MPPCS 2017 GENERAL STUDIES PRELIMS 1. Ghazi Malik was the founder of which dynasty? A) Tughlaq C) Sayyid B) Khilji D) Lodi 2. Who is called the ‘Father of Indian Archaeology?’ A) Alexander Cunningham C) Mortimer Wheeler B) John Marshall D) James Prinsep 3. Who adorned Ram Mohan Roy with the title of ‘Raja'? A) Aurangzeb C) Mahatma Gandhi B) Robert Clive D) Mughal Emperor Akbar II 4. The act of 1909 was associated with A) introduction of separate electorates C) Dyarchy B) Decentralization D) Legislative Councils 5. Whom had Mohammad Ghori defeated in 1194 in the ‘Battle of Chandawar'? A) Kumarpal C) Govindaraj B) Jaichand D) Bhim II 6. Which dynasty of Delhi Sultanate ruled for the shortest period? A) Khilji C) Sayyid B) Tughlaq D) Lodi 7. An important event of Lord Dufferin's tenure as Viceroy was A) establishment of Ramkrishna C) establishment of Indian National Mission Congress B) establishment of Muslim League in D) beginning of the first census Dhaka 8. who among the following was the youngest person to become the president of the Indian National Congress? A) Jawaharlal Nehru C) Anand Mohan Bose B) Abul Kalam Azad D) Bhupendra Nath Bose 9. from which year was regular and scientific census started in India? A) 1861 C) 1881 B) 1871 D) 1891 10. Who among the following did not participated in the second round table conference? A) Mahadev Desai C) Madan Mohan Malviya B) Pyarelal Nayyar D) Jawaharlal Nehru 11. Which of the following countries did not share boundary with Caspian Sea? A) Azerbaijan C) Iraq B) Iran D) Kazakhstan

MPPCS 2017 GENERAL STUDIES PRELIMS 12. What is Khayal? A) Terai Plains C) Regur of Deccan Plateau B) Gangetic Delta D) Lagoon of Kerala 13. Which of the following is not correctly matched? A) Canyon - River C) Isenberg - Glacier B) Jyujen -Air D) Moraine - Glacier 14. Stromboli is a A) dormant volcano C) dead volcano B) erupting volcano D) none of the above 15. In which year was Water Pollution Prevention and Control Act enacted? A) 1980 C) 1981 B) 1974 D) none of the above 16. Population density of India according to 2011 Census, is A) 325 C) 382 B) 335 D) 385 17. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched? A) Lipulekh - Uttarakhand C) Rohtang - Himachal Pradesh B) Nathu La - Arunachal Pradesh D) Palghat – Kerala 18. Peneplain is related to A) Wind C) Glacier B) Underground Water D) River 19. Which of the following regions is the original habitat of the ‘Toda tribe'? A) Jaunsar Hills C) Nilgiri Hills B) Garo Hills D) Jaintia Hills 20. Where is Ras Tanura oil refinery located? A) Iran C) Saudi Arabia B) United States of America D) Iraq 21. What is the botanical name of opium? A) Emblica officinalis C) Rauwolfia serpentina B) Papaver somniferum D) Cinchona sp. 22. Smallpox was declared eradicated from the world in? A) 1975 C) 1996 B) 1980 D) 2008 23. A bacteriophage is a A) bacterium with a tail C) bacterium infecting virus B) newly formed bacterium D) virus infecting bacterium

MPPCS 2017 GENERAL STUDIES PRELIMS 24. to study meiosis in plants, the best part would be A) shoot Apex C) anthers B) root Apex D) leaf cells 25. Sound waves travel fastest in A) solid C) gas B) liquid D) vacuum 26. In human eyes, the image of an object is formed on A) Cornea C) Pupil B) Iris D) Retina 27. The Kidneys in human beings are a part of system for A) nutrition C) excretion B) transportation D) respiration 28. Which of the following diseases is caused by protozoa? A) Cholera C) Pneumonia B) Diphtheria D) Malaria 29. Transfer of heat by convection can take place in A) solids and liquids C) gases and liquids B) solids and vaccum D) vacuum and gases 30. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched? A) Vitamin A - Maculan C) Vitamin C – James Lind B) Vitamin B – Maculan D) Vitamin D – Paul Muller 31. The power of a lens is measured in A) diopter C) lumen B) aeon D) candela 32. Which of the following is also used as a lubricant? A) Cuprite C) Haematite B) Graphite D) Cryolite 33. The ‘laughing gas' is A) hydrogen peroxide C) carbon monoxide B) nitrous oxide D) Sulphur dioxide 34. Lightening can even burn a tree because it contains tremendous amount of A) heat energy C) chemical energy B) electric energy D) nuclear energy 35. Eight-year-old Tajamul Islam of J & K is related to which game? A) squash C) swimming B) kickboxing D) football

MPPCS 2017 GENERAL STUDIES PRELIMS 36. Who among the following was a Hockey player of Madhya Pradesh? A) Sameer Dad C) Michael Nath B) Kirti Patel D) Amit Banerjee 37. The tradition of which game started with the setting up of the Parsee Club? A) hockey C) cricket B) football D) table tennis 38. Where is Roop Singh stadium located? A) Gwalior C) Bhopal B) Indore D) Jabalpur 39. With which game is Amitabh Vijayvargiya associated? A) hockey C) cricket B) football D) none of the above 40. What was the name of the Cricket World Cup played in 1987? A) Reliance cup C) Wills cup B) Benson and Hedges cup D) none of the above 41. In which year was Sachin Tendulkar given the Arjuna Award? A) 1990 C) 1997 B) 1994 D) 1999 42. In which year were the Commonwealth Games started? A) 1922 C) 1927 B) 1925 D) 1930 43. Which of the following countries has never been a winner in the T-20 Cricket World Cup (Men)? A) India C) England B) Australia D) Pakistan 44. In which of the following years were Olympics not held in London? A) 2012 C) 1948 B) 1968 D) 1908 45. The service of the Internet that provides 'audio' and ‘video' conversation, is called A) chat C) video conferencing B) email D) video chat 46. Which of the following is not a web browser? A) Opera C) vivaldi B) Google apps D) Mozilla Firefox 47. In the context of computer security, crackers are also known as A) black hat hackers C) elite hackers B) white hat hackers D) script kiddie

MPPCS 2017 GENERAL STUDIES PRELIMS 48. Duckduckgo is a A) search engine C) virus B) Web Browser D) news website 49. Ethernet is an example of A) MAN C) WAN B) LAN D) Wi-Fi 50. A modem converts A) analogue signals into digital C) both (A) and (B) signals D) none of the above B) digital signals into analogue signals 51. Which of the following acts introduced the 'Provision of Constitutional Autocracy'? A) the Indian Councils Act of 1909 C) the Government of India Act of B) the Government of India Act of 1935 1919 D) the Indian Independence Act of 1947 52. Who is the inventor of www A) Bill Gates C) Timothy Bil B) Tim Berners-Lee D) Ray Tomlinson 53. A batsman hits a cricket ball which then rolls on a level ground. After covering a short distance, the ball comes to rest. The ball slows to a stop because A) the batsman did not hit the ball C) there is a force on the ball hard enough opposing the motion B) velocity is proportional to the D) there is no unbalanced force on force exerted on the ball the ball, so the ball would try to come to rest 54. Which of the following rulers got the Jantar Mahal of Mandu constructed? A) Mahmud Shah Khilji C) Bhoj Parmar B) Alauddin Khilji D) Hoshang Shah 55. Ein - ul - Mulk Multani did not served under which of the following rulers? A) Alauddin Khilji C) Firoz Tughlaq B) Mohammed Bin Tughlaq D) Iltutmish 56. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched? A) the President of Switzerland – C) the president of Namibia – Hage Johann Schneider-Ammann Geingob B) the president of Mexico – D) the president of cote De Ivoire - Enrique Pena Nieto Angela Merkel 57. Which of the following mountain ranges is spread over only one State in India? A) Aravali C) Ajanta B) Satpura D) Sahyadri

MPPCS 2017 GENERAL STUDIES PRELIMS 58. The tenure of the Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission is A) 3 years C) 5 years B) 4 years D) 6 years 59. Who among the following was the first leader to organize labour Movement in India? Golfa A) B. P. Walia C) N. M. Lokhande B) Lala Lajpat Rai D) N. G. Ranga 60. Joe Root is associated with which game? A) Cricket C) Polo B) Chess D) Golf 61. Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Jacob Zuma in July 2016, who is the A) President of Namibia C) President of Mexico B) President of Qatar D) President of South Africa 62. In which year was the Mohun Bagan club of football founded? A) 1850 C) 1889 B) 1879 D) 1901 63. in which of the following countries a woman became the president for the first time in May 2016? A) Taiwan C) Angola B) Myanmar D) Namibia 64. Who won the Men’s Singles Title of French Open, 2016? A) Ivan Dodig C) Andy Murray B) Novak Djokovic D) Rodger Federer 65. Manohar Aich was called 'Pocket Hercules'. He was a/an A) boxer C) swimmer B) athlete D) bodybuilder 66. What are ‘Ranjit Sub – 1’ and ‘Bahadur Sub -1’? A) two fighter planes C) two new varieties of paddy B) two submarines D) two new varieties of wheat 67. In May 2016, Rodrigo Duterte was elected president of which country? A) Thailand C) Mexico B) Switzerland D) Philippines 68. Who administered the Oath of the Chief Minister of West Bengal to Mamta Banerjee on 27 May, 2016? A) Ram Naik C) T. S. Thakur B) Keshari Nath Tripathi D) P. Sathasivam 69. The first Indian State to start State Data Centre (SDC) is A) Telangana C) Chhattisgarh B) Rajasthan D) Himachal Pradesh

MPPCS 2017 GENERAL STUDIES PRELIMS 70. In which of the following States, Bhartiya Janta Party formed government for the first time in 2016? A) Assam C) Kerala B) Rajasthan D) Odisha 71. Bhawani Prasad Mishra’s birth place was A) Sagar C) Indore B) Ujjain D) Hoshangabad 72. Sunil Lanba is A) author of the book, Masiha D) the Director General of Border B) a famous Hindi novelist Security Force C) the 23rd Naval Chief of India 73. Who among the following was elected as the Chairman of world’s biggest commercial organisation ‘ the International Chamber of Commerce' in June 2016? A) Mukesh Ambani C) Lakshmi Narain Mittal B) Adi Godrej D) Sunil Bharti Mittal 74. When was the State Bank Of India established? A) 1954 C) 1956 B) 1955 D) 1957 75. In which post was the former Police Commissioner of Delhi, B. S. Bassi appointed in May 2016? A) The Chairman of Union Public C) The Director General of the Service Commission Border Security Force B) The Governor of Meghalaya D) The Member of Union Public Service Commission 76. Which of the following countries did president Pranab Mukherjee visit in June 2016 A) Japan C) China B) Myanmar D) France 77. Sania Mirza's mixed doubles partner Ivan Dodig its from which country? A) Sweden C) Russia B) Switzerland D) Croatia 78. what is the name of that book ok Suhel Seth which was released in London in June 2016? A) Mantras for Success C) Wings of Fire B) Dark Horse D) Masiha 79. What was the name of the sculpture stolen from the Khajuraho temple which was handed over by the Prime Minister of Canada to the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi? A) Golden Parrot C) Talkative Parrot B) Singing Parrot D) Parrot Lady

MPPCS 2017 GENERAL STUDIES PRELIMS 80. Which one of the following books is not written by Kalidasa? A) Meghadutam C) Uttararamacharitam B) Kumarasambhavam D) Ritusamharam 81. Where is the oldest music college of Madhya Pradesh ‘Madhav Sangeet College' located? A) Raipur C) Bhopal B) Indore D) Gwalior 82. A closed economy is an economy in which A) the money supply is fully C) only exports take place controlled D) neither exports nor imports take B) deficit financing takes place place 83. The period of the 12th Five Year Plan is A) 2007-2012 C) 2010-2015 B) 2012-2017 D) 2006-2011 84. India vision 2020 is prepared by A) S. P. Gupta Committee C) Malhotra Committee B) Panth Committee D) Narasimham Committee 85. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched? A) First World Climate Conference C) Earth Summit + 5 - 1997 -1979 D) Carbon Trading - Montreal B) First Earth Summit - Agenda 21 Protocol 86. Which of the following statements is correct with regard to ‘International Monetary Fund'? A) it can grant loans to any C) it grants loans to member country. countries only. B) it can grant loans to only D) it grants loans to the Central developed countries. Bank of a country. 87. Who was declared 'Man of the Series' in the India - Zimbabwe One Day Cricket Series in 2016? A) Jasprit Bumrah C) Ajinkya Rahane B) Virat Kohli D) K. L. Rahul 88. The final match of IPL - 9 (2016) was played in the stadium of which state? A) Karnataka C) Haryana B) Maharashtra D) West Bengal 89. Who was the author of the book ‘Rashmirekha'? A) Gajanan Madhav ‘Muktibodh’ C) Harishankar parsai B) Balkrishna Sharma ‘Naveen’ D) Bhawani Prasad Mishra 90. In which district of Madhya Pradesh was Chandrashekhar Azad born? A) Khargaun C) Jhabua B) Gwalior D) Satna

MPPCS 2017 GENERAL STUDIES PRELIMS 91. Who among the following was not a ruler of Parmar dynasty? A) Upendra C) Gangeyadeva B) Munja D) Udayaditya 92. Dhangdeva was the ruler of which dynasty? A) Chandels of Jejakbhukti C) Kalchuris of Mahishmati B) Parmars of Malwa D) Kalchuris of Tripuri 93. In which of the following places was Habib Tanvir born? A) Raipur C) Indore B) Jhabua D) Ratlam 94. Under which article of the SC and ST (prevention of cruelties) Act, 1989 is there provision of establishment of special courts of law? A) 14 C) 21 (1) B) 17 D) 21 (3) 95. Within time limit of how many days will the investigating officer for the offences committed under SC and ST (prevention of cruelties) Act, 1989 will submit his report? A) 15 C) 25 B) 20 D) 30 96. Which of the following Brahmana text is related to Rig Veda? A) Aitareya Brahmana C) Shatapatha Brahmana B) Gopatha Brahamana D) Taittariya Brahmana 97. Goods and services tax was recommended by a task force that was headed by A) Vijay Kelkar C) Arun Jaitley B) Montek Singh Ahluwalia D) Narasimha 98. When did the fundamental duties got mentioned in the constitution? A) at the time of constitution C) in 42nd constitutional making amendment B) on 26 January, 1950 D) in 41st constitutional amendment 99. State and Central Governments get their authority from A) constitution of India C) Prime Minister of India B) president of India D) Parliament of India 100. Which of the followings can be considered as a pressure group? A) members of Lok Sabha C) members of cabinet B) members of Panchayat D) members of labour Union