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UPSC PRELIMINARY MOCK TEST 255
Question 46 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
What were the districts called in the Vijayanagara Empire?
Ur | |
Nagaram | |
Kottam | |
Nadu |
Question 46 Explanation:
Kottam
Question 47 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
Which of the following statement is incorrect regarding Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013?
Chairperson of the Lokpal must be the one, who has been a Chief Justice of India. | |
Lokpal will have maximum 8 members. | |
not less than 50% of the members should belong to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, OBCs, minorities, and women. | |
Act mandates establishment of body in every State. |
Question 47 Explanation:
The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 was notified on January 1, 2014. It provides for establishing a body to be called the Lokpal and headed by a Chairperson, who is or has been a Chief Justice of India, or is or has been a judge of the Supreme Court, or an eminent person who fulfils eligibility criteria as specified. Of its other members, not exceeding eight, 50% are to be judicial members, provided that not less than 50% of the members belong to the Scheduled Castess, Scheduled Tribes, OBCs, minorities, and women.
For states, the Act says: "Every State shall establish a body to be known as the Lokayukta for the State.
Question 48 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
Which of the following criteria/s a must satisfy to qualify as a Special Category Status
- Economic and infrastructural backwardness
- Hilly and difficult terrain
- High Population Density
- Non-viable nature of state finances
1 and 3 only | |
2 and 3 only | |
1, 2 and 3 only | |
1, 2 and 4 only |
Question 48 Explanation:
Criteria to give status of Special Category States;
- The state which is facing the problem of resources crunch
- Low per capita income
- Non-viable nature of state finances
- Economic and infrastructural backwardness
- Presence of sizeable tribal population
- Hilly and difficult terrain
- Strategic location along international borders
- Low population density
In News: A.P. BJP chief rules out special status for State. "
Question 49 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
Minimum support price is declared on which of the following commodities
- Raw cotton
- Raw jute
- Sugarcane
- Maize
- Bajra
- Soyabean
1, 2 and 6 | |
3, 4, and 5 | |
3, 4, 5 and 6 | |
All of the above |
Question 49 Explanation:
MSP is declared on the following commodities:
- Cereals (7) - paddy, wheat, barley, jowar, bajra, maize and ragi
- Pulses (5) - gram, arhar/tur, moong, urad and lentil
- Oilseeds (8) - groundnut, rapeseed/mustard, toria, soyabean, sunflower seed, sesamum, safflower seed and nigerseed
- Copra
- De-husked coconut
- Raw cotton
- Raw jute
- Sugarcane (Fair and remunerative price)
- Virginia flu cured (VFC) tobacco
Question 50 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
Consider the following statements with respect to "SuperCam":
1. It is a laser-toting robot used for studying mineralogy and chemistry of Mars Planet
2. It is developed by European Space Agency
Which of the following codes given below is/are correct?
1. It is a laser-toting robot used for studying mineralogy and chemistry of Mars Planet
2. It is developed by European Space Agency
Which of the following codes given below is/are correct?
1 only | |
2 only | |
Both 1 and 2 | |
Neither 1 nor 2 |
Question 50 Explanation:
In its mission to Mars this summer, NASA is sending a new laser-toting robot as one of seven instruments aboard the Mars 2020 rover. Called SuperCam, the robot is used for studying mineralogy and chemistry from up to about 7 meters away. It might help scientists find signs of fossilized microbial life on Mars. SuperCam packs what would typically require several sizable pieces of equipment into something no bigger than a cereal box. It fires a pulsed laser beam out of the rover's mast to vaporize small portions of rock from a distance, providing information that will be essential to the mission's success.
There are 50 questions to complete.