Latest Exams Trend | UPSC (Pre) 2024
Latest Exams Trend | UPSC (Pre) 2024
1. Which of the following countries are well known as the two largest cocoa producers in the world?
Algeria and Morocco
Botswana and Namibia
Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana
Madagascar and Mozambique
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2. One of the following regions has the world's largest tropical peatland, which holds about three years worth of global carbon emissions from fossil fuels; and the possible destruction of which can exert detrimental effect on the global climate. Which one of the following denotes that region?
Amazon Basin
Congo Basin
Kikori Basin
Río de la Plata Basin
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3. The organisms "Cicada, Froghopper and Pond skater" are:
Birds
Fish
Insects
Reptiles
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4. Which one of the following shows a unique relationship with an insect that has coevolved with it and that is the only insect that can pollinate this tree?
Fig
Mahua
Sandalwood
Silk cotton
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5. Which one of the following is synthesised in human body that dilates blood vessels and increases blood flow?
Nitric oxide
Nitrous oxide
Nitrogen dioxide
Nitrogen pentoxide
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6. Which one of the following is the exhaust pipe emission from Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles, powered by hydrogen?
Hydrogen peroxide
Hydronium
Oxygen
Water vapour
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7. Recently, the term "pumped- storage hydropower" is actually and appropriately discussed in the context of which one of the following?
Irrigation of terraced crop fields
Lift irrigation of cereal crops
Long duration energy storage
Rainwater harvesting system
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8. "Membrane Bioreactors" are often discussed in the context of:
Assisted reproductive technologies
Drug delivery nanotechnologies
Vaccine production technologies
Wastewater treatment technologies
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9. With reference to the Indian economy, "Collateral Borrowing and Lending Obligations" are the instruments of:
Bond market
Forex market
Money market
Stock market
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10. The total fertility rate in an economy is defined as:
the number of children born per 1000 people in the population in a year.
the number of children born to a couple in their lifetime in a given population.
the birth rate minus death rate.
the average number of live births a woman would have by the end of her child-bearing age.
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11. Which one of the following words/phrases is most appropriately used to denote "an interoperable network of 3D virtual worlds that can be accessed simultaneously by millions of users, who can exert property rights over virtual items"?
Big data analytics
Cryptography
Metaverse
Virtual matrix
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12. Who of the following rulers of medieval India gave permission to the Portuguese to build a fort at Bhatkal?
Krishnadevaraya
Narasimha Saluva
Muhammad Shah III
Yusuf Adil Shah
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13. Which one of the following was the latest inclusion in the Intangible Cultural Heritage List of UNESCO?
Chhau dance
Durga puja
Garba dance
Kumbh mela
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14. Who was the Provisional President of the Constituent Assembly before Dr. Rajendra Prasad took over?
C. Rajagopalachari
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
T.T. Krishnamachari
Dr. Sachchidananda Sinha
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15. Which one of the following is a work attributed to playwright Bhasa?
Kavyalankara
Natyashastra
Madhyama-vyayoga
Mahabhashya
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16. Sanghabhuti, an Indian Buddhist monk, who travelled to China at the end of the fourth century AD, was the author of a commentary on:
Prajnaparamita Sutra
Visuddhimagga
Sarvastivada Vinaya
Lalitavistara
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17. How many Delimitation Commissions have been constituted by the Government of India till December 2023?
One
Two
Three
Four
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18. Under which of the following Articles of the Constitution of India, has the Supreme Court of India placed the Right to Privacy?
Article 15
Article 16
Article 19
Article 21
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19. Operations undertaken by the Army towards upliftment of the local population in remote areas to include addressing of their basic needs is called:
Operation Sankalp
Operation Maitri
Operation Sadbhavana
Operation Madad
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20. The longest border between any two countries in the world is between:
Canada and the United States of America
Chile and Argentina
China and India
Kazakhstan and Russian Federation
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21. Who of the following is the author of the books "The India Way" and "Why Bharat Matters"?
Bhupender Yadav
Nalin Mehta
Shashi Tharoor
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
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22. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which one of the following is the largest source of sulphur dioxide emissions?
Locomotives using fossil fuels
Ships using fossil fuels
Extraction of metals from ores
Power plants using fossil fuels
