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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’.
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.
Correct answer: (C) Leo Varadkar
Leo Varadkar was elected Prime Minister (Taoiseach) of Ireland for a second term. Sanna Marin headed Finland and Robert Abela Malta.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Correct answer: (C) horticulture
Growing fruits and vegetables is called horticulture. Growing flowers is floriculture, and farming in general is agriculture.
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.
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.
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 senior leaders were arrested the next day, 9 August.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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’.
Correct answer: (A) Mannose
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
Correct answer: (C) hypanthodium
Correct answer: (C) Compositae
Correct answer: (C) hierarchy
Correct answer: (A) Bacterial cell wall—Cellulose
Correct answer: (C) Ecotype
Correct answer: (A) acropetally
Correct answer: (C) Artificial system
Correct answer: (C) Rhodospirillum
Correct answer: (C) Hutchinson
Correct answer: (C) bicarpellary syncarpous
Correct answer: (A) Ribosome
Correct answer: (A) Nelumbo nucifera
Correct answer: (B) Streptococcus
Correct answer: (C) order
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
Correct answer: (B) Cycas
Correct answer: (C) They are sensitive to penicillin.
Correct answer: (B) lemon
Correct answer: (C) Phytophthora infestans
Correct answer: (C) Citrus
Correct answer: (A) Primrose
Correct answer: (C) pea
Correct answer: (C) paratype
Correct answer: (C) anthoxanthin
Correct answer: (A) endarch
Correct answer: (A) 3 ATP and 2 NADPH₂
Correct answer: (C) tropical rain forests
Correct answer: (A) Hanstein