What message was sent by the Chandrayaan-2 lunar orbiter to Chandrayaan-3’s lander module when it established contact with it in August 2023?
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Correct answer: (C) “Welcome, buddy” When contact was made with the lander of Chandrayaan-3, the orbiter of Chandrayaan-2 sent the message ‘Welcome, buddy’. The older orbiter thus became a communication link for the new mission.
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Question 52
Name the former President of China who crushed the pro-democracy movement in 1989.
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Correct answer: (B) Yang Shangkun During the pro-democracy movement of 1989 the President of China was Yang Shangkun (1988–1993), and martial law was declared over his signature. Jiang Zemin became President in 1993, after the movement. The Commission's final key gives (C) Jiang Zemin, but the question asks for the President, and in 1989 that office was Yang Shangkun's; option (B) is shown here for that reason.
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Question 53
Who was elected for a second term as Ireland’s Prime Minister?
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Correct answer: (C) Leo Varadkar Leo Varadkar was elected Prime Minister (Taoiseach) of Ireland for a second term. Sanna Marin led Finland and Robert Abela Malta.
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Question 54
The African Union was made a permanent member at the G-20 Summit held in India. Who is the Chairman of the African Union?
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Correct answer: (A) Azali Assoumani The African Union was given permanent membership at the G20 summit in New Delhi in 2023; its chairman at the time was Azali Assoumani, President of the Comoros.
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Question 55
Arrange the following physiographic units of India in ascending order by geographical area: 1. Central Highlands; 2. Great Plains; 3. Coastal Plains; 4. Northern Mountains. Select the correct answer using the codes given below.
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Correct answer: (A) 3, 1, 2, 4 Arranged in ascending order of area, that is from the smallest unit to the largest, the correct order among the options given is 3, 1, 2, 4.
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Question 56
Arrange the following ranges from north to south: 1. Ladakh; 2. Karakoram; 3. Pir Panjal; 4. Zanskar. Select the correct answer using the codes given below.
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Correct answer: (B) 2, 1, 4, 3 From north to south the Himalayan ranges come in this order—Karakoram, Ladakh, Zanskar and then Pir Panjal. So the correct order is 2, 1, 4, 3.
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Question 57
During the monsoon season in India, most cyclones originate
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Correct answer: (B) between 10° N and 15° N latitude Most cyclones of the Indian monsoon season form in the Bay of Bengal between 10° N and 15° N, where the sea temperature and the humidity are both favourable.
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Question 58
Which of the following areas is not landslide-prone?
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Correct answer: (B) Eastern Ghats Landslides happen where the slopes are steep and the rain heavy—the Himalaya and the Western Ghats are such. The Eastern Ghats are lower, broken and of gentler slope, so the risk there is least.
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Question 59
Which of the following coasts of India is most affected by violent tropical cyclones?
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Correct answer: (B) Coromandel The Coromandel coast faces the Bay of Bengal, where most tropical cyclones form, so it is the most affected. The Malabar and Konkan coasts lie towards the Arabian Sea, where cyclones are fewer.
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Question 60
When running water cuts through clayey soils and makes deep channels, it leads to
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Correct answer: (A) gully erosion When running water cuts through clayey soil and makes deep channels it is called gully erosion, and such land is known as badland. In sheet erosion the top layer is washed away evenly instead.
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Question 61
Which of the following receives heavy rainfall in October and November?
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Correct answer: (B) Coromandel Coasts In October and November the monsoon retreats, and the winds that cross the Bay of Bengal bring heavy rain to the Coromandel coast, the eastern coast of Tamil Nadu. In the rest of India the rains are nearly over by then.
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Question 62
Cultivation of fruits and vegetables is called
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Correct answer: (C) horticulture Growing fruits and vegetables is called horticulture. Growing flowers is floriculture, and farming in general is agriculture.
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Question 63
Who provided leadership in the districts of Patna, Ara and Shahabad during the Revolt of 1857 in Bihar?
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Correct answer: (C) Kunwar Singh The revolt of 1857 in the Patna, Ara and Shahabad region of Bihar was led by Kunwar Singh of Jagdishpur. Raj Kumar Shukla belonged to the Champaran Satyagraha, a much later time.
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Question 64
The Partition of Bengal was made effective on
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Correct answer: (C) 16 October, 1905 The partition of Bengal announced by Lord Curzon came into effect on 16 October 1905. People marked that day by tying rakhis to show unity, and the Swadeshi Movement gathered force.
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Question 65
The Quit India Resolution was adopted by the Congress in Bombay on
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Correct answer: (B) 8 August, 1942 The Quit India resolution was passed by the Congress at the Gowalia Tank maidan in Bombay on 8 August 1942, and Gandhiji gave the call ‘Do or Die’. The next day, 9 August, the senior leaders were arrested.
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Question 66
The British ruled India for a long period due to the
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Correct answer: (C) policy of Divide and Rule The British followed a policy of divide and rule, widening differences of religion, caste and princely state so that Indians could not resist together. That was the main reason their rule lasted so long.
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Question 67
Queen Victoria’s Proclamation was issued on which of the following dates?
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Correct answer: (C) 1 November, 1858 After the revolt of 1857 Queen Victoria's Proclamation was read out by Lord Canning at Allahabad on 1 November 1858. With it the Company's rule ended and India passed to the British Crown.
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Question 68
Which of the following statements is/are correct?
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Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above Raja Ram Mohan Roy was a pioneer of modern education, Swami Dayanand gave the call to return to the Vedas, and Vivekananda took part in the Parliament of World Religions at Chicago in 1893—more than one statement is correct.
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Question 69
Who among the following became India’s unofficial Ambassador to England?
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Correct answer: (B) Dadabhai Naoroji Dadabhai Naoroji lived in England for many years, building opinion there in India's favour, and was even elected to the British Parliament—which is why he was called India's unofficial Ambassador.
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Question 70
Who described the Government of India Act, 1935 as a ‘Charter of Slavery’?
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Correct answer: (E) None of the above It was Jawaharlal Nehru who called the Government of India Act, 1935 a ‘Charter of Slavery’. All three names given are wrong, so the answer is ‘None of the above’.
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Question 71
The monster Grendel appears in which one of the following poems?
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Correct answer: (A) Beowulf
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Question 72
The Owl and the Nightingale had been written primarily for which one of the following classes of audience?
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Correct answer: (B) Women recluses who had chosen the solitary life
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Question 73
Which one of the following poems had been written as an allegorical lament on the death of the first wife of John of Gaunt?
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Correct answer: (A) The Book of the Duchess
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Question 74
Who is the narrator of the poem, Phyllyp Sparowe?
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Correct answer: (A) Dame of Margery
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Question 75
Which one of the following works speaks of a government controlled by a self-perpetuating oligarchy?
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Correct answer: (C) Utopia
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Question 76
“Come, let me write. ‘And to what end?’ To ease a burthened heart. ‘How can words ease, which are the glasses of thy daily vexing care?’ The above verse has been in which one of the following poems?
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Correct answer: (A) Astrophil and Stella
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Question 77
“Herein may be seen noble chivalrye, curtosye, humantye, friendlynesse, hardynesse, love, friendship, cowardyce, murder, hate, virtue and synne.” The above observation constitutes the parts of which one of the following works?
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Correct answer: (A) Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur
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Question 78
The book entitled The Schoolmaster has been written by which one of the following authors?
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Correct answer: (C) Ascham
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Question 79
Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimage, containing a history of the world in sea voyages and land travel by Englishmen and others, is written by
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Correct answer: (B) Samuel Purchas
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Question 80
Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene bears the influence of which one of the following works?
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Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
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Question 81
“Come live with me and be my love,” In which one of the following works does the above observation appear?
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Correct answer: (C) The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
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Question 82
Which one of the following is an alternative title to Prosopopoia?
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Correct answer: (A) Mother Hubberd’s Tale
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Question 83
Of the 154 Sonnets written by William Shakespeare, the first 126 are addressed to which one of the following classes?
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Correct answer: (C) Fair Youth
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Question 84
In which theatre was The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo Is Mad Again, presented for the first time?
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Correct answer: (A) Rose
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Question 85
“And ride in triumph through Persepolis! Is it not brave to be a King, Techelles!” The above observation appears in which one of the following dramas?
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Correct answer: (C) Tamburlaine the Great
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Question 86
Sir John Falstaff is a character in which one of the following plays?
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Correct answer: (B) Henry IV
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Question 87
In which one of the following dramas does Julia disguise herself as a man in order to follow Proteus from Verona to Milan?
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Correct answer: (A) The Two Gentlemen of Verona
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Question 88
In regard to whom did John Dryden make the following observation? “Who first made writing easily an art and who first showed us to conclude the sense most commonly in Distichs ...”
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Correct answer: (B) Edmund Waller
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Question 89
King Arbaces appears in which one of the following dramas?
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Correct answer: (A) A King and No King
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Question 90
Sir Giles Overreach is a character in which one of the following dramas?
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Correct answer: (C) A New Way to Pay Old Debts
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Question 91
“... deeds, and language, such as men do use; And persons, such as comedy would choose. When she would show an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes.” The above observation appears in which one of the following dramas?
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Correct answer: (C) Every Man in His Humour
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Question 92
The character of Beatrice-Joanna is a part of which one of the following dramas?
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Correct answer: (A) The Changeling
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Question 93
Hesperides: Or The Works Both Humane and Divine of _____ Esq. Who among the following would best fill in the blank?
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Correct answer: (C) Robert Herrick
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Question 94
How many authors has Burton cited in his The Anatomy of Melancholy?
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Correct answer: (A) 1250
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Question 95
“Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased the God hitherto to bestow on mankind.” The above observation appears in which one of the following works?
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Correct answer: (B) Leviathan
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Question 96
“Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are.” In which one of the following works of art does the above observation find place?
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Correct answer: (B) Areopagitica
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Question 97
“I would Love you ten years before the flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews.” In the above observation, ‘flood’ and ‘Jews’ are precisely which one of the following?
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Correct answer: (A) Wit and magniloquence
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Question 98
“A full and true account of the Battle fought last Friday, between the Ancient and the Modern Books in St. James’ library.” Which one of the following is an abridged title to the above?
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Correct answer: (B) The Battle of the Books
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Question 99
Who among the following is an object of attack in Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot?
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Correct answer: (A) Atticus
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Question 100
In which one of the following works does the character of Sir Andrew Freeport appear?