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150 questions · 150 marks · 2 hours 30 minutes
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Correct answer: (B) Waheeda Rehman
The Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2023 went to Waheeda Rehman.
Correct answer: (B) Energy is released and stored in the form of ATP
The energy released in respiration is stored as ATP, which the cell spends as it needs it.
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
The formation of the Simon Commission was announced on 8 November 1927, which is not among the options.
Correct answer: (B) Liver
After the mosquito bite the malarial parasite first reaches the liver and multiplies there, which is why the liver is called its storehouse.
Correct answer: (A) 336
The ratio is 14 : 25, so the difference equals 11 parts: 11 parts = 264, that is, one part = 24. The smaller number is 14 × 24 = 336.
Correct answer: (B) Irrigation
Most of India's water goes to irrigation—the largest share of total consumption is used in farming.
Correct answer: (B) Cricket ‘Bat’
A ruling of the Peshawar High Court in January 2024 restored to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf its election symbol, the cricket bat.
Correct answer: (B) Morena (M.P.)
The Gharial Breeding Centre was set up at Morena in Madhya Pradesh, on the bank of the Chambal.
Correct answer: (C) 8
Let xy = p. Then x² + y² = 1 − 2p, so x⁴ + y⁴ = (1 − 2p)² − 2p² = 2p² − 4p + 1. Setting that equal to 17 gives 2p² − 4p = 16, that is, p² − 2p = 8—which is the value asked for.
Correct answer: (C) Batukeshwar Dutt
In 1929 Batukeshwar Dutt, with Bhagat Singh, threw harmless bombs in the Central Legislative Assembly—meant not to kill but to draw attention.
Correct answer: (B) Parallel
Street lamps are wired in parallel, so that the rest stay lit when one fails and each gets the full voltage.
Correct answer: (D) Khambhat Bay
Tidal and wave energy need a high tidal range, and the highest tides in India occur in the Gulf of Khambhat.
Correct answer: (B) Calcutta Public Library in March 1836
The National Library of India traces its beginning to the Calcutta Public Library, opened in March 1836.
Correct answer: (B) 10√2 metres
The longest pole equals the room's diagonal: √(8² + 6² + 10²) = √200 = 10√2 metres.
Correct answer: (A) Rai Bahadur Satish Chandra
Under the Government of India Act 1935 the first elected Chairman of the Bihar Legislative Council was Rai Bahadur Satish Chandra.
Correct answer: (C) Baku—Azerbaijan
The UN Climate Change Conference 2024 (COP29) was set for Baku in Azerbaijan in November 2024.
Correct answer: (A) Pokhara
The Government of Nepal has declared Pokhara the tourism capital of the country.
Correct answer: (B) Diffusion of auxins towards the shady side of the shoot
In light the auxin diffuses towards the shady side of the shoot, where the cells then grow longer, and the stem appears to bend towards the light.
Correct answer: (A) 133rd
India stands 133rd in the world by per capita water availability per year.
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
Dr Sadanand Date was appointed Director General of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in March 2024—not of the ED, the BSF or the CRPF—so none of the options is correct.
Correct answer: (C) मानदेय
The Hindi for ‘honorarium’ is ‘मानदेय’—a sum given in honour of some service rendered.
Correct answer: (C) This poem expresses many emotions
‘कल शाम मूसलाधार वर्षा हुई।’ is correct. ‘प्रातःकाल के समय’ repeats itself, and ‘सबसे सुंदरतम’ puts the superlative in twice.
Correct answer: (C) रामचंद्रिका
‘रामचंद्रिका’ is Keshavdas's work, not Tulsidas's. ‘कवितावली’ and ‘विनयपत्रिका’ are Tulsidas's.
Correct answer: (C) पदबंध
The part of a sentence in which several words join to give sense without completing it is called a पदबंध, a phrase.
Correct answer: (A) वीर रस
‘अरि दल पर कूद पड़ूँ उड़कर’ and ‘रोम-रोम फड़फड़ा रहा’ show the eagerness to close with the enemy—that is वीर रस, whose permanent emotion is ardour.
Correct answer: (C) जुगुप्सा
The permanent emotion of bībhatsa rasa is जुगुप्सा, disgust. Grief belongs to करुण and anger to रौद्र.
Correct answer: (B) चंचल मनवाला
‘घड़ी में तोला घड़ी में माशा’ describes someone whose mind changes from moment to moment—a fickle person.
Correct answer: (A) दिवालिया
The Hindi for ‘bankrupt’ is ‘दिवालिया’—one who cannot pay his debts.
Correct answer: (A) शांत
Nirveda, detachment from the world, is the permanent emotion of शांत rasa.
Correct answer: (A) तत्पुरुष समास
‘गगनचुंबी’ expands to ‘गगन को चूमने वाला’, with the object marker dropped—so it is a tatpurusha compound.
Correct answer: (C) तीन
By structure a sentence is of three kinds—simple, compound and complex.
Correct answer: (B) चिंतामणि
‘चिंतामणि’ is the collection of Acharya Ramchandra Shukla's essays.
Correct answer: (A) 15
Each line of the Malini metre has fifteen syllables.
Correct answer: (B) a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3
‘Kamayani’ is Jaishankar Prasad's, ‘Saroj-Smriti’ Nirala's, ‘Veena’ Sumitranandan Pant's and ‘Deepashikha’ Mahadevi Verma's—that is a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3.
Correct answer: (A) प्रतिनियुक्ति
The Hindi for ‘deputation’ is ‘प्रतिनियुक्ति’—sending an employee from his own service to another department.
Correct answer: (B) मुक्तिबोध
‘चाँद का मुँह टेढ़ा है’ is the poetry collection of Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh.
Correct answer: (B) अ + तीव
‘अभ्युदय’ is ‘अभि’ + ‘उदय’. With ‘उ’ following ‘इ’, the ‘इ’ turns into ‘य्’—that is यण् संधि.
Correct answer: (C) वल्लभाचार्य
Surdas's guru was Mahaprabhu Vallabhacharya, in whose Pushtimarg he was initiated.
Correct answer: (A) अलंकृत भाषा
A precis needs plain, direct language—ornate language is no virtue in it. Brevity and completeness are.
Correct answer: (A) रीतिकाल
Ghan Anand belongs to the Ritikal, and is counted a leading name of its riti-mukta stream.
Correct answer: (C) स्वर संधि
In ‘देव’ + ‘इन्द्र’ an ‘अ’ and an ‘इ’ combine into ‘ए’, so it is guna vowel sandhi.
Correct answer: (C) 13
The first and third lines of a doha carry 13 mātrās and the second and fourth 11.
Correct answer: (D) उपर्युक्त में से एक से अधिक
‘यशोधरा’ is Maithilisharan Gupt's and ‘तुलसीदास’ Nirala's—neither is Dinkar's, so the answer is ‘more than one’. ‘कुरुक्षेत्र’ is indeed Dinkar's.
Correct answer: (A) Not knowing how to do something and making excuses
‘खग जाने खग ही की भाषा’ means that only people of one's own kind can read one another's minds.
Correct answer: (C) पिता की मृत्यु के बाद पूरा परिवार तीन-तेरह हो गया
‘तीन-तेरह होना’ means to be scattered or broken up. It fits only the sentence where the family breaks apart after the father's death.
Correct answer: (B) Karmadharaya
In ‘भरपेट’ the first member is an indeclinable and the compound itself behaves like one, so it is an avyayibhava compound.
Correct answer: (B) विरोधाभास
Giving sweetness and giving a comely form seem at first to pull against each other, yet resolve as the line goes on—so the figure is paradox.
Correct answer: (C) कुंतक
‘असाध्य वीणा’ is the well-known long poem of Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan ‘Agyeya’.
Correct answer: (A) आम खाया जाता है
In ‘आम खाया जाता है’ the object (the mango) is prominent and the verb agrees with it, so it is in the passive voice.
Correct answer: (A) अति + इव
‘वाङ्मय’ is ‘वाक्’ + ‘मय’. The ‘क्’ becomes ‘ङ्’ under the influence of the following ‘म’—a consonant sandhi.