UPSC(PT) GENERAL STUDIES SAMPLE QUESTIONS 2008

1. Maximum Wheat – producing State in India is –
(a) Punjab
(b) Uttar Pradesh
(c) Madhya Pradesh
(d) Haryana
2. Which among the following bodies recommends MSP (Minimum Support Price) for the crops in India?
(a) FCI (Food Corporation of India)
(b) RBI (Reserve Bank of India)
(c) Ministry of Agriculture
(d) CACP (Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices)
3. Which of the following sectors of Indian Economy contributes highest in the Gross Saving in India?
(a) Public Sector (b) Private Sector (c) Household Sector (d) Services Sector
4. This sports marketing and celebrity management agency is founded by Mahesh Bhupati. Name the company.
(a) ICONIX (b) Percept D’Mark (c) 9 yards (d) Globosports
5. Carlos Ghosn, who recently visited India, is chairman of
(a) Suzuki Motors (b) Nissan renault (c) Fiat Auto (d) Diamler
6. Before Independence various plans were prepared for the purpose of long-term economic development of India. Match the following in relation to it.
List-I
(Plans)
A. National Planning Committee
B Bombay Plan
C. Gandhian Plan
D. Peoples Plan
List – II
(Propounders)
1. Indian National Congress
2. Loading Industrialist
3. Shriman Narayan
4. M.N.Roy
Select the code:
A B C D
(a) 4 3 2 1
(b) 1 3 2 4
(c) 2 1 4 3
(d) 1 4 3 2
7. After 25 years in the making, European Space Agency’s 2 billion laboratory is set for launch to the international Space Station. Once operational Europe’s first permanent base in space is expected to double the research capacity of the ISS. The name of science laboratory is
(a) British Laboratory (b) European Laboratory
(c) European union Laboratory (d) Columbus Laboratory
8. According to the world conservation union (IUCN) how many tree species have been put on its ‘Red List of Threatened Plants Species 2007” as being critically endangered across india?
(a) 14 (b) 24 (c) 45 (d) 55
9. Famous Hollywood studio Sony Pictures Entertain ment has tied up with which company to co-invest in Indian movies?
(a) Yash Raj Studio (b) RK Studio (c) Eros International (d) Adlab
10. KP Singh is the chairman of
(a) DLF (b) Sanmar (c) GMR (d) Gujarat Ambuja
11. Researches stressed that moderate exposure to sunlight did not significantly raise the risk of the most serious form of skin cancer, called
(a) Caricinoma (b) Melanoma (c) Ceratonoma (d) Carcoma
12. Organic Compounds containing carbon and hydrogen form the building blocks of all life on Earth. Now, scientist have found the same on
(a) Mars (b) Mercury (c) Venus (d) Jupiter
13. Match the following organisations with their headquarters.
List-I
(Organisations)
(a). WTO (b) World Bank (c) ADB (d) TLO
List-II
(Headquarters)
(1) Washington (2) Geneva (3) Manila (4) Rome
Select the code
A B C D
(a) 2 1 3 4
(b) 1 2 3 4
(c) 3 2 1 4
(d) 4 1 2 3
14. National Rural Employment Act, 2005, was launched with merging which of the existing scheme?
(a) JRY and Indra Avas Yojna
(b) Sampoorna Gramin Rozgar Yojna and National Food for Work Programme
(c) Swarnjayant Swarozgar Yojna and JRY
(d) JRY and Sidra
15. Consider the following:
I. Parkinson's disease affects around 120,000 people in Britain, with 10,000 new Case diagnosed each year.
II. The disease is caused by a loss of nerve cells in one part of the brain.
III. The cells release a chemical called dopamine, which allows messages to be sent to parts of the brain that coordinate movement.
Select the Code:
(a) Only I and II are correct (b) Only I and III are correct
(c) Only II and III are correct (d) All are correct
16. Zoological Survey of India recently claimed the discovery of a new species of legless amphibian named Gegeneophis mhadeiensis, from marshy habitat in
(a) Northern Karnataka (b) Northern Andhra Pradesh
(c) Northern Kerala (d) Northern Tamil Nadu
17. Which among the following countries is the largest trading partner of India in the world?
(a) USA (b) Germany (c) China (d) Canada
18. Retailing chains, Trent and Westside are promoted by
(a) DLF (b) Future ghroup (c) Aditya Birla group (d) Tata group
19 Which country has adopted the family planing programmes 1952 for the first time in the world?
(a) China (b) U.S.A (c) India (d) Australia
20 Who among the following awarded the first K. Subrahmanyam Award for Excellence in Strategic Studies?
(a) Sudha Mahalingam (b) Vijay Singh (c) N.S. Sisodia (d) Deepak Patel
21. Which of the following statement is not correct?
(a) For the first time, no Indian university figures in Britain’s most authoritative league table of the world’s top 200 universities.
(b) While China is in with six universities revealing a wide gap in higher educational standards between the two competing Asian giants.
(c) Other Asian countries with world-class universities are Japan, Singapore, Hong – Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea
(d) The survey covers 50 countries of the world.
22. The Government had set up an Expert Group on Agricultural Indebtedness in wake of farmers suicide in cotton growing areas in the country under the chairmanship of -
(a) Dr. Bimal Jalan (b) Dr. R. Radhakrishnan
(c) Dr. C. Ranyrajan (d) Rakesh mohan
23. Who among the following Indian Entrepreneurs has been named as the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the year 2007?
(a) Azim Premji (b) Mukesh Ambani (c) B. Ramalinga Raju (d) Ratan Tata
24. Vedanta the Alminium major company of India was earlier known as -
(a) Nalco (b) Hindalco (c) Sail (d) Balco
25. Match the following:
Column-I Column-ii
A. Logitech i. India
B. Wockhard ii. Switzerland
C. Blackstone iii. US
D. HSBC iv UK
Choose the answer from the choices given below:
(a) A-i, B-ii, C-iv, D-iii (b) A-I, B-ii, C-iii, D-iv (c) A-ii, B-I, C-iii, D-iv (d) A-iv, B-I, C-ii, D-iii
26. US–based Gap Inc, the world’s largest speciality retail chain, owns some of the most recognized apparel brand in the world. The brands owned by it are
(a) GAP (b) Banana Republic (c) Burberry (d) Old Navy (e) Piperlime (f) Gas
Choose the answer from the choices given below:
(a) (a), (b) and (c) (b) (a), (b) and (f) (c) (a), (b), (e) (d) (a), (b), (d), (e)
27. This Indian businessman has recently made it to the Forbes list of richest Americans. He happens to be the founder director of Google. Who is he?
(a) Shantanu Narayen (b) Kavitark Ram Shriram
(c) Bharat Desai (d) Vinod Khosla
28. Laffer curve is related to –
(a) Tax collection (b) Employment (c) Consumption (d) National Income
29. Which of the following statement is correct about Red Ribbon Express?
(a) It is the world’s largest Mobilization drive and marks a significant step forward in the fight against the HIV epidemic in India.
(b) It is the world’s largest mass mobilization drive and marks a significant step forward in the fight against the Polio epidemic in India.
(c) It marks a significant step forward in the fight against the HIV epidemic in the world.
(d) It marks a significant step forward in the fight against the Polio epidemic in the world.
30. Which one of the following Estimates the National Income of India?
(a) RBI (b) Finance Commission (c) CSO (d) Planning Commission
31. He was the commercial operations head of Hong Kong- headquartered PepsiCo Asia-pacific. He was recently quit the company. Till a year ago, he was the chairman of PepsiCo’s ndia opertions. The man in the qetin is
(a) Rajeev Bakshi (b) PM Sinha (c) S. Gopalkrishnan (d) Raj Singh
32. Promethean India, a private equity firms, is manged by the Burmans family of
(a) Dabur (b) Essar (c) Merico (d) Nirma
33. Consider the followings:
I. India is down to 128 on the HDI in 2007 after sliding two notches.
II. India ranked 62 among 108 developing countries on poverty index.
III. India’s present HDI of 0.619 is above South Asia average (0.611) and below developing counties average (0.691)
Select the Code:
(a) Only I and II are correct (b) Only I and III are correct
(c) Only II and III are correct (d) All are correct
34. Who among the following won the Miss World 2007 title, held recently in Hainan Province of China?
(a) Miss China Zhang Zhi Li (b) Miss Angola Michaela Reis
(c) Miss Mexico Carolina Moran Gordillo (d) Miss Peru Maria Julia Mantilla
35. Which of the following countries has hosted one of the biggest events of energy-rich African nations’ two day summit?
(a) Egypt (b) India (c) Cuba (d) Nigeria
36. Who among the following has been sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan?
(a) Shaukat Aziz (b) Yousuf Raza Gillani
(c) Nawaz Sharif (d) Pervez musharraf
37.. Match the following:
List-I
(Awards)
(A) Dayawati Modi Award
(B) Tech Award for Innovation.
(c) International Council of Jurists Awards, 2007
(D) IMSA Honorary Fellowship.
List-II
(Winner)
I. Akbar Padmsee
II. D.R. Mehta
III. Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers
IV. Justice K. Narayan Kurup
Select the Code:
A B C D
(a) I II III IV
(b) II IV I III
(c) IV III II I
(d) III I IV II
38. Britain's astronomers of the Wide Angle Search for Planets have announced the discovery of three new
planets. These are
(a) WASP-1, WASP-2 and WASP-3 (b) WASP-2, WASP-3 and WASP-4
(c) WASP-3, WASP-4 and WASP-5 (d) WASP-4, WASP-5 and WASP-6

ANSWER
1. (b) 2. (d) 3. (c) 4 . (a) 5. (d) 6. (b) 7. (d) 8. (c)
9. (c) 10. (a) 11. (b) 12. (a) 13. (a) 14. (b) 15. (d) 16. (a)
17. (a) 18. (d) 19. (c) 20. (a) 21. (d) 22. (b) 23. (c) 24. (d)
25. (a) 26. (d) 27. (b) 28. (a) 29. (a) 30. (c) 31. (a) 32. (a)
33. (d) 34. (a) 35. (b) 36. (b) 37 (a) 38 (c)