SI in CAPFs, ASI in CISF and SI in 9/12/2019 Delhi Police Examination-2019 (Paper-I) Shift 1 1. Which Commission was appointed by the central 8. Which of the following Indian cities is included government to examine issues related to Centre- in the list of 'UNESCO World Heritage Sites'? State relations? (a) Ahmedabad (b) Hyderabad (a) Mandal Commission (c) Murshidabad (d) Srinagar (b) Sarkaria Commission Ans-(a) (c) Nanavati Commission 9. Which mineral is popularly known as 'buried (d) Kothari Commission sunshine'? Ans-(b) (a) Iron (b) Bauxite 2. Which muscles in the skin contract to make the (c) Mica (d) Coal hairs on our skin stand up straight (goose bumps) Ans-(c) when we are cold or frightened ? 10. What is the primary function of the eccrine (a) Elastin (b) Epidermis glands? (c) Collagen (d) Arrector pili (a) To produce sweat Ans-(d) (b) To produce colour of the skin 3. In which year was the first-ever motion to (c) To produce body hair remove a Supreme Court Justice signed, by 108 (d) To produce growth hormones members of the Parliament? Ans-(a) (a) 1984 (b) 1991 11. Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker are two architects credited to have designed the city of: (c) 1978 (d) 1996 (a) Allahabad (Prayagraj) Ans-(b) (b) Chandigarh 4. Which of the following is the outer layer of the (c) Raipur Earth that is made of plates which fit together (d) New Delhi like a jigsaw puzzle? Ans-(d) (a) Lithosphere (b) Biosphere 12. The 'Hemis Tsechu' festival commemorates the (c) Mesosphere (d) Asthenosphere birth anniversary of: Ans-(a) (a) Dalai Lama 5. As of October 2019, what is the maximum (b) Gautama Buddha amount of loan granted by a scheduled (c) Guru Padmasambhava commercial bank that is covered under the (d) Adi Shankaracharya Credit Guarantee Fund Scheme for Micro and Ans-(c) Small Enterprises? 13. Which one of the following can be categorised (a) Rs. 50 lakh (b) Rs. 200 lakh as a solution? (c) Rs. 100 lakh (d) Rs. 150 lakh (a) Diamond (b) Sea Water Ans-(b) (c) Salt (d) Coal 6. How many sites were chosen from India for the Ans-(b) 2019 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural 14. 'Ali-Aye-Ligang', a spring festival, is associated Heritage Conservation? with which state? (a) Two (b) Five (a) Sikkim (b) Odisha (c) Three (d) Four (c) Assam (d) Bihar Ans-(d) Ans-(c) 7. 'A Century Is Not Enough' is an autobiography of: 15. Which substance covers the root of the tooth? (a) Sachin Tendulkar (b) Rahul Dravid (a) Cementum (b) Pulp (c) Sourav Ganguly (d) Anil Kumble (c) Dentin (d) Enamel Ans-(c) Ans-(a) 16. What kind of relationship exists between income 24. Which chemical law proposes that 'soft drinks and demand in case of normal goods? and soda bottles are sealed under high pressure (a) There is no impact of income on demand. to increase the solubility of CO2'? (b) Sometimes there is a direct and sometimes (a) Raoult’s law (b) Henry's law an inverse relationship. (c) Ohm's law (d) Dalton’s law (c) There is a direct relationship. Ans-(b) (d) There is an inverse relationship. 25. The breaking up and decay of exposed rocks by Ans-(c) temperature changes, frost action, plants, 17. Which article of the Constitution of India states animals and human activity is called: that 'all authorities, civil and judicial, in the (a) weathering (b) smelting territory of India shall act in aid of the Supreme (c) deforestation (d) erosion Court'? Ans-(a) (a) Article 137 (b) Article 121 26. Who became the first female to be appointed to (c) Article 144 (d) Article 157 the ICC International Panel of Match Referees Ans-(c) in 2019? 18. In which year did King George V assume the (a) GS Lakshmi (b) Diana Edulji crown of India? (c) Jhulan Goswami (d) Sudha Shah (a) 1917 (b) 1906 Ans-(a) (c) 1923 (d) 1911 27. Which river has tributaries by the name of Dri, Ans-(d) Mathun, Talon, Eme, Ahi, Emra and Awa? 19. How many polities does the institutional (a) Dibang mechanism of federalism accommodate? (b) Godavari (a) Two (b) One (c) Kaveri (c) Four (d) Three (d) Lohit Ans-(a) Ans-(a) 20. Which of the following is an international 28. Which of the following metals in pure form has agreement between governments that aims to the highest melting point? ensure that international trade in specimens of (a) Tungsten (b) Copper wild animals and plants does not threaten their (c) Platinum (d) Gold survival? Ans-(a) (a) CITES (b) BRICS 29. Who ruled Mysore under a subsidiary alliance (c) OPEC (d) GATS with the British after the defeat of Tipu Sultan Ans-(a) at the Battle of Seringapatam? 21. The pouch connected to the junction of the small (a) Gangas (b) Kadambas intestine and the large intestine is called: (c) Wodeyars (d) Pandyans (a) condyle (b) caecum Ans-(c) (c) coccyx (d) axilla 30. Leshalaptu' is a folk dance of which Indian state? Ans-(b) (a) Kerala (b) Nagaland 22. The narrow zone of contact between the (c) Karnataka (d) Goa lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere where Ans-(b) natural vegetation and wildlife exist is called the: 31. In the plant kingdom, 'Ferns and Fern allies' (a) exosphere (b) geosphere belong to which group? (c) biosphere (d) troposphere (a) Gymnosperms (b) Thallophyta Ans-(c) (c) Bryophyta (d) Pteridophyta 23. How many tiers are there in the Panchayati Raj Ans-(d) structure? 32. Who became the Nawab of Bengal after the death (a) Three (b) Four of Alivardi Khan in 1756? (c) Five (d) Two (a) Mir Jafar Ans-(a) (b) Murshid Quli Khan (c) Siraj ud-Daulah 40. As per the Constitution of India, the subject (d) Sujan Khan of 'livestock and animal husbandry' is included Ans-(c) in the: 33. Which explorer discovered a sea route to India (a) Residuary List (b) State List in 1498? (c) Union List (d) Concurrent List (a) Thomas Coryat Ans-(b) (b) Megasthenes 41. Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee was awarded the 2019 (c) Marco Polo Nobel Memorial Prize in: (d) Vasco da Gama (a) Chemistry (b) Physics Ans-(d) (c) Literature (d) Economics 34. The physics phenomenon when, in polar regions Ans-(d) like Alaska and Northern Canada, a splendid 42. In which year was the 'National Food for Work display of colours is seen in the sky is called a/an: Programme' launched in India? (a) aurora borealis (a) 2000 (b) 1991 (b) star shower (c) 2002 (d) 2004 (c) active galactic nucleus Ans-(d) (d) star's intrinsic luminosity 43. Who is first Indian rower to win a gold at the Ans-(a) Asian Games in the year 2010? 35. In which of the following states is 'Me-Dam-Me- (a) Sawarn Singh Phi' the festival of ancestor worship celebrated? (b) Bajrang Lal Takhar (a) Odisha (b) Chhattisgarh (c) Dattu Baban Bhokanal (c) Madhya Pradesh (d) Assam (d) Dushyant Chauhan Ans-(d) Ans-(b) 36. Who became the first player of Indian origin to 44. Which Governor-General of India, in 1772, play in an NBA game? introduced two courts in each district – a (a) Sim Bhullar (b) Palpreet Singh criminal court (faujdari adalat) and a civil court (c) Amjyot Singh (d) Satnam Singh (diwani adalat)? Ans-(a) (a) Lord Dalhousie 37. Who is the author of the book 'The Free Voice: (b) Warren Hastings On Democracy, Culture and the Nation'? (c) Richard Wellesley (a) Ravish Kumar (b) Arnab Goswami (d) Robert Clive (c) Barkha Dutt (d) Rahul Kanwal Ans-(b) Ans-(a) 45. Which one of the following is a distinctive 38. Representatives of the Maratha Empire and the characteristic of angiosperm? British East India Company signed the 'Treaty (a) Thick bark of Salbai' in which year? (b) Small roots (a) 1782 (b) 1769 (c) Long leaf (c) 1758 (d) 1771 (d) Concealed seeds Ans-(a) Ans-(d) 39. What is India's ranking in the Global Economic 46. 'Jnanpith Award', one of India's highest literary Freedom index 2019? award, was conceived in the year: (a) 62nd (b) 79th (a) 1972 (b) 1961 (c) 55th (d) 83rd (c) 1957 (d) 1969 Ans-(b) Ans-(b) 47. Who became the first Indian male squash (c) Milton Friedman player to enter the top 10 in the PSA world (d) David Ricardo rankings? Ans-(d) (a) Cyrus Poncha 49. As of October 2019, how many nuclear power (b) Ramit Tandon plants are present in India? (c) Saurav Ghosal (a) 11 (b) 7 (d) Mahesh Mangaonkar (c)9 (d)5 Ans-(c) Ans-(b) 48. Which economist developed international trade theory in 1817 based on comparative advantage 50. Which mineral is also known as 'fool's gold'? and specialisation? (a) Quartz (b) Magnetite (a) Paul Krugman (c) Pyrite (d) Fluorite (b) Gary Becker Ans-(c) SI in CAPFs, ASI in CISF and SI in 9/12/2019 Delhi Police Examination-2019 (Paper-I) Shift 2 1. In which of the following sectors, 100% FDI in 8. Which film director was given the Kalamaharshi equity in India is NOT permitted as per India’s Baburao Painter Award in the seventh Kolhapur FDI policy? International Film Festival in February 2019? (a) Wholesale trading (a) Rajkumar Hirani (b) Govind Nihalani (b) Single-brand product retail trading (c) Mani Ratnam (d) Ashutosh Gowariker (c) E-commerce activities Ans-(b) (d) Multi-brand product retail trading 9. During whose reign did the Moroccan traveller Ans-(d) Ibn Battuta visit India in the 14th century? 2.