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| Shri Rajender Singh won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for
(a) Emergent Leadership
(b) Community Leadership
(c) Illiteracy Eradication
(d) Bio-technology | | 1 |
| Consider the following statements : According to Census 2001
1. The literacy rate increase for males is more than that of
the females during last one decade.
2. Amongst the States and Union Territories, Delhi has the
highest population density while Sikkim has the lowest.
3. The correct sequence of population in descending order of
Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka is :
Tamil Nadu ? Madhya Pradesh ? Rajasthan ? Karnataka
which of these statements is/are correct?
(a) 1 and 2
(b) 2 and 3
(c) 1, 2 and 3
(d) 3 only | | 1 |
| Substances which are obtained from micro-organisms but used
to destroy micro-organisms are
(a) Antigens
(b) Antibiotics
(c) Antibodies
(d) Antiseptics | | 1 |
| Nalanda University flourished during the reign of which of
the following rules?
(a) Chandragupta Maurya
(b) Ashoka
(c) Kanishka
(d) Harsha | | 2 |
| The organisation of petroleum exporting countries
controls..........of world oil exports? | | 3 |
| Consider the following statements :
1. The demand for commodities having a large number of close
substitutes is less elastic than the commodities having a
smaller number of substitutes.
2. Luxury items have a highly elastic demand.
3. The commodities whose consumption cannot easily be
postponed have less elastic demand.
Which of these statements is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 and 3
(c) 1 and 2
(d) 1, 2 and 3 | | 1 |
| Which is the correct sequence of the given American cities
from West to East?
(a) Salt Lake City ? Pittsburg-San Francisco-Boston
(b) San Francisco-Salt Lake City-Pittsburg-Boston
(c) Salt Lake City-San Francisco-Boston-Pittsburg
(d) San Francisco-Pittsburg-Salt Lake City-Boston | | 1 |
| A town ?P? is located in a particular district. The town ?A?
is west of ?P?. Town ?T? is east of ?P?. Town ?K? is east of
?B? but west of ?T? and ?A?. They are all in the same
district. Which town is the farthest west?
(a) P
(b) K
(c) B
(d) A | | 1 |
| Consider the following statements concerning United Arab
Emirates :
1. Oman is one of the seven Emirates which form the United
Arab Emirates.
2. Dubai is the capital of United Arab Emirates.
3. Fishing and tourism are the key industries of United Arab
Emirates.
Which of these statements is/are correct ?
(a) 1 and 2
(b) 3 only
(c) 2 and 3
(d) 1, 2 and 3 | | 2 |
| Recently, Government disinvested stake in VSNL, IBP and IPCL to
(a) Bharti Telesonic, Reliance and GAIL, respectively
(b) Tata Group of Industries, Indian Oil Corporation and
Reliance, respectively
(c) Bharti Telesonic, Royal Dutch Shell and Pfizer, respectively
(d) Motorola, Kuwait petroleum and Ranbaxy, respectively | | 1 |
| Crop yield Formulation Unit which has developed statistical
models to forecast crop yield works under the control of
(a) Ministry of Water Resources
(b) Department of Agriculture and Co-operation
(c) India Meteorological Department
(d) Department of Food and Public Distribution | | 2 |
| Which leader is called the ?father? of India?s social reform
movement?
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Raja Rammohan Roy
(c) G. K. Gokhale
(d) Lokmanya Tilak | | 1 |
| Bag ?A? contains 5 white and 2 black balls. Bag ?B? contains
2 white and 3 black balls. If any one bag is chosen and a
ball is taken out of it at random, what is the probability
that the ball is black?
(a) 31/70
(b) 1/2
(c) 5/12
(d) 3/5 | | 2 |
| Two dice are thrown simultaneously. The probability that the
product of the two numbers on the two dice is an even number is
(a) 1/2
(b) 3/4
(c) 5/16
(d) 3/8 | | 3 |
| Which tourist destination from amongst the following will be
developed as an international destination for Tourism
according to the Budget 2002-03 ?
(a) Port Blair
(b) Hampi
(c) Pushkar
(d) Nalanda | | 1 |
| Chauri Chaura is known in the history of India?s struggle
for freedom because
(a) Gandhiji launched his first Satyagraha in India from
this place
(b) Gandhiji withdrew his Satyagraha movement when an irate
mob set fire to a police station and burnt some policemen
(c) Hundreds of freedom fighters were shot dead at this
place by the police
(d) Gandhiji sat on a hunger strike | | 1 |
| Which of the following is a chemical compound ?
(a) Air
(b) Oxygen
(c) Ammonia
(d) Mercury | | 2 |
| ?Sagar Samrat? is the name of
(a) An island near Port Blair
(b) A drilling ship in Bombay High
(c) An island near Maldives
(d) Name of a 5-star hotel in Goa | | 1 |
| A and B stand in a circular ring with 10 other persons. If
the arrangement of 12 persons is randomly done, the change
that there are exactly 3 persons between A and B is
(a) 3/10
(b) 2/11
(c) 2/13
(d) 3/11 | | 1 |
| Which positional value divides the series into equal parts ?
(a) Median
(b) Second quartile
(c) 5th Decile
(d) All of these | | 2 |
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