UPSC 2007 Prelims – all questions

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

1. Bharatanatyam Dancer
2. Exponent of Santoor
3. Mridangam Maestro
4. Kathak Dancer

List-I (Person) A. Bhajan Sopori B. Birju Maharaj C. Priyadarshini Govind D. T V Gopalkrishnan

List-II (Known as)

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Who among the following is considered as the inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW)?

Where are the headquarters of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) located?

Which one of the following is NOT a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization?

Who among the following wrote the book "Ayodhya : 6 December 1992"?

Wangari Maathai, the Nobel Prize winner from Kenya, is known for her contribution to which one of the following?

How is Gabriel García well known?

Where was the first conference of the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs held in the year 1957?

The Pulitzer Prize is associated with which one of the following?

Raghu Rai is well known

for which one of the following areas?

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

1. Music composer
2. Poet and litterateur
3. Theatre director
4. Wildlife film-maker

List-I (Eminent Person) A. Bhanu Bharti B. Mike Pandey C. Mohd. Zafar Khayyam D. Vinda Karandikar

List-II (Known as)

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Who wrote the book "The Story of the Integration of Indian States"?

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

1. The Siege of Krishnapur
2. In a Free State
3. Midnight's Children
4. Staying On

List-I (Writer) A. V. S. Naipaul B. Salman Rushdie C. Paul Scott D. J. G. Farrell

List-II (Book)

Codes:

Consider the following statements:

1. The series of international paper sizes is based on A0 size whose area is 0.5 m² (approx).
2. The area of A4 size paper is 1⁄8th of the A0 size paper.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which of the following countries signed the Tshwane Declaration in October 2006?

Recently, the European Union and six other countries including India signed the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Project.

Which one of the following was NOT a signatory to it?

Which one of the following Himalayan passes was reopened in the middle of the year 2006 to facilitate trade between India and China?

How is Steve Fossett known?

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

1. WTO
2. Speaker, US House of Representatives
3. WHO
4. Microsoft

List-I (Person) A. Nancy Pelosi B. Margaret Chan C. Pascal Lamy D. Steve Ballmer

List-II (Position/Organization)

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In which of the following cities is the Global Automotive Research Center being set up?

Consider the following statements:

1. Republicans won majority in the US House of Representatives election held in the year 2006.
2. Republican Bobby Jindal won a seat in the US House of Representatives for the second time.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

What is the broad area in which the Nobel Prize winners for the year 2006 in Physiology or Medicine worked to get the prize?

Which one of the following countries is planning to construct a rival to the Panama Canal to link the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans?

Consider the following statements:

1. In the year 2006, India successfully tested a full-fledged cryogenic stage in rocketry.
2. After USA, Russia and China, India is the only country to have acquired the capability for use of cryogenic stage in rocketry.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

With reference to the international meetings held in the year 2006, which of the following pairs is/are correctly matched?

1. NAM Summit : Havana
2. APEC Meeting : Bangkok
3. EU–India Summit : Helsinki
4. UN Climate Change Conference : Geneva

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

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

1. Essar Group
2. Info Edge India (which runs naukri.com)
3. Indian Airlines
4. Suzlon Energy

List-I (Person) A. Vishwapati Trivedi B. Tulsi R. Tanti C. Shashi Ruia D. S. Bikachandani

List-II (Company)

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Consider the following statements:

1. North Atlantic Co-operation Council (NACC) is the name of the new organization which has replaced the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
2. The United States of America and the United Kingdom became members of NATO when it was formed in 1949.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

For which one of the following books did Kiran Desai win the Man Booker Prize 2006?

Who among the following is Chile’s first woman President?

What was the purpose of Operation Sukoon launched by the Government of India?

Which one of the following pairs of countries joined the European Union in 2007?

Which one of the following organizations won the CSIR Award for Science and Technology Innovations for Rural Development, 2006?

Which of the following countries recently upgraded its defence agency to a full-fledged defence ministry?

Consider the following statements:

1. China has observer status at the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation.
2. India has observer status at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

In the latter half of the year 2006,

in which one of the following countries did a military coup take place?

Near the end of the year 2006,

which one of the following countries was suspended from the Commonwealth after a military coup?

Who was Leander Paes’s partner when he won the Doubles Final in the US Open Tennis Tournament?

Which of the following cities has been the venue of the Asian Games for the maximum number of times from the year 1951 to the year 2006?

Who among the following bowlers have taken more than 500 wickets in Test cricket?

1. Wasim Akram
2. Richard Hadlee
3. Glenn McGrath
4. Courtney Walsh

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Parimarajan Negi excelled

in which one of the following games?

Which one of the following pairs is NOT correctly matched?

Consider the following statements:

1. The Judges (Inquiry) Bill, 2006 contemplates establishing a Judicial Council which will receive complaints against judges of the Supreme Court including the Chief Justice of India, High Court Chief Justices and Judges.
2. Under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, a woman can file a petition before a 1st Class Judicial Magistrate.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements:

1. The mode of removal of a Judge of a High Court in India is the same as that of removal of a Judge of the Supreme Court.
2. After retirement from office, a permanent Judge of a High Court cannot plead or act in any court or before any authority in India.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which one of the following is the correct chronological order of the formation of the following as full States of the Indian Union?

Who among the following have been the Union Finance Minister of India? 1. V. P. Singh 2. R. Venkataraman 3. Y. B. Chavan 4. Pranab Mukherjee

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Assertion (A): The Council of Ministers in the Union of India is collectively responsible both to the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha.

Reason (R): The members of both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha are eligible to be the Ministers of the Union.

Who was the Speaker of the First Lok Sabha?

Consider the following statements:

1. Jawaharlal Nehru was in his fourth term as the Prime Minister of India at the time of his death.
2. Jawaharlal Nehru represented Rae Bareilly constituency as a member of Parliament.
3. The first non-Congress Prime Minister of India assumed office in the year 1977.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements:

1. The nationwide scheme of the National Child Labour Projects (NCLP) is run by the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
2. Gurupadswamy Committee dealt with the issues of child labour.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements in respect of Financial Emergency under Article 360 of the Constitution of India:

1. A proclamation of Financial Emergency issued shall cease to operate at the expiration of two months unless before the expiration of that period it has been approved by resolutions of both Houses of Parliament.
2. If any proclamation of Financial Emergency is in operation, it is competent for the President of India to issue directions for the reduction of salaries and allowances of all or any class of persons serving in connection with the affairs of the Union, but excluding the judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?