WBCS Mains 2014 Paper I Solution

Explanation to the starred Answers are given at the end.

sl	Questions	A	B	C	D	Ans
1	The Hindustan tibet Road connecting Shimla with Gartok in Western Tibet passes through	Shipki La Pass	Zoji La Pass	Thaga La pass	Jelep La pass	A*
2	Sind Sagar Doab is located between the rivers	Chenab and Jhelum	Ravi and Chenab	Beas and Sutlej	Jhelum- Chenab and Indus	D*
3	The Zanskar is one of the main ranges of	The Great Himalayan Systems	The Trans Himalayan Systems	The Central Himalayan Systems	The Middle Himalayan Systems	B
4	Jog Falls is Associated with river	Godavari	Saraswati	Sharavati	Ganga	C*
5	The Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea came into being during	Cretaceous of early tertiary period	Middle or upper pleistocene period	Middle Miocene to lower Pleistocene period	Pleistocene to quaternary period	B
6	The Bhabar is composed of	Old alluvium	New alluvium	Gravel and Unassorted sediments	None of the above	D
7	Bhangar is	Older alluvium	Newer alluvium	Coarse sand	None of the above	A
8	Pat Lands are	Stepped plateau	High level laterite plateau	Flat topped hills	Plateau with isolated hills	B
9	Tarai soils are	Rich in phosphate	Deficient in organic matter	Mature in nature	Rich in nitrogen	D
10	Which ocean deep is located in Indian Ocean?	Murray	Tonga	Sunda	Mariana	C
11	Which statement is not true for monsoon?	Monsoons are large scale seasonal wind system	There is complete reversal of winds	Rhythm is key note of the monsoonal climate	Monsoons are not affected by ENSO	D
12	If the wind forces is in range of Beaufort scale 6 to 12, it is	Tropical Depression	Tropical Storm	Tropical Disturbance	Hurricane	D
13	Silent Valley is located in	Karnataka	Kerala	Himachal Pradesh	Uttarakhand	B
14	Kudremukh National Park is located in	Tamil Nadu	Kerala	Karnataka	Andhra Pradesh	C
15	Which one is not a component / part of Social forestry?	Urban forestry	Agro forestry	Commercial farm forestry	None of the above	D
16	Which one is not an objective of the social forestry?	Securing revenue	Improving aesthetic values	reduction of environmental pollution	To reduce pressure on the traditional forest areas	A
17	In which year the first Forest policy of independent India was declared?	1950	1951	1952	1956	B
18	In India, which type of forest among the following occupies the largest area?	Tropical Moist Deciduous	Montane Wet Temperate	Tropical Dry Deciduous	Tropical Wet Evergreen	C
19	The Little Rann of Kutch is the only home of the	Great Indian Bustard	Black buck	Flamingo	Indian Wild Ass	D
20	The shola grasslands are found in	The Himalayas	The Vindhyas	The Western ghats	The Eastern Ghats	C
21	Wildlife Protection Act was passed in	1970	1972	1980	1986	B
22	Sustainable development was first clearly defined by the	Bruntland Commission	Rio Conference	United Nations	World Bank	A
23	Which year is considered as a year of great divide in the demographic history of India?	1921	1931	1991	2001	A
24	According to 2011 census. Literacy rate in India is	64.83%	65.46%	74.04%	82.14%	C
25	Highest Scheduled caste population is found in	West Bengal	Mizoram	Tripura	Haryana	A
26	Which one of the following states has the lowest sex ratio in 2011?	Punjab	Haryana	Sikkim	Jammu and Kashmir	B
27	In 2011, the number of one million cities in India	23	32	35	42	D
28	Which state or Union territory of India has recorded the highest rate of population growth in the last census (2011)?	Punjab	Kerala	Dadar and Nagar Haveli	Pondichery	C
29	What is the difference of time between GMT and IST?	4 hours	4.30 hours	5.30 hours	6.30 hours	C
30	Which of the following is an example of non renewable energy resource?	Solar	Coal	Methane	Hydroelectric	B
31	The first railway line in India was started in the year	1840	1850	1853	1893	C
32	Which one is not an impact of green revolution on large farmers?	Rapid increase in agricultural productivity	Fast adoption of agricultural innovations and high yielding variety of seeds	Little or no change in consumption	Better standard of life	C
33	Food security involves	Adequate physical availability of food	Reliable and nutritionally adequate supply of food	Timely supply of food	All of the above	D
34	Whittlesey's agricultural systems are based on	Empirical technique	Statistical technique	Normative technique	Qualitative cum Quantitative technique	A
35	For which spice is Kashmir famous?	Cinnamon	Cloves	Saffron	Black Pepper	C
36	To establish the growth of Small enterprise so that they graduate to medium enterprises, a comprehensive act called the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Develoment Act came into force in the year	2006	2000	1994	1,	A
37	Nepanagar in Madhya pradesh is famous for	Textile	Newsprint paper	Hosiery	Vegetable oil	B
38	Which statetment regarding Special Economic Zones is incorrect?	They are duty free enclaves of development	They demand as foreign territories for purpose of trade, duties and tariffs	They are not exempted from the application of labour law	Area is net foreign exchange earner	B
39	First Export Processing zone in India was	Falta	Kandala	Santa Cruz	Surat	B
40	Which one is not a Green house Gas?	Carbon dioxide	Methane	Sulfur Hexafluoride	Hydroxide	D
41	When did India became a member of WTO?	1991	1994	1995	1996	C
42	East Kolkata Wetlands were designed a : Wetlands of international importance'' under the Ramsar Convention in the year	1972	1986	1995	2002	D
43	Laterite soil is not deficient in	Lime	Iron	Organic	Phosphate	B
44	Which is the highest peak in West Bengal?	Sandakfu	Falut	Sabargam	Tonglu	A
45	Which of the following districts of west Bengal has the lowest literacy rate in 2011?	Malda	Murshidabad	Purulia	Uttar Dinajpur	D
46	The approximate percentage of land under forest in west Bengal is	20.50%	13.50%	15.50%	28.50%	B*
47	Which one of the following statements is incorrect?	PMGSY was initiated in 2000	It is a part of rural infrastructure development programme	It is backed by Employment generation programme	It aims to connect all habitation in rural area	C
48	In land use crop intensity model of Ven Thunen's zone of crop farming, fallow and pasture is nearer to the city than	Market gardening and milk production	Fire wood and lumber production	Three field system	Crop farming without fallow	C
49	North- South stretch Hooghly industrial belt is from Bansberia to	Naihati	Budge budge	Belghoria	Uluberia	B
50	In which part of the Ganga delta land building has practically ceased	North 24 Parganas	South 24 Parganas	Nadia	Malda	C
51	At which of the following places has the largest belt of painted rock shelter of pre-historic period been found?	Bhaja	Bhimbetka	Bagor	Ajanta	B
52	Official stamping of weights and measures and their periodical inspection are presented by	Manu	Narada	Brihaspati	Parasara	A
53	The Kharosthi script derived from	Pictographs	Aramaic	Sanskrit	Brahmi	B
54	Name the class which is conspicuous by its absence from the list of seven classes given by Megasthenes	Artisans	Traders	Cultivators	Philosophers	C
55	The Gold coins of the Gupta dynasty were known as	Sataman	Dinara	Muhura	Varaha	B
56	The language of the Jaina religious text was	Sanskrit	Pali	Prakrit	Bengali	B
57	Which of the following sources states that Srinagar was built by Asoka?	Divyavadana	Rajtarangini	Taranath's History of Tibet	Mahavamsa	B
58	Rummindei pillar of Asoka is put up to mark Buddha's	Birth	Enlightentment	First Sermon	Death	A
59	Which of the following work was not done by Amir Khusrau?	Diwali Rani Khisly	Nuh Sipih	Qirun us Saadain	Tuzuk – i- Timuri	D*
60	Vallabhacharya was the most distinguished preacher of the	Shaiva cult	Shakti cult	Balaram cult	Krishna cult	D
61	Janamsakhi is the biography of	Guru Nanak	Guru Arjundev	Guru Hargobind Singh	Guru Teghbahadur	A
62	Who translated Atharveda into Persian during the Mughal period?	Abdul Hamid Lahori	Haji Ibrahim Sarhindi	Kafi Khan	Malik Muhammad Jayasi	B
63	Who of the following founded the Independent Labour Party in 1936?	DR. B. R Ambedkar	M.C. Rajah	Jagjiban Ram	Jayaprakash Narayan	A
64	Who was the first Indian woman to become the President of Indian National Congress?	Aruna Asaf Ali	Sucheta Kripalani	Sarojini Naidu	Vaijaylakshmi Pandit	C
65	The first venue of Gandhi in all Indian politics was the	Dandi March	Champaran Movement	Rowlat Satyagraha	Non- Cooperation Movement	B
66	Who among the following organized the defence in the trial of I.N.A officers	Bhula Bhai Desai	Madan Mohan Desai	Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew	Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar	A
67	The Indian national Army (I.N.A) came into existence in 1943 in	Singapore	Japan	Then Burma	Then Malaya	A
68	Who announced Queen Victoria as the Crown of India?	Lord Wellesley	Lord Cornwallis	Lord Lytton	Lord Hastings	C
69	Who gave the solagn ' Inquilab Zindabaad'?	Bhagat Singh	Hasrat Mohani	S.C. Bose	M.K. Gandhi	A
70	The name of our motherland ' Bharata' was first mentioned in	Vishnu Purana	Vayu Purana	Markendaya Purana	Matsya Purana	A
71	We know about the bactrian Greeks only from	Inscription	Coins	Manuscripts	Relics	B
72	Who introduced Gold Coins in India?	The Mauryas	The Kushanas	The Greeks	The Cholas	C
73	Who was Menandar?	A Parthian king	A Bactrian Greek king	A Saka King	None of the above	B
74	Who wrote Milindapanha?	asvaghosha	Nagarjuna	Basumitra	Nagasena	B
75	Which Sultan of Bengal built Madrasas in Mecca & Madina	Shamsuddin Illyas Shah	Sikander Shah	Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah	Rukumuddin Barbak Shah	C
76	Which General of Aurangazeb conquered Ahom kingdom in the East India?	Jai Singh	Jaswant Singh	Shaista Khan	Mir Zumla	D
77	Vidyasagar has been described as “Traditional Moderniser' by historian	Ramesh Chandra majumder	Binoy Ghosh	Amalesh Tripathy	Jadunath Sarkar	C
78	Who founded ' Swadeshi Bhandar' in 1897?	Sarala Devi	Rabindranath Tagore	Mahatma Gandhi	Bipin Chandra Pal	B
79	Gadar Party was founded in 1913 at	Bombay	Punjab	Calcutta	SanFrancisco	D
80	Who led the peasant movement in Oudh during the Non-Cooperation Movement?	Mahatma Gandhi	Baba Ramchandra	Madari pasi	Sardar Vallabh bhai Patel	B
81	Who was the last Governor General of India?	Lord William Bentick	Lord Canning	Lord Mountbaten	Chakraborty Raja Gopala	C
82	Which of the following towns was chosen as the headquarter of the Wahabi Movement in 1826	Kandahar	Quetta	Peshawar	Charsadda	D
83	A British Parliamentarian and politician who admitted that the Revolt of 1857 was 'a national revolt' and not a military mutiny was	David George	William hilderband	Disraeli	George Bingsley	C
84	The chief advisor and confidant of Syed Ahmad Khan was	W.W Hunter	Theodore Beck	Theodore Morison	Nassan Mees	B
85	What was the primary aim of the Akali movement which rose in the Punjab in 1920?	To voice the political grievances of the Sikhs	To bring about modernisation in the Sikh social customs	To streamline the management of the gurudwaras or Sikh Shrines	To purge Sikhism of its superstitious accretions and irrational incrustations	C
86	Which of the following was not included in Nehru Committee Report of 1929?	India should be given Dominion Status	Declaration of Fundamental Right was made	Separate Electorate for Muslims was rejected	It proposed a Federal Structure for India	C*
87	when was the All Indian Kisan Sobha founded?	1921	1920	1928	1936	D
88	The first free university in India , completely independent of the Governement and receiving no grants from it was	Vishva Bharati Shantiniketan	Aligarh Muslim University	Women's University, Pune	Benaras Hindu University	D
89	Who did the Tribune of Lahore refer in its observation “ If ever a man died a hero and martyr to a noble cause , that man was”?	Bhagat Singh	Jatindra nath Das	Chandra Sekhar Azad	Surya Sen	B
90	The Justice Party movement in Madras merged with the	Self Respect league	Dravida Kazhagam	Both (A) and (B)	Depressed classes League	C
91	Arrange the following events in chronological order and make the correct choice from the options given below: 1) Death of Bal Gagadhar Tilak (2) Nagpur session of Congress (3) The Moplah Uprising (4) The inauguration of Visva Bharati at Shantiniketan	4,3,2,1	3,4,2,1	2, 1,3, 4	3,2, 4, 1	C*
92	Both the transfer of power and partition of India were hurried through in how many days:	94	86	72	68	C
93	Whom did B. G. Tilak call ' the Diamond of India'?	Rabindranath Tagore	Dadabhai Naoraji	Gopal Krishna Gokhale	Lala Lajpat Rai	C*
94	The first tribal leader who was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and his ideology was	Jadonang	Rani Gaidinliu	Alluri Sitaram Raju	Thakkar Bapa	A
95	The editor of the paper , The Hindu was	S. Subramania	Kasturi Ranga Iyengar	S. Satyamurti	T.K. Madhavan	B
96	Mahatma Gandhi gave the title of 'Sardar' to Vallabhbhai Patel for his great organization skill in	The Kheda Satyagraha	The Bardoli Satyagraha	The Salt Satyagraha	The Individual Satyagraha	B
97	The first Muslim President of the Indian National Congress was	Ajmal Khan	M. A Jinnah	Abul Kalam Azad	Rahimtullah Sayani	D
98	Which is the correct pair?	Malavya and Jayakar	Vithalbhai and Malavya	Motilal Nehru and Malavya	C.R Das and Motilal Nehru	D
99	Which of the following sections remained at a distance during Swadeshi Movement of 1905?	Women	Peasantry	Students	Intelligentsia	D
100	Who said on Gandhiji's death “the light has gone out of our live”?	J.L Nehru	Rajendra Prasad	S. Radha Krishnan	Bidhan chandra Roy	A

1. National Highway 22 (NH 22) is a 459 km (285 mi)[1] National Highway in Northern India that runs from Ambala through Chandigarh and Himachal Pradesh up to Khab on the Tibet border. It is also known as Hindustan Tibet road.Beyond Khab, the road runs for a short distance through Namgial to the Shipki La pass, where it enters Chinese territory

2. The Sind Sagar Doab is the tract of land lying between the Indus River and the Jhelum River. It is one of the main regions of thePunjab, which historically has been divided into the sections between its six main rivers.

4. Jog falls is a major waterfall in the state of Karnataka

46. Total recorded forest land in the state is 11,879 sq.km., of which 7,054 sq.km. is Reserved Forest, 3,772 sq.km. is Protected Forest and 1,053 sq.km. is Unclassed State Forest, thus constituting 13.38% of the geographical area of the state.

59. Tuzuk – i- Timuri is the autobiography of Timur

86. Reservations were made available only to the minorities eg., Muslim minority in United province could enjoy separate electorate there but not in Muslim Majority areas seat would be reseved for them eg.,North West Frontier Province this was

91. Nagpur session 1920, Moplah 1921, Tilak’s Death 1st Aug1921,Visvabharati founded in December 1921

93. On Gokhale’s funeral (1915) Tilak stated this regarding his lifelong opponent G K Gokhale

97. Rahimtullah M Sayani was the “Second Muslim” to become the “President of Indian National Congress”.(First was Badruddin Tayyab Ji)