KPSC Mock - 2 (Paper - I)

Veddas are indigenous people of Sri Lanka, an island country in the Indian Ocean.

The correct answer is (4). 

The correct answer is (1). 

The correct answer is (2). 

Raja Jai Singh was not amongst the Navratans at Akbar's court. He was the king of Jaipur Riyasat and not contemporary of Akbar.

Option (3) is not correctly matched.

If Aravalli ranges were from East to West, the western Rajasthan would never have been a desert.

The most densely populated African country is Uganda. The density of Uganda is 165.4 (inh./km²).

Between New York and San Francisco ports, Panama Canal shortens the distance to the maximum extent.

India is connected to Australia through Malacca Strait.

The Limpopo crosses the Tropic of Capricorn twice. It separates South Africa from Botswana and Zimbabwe.

The most effective crop in controlling soil erosion is pigeon pea.

Ajanta mountain range is a short mountain range which spreads within Maharashtra. Aravalli mountain range spreads in western India and eastern Pakistan. Satpura range is a mountain range that starts from the state of Gujarat and extends to Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra.

The Palghat Gap serves inland communication from Madurai to Thiruvananthapuram.

Arunachal Pradesh

Cyclone occurs in the Bay of Bengal.

Option (3) is the correct answer. 

Jaduguda mines are famous for uranium deposits.

Ankaleshwar in India is known for the production of petroleum.

Forest Research Institute is located in Dehradun.

The new addition in the temple architecture introduced by the Vijaynagar rulers was Kalyana Mandapa.

(1) Nanotechnology is also called carbon engineering.
(2) Yes, nanotechnology is useful in destroying tumors of cancer. A nanoshell of 100 nm diameter floating through the body will be able to get attached only to cancerous cells, which, upon excitation by a laser beam, will dissipate heat and destroy the tumor.

The first sermon of Buddha was called the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta.

Brick platforms used for granaries are seen in the excavation at Lothal.

GSAT-10 is an Indian communication satellite which was launched by Ariane-5ECA carrier rocket in 2012. GSAT-10 augments telecommunication, direct-to-home and radio navigation services. It is ISRO's 101^st space mission.

1. Nokia is a Finnish multinational communications and information technology corporation headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, Finland.

2. Samsung is a South Korean multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul.
3. Motorola is an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois.
4. HTC is a Taiwanese manufacturer of smartphones and tablets.

The Bengali weekly published by Raja Mohan Roy was Sambad Kaumudi.

Peshwa Baji Rao II was the first among the Maratha leaders to sign a Subsidiary Alliance Treaty with the British.

In India, we have the Supreme Court at the centre and the High Courts next to it in the states. Therefore, the High Courts are next to the Supreme Court and hence, they are immediate subordinates.

The Estimates Committee, constituted for the first time in 1950, is a Parliamentary Committee consisting of 30 members, elected every year by the Lok Sabha from amongst its members.

Mandamus literally means 'command'. Therefore, when it is issued, it commands a public authority or officer to do or not to do something which is in the nature of his/her public duty.

The Gram Panchayat can be established for a village having a population of more than 750. The villages having lesser population are placed under Group Gram Panchayat.

As of November 2012, the installed capacity of wind power in India is 18,321 MW, mainly spread across Tamil Nadu (7134 MW), Gujarat (2884 MW), Maharashtra (2310.70 MW), Karnataka (1730.10 MW) and Rajasthan (1524.70 MW).

Correct answer is (4).  

Correct answer is (4).  

Sales Tax is the principal source of revenue to the State Government in India.

All of the given points are included in the list of duties of Chief Minister in relation to the Governor, except statement 3. It is one of the discretionary powers of the Governor to acknowledge that the government of the State cannot be carried in accordance with the provisions of the constitution and to inform the President regarding the same fact.

There are a total of 69 subjects in the State List, all of which are exclusive legislative powers of the State. Some of the subjects enlisted in the State list are as follows:
Public order and police
State taxes and duties
Agriculture
Sanitation
Local governments
Forests
Fisheries
Public Health
Education, which was originally a State subject, was transferred to the Concurrent List by the 42^nd Amendment.

The Right to Property, which was earlier a fundamental right, is now contained in Part XII.

The 42^nd Amendment changed the description of India from a "sovereign democratic republic" to a "sovereign, socialist, secular and democratic republic" and also changed the words "unity of the nation" to "unity and integrity of the nation".

44^th Amendment Act

Statement 1 is wrong: The idea of a Constituent Assembly was, for the first time, put forward by M. N. Roy, a pioneer of communist movement in India in 1934. Mr. B. N. Rau was the advisor to the Constituent Assembly. 
Statement 2 is correct: The total strength of the Assembly was 389. Out of these, 296 seats were allotted to the British India and 92 seats to Princely states.
Statement 3 is wrong: The Constituent Assembly was a partly elected (indirectly) and partly nominated body.

The correct chronological order of the given events is:

1. Bengal Famine - 1943
2. Rajaji Formula - September 1944
3. Wavell Plan - 14^th June, 1945
4. Shimla Conference - 25^th June, 1945

The correct chronological order of the events given is:
B. RIN Mutiny - 18^th February, 1946
A. Arrival of Cabinet Mission - 14^th March, 1946
C. First Session of the Constituent Assembly – 9^th December, 1946
D. Adoption of the slogan ‘Divide and Rule’ by Muslim League – December 1946 (Karachi Session) 

Each veda has several Brahmanas attached to it. For example:
1. Rigveda: Kaushetki and Aitreya
2. Yajurveda: Taitriya and Shatpatha
3. Samveda: Panchvish and Jemineya

Correct answer is 4. 

Correct answer is 1. 

Correct answer is 3. 

Correct answer is 2. 

Correct answer is 4. 

In Indian law, Public Interest Litigation is a litigation for the protection of the public interest. The concept of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) is in consonance with the objects enshrined in Article 39A of the Constitution of India to protect and deliver prompt social justice with the help of law. 
Justice P. N. Bhagwati introduced the concept of Public Interest Litigation in India.

Article 21 declares that no citizen can be denied his life and liberty, except by law. This means that a person's life and personal liberty can only be disputed if that person has committed a crime. However, the right to life does not include the right to die and hence, suicide or an attempt thereof is an offence.

The Indian Air Force is divided into five operational and two functional commands. Each command is headed by an Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief with the rank of Air Marshal. The Eastern Air Command is headquartered at Shillong and Southern Air Command at Thiruvananthapuram.

The king during the Maurya period was assisted by a council of advisors styled the Parishad or the Mantri Parishad. There were also bodies of trained officials (nikaya) who looked after the ordinary affairs of the realm.

The correct option is (3).

Correct answer is (4). 

Correct answer is (3). 

Banabhatta was the court poet of Harshavardhana.

Correct answer is (1).

Correct answer is (4). 

Correct answer is (2).

Correct answer is (3).

Correct answer is (3).

The Pong Dam is indeed constructed on the Beas River in Himachal Pradesh, India. It's one of the highest earthfill dams and creates the Gobind Sagar Lake. The dam is used for hydroelectric power generation and irrigation, making it a significant infrastructure project in the region.

Correct answer is (2). 

Correct answer is (2). 

Correct answer is (1). 

Correct answer is (1). 

Correct answer is (4). 

Correct answer is (4). 

Correct answer is option (3). 

Correct answer is (4). 

Correct answer is (1). 

Correct answer is (3). 

Carnatic War was fought between the English and the French.

The reason for the unpopularity of Kabir among the Orthodox section was his liberal philosophies.

Shivaji was the patriarch of the mighty Marathas and he was enthroned in 1674. The Marathas waged a longish war against the Mughals for 27 years from 1671 to 1707. Further, they successfully continued fighting against the Mughals until the Third Anglo-Maratha War (1805-1818), which left them vanquished.

As per the Articles 352, 356 and 360 in the Constitution of India, the President of India has been given extraordinary power to declare emergency to meet any kind of threat to the country. Those powers to the President of India in the constitution are called emergency provisions.

1. Rosewood is a common species of tropical rainforests.
2. Khair is a common species of thorn and scrub forests.
3. Acacia is a common species of tropical dry deciduous forests.
4. Teak is a common species of tropical moist deciduous forests.

Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy was the sixth and the youngest ever President of India, serving from 1977 to 1982. Over the course of a long political career, he held several key offices, as the first and two-time Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and a two-time Speaker of the Lok Sabha and Union Minister. He remains the only person to be elected to the office of the President of India unopposed.

A xerophyte is a species of plant that has adapted to survive in an arid environment, such as a desert.
Hydrophytes are plants that have adapted to living in or on aquatic environments because living on or under water surface requires numerous special adaptations. Aquatic plants can only grow in water or permanently saturated soil.
Mesophytes are terrestrial plants which are adapted to neither a particularly dry nor a particularly wet environment.
Tropophytes are plants that are adapted to climatic conditions in which periods of abundant precipitation alternate with periods of dryness.

Both of the above given statements are correct.

Rs. 5 lakh cash prize is given to the winner of Jnanpith Award.

Vatican city is the world's smallest city. It area is 0.44 sq. km only.

The phase of the business cycle when the economy moves from a trough to a peak

The National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS) is located in the midst of academically-enriched environment of University of Pune campus, Pune. It is an autonomous institute under the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India.

Lt. Colonel Eileen Collins was the first woman astronaut to pilot a space shuttle.

Growing viruses in cell cultures allow preparation of purified viruses for the manufacture of vaccines. The injectable polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk was one of the first products mass-produced using cell culture techniques. This vaccine was made possible by the cell culture research of John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller and Frederick Chapman Robbins, who were awarded a Nobel Prize for their discovery of a method of growing the virus in monkey kidney cell cultures.

Statement (i) is correct. Yes, The Indian Underwater Robotics Society or (IURS) is India's first NGO for the advancement of low-cost robotics and intelligent systems research in developing countries.
Statement (ii) is also correct. For an STM, a good resolution is considered to be 0.1 nm lateral resolution and 0.01 nm depth resolution.

Correct option is (1).

Correct answer is (4). 

Correct answer is (4). 

Yellow Revolution is related to the production of oilseeds.

Option (2) is the correct answer.

Correct answer is (3).

Correct answer is (2).

Introduction of a swiftly moving artillery was not a constituent of the army reforms of Sher Shah.

1. Deep in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica, scientists have discovered 23 new animal species living in the hot, dark environment around hydrothermal vents, which is the most recently found ecosystem. A hydrothermal vent is a fissure in a planet's surface from which geothermally heated water is issued. Hydrothermal vents are commonly found near volcanically active places, areas where tectonic plates are moving apart, ocean basins and hotspots.
2. Any water in a sea or lake that is neither close to the bottom nor near the shore can be said to be in the pelagic zone. Animals living at the bottom of the sea are known as benthic.
3. Gradual and predictable change in the species composition of a given area is referred to as ecological succession.