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UPSC Prelims Questions

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Q.9973·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

After a hot sunny day, people sprinkle water on the roof-top because :

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Q.9974·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

A cyclist moves non-stop from A to B, a distance of 14 km, at a certain average speed. If his average speed reduces by 1 km per hour, he takes 20 minutes more to cover the same distance. The original average speed of the cyclist is

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Q.9975·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

A man walking at 5 km/hour noticed that a 225m long train coming in the opposite direction crossed him in 9 seconds. The speed of the train is

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Q.9976·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

Let a two-digit number be k times the sum of its digits. If the number formed by interchanging the digits is m times the sum of the digits, then the value of m is

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Q.9977·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

If a/b = b/c = c/d, then which of the following is/are correct? 1. (b³ + c³ + d³)/(a³ + b³ + c³) = d/a 2. (a² + b² + c²)/(b² + c² + d²) = a/d Select the correct answer using the code given below:

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Q.9978·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

Consider the following statements in respect of two different non-zero integers p and q: 1. For (p + q) to be less than (p – q), q must be negative. 2. For (p + q) to be greater than (p – q), both p and q must be positive. Which of the above statements is/are correct?

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Q.9979·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

The rate of change of momentum of a body is equal to the resultant :

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Q.9980·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

Which of the following pairs of vitamin and disease is / are correctly matched? 1.Vitamin A : Rickets 2.Vitamin B₁ : Beriberi 3.Vitamin C : Scurvy Select the correct answer using the code given below :

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Q.9981·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

Which one of the following is considered as 'good cholesterol' with reference to individuals facing the risk of cardio-vascular diseases and hypertension?

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Q.9982·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

In this question, there is a sentence of which some parts have been jumbled up. You are required to rearrange these parts which are labelled P, Q, R and S to produce the correct sentence. Choose the proper sequence and mark in your Answer Sheet accordingly. a person bitten by a rabid dog (P) would be seized by violent symptoms (Q) after an incubation period of a month or two (R) and die an agonizing death (S) The correct sequence should be

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Q.9983·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

In this question there is 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).

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Q.9984·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

here are five persons in a group — P, Q, R, S and T. The group has one doctor, one lawyer and one artist. P and S are unmarried students. T is a man married to one of the group members. Q is the brother of P and is neither doctor nor artist. R is not doctor. who is the doctor?

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Q.9985·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

The conceptual difficulties in National Income comparisons between underdeveloped and industrialised countries are particularly serious because a part of the national output in various underdeveloped countries is produced without passing through the commercial channels.” In the above statement, the author implies that:

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Q.9986·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

Cylindrical tank: radius = 2 m, height = 7 m Underground tank = 5.5 m × 4 m × 6 m What portion of underground tank is still filled after filling the overhead tank?

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Q.9987·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

Four-digit numbers using 1, 2, 3, 4 with constraints: 2 and 3 are not to follow each other. 1 is not to be immediately followed by 3. 4 is not to be at the last place. 1 is not to appear at the first place. How many different numbers can be formed?

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Q.9988·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

The issue of worldwide supply of food has gained importance mainly because of: 1.Overgrowth of the population worldwide 2.Sharp decline in the area of food production 3.Limitation in the capabilities for sustained supply of food Select the correct answer:

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Q.9989·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

Historically, the biggest challenge to world agriculture has been to achieve a balance between demand for and supply of food. At the level of individual countries, the demand-supply balance can be a critical policy issue for a closed economy, especially if it is a populous economy and its domestic agriculture is not growing sufficiently enough to ensure food supplies, on an enduring basis; it is not so much and not always, of a constraint for an open, and growing economy, which has adequate exchange surpluses to buy food abroad. For the world as a whole, the supply-demand balance is always an inescapable prerequisite for warding off hunger and starvation. However, global balance of adequate supply does not necessarily mean that food would automatically move from countries of surplus to countries of deficit if the latter lack in purchasing power. The worldwide distribution of hunger, starvation, under- or malnourishment, etc., at the world-level, thus owes itself to the presence of empty-pocket hungry mouths, overwhelmingly confined to the underdeveloped economies. Inasmuch as ‘a two-square meal’ is of elemental significance to basic human existence, the issue of worldwide supply of food has been gaining significance, in recent times, both because the quantum and the composition of demand has been undergoing big changes, and because, in recent years, the capabilities of individual countries to generate uninterrupted chain of food supplies have come under strain. Food production, marketing and prices, especially price-affordability by the poor in the developing world, have become global issues that need global thinking and global solutions. According to the above passage, which of the following helps/help in reducing hunger and starvation in developing economies? 1.Balancing demand and supply of food 2.Increasing imports of food 3.Increasing purchasing power of the poor 4.Changing the food consumption patterns and practices

Q.9990·Miscellaneous·2016·Easy

Historically, the biggest challenge to world agriculture has been to achieve a balance between demand for and supply of food. At the level of individual countries, the demand-supply balance can be a critical policy issue for a closed economy, especially if it is a populous economy and its domestic agriculture is not growing sufficiently enough to ensure food supplies, on an enduring basis; it is not so much and not always, of a constraint for an open, and growing economy, which has adequate exchange surpluses to buy food abroad. For the world as a whole, the supply-demand balance is always an inescapable prerequisite for warding off hunger and starvation. However, global balance of adequate supply does not necessarily mean that food would automatically move from countries of surplus to countries of deficit if the latter lack in purchasing power. The worldwide distribution of hunger, starvation, under- or malnourishment, etc., at the world-level, thus owes itself to the presence of empty-pocket hungry mouths, overwhelmingly confined to the underdeveloped economies. Inasmuch as ‘a two-square meal’ is of elemental significance to basic human existence, the issue of worldwide supply of food has been gaining significance, in recent times, both because the quantum and the composition of demand has been undergoing big changes, and because, in recent years, the capabilities of individual countries to generate uninterrupted chain of food supplies have come under strain. Food production, marketing and prices, especially price-affordability by the poor in the developing world, have become global issues that need global thinking and global solutions. According to the above passage, the biggest challenge to world agriculture is:

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