constitution? journey : (a) Right to Equality (a) Sunita Williams (b) Right of religious freedom (b) Kalpana Chawla (c) Right to Constitutional remedies (c) Darshan Ranganath (d) Right to free education for all (d) Avani Chaturvedi 914. A wide inlet of the sea usually concave in shape, is termed as 905. Which of the following periodicals is not correctly matched a: with its editor? (a) Strait (a) Bande Mataram : Aurobindo Ghosh (b) Sound (b) New India : Bipin Chandra Pal (c) Bay (c) Yugantar : Bhupendranath Dutta (d) Fjord (d) Sandhya : Barindra Ghosh 915. Punjab has a large number of inundation canals drawing 906. Silk worms feed on: water from: (a) Basil leaves (a) Jhelum river (b) Curry leaves (b) Chenab river (c) Rose leaves (c) Beas river (d) Mulberry leaves (d) Sutlaj river 907. Who among the following has been appointed the new Coach 916. The sexual reproductive organs of aspergillus are: of the Indian Cricket team by the BCCI recently? (a) Spermatium and Oogonium (a) Saurav Ganguly (b) Antheridium and Oogonium (b) Anil Kumble (c) Spermatium and Ascogonium (c) Rahul Dravid (d) Antheridium and Ascogonium (d) S.R. Kulkarni 917. What is the name of portal launched by RBI recently to check 908. What is the product formed when sodium dicarbonate is illegal money collection? heated strongly? (a) Sahyog (a) Sodium Carbonate (b) Sahayata (b) Sodium Hydroxide (c) Sampark (c) Sodium Peroxide (d) Sachet (d) Sodium Monoxide 918. Which of the following is not an operating system? 909. Mission Indradhanush, a programme introduced recently in (a) Android the country by the NDA Government, is related to: (b) Vista (a) Systematic immunization of children against disease (c) iOS (b) Providing Insurance cover to farmers against crop failure (d) Opera For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 48

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919. Which pair of the following Indians has been selected for 929. Who was responsible for the integration of princely states grant of Raman Magasaysay Award 2016? into the Indian Union after Independence? (a) and T.M. Krishna a) Sri Rajagopalachari (b) T.M. Krishna and Arvind Adiga b) Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru (c) Arvind Adiga and Bezwada Wilson c) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel (d) T.M. Krishna and Satish Gujral d) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad 920. The discretionary powers of a Governor is limited in : 930. Why does the west coast of India receive more rainfall from (a) Appointment of Chief Minister southwest monsoon than the east coast? (b) Dismissal of the Minister a) Unlike the east coast the coast is straight (c) Dissolution of the Legislative Assembly b) The western Ghats obstruct the winds causing (d) Assent to Bills rainfall 921. Who is the first law officer of the country? c) The east coast is broader than the west coast (a) Chief Justice of India d) The Eastern Ghats extend parallel to wind direction (b) Attorney General 931. The plateau that has both West and East flowing drainage (c) Law Minister (a) Malwa (d) Solicitor General (b) Chhota Nagpur 922. Which of the following was not actively engaged in social (c) Ranchi and religious reforms in India? (d) Hazaribagh (a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy 932. Symbiotic Bacteria responsible for the fixation of (b) Pandit Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar atmospheric nitrogen are present in : (c) Jotiba Phule (a) Peas (d) Bharatendu Harish Chandra (b) Wheat 923. The main effect of Direct Taxes is on : (c) Corn (a) food prices (d) Oats (b) consumer goods 933. Children especially in western countries who receive very (c) capital goods little sunshine suffer from : (d) income (a) Rickets 924. Who has the power to protogue the Lok Sabha? (b) Dermatitis (a) The Speaker (c) Scurvy (b) The Prime Minister (d) Kwashiorkor (c) The Minister for Parliamentary Affairs 934. In water treatment plant, use of chloramines ensures……… . (d) The President (a) taste and odour control 925. The first Europeans to come to India were : (b) weed control in reservoirs (a) British (c) disinfection (b) Dutch (d) removal of permanent hardness (c) French 935. Super cooling stands for cooling of a liquid : (d) Portuguese (a) at freezing point 926. Amir Khusro was a : (b) below freezing point (a) Poet (c) at melting point (b) Play writer (d) above melting point (c) Painter 936. Alcohol is more volatile than water because………..is lower (d) Architect than water: 927. The members of the serve the : (a) its boiling point a) Central Government only (b) its density b) State Government only (c) its viscosity c) Union Territories only (d) its surface tension d) Both the Union and State Governments 937. Which of the following is used to protect objects in computer 928. The term of office of the Vice-President of India is : system, in the absence of more complete protection schemes? a) 4 years (a) Digital certificate b) 5 years (b) Digital signature c) 2 years (c) Passwords d) 6 years (d) Tokens

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938. Which one is not included in Non-Banking financial (a) funding infrastructure projects in emerging Institutions (NBFIs)? economics for sustainable development (a) EXIM (b) funding non-infrastructure projects in emerging (b) SIDBI economics for sustainable development (c) NABARD (c) funding infrastructural projects in developed countries (d) BOI (d) funding infrastructural projects in BRICS countries only 939. Which method will be employed to test the hardness of 948. Which governor General decided to make English as the water? medium of instruction in India? (a) Boiling (a) Lord Wellesley (b) Distillation (b) Lord Hardinge (c) Formation of lather with soap (c) Lord Dalhousie (d) None of these (d) Lord William Bentinck 940. Who is the first Indian Gold Medal Winner in individual 949. Who among the following is a renowned campaigner against category in Olympic games? manual scavenging who was recently conferred with the (a) Abhinav Bindra prestigious Magsaysay award? (b) Sushil Kumar (a) T.M. Krishna (c) R.V.S. Rathore (b) Bezwada Wilson (d) (c) 941. Which is the warmest layer of the atmosphere? (d) (a) Thermosphere 950. An indifference curve measures……… level of satisfaction (b) Troposphere derived from different combinations of commodity X and Y. (c) Stratosphere (a) same (d) Mesosphere (b) higher 942. A universal donor has the blood group : (c) lower (a) B (d) minimum (b) AB 951. Who among the following was the first to make use of (c) A artillery in warfare in medieval India? (d) O (a) Babur 943. The Siachin glacier’s melting waters are the main source of (b) Ibrahim Lodi which of the following rivers? (c) Sher Shah Suri (a) Bias (d) Akbar (b) Sutlej 952. Person who is colour-blind cannot distinguish between : (c) Shylok (a) Black and yellow (d) Nubra (b) Red and green 944. Thomas Cup is associated with which of the following (c) Yellow and white sports? (d) Green and blue (a) Cricket 953. During the motion of a projectile fired from the earth surface. (b) Football (a) its kinetic energy remains constant (c) Basketball (b) its momentum remains constant (d) Badminton (c) vertical component of its velocity remains constant 945. The famous book ‘Anandmath’ was written by : (d) horizontal component of its velocity remains (a) Sri Aurobindo constant (b) Sri Bankim Chandra Chatterjee 954. Which of the following waves cannot be polarised? (c) Sri Rabindra Nath Tagore (a) Radio (d) Smt. Aarti Chaudhary (b) Ultra violet 946. Who introduced the term ‘Hindu rate of growth’? (c) Infrared (a) Amartya Sen (d) Ultrasonic (b) Raj Krishna 955. Of the following commonly used materials, the one that is (c) V. K. R. V. Rao not an alloy is : (d) (a) Steel 947. The BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) has been set up (b) Brass for : (c) Bronze (d) Copper For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 50

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956. “Himayat” is a training cum-placement programme for (a) Taoism unemployed youth in the State of : (b) Zoroastrianism (a) Haryana (c) Shintoism (b) Punjab (d) Paganism (c) Jammu and Kashmir 966. Which of the following fuels causes minimum environmental (d) Himachal Pradesh pollution? 957. “Agha Khan Cup” is associated with the game of : (a) Diesel (a) Cricket (b) Kerosene (b) Football (c) Hydrogen (c) Lown tennis (d) Coal (d) Hockey 967. ‘Sun Temple’ is situated in the state of……. 958. Absolute Zero is defined as : (a) Rajasthan (a) The temperature at which all molecular motion (b) Andhra Pradesh ceases (c) Odisha (b) At which water boils at 298K (d) Tamil Nadu (c) At which liquid helium boils 968. Vinegar is……….. (d) At which the volume becomes zero (a) diluted acetic acid 959. Nitrogen fixation is a process of : (b) glacial acetic acid (a) Assimilation of nitrate (c) glacial formic acid (b) Utilization of nitrogen gas (d) diluted formic acid (c) Conversion of organic nitrogen to proteins 969. Open Market Operations refer to…… (d) Conversion of molecular nitrogen to ammonia (a) borrowings by Scheduled banks from RBI 960. Which among the following is called as ‘Land of the (b) lending by Commercial banks to industry midnight Sun’? (c) purchase and sale of Government securities by RBI (a) Norway (d) deposit mobilisation (b) Sweden 970. International ‘Yoga Divas’ is celebrated every year on : (c) Denmark (a) 21st May (d) France (b) 21st June 961. Among the following which one lays eggs and does not (c) 25th May produce young ones directly? (d) 25th June (a) Echidna 971. Which of the following Article of Indian Constitution deals (b) Kangaroo with the Right to Equality before Law? (c) Porcupine (a) Article 13 (d) Whale (b) Article 14 962. The mountain range which divides the North and the South (c) Article 15 India is : (d) Article 16 (a) Himalayas 972. A group of inter-connected islands is known as…………. (b) Western ghats (a) Strait (c) Vindhyas (b) Peninsula (d) Satpura (c) Archipelago 963. Bronze is an alloy of : (d) Lagoon (a) Copper and tin 973. Chief Ministers of State are members of….. (b) Copper and zinc (a) NITI Commission (Aayog) (c) Copper and iron (b) Finance Commission (d) Iron and nickel (c) National Development Council 964. In which of the following States is Dampa Tiger Reserve (d) Election Commission situated? 974. When the demand for a good increases with an increase in (a) Assam income, such a good is called….. . (b) Karnataka (a) Superior good (c) Mizoram (b) Giffin good (d) Odisha (c) Inferior good 965. Japanese folk tradition and ritual, with no founder or single (d) Normal good sacred scripture, is popularly known as……. . For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 51

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975. Which of the following is the most important raw material (c) Soil and Water for generation of power in India? (d) Air and Water (a) Mineral Oil 985. Which cells in pancreas produce Insulin? (b) Natural Gas (a) Thymus (c) Uranium (b) Estrogen (d) Coal (c) Corpus epididymis 976. Which of the following is the treatment to water pollution? (d) Islets of Langerhans (a) Bag house filter 986. When we see an object, the image formed on the retina is : (b) Windrow composting (a) Real and inverted (c) Venturi scrubber (b) Real and erect (d) Reverse Osmosis (c) Virtual and erect 977. The Comptroller and Auditor General is closely connected (d) Virtual and inverted with which of the following Committees of Parliament? 987. Find the odd one out. (a) The Estimates Committee (a) Linux (b) The Committee on Public Undertakings (b) Windows 98 (c) The Public Accounts Committee (c) C++ (d) All of these (d) Windows 7 978. The demand of a commodity is a direct demand but the 988. Kinetic energy depends on : demand of a factor of production is called a : (a) the velocity or speed of the moving body (a) Crossed demand (b) the mass of the moving body (b) Joint demand (c) the pressure of the moving body (c) Derived demand (d) both mass and velocity of the moving body (d) Independent demand 989. In which form is the supplied heat energy stored during 979. Depreciation is loss in value of : change in temperature of substance? (a) Final goods (a) Heat energy (b) Machinery (b) Kinetic energy (c) Capital stock (c) Potential energy (d) Stock of inventory (d) Both kinetic and potential energy 980. What is the Mehrauli Pillar in the complex of Qutub Minar 990. Atoms of same element having different mass numbers are primarily famous for? called : (a) Proverbial height (a) Isobars (b) Skilful stone cutting (b) Isotopes (c) Excellent quality steel (c) Isotones (d) Statue of Buddha on top (d) Isomers 981. Harvesting season of Kharif crop in India is : 991. Which script was used in Ashoka’s inscriptions? (a) January-March (a) Brahmi (b) February-April (b) Devanagairi (c) September-October (c) Gurmukhi (d) November-January (d) Sanskrit 982. Which of the following produces the most solid waste? 992. The ideas of Liberty, Equality ad fraternity, which influenced (a) Agriculture the Indian National Movement, was taken from : (b) Nuclear Power Plants (a) American Revolution (c) Manufacturing (b) Russian Revolution (d) Packaging Industry (c) Chinese Revolution 983. Potassium Permanganate is used for purifying drinking (d) French Revolution water, because : 993. The Kaushal Kendra (skilling center) under the Pradhan (a) It is a reducing agent Mantri Mudra Yojana has been inaugurated in the city of : (b) It is an oxidizing agent (a) Noida (c) It is a sterilizing agent (b) Kolkata (d) It dissolves the impurities of water (c) Mumbai 984. Spraying of DDT on crops causes pollution of : (d) Hyderabad (a) Air and Soil 994. Which one of the following is not the official language of the (b) Crops and Air UNO? For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 52

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(a) French 1004.The presence of air buddle in blood stream is dangerous to (b) Arabic life because : (c) Spanish (a) Air combines with blood forming a complex (d) Japanese (b) The flow of blood increase manifold 995. With the participation in the Rio Olympics who has become (c) The flow of blood is obstructed the first tennis player in the world to have 7 appearances (d) The pressure of blood increases manifold (a) Martina Navratilova 1005.The study of relation of animals and plants to their (b) Serena Williams surroundings is called : (c) Leander Paes (a) Ecology (d) Roger Federer (b) Ethrology 996. How many rings are there in the Olympic flag? (c) Genealogy (a) 4 (d) Iconology (b) 5 1006.Who among the following was not a member of Boxing (c) 6 team of India at Rio Olympics? (d) 7 (a) Shiv Thapa 997. Indian Army’s School of Artillery is located at : (b) Manoj Kumar (a) Khadakvasala (c) Vikas Krishan (b) Dehradun (d) Avtar Singh (c) Deolali 1007.As per the 2016-17 Budget, the largest source of money to (d) Roorkee the Government of India is : 998. Which of the following was not advocated by Mahatma (a) Income Tax Gandhi? (b) Corporation Tax (a) Prohibition (c) Non-tax revenues (b) Heavy Industries (d) Borrowings and other liabilities (c) Village Panchayat 1008.According to Malthusian theory of population : (d) Dignity of Labour (a) Population increases in geometric ratio, food supply 999. The term of a Governor is : increases in arithmetic ratio (a) 4 years (b) Population increases in arithmetic ratio, food supply (b) 5 years increases in geometric ratio (c) 6 years (c) Population increases in a harmonic mean, food supply (d) 3 years increases in geometric ratio 1000.One of the following was not associated with the Gadar (d) Population increases in a harmonic ratio, food supply party : increases in a arithmetic ratio (a) Lala Hardayal 1009. In IT the technique that is used to increase the bandwidth is (b) Baba Gurdit Singh (a) Memory Management (c) Mohammad barkatullah (b) Memory Interleaving (d) Sohan Singh Bhakna (c) Memory Intraleaving 1001.The hormone that stimulates heart beat is : (d) Memory Leaving (a) Thyroxine 1010. A motion that seeks to reduce the amount of demand (b) Gastrin presented by government to 1/- is known as : (c) Glycogen (a) Disapproval of policy cut (d) Dopamine (b) Token cut 1002.Transformer is a device to convert : (c) Economy cut (a) D.C. to A.C. (d) Vote on account (b) Low voltage D.C. into high voltage D.C. 1011. The State which produces largest number of orchids in (c) Low voltage A.C. into high voltage A.C. India is : (d) Mechanical energy into electrical energy (a) Assam 1003.……… is a type of computing that performs computation, (b) Arunachal Pradesh storage and even applications as a service across a network. (c) Meghalaya (a) Cloud Computing (d) Sikkim (b) Distributed Computing 1012. Which one of the following bio reserves of India is not (c) Parallel Computing included in the World Network of Biosphere Reserve? (d) Virtual Computing (a) Sunderbans For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 53

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(b) Gulf of Mannar 1021. When ice cubes are made, the entropy of water : (c) Nandadevi (a) does not change (d) Corbett (b) decreases 1013. What was ‘Kamagata Maru’? (c) increases (a) An army unit (d) may either increase or decrease depending on the (b) A harbor process used (c) A ship 1022. Two vectors are said to be equal if : (d) An industrial township (a) Only their magnitudes are same 1014.Redistribution of income in a country can be brought about (b) Only their directions are same through. (c) Both magnitude and direction are same (a) Progressive taxation combined with progressive (d) Magnitudes are same but directions are opposite expenditure 1023. The chemical component that is invariably found in all (b) Progressive taxation combined with regressive viruses is : expenditure (a) Proteins (c) Regressive taxation combined with regressive (b) Lipids expenditure (c) DNA (d) Regressive taxation combined with progressive (d) RNA expenditure 1024. Which is used as an Air pollution indicator? 1015.A motion moved by Member of Parliament when he feels a (a) Algae minister has committed a breach of privilege of the House by (b) Fungi withholding facts of a case is called : (c) Bacteria (a) No confidence motion (d) Lichens (b) Censure motion 1025. The study of mountains is known as : (c) Privilege motion (a) Oncology (d) Cut motion (b) Lithology 1016.Who propounded the “Doctrine of Passive Resistance”? (c) Orology (a) Balgangadhar Tilak (d) Ornithology (b) Aurobindo Ghosh 1026. Salination of soil is caused by : (c) Lala Lajpat Rai (a) Pesticides (d) Bipin Chandra Pal (b) Soil erosion 1017.At Rio Olympics, what was the final position of Dipa (c) Excess irrigation Karmakar in her Category? (d) Crop rotation (a) 4 1027. ICC World Cup T-20 in 2016 was won by : (b) 5 (a) India (c) 6 (b) England (d) 7 (c) New Zealand 1018. The 14th Finance Commission has recommended increase (d) West Indies in States share in net proceeds from tax collection from 1028. Which one of the following was established with a definite 32% to : provision under an Article of the Constitution of India? a) 35% (a) Union Public Service Commission b) 40% (b) National Human Rights Commission c) 42% (c) Election Commission d) 45% (d) Central Vigilance Commission 1019. Fiscal policy in India is formulated by : 1029. The President can advance money to meet unforeseen a) Reserve Bank of India expenses from the : b) Planning Commission (a) Consolidated Fund of India c) Finance Ministry (b) Grants of the central Government d) SEBI (c) Aid from the Union Government 1020. Which of the following has pH value 7? (d) Contingency Fund (a) Pure Water 1030. The famous Vishnu temple at Angkor Wat in Cambodia (b) H2SO4 was built by : (c) Sodium Carbonate (a) Shrutavarman (d) HCI (b) Suryavarman II For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 54

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(c) Indravarman National Congress’ was : (d) Aniruddha (a) Maulana Azad 1031. In IT, technique of delaying outgoing acknowledgements (b) Mohammed Ali temporarily is known as : (c) Badruddin Tyabji (a) A.R. Acknowledgement (d) Shah Wali-ullah (b) A.R. request 1041. What is the limit of Territorial water of a country from the (c) Piggybacking coast? (d) Piggyframing (a) 20 km 1032. If speed of rotation of the earth increases, the weight of (b) 22 km the body : (c) 22.20 km (a) decreases (d) 12 km (b) increases 1042. What is included in the Teriary sector? (c) remains the same (a) Banking (d) may increase of decrease (b) Manufacturing 1033. Which among the following countries is facing debt (c) Forestry crists? (d) Mining (a) China 1043. Which one of the following counties was first to establish a (b) Canada modern democracy? (c) Germany (a) France (d) Greece (b) England 1034. The new symbol of Indian currency is designed by : (c) America (a) Santosh Kumar (d) India (b) Y.V. Reddy 1044. Who was the reformer of oppressed and backward classed? (c) Udaya Kumar (a) Dayanand Saraswati (d) Dr. Rangarajan (b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy 1035. What is MUDRA? (c) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (a) Development and Refinance Agency (d) Mahatma Gandhi (b) Scheme for Agricultural Insurance 1045. Which of the following Harappan sites had a dockyard? (c) New Planet Discovered (a) Harappa (d) Development and Regulatory authority for Urban (b) Mohenjodaro Township (c) Lothal 1036. Which of the following is not correctly matched? (d) Alamgirpur (a) Sania Mirza – Tennis 1046. What was the Wood’s Despatch about? (b) Sania Nehwal – Badminton (a) Industry (c) – Boxing (b) Army (d) Pankaj Advani – Wrestling (c) Education 1037. Which of the following State is surrounded by Bangladesh (d) Agriculture from three sides? 1047. The country whose 40 percent of area is below sea level (a) Nagaland at high tide is : (b) Assam (a) Denmark (c) Arunachal Pradesh (b) Norway (d) Tripura (c) Finland 1038. Which enzyme digests proteins in the stomach? (d) The Netherlands (a) Trypsin 1048. BCG is a vaccine meant for protection against which of (b) Pepsin the following diseases? (c) Salivary amylase (a) Mumps (d) Pancreatic canal (b) Tuberculosis 1039. Fermentation is type of……..process. (c) Leprosy (a) Aerobic Respiration (d) Tetanus (b) Anaerobic Respiration 1049. Electromagnet is constructed with which of the (c) Exothermic Reaction following? (d) Transpiration (a) Steel 1040. The first Muslim to be elected President of ‘Indian (b) Soft iron For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 55

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(c) Aluminium (d) Srinagar (d) Nickel 1059. What is cultivation of trees, in dwarf form? 1050. When does a Page fault occur? (a) Bonsai (a) There is an error in a specific page (b) Ikebana (b) A program accesses a page not currently in main (c) Dwarfism memory (d) Etiolation (c) A program accesses a page of main memory 1060. A body moving in a circular path with a constant speed (d) A program accesses a page belonging to another has a…….. . program (a) Constant velocity 1051. Which acid is used in Lead storage battery? (b) Constant acceleration (a) Sulphuric acid (c) Constant kinetic energy (b) Nitric acid (d) Constant displacement (c) Hydrochloric acid 1061. Copper wires are generally used for electrical power (d) Acetic acid transmission instead of iron wire because : 1052. The rock that results from solidification of molten lava (a) copper is cheaper than iron from a volcano is an example of which of the following? (b) copper is lighter than iron (a) Igneous rock (c) copper is a better conductor of electricity than (b) Granite Rock iron (c) Basalt Rock (d) copper can take higher power than iron (d) Magnetite 1062. Two electrons in an orbital are differentiated by which of 1053. Which city will host the 2020 Summer Olympic games? the following? (a) Tokyo (a) Magnetic quantum number (b) Beijing (b) Spin quantum number (c) Kyoto (c) Principal quantum number (d) Canberra (d) Azimuthal quantum number 1054. Who is known as the “Hockey Wizard”? 1063. Which among the following is a form of folk theatre (a) Milkha Singh belonging to Gujarat? (b) Dhyanchand (a) Jatra (c) Dhanraj Pillai (b) Raas (d) Jafar Iqbal (c) Tamasha 1055. Heavy water is manufactured at which of the following (d) Bhavai places? 1064. Which Indian has won an Olympic Gold Medal in (a) Trombay shooting? (b) Patna (a) Rajya Vardhan Singh Rathor (c) Delhi (b) (d) Bhilai (c) Anjali Bhagwat 1056. Who was the first Indian Governor of the Reserve Bank (d) Abhinav Bindra of India? 1065. Which is the sensory receptor involved in detecting blood (a) C. D. Deshmukh pressure? (b) Sechindra Roy (a) Chemo receptor (c) S. Mukherjee (b) Mechano receptor (d) None of these (c) Photo receptor 1057. Khilafat Movement was connected with which of the (d) Magneto receptor following? 1066. Popular brand Maggi was banned across India recently (a) Turkey due to which dangerous substance found in it? (b) Egypt (a) Zinc (c) Saudi Arabia (b) Manganese (d) Iran (c) Lead 1058. In India, the Temperate Forest Research Centre is in (d) Mercury which city? 1067. Which among the following is a tax levied by Centre and (a) Shimla to stared with States? (b) Ranchi (a) Sales Tax (c) Dehrabun (b) Excise Duty For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 56

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(c) Corporation Tax (a) Kidneys (d) Income Tax (b) Liver 1068. Which of the following is the right expansion of GATT? (c) Lungs (a) Government agreement of Trade and Tax (d) Spleen (b) General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs 1078. Mechanism preventing interbreeding is called…….. . (c) General Agreement of Trade and Tariffs (a) Adaptation (d) General Agreement on trade and Tax (b) Isolation 1069. The President of India is : (c) Reproduction (a) the Head of state (d) Recombination (b) the Head of Government 1079. The Soral energy produced by : (c) the Head of State and Government (a) Fusion reaction (d) the Head of Parliament (b) Fission reaction 1070. What is true about origin of Naxalism? (c) Combustion reaction (a) A peasant revolt which began from Naxalbari village (d) None of West Bengal 1080. On a cold day when the room temperature is 15ºC, the (b) It was led by Charu Mazumbar, Kanu Sanyal and metallic cap of a pen becomes much colder than its plastic Jungal Santhal body, though both are at the same temperature of 15ºC, (c) It was inspired by the – Marxism – Leninism- Maoism because : (d) All of the above (a) metals have higher thermal capacity than plastics 1071. Which city is known as ‘Electronic City’? (b) plastics have a lower density than metals (a) Gurugram (c) metals are good conductors of heat (b) Bengaluru (d) plastics have a higher thermal conductivity than (c) Jaipur metals (d) Salem (Tamil Nadu) 1081. Cache memory acts between………. . 1072. Who was known as the ‘Father of Indian Renaissance’? (a) CPU and RAM (a) Vivekananda (b) CPU and ROM (b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (c) RAM and ROM (c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy (d) CPU and Hard disk (d) Surendranath Banerjee 1082. Sueze Canal is located in which of the following 1073. In which of its sessions did the Indian National Congress countries? declare ‘Purna Swaraj’ as its specific goal? (a) Sudan (a) Lahore Session, 1929 (b) Saudi Arabia (b) Tripuri Session, 1939 (c) Egypt (c) Surat Session, 1905 (d) Jordan (d) Special Session in Calcutta, 1920 1083. “Globalisation of Indian Economy” denotes : 1074. Motilal Nehru and C.R. Das were the founders of a party (a) increase of external borrowings known as the: (b) having minimum intervention in economic (a) Gadar Party relations with other countries (b) Forward Bloc (c) starting of new business units abroad (c) Swarajya Party (d) relaxing the programmes of import substitution (d) Socialist Congress 1084. Ozone layer is formed due to reactions of : 1075. Cooperative farming has been most successful in which (a) oxygen and ultraviolet rays country? (b) carbon dioxide and layers of atmosphere (a) India (c) cosmic rays and layers of atmosphere (b) Denmark (d) infrared rays and ultraviolet rays (c) USA 1085. Biodegradable wastes can usually be converted into useful (d) Russia substances with the help of : 1076. Solar energy is converted into chemical energy during: (a) Bacteria (a) Combustion (b) Nuclear proteins (b) Transition (c) Radioactive substances (c) Photosynthesis (d) Viruses (d) Fusion 1086. ‘Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana’ has been launched for : 1077. Which one of the following is not the excretory organ? (a) Promoting financial inclusion in the country For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 57

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(b) Providing loans to poorest people in the country (b) Vincent Smith (c) Providing financial help to the marginalized community (c) Barni (d) Promoting women in backward areas (d) W. Haigh 1087.The first woman ruler in Indian history was : 1096. Which of the following region in India is now (a) Razia Sultan regarded as an ‘Ecological Hot Spot’? (b) Hamida Begum (a) Western Himalayas (c) Mehrunissa (b) Eastern Himalayas (d) Hazrat Mahal (c) Western Ghats 1088.Which of the following princely states did not accede to the (d) Eastern Ghats Indian Union after independence? 1097. The Beaufort scale is used to measure: (a) Hyderabad (a) Atmospheric pressure (b) Junagarh (b) Altitudes of mountains (c) Kashmir (c) Wind velocity (d) Jodhpur (d) intensity of earthquakes 1089.Which of the following books is not written by Munshi 1098. The waste management technique that involves the Premchand? use of micro-organisms to remove or neutralize (a) Gadan pollutants from contaminated site is called : (b) Godan (a) Bio sensor (c) Guide (b) Bio magnification (d) Nirmala (c) Bio remediation 1090. Economic Survey in India is published officially, every (d) Bio concentration year by the : 1099. In IT networking, which of the following device is (a) Reserve Bank of India used in physical layer? (b) NITI Aayog (a) Repeater (c) Minister of Finance (b) Router (d) Ministry of Commerce (c) Transport Gateway 1091. MUDRA Bank has been launched to help : (d) Bridge (a) Small business 1100. Lok Sabha Secretariat comes under the direct control (b) Marginal farmers of : (c) Poor women (a) Ministry of Home affairs (d) Rural sector (b) Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs 1092. Which of the following controls the insurance (c) Speaker of Lok Sabha business of India? (d) President (a) RBI (b) IDBI (c) SEBI (d) IRDA 1093. The Speaker of Lok Sabha addresses his letter of resignation to the : (a) President of India (b) Prime Minister (c) Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha (d) The Chief Justice of India 1094. Who presided over the first session of the Indian National Congress? (a) A.O. Hume (b) Surendranath Banerjee (c) W.C. Banerjee (d) Badruddin Tayyabji 1095. Which of the following writers has called akbar’s Din-i-Ilahi as a monument of his folly, not of wisdom? (a) Badayuni For more update visit on:- www.naukriaspirant.com 58