MPPSC Prelims 2015 Solved Paper

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Solution: It is a survey by the IMF that is usually published twice a year in the months of April and October and the WEO Update is published in January and July.

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Solution: It is train service connecting Dhaka in Bangladesh to Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Solution: Founded on July 16, 1909 in Zwickau, Germany, Audi AG is a world-renowned manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles and is one of the three luxury automakers, besides Mercedes Benz and BMW, that together constitute what is known as the ‘German Big 3’ – a group of those three car-manufacturers from Germany.

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Solution: The Madhya Pradesh government has appointed actress Madhuri Dixit as the brand ambassador for its Mamta Abhiyaan (maternal and child health) campaign

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Solution: The multi-pronged National campaign on Dengue, U & Me Against Dengue, was launched on 11 March 2014 to eradicate dengue across six Indian cities i.e across Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Pune and Ahmedabad to combat the spread of the mosquito-borne viral infection.

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Solution: State Museum of Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal was earlier known as Edward Museum which is located in Shymala Hills, Bhopal.

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Solution: Under the patronage of the Samanid dynasty, Ferdowsi began his epic poem in 977, taking thirty-three years to complete it. The Shahnameh was written at a time when modern Persian had started to flourish.

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Solution: There is a diverse number of Sanskaras in Hinduism out of which 16 are known as “Shodasha Samskaras“.

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Solution: The ruler Ashoka is mentioned in the form of Piyadasi and Devanampriyra in inscriptions.

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Solution: Megasthenes, was the author of Indica. He was sent to Chandragupta Maurya’s court by the Greek ruler Seleucus Nicator. In the book, he records his impressions of India of the Mauryan period.

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Solution: The Regulating Act of 1773 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain intended to overhaul the management of the East India Company’s rule in India.

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Solution: The Bengal Sati Regulation which banned the Sati practice in all jurisdictions of British India was passed on December 4, 1829 by the then Governor-General Lord William Bentinck.

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Solution: Muhammad Shah is often referred to as “Muhammad Shah Rangila”, also sometimes as “Bahadur Shah Rangila”.

During his reign, Maratha under Baji Rao for the first in Mughal history raided Delhi.

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Solution: In 1539 Guru Nanak Ji died, having first appointed Guru Angad ji as his successor.

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Solution: Khusrau Mirza was the eldest son of the Mughal emperor Jahangir.

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Solution: In 1854 at the time of Lord Dalhousie, the then Governor-General of India, Wood suggested that primary schools must adopt vernacular languages, high schools must adopt Anglo-vernacular language and at college-level English should be the medium of education. This is known as Wood’s dispatch.

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Solution: April 22 is Earth Day, an international event celebrated around the world to pledge support for environmental protection.

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Solution: Pygmies are found in rainforests of Africa.

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Solution: Great Barrier Reef, world’s largest coral reef complex, located in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Queensland, Australia. It extends for more than 1250 miles.

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Solution: Alfalfa is a perennial flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae. It is cultivated as an important forage crop (the edible parts of plants )  in many countries around the world. It is used for grazing, hay, and silage, as well as a green manure and cover crop. The name alfalfa is used in North America. The name lucerne is the more commonly used name in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.

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Solution: When chlorine and bromine atoms come into contact with ozone in the stratosphere, they destroy ozone molecules. One chlorine atom can destroy over 100,000 ozone molecules before it is removed from the stratosphere. Ozone can be destroyed more quickly than it is naturally created. Therefore maximum damage is by CFC.

Ans: (B)

Solution: The Roaring 40s (winds found between 40 and 50 deg latitudes), Furious 50s (winds found between 50 and 60 deg latitudes)and Screaming 60s (winds found between 60 and 70 deg. latitudes) are winds that batter the Southern Ocean, on the fringes of Antarctica.

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Solution: The Port of Santos is located in the city of Santos, state of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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Solution: An isohyet or isohyetal line is a line joining points of equal rainfall on a map in a given period/time.

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Solution: Alaknanda and Bhagirathi are two head streams of holy river Ganga. Alaknanda river is about 190 KM long and originates from Satopanth glacier and Bhagirathi Kharak glacier. Devprayag is the place where the rivers Alaknanda & Bhagirathi confluence.

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Solution: Sabarimala is a Hindu pilgrimage centre located at the Periyar Tiger Reserve in the Western Ghat in the perinad village Pathanamthitta district in Kerala.

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Solution: Bailadila (Chhatisgarh) is famous for producing iron which is used for steel making. The extracted iron ore is mainly Hematite (Fe2O3).

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Solution: Andhra Pradesh is the largest producer of mica. Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh is famous for its mica (crude) production.

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Solution: The HDI combines three dimensions:

• A long and healthy life: Life expectancy at birth
• Education index: Mean years of schooling and Expected years of schooling
• A decent standard of living: GNI per capita

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Solution: The Fifth Five Year Plan India was chalked out for the period spanning 1974 to 1979 with the objectives of increasing the employment level, reducing poverty, and attaining self-reliance.

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Solution: The Nehru-Mahalanobis model was adopted in the second five-year Plan. The main objective of this plan was rapid industrialization by the development of basic and heavy industries.

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Solution: General elections were held in India between 25 October 1951 and 21 February 1952. This was the first elections to the Lok Sabha and most of the state legislatures took place simultaneously after independence in August 1947.It was conducted under the provisions of the Indian Constitution which was adopted on 26 November 1949.

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Solution: B R Ambedkar has termed Constitution a sacred document.

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Solution: The Tenth Schedule – popularly known as the Anti-Defection Act – was included in the Constitution via the 52nd Amendment Act, 1985 and sets the provisions for disqualification of elected members on the grounds of defection to another political party.

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Solution: The Supreme Court is the custodian of the Constitution of India and the higher judiciary has played a crucial role in supporting the separation of powers, an important feature of our democracy.It is the guardian of fundamental rights (Article 32). It has the power of Judicial review.

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Solution: The balance of payments (BOP) is the method by which countries measure all of the international monetary transactions within a certain period. The BOP consists of three main accounts: the current account, the capital account, and the financial account.

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Solution: Sustainable development is an approach to economic planning that attempts to foster economic growth while preserving the quality of the environment for future generations.

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Solution: National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) was established on 12 July 1982 by an Act of the Parliament. NABARD, as a Development Bank, is mandated for providing and regulating credit and other facilities for the promotion and development of agriculture, small scale industries, cottage and village industries, handicrafts and other rural crafts and other allied economic activities in rural areas with a view to promoting integrated rural development and securing prosperity of rural areas.

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Solution: The practice of a written constitution began in  America.

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Solution:  A committee was formed under the chairmanship of Justice Tarkunde by Jaiprakash Narayan for electoral reforms. He recommended the 18 years as voting age which was included by 61st amendment of 1988.

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Solution: M.V. Mathur advised the merger of the Finance Commission and the Planning Commission. The first Finance Commission was set up in 1951 and now it is fifteen so far.

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Solution: The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) of India is a statutory organization under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Mo. E.F.C.C.).

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Solution: Coal, fossil fuels, crude oil, natural gas, etc are all hydrocarbon fuels. These are non-renewable source of energy.

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Solution: Long-term effects of climate change will include a decrease in sea ice and an increase in permafrost thawing, an increase in heat waves and heavy precipitation, and decreased water resources in semi-arid regions.

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Solution: The pollution is a social issue because it is caused by human behaviors and it not only has a negative effect on the planet but also on people and society. The 10 types of pollution are:

Air Pollution, Light Pollution, Noise Pollution, Plastic Pollution, Thermal Pollution,Visual Pollution, Water Pollution and Radioactive Contamination.

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Solution: Tsunamis are generated by earthquakes of a magnitude of more than 8.5 in the oceans. One such tsunami in the Indian Ocean in December 2004, led to heavy destruction along the coast area of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry, and Andaman and Nicobar islands of India.

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Solution: The Dead Sea has a maximum salinity of 240 per thousand.

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Solution: Religious causes are not atrocity of scheduled caste and scheduled tribe according to the report of National Commission of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe of year 1990.

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Solution: The SCs and STs (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 was passed in Parliament of India on 11 September 1989 and was enacted from 30 January 1990.

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Solution: Article 17 of the Indian constitution mainly deals with the account of untouchability.

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Solution: Red, yellow and blue are primary colours.

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Solution: Indian scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose was the first to prove that plants are like any other life in 1901.

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Solution: A byte is 8 bits. A kilobyte is 1,024 bytes. A megabyte is 1,024 kilobytes. A gigabyte is 1,024 megabytes. A terabyte is  1,024 gigabytes.

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Solution: Among the given options KB is the smallest memory unit.

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Solution: At a physical level, the 0 and 1 are stored in the central processing unit of a computer system using transistors.

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Solution: Super Computer is the largest, fastest, and costliest computer.

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Solution: Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar is an Indian computer scientist, IT leader and educationalist. He is best known as the architect of India’s national initiative in supercomputing where he led the development of Param supercomputers. He has been appointed as the new Vice-Chancellor of Nalanda University, Rajgir, in Bihar.

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Solution: Paint brush is a physical product for painting.

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Solution: Understanding is not a work of computers because it derives the solution from the data stored or allowed by software makers.

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Solution: Port is an interface or a point of connection between the computer and its peripheral devices.

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Solution: The first page at a website is known as its Home Page.

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Solution: In 2016 Summer Olympics was held in Rio de Janeiro.

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Solution: Indore

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Solution: Sandhya Agarwal (born 9 May 1963) is a former captain of the Indian women’s cricket team. She hails from Indore.

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Solution: National Sports Day is celebrated on 29th August every year to mark the birth anniversary of legendary hockey player Major Dhyan Chand.

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Solution: A polo team is comprised of four players. The object of the game is to move the polo ball down the field, hitting the ball through the goal posts to score. The teams then change direction after each goal to compensate for field and wind conditions.

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Solution: Nineteen-year old Narendra Hirwani had played a debut Test match against a rampaging West Indies side led by Viv Richards. At the end of five days of Test cricket in January 1988, the debutant’s incredible display of leg spin bowling in front of a packed Chepauk stadium in chennai, would leave the most successful West Indies Test side of all time on their knees.

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Solution: Aishbagh Stadium is in Bhopal.

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Solution: The Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 was enforced on 28th January 1993.

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Solution: The Human Right Act was formed to protect the Human Right of the people of India and to give them a platform in case of violation of the same. The act establishes the Human Right Commissions on both National as well as State Level.

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Solution: Under Article 123 of the Constitution, the president has right to issue ordinances.

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Solution: Rani Durgavati  was the ruling Queen of Gondwana from 1550 until 1564. She was born in the family of Chandel Rajput king Keerat Rai at the fort of Mahoba ( Uttar Pradesh).

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Solution: The Tribal Movement occurred in Sendhawa located in the Barwani district of Madhya Pradesh under the leadership of Bhima Nayak.

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Solution: Bhil is the largest tribal group in India as per 2011 Census. They constitute approximately 38% of the total scheduled tribal population of India.

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Solution: Rajasthan (Nagaur District ) was the first state to establish Panchayati Raj. Rajasthan was followed by Andhra Pradesh.

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Solution: Alauddin Khan Fellowship is given by the Madhya Pradesh government in the field of Music.

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Solution: Born on 5th of September 1917 in Aalot village (district Dewas ), Madhya Pradesh. Youngest among three sisters and one brother he had a modest but caring upbringing. His father being an accountant in the service of one of the influential officers of Dewas royalty. Dinkar Rao was in the habit of recycling things of daily use, even paper and thread salvaged from grocery packages. Later using them for rough calculations and weaving small strings. Mother Anandi Bai, or happy woman, a thrifty housewife making do in husband’s limited income, utilised every conceivable part of edible things to produce toothsome morsels. These practices were to have a profound influence on Vishnu in later life as a painter.

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Solution: Sant Singajee belongs to the region of Nimar.

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Solution: M.P. Pashu Chikitsa Avem Pashu Palan Vishwa Vidyalaya is located at Jabalpur.

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Solution: Ganesh Shanker Vidyarthi award  is an annual journalism award.

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Solution: The Currency Printing Press in Madhya Pradesh is located in Dewas which is located in the Malwa region of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

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Solution: The Dhupgarh Peak (4,429 feet [1,350 metres]), near Pachmarhi in south-central Madhya Pradesh, is the state’s highest point. It is also in the Mahadeo Hills (Satpura Range), Madhya Pradesh, India.

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Solution: Bikhre Moti’ published in 1932 is a short-story written by Subhadra Kumari Chauhan and also wrote ‘Unmadini’ (1934) and ‘Seedhe-Saadhe Chitra’ (1946).

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Solution: Girdhari Lal Yadav is a legendary sailor from Madhya Pradesh and also a recipient of the Arjun Award in the year 2009.

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Solution: A Japanese woman named Junko Tabei became the first-ever woman to climb the world’s highest peak of Mount Everest. She also became the first woman in the world to do an expedition of all “Seven Summits” — the tallest peak on each continent across the globe. According to the Japanese broadcaster NHK, Tabei passed away at the age of 77 after she lost her battle to Cancer.

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Solution: An instrument used in measuring the depth of water by the time required for a sound wave to travel from surface to bottom and for its echo to be returned.

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Solution: The regional research branch of the Indian Forest Research Institute is situated in the Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh.

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Solution: The microscope is used for the study of micro and nearby objects.

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Solution: Group O can donate red blood cells to anybody. It’s the universal donor.

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Solution: Lactometer is used to measure the density of milk.

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Solution: The Richter scale measures the magnitude of earthquakes, and the Mercalli scale measures their intensity. The magnitude of an earthquake is determined from the logarithm of the amplitude of waves recorded by seismographs.

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Solution: Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world’s first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin.

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Solution: The longest day of the year is the summer solstice, which falls around 21 June in the Northern Hemisphere, and 21 December in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Solution: Chandi prasad datt