UPSC Prelims Miscellaneous Questions

Q.1441Miscellaneous2024Easy

Directions: Given below are pairs of sentences (S1, S2). Select the co-relationship of the second sentence to the first from among the options (a), (b), (c) and (d), and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. S1: China has made rapid economic strides but at the cost of democracy. S2: India has followed a path towards rapid economic growth, but by abiding by the norms of a democratic polity. The second sentence

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Q.1442Miscellaneous2024Easy

Directions: In the following items, a pair of words is provided. You are required to select the option that most appropriately describes the meaning of both the words and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. 'Complaisant' and 'Complacent'

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Q.1443Miscellaneous2024Easy

Directions: In the following items, a pair of words is provided. You are required to select the option that most appropriately describes the meaning of both the words and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. 'Stationery' and 'Stationary'

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Q.1444Miscellaneous2024Easy

Directions: In the following items, a pair of words is provided. You are required to select the option that most appropriately describes the meaning of both the words and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. 'Masterful' and 'Masterly'

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Q.1445Miscellaneous2024Easy

Directions: In the following items, a pair of words is provided. You are required to select the option that most appropriately describes the meaning of both the words and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. 'Enquiry' and 'Inquiry'

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Q.1446Miscellaneous2024Easy

Directions: Each item in this section consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words/groups of words. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. The hotel room had dingy walls.

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Q.1447Miscellaneous2024Easy

Directions: Each item in this section consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words/groups of words. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. Keshav planned the event with fastidious care.

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Q.1448Miscellaneous2024Easy

Which one of the following resolutions in the final agreement reached at COP28 is associated with the target of achieving ‘Net Zero by 2050’ ?

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Q.1449Miscellaneous2024Easy

Directions: Each item in this section consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words/groups of words. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. Justice prevailed and the murderer was decapitated.

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Q.1450Miscellaneous2024Easy

Directions: Each item in this section consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words/groups of words. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. Winning the World Cup was the most exhilarating moment for the Indian cricket team.

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Q.1451Miscellaneous2024Easy

Which one of the following statements about ‘INS Tarmugli’ is not correct ?

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Q.1452Miscellaneous2024Easy

Directions: Each item in this section consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words/groups of words. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. Her left leg was paralysed due to a debilitating disease.

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Q.1453Miscellaneous2024Easy

Consider the following statements : I. tan50° - cot50° is positive II. cot25° - tan25° is negative Which of the statements is/are correct ?

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Q.1454Miscellaneous2024Easy

Directions: In this section, you have two short passages. After each passage, you will find some items based on the passage. Read the passage carefully and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based solely on the contents of the passage and the opinion of the author, and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question : When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat. He must learn them again. He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed-love and honour and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. Until he does so, he labours under a curse. He writes not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories without hope and, worst of all, without pity or compassion. His griefs grieve on no universal bones, leaving no scars. He writes not of the heart but of the glands. Until he relearns these things, he will write as though he stood among and watched the end of man. I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure that when the last dingdong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there I will still be one more sound : that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe man will not merely endure : he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice. According to the author, the end of man is untenable because

Q.1455Miscellaneous2024Easy

The Ministry of Defence, Government of India, has declared 2025 as the year of:

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Q.1456Miscellaneous2024Easy

Directions: Each item in this section has a sentence with three underlined parts, labelled as (a), (b) and (c). Read each sentence to determine 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). These equipments (a)/ must have (b)/ cost a fortune. (c)/ No error (d)

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Q.1457Miscellaneous2024Easy

Bald eagle has recently been officially declared as the national bird of which one among the following countries?

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Q.1458Miscellaneous2024Easy

What is an interactive combination of text, graphics, video, audio, and images termed as?

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UPSC Prelims Miscellaneous Questions

Directions: In the following items, a pair of words is provided. You are required to select the option that most appropriately describes the meaning of both the words and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. 'Complaisant' and 'Complacent'

Directions: In the following items, a pair of words is provided. You are required to select the option that most appropriately describes the meaning of both the words and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. 'Stationery' and 'Stationary'

Directions: In the following items, a pair of words is provided. You are required to select the option that most appropriately describes the meaning of both the words and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. 'Masterful' and 'Masterly'

Directions: In the following items, a pair of words is provided. You are required to select the option that most appropriately describes the meaning of both the words and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. 'Enquiry' and 'Inquiry'

Directions: Each item in this section consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words/groups of words. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. The hotel room had dingy walls.

Directions: Each item in this section consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words/groups of words. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. Keshav planned the event with fastidious care.

Which one of the following resolutions in the final agreement reached at COP28 is associated with the target of achieving ‘Net Zero by 2050’ ?

Directions: Each item in this section consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words/groups of words. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. Justice prevailed and the murderer was decapitated.

Which one of the following statements about ‘INS Tarmugli’ is not correct ?

Consider the following statements : I. tan50° - cot50° is positive II. cot25° - tan25° is negative Which of the statements is/are correct ?

The Ministry of Defence, Government of India, has declared 2025 as the year of:

Bald eagle has recently been officially declared as the national bird of which one among the following countries?

What is an interactive combination of text, graphics, video, audio, and images termed as?

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