Unsolved Paper Steno Typist Exam 2020 [Part-1]- HPSSC Hamirpur

Series- A (Post Code: 786)

1. The population density of India as per census 2011 is

1. 325
2. 336
3. 358
4. 382

2. The National song ‘Vande Mataram’ was composed by

1. Rabindranath Tagore
2. Bankimchandra Chatterji
3. Aurobindo Ghosh
4. Gopal Krishan Gokhle

3. Ex-Officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha is

1. President
2. Prime Minister
3. Vice-President
4. Lok Sabha Speaker

4. UPSC is a/an

1. Statutory body
2. Executive body
3. Constitutional body
4. None of these

5. Staff Selection Commission was set up in which year?

1. 1998
2. 1982
3. 1988
4. 1992

6. Kathakali is a dance form of

1. U.P
2. Bihar
3. Odisha
4. Kerala

7. The current foreign trade policy came into existence in which year?

1. 2012
2. 2015
3. 2018
4. 2020

8. The modern postal system was established in India by

1. Lord Clive
2. Warren Hastings
3. Lord Canning
4. Lord Dalhousie

9. Indian Military Academy is located at which place in India?

1. Dehradun
2. Chennai
3. Gaya
4. Hyderabad

10. Which is the largest power generator in India?

1. NHPC
2. NTPC
3. Coal India Ltd.
4. HIMURJA

11. PPP stands for

1. Public Private Partnership
2. Private Public Partnership
3. Both a and b
4. None of these

12. The Competition Act was enacted in which year?

1. 2000
2. 2001
3. 2002
4. 2003

13. The SABLA scheme aims at empowering adolescent girls of which age group?

1. 11-18 yr
2. 11-14 yr
3. 15-18 yr
4. None of these

14. ICMR was earlier known as

1. Indian Imperial medical Institute
2. Indian Research Fund Association
3. Imperial Medical Institution of India
4. None of these

 

15. FDI means

1. Forest development institute
2. Foreign Disinvestment Institution
3. Foreign Direct Investment
4. None of these

16. Supreme Court of India comprises the Chief Justice and how many other judges?

1. 30
2. 32
3. 34
4. 36

17. Shram Vir Award is now known as

1. Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar
2. V.D. Savarkar Puraskar
3. Shymaprasad Mukherjee Puraskar
4. None of these

18. Broadcasting Corporation of India is

1. All India Radio
2. FM Rainbow
3. DTH Service
4. Prasar Bharati

19. Which of the following Union Territories have its own legislatures?

1. Delhi
2. Puducherry
3. Both a and b
4. None of these

20. Bharat Nirman is a programme to build which of the following ?

1. Rural infrastructure
2. Urban infrastructure
3. Both a and b
4. None of these

21. National institute of Immunology is located at

1. New Delhi
2. Pune
3. Coimbatore
4. Kanpur

22. Indian Maritime University is a

1. State University
2. Central University
3. Foreign University
4. None of these

23. Indus Water Treaty was signed between India and

1. Bhutan
2. Nepal
3. Bangladesh
4. Pakistan

24. The Central Adoption Resource Authority works under which ministry?

1. Ministry of Women & Child Development
2. Ministry of Home Affairs
3. Ministry of Finance
4. None of these

25. Arjuna Award is related to which field?

1. Literature
2. Music
3. Sports
4. None of these

26. Chandigarh city is a creation of which architect?

1. Hafeez Contractor
2. Brinda Somaya
3. Le Corbusier
4. Raj Rewal

27. Which of the following is not a Indus Valley site?

1. Kalibangan
2. Ropar
3. Dholavira
4. Chennai

28. Oldest religious text is

1. Rigveda
2. Samaveda
3. Yajurveda
4. Atharvaveda

29. The capital of ‘Anga’ mahajanpada was at

1. Taxila
2. Champa
3. Varanasi
4. Vaishali

30. Founder of Maurya dynasty was

1. Ashoka
2. Bindusar
3. Dasharatha
4. Chandragupta Maurya

31. Ajanta paintings belong to which time?

1. Gupta period
2. Maurya period
3. Mughal period
4. None of these

32. Prithvraj Raso was written by

1. Chand Bardai
2. Al Beruni
3. Utbi
4. Faizi

33. Which Bahmani ruler got the title of Zalim?

1. Hasan Gangu
2. Humayun
3. Muhammad Shah 3
4. Yusuf Adil Shah

34. Who represented Akbar in the second battle of Panipat?

1. Bairam Khan
2. Ahmed Shah Abdali
3. Maan Singh
4. None of these

35. Under ‘Doctrine of lapse’ which princely state was annexed on account of maladministration?

1. Satara
2. Jaipur
3. Jhansi
4. Awadh

36. Young Bengal Movement was launched by which of the following?

1. Raja Rammohan Roy
2. Vivekananda
3. Dayanand Saraswati
4. Henry L.V. Derozio

37. Who attended the Parliament of Religions at Chicago in 1893?

1. Vivekananda
2. M.G. Ranade
3. B.M. Malabari
4. None of these

38. Gandhi – Irwin Pact was signed in which year?

1. 1923
2. 1927
3. 1931
4. 1935

39. In which year, Mahatma Gandhi arrived in India from South Africa

1. 1915
2. 1917
3. 1918
4. 1919

40. Indian National Army was established in which year?

1. 1940
2. 1941
3. 1942
4. 1943

41. Which is the smallest planet?

1. Mercury
2. Venus
3. Earth
4. Mars

42. Light year is the unit of

1. Distance
2. Light
3. Speed of light
4. Weight

43. Which of the following has the highest percentage in our atmosphere?

1. Oxygen
2. Carbon dioxide
3. Argon
4. Nitrogen

44. Longest day in the southern hemisphere is

1. 21st March
2. 21st June
3. 23rd September
4. 22nd December

45. Russia has adopted how many time zones?

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

46. Total number of Major plates in Earth’s atmosphere is

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

47. Which of the following waves causes most of the earthquake’s structural damage?

1. Primary waves
2. Secondary waves
3. Surface waves
4. None of these

48. Shale is which type of rock?

1. Igneous rock
2. Sedimentary rock
3. Metamorphic rock
4. None of these

49. The phenomenon of temperature inversion occurs in which atmospheric layer?

1. Troposphere
2. Stratosphere
3. Mesosphere
4. Ionosphere

50. Hurricanes occur in which region?

1. China sea
2. Indian Ocean
3. Caribbean Sea
4. Northern Australia

51. Deep sea plains is also called as

1. Abyssal plains
2. Continental rise
3. Continental slope
4. Continental shelf

52. Lahore is located along the bank of which river”?

1. Ravi
2. Jhelum
3. Chenab
4. Satluj

53. Tata Hydel Project is constructed on which river?

1. Cauveri
2. Manjra
3. Rihand
4. Bhima

54. Ratnagiri mangrove is located in which Indian state?

1. Maharashtra
2. West Bengal
3. Kerala
4. Odisha

55. Which is not a plantation crop?

1. Pepper
2. Tea
3. Tobacco
4. Coffee

56. The Indian Constitution in its current form consists of how many schedule?

1. 8
2. 9
3. 10
4. 12

57. Which part of the Indian Constitution deals with official language?

1. Part-XVII
2. PART-XVIII
3. PART-XIX
4. PART-XXI

58. At present the total number of States and Union Territories in India is

1. 35
2. 36
3. 37
4. 38

59. In 1971, which of the following states were granted Statehood?

1. Manipur
2. Tripura
3. Meghalaya
4. All of these

60. Article 360 of the Indian constitution deals with which of the following?

1. National Emergency
2. Constitution emergency
3. Financial emergency
4. None of these

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