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UPPSC Prelims 2003 (GS Paper I) Question Paper and Solutions (Page 3)

  1. Which one of the following is not correctly matched:

    1. Lord Cornwallis - Permanent Settlement
    2. Lord Wellesley-Subsidiary Alliance System
    3. Lord Hastings - Second Anglo Maratha War
    4. Lord William Bentinck - Regulation XVII of 1829
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  2. Which acid is used in photography:

    1. Formic acid
    2. Oxalic acid
    3. Citric acid
    4. Acetic acid
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  3. Which Sikh Guru helped the rebel prince Khusro with money and blessings:

    1. Guru Hargovind
    2. Guru Govind Singh
    3. Guru Arjun Dev
    4. Guru Tegh Bahadur
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  4. Consider the following statements and select the correct answer from the code given below:

    Assertion (A): Devaluation of a currency may promote export.
    Reason (R): Price of the country’s products in the international market may fall due to devaluation.

    Code:

    1. Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A
    2. Both A and Rare correct but R is not the correct explanation of A
    3. A is correct but R is wrong
    4. A is wrong but R is correct
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  5. Comptroller and Auditor of India appointed by:

    1. President
    2. Speaker of the Lok Sabha
    3. Chairman of the Planning Commission
    4. Finance Minister
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  6. Isotopes are atoms of an element whose:

    1. atomic weight is same, but atomic number is different
    2. atomic weight different, but atomic number same
    3. atomic number and atomic weight are same
    4. none of these
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  7. White mountains are located in:

    1. Canada
    2. Norway
    3. Russia
    4. U.S.A.
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  8. Which of the following statements is not true regarding G. D. M.

    1. It curbs green-house gas emissions
    2. It reduces global warming
    3. The Kyoto protocol suggested it for the assessment of sustainable development
    4. It disallows investment by developed countries in projects of developing countries
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  9. Select the correct order of copper, gold, iron and coal in the following:

    1. Khetri-Kolar-Kudremukh-Jharia
    2. Kolar-Khetri-Kudremukh-Jharia
    3. Jharia-Kolar-Kudremukh-Khetri
    4. Khetri-Kudremukh-Kolar-Jharia
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  10. A prime number x between 10 and 50 remains unchanged if its digits are reversed. Then, the square of such number is:

    1. 121
    2. 484
    3. 1089
    4. 1225
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