Current Affairs – UPSC Prelims PYQs

In the year 2001, Germany approved a $32 million credit to India

Who among the following won six gold medals in the 9th FINA-World Swimming Championship held in Fukuoka, Japan in the year 2001?

In the year 2001, India offered a grant of five million dollars to Tajikistan to

Match List I (Country) with List II (President) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:

1. Levy Mwanawasa
2. Joseph Kabila
3. Olusegun Obasanjo
4. Yoweri Museveni

List I (Country) A. Congo B. Nigeria C. Uganda D. Zambia

List II (President)

The chess player Alexi Shirov represents

Mekong Ganga Cooperation Project is

Consider the following statements regarding the Armed Forces: I. First batch of women pilots was commissioned in Indian Air Force in 1996. II. Officers’ Training Academy is located in Nagpur. III. Southern Command of Indian Navy has its Headquarters at Chennai. IV. One of the Regional Headquarters of Coast Guard is located at Port Blair.

Which of these statements are correct?

Match List I with List II

and select the correct answer using the codes given below the Lists:

List I (Country) I. Columbia II. The Philippines III. Mexico IV. Venezuela

List II (President) A) Vicente Fox B) Hugo Chavez C) Gloria Macapagal Arroyo D) Andres Pastrana

Match List I with List II

and select the correct answer using the codes given below the Lists:

List I (Books) I. The Struggle in My Life II. The Struggle and the Triumph III. Friends and Foes IV. Rebirth

List II (Author) A) Lech Walesa B) Nelson Mandela C) Leonid Brezhnev D) Zulfikar Ali Bhutto E) Sheikh Mujibur Rehman

A great landslide caused by an earthquake killed hundreds of people in January 2001 near

Falun Gong is

Match List I with List II

and select the correct answer using the codes given below the Lists:

List I (Person) I. Deep Sen Gupta II. P. Hari Krishna III. Seema Antil IV. Tejas Bakre

List II (Achievement) A) India’s youngest International Master in the Sangli International Chess Tournament, 2000 B) The first Indian ever to win a gold in discus in the World Athletic Championship in Santiago, 2000 C) Won the title in the Asian Junior Chess Tournament in Mumbai, 2000 D) Won the Under-12 title in the World Youth Chess Festival in Oropesa, 2000

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and select the correct answer using the codes given below the Lists:

List I (Person) I. Santosh Yadav II. Oprah Winfrey III. Oscar Wilde IV. P. Sainath

List II (Distinguished as) A) T.V. Host B) Journalist C) Mountaineer D) Dramatist and Author

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and select the correct answer using the codes given below the Lists:

List I (Award / Prize) I. Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament II. Jamanlal Bajaj Award III. International Gandhi Peace Prize IV. Wolf Prize

List II (Recipient) A) Archbishop Desmond Tutu B) Dr. Gurudev Khush C) Dr. M. S. Swaminathan D) Nelson Mandela

Match List I with List II

and select the correct answer using the codes given below the Lists:

List I (Sports Women) I. Anjali Vedpathak II. Mouma Das III. Neelam Singh IV. Tumpa Debnath

List II (Sport) A) Athletics B) Gymnastics C) Rifle Shooting D) Table Tennis E) Chess

Match List I with List II

and select the correct answer using the codes given below the Lists:

List I (Institute) I. Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies II. Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research III. National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences IV. Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages

List II (Location) A) Hyderabad B) Mumbai C) Bangalore D) Dharamshala E) Varanasi

Codes:

To reach the final of first Grand Slam of the year 2000, Martina Hingis defeated

At which one of the cities labelled as A, B, C and D on the given map of Europe was the historic treaty between NATO and Warsaw Pact countries signed in 1998? The original map is not available for this question.

The given map shows locations of airports labelled as 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. What is the correct sequence of the airports in which the hijacked Indian Airlines plane IC-814 landed after its initial take-off from Kathmandu in December 1999? The original map is not available for this question.

The following news item appeared in a National daily dated 1-12-1999: “...Parliament today rejected a Bill to grant women the right to vote and stand for office in parliamentary elections, by a margin of 32 to 30. The National Assembly was split between liberal, pro-government and Shiite Muslim deputies who were in favour of women’s rights, while the opposition camp grouped Sunni Muslim fundamentalists and tribal MPs. A total of 64 MPs and Ministers were present, of whom two abstained.” The Parliament referred to in this quotation is that of

The economic crisis in the latter half of 1990s most seriously affected Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and South Korea. The cause of the crisis was

Which one of the countries labelled as 1, 2, 3 and 4 on the given map was grantee membership of G-15 in its VII Summit at Kuala Lumpur? The original map is not available for this question.

Consider the following statements about the European Union: I. The European Union was known earlier as the European Community. II. The Single European Act (1986) and the Maastricht Treaty were milestones in its formation. III. Citizens of European Union countries enjoy dual citizenship. IV. Switzerland is a member of the European Union.

Which of the above statements are correct?

Which one of the following statements is not correct? Dinar/New dinar is the currency of

Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?

In order to win the Grand Slam in Tennis, a player must win which one of the following groups of tournaments?

In the November 1998 Composite Dialogue Process between India and Pakistan, three contentious issues listed below as 1, 2 and 3 were discussed. Contentious Issues

1. Disengagement of troops
2. Settlement of boundary dispute
3. Sharing River water Match the issues with the areas marked in the map as A, B and C and select the correct answer using the codes given below:

The meeting of G-15 countries held in Malaysia in 1997 was attended by

Olympics 2000 is to be held in

The currency of the proposed European Monetary Union will be

Which one of the following was the venue for the preliminary talks between the Sri Lankan Government and representatives of Tamil United Liberation Front and other militant groups?

Bharat Ratna was awarded in 1997 to

Assertion (A): The United States of America has threatened to ask the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to apply sanctions against the developing countries for the no observance of ILO conventions.

Reason (R): The United States of America itself has adopted and implemented those ILO conventions.

The recent Land Mines Conference to sign the historic treaty was held in the Capital city of

Nobel Prize in Economics for the year 1997 was awarded for contribution in the area of

What are the official languages of the U.N.O.?

The economic and monetary union of 15 European Countries is proposed to be made by 1999. But the currencies of two countries, Franc, have already the same value and circulate freely in both the countries. The countries are

The Basque separatist organisation is active in

Bishop Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo and Jose Ramos Horta who shared the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize are known for their work for the cause of

Which one of the following is NOT a principle of “Panchsheel”?

Which one of the following has legalised euthanasia?

‘They are fantastically diverse. They speak hundreds of languages and dialects. They comprise scores of ethnic groups. They include highly industrialised economies and up-and-coming economies. They span half the surface of the earth and are home to two-fifths of the world’s population.’ The group of countries referred to belongs to

In the 1996 Cricket World Cup, the non-Test playing countries which participated included

Consider the following statements: Towards the close of 1995, the fortunes of Indian hockey were believed to be on the upswing because — I. India had won the Azlan Shah Cup in 1995. II. India beat Pakistan in the South Asian Federation Games final. III. India had by then qualified for the Atlanta Olympics. Of these statements —

Match List I with List II

and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the lists:

List I

List II

I. Ernesto Zedillo

A) Uruguay

II. Alberto Fujimori

B) Brazil

III. Julio Maria Sanguinetti

C) Mexico

IV. Fernando H. Cardoso

D) Bolivia

E) Peru

Consider the map given below indicating four places frequently figuring in the news:

Which one of them is Chechenya?

Choose the correct answer from the codes given below:

Which of the following are correctly matched? I. Hamas — Palestinian extremist group II. Sinn Fein — IRA’s political wing

III. True Path Party — A major constituent of the ruling coalition in Turkey

Choose the correct answer from the codes given below:

Which one of the following countries had in 1994 voted against joining the European Union?

The signatories to the treaty banning chemical weapons include