UPSC 2004 Prelims – all questions

Latvia does not share its borders with which one of the following countries?

Consider the following statements:

1. The highest deciding body for planning in India is the Planning Commission of India.
2. The Secretary of the Planning Commission of India is also the Secretary of the National Development Council.
3. The Constitution includes economic and social planning in the Concurrent List in the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Match List I (Minerals) with List II (Location) and select the correct answer:

1. Giridih
2. Jayankondam
3. Alwar
4. Dharwar

List I (A) Coal (B) Copper (C) Manganese (D) Lignite

List II

Which among the following National Highway routes is the longest?

Which of the following institutes have been recognized as the Institutes of National Importance (by an Act of Parliament)?

1. Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha, Chennai
2. National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Mohali
3. Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram
4. Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education, Gwalior

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

Consider the following statements:

1. Banking soda is used in fire extinguishers.
2. Quicklime is used in the manufacture of glass.
3. Gypsum is used in the manufacture of Plaster of Paris.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

With reference to Indian Parliament, which one of the following is not correct?

Match List I with List II and select the correct answer:

1. Bulgaria
2. China
3. Eritrea
4. Kazakhstan

List I (Sea) (A) Black Sea (B) Red Sea (C) Yellow Sea (D) Caspian Sea

List II (Country)

Which one of the following Articles of the Constitution of India says that the executive power of every State shall be so exercised as not to impede or prejudice the exercise of the executive power of the Union?

Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?

1. AD 1767-69 : First Anglo-Maratha War
2. AD 1790-92 : Third Mysore War
3. AD 1824-26 : First Anglo-Burmese War
4. AD 1845-46 : Second Sikh War

List I (Period) : List II (Wars)

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

Consider the following statements:

1. Mahadeo Hills
2. Sahyadri Parvat
3. Satpura Range

What is the correct sequence of the above from the north to the south?

Lake Sambhar is nearest

to which one of the following cities of Rajasthan?

Match List I (Articles of the Constitution of India) with List II (Provision) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:

1. The State shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them
2. The State shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal protection of laws within the territory of India
3. “Untouchability” is abolished and its practice in any form is forbidden
4. There shall be equality of opportunity for all citizens in matters relating to employment or appointment to any office under the State

List I (A) Article 14 (B) Article 15 (C) Article 16 (D) Article 17

List II

Codes: ABCD

Which one of the following statements is correct?

Match List I (National Park/Sanctuary) with List II (State) and select the correct answer using the codes given below:

1. Chhattisgarh
2. Haryana
3. Himachal Pradesh
4. Karnataka

List I (A) Kanger Ghati National Park (B) Nagerhole National Park (C) Kugti Wildlife Sanctuary (D) Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary

List II

Codes: ABCD

Which one of the following statements is not correct?

Consider the following statements:

1. The Islamic Calendar is twelve days shorter than the Gregorian Calendar
2. The Islamic Calendar began in AD 632
3. The Gregorian Calendar is a solar calendar

Which of these statements given above is/are correct?

Assertion (A): Bangalore receives much higher average annual rainfall than Mangalore.

Reason (R): Bangalore has the benefit of receiving rainfall both from south-west and north-east monsoons.

Assertion (A): The Central Rural Sanitation Programme was launched in 1986 to improve the quality of life of rural people in India.

Reason (R): Rural sanitation is a subject in the Concurrent List in the Constitution of India.

Assertion (A): West-flowing rivers of Peninsular India have no deltas.

Reason (R): These rivers do not carry any alluvial sediment.

Assertion (A): The thickness of the atmosphere is maximum over the Equator.

Reason (R): High insolation and strong convection currents occur over the Equator.

Assertion (A): In our houses, the current in AC electricity line changes direction 60 times per second.

Reason (R): The frequency of alternating voltage supplied is 60 hertz.

Assertion (A): Fatty acids should be a part of the balanced human diet.

Reason (R): The cells of the human body cannot synthesize any fatty acids.

Assertion (A): India does not export natural rubber.

Reason (R): About 97 % of India's demand for natural rubber is met from domestic production.

Assertion (A): For the first time, India had no trade deficit in the year 2002-03.

Reason (R): For the first time, India's exports crossed worth $50 billion in the year 2002-03.

Consider the following statements:

1. The loans disbursed to farmers under Kisan Credit Card Scheme are covered under Rashtriya Krishi Beema Yojna of Life Insurance Corporation of India.
2. The Kisan Credit Card holders are provided personal accident insurance of Rs 50,000 for accidental death and Rs 25,000 for permanent disability.

Which of these statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements:

1. Regarding the procurement of food grains, Government of India follows a procurement target rather than an open-ended procurement policy.
2. Government of India announces minimum support prices only for cereals.
3. For distribution under Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS), wheat and rice are issued by the Government of India at uniform central issue prices to the States/Union Territories.

Which of these statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements:

1. Farmers prefer to grow food grains with highly remunerative support prices.
2. Most of the cultivation of oil-seed crops continues to be dependent on rainfall.
3. Oils from the seeds of tree origin and rice bran have remained unexploited.
4. It is far cheaper to import oil seeds than to cultivate the oil-seed crops.

India continues to be dependent on imports to meet the requirement of oilseeds in the country because

Which of these statements is/are correct?

World's longest-ruling head of Government is from

Liberia was in the international news in the recent times for

Consider the following statements:

1. P. V. Narasimha Rao's Government established diplomatic relations between India and Israel.
2. Ariel Sharon is the second Prime Minister of Israel to have visited India.

Which of these statements given above is/are correct?

The reason for Chechnya to be in the news recently is

The Prime Minister

of which one of the following countries was assassinated in the year 2003?

Consider the following statements:

1. Voltas
2. Titan Industries
3. Rallis India
4. Indian Hotels

Which of the above companies are in the Tata Group of Industries?

In which one of the following countries, did an ethnic violence between the communities of Hema and Lendu result in the death of hundreds of people?

More than 40 Heads of States/Government were invited by Vladimir Putin in May 2003 to

Consider the following geological phenomena:

1. Development of a fault
2. Movement along a fault
3. Impact produced by a volcanic eruption
4. Folding of rocks

Which of the above cause earthquakes?

Which Article of the Constitution of India says, “No child below the age of fourteen years shall be employed to work in any factory or mine or engaged in any other hazardous employment”?

According to the National Human Rights Commission Act, 1993, who amongst the following can be its Chairman?

Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

Match List I (Institute) with List II (Located At) and select the correct answer using the codes given below:

1. Coimbatore
2. Mumbai
3. Jabalpur
4. Hyderabad

List I (A) Indian Institute of Geomagnetism (B) International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (C) Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History (D) Tropical Forestry Research Institutes

List II

Codes: ABCD

Consider the following statements:

1. Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research uses fast reactor technology.
2. Atomic Minerals Directorate for Research and Exploration is engaged in heavy water production.
3. Indian Rare Earths Limited is engaged in the manufacture of Zircon for India's nuclear programme beside other rare earth products.

Which of these statements given above are correct?

Which of the following pairs is NOT correctly matched?

Consider the following international language

1. Arabic
2. French
3. Spanish The correct sequence of the language given above in the decreasing order of the number of their speakers is

Who among the following was never the Lok Sabha Speaker?

Two cars X and Y start from two places A and B respectively which are 700 km apart at 9 a.m. Both the cars run at an average speed of 60 km/hr. Car X stops at 10 a.m. and again starts at 11 a.m. while the other car Y continues to run without stopping. When do the two cars cross each other?

In a question of a test paper, there are five items each under List-A and List-B. The examinees are required to match each item under List-A with its corresponding correct item under List-B. Further, it is given that

1. No examinee has given the correct answer
2. Answers of no two examinees are identical

What is the maximum number of examinees who took this test?

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