IAS Prelims General Studies Paper 1993 (Part 9 of 10)
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- Among the four house types shown below, which one represents
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- N/A the house type of the Pygmies?
- Which one of the following types of borrowings from the IMF has the softest servicing conditions?
- Second trance loan
- SAF
- ESAF
- Oil facility
- The Buddhist sect Mahayana formally came into existence during the reign of
- Ajatashatru
- Ashoka
- Dharmapala
- Kanishka
- Which one of the diagrams given below represents most closely
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- N/A the path of geostationary satellite in space?
- The book The Man who knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel published in 1991 and extensively reviewed in newspapers in India is the biography of
- Vikram Sarabhai
- Homi Bhabha
- Sir C V Raman
- Srinivasa-Ramanujan
- Which one of the Following is correctly matched?
- Match Item 1: Lebanon
- Match Item 2: For supervising a 1992 accord
- Match Item 1: El Saivadot
- Match Item 2: To deliver humanitarian aid
- Match Item 1: Mozambique
- Match Item 2: To supervise a referendum
- Match Item 1: Cypurs
- Match Item 2: To maintain peace between the two dominant ethnic groups in the country
- In India the Public Sector is most dominant in
- steel production
- organized term-lending financial institutions
- transport
- commercial banking
- The last in the succession of Jaina Tirthankaras was
- Parsvanatha
- Rishabha
- Mahavira
- Manisubrata
- Consider the figures of a metal ball and a metal ring given below: The metal ball can just pass through the hole of a metal ring formed out of a strip. When the ball is healed it gets stuck. But when the metal ring is heated
- the ball can still pass through it because the ring diameter expands on heating
- the ball gets stuck because the diameter of the hole decreases on expansion
- the ball will still pass through because the hole diameter does not change
- the ball will pass through because there is no change in the ring
- The abolition of the I. A. S. The I. P. S. Has been recommended by the
- Dhebar Commission
- Kalekar Commission
- Kher Commission
- Rajamannar Commission
- Which one of the following is the best strategy for environment-friendly, sustainable development in Indian agriculture?
- Expansion of cultivable land, increased use of super phosphate, urea and effective biocides
- Wider popularization of high-yielding crop varieties, better aiid more frequent irrigation and increased frequency of aerial spra of inorganic fertilizers and pesticides
- Mixed cropping, organic manures, nitrogen-fixing plants and pest. Resistant crop varieties
- Improved farm implements and machinery, use of potent insecticides to minimize post-harvest grain losses and monoculture cropping practices
- Consider the map given below The mean annual rainfall in the shaded parts of India varies from:
- 100 to 150 cm
- 150 to 200 cm
- 200 to 250 cm
- 250 to 300 cm
- As on today, which one of the following countries has the largest external debt?
- India
- Brazil
- USA
- Mexico
- The earliest rock-cut caves in western India arc those at
- Nasik, Ellora and Ajanta
- Junnar, Kalydn and Pitalkhora
- Ajanta, Bhaja and Kondanc
- Bhaja, Pitalkhora and Kondane
- Consider a specific point on the surface of the earth (say, the city of Delhi) . The temperature at a given time of day (say, 12.00 noon) will in general be higher in summer than in winter. This is because V
- the earth is closer to the sun in summer than in winter.
- sun-rays fall on the earth are inclined more towards the surface of the earth in winter
- evaporation of water from atmospheric precipitation occurring in winter alone
- the axis of the earth is inclined more towards the sun in winter