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UPPSC Prelims 2000 (GS Paper I) Question Paper and Solutions (Page 10)

  1. Davis Cup Championship 1999 was won by:

    1. Australia
    2. France
    3. Sweden
    4. United State of America
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  2. "The Congress is tottering to its fall and one of my great ambitions, while in India, is to assist it to a peaceful demise." Who made this statement?

    1. Cripps
    2. Curzon
    3. Dufferin
    4. Irwin
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  3. The lady poet who described the victorious expeditions of her husband in her work "Madhura-Vijaya" was:

    1. Bharati
    2. Gangadevi
    3. Varadambika
    4. Vijjika
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  4. The highest decadal growth rate of population as per the 19912011 Census goes to:

    1. Arunachal Pradesh
    2. Nagaland
    3. Meghalaya
    4. Uttar Pradesh
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  5. Which of the following is not correctly matched:

    1. autotroph–producer
    2. heterotroph–consumer
    3. saprotroph–decomposer
    4. herbivore–secondary consumer
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  6. Among the BIMARU states of India, the most densely populated state is:

    1. Bihar
    2. Rajasthan
    3. Madhya Pradesh
    4. Uttar Pradesh
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  7. Which of the following statement are true about Punjab? Select the correct answer from the code given below the statements:

    I. It is the richest state of India.
    II. It has the highest proportion of S.C. in its total population.
    III. It has reached the replacement level of population.

    Code:

    1. I and II
    2. I and III
    3. II and III
    4. I, II and III
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  8. The age of tree, in years, can be ascertained by:

    1. its weight
    2. its height
    3. the number of its annular rings
    4. length of its root
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  9. Who of the following attacked on Dr. B.R. Ambedkar by saying: "Ambedkar has had his leadership thrust upon him by a benign British Government because his services were necessary to embarrass the Nationalist leaders."

    1. Mahatma Gandhi
    2. Subhash Chandra Bose
    3. Dr. B.S. Moonje
    4. Sir Mirza Ismail
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  10. The first sunrise of the miIlennium-2000 was observed in India at:

    1. Kohima
    2. Koteswar
    3. Katchal
    4. Kavaratti
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