50 questions from the UPSC 2008 examination.
50 questions
A person is sitting in a car which is at rest. The reaction from the road at each of the four wheels of the car is R. When the car runs on a straight level road, how will the reaction at either of the front wheels vary?
What is the purpose of the US Space Agency's Themis Mission, which was recently in the news?
What is the pH level of blood of a normal person?
How can the height of a person who is six feet tall be expressed (approximately) in nanometres?
Which of the following pairs are correctly matched? Institute — Location 1. National Centre for Cell Science : Mysore 2. Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics : Hyderabad 3. National Brain Research Centre : Gurgaon Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Assertion (A): In human body, liver has an important role in fat digestion. Reason (R): Liver produces two important fat-digesting enzymes.
Consider the following statements about probiotic food: 1. Probiotic food contains live bacteria which are considered beneficial to humans. 2. Probiotic food helps in maintaining gut flora. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Mixture of which one of the following pairs of gases is the cause of occurrence of most of the explosions in mines?
What is Agent Orange?
In order of their distances from the Sun, which of the following planets lie between Mars and Uranus?
Which one of the following is also called Stranger Gas?
In which one of the following locations is the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project to be built?
There are two identical red, two identical black and two identical white balls. In how many different ways can the balls be placed in the cells (each cell to contain one ball) shown above such that balls of the same colour do not occupy any two consecutive cells?
A schoolteacher has to select the maximum possible number of different groups of 3 students out of a total of 6 students. In how many groups any particular student will be included?
March 1, 2008 was Saturday. Which day was it on March 1, 2002?
Consider the following statements: 1. A widely used musical scale called diatonic scale has seven frequencies. 2. The frequency of the note Sa (स) is 256 Hz and that of Ni (नी) is 512 Hz. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Who among the following discovered heavy water?
With which one of the following is BRIT (Government of India) engaged?
Which one of the following is an insectivorous plant?
How many different triangles are there in the figure shown above?
What is the number of terms in the series 117, 120, 123, 126, ..., 333?
Who among the following scientists shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with his son?
From which one of the following did India buy the Barak anti-missile defence systems?
What are Rubies and Sapphires chemically known as?
In which one of the following kinds of organisms is the phenomenon found wherein the female kills the male after copulation?
A person purchases 100 pens at a discount of 10%. The net amount of money spent by the person to purchase the pens is Rs 600. The selling expenses incurred by the person are 15% on the net cost price. What should be the selling price for 100 pens in order to earn a profit of 25%?
In how many different ways can four books A, B, C and D be arranged one above another in a vertical order such that the books A and B are never in continuous position?
There are 6 different letters and 6 correspondingly addressed envelopes. If the letters are randomly put in the envelopes, what is the probability that exactly 5 letters go into the correctly addressed envelopes?
In how many different ways can all of 5 identical balls be placed in the cells shown above such that each row contains at least 1 ball?
Which of the following pairs is/are correctly matched? Theory/Law — Associated Scientist 1. Continental Drift : Edwin Hubble 2. Expansion of Universe : Alfred Wegener 3. Photoelectric Effect : Albert Einstein Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Assertion (A): Radio waves bend in a magnetic field. Reason (R): Radio waves are electromagnetic in nature.
Assertion (A): In the visible spectrum of light, red light is more energetic than green light. Reason (R): The wavelength of red light is more than that of green light.
Carpenter A can make a chair in 6 hours, carpenter B in 7 hours and carpenter C in 8 hours. If each carpenter works for 8 hours per day, how many chairs will be made in 21 days?
Selene-1, the lunar orbiter mission belongs to which one of the following?
Nobel Prize–winning scientist James D. Watson is known for his work in which area?
In the context of the Indian defence, what is ‘Dhruv’?
Which one of the following is the correct sequence in respect of the Roman numerals—C, D, L and M?
What is Bisphenol A (BPA)?
Which one of the following is a spacecraft?
Which one of the following pairs of metals constitutes the lightest metal and the heaviest metal, respectively?
Which one of the following laser types is used in a laser printer?
In the year 2007, an earthquake led to massive radioactive water leakage in the largest nuclear plant in the world. In which country did it occur?
Among the following, which one lays eggs and does not produce young ones directly?
In the series AABABCABCDABCDE... which letter occupies the 100th position?
Where was the first desalination plant in India to produce one lakh litres freshwater per day based on low temperature thermal desalination principle commissioned?
ISRO successfully conducted a rocket test using cryogenic engines in the year 2007. Where is the test-stand used for the purpose, located?
Which of the following pairs is/are correctly matched? 1. Francis Collins — Mapping human genome 2. Sergey Brin : Google Search Engine 3. Jimmy Wales — Wikipedia Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Norman Ernest Borlaug who is regarded as the father of the Green Revolution in India is from which country?
In an examination, 70% of the students passed in the Paper I, and 60% of the students passed in the Paper II. 15% of the students failed in both the papers while 270 students passed in both the papers. What is the total number of students?
Consider the following statements in respect of a jet engine and a rocket: 1. A jet engine uses the surrounding air for its oxygen supply and so is unsuitable for motion in space. 2. A rocket carries its own supply of oxygen in the gas form, and fuel. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?