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Latest Exams Trend | UPSC-IAS (Pre) 2023

Feb 9, 2025 - 16:27 Updated: Feb 9, 2025 - 16:52
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1. Which one of the following is the best example of repeated falls in sea level, giving rise to present-day extensive marshland?

Bhitarkanika Mangroves
Marakkanam Salt Pans
Naupada Swamp
Rann of Kutch

2. Ilmenite and rutile, abundantly available in certain coastal tracts of India, are rich sources of which one of the following?

Aluminium
Copper
Iron
Titanium

3. About three-fourths of world's cobalt, a metal required for the manufacture of batteries for electric motor vehicles, is produced by

Argentina
Botswana
the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kazakhstan

4. Which one of the following is a part of the Congo Basin?

Cameroon
Nigeria
South Sudan
Uganda

5. Invasive Species Specialist Group' (that develops Global Invasive Species Database) belongs to which one of the following organizations?

The International Conservation of Nature Union for
The United Nations Environment Programme
The United Nations World Commission for Environment and Development
The World Wide Fund for Nature

6. Which of the following organisms perform waggle dance for others of their kin to indicate the direction and the distance to a source of their food?

Butterflies
Dragonflies
Honeybees
Wasps

7. Which one of the following makes a tool with a stick to scrape insects from a hole in a tree or a log of wood?

Fishing cat
Orangutan
Otter
Sloth bear

8. Which one of the following activities of the Reserve Bank of India is considered to be part of 'sterilization'?

Conducting 'Open Market Operations'
Oversight of settlement and payment systems
Debt and cash management for the Central and State Governments
Regulating the functions of Non- banking Financial Institutions

9. Which one of the following best describes the concept of 'Small Farmer Large Field'?

Resettlement of a large number of people, uprooted from their countries due to war, by giving them a large cultivable land which they cultivate collectively and share the produce
Many marginal farmers in an area organize themselves into groups and synchronize and harmonize selected agricultural operations
Many marginal farmers in an area together make a contract with a corporate body and surrender their land to the corporate body for a fixed term for which the corporate body makes a payment of agreed amount to the farmers
A company extends loans, technical knowledge and material inputs to a number of small farmers in an area so that they produce the agricultural commodity required by the company for its manufacturing process and commercial production

10. In essence, what does 'Due Process of Law' mean?

The principle of natural justice
The procedure established by law
Fair application of law
Equality before law

11. Which one of the following statements best reflects the Chief purpose of the 'Constitution' of a country?

It determines the objective for the making of necessary laws.
It enables the creation of political offices and a government.
It defines and limits the powers of government.
It secures social justice, social equality and social security.

12. In India, which one of the following Constitutional Amendments was widely believed to be enacted to overcome the judicial interpretations of the Fundamental Rights?

1st Amendment
42nd Amendment
44th Amendment
86th Amendment

13. In which one of the following regions was Dhanyakataka, which flourished as a prominent Buddhist centre under the Mahasanghikas, located?

Andhra
Gandhara
Kalinga
Magadha

14. With reference to ancient South India, Korkai, Poompuhar and Muchiri were well known as

capital cities
ports
centres of iron-and-steel making
shrines of Jain Tirthankaras

15. Who among the following rulers of Vijayanagara Empire constructed a large dam across Tungabhadra River and a canal-cum-aqueduct several kilometres long from the river to the capital city?

Devaraya I
Mallikarjuna
Vira Vijaya
Virupaksha

16. Who among the following rulers of medieval Gujarat surrendered Diu to Portuguese?

Ahmad Shah
Mahmud Begarha
Bahadur Shah
Muhammad Shah

17. By which one of the following Acts was the Governor General of Bengal designated as the Governor General of India?

The Regulating Act
The Pitt's India Act
The Charter Act of 1793
The Charter Act of 1833

18. Which one of the following countries has its own Satellite Navigation System?

Australia
Canada
Israel
Japan

19. Wolbachia method' is sometimes talked about with reference to which one of the following?

Controlling the viral diseases spread by mosquitoes
Converting crop residues into packing material
Producing biodegradable plastics
Producing biochar from thermo-chemical conversion of biomass

20. 'Aerial metagenomics' best refers to which one of the following situations?

Collecting DNA samples from air in a habitat at one go
Understanding the genetic makeup of avian species of a habitat
Using air-borne devices to collect samples from moving blood animals
Sending drones to inaccessible areas to collect plant and animal samples from land surfaces and water bodies

21. 'Microsatellite DNA' is used in the case of which one of the following?

Studying the evolutionary relationships among species of fauna
Stimulating 'stem cells' to transform into diverse functional tissues
Promoting clonal propagation of horticultural plants
Assessing the efficacy of drugs by conducting series of drug trials in a population

22. Which one of the following countries has been suffering from decades of civil strife and food shortages and was in news in the recent past for its very severe famine?

Angola
Costa Rica
Ecuador
Somalia

23. In the recent years Chad, Guinea, Mali and Sudan caught the international attention for which one of the following reasons common to all of them?

Discovery of rich deposits of rare earth elements
Establishment of Chinese military bases
Southward expansion of Sahara Desert
Successful coups