WEST BENGAL CIVIL SERVICES MAINS EXAMINATION, 2019 PAPER - III MOCKTEST AT HOME ANSWER KEY www.mocktestathome.com 1. Chilka is an example of __________ Lake. 9. The coal belt of Peninsular India developed (A) Crater during the ___________ period. (B) Lagoons It is a brackish water lagoon (A) Tertiary situated at the mouth of Daya (C) Glacial (B) Pleistocene River. (D) Aeolian (C) Carboniferous (D) None of the above 2. _______ is the source of River Chambal. (A) Malwa Plateau 10. __________ is the oldest denudation (B) Aravalli Range It originates on the south mountain of India. slope of Vindhya and drains (C) Vindhyan Range Malwa Range (A) Eastern Ghat (D) Satpura Range (B) Nilgiri Hills (C) Aravalli 3. Ganga is an example of _____________ River. (D) Zaskar (A) Consequent (B) Subsequent 11. Khardung-la pass joins _________. (C) Antecedent (A) Leh and Chumbi Valley (D) None of the above (B) Leh and Siachen Glacier The Rivers that existed before the upheaval of the Himalayas and (C) Uttarakhand and Tibet cut their courses southward by making gorges in the mountains (D) Valley of Kashmir and Kargil 4. Dalma Trap is located in ________ state of 12. According to Indus Water Treaty India got the India. exclusive right to use the water of three rivers (A) Bihar Singhbhum district and among them one is (B) Orissa of Jharkhand (A) Jhelum (C) Jharkhand (B) Ravi (D) None of the above (C) Chenab (D) Indus 5. The HDI of India for the year 2017 is______. (A) 0.635 13. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan was launched in the (B) 0.640 Rank: 130 year _______. Category: Medium Human (C) 0.645 (A) 2000 Launched in 2000. Development (D) 0.650 (B) 2001 Source: PRSIndia (C) 2002 (D) 2003 6. According to the Census of India 2011, the sex ratio of West Bengal is ________. 14. Kannada belong to ____________ language (A) 947 group. (B) 948 Sex Ratio: 950 (A) Austric (C) 938 Child Sex Ratio: 956 (B) Aryan (D) 958 (C) Sino Tibetan (D) Dravidian 7. _____________ is the highest peak of Meghalaya Plateau. 15. __________ has one of the four training (A) Nokrek centres of National Disaster Response Force. (B) Shillong (A) Delhi (C) Mirik (B) Hyderabad (D) None of the above (C) Bangalore (D) Bhopal Hyderabad, Tekanpur, Coimbatore, Highest peak of Khasi Hills: Shillong Chandigarh. There is no exclusive Highest peak of Garo Hills: Nokrek training centre for NDRF. WBCS Mains || July 25, 2019 www.mocktestathome.com WBCS Mains, 2019 || Paper - III Answer Key 2 16. The National Fire Service College is located at 24. Sal tree is found in _______ forest. (A) Ahmedabad (A) Moist tropical (B) Chennai Construction of National (B) Alpine (C) Nagpur Disaster Response Academy (C) Dry tropical started in Nagpur (D) Allahabad (D) None of the above 17. In 2005 the Indian government enacted an 25. _________ is the largest west flowing river of act for prevention and mitigation of disaster. It is Peninsular India. known as ___________. (A) Tapi (A) Disaster Prevention Act (B) Sabarmati (B) Disaster Mitigation Act (C) Narmada (C) Disaster Management Act (D) None of the above (D) None of the above 26. Mandakini and Alaknanda meet at ______. 18. _________ is not a drought prone area. (A) Rudraprayag (A) Kalahandi [Orissa] (B) Karan Prayag (B) Purulia [West Bengal] (C) Allahabad (C) Nellai [Tamil Nadu] (D) Devprayag (D) Assam Valley [Assam] 19. IMD has defined severe drought when 27. The Indus originates from the glacier of deficiency of rainfall ___________ exceeds of ________ range. normal rainfall. (A) Pir Panjal (A) 25% (B) Kailash (B) 40% (C) Zaskar (C) 50% (D) Saltora (D) 75 % 28. ____ coastal plain stretches from Daman to 20. In the year ________ Tsunami occurred in the Goa. coastal areas of India. (A) Kerala (A) 2003 (B) Konkan (B) 2006 (C) Utkal (C) 2004 (D) Gujarat (D) 2005 29. ___ Hill range is also known as Sahayadris. 21. The famous earthquake of January 26, 2001 (A) Western Ghats took place at ______. (B) Eastern Ghat (A) Uttarkashi (C) Vindhyas (B) Bhuj, Gujarat (D) Satpuras (C) Andaman and Nicobar (D) Kinnaur 30. __________ pass is in Arunachal Pradesh. (A) Bum La 22. Saline soil is found in ______. (B) Jelep la (A) Estuary of Narmada (C) Nathu La (B) Malwa plateau (D) Betla (C) Meghalaya plateau (D) Rajmahal hills 31. ___________ plateau is separated from the main peninsular plateau of India by the wide gap 23. Tropical moist deciduous is not found in __. of Garo-RajMahal gap. (A) West Bengal (A) Madhya Bharat Pathar (B) Bihar (B) Meghalaya (C) Gujarat (C) Chhotonagpur Plateau (D) Odisha (D) Malwa WBCS MAINS || JULY 25, 2019 MOCK TEST AT HOME WBCS Mains, 2019 || Paper - III Answer Key 3 32. The Marwar plain is found in ________. 40. _________ is declared as a National Park in (A) Rajasthan the year 2014 and become the newest national (B) Gujarat park of India. (C) Maharashtra (A) Dachigam (D) Uttar Pradesh (B) Gorumara (C) Jaldapara 33. The Zojila pass is located in __________ (D) Inder Kila state of India. (A) Jammu and Kashmir 41. _________ National Park is located in the (B) Himachal Pradesh state of Jharkhand. (C) Sikkim (A) Bhitarkanika (D) Arunachal Pradesh (B) Betla (C) Bandipur 34. The famous _______ Glacier is located at (D) Bandhavgarh Nubra Valley. (A) Baltora 42. ___________ is the first National Park was (B) Punmah established in India in the year 1936. (C) Siachen (A) Bandhavgarh (D) Kanchenjunga (B) Gir (C) Indira Gandhi 35. ___________ Valley lies in between Pir Panjal (D) Jim Corbett and Zaskar range. (A) Kangra 43. Indian Standard Time is ________ ahead of (B) Kashmir Greenwich Mean Time. (C) Kullu (A) 6 hours 30 minutes (D) Dun (B) 4 hour 30 minutes (C) 5 hours 30 minutes 36. The Dravidian Rock System is found in _____ (D) 6 hours 15 minutes region. (A) Krishna Valley 44. ______ is a Central University in West Bengal. (B) Chota Nagpur Plateau (A) Gour Banga University (C) Spiti Valley (B) Rabindra Bharati University (D) Damodar Valley (C) Viswa Bharati University (D) University of Calcutta 37. Barren Island Wildlife Sanctuary is located in (A) Dadra and Nagar Haveli 45. 100 Smart Cities Mission was launched by (B) Pondicherry Indian government in the year ___________. (C) Andaman and Nicobar Island (A) 2014 (D) Lakshadweep (B) 2015 (C) 2016 38. _______ is the highest producer of milk in (D) 2013 India. (A) Uttar Pradesh 46. Doordarshan is a broadcasting agency of (B) Andhra Pradesh (A) Prasar Bharati (C) Haryana (B) Akashvani (D) Rajasthan (C) Gyan Bharti (D) National Film Development Corporation 39. The Indian Wildlife Protection Act was passed in the year ____. 47. The full form of abbreviation NLM is ______. (A) 1962 (A) Northern Line of Monsoon (B) 1972 (B) Normal Line of Monsoon (C) 1975 (C) Northern Limit of Monsoon (D) 1965 (D) Normal Limit of Monsoon WBCS MAINS || JULY 25, 2019 MOCK TEST AT HOME WBCS Mains, 2019 || Paper - III Answer Key 4 Monsoon (NLM) is the northernmost boundary of India up to 55. Who killed Michael O'Dwyer the governor of which Monsoon rains have advanced on any given day. NLM is directly Punjab who had ordered the brutal firing on the related to the onset and advance of Monsoon. The term NLM starts innocent people at Jallianwala Bagh? flowing right from the onset to the withdrawal of Monsoon. (A) Madan Lal Dhingra 48. IISCO has an iron and steel plant at (B) Sardar Udham Singh (A) Rourkela (C) Sohan Singh Bhakra (B) Burnpur (D) Kanailal Dutta (C) Shimoga (D) Visakhapatnam 56. The founder president of the Harijan Sevak Sangh, founded by Mahatma Gandhi was 49. Wet temperate forest is found in ____ region (A) Mahadev Desai of India. (B) GD Birla Amrit Lal Thakkar-Secretary (A) Nilgiri Himalayan wet temperate (C) Amrit Lal Thakkar forest: Nepal to Assam (B) Eastern Ghats (D) BR Ambedkar Nilgiris: Here wet (C) Kashmir Himalayas temperate forest is called (D) Kutch Peninsula Sholas. 57. The day Mahatma Gandhi launched the Non Cooperation Movement a great national leader 50. Black soil is mostly found in ______ states of died he was India. (A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale (A) Maharashtra and Gujarat (B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (B) Maharashtra and Rajasthan (C) Phiroz Shah Mehta (C) Andhra Pradesh and Kerala (D) Chitta Ranjan Das (D) Bihar and Madhya Pradesh 58. A public service commission was established 51. The Congress decided to raise a Swaraj Fund in India for the first time by of one crore rupees for: (A) The Indian Council act 1892 (A) Organising the Non - Cooperation Movement (B) The Act of 1909 (B) Memorial of Bal Gangadhar Tilak (C) The Government of India Act 1919 (C) Building the headquarters of the Congress (D) The Government of India Act 1935 (D) Supporting the families of political workers. 59. After the Surat split in 1907 the second split 52. The historic Lucknow Session of the Congress in the Congress took place in 1918 on the issue of in 1916 was presided over by (A) Lucknow Pact (A) Annie Besant (B) Montague Declaration (B) R.N. Mudholkar (C) Election of Mrs Annie Besant as president of (C) Ambika Charan Majumdar INC in 1917 (D) Madan Mohan Malviya (D) Both A and C 53. The brain behind the bomb attack on Viceroy 60. The European Organisation in India which Lord Hardinge at Chandni Chowk Delhi in launched agitation against the Ilbert Bill was December 1912 was (A) European Defence Association (A) Ras Bihari Bose (B) Indo British Association (B) Bhai Parmanand (C) Anti Ilbert Bill League (C) Sachindra Nath Sanyal (D) European Rights Front (D) Shobhan Lal Pathak 61.