Solved Paper Naib-Tehsildar Exam 2018 [Part-2] – HPPSC Shimla

1. Who has been awarded “Dada Saheb Phalke Award for 2017”?

1. Vishwanath
2. Dalip Kumar
3. Manoj Kumar
4. Vinod Khanna

2. Recently which longest road tunnel between Srinagar and Jammu was opened by the Prime Minister?

1. Chenani-Nashri
2. Dhola-Sadiya
3. Zojila Tunnel
4. Sandvin road tunnel

3. Which South Asian Satellite has been launched by ISRO in May 2017?

1. GSAT-17
2. GSAT-12
3. GSAT-09
4. GSAT-07

4. Which has been thrust of “Paryatan Parv” organized by Ministry of Tourism from 5-25 October 2017?

1. Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat
2. Ek Bharat Swatcha Bharat
3. Ek Bharat Ek Sanskriti
4. Ek Bharat Ek Vishwa

5. Among the following who was/were conferred ‘Padma Vibhushan Awards’ in 2017?

1. Sharad Pawar
2. Murli Manohar Joshi
3. A. Sangma
4. All of the above

6. Which date is being celebrated as International Day of Yoga?

1. 21^st June
2. 5^th March
3. 24^th October
4. 25^th December

7. Who was given Bhupen Hazarika National Award, 2017?

1. Haraprasad Das
2. Yeshe Dorjee Thongshi
3. Manu S. Pillai
4. Paro Anand

8. Who is the Chief Election Commissioner of India?

1. Om Prakash Rawat
2. Achal Kumar Joti
3. Navin Chawla
4. Gopalswami

9. For the first time in October 2017 Ferry service in Gujarat has been started between which places?

1. Ghogha-Dahej
2. Bharuch-Kevadiya
3. Ernakulum-Kalamassery
4. Kanniyakumari-Aloor Port

10. Who has been chosen for Indira Gandhi-Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2017?

1. Pranab Mukharjee
2. Manmohan Singh
3. Kapil Sibbal
4. Chidambaram

11. Which person of Indian origin got Australia’s Highest civilian honour for his contribution in the field of medicine and work for the community?

1. Purshottam Sawrikar
2. Makhan Singh Khangure
3. Vijay Kumar
4. All of the above

12. Who has been conferred with France’s highest civilian honour-Legion d’Honneur in 2017?

1. Sachin Tendulkar
2. Soumitra Chatterjee
3. Amitabh Bachchan
4. Satyajit Ray

13. Among the following which Indian Judge has been elected to International Court of Justice?

1. Nagendra Singh
2. Jagdish Bhagwati
3. Deepak Mishra
4. Dalveer Bhandari

14. “Paradise Papers” recently leaked are related to which matter?

1. Secret Documents of RAW
2. Secret Documents of KGB
3. Secret Documents of CIA
4. Investments in Secret Tax Heavens

15. Which countries have declared their intentions to leave UNESCO?

1. USA and Israel
2. Syria and Iran
3. China and Pakistan
4. Korea and Japan

16. Which organization won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017?

1. UNESCO
2. WHO
3. ICAN
4. ILO

17. Ninth Summit of BRICS in 2017 was held in which country?

1. Russia
2. China
3. India
4. South Africa

18. How many countries are members of SAARC?

1. 8
2. 7
3. 6
4. 5

19. Who is Secretary General of UN?

1. Kofi Annan
2. Antonio Guterres
3. Ban-Ki-Moon
4. Perez de Cuellar

20. At present who is Prime Minister of Pakistan?

1. Shahid Khaqan Abbbasi
2. Nawaz Sharif
3. Benezir Bhutto
4. Asif Ali Zardari

21. In the 73^rd constitutional amendment, 1/3 seats for the women are reserved in Panchayats under which Article?

1. Article 243A
2. Article 243B
3. Article 243C
4. Article 243D

22. ‘Electoral College’ For the election of President of India consists of:

1. All the members of Parliament
2. All the members of State Legislative Assemblies
3. All the elected members of both Houses of Parliament and elected members of State Legislative Assemblies
4. None of the Above

23. Which Article of Indian Constitution empowers President all the executive powers?

1. Article 52
2. Article 53
3. Article 54
4. Article 55

24. Who gives the final verdict on Money Bill?

1. President
2. Prime Minister
3. Supreme Court
4. Speaker of Lok Sabha

25. Within which time period an ordinance promulgated by the President be laid down before both the houses of Parliament after their reassemble?

1. Six months
2. Six days
3. Six weeks
4. Two months

26. How many writs can Supreme Court of India issue under Article 32?

1. 3
2. 5
3. 4
4. 6

27. Idea of Directive Principles of State Policy has been borrowed from Constitution of which country?

1. Britain
2. Ireland
3. South Africa
4. France

28. Which Article of Indian Constitution provides the right to form a political party?

1. Article 132
2. Article 111
3. Article 32
4. None of the above

29. Article 1 of the Constitution describes India as :

1. A Union of States
2. A Quasi-Federal State
3. A Federation
4. A Confederation

30. What was the total strength of Lok Sabha on 31^st December 2017?

1. 538
2. 537
3. 542
4. 550

31. The First Factory Act was passed in the time of :

1. Lord Canning
2. John Lawrence
3. Lord Ripon
4. Lord Dufferin

32. Who of the following does not represent the Nationalist critique of the Colonial Economy?

1. R. Bhandarkar
2. Dadabhai Naoroji
3. R.C. Dutt
4. Sachidanand Sinha

33. Who presided over the Congress Session in 1905 which supported the Swadeshi and Boycott Movement for Bengal?

1. B. G. Tilak
2. Lajpat Rai
3. C. R. Das
4. G. K. Gokhale

34. What name was given to the headquarters of Ghadr paper in the U.S.A.?

1. Deshantar Ashram
2. Yugantar Ashram
3. Ghadr Ashram
4. Bharat Ashram

35. When was the first walk-out organized in the Legislative Council during the colonial period?

1. 1901
2. 1902
3. 1904
4. 1905

36. Curzon-Wylie was killed in London by:

1. Rash Behari Bose
2. Ajit Sing
3. Madan Lal Dhingra
4. Khudi Ram Bose

37. Of the following, who was not the member of the Interim Government in 1946?

1. Sardar V.B. Patel
2. Jagjivan Ram
3. Baldev Singh
4. B. R. Ambedkar

38. The Rehnumai Mazdeyasan Sabha represented the spirit of Reform among:

1. The Anglo-Indians
2. The Parsees
3. The Muslims
4. The Hindus

39. Of the following persons, who is not matched correctly with his newspaper?

1. Dadabhai Naoroji-Indian Mirror
2. G. Tilak-Kesari
3. Sisir Kumar Ghose – Amrit Bazar Patrika
4. k. Gokhale – Sudharak

40. From which Art Abanindranath Tagore did not seek inspiration?

1. Mughal
2. Ajanta
3. Rajput
4. New Zealand

41. Who founded several Vedanta societies in the West?

1. Har Dyal
2. Gopal Hari Deshmukh
3. Vivekananda
4. Raja Ram Mohan Roy

42. The Deoband Programme of the study was reduced to :

1. 9 years
2. 6 years
3. 8 years
4. 5 years

43. The first Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India was:

1. Cunningham
2. Wheeler
3. Sir John Marshal
4. Daya Ram Sahni

44. Which of the following, opened a co-education school in Moga (PUNJAB) in 1899 for improving the position of women?

1. The Arya Samaj
2. The Prarthana Samaj
3. Singh Sabha
4. The Dev Samaj

45. The first book written by Mahatma Gandhi was:

1. The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
2. The Story of My Experiments with Truth
3. Hind Swaraj
4. The Harijan

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