WEST BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE MAIN EXAMINATION 2019 PAPER – IV MOCK TEST AT HOME www.mocktestthome.com SOLVED PAPER 1. What is ‘Arribada’? 7. Who among the following has been appointed (A) Mass Nesting of Olive Ridley as the Deputy Executive Director of UN-Women (B) Setting up a habitat by Red Panda on May 30, 2019? (C) Colony formation by Penguin (A) Narayani Shastri (D) None of the above (B) Anita Bhatia (C) Ritu Jhingon 2. Which three companies have launched the (D) Lakshmi Puri Ujjwala Sanitary Napkins? (A) Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum 8. Name the Indian who has been felicitated with (B) Bharat Petroleum, ONGC and Indian Oil Mexico’s highest civilian award ‘Order of the (C) Indian Oil, Oil India Limited and Hindustan Aztec Eagle’ in 2019? Petroleum (A) Ram Nath Kovind (D) ONGC, Oil India Limited and Bharat Petroleum (B) Pratibha Patil (C) Pranab Mukherjee (D) Sonia Gandhi 3. How many times Sheikh Hasina has been elected as Prime Minister of Bangladesh? (A) Two Times 9. The Elephanta Festival of Art and Culture is (B) Three Times held in which city in India? (C) Four Times (A) New Delhi (D) Five Times (B) Thiruvananthapuram (C) Jaipur (D) Mumbai 4. What was the profession Volodymyr Zelensky before elected as the President of Ukraine? 10. In which city India’s first Tree Ambulance has (A) Singer recently been launched? (B) Comedian (A) Bhopal (C) Doctor (B) Chennai (D) Soldier (C) Ahmedabad (D) Mumbai 5. Where is the shola grassland found in India? (A) Western Ghats 11. Which of the following banks has launched the (B) Sundarbans ‘Bank on Wheels’ service? (C) Andaman-Nicobar (A) State Bank of India (D) Himalayas (B) Axis Bank (C) ICICI bank (D) Indian Overseas Bank 6. Which state government’s Medical & Health Department has received the WHO's ‘World No Tobacco Day Award, 2019’? 12. Which of the following Ministry launched the (A) Rajasthan Artisan Speak? (B) Gujarat (A) Ministry of Culture (C) Chhattisgarh (H) Ministry of Tourism (D) West Bengal (C) Ministry of Textiles (D) Ministry of External Affairs W B C S M ains 2019 | Paper – I V | Solved Paper | 2 13. Where is the “Vivek Smarak” - Swami 19. Who has joined the International Monetary Vivekananda Value Education and Cultural Centre Fund as its chief economist on January 8, 2019? located? (A) Jayanto Ghosh (A) Telangana (B) Gita Gopinath (B) West Bengal (C) Raghuram Rajan (C) Karnataka (D) Indira Nooyi (D) Bihar 20. Which country’s army ousted and arrested 14. Which of the Indian Lake possess 20% of president Omar-Al-Bashir on April 11, 2019? India’s sea-grass distribution? (A) Sudan (B) South Sudan (A) Chilka Lake (C) Somalia (D) Egypt (B) Loktak Lake (C) Dal Lake 21. Who has been named as the Wisden Almanack (D) Mansar Lake leading cricketer of the year 2018? (A) Jos Buttler 15. In which of the following institutions, the first (B) Sam Curren time ever in India, voting was held on the campus (C) Virat Kohli of an institution for mentally ill on April 18, 2019? (D) Shakib Al Hasan (A) Spandana Institute of Mental Health (B) Institute of Mental Health, Hyderabad 22. In which country the first ever home delivery (C) Institute of Mental Health, Ayanavaram drone service has been launched by Google Wing? (D) Institute of Psychiatry, Kolkata (A) Australia (B) Canada (C) France 16. A book containing English translation of the (D) South Korea 100 year old classic Punjabi poem about Jalianwalla Bagh massacre, ‘‘Khooni Vaisakhi” 23. Defence Research and Development has been released in Abu Dhabi. What is the name Organization on April 15, 2019 successfully test of Jalianwalla Bagh survivor who wrote it after fired Nirbhay. What is Nirbhay? witnessing first-hand the events of April 13, 1919? (A) Pilotless aircraft (A) Manmohan Singh (B) Radar (B) Khushwant Singh (C) Missile launcher vessel (C) Lal Singh Dil (D) Subsonic cruise missile (D) Nanak Singh 24. The World Health Organization has raised 17. In which country India has rebuilt Kundeling alarm over a 300 per cent increase in the case of Monastery? which disease globally in the first quarter of 2019 (A) Thailand compared with last year? (B) Sri Lanka (A) Cancer (C) Nepal (B) Polio Measles (D) Bhutan (C) Diabetes (D) AIDS 18. Who has become the first Indian woman scientist to have been selected as a Fellow of the 25. Which of the following two countries named Royal Society in the 359 year history of the the first and second best performing country after prestigious scientific academy? the Climate Change Performance Index, 2019? (A) Mangala Narlikar (A) Norway and Iceland (B) Gagandeep Kang (B) Sweden and Bhutan (C) Nandini Harinath (C) Bhutan and Finland (D) Aditi Pant (D) Sweden and Morocco W B C S M ains 2019 | Paper – I V | Solved Paper | 3 26. The 2020 Summer Olympic will be held in 35. How many official languages are there in (A) Tokyo UNO? (B) London (A) 3 (B) 4 (C) Athens (C) 5 (D) 6 (D) Atlanta 34. How many operational commands are there in 27. Who authored the book “Identity and Indian Army? Violence: The Illusion of Destiny”? (A) 5 (B) 6 (A) L. K. Advani (C) 7 (D) 8 (B) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (C) Amartya Sen 36. Shura-e-Milli is the Parliament of which (D) Orphan Pamuk country? (A) Jordan 28. “Playing it my way” is the autobiography of (B) Iran (A) Brian Lara (C) Afghanistan (B) Virat Kohli (D) Israel (C) Sachin Tendulkar (D) Steve Waugh 37. Which one of the following is the highest military decoration of Germany? 29. Who said, “Man is by nature a political (A) Victory Medal animal”? (B) Iron Cross (A) Socrates (C) Military Cross (B) Aristotle (D) Croiv de Guerra (C) Plato (D) Karl Marx 38. Who is the most decorated Olympian? 30. What is the National aquatic animal of India? (A) Usain Bolt (A) River Dolphin (B) Michael Phelps (B) Green Sea Turtle (C) Larisa Latynina (C) Seahorse (D) Carl Lewis (D) Dugong 39. The border line between Pakistan and 31. Which is the capital of Bulgaria? Afghanistan is known as (A) Sofia (A) McMohan Line (B) Bangui (B) Radcliffe Line (C) Rabat (C) Durand Line (D) Lome (D) Maginot Line 32. What is the currency of Myanmar? 40. The Head-quarters of ILO is located in (A) Kyat (A) Geneva (B) Ringgit (B) The Hague (C) Peso (C) New York (D) Baht (D) Rome 33. What is the currency of Italy? 41. Deuce: Booster; Spikers; Service; Love are (A) Lira related to (B) Euro (A) Badminton (C) Dollar (B) Volleyball (D) Pound (C) Baseball (D) Billiards W B C S M ains 2019 | Paper – I V | Solved Paper | 4 42. Rohinton Baria Trophy is related to (D) Archery (A) Inter School Hockey Competition (B) Inter State Polo Championship 50. What does ‘CSIR’ stand for? (C) Inter-University Cricket Competition (A) Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (D) Under 19 Table Tennis Competition (B) Center for Science and Industrial Research (C) Center for Share and Investment Ratio 43. India House is situated in (D) Council for Scientific and Informational (A) Delhi Research (B) Singapore (C) Rangoon 51. The temperature of water for measuring BOD (D) London should he maintained at (A) 20°C 44. Which of the following is known as the city of (B) 30°C eternal spring? (C) 35°C (A) Rome (D) 40°C (B) Quito (C) Lhasa 52. Silent Valley became a national park in the (D) Venice year (A) 1980 45. Black holes were predicted by (B) 1984 (A) Copernicus (C) 1988 (B) Einstein (D) 1990 (C) Rutherford (D) Satyen Bose 53. The pH for drinking water should be between (A) 5-6 46. Who won the Man Booker Prize 2019? (B) 6-6.5 (A) Anna Burns (C) 6.5 -7.5 (B) Daisy Johnson (D) 8-9 (C) Rachel Kushner (D) Richard Powers 54. The following virus is water borne: (A) Hepatitis A 47. Who won 68th edition of Miss World Pageant? (B) Hepatitis B (A) Karen Ibasco (C) Hepatitis C (B) Manushi Chhillar (D) Hepatitis E (C) Megan Young (D) Vanessa Ponce 55. The following name is associated with rain water harvesting: 48. Along with Nanaji Deshmukh and Bhupen (A) Rajendra Singh Hazarika, who was the recipient of Bharat Ratna (B) Baba Amte of 2019? (C) S.C. Nair (A) Atal Bihari Vajpayee (D) Medha Patkar (B) Manmohan Singh (C) Pranab Mukherjee 56. The maximum width of tropopause is (D) None of the above (A) 10 Km (B) 15 Km (C) 20 Km (D) 25 Km 49. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, 2018 was awarded to Mirabai Chanu for which discipline? 57. The Thermosphere starts from Earth’s surface (A) Wrestling at a distance of (B) Weightlifting (A) 80 Km (B) 85 Km (C) Boxing (C) 100 Km (D) 125 Km W B C S M ains 2019 | Paper – I V | Solved Paper | 5 58. Which of the following bacteria may be used to 62. The operation ‘Surya Hope’ is related to mitigate oil spill? (A) Uttarakhand flood (A) Bacillus (B) Kerala flood (B) Pseudomonas (C) Kashmir flood (C) E. coli (D) Assam flood (D) Nitrobacter 63. The Disaster Management Act was enacted in Explanation: Genetically engineered microorganism called Pseudomonas putida is used in bioremediation (A) 2000 of oil spills. It is also known as 'Chakarborty's (B) 2003 superbug. Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty, an Indian- (C) 2005 born scientist working at GE in the 1960's and 1970's, (D) 2010 developed the multi-plasmid hydrocarbon- degrading Pseudomonas and patented it.