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401. Assertion (A): Unlike photographic film, which can be used only once, video tapes can be reused several times.
Reason (R): Photography involves chemical change but video recording is a physical change.

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402. Assertion (A): When a ship moves from the sea water into fresh water of a river, the ship will relatively sink.
Reason (R): The density of sea water is higher than that of the fresh water.

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403. Assertion (A): The Panamanian dictator General Noriega was ousted by the Bush Administration.
Reason (R): General Noriega was secretly negotiating with the Soviet Union for setting up defence installations.

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404. Assertion (A): A tennis ball will bounce higher in Calcutta than it would in Shimla.
Reason (R): The downward pull due to gravity is less and air is more rarefied in Shimla than in Calcutta.

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405. Assertion (A): India is one of the leading fishing countries in the world.
Reason (R): India has a long coastline and a large fish-eating population.

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406. Important oilfields of the Brahmaputra Valley include
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407. Consider the following pairs:
Constitutional Subject — Amendment
  1. 52nd — Anti-Defection Law
  2. 56th — Statehood for Goa
  3. 59th — Emergency in Punjab
  4. 62nd — Reservation for Scheduled Castes and Tribes in services

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408. Consider the following film personalities:

  1. Jamuna
  2. Vyjayantimala
  3. Sunil Dutt
  4. G. Krishna Reddy

Among these, who were successful in the 1981 Lok Sabha elections?
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409. Consider the following commodities:

  1. Tea
  2. Cotton cloth
  3. Cereals
  4. Edible oils
  5. Sugarcane

Among these, whose per capita availability has remained more or less static between 1980–81 and 1987–88 in India?
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410. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below them:

List IList II
(A) Nagarjuna(1) Founder of Kalmukha Sect
(B) Lakulisho(2) Founder of Vira Saivism
(C) Sankara(3) Founder of Advaita philosophy
(D) Basava(4) Founder of Madhyamika
(5) Propagator of Pasupata Sect

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411. The coal mining areas of the Damodar Valley region include
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412. The Second Round Table Conference was held in
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413. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below them:

List I (Works)List II (Authors)
(A) Dayabhaga(1) Harsha
(B) Mitakshara(2) Jimutavahana
(C) Nagananda(3) Krittivasa
(D) Ramayana(4) Vijnanesvara

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414. The following figure represents atmospheric pressure in millibars. It is an example of
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415. Consider the following European missions during the Mughal period:

  1. Thomas Roe
  2. Tavernier
  3. Rudolf Acquaviva

The correct chronological order of their visits is
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416. At present, India's share of the world exports of tea is
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417. The first country in the Eastern Bloc to have a popularly elected government in 1989 was
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418. Who among the following was not a writer of legal texts?
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419. Consider the following public sector undertakings:

  1. Oil and Natural Gas Commission
  2. Indian Oil Corporation
  3. Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd.
  4. Steel Authority of India Ltd.

The correct decreasing order of the sales of these undertakings for the year 1988 is
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420. Consider the following pairs:
Vaisnava Saints — Region of strong following
  1. Ramanujacharya — South India
  2. Chaitanya — Central India
  3. Vallabhacharya — Gujarat and Braj area
  4. Ramanand — North India

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421. Which of the following is a cash crop?
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422. Which of the following features are associated with the architecture of Tughlaq period? Select the correct answer using the codes given below the features:

  1. Sloping walls.
  2. Deliberate attempt to combine the principles of the arch, the lintel and the beam in the buildings.
  3. Placing the buildings especially the tombs on a high platform.
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423. For developing inbred lines in farm animals, following factors are taken into consideration:

  1. The crossbreds should be of outstanding type.
  2. They should not carry any detrimental genes.
  3. Progeny tested animals.
  4. Herd size should be large.

Of the statements given above, which one of the following combinations of factors is most essential?
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424. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below them:

List I (Books)List II (Authors)
(A) India Today(1) Valentine Chirol
(B) India Unrest(2) B.G. Tilak
(C) Geeta Rahasya(3) Jawaharlal Nehru
(D) A Bunch of Old Letters(4) Rajni Palme Dutt
(5) Mahatma Gandhi

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425. If the difference in time of the two places is 2 hours and 20 minutes, then the difference in their longitudes would be
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