UPSC Prelims Miscellaneous Questions

Q.1099Miscellaneous2024Easy

In the following items, a pair of sentences are given in which the keywords have been underlined. Identify the sentence/s in which the underlined words have been used correctly in the context and mark your choice using the code that follows: 1. You have been frivolous, whereas I have been serious. 2. The difficulties seemed insurmountable; nevertheless , the courage to carry on was undaunted .

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Q.1100Miscellaneous2024Easy

These sentences has a word/words underlined. Read the sentence carefully and find which word class the underlined word/words belongs to. Indicate your responses on the Answer Sheet accordingly. Consequently , this poses a threat to agriculture and human health.

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Q.1101Miscellaneous2024Easy

The first and sixth sentences are given as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly S1: Covid-19 pandemic threw a lot of challenges on the entire economy. S6: In order to address this need and to promote economic activities post pandemic, MoHUA initiated ARHCs, a sub-scheme under PMAY(U). P: These urban migrants stay in slums, informal settlements, unauthorized colonies, peri-urban areas to save cost on housing. Q: Hence, they need decent rental housing at affordable rate near their worksites. R: The biggest challenge was reverse migration of urban migrants/poor in the country. S: The migration took place due to the temporary shutting down of industries and other sectors. The correct sequence should be:

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Q.1102Miscellaneous2024Easy

The first and sixth sentences are given as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly S1: Press Trust of India (PTI) is a non-profit making cooperative owned by the country’s newspapers with a mandate to provide effective and unbiased news to all subscribers. S6: Bhasha is the Hindi language news service of the agency. P: It offers its news services in English and Hindi languages. Q: Over 500 newspapers and several news services subscribe to PTI, including many overseas news entities. R: PTI now has its own satellite delivery system. S: Increasingly, more and more subscribers are opting for satellite reception. The correct sequence should be:

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Q.1103Miscellaneous2024Easy

In the following items, a pair of sentences are given in which the keywords have been underlined. Identify the sentence/s in which the underlined words have been used correctly in the context and mark your choice using the code that follows: 1. In spite of the cold he decided to climb the mountain top. 2. Despite of the warning she was determined to swim the entire distance.

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Q.1104Miscellaneous2024Easy

The first and sixth sentences are given as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly S1: The National School of Drama (NSD) was set up by the Sangeet Natak Akademi in 1959. S6: The NSD has promoted Children's Theatre as well. P: Post admission, the students at NSD are required to undergo training of three year's duration. Q: The eligible applicants for admission are screened through two stages. R: The objective of the NSD is to train students in all aspects of theatre, including theatre history, production, scene design, costume design, lighting, make-up, etc. S: In 1975, it became an autonomous organisation. The correct sequence should be:

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Q.1105Miscellaneous2024Easy

In the following items, a pair of sentences are given in which the keywords have been underlined. Identify the sentence/s in which the underlined words have been used correctly in the context and mark your choice using the code that follows: 1. The issue of human rights is immanent in the constitution of most countries. 2. They invited an imminent person as the chief guest for the event.

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Q.1106Miscellaneous2024Easy

In the following items, a pair of sentences are given in which the keywords have been underlined. Identify the sentence/s in which the underlined words have been used correctly in the context and mark your choice using the code that follows: 1. They will soon be applying for the permission. 2. They shall be pleased with the arrangements made by us.

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Q.1107Miscellaneous2024Easy

Each item in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled as (a), (b) and (c). Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in any underlined part and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter, i.e., (a) or (b) or (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d). (a) I hate it (b) when I break (c) in hives. (d) No error

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Q.1108Miscellaneous2024Easy

‘ Deify ’ 1. To treat someone in high office with utmost reverence 2. Worship or treat someone as a god

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Q.1109Miscellaneous2024Easy

‘ Raconteur ’ 1. Someone who is capable of telling stories in an interesting manner 2. Somebody who believes in only telling tall tales

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Q.1110Miscellaneous2024Easy

Each item in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts labelled as (a), (b) and (c). Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in any underlined part and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter, i.e., (a) or (b) or (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d). (a) I am owning (b) two houses (c) in Bengaluru. (d) No error

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Q.1111Miscellaneous2024Easy

‘ Emasculate ’ 1. Making someone strong and powerful 2. Increase one’s musculature

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Q.1112Miscellaneous2024Easy

In the following items, a pair of sentences are given in which the keywords have been underlined. Identify the sentence/s in which the underlined words have been used correctly in the context and mark your choice using the code that follows: 1. Among those who had applied for the job I found four candidates to be outstanding. 2. Amidst the confusion caused by the melee, the perpetrators slipped away.

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Q.1113Miscellaneous2024Easy

The visiting school children circumnavigated around the Dal Lake with visible delight during their visit to Srinagar.

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Q.1114Miscellaneous2024Easy

A cone, a hemisphere and a cylinder stand on equal base of radius r and have the same height. If the sum of volumes of cone, the hemisphere and the cylinder is equal to volume of a sphere of radius R, then what is R^3/r^3 equal to?

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Q.1115Miscellaneous2024Easy

It must not be imagined that a walking tour, as some would have us fancy, is merely a better or worse way of seeing the country. There are many ways of seeing landscape quite as good; and none more vivid, in spite of canting dilettantes, than from a railway train. But landscape on a walking tour is quite an accessory. He who is indeed of the brotherhood does not voyage in quest of the picturesque, but of certain jolly humours — of the hope and spirit with which the march begins at morning, and the peace and spiritual repletion of the evening’s rest. He cannot tell whether he puts his knapsack on, or takes it off, with more delight. The excitement of the departure puts him in key for that of the arrival. Whatever he does is not only a reward in itself, but will be further rewarded in the sequel; and so pleasure leads on to pleasure in an endless chain. It is this that so few can understand; they will either be always lounging or always at five miles an hour; they do not play off the one against the other, prepare all day for the evening, and all evening for the next day. Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone. If you go in a company, or even in pairs, it is no longer a walking tour in anything but name; it is something else and more in the nature of a picnic. A walking tour should be gone upon alone, because freedom is of the essence; because you should be able to stop and go on, and follow this way or that, as the freak takes you; and because you must have your own pace, and neither trot alongside a champion walker, nor mince in time with a girl. And then you must be open to all impressions and let your thoughts take colour from what you see. You should be as a pipe for any wind to play upon. “I cannot see the wit,” says Hazlitt, “of walking and talking at the same time. When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country” — which is the gist of all that can be said upon the matter. There should be no cackle of voices at your elbow, to jar on the meditative silence of the morning. And so long as a man is reasoning he cannot surrender himself to that fine intoxication that comes of much motion in the open air, that begins in a sort of dazzle and sluggishness of the brain, and ends in a peace that passes comprehension. According to the passage, what is the primary purpose of a walking tour?

Q.1116Miscellaneous2024Easy

Consider the following statements : I. 61 divides 107^100 - 76^100 II. 100 divides 67^5 + 33^5 Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?

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UPSC Prelims Miscellaneous Questions

These sentences has a word/words underlined. Read the sentence carefully and find which word class the underlined word/words belongs to. Indicate your responses on the Answer Sheet accordingly. Consequently , this poses a threat to agriculture and human health.

‘ Deify ’ 1. To treat someone in high office with utmost reverence 2. Worship or treat someone as a god

‘ Raconteur ’ 1. Someone who is capable of telling stories in an interesting manner 2. Somebody who believes in only telling tall tales

‘ Emasculate ’ 1. Making someone strong and powerful 2. Increase one’s musculature

The visiting school children circumnavigated around the Dal Lake with visible delight during their visit to Srinagar.

A cone, a hemisphere and a cylinder stand on equal base of radius r and have the same height. If the sum of volumes of cone, the hemisphere and the cylinder is equal to volume of a sphere of radius R, then what is R^3/r^3 equal to?

Consider the following statements : I. 61 divides 107^100 - 76^100 II. 100 divides 67^5 + 33^5 Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?

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