http://www.developindiagroup.co.in/ BPSC PRE EXAM 2017 General Studies (Exam held on 12 Feb. 2017) 1) Who was the leader of revolutionaries in wrote it? Bihar during the Revolt of 1857? (A) Lord Lytton (A) Namdar Khan (B) Lord Dufferin (B) Babu Kunwar Singh (C) Lord Curzon (C) Birsa Munda (D) Lord Minto (D) Shankar Shah (E) None of the above/More than one of the above (E) None of the above/More than one of the above Ans: c Ans: b 5) Who drew Mahatma Ganghi’s attention 2) Birsa was captured, while asleep, on : towards the exploitation of the peasants by (A) 1 February, 1900 the European Indigo planters ? (B) 2 February, 1900 (A) Baba Ram Chandra (C) 3 February, 1900 (B) Raja Kumar Shukla (D) 4 February , 1900 (C) Swami Sahajananda Saraswati (E) None of the above/More than one of the above (D) Sri Krishna Sinha Ans: e (E) None of the above/More than one of the above Ans: b 3) “The Muslims , if contented and satisfied, would become the greatest bulwark of British 6) Who was elected the first President of All power in India”. Who wrote it ? India Kisan Sabha at Lucknow in 1936? (A) Herbert Risley (A) N.G.Ranbga (B) Lord Lytton (B) E.M.S.Namboodri pad (C) W.W.Hunter (C) Swami Sahajanand Saraswati (D) H.N.Brailsford (D) Acharya Narendra Dev (E) None of the above/More than one of the above (E) None of the above/More than one of the above Ans: c Ans: c 4) “In my belief , Congress is to tottering to its 7) Sir Michael O’Dwyer was shot dead on fall and one of my great ambitions while in 13th March, 1940 in London by : India is to assist it to a peaceful demise.” Who (A) Madal Lal Dhingra (B) M.P.T.Acharya found All India Forward Bloc and actively (C) V.D.Savarkar associated with the INA movement? (D) Udham Singh (A) Jai Prakash Narayan (E) None of the above/More than one of the above (B) Baikunth Shukla Ans: d (C) Sheel Bhadra Yajee (D) Ram Narain Prasad 8) Who was the Prime Minister of England (E) None of the above/More than one of the above when the Montague-Chelmsford Act was Ans: c passed in 1919? (A) Lloyd George 12) Who is regarded as “The Mother of Indian (B) George Hamilton Revolution”? (C) Sir Samuel Hoare (A) Mrs.Annie Besant (D) Lord Salisbury (B) Snehlata Wadekar (E) None of the above/More than one of the above (C) Sarojini Naidu Ans: a (D) Madam Bhikhaji Rustam Cama (E) None of the above/More than one of the above 9) Who left Patna College with just 20 days Ans: d remaining for his examination during the Non-Cooperation Movement? 13) Which journal was not associated with (A) Rajendra Prasad the revolutionary activities? (B) Braj Kishore (A) Sandhya (C) Jai Prakash Naryana (B) Yugantar (D) Sri Krishna Sinha (C) Ghadr (E) None of the above/More than one of the above (D) Young India Ans: c (E) None of the above/More than one of the above Ans: e 10) Who became champion of socialism and wanted to overthrow of British rule, Princely 14) First Indian elected to the British House of states, Landlordism and Capitalism in 1933? Commons was Dadabhai Naoroji who (A) Rajendra Prasad contested on the ticket of ; (B) Jawaharlal Nehru (A) Liberal Party (C) Bhulabhai Desai (B) Labour Party (D) Sardar Patel (C) Conservative Party (E) None of the above/More than one of the above (D) Communist Party Ans: b (E) None of the above/More than one of the above Ans: a 11) Who joined Subhas Chandra Bose to 15) Swaraj Party was formed following the 19) The precursor of Indian National Congress failure of : was : (A) Non-Cooperation Movement (A) British Indian Association (B) Civil Disobedience Movement (B) Indian Association (C) Rowlatt Bill Satyagraha (C) Indian National Union (D) Champaran Satyagraha (D) Indian League (E) None of the above/More than one of the above (E) None of the above/More than one of the above Ans: a Ans: b 16) The Chittagong Armoury Raid had been 20) Who organised the “Khudai Khidmatgar” in planned by : 1929? (A) Surya Sen (A) Abdul Gaffar Khan (B) Chandan Dutta (B) Ali Brothers (C) Vidhan Ghosh (C) Ansari Brothers (D)Jatin Das (D) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (E) None of the above/More than one of the above (E) None of the above/More than one of the above Ans: a Ans: a 17) The Cabinet Mission came to India in : 21) A, B, C, Invested 20 lac rupees in a business (A) February 1942 in the ratio 7 : 2 : 1. The total profit is 18%. A (B) March 1942 has to pay 30% tax and B hast to pay 20% tax. (C) April 1942 What percent of net profit of A is more than (D) May 1942 the net profit of B? (E) None of the above/More than one of the above (A) 118.8% Ans: e (B) 180.0% (C) 306.25% 18) A pleader of Bihar who left his lucrative (D) 304.5% practice during Non-Cooperation Movement (E) None of the above/More than one of the above was : Ans: C (A) Jai Prakash Narayan (B) Rajendra Prasad 22) If SURGICAL –STRIKE is coded as 13979313- (C) Sahajanand Saraswati 129925, then METRO-TRAIN is coded as (D) Raj Kumar Shukla (A) 15295-29195 (E) None of the above/More than one of the above (B) 45296-29195 Ans: b (C) 45295-29194 (D) 15296-29195 (E) None of the above/More than one of the above compulsorily graduate. Ans: b 23) x is a consecutive whole number and the first four values of expression x3 + 3y -3 are 7, 20, 45, 88, then the fifth value is (A) 137 (B) 155 (A) EGHD (C) 158 (B) BED (D) 143 (C) BHG (E) None of the above/More than one of the above (D) HGI Ans: b (E) None of the above/More than one of the above 24) In the series of numbers and alphabets Ans: e A26H, C24F, G20B, the next term is (A) M13D 27) If sign +, represents multiplication, x addition, – division, ÷ difference > equal and = (B) O11C represents greater than, then which of the (C) M12B following relation is true? (D) M14E (A) 12 – 2 + 3 ÷ 8 x 1 > 12 (E) None of the above/More than one of the above (B) 11 x 2 ÷ 4 – 2 + 1 = 11 Ans: e (C) 7 ÷ 2 x 5 – 5 + 2 = 7 (D) 5 x 6 – 3 ÷ 3 + 1 > 4 25) The dearness-allowance of a person with (E) None of the above/More than one of the above basic salary Rs.7700 is increased to 132% form 125% and the tax deduction on both is Ans: b increased to 22% from 20%. He got salary increased by 28) How many times the digit 9 occurs in the (A) Rs.74.00 numbers from 100 to 999. (B) Rs.77.00 (A) 280 (C) Rs.385.00 (B) 218 (D) Rs.369.00 (C) 229 (E) None of the above/More than one of the above (D) 228 Ans: e (E) None of the above/More than one of the above Ans: a 26) Inspect the following figure and find the region which represents the government 29) In the following pie-chart, the various employee who live in own house and expenditures of an industry are presented. Total expenditure on raw material is Rs.30 lac. If (B) Vitamin D – Cod-liver oil labour expenditure is increased by 5%. How (C) Vitamin E – Wheat germ oil much expenditure on other expenses be (D) Vitamin K – Alfalfa reduced to maintain the profit ? (E) None of the above/More than one of the above Ans: e 32) Teflon is a polymer of which of the following monomers? (A) Tetrafluoroethylene (B) Vinyl chloride (C) Chloroprene (D) Acetylene dichloride (E) None of the above/More than one of the above (A) 5.9% Ans: a (B) 12.86% (C) 6.43% 33) Which of the following is responsible for (D) 6.21% controlling hereditary characters of the living (E) None of the above/More than one of the above cells? Ans: c (A) Enzyme (B) Hormone 30) In the bottom of a water tank, there are two (C) RNA drains A and B. If only A is open , it takes 30 (D) DNA minutes to empty a full tank and if only B is (E) None of the above/More than one of the above open, it takes 20 minutes. If for 10 minutes both Ans: d drains are open, then B is closed, how much time it takes to empty a full tank? 34) Which of the following vitamins is known (A) 18 minutes as ergocalciferol ? (B) 15 minutes (A) Vitamin D2 (C) 17 minutes (B) Vitamin D3 (D) 20 minutes (C) Vitamin B12 (E) None of the above/More than one of the above (D) Vitamin B6 Ans: e (E) None of the above/More than one of the above Ans: a 31) Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched ? 35) Which of the following pairs is not correctly (A) Vitamin B1 – Oranges matched ? (A) Retinol – Xerophthalmia 3. Artificial Sweetener (B) Tocopherol – Beriberi 4. Refrigerant (C) Cyanocobalamin – Anaemia Codes : (D) Ergocalciferol – Rickets a b c d (E) None of the above/More than one of the above (A) 1 3 4 2 Ans: e (B) 2 4 1 3 (C) 3 4 1 2 36) Bakelite is formed by the condensation of (D) 3 1 2 4 (A) Urea and formaldehyde (E) None of the above/More than one of the above (B) Phenol and formaldehyde Ans: c (C) Phenol and acetaldehyde (D) Melamine and formaldehyde 39) Insulin is (E) None of the above/More than one of the above (A) Fat Ans: b (B) Vitamin (C) Carbohydrate 37) Which one of the following is an antibiotic (D) Protein drug? (E) None of the above/More than one of the above (A) Quinine Ans: e (B) Sulphaguanidine (C) Chloramphenicol 40) The gas used in the manufacture of (D) Aspirin Vanaspati Ghee from Vanaspati Oil is (E) None of the above/More than one of the above (A) Hydrogen Ans: a (B) Oxygen (C) Nitrogen 38) Match List-I with List-II and select the correct (D) Carbon dioxide answer using the codes given below the lists : (E) None of the above/More than one of the above List-I Ans: a [Substances] 1.