CDS 2013 (1) ( held on 17.02.2013 )

Solved Question Paper - General Knowledge

1. Why was Kaushik Basu, the ex-economic advisor to the Prime Minister of India, in news recently?

He was appointed as

1. the President of the IMF
2. the President of the World Bank
3. the Economic Advisor of the United Nations
4. the Chief Economist of the World Bank

2. FDI in Multi-Brand Retail Trade (MBRT) in all products is now permitted in India subject to

1. a ceiling of 51%.
2. minimum amount to be brought in as FDI by the foreign investor is US $ 100 million
3. at least 50% of the procurement of manufactured/processed products should be sourced from "small industries";
4. retail sales locations set up only in cities with a population of more than 10 lakh

Select the correct condition/ conditions using the codes given below

1. 1, 2, 3 and 4
2. 1 and 4
3. Only 2
4. 1, 2 and 4

3. Which of the following institutions was/were asked by the Government of India to provide official estimates of black (unaccounted) money held by Indians, both in India and abroad?

1. National Institute of Public Finance and Policy.
2. National Council of Applied Economic Research.
3. National Institute of Financial Management.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below

1. Only 1
2. 1 and 2
3. 2 and 3
4. 1, 2 and 3

4. The concept which tries to ascertain the actual deficit in the revenue account after adjusting for expenditure of capital nature is termed as

1. revenue deficit
2. effective revenue deficit
3. fiscal deficit
4. primary deficit

5. Which of the following are included in the category of direct tax in India?

1. Corporation Tax
2. Tax on Income
3. Wealth Tax
4. Customs Duty
5. Excise Duty

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

1. 1, 2 and 3
2. 1, 2, 4 and 5
3. 2 and 3
4. 1, 3, 4 and 5

6. Which one among the following is a fixed cost to a manufacturing firm in the short run?

1. Insurance on buildings
2. Overtime payment to worker
3. Cost of energy
4. Cost of raw materials

7. What was Ziyarat in the language of the Sufis?

1. Pilgrimage to the tombs of Sufi saints for seeking barkat (spiritual grace)
2. Reciting divine name
3. Offering free kitchens run on futuh (unasked for charity)
4. Setting up of auqat (charitable trusts)

8. In the Gupta age, Varahamihira wrote the famous book, Brihat Samhita. It was a treatise on

1. astronomy
2. statecraft
3. ayurvedic system of medicine
4. economics

9. The highly polished monolithic Ashokan Pillars were carved out of single pieces of a buff-coloured sandstone, usually mined from the quarries of

1. Chunar near Mirzapur
2. Lauriya in Nandangarh
3. Sarnath near Varanasi
4. Udayagiri near Bhubaneshwar

10. India's Look East Policy was conceived in the early 1990s at a time when India was in the process of adjusting to the post-cold war watershed changes in the international geostrategic environment. The Look East Policy

1. reflects both historical imperatives and contemporary compulsion of the post-cold war new world order
2. seeks to optimize India’s synergies in the extended Asia-Pacific neighbourhood
3. has led to India’s participation in Asia-Pacific forums like ASEAN, East Asia Summit, BIMSTEC and other institutions

Select the correct answer using the codes given below

1. 1 and 3
2. 2 and 3
3. 1, 2 and 3
4. Only 2

11. Consider the following statements :

During the last week of November 2012, Palestinian engineers dug up the tomb of Yasser Arafat. This was done primarily to

1. place the remains of Yasser Arafat in a mosque compound.
2. confirm the prevailing suspicion that Israel had poisoned him.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?

1. Only 1
2. Only 2
3. Both 1 and 2
4. Neither 1 nor 2

12. British colonialism in India saw the emergence of new cities. Calcutta, now Kolkata; was one of the first cities. Which of the following villages were amalgamated to form the city of Calcutta?

1. Midnapur, Chittagong, Burdwan
2. 24-Parganas, Kalikata, Thakurgaon
3. Sutanuti, Kalikata, Gobindapur
4. Midnapur, Thakurgaon; Gobindapur

13. Locate the places in the following map

1. Kollam
2. Tuticorin
3. Ongole
4. Nellore

Codes

1. A - 2; B - 3; C - 4; D - 1;
2. A - 2; B - 4; C - 3; D - 1;
3. A - 4; B - 1; C - 2; D - 3;
4. A - 1; B - 3; C - 4; D - 2;

14. Some atheists, skeptics and non-believers called to celebrate December 25 as Newtonmas Day instead of observing ‘Christmas Day’. The reason they propose that

1. both Isaac Newton and Jesus Christ were great
2. Isaac Newton was born on December 25
3. Skeptic Society was founded on December 25
4. Isaac Newton was a deep believer of Christianity

15. Confirmation of the presence of Higgs Boson will justify

1. both the standard model and superstring theory
2. the unification of all the four fundamental forces
3. the steady-state model of the universe
4. the mass of the fundamental particles

16. If two conducting spheres are separately charged and then brought in contact

1. the total energy of the two spheres is conserved
2. the total charge on the two spheres is conserved
3. both the total energy and the total charge are conserved
4. the final potential is always the mean of the original potential of the two spheres

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