08-Oct-2020 Exam Time: 15:00-18:00 Examination: 1

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Roll No: Application No: Registered Photo Exam Day Photo Name: Exam Date: 08-Oct-2020 Exam Time: 15:00-18:00 Examination: 1. Course Code - Certificate of proficiency 2. Field of Study - Yoga Philosophy (YOPC) SECTION 1 - SECTION 1

Question No.1 (Question Id - 36) Niruktam is a text of : (A) Upanishad (B) Itihasa (C) Vedanga (Correct Answer)

(D) Kavyam

Question No.2 (Question Id - 59) In the sentence Hari works slowly – ‘slowly’ is an example of :

(A) Verb (B) Adverb (Correct Answer) (C) Adjective (D) Conjunction

Question No.3 (Question Id - 61) Which of the following two expressions describe the meanings of the sentence below : ‘Ram wrote a poem on the mountain’.

A. Ram wrote a poem about the mountain.

B. Ram wrote a poem when he went up to the mountain.

C. Ram reports about the mountain.

D. Ram is fond of mountaineering.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(A) C and D (B) A and C (C) A and B (Correct Answer)

(D) A and D

Question No.4 (Question Id - 62) ‘Harivamsha’ is regarded as an appendix (Khila) to : (A) Ramayana (B) Mahabharatam (Correct Answer)

Question No.5 (Question Id - 52) Hinayanam & Mahayanam are related to which of the philosophical systems ? (A) Yoga Philosophy (B) Buddhist Philosophy (Correct Answer) (C) Charvaka Philosophy (D) Jaina Philosophy

Question No.6 (Question Id - 86) How many language families are represented in the 8th Schedule of India’s Constitution ? (A) 4 (Correct Answer) (B) 3 (C) 5 (D) 2

Question No.7 (Question Id - 73) Who is the founder of the Ramakrishna Mission ? (A) Swami Vivekananda (Correct Answer)

(B) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (C) Rabindranath Tagore (D) Aurobindo

Question No.8 (Question Id - 78) ‘Operation Vijay’ is related to : (A) India Pakistan Kargil War, 1999 (Correct Answer) (B) Surgical Strike (C) India China War (D) India Pakistan 1965 War

Question No.9 (Question Id - 1) Schedule VIII of Indian Constitution pertains to : (A) Judiciary (B) Fundamental duties (C) Fundamental rights (D) Languages (Correct Answer)

Question No.10 (Question Id - 10) Where did Gautama Buddha deliver his first sermon ? (A) Nalanda (B) Vaishali (C) Saranath (Correct Answer) (D) Kushinagar

Question No.11 (Question Id - 4) What is the motto of Lok Sabha ? (A) Satyameva Jayate (B) Aharnisham Sevamahe (C) Dharmachakra Pravartanaya (Correct Answer)

(D) Yato Dharmah tato Jayah

Question No.12 (Question Id - 91) In Computer vocabulary, RAM stands for : (A) Rapid Action Mode (B) Random Access Memory (Correct Answer) (C) Real Access Mechanism (D) Rapid Access Memory

Question No.13 (Question Id - 37) How many Vedangas are there ? (A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (Correct Answer)

(D) 8

Question No.14 (Question Id - 29) Who wrote the national song of Bangladesh ? (A) Rabindranth Tagore (Correct Answer) (B) Bakim Chandra Chatterjee (C) Kazi Nazrul Islam (D) Mohd Iqbal Question No.15 (Question Id - 13) When the International Yoga Day is celebrated ?

(A) 21st June (Correct Answer) (B) 21st May (C) 21st July (D) 21st August

Question No.16 (Question Id - 56) Which one of the following is the correct set of Sanskrit epics ?

A. Raghuvamsam and Kiratarjuniyam

B. Meghadutam and Abhijnashakuntalam

C. Rigveda and Samaveda

D. Ramayanam and Mahabharatam

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(A) A and B (B) A and C (C) C and D (D) A and D (Correct Answer)

Question No.17 (Question Id - 44) Which among the following is the correct set of the kavyas written by Kalidasa ?

(A) Raghuvamsam, Shishupalavadham, Meghadutam, Ritusamharam (B) Raghuvamsam, Kumarasambhavam, Meghadutam, Kiratarjuniyam (C) Raghuvamsam, Janakiharanam, Meghadutam, Ritusamharam (D) Raghuvamsam, Kumarasambhavam, Meghadutam, Ritusamharam (Correct Answer)

Question No.18 (Question Id - 7)

(A) A - IV, B - II, C - III, D - I (B) A - III, B - IV, C - II, D - I (C) A - IV, B - III, C - II, D - I (Correct Answer) (D) A - I, B - II, C - III, D - IV

Question No.19 (Question Id - 25) Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga is situated at : (A) Ahmadabad (B) Mumbai (C) New Delhi (Correct Answer)

(D) Haridwar

Question No.20 (Question Id - 49) Who is author of the Yogasutra ? (A) Panini (B) Patanjali (Correct Answer) (C) Pingala (D) Narada

Question No.21 (Question Id - 50) In which language Gautama Buddha delivered his lectures ? (A) Prakrit (B) Pali (Correct Answer)

Question No.22 (Question Id - 68) In the following numeral pattern 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, what would be the correct number after 32 ?

(A) 62 (B) 72 (C) 64 (Correct Answer) (D) 74

Question No.23 (Question Id - 54) Who was Ananda ? (A) Disciple of Buddha (Correct Answer) (B) Disciple of Mahavir (C) Disciple of Shankaracharya (D) Disciple of Ramanujacharya

Question No.24 (Question Id - 94) Which of the following scheduled Indian languages are shared by India’s neighbouring countries ?

(A) Tamil, Bengali (B) Urdu, Punjabi (C) Nepali, Maithili (D) All of the above (Correct Answer)

Question No.25 (Question Id - 48) How many Kandas are there in Ramayanam ? (A) 6 (B) 7 (Correct Answer) (C) 8 (D) 12

Question No.26 (Question Id - 22) Brihadeeshvaralayam is located at : (A) Tanjavur (Correct Answer) (B) Guruvayaoor (C) Madurai (D) Hyderabad

Question No.27 (Question Id - 55) (A) A - IV, B - II, C - III, D - I (B) A - II, B - IV, C - I, D - III (C) A - IV, B - III, C - II, D - I (D) A - III, B - IV, C - I, D - II (Correct Answer)

Question No.28 (Question Id - 90) Which of the following is the most spoken language in India ?

(A) Hindi (Correct Answer) (B) Urdu (C) English (D) Bengali

Question No.29 (Question Id - 53) Birth place of the Buddha is : (A) Saranath (B) Lumbini (Correct Answer) (C) Kushinagar (D) Kapilavastu

Question No.30 (Question Id - 46) How many components are there in Yoga Philosophy ? (A) 4 (B) 8 (Correct Answer)

Question No.31 (Question Id - 72) What was the name of Swami Vivekananda before he took samyas ?

(A) Maneendra (B) Surendra (C) Narendra (Correct Answer) (D) Virendra

Question No.32 (Question Id - 58) Syntax in a domain of grammar which studies : (A) Formation of words (B) Study of Sentence formation (Correct Answer)

Question No.33 (Question Id - 63) In a language the word ‘APPLE’ is codified as 12234, then which would be the correct code for ‘LAP’ ?

(A) 122 (B) 234 (C) 312 (Correct Answer) (D) 431

Question No.34 (Question Id - 38) Vijnanavada is related to : (A) Jaina Philosophy (B) Buddhist Philosophy (Correct Answer)

Question No.35 (Question Id - 57) The word ‘head’ in English may mean the following : - ‘the top part of human body’, ‘top of a glass of juice’, ‘boss of an organization’. Such relatedness of meanings are technically called :

(A) Homonymy (B) Polysemy (Correct Answer)

Question No.36 (Question Id - 88) Which one of the following Indian languages is from the Tibeto-Burman family ?

(A) Assamese (B) Santali (C) Tamil (D) Bodo (Correct Answer)

Question No.37 (Question Id - 80) If MOTHERLAND is coded as 9501623748, how will DREAM be coded ?

(A) 82697 (B) 82679 (Correct Answer) (C) 82769 (D) 86297

Question No.38 (Question Id - 74) Who is the author of ‘Kadambari’ ? (A) Narayana Pandita (B) Banabhatta (Correct Answer) (C) Kautilya (D) Kalidasa

Question No.39 (Question Id - 23) ‘Sevaa asmaakam dharmah’ is a motto of : (A) Indian Navy (B) Indian Air Force (C) Indian Army (Correct Answer) (D) Supreme Court of India

Question No.40 (Question Id - 60) Which of the following is an example of a voiced consonant (ghosha varna) ?

(A) ka (B) kha (C) ga (Correct Answer)

(D) cha

Question No.41 (Question Id - 67) (A) A - IV, B - II, C - III, D - I (B) A - II, B - IV, C - I, D - III (C) A - III, B - I, C - IV, D - II (Correct Answer) (D) A - III, B - IV, C - I, D - II

Question No.42 (Question Id - 9)

(A) A - IV, B - II, C - III, D - I (B) A - II, B - IV, C - I, D - III (C) A - IV, B - III, C - II, D - I (D) A - III, B - IV, C - II, D - I (Correct Answer)

Question No.43 (Question Id - 64) What is the full form of ‘NASA’ ? (A) Navy Army Sports Authority (B) National Aeronautics and Space Agency (Correct Answer) (C) New American Space Association (D) North American Space Agency

Question No.44 (Question Id - 8)

(A) A - IV, B - II, C - III, D - I (B) A - II, B - IV, C - I, D - III (Correct Answer) (C) A - IV, B - III, C - II, D - I (D) A - I, B - II, C - III, D - IV

Question No.45 (Question Id - 28) Who is the author of “Amukta malyada” ? (A) Bana Bhatta (B) Kalidasa (C) Sri Krishnadeva Raya (Correct Answer) (D) Mallinatha Suri

Question No.46 (Question Id - 69) ‘No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.’ In this sentence ‘poor’ and ‘honest’ are examples of :

(A) Noun (B) Adjective (Correct Answer)

Question No.47 (Question Id - 51) How Saranath is associated with Gautama Buddha ? (A) He studied the Vedas (B) He delivered his first lecture (Correct Answer) (C) The Buddha took birth (D) The Buddha got his Mahanirvana

Question No.48 (Question Id - 87) How many languages are from the Dravidian family in the 8th Schedule of India’s Constitution ?

(A) 4 (Correct Answer) (B) 3 (C) 5 (D) 2

Question No.49 (Question Id - 16) How many chapters are in the Srimad Bhagavad Gita ? (A) 18 (Correct Answer)

(B) 16 (C) 14 (D) 12

Question No.50 (Question Id - 26) Which among the following books deals with the history of Kashmir from earliest times to the 12th Century ?

(A) Harsha Charitam (B) Ashokavadanam (C) Shivapuranam (D) Rajatarngini (Correct Answer)

Question No.51 (Question Id - 6) The “Mc Mohan Line” defines the boundaries of which of the following countries ? (A) India - Pakistan (B) India - Nepal (C) India - Bhutan (D) India - China (Correct Answer)

Question No.52 (Question Id - 34) Sampurnananda Sanskrit University is situated at : (A) Gorakhpur (B) Varanasi (Correct Answer) (C) Nalanda (D) Saranath

Question No.53 (Question Id - 40) Who mainly established the Vishistadvaita-Vedanta school ? (A) Sri Ramanujacharya (Correct Answer) (B) Adi Shankaracharya (C) Gautama Buddha (D) Madhavacharya

Question No.54 (Question Id - 33) ‘Yatra naaryastu poojyante ramante tatra devataah’ is derived from which of the following texts ?

(A) Abhijnana Shakuntalam (B) Manusmuriti (Correct Answer)

Question No.55 (Question Id - 30) The first English translation of Bhagavad Gita was done by : (A) William Jones (B) Charles Wilkins (Correct Answer)

Question No.56 (Question Id - 77) Thimsa is a tribal dance of which state ? (A) Assam (B) Arunachal Pradesh (C) Andhra Pradesh (Correct Answer)

(D) Nagaland

Question No.57 (Question Id - 93) Which of the following languages is NOT from Indo Aryan family ?

(A) Odia (B) Singhalese (C) Urdu (D) Telugu (Correct Answer)

Question No.58 (Question Id - 32) ‘Mahabhashyam’ is a commentary on which of the following texts ? (A) Siddhanta Kaumudi (B) Ramayanam (C) Astadhyayi (Correct Answer)

(D) Mahabharatam

Question No.59 (Question Id - 5) “Yogakshemam Vahamyaham” - a motto of LIC – has been taken from which of the following texts ?

(A) Ramayana (B) Yogasutra (C) Bhagavad Gita (Correct Answer)

(D) Rajatarangini

Question No.60 (Question Id - 11) Who built the Khajuraho temple ? (A) Gupta Kings (B) Maurya Kings (C) Chandel Kings (Correct Answer)

(D) Pratihar Kings

Question No.61 (Question Id - 47) Who is the author of the Natyashastram ?

(A) Abhinavagupta (B) Anandavardhana (C) Bharata Muni (Correct Answer) (D) Bhamaha

Question No.62 (Question Id - 24) What is the full form of PTI ? (A) Press Trust of India (Correct Answer) (B) Press Television of India (C) Print Trust of India (D) Press Testing authority of India

Question No.63 (Question Id - 65) What is the full form of ‘UNESCO’ ? (A) United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (Correct Answer) (B) United Nations Educational Social and Cultural Organization (C) United Nations Environmental Social and Cultural Organization (D) United Nations Engineering and Social Cultural Organization

Question No.64 (Question Id - 83) What is the name of the epic composed by Malik Mohammad Jayasi ?

(A) Padmavat (Correct Answer) (B) Padmamanjari (C) Karnavati (D) Padamanjari

Question No.65 (Question Id - 27) Who composed the famous hymn “Bhaja Govindam” ? (A) Jayadeva (B) Tulasidas (C) Shankaracharya (Correct Answer)

(D) Ramanujacharya

Question No.66 (Question Id - 45) Astangamarga is related to : (A) Yoga Philosophy (B) Buddhist Philosophy (Correct Answer)

Question No.67 (Question Id - 17) Srimad Bhagavad Gita is a part of which of the following texts ? (A) Ramayanam (B) Srimad Bhagavatam (C) Mahabharatam (Correct Answer) (D) Vishnu Puranam

Question No.68 (Question Id - 2) Which one of the following set of plays is composed by William Shakespeare ?

(A) Othello, King Lear, Pygmalion, Arms and the Man (B) King Lear, A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, Othello, Macbeth (Correct Answer) (C) King Lear, Death of a Salesman, Much Ado about Nothing (D) King Lear, Othello, Pygmalion

Question No.69 (Question Id - 92) Computational Linguistics studies Computer applications on : (A) Artificial languages (B) Natural languages (Correct Answer)

Question No.70 (Question Id - 20) Which of the following is an Upaveda of Rigveda ? (A) Gandharva Veda (B) Ayurveda (Correct Answer) (C) Dhanurveda (D) Artha Shatram

Question No.71 (Question Id - 41) To which one of the following philosophical systems Sarvam duhkham, sarvam ksanikam pertains to :

(A) Yoga Philosophy (B) Buddhist Philosophy (Correct Answer)

Question No.72 (Question Id - 75) Yaksaganam is a folk dance of which state ? (A) Kerala (B) Karnataka (Correct Answer)

Question No.73 (Question Id - 76) Kuchipudi classical dance is associated with : (A) Tamil Nadu (B) Andhra Pradesh (Correct Answer) (C) Maharashtra (D) Kerala

Question No.74 (Question Id - 31) The Jataka stories describes the previous lives of : (A) Mahavir (B) Krishna (C) Gautama Buddha (Correct Answer) (D) Guru Nanak

Question No.75 (Question Id - 18) The “Tripitakas” refer to which of the following set of texts ? (A) Buddhacharitam, Shariputraprakaranam, Saundaranandam (B) Brahma Puranam, Vishnu Puranam, Shiva Puranam (C) Vinayapitaka, Suttapitaka, Abhidhammapitaka (Correct Answer) (D) Brahmasutram, Bhagavad Gita, Upanishad

Question No.76 (Question Id - 81) If 341782 denotes MONKEY and 0596 denotes RAGS, then 75195044 will denote :

(A) KARNAGOO (B) PALMANTT (C) HANGMEE (D) KANGAROO (Correct Answer)

Case Study - 77 to 81 (Question Id - 96) Read the following passage and answer the questions : Let me therefore explain at once to my friends who may have lived in India for years, as civil servants, or officers, or missionaries, or merchants and who ought to know a great deal more of that country than one who has never set foot on the soil of Aryavarta, that we are speaking of two very different Indias. I am thinking chiefly of India, such as it was a thousand, two thousand, it may be three thousand years ago; they think of the India of today. And again, when thinking of the India of today, they remember chiefly the India of Calcutta, Bombay, or Madras, the India of the towns. I look to the India of the village communities, the true India of the Indians.

Question No.77 (Question Id - 97) Aryavarta is also a name of : (A) Iran (B) Afghanistan (C) India (Correct Answer) (D) Germany

Question No.78 (Question Id - 98) What are the two Indias the author is talking about ?

(A) North India and South India (B) East India and West India (C) Rural India and Urban India (Correct Answer) (D) India of Traders and India of Farmers

Question No.79 (Question Id - 99) Which one is the true India of the Indians ? (A) India of the Business Communities (B) India of the Village Communities (Correct Answer) (C) India of the Urban Communities (D) India of the War Communities

Question No.80 (Question Id - 100) Who are the people who may have lived in India for years ? (A) Literary persons (B) Farmers (C) Civil servant (Correct Answer)

(D) Migrants

Question No.81 (Question Id - 101) The author appears to have more inclination towards : (A) Forest Communities (B) Urban Communities (C) Village Communities (Correct Answer) (D) Mountain Communities

Question No.82 (Question Id - 71) UNICEF is an example : (A) Abbreviation (B) Acronym (Correct Answer)

Question No.83 (Question Id - 66) Which language is the Second Official Language of the states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh ?

(A) Hindi (B) Dogri (C) Kumauni (D) Sanskrit (Correct Answer) Question No.84 (Question Id - 35) Panini’s Ashtadhyayi deals with : (A) Sanskrit Grammar (Correct Answer) (B) Yoga Philosophy (C) Nyaya Philosophy (D) Pali Grammar

Question No.85 (Question Id - 84) Who among the following is known as ‘The Frontier Gandhi’ ?

(A) Dadabhai Naoroji (B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (C) Raja Ram Mohan Roy (D) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (Correct Answer)

Question No.86 (Question Id - 15)

(A) A - IV, B - II, C - III, D - I (B) A - I, B - IV, C - II, D - III (C) A - IV, B - III, C - II, D - I (D) A - II, B - I, C - IV, D - III (Correct Answer)

Question No.87 (Question Id - 82) If CONDEMN is coded as CNODMEN, then TEACHER is coded as :

(A) TEACHER (B) AEECHR (C) TAECEHR (Correct Answer) (D) TCAEEHR

Question No.88 (Question Id - 85) How many Indian languages are listed in the 8th Schedule of India’s Constitution ?

(A) 15 (B) 20 (C) 23 (D) 22 (Correct Answer)

Question No.89 (Question Id - 14) On which of the following dates Swami Vivekananda delivered his first speech in the World’s Parliament of Religions ?

(A) January 12, 1893 (B) September 11, 1893 (Correct Answer) (C) October 2, 1893 (D) January 30, 1893

Question No.90 (Question Id - 21) Who is the author of the Raghuvamsham ?

(A) Kalidasa (Correct Answer) (B) Kumaradasa (C) Bharavi (D) Bhamaha

Question No.91 (Question Id - 43) Who is Shuddhodhana ? (A) Father of Mahavir (B) Father of Buddha (Correct Answer) (C) Father of Shankaracharya (D) Father of Ramanujacharya

Question No.92 (Question Id - 79) Ajanta Caves are situated at : (A) Aurangabad (Correct Answer) (B) Hyderabad (C) Tanjavur (D) Chennai

Question No.93 (Question Id - 19) ‘Satyameva Jayate’ is derived from following Upanishad ? (A) Kathopanishad (B) Taittiriyopanishad (C) Mandukyopanishad (D) Mundakopanishad (Correct Answer)

Question No.94 (Question Id - 89) Identify the language from the Austro-Asiatic family : (A) Manipuri (B) Santali (Correct Answer)

Question No.95 (Question Id - 3) Who is the author of “Harshacharitam” ? (A) Ashwaghosha (B) Banabhatta (Correct Answer) (C) Valmiki (D) Kalidasa

Question No.96 (Question Id - 12) What is the full form of ISRO ? (A) International Space and Research Organization (B) Indian Space and Research Organization (Correct Answer) (C) Independent Space and Research Organization (D) Indian Space and Research Operations

Question No.97 (Question Id - 70) Choose the correct option which correctly describes the structure of the word ‘unsystematically’ :

(A) un-systamatically (B) un-systematic-al-aly (C) unsystematic-ally (D) un-system-atic-al-ly (Correct Answer)

Question No.98 (Question Id - 39) Adi Shankaracharya’s birth place is : (A) Guruvayoor, Kerala (B) Mattur, Karnataka (C) Kalady, Kerala (Correct Answer)

(D) Kolcharam, Telangana

Question No.99 (Question Id - 95) What does ‘udatta’ mean in grammar ? (A) Rising accent (Correct Answer) (B) Falling accent (C) Level accent (D) None of the above

Question No.100 (Question Id - 42) Shunyavada is related to : (A) Jaina Philosophy (B) Buddhist Philosophy (Correct Answer)

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