UPSC 2006 Prelims – all questions

Who among the following wrote “The Communist Manifesto” along with Karl Marx?

Which portfolio was held by Dr. Rajendra Prasad in the Interim Government formed in the year 1946?

Who among the following was presented with the Sangeet Natak Akademi Ratna Award, 2005 for her lifetime achievement in dance?

Which one of the following countries is the first country in the world to propose a carbon tax for its people to address global warming?

Consider the following statements:

1. A person who has held office as a permanent Judge of a High Court cannot plead or act in any court or before any authority in India except the Supreme Court.
2. A person is not qualified for appointment as a Judge of a High Court in India unless he has for at least five years held a judicial office in the territory of India.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Each of 8 identical balls is to be placed in the squares shown in the figure given above in a horizontal direction such that one horizontal row contains 6 balls and the other horizontal row contains 2 balls. In how many maximum different ways can this be done?

Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

Who is Wole Soyinka ?

Consider the following statements :

1. Length of a terrestrial mile is lesser than that of a nautical mile.
2. Harmattan is a dusty land-wind of the East African Coast.
3. Greece and Albania form a part of the Iberian Peninsula.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?

In a tournament each of the participants was to play one match against each of the other participants. 3 players fell ill after each of them had played three matches and had to leave the tournament. What was the total number of participants at the beginning, if the total number of matches played was 75 ?

P, Q, R, S and T reside in a 5-storeyed (Ground + 4) building, and each of them resides on a separate floor. Further,

1. T does not reside on the topmost floor.
2. Q does not reside on the ground floor.
3. S resides on one storey above that of P and one storey below that of R. To know as to which of the 5 persons resides on the ground floor which of the above statements are sufficient / insufficient?

A box contains 5 sets of balls while there are 3 balls in each set. Each set of balls has one colour which is different from every other set. What is the least number of balls that must be removed from the box in order to claim with certainty that a pair of balls of the same colour has been removed?

Which one of the following countries is not a member of ASEAN?

Consider the following statements in respect of India's advanced satellite INSAT–4A :

1. INSAT–4A was launched in December, 2005 from New Mexico.
2. The European commercial launch service provider Arianespace was associated with the launch of INSAT–4A.
3. Tata-Sky—a digital cable service provider is associated with DTH television broadcasting services from INSAT-4A.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following statements:

1. Appellate Tribunal for Electricity has been established by each State Government in India.
2. One of the components of the Accelerated Power Development and Reforms Programme (APDRP) is upgradation of sub-transmission and distribution system for electricity in India.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched? Monastery — State

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists : List – I (Valley) A. Markha Valley B. Dzukou Valley C. Sangla Valley D. Yumthang Valley List – II (State)

1. Sikkim
2. Himachal Pradesh
3. Jammu and Kashmir
4. Nagaland

Codes : A B C D

3 digits are chosen at random from 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 without repeating any digit. What is the probability that their product is odd?

Refer to the three figures I, II and III in which numbers are arranged in squares. What is the value of X in figure III?

Which one of the following statements is not correct?

Where is Bundala Biosphere Reserve which has been recently added to the UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere (MAB) network, located?

Consider the following statements :

1. According to the Census 2001, Kerala has the smallest gap in male and female literacy rates among the 28 states of India (Delhi and Pondicherry not included).
2. According to the Census 2001, Rajasthan has literacy rate above the national average literacy rate.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements in respect of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 :

1. Under the provisions of the Act, 100 days of employment in a year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work has become a fundamental right.
2. Under the provisions of the Act, women are to get priority to the extent that one-half of persons who are given employment are women who have asked for work.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which one of the following is the correct chronological order of the Afghan rulers to the throne of Delhi?

Bhakta Tukaram was a contemporary of which Mughal Emperor?

In Indian history, who was Abdul Hamid Lahori?

Each of the six faces of a cube is numbered by one of the six digits from 1 to 6. This cube is shown in its four different positions in the figures I, II, III and IV. Consider the following statements:

1. Figures II and III are sufficient to know as to which face is opposite to the face numbered 6.
2. Figures II and III are sufficient to know as to which face is opposite to the face numbered 4.
3. Figures I and IV are sufficient to know as to which face is opposite to the face numbered 4.

Which of the statements given above are correct? The original figure is not available for this question.

Who was the Governor-General of India during the Sepoy Mutiny?

Consider the following statements about Madam Bhikaji Cama :

1. Madam Cama unfurled the National Flag at the International Socialist Conference in Paris in the year 1907.
2. Madam Cama served as private secretary to Dadabhai Naoroji.
3. Madam Cama was born to Parsi parents.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Whom did Croatia defeat in the Davis Cup-2005 Finals to win the Davis Cup-2005?

The initial design and construction of which massive temple took place during the reign of Suryavarman II?

Indian Airlines (now renamed ‘Indian’) have redesigned their logo which is a graphic wheel. This logo has been inspired from which one of the following?

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

1. Theatre
2. Violin
3. Research in Physics
4. Cancer treatment
5. Water-harvesting A B C D

List-I A. E. C. G. Sudarshan B. V. Shanta C. T. N. Krishnan D. Mahesh Dattani

List-II

Where is Davos—the venue of the annual meeting of World Economic Forum—located?

What is the Universal Product Code (UPC) adopted for?

What does the term ‘Dolby B’, or ‘Dolby C’ printed on tape recorders and other sound systems refer to?

Consider the following statements :

1. The Richter scale is a logarithmic scale and so an increase of 1 magnitude unit represents a factor of 10 times in amplitude.
2. Each integer reading of the Richter scale has an energy 100 times that of the previous integer reading.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

For which sport is the Val Barker Cup awarded in the Olympic Games?

Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

Consider the following statements:

1. Assam shares a border with Bhutan and Bangladesh.
2. West Bengal shares a border with Bhutan and Nepal.
3. Mizoram shares a border with Bangladesh and Myanmar.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Which one among the following was the first to legalize euthanasia?

In a question paper, there are four multiple-choice questions. Each question has five choices with only one choice for its correct answer. What is the total number of ways in which a candidate will not get all the four answers correct?

Which one of the following is not a Central University?

Consider the following statements:

1. Free and compulsory education to the children of 6-14 years age group by the State was made a Fundamental Right by the 76th Amendment to the Constitution of India.
2. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan seeks to provide computer education even in rural areas.
3. Education was included in the Concurrent List by the 42nd Amendment, 1976 to the Constitution of India.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

There are 8 equidistant points A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H in the clockwise direction on the periphery of a circle. In a time-interval t, a person reaches from A to C with uniform motion while another person reaches the point E from the point B during the same time-interval with uniform motion. Both the persons move in the same direction along the circumference of the circle and start at the same instant. How much time after the start will the two persons meet each other?

Each of the persons A, B, C, D and E possesses unequal number (<10) of similar items. A, B and C possess 21 items in all, while C, D and E possess 7 items in all. How many items do A and B possess in all?

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

1. Russia
2. Slovakia
3. France
4. Switzerland

List-I (Leading Woman Lawn Tennis Player) A. Daniela Hantuchova B. Patty Schnyder C. Nadia Petrova D. Amelie Mauresmo

List-II (Country)

Claims to the historical Macedonian territory have been a bone of contention between which of the following countries?

Huangpu River flows

through which one of the following cities?

Which one of the following countries is the leading producer of uranium?