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1. When was it announced that authors from anywhere in the world will be considered
for Man Booker Prize awards?

A. September 18, 2013

B. October 18, 2013
C. August 18, 2013
D. July 18, 2013

Answer: Option A

2. Man Booker International Prize was inaugurated in ________.

A. 2004
B. 2005
C. 2006
D. 2007

Answer: Option B

3. At 25th anniversary of Man Bookers Prize whose novel was chosen as the best novel
out of all the winners?

A. J.G. Farrell for Troubles

B. Salman Rushdie for Midnight Children
C. V.S Naipaul for In a Free State
D. Graham Swift for Last orders

Answer: Option B

4. Which of the following is the first calculating device?

A. Abacus
B. Calculator
C. Turing Machine
D. Pascaline

Answer Option A

5. Author of A Tale of Two Cities is _______________

A. Charles Dickens
B. Jonathan Swift
C. John Bunyan
D. Thomas Hardy

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Answer: Option A

6. Who invented mechanical calculator called Pascaline?

A. Charles Babbage
B. Blaise Pascal
C. Alan Turing
D. Lee De Forest

Answer Option B

7. Who among the following used the term computer worm for the first time?

A. John Brunner
B. Alan Turing
C. John McCarthy
D. JP Eckert

Answer Option A

8. which country Booker Prize awards are announced?

A. Geneva
B. Birmingham
C. California
D. London

Answer: Option D

9. Which was the world's first successful electronic computer?

A. PARAM
B. CRAY-1
C. Pascaline
D. ENIAC electronic Numerical Integrator and computer

Answer Option D

10. Who among the following considered as the 'father of artificial intelligence'?

A. Charles Babbage
B. Lee De Forest
C. John McCarthy
D. JP Eckert

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Answer Option C

11. Desert which is very hot in day and becomes very cold at night is

A. Sahara desert
B. thar desert
C. thal desert
D. all of them

Answer: Option A

12. Lions, leopard and eagles depend on other animals for their food and are called

A. herbivores
B. carnivores
C. omnivores
D. ovivores

Answer: Option B

13. Living things which can prepare their own food and do not depend on other living
things for food are called

A. produces
B. consumers
C. decomposer
D. parasites

Answer: Option A

14. In aquatic animals important physical factor is

A. light
B. temperature
C. pressure
D. volume

Answer: Option B

15. Rafflesia is a parasitic plant found in tropical rainforest of

A. South east Asia

B. North America
C. South America
D. Antarctica
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Answer: Option A

16. Rafflesia blooms while helping in pollination with a smell of

A. rotting meat
B. flowers
C. acid
D. fruits

Answer: Option A

17. Factors with in an environment interact and affect

A. each other
B. other species
C. environment
D. habitat

Answer: Option A

18. Study of interactions among organism and between a biotic and biotic environment
is called

A. ecology
B. zoology
C. botany
D. biochemistry

Answer: Option A

19. If the demand for a good is inelastic, an increase in its price will cause the total
expenditure of the consumers of the good to:

A. Increase
B. Decrease
C. Remain the same
D. Become zero

Answer: Option A

20. Animals which feed on plants are called

A. herbivores
B. carnivores
C. omnivores
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D. ovivores

Answer: Option A

21. Producers are mainly

A. plants
B. animals
C. rocks
D. micro-organisms

Answer: Option A

22. The supply of a good refers to:

A. Stock available for sale

B. Total stock in the warehouse
C. Actual Production of the good
D. Quantity of the good offered for sale at a particular price per unit of time

Answer: Option D

23. An individual demand curve slopes downward to the right because of the:

A. Working of the law of diminishing marginal utility

B. substitution effect of decrease in price
C. income effect of fall in Price
D. All of the above

Answer: Option D

24. How many Mo signed on India-Japan Annual Summit 2018?

A. 32
B. 25
C. 18
D. 10

Answer: Option A

25. Income elasticity of demand is defined as the responsiveness of:

A. Quantity demanded to a change in income

B. Quantity demanded to a change in price
C. Price to a change in income

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D. Income to a change in quantity demanded

Answer: Option A

26. Qatar and this country established a joint commission to strengthen bilateral
relations.

A. Italy
B. Pakistan
C. India
D. US

Answer: Option C

27. In the short run, when the output of a firm increases, its average fixed cost:

A. Remains constant
B. Decreases
C. Increases
D. First decreases and then rises

Answer: Option B

28. What is the rank of India among the world countries in terms of large insurance gap,
as per a Lloyd's of London's report?

A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

Answer: Option B

29. According to Standard Charterer’s The Emerging Affluent Study 2018, which is the
most investment savvy economy?

A. India
B. Pakistan
C. South Korea
D. Singapore

Answer: Option A

30. Which of the following water bodies separates the Andaman from the Nicobar?

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A. 11° Channel
B. Gulf of Mannar
C. 10° Channel
D. Andaman Sea

Answer Option C

31. European Union (EU) decided to cooperate on Digital communications, Digital

economy and society along with this country.

A. Singapore
B. Japan
C. China
D. India

Answer: Option D

32. The state of Assam has

A. Five National Parks and eleven wildlife sanctuaries

B. Three National Parks and nine wildlife sanctuaries
C. Three National Parks and eight wildlife sanctuaries
D. Two National Parks and eleven wildlife sanctuaries

Answer Option A

33. Which of the following river is called as the ‘Sorrow of Bengal’?

A. The Gandak
B. The Kosi
C. The Son
D. The Damodar

Answer Option B

34. Which of the following has a potential for the harnessing of tidal energy in India?

A. Gulf of Cambay
B. Gulf of Mannar
C. Backwaters of Kerala
D. Chilka lake

Answer Option A

35. India lies in the hemisphere

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A. Northern and eastern
B. Southern and eastern
C. Northern and western
D. Southern and western

Answer Option A

36. Washing soda is the common name for

A. Sodium carbonate
B. Calcium bicarbonate
C. Sodium bicarbonate
D. Calcium carbonate

Answer: Option A

37. The gas usually filled in the electric bulb is

A. nitrogen
B. hydrogen
C. carbon dioxide
D. oxygen

Answer: Option A

38. The image formed in a compound microscope is

A. erect
B. inverted
C. sometimes erect, sometimes inverted
D. none

Answer: Option B

39. Quartz crystals normally used in quartz clocks etc. is chemically

A. silicon dioxide
B. germanium oxide
C. a mixture of germanium oxide and silicon dioxide
D. sodium silicate

Answer: Option A

40. The lens used in a simple microscope is

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A. Concave
B. Convex
C. Cylindrical
D. None

Answer: Option B

41. Which of the gas is not known as greenhouse gas?

A. Methane
B. Nitrous oxide
C. Carbon dioxide
D. Hydrogen

Answer: Option D

42. The S. I. unit of refractive index is

A. meter
B. cm
C. watt
D. no unit

Answer: Option D

43. The elimination of toxic nitrogenous waste and excess water in man is by

A. Excretion
B. Circulation
C. Reproduction
D. Pollution

Answer: Option A

44. The liquid metal is

A. Bismuth
B. Magnesium
C. Mercury
D. Sodium

Answer: Option C

45. What is the correct chronological order of setting up of the following Commissions?

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Macdonell Commission

First Industrial Commission

First Fiscal Commission

Select the correct answer from the code given below.

A. 1, 2, 3
B. 2, 3, 1
C. 2, 1, 3
D. 1, 3, 2

Answer: Option A

46. Which of the following is not a primary color?

A. Red
B. Blue
C. Green
D. Yellow

Answer: Option D

47. Which among the following was the first registered Trade Union of India ?

A. Hindu Mazdoor Sabha

B. Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh
C. Madras Labour Union
D. United Trade Union Congress

Answer: Option C

48. On which among the following dates, Jallianwala Bagh Massacre took place?

A. April 16,1919
B. April 13,1919
C. April 3,1919
D. April 14,1919

Answer: Option B

49. At present, how many high courts are there in India?

A. 25

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B. 21
C. 28
D. 29

Answer Option B

50. Who among the following resigned from the membership of the Viceroy’s Executive
Council as a protest against Jallianwala Bagh Massacre ?

A. C. P. Ramaswami Iyer
B. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
C. N. Sarma
D. Shankaran Nair

Answer: Option D

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