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between (a) Dibrugarh to Kanyakumari (b) Srinagar to Kanyakumari (e) Amritsar to Kanyakumari (d) None of the above 14. City of palaces is (a) Amritsar (b) Bhopal (c) Madurai (d) Kolkata 15. National Science day is celebrated on November 28' August 24 June 27' February 28" 16. Neyveli in Tamil Nadu is famous for Glass bangles Lignite Tobacco None of the above 17. Jabalpur lies on the banks of river (a) Narmada (b) Tapi (d) Kaveri (c) Krishna 18. Match the following statements correctly i.JimYong Kim Kamlesh Sharma Saheer Abbas Christine Lagarde IMF, Chief World Bank, President Common Wealth, SecretaryGeneral ICC, President i-a, ii, iii-d, iv-b i-b, ic, iii-a, iv-d i-b, ii-c, iii-d, iv-a i-d, ic, i-a, iv-b 19. Which National Highway is from Delhi to Amritsar? (a) NIl 1 (b) Nil 3 (d)NH7 (c)NH5 20. Which of the following International Organization doesn't have head quarters at Geneva? (a) WFO (b) ILO (c) WHO (d) NATO 21. Talcher Super Thermal Power Plant is at. (a) West Bengal (b) Jharkand (c) Odisha (d) Bihar 22. Vijay Ghat is the rest place of Moraiji Desai Charan Sing Lal Bahadur Shastri Sardar Vallabhai Patel 23. Who founded the Mughal Dynasty defeating the Afghans under Ibrahim Lodhi in the First battle of Panipat? (b) Babar (a) Akbar (c) Humayun (d) None of the above 24. 'Towards Freedom' is an autobiography of IKG.tjral Jawahar Lal Nehru P V Narasimha Rao Lal Bahadur Shastri 25. Money bill can be introduced in Rajya Sabha Lok Sabha Grama Sabha All of the above 26. The first Chairman of UPSC is Sir Ross Barker Rose Milen Bathew E K Velayudhan H K Kripalini 27. Who was awarded the

fllOCØôO Confucius Peace Prize 2015? Barack Obama Pranab Mukhaiee Robert Mugabe Sachin Tendulkar 28. The country's prestigious DRDO missile complex is renamed as Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Missile Complex on his 84th Birth anniversary. In which of the following city is DRDO Missile complex situated Hyderabad Sriharikotta Vishakhapatnam Bangalore 29. Which was the first European country to sign MoU for the establishment of Nalanda University? (a) Portugal (b) Spain (c) Germany (d) Italy 30. Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu recently announced that the railways would soon start country's first ever double decker Shatabdi Express that would ply between Agra Mumbai Mumbai Goa Goa Manipal Manipal Kolkata 31. The 2015 United Nations Climate change conference was held in which city (a) Paris (b) Geneva (c) Basel (d) London 32. Which of the following International Organization was chosen for the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2015? United Nations Children's Fund United Nations iligh Commissioner for Refugees World Health Organization United Nations Human Rights Council 33. The software package known as "India's own PC Operating System" is BOSS GNU! Linux IBM-AIX Unix Mint GNU! Linux 34. World's fastest Super Computer is Param 8000 CDC 6600 Param Yuva II Tianhe-2 35. First computer virus for MS DOS Apple Brain Elk Cloner None of the above 36. The process of converting an element into another by radioactive decay or nuclear bombardment is called Nuclear Fusion Mutation Transmutation Nuclear Radiation 37. The waves used in SONAR to detect the depth of sea is Ultrasonic waves Radio waves Infrared rays liv Rays 38. Selenolo' is the study of the -

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Moon and its nature Element Selenium Physics of earth None of the above 39. Antibiotics cannot cure the disease (a) Cholera (b) Leprosy (c) Tetanus (d) Measles 40. Which hormone when secreted increases the heart beat and produces a feeling of excitement? (a) Testosterone (b) Insulin (c) Cortisone (d) Adrenalin 41. The organism which has a role in converting nitrates to free Nitrogen? Pseudomonas Nitrosomonas Rhizobium None of the above 42. Which of the following disease is not caused by bacteria? (a) Pneumonia (b) Rabies (c) Tetanus (d) Cholera 43. The fundamental unit of heredity is (a) DNA (b) Chromosome (c) Cell (d) Gene 44. The ray which has no charge is (a) Cathode rays (b) X Rays (c) Alpha rays (d) Beta rays 45. The process of electroplating involves Electrolysis Osmosis Dialysis Decomposition 46. Trinitrotoluene is mainly used as (a) Fertilizer (b) Insecticide (c) Fungicide (d) Explosive 47. The boiling point of water on Kelvin scale of temperature is (b) lOOK (a) 273K (c) 373K (d) -273K 48. If there is no atmosphere, the length of day will (a) Increase (b) Decrease Remains unchanged None of the above 49. The failure of light to travel strictly in a straight line is known as (a) Diffraction (b) Refraction (c) Polarization (d) Dispersion 50. Cryogenic Engines find its main application in Submarine propulsion Frost free refrigerators Super conductivity Rocket technology Directions (Q 51-55). Rearrange the following six sentences (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the questions given below them. He was confident they would win but his men were in doubt, so he took out a coin, tossed it and said, "If it is heads we shall win". General Washington was responsible for America gaining independence. After the battle his lieutenant said, "Sir, no one can change destiny". During one momentous battle the general decided to attack the enemy although his army

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Ink: Pen Garbage: Dustbin Lead: Pencil Petrol: Car Find the odd one out from the given alternatives? (a) AYBZ (b) BXCY (d) MPON (c) DVEW In each of the following questions, there are groups of letters/number. One of these groups is different from the other groups. Find out the different groups? (a) ACEGI (b) SUWYA (c) LJNPR (d) BDFHJ If MIND becomes KGLB then what will be code for DIAGRAM (a) GLPEYKB (b) BGYEPYK (c) LKBGYPK (d) GYPYEK If CONSCIOUSLY is written as PEBNPJEXNKM, then SOIL is written as? (a) NEKJ (b) NEJK (c) JENK (d) ENJK Directions: (Q. 72-73): Find out suitable group of letters which is sequentially placed shall complete the series. a a b a a b a baa b a (a)aababa (b)ababba (c)bbbabb (d)babaab -nmmn-mmnn-mnn in (a)nmmn (b)mmnn (c)mnmn (d)nnmm Directions: (Q. 74-77): Find the missing number / letter from the given series: cx, fu, ir _________, ol, ri (a) lo (b) 01 (c) kp (d) pk BL4, CM9, DN16, FP36, GQ49 (a) EP 25 (b) EO 25 (c) OE 25 (d) PE 25 2, 2, 4, 6, , 10, 8, 14, 10, 18, 12 (a)8 (b)7 (c)6 (d)5 77.-1,1,4,9,16,_,40 (b) 36 (a) 25 (c) 33 (d) 27 Sangeeth starts from his home and go two kilometers straight. Then he turns towards his right and go one kilometer. He turns again towards his right and go one kilometer again. If he is north from his house then in which direction did he go in the beginning? (a) South (b) North (c) West (d) East Anoop is nineteenth from the front in a column of boys. There were thrice as many behind him as there were in front. How many boys are there between Anoop and Eleventh boy from the end of the column? (a) 32 (b) 43 (c) 25 (d) 26 Pointing towards a picture, a lady said, "She is the mother of Pooja whose mothers husband is my husband's son". How is Pooja's mother related to the husband of that lady? (a) Mother (b) Sister Daughter Daughter in law

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