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150 questions · 150 marks · 2 hours 30 minutes
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Correct answer: (A) Electrolysis
Green hydrogen is made by the electrolysis of water with renewable electricity—the water splits into H₂ and O₂. Since the power comes from the sun or the wind, there is no carbon emission.
Correct answer: (A) Deepfake
Deepfake technology copies a person's face, voice and manner closely enough to make a video in which even someone dead can be shown speaking. AI is the wider field and a chatbot is only a conversing program.
Correct answer: (B) Pakistan
On the cost-of-living index of 2024, Pakistan among the countries given was placed better than India.
Correct answer: (B) Rajendra Prasad
Among those who stood with Gandhiji in the Champaran Satyagraha of 1917, Rajendra Prasad was foremost; he went on to be India's first President. The movement was on behalf of the peasants forced to grow indigo.
Correct answer: (A) Mercury
Mercury's surface is covered with craters like the Moon's and it has almost no atmosphere of its own, so it is called the moon-like planet. Mars has a thin atmosphere and the Earth a dense one.
Correct answer: (A) Rift Valley of Africa
On the evidence of fossils the place of man's origin is taken to be the Rift Valley of Africa, where the oldest remains of early humans have been found.
Correct answer: (A) Flood-prone area
Dry-point settlements grow where there is a danger of flood—people choose the higher, drier spots to build on.
Correct answer: (B) Rohtas
Rohtas district produces the most paddy in Bihar and is called the state's rice bowl; the irrigation from the Son canal is the main reason.
Correct answer: (A) Alburz
Tehran, the capital of Iran, lies at the foot of the Alburz range.
Correct answer: (C) Mahendragiri
The highest peak of the Eastern Ghats is Mahendragiri, in Odisha. Anai Mudi belongs to the Western Ghats and Kanchenjunga to the Himalaya.
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
The spread of agriculture, large development projects, and grazing with the gathering of fuelwood are all genuine causes of the loss of flora and fauna. None of them is an invalid reason, so the answer is ‘None of the above’.
Correct answer: (B) Bhagalpur
Bhagalpur produces the most silk cloth in Bihar and is called the Silk City. Its tussar silk is specially well known.
Correct answer: (B) Lord Chelmsford
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place at Amritsar on 13 April 1919, when Lord Chelmsford was the Viceroy of India. Lord Curzon (1899–1905) is known for the partition of Bengal and Lord Irwin (1926–31) for the Gandhi–Irwin pact.
Correct answer: (B) W. C. Bonnerjee
The first session of the Indian National Congress was held at Bombay in 1885 and its first President was W. C. Bonnerjee.
Correct answer: (B) Dadabhai Naoroji
Dadabhai Naoroji is called the Grand Old Man of India. With his theory of the Drain of Wealth he showed that British rule was carrying India's wealth away.
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
The Quit India Movement (1942) and the Non-Cooperation Movement (1920) were both started by Mahatma Gandhi. The Swadeshi Movement began in 1905 against the partition of Bengal, before Gandhiji had even returned to India. So more than one option is correct.
Correct answer: (A) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
The Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928 was led by Vallabhbhai Patel. After that successful movement against the raising of land revenue, the women there gave him the title ‘Sardar’.
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
Annie Besant, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Sarojini Naidu were all associated with the Home Rule Movement, so ‘None of the above’ is the answer.
Correct answer: (A) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
The Bihar Provincial Congress Committee was founded in 1920 by Dr Rajendra Prasad, who later became India's first President. Anugrah Narayan Sinha was his colleague, and Jayaprakash Narayan belonged to a later generation.
Correct answer: (C) Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
The All India Kisan Sabha was founded at Lucknow in 1936 with Swami Sahajanand Saraswati as its first president; he had built the peasant movement up from Bihar.
Correct answer: (C) Doggerel
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
Correct answer: (A) Litotes
Correct answer: (B) Malapropism
Correct answer: (C) Anapaestic
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
Correct answer: (A) Watts-Dunton
Correct answer: (B) G. M. Hopkins
Correct answer: (C) 7
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
Correct answer: (C) Julia Kristeva
Correct answer: (A) 1579
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
Correct answer: (B) Edmund Spenser
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
Correct answer: (C) Tintern Abbey
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
Correct answer: (A) 7
Correct answer: (A) Robert Browning
Correct answer: (C) Ezra Pound
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
Correct answer: (A) Oscar Wilde
Correct answer: (A) A. G. Gardiner
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
Correct answer: (C) Umberto Eco
Correct answer: (C) Ania Loomba
Correct answer: (A) The Wretched of the Earth
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
Correct answer: (E) None of the above