UPSC 2005 Prelims – all questions

According to Census 2001,

which one of the following Indian States has the maximum population in India after Uttar Pradesh?

Itaipu Dam built on the River Parana is one of the largest dams in the world.

Which one of the following two countries have this as a joint project?

Consider the following statements :

1. There are 25 High Courts in India
2. Punjab, Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh have a common High Court.
3. National Capital Territory of Delhi has a High Court of its own.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which one of the following cities is not a former capital of the given country (Country given in the brackets)?

Consider the following statements :

1. Total land area of Earth is approximately 1475 lakh square kilometers
2. Ratio of land area to water area on Earth is approximately 1 : 4
3. Maximum percentage of Earth's water is in the Pacific Ocean.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements :

1. Kyoto Protocol came into force in the year 2005
2. Kyoto Protocol deals primarily with the depletion of the Ozone layer.
3. Methane as a greenhouse gas is more harmful than carbon dioxide

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

Which one of the following is the correct sequence of the given Continents in the decreasing order of their percentage of Earth’s land?

Match items in the List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:

1. Diet
2. States General
3. Supreme Council
4. Sejm

List I (Country) (A) Netherlands (B) Ukraine (C) Poland (D) Japan

List II (Name of Parliament)

For which one of the following countries, is Spanish not an official language?

Who among the following is not a recipient of the Bharat Ratna Award?

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

1. Orissa
2. Assam
3. Chhattisgarh
4. Goa
5. Tripura

List I (National Park/Wild-life Sanctuary) (A) Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary (B) Kangerghat National Park (C) Orang Sanctuary (D) Ushakothi Wildlife Sanctuary

List II (State)

Which party was founded by Subhash Chandra Bose in the year 1939 after he broke away from the Congress?

Who among the following is the President of the FICCI?

Consider the following statements :

1. During the year 2004, India’s foreign exchange reserves did not exceed the 125 billion U.S. Dollar mark
2. The series of index numbers of wholesale prices introduced from April, 2000 has the year 1993-94 as base year.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements :

1. Anhydrous sodium carbonate is commonly known as baking soda
2. Baking soda is used in fire extinguishers
3. Bleaching powder is manufactured in Hasenclever plant

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements :

1. A geostationary satellite is at an approximate height of 10,000 km
2. FM transmission of music is of very good quality because the atmospheric or man-made noises which are generally frequency variations can do little harm.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

What is the order of magnitude of electric resistance of the human body (dry)?

Consider the following statements :

1. The axis of the earth’s magnetic field is inclined at 23 ½° to the geographic axis of the earth.
2. The earth’s magnetic pole in the northern hemisphere is located on a peninsula in northern Canada.
3. Earth’s magnetic equator passes through Thumba in South India.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which one of the following is the landmark performance of Dr. V. Mohan Reddy, an Indian born doctor working in USA, during February, 2005

Pneumoconiosis afflicts the workers who work mainly in

Who among the following was not a contemporary of the other three?

Consider the following statements :

1. The provincial autonomy
2. The establishment of Federal Court
3. All India Federation at the centre

The Government of India Act, 1935 provided for

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements :

1. Warren Hastings was the first Governor General who established a regular police force in India on the British pattern
2. A Supreme Court was established at Calcutta by the Regulating Act, 1773.
3. The Indian Penal Code came into effect in the year 1860.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which one of the following is the correct chronological order of the battles fought in India in the 18th Century?

Which countries played in the Lawn Tennis Davis Cup Final in the year 2004?

Where do the Sahariya tribals, who were recently in the news, live?

Whose autobiography is the book “My Music, My Life”?

Consider the following statements :

1. India is the only country in the world producing all the five known commercial varieties of silk.
2. India is the largest producer of sugar in the world.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

Match items in the List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:

1. Andhra Pradesh
2. Gujarat
3. Karnataka
4. Tamil Nadu

List I (Power Station) (A) Kothagudem (B) Raichur (C) Mettur (D) Wanakbori

List II (State)

For which one of the following, is Satara well-known?

Which one of the following companies has started a rural marketing network called ‘e-chaupals’?

Which one of the following statements is NOT correct?

Match items in the List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:

1. Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
2. Air India
3. Maruti Udyog Limited
4. Bharat Earth Movers Limited
5. Indian Space Research Organization

List I (Person) (A) V.R.S. Natrajan (B) A.K. Puri (C) V. Thulasidas (D) Jogdish Khattar

List II (Organization)

Which one of the following is the correct statement?

Which one of the following was probed by the Liberhan Commission?

Which one of the following airports in India is the first to be owned by a public limited company?

Consider the following statements:

1. Champaner - Pavagadh Archaeological Park
2. Chhatrapati Shivaji Railway Station, Mumbai
3. Mamallapuram
4. Sun Temple (Konark Temple)

Which of the above are included in the World Heritage List of UNESCO?

Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

Which one of the following is the correct sequence of the given towns of Pakistan while moving from the North towards the South?

Where are the Balearic Islands located?

Which one of the following countries does not border Lithuania?

Match List-I (Distinguished Person) with List-II (Achievement/Known as) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:

1. First woman Prime Minister of Canada
2. Nobel Prize winner for literature
3. Leading campaigner against apartheid in South Africa
4. Youngest woman to climb the Mt. Everest
5. American violinist

List I (A) Guenter Grass (B) Trevor Huddleston (C) Dicky Dolma (D) Kim Campbell

List II

Consider the following statements:

1. The Charter of the United Nations Organization was adopted at Geneva, Switzerland in June 1945.
2. India was admitted to the United Nations Organization in the year 1945.
3. The Trusteeship Council of the United Nations Organization was established to look after the affairs of territories detached from Japan and Italy after the Second World War or such territories not under the control of a country at that time.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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

1. Automobiles Manufacture
2. Fisheries Economy
3. Information Technology and Software
4. Poultry Farming
5. Management Science

List I (Distinguished Person) (A) B.V. Rao (B) C.K. Prahlad (C) John Kurien (D) Kiran Karnik

List II (Area of Work)

Consider the following statements:

1. The Parliament cannot enlarge the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of India as its jurisdiction is limited to that conferred by the Constitution.
2. The officers and servants of the Supreme Court and High Courts are appointed by the concerned Chief Justice and the administrative expenses are charged on the Consolidated Fund of India.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements:

1. Article 301 pertains to the Right to Property.
2. Right to Property is a legal right but not a Fundamental Right.
3. Article 300 A was inserted in the Constitution of India by the Congress Government at the Centre by the 44th Constitutional Amendment.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Who among the following invented Lasers?

Consider the following statements:

1. Articles 371A to 371I were inserted in the Constitution of India to meet regional demands of Nagaland, Assam, Manipur, Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Goa.
2. Constitution of India and the United States of America can envisage a dual policy (the Union and the States) but a single citizenship.
3. A naturalized citizen of India can never be deprived of his citizenship.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?