UPSC 2004 Prelims – all questions

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Match List I (Distinguished Ladies) with List II (Area of work) and select the correct answer using the codes given below:

1. Science and environment
2. Novel-writing
3. Film industry
4. Banking
5. Television media

List I (A) Jhumpa Lahiri (B) Sunita Narain (C) Naina Lal Kidwai (D) Ravina Raj Kohli

List II

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Which one of the following does not border Panama?

A and B start from the same point and in the same direction at 7 a.m. to walk around a rectangular field 400 m × 300 m. A and B walk at the rate of 3 km/hr and 2.5 km/hr respectively.

How many times shall they cross each other if they continue to walk till 1 and 2.30 p.m.?

Match List I (Beaches in India) with List II (States) and select the correct answer using the codes given below:

1. Andhra Pradesh
2. Kerala
3. Gujarat
4. Goa
5. Karnataka

List I (A) Gopnath Beach (B) Lawsons Bay Beach (C) Devbagh Beach (D) Sinquerium Beach

List II

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A car is running on a road at a uniform speed of 60 km/hr. The net resultant force on the car is

Match List I (Biosphere Reserve) with List II (States) and select the correct answer using the codes given below:

1. Sikkim
2. Uttaranchal
3. Arunachal Pradesh
4. Orissa
5. Meghalaya

List I (A) Simlipal (B) Dehong Deband (C) Nokrek (D) Kanchenjunga

List II

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The research work of Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield, the Nobel Prize winners for Medicine in 2003, relates to

In 2003, Alison Richard took over as the first ever woman Vice-Chancellor of

Nine different letters are to be dropped in three different letter boxes. In how many different ways can this be done?

George W. Bush, the President of America, comes from which of the following American States?

Which of the following pairs is correctly matched? Departments : Ministry of the Government of India

1. Department of Women and Child Development : Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
2. Department of Official Languages : Ministry of Human Resource Development
3. Department of Drinking Water Supply : Ministry of Water Resources

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:

1. Nairobi
2. Vienna
3. Berne
4. New York

List I (Agency) (A) United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (B) United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (C) United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) (D) Universal Postal Union (UPU)

List II (Headquarters)

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Which of the following authors won the Booker Prize twice?

In the well-known Tennis doubles team, Max Mirnyi — the partner of Mahesh Bhupathi, comes from which of the following countries?

Which of the following cricketers holds the record for the highest score in a Cricket Test Match innings by an Indian?

INS Trishul acquired by the Indian Navy in 2003 has been built by

INSAT-3E, India’s communication satellite, was launched in 2003 from

Match List I (Person) with List II (Position) and select the correct answer using the codes given below:

1. Chief of the Integrated Defence Staff
2. Chairman, 17th Law Commission
3. Chairman, ISRO
4. Chairman Atomic Energy Commission

List I (A) Anil Kakodkar (B) Raman Puri (C) M. Jagannatha Rao (D) G. Madhavan Nair

List II

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Consider the following statements about Sikh Gurus:

1. Banda Bahadur was appointed as the military leader of the Sikhs by Guru Tegh Bahadur.
2. Guru Arjun Dev became the Sikh Guru after Guru Ram Das.
3. Guru Arjun Dev gave to Sikhs their own script – Guru mukhi.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following Viceroys of India during the British rule:

1. Lord Curzon
2. Lord Chelmsford
3. Lord Hardinge
4. Lord Irwin

Which one of the following is the correct chronological order of their tenure?

Consider the following events during India’s freedom struggle:

1. Chauri-Chaura Outrage
2. Minto-Morley Reforms
3. Dandi March
4. Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms

Which one of the following is the correct chronological order of the events above?

Consider the following events:

1. Fourth general elections in India
2. Formation of Haryana State
3. Mysore named as Karnataka State
4. Meghalaya and Tripura become full States

Which one of the following is the correct chronological order of the above?

Match List I (Fuel Gases) with List II (Major Constituents) and select the correct answer using the codes given below:

1. Carbon monoxide, Hydrogen
2. Butane, Propane
3. Methane, Ethane
4. Hydrogen, Methane, Carbon monoxide

List I (A) CNG (B) Coal gas (C) LPG (D) Water gas

List II

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A spherical body moves with a uniform angular velocity ω around a circular path of radius r.

Which one of the following statements is correct?

Which one of the following statements is correct? ‘Deccan Odyssey’ is

Standard 18-carat gold sold in the market contains

A weightless rubber balloon is filled with 200 cc of water. Its weight in water is equal to

Salts

of which of the following elements provide colours to fireworks?

Consider the following statements:

1. Reserve Bank of India was nationalized on 26 January 1950.
2. The borrowing programme of the Government of India is handled by the Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance.

Which of these statements given above is/are correct?

Which one of the following is the correct decreasing sequence in terms of the value (in rupees) of the minerals produced in India in the year 2002-03?

Which one of the following cities (they were in the news in recent times) is NOT correctly matched with its country?

Consider the following statements: As per 2001 Census

1. The two States with the lowest sex ratio are Haryana and Punjab.
2. The two States with the lowest population per sq km of area are Meghalaya and Mizoram.
3. Kerala has both the highest literacy rate and sex ratio.

Which of these statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements:

1. In the Third Battle of Panipat, Ahmed Shah Abdali defeated Ibrahim Lodi.
2. Tipu Sultan was killed in the Third Anglo-Mysore War.
3. Mir Jafar entered in a conspiracy with the English for the defeat of Nawab Siraj-ud-daulah in the Battle of Plassey.

Which of these statements given above is/are correct?

Amongst the following Indian States which one has the minimum total forest cover?

How many three-digit even numbers are there such that 9 comes as a succeeding digit in any number only when 7 is the preceding digit, and 7 is the preceding digit only when 9 is the succeeding digit?

Match List I (Sports-person) with List II (Sport/Game) and select the correct answer using the codes given below:

1. Badminton
2. Swimming
3. Lawn Tennis
4. Snooker
5. Hockey

List I (A) Shikha Tandon (B) Ignace Tirkey (C) Pankaj Advani (D) Rohan Bopanna

List II

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The record for the highest score in an innings in Test Cricket is now being held by M. Hayden. Immediately prior to him, the three record holders were

In how many different ways can six players be arranged in a line such that two of them, Ajit and Mukherjee, are never together?

Match List I (State/Province/Overseas Territory) with List II (Country) and select the correct answer using the codes given below:

1. USA
2. UK
3. Canada
4. Germany
5. Denmark

List I (A) British Columbia (B) Bavaria (C) Gibraltar (D) Rhode Island

List II

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Consider the following statements:

1. Femur is the longest bone in the human body.
2. Cholera is a disease caused by bacteria.
3. ‘Athlete’s foot’ is a disease caused by virus.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

50 men or 80 women can finish a job in 50 days. A contractor deploys 40 men and 48 women for this work, but after every duration of 10 days, 5 men and 8 women are removed till the work is completed. The work is completed in

Which one of the following pairs is NOT correctly matched? Unit of Indian Railway — Location

Consider the following statements:

1. Smart Card is a plastic card with an embedded microchip.
2. Digital Technology is primarily used with new physical communication medium such as satellite and fibre optics transmission.
3. A digital library is a collection of documents in an organized electronic form available on the Internet only.

Which of these statements given above is/are correct?

Match List I (New Names of the Countries) with List II (Old Names of the Countries) and select the correct answer using the codes given below:

1. Nyasaland
2. Basutoland
3. Bechuanaland
4. British Honduras
5. Dohomey

List I (A) Benin (B) Belize (C) Botswana (D) Malawi

List II

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Which one of the following is the correct sequence in the descending order of precedence in the warrant of precedence?

Three students are picked at random from a school having a total of 1000 students. The probability that these three students will have identical date and month of their birth is

Consider the following statements:

1. Montenegro and Serbia agreed to a new structure for the Yugoslav Federation.
2. Croatia remained under the Hungarian Administration until the end of First World War.
3. Claims to Macedonian Territory have long been a source of contention between Belgium and Greece.
4. In 1991, Slovenia declared independence from Czechoslovakia.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Shirin Ebadi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, is from

A person stands at the middle point of a wooden ladder which starts slipping between a vertical wall and the floor of a room, while plane. The path traced by a person standing at the middle point of the slipping ladder is