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 (B) The Samvad Conference
1. Sagarmala Project is under which
revolves around the need to
Ministry of Government of India ?
build the future ofAsia under the
A) Ministry of Ports, Shipping and positive influence of traditions
Waterways of non-violence and democracy

(B) Ministry of Sports in Asia

(C) In the Sixth Samvad

(C) Ministry of Defense
Conference PM Mr. Modi
(D) Ministry of Surface Transport proposed to establish a library
of traditional Buddhist literature
2. Which country has begun its two-year
and scriptures
tenure as a non-pemanent member
(D) Samvad Conference is being
of the UN Security Council ?
held every year since 2015

(A) Russia between India and Thailand

(B) Pakistan Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

(C) India (SCO) Heads of State Summit was
held on 10th November, 2020 in the
(D) Bangladesh
video conference format. The
Who is the Chairman of State Summit was hosted by:
3
Commission for Backwad Castes in (A) Russia

Odisha ? (B) India

(C) Kazakhstan
(A) Justice Raghunath Biswal
(D) Uzbekistan
(B) Justice Bimal Prasad Das
ö. Which country has become the sixth
(C) Justice Bjaya Krushna Patel
member of the 'Five Eyes'
(D) Justice Jatindra Prasad Das Intelligence network ?

(A) Japan
4 Which of the following is not correct?
(A) The first India-Japan Samvad (B) Nepal
Conference was held in 2015 (C) India

at Bodh Gaya, India (D) China

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 What was the theme of the World (C) Priyadarshini
Sustainable Development Summit, (D) Dakshin Manasarovar

2020? 11. The Mars Perseverence Rover that

(A) Towards 2030 Goals: Making landed on the Mars on 18th February,
the Decade Count 2021 was launched by

(B) Sustainable EnergyAcross the (A) The Republic of Russia

Worid (B) The United States ofAmerica

SDG before 2030 (C) The People's Republic of

(C) Attaining
Resources for all China
(D) Energy and
(D) The Republic of India
Who, among the following persons of
Odisha, is the Padma Vibhushan 12. The State of Jammu and Kashmir
was made an Union Territory of India
Awardee for 2021 for distinguished
service in the field of Arts ? with effect from
(A) Shanti Devi (A) 26th January, 2019
(B) 5th August,2019
(B) Sudarshan Pattanaik
(C) 15th September, 2019
(C) Rajat Kumar Kar
(D) 31st October, 2019
(D) Sudarshan Sahoo
13. The Protest Movement organised at
The recipient of the Atibadi Jagannath
Shaheen Baug in Delhi from 14th
Das Literary Award awarded by the
December, 2019 to 24th March
Sahitya Academy of Odisha for 2020 2020 was against:
is
(A) The Jammu and Kashmir Re-
(A) Madhusudan Pati
organizationAct, 2019
(B) Binapani Mohanty (B) The Muslim Women
(Protection
(C) Rama Chandra Behera of Rights on
Marriage) Act,
(D) Rama Kanta Rath 2019
(C) The Citizenship Amendment
The Fresh Water Lake built by India
19 near its Research Station Maitri' in
Act, 2019
(D) The Reservation (for
the Antarctica is known as:
(A) Bharati
Economicaly Weaker Sections
of Citizens) Amendment Act,
(B) Dakshin Gangotri
2019

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14. The Military Skimishes that occurred (C) Samudragupta

between China and India since 5th (D) Chandragupta lI

May, 2020 in the Galwan Valley

18.) Who overthrow the Rashtrakutas in
involved teritorial disputes over
973 AD?
(A) The Pangong Lake Area (A) Taila l ofWesterm Chalukya
() The Aksai-Chin Area (B) Rajendra 1 of Chola
C) The Kargil Area (C) Parantaka 1 of Chola

(D) The Naku-La PassArea (D) None of these

15. What was the capital of Vatsa 19. Which of the following Mughal
Mahajanapada ? sources was translated into Persian

(A) Rajghat byPainda Khan ?

(A) Baburmama
(B) Kausambi
(B) Humayun Namah
(C) Ujayini
(C) Khulasat ul Akhbar
(D) Ahichchhatra
(D) Tankh l salatim l Afghana
16. Which of the following sources
20. Whowasthe author of Tankh!Dauai?
indicate that the last Mauryan ruler
(A) Niamatullah
Brihadrath was assassinated by
(B) Abdullah
Pushyamitra?
(C) Ahmad Yadgar
(A) Inscriptions
(D) Abul Fazl
(B) Gargi Samhita

(C) Puranas (2 Who had prepared the proclamation

known as mahzar issued in
(D) Harshacharita
September, 1579?
17. Who among the Gupta Rulers was
(A) Abul Fazi
first to bear higher political title of
Maharajadhiraja ? (B) Faizi

(A) Srigupta (C) Sheikh Mubarak

(B) ChandraguptaI (D) Sheikh Abdun Nabi

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 22. What was the term used for the compared the Salt March of
(26.) Who
religious officer in Mughal Gandhi to Napoleon's march to Paris
Administration? on his returm from Elba ?
(A) Mir Saman
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) Muhtasib
(B) Subhash Chandra Bose
(C) Mir 1Atish
C) Motilal Nehru
(D) MirI Bahr
(D) Rabindranath Tagore
23. British concluded Treaty of Surat in
27. Who founded the Deccan Educational
1775with
Society ?
(A) Narayan Rao
(B) Madhav Rao (A) Ranade

C) Raghunath Rao (B) GK.Gokhale

(D) Vinayak Rao (C). Dadabhai Naoroji

24. Which of the following land revenue (D) None of them

settlement was first to have concluded 28. Who was the Chairman of the First
with the village community? Famine Commission in 1880?
(A) Pemanent Settlement
(A) Sir Richard Strachey
(B) Mahalwari Settlement
(B) Sir Mac Donnel
(C) Ryotwari Settlement
(C) J.B. Lyall
(D) None of these
(D) T.Morrisson
25. What was the title of the first
newspaper published by James 29. The Middle Himalayan Range
Augustus Hickey? originated in
(A) The Bengal Journal (A) Eocene
(B) The Calcutta Chronicle (B) Miocene
(C) The Madras Courier
(C) Oligocene
(D) The Bengal Gazette
(D) Pliocene
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 Which of the following is not an34 Which ofthe following isnotcomectly
example of a Block mountain? matched ?

(A) Vosjes Mountain (A) Tulbul Project-Jhelum River

(B) Koteshwar Project-Tapti River

(B) Westein Ghats Mountain
(C) Salt Range (C) Dulhasti Project-Chenab River
(D) Sierra Nevada (D) Sardar Sarovar Project -

Narmada River
31 Which of the following tributaries of
Indus river emerges from the Pir (35Which of the following human races
Panjal Range? haswoollyhairs 2
(A) Satuj CA)Negroid_
(B) Ravi (B) Mangoloid

(C) Chenab (C) Caucasoid

(D) Jhelum (D) Australoid

32 Which of the following pairs is not

(38 In which ofthe following demographic
transition stages, the intensive
correctly matched ?
subsistence farming is prevalent?
(A) Stack- Sea Waves
B B a j a d a - Winds
(A) Stage-
(B) Stage-
(C) Kame- Rivers
(C) Stage-ll
Lappies-Ground WaterX (D) Stage-IV
33 Which of the following is not correctly
37. Itis 12 noon at Greenwich.
matched ? What will
be the time ata place situated at 60
(A) Benguela Curent-SouthAtarntic East Longitude ?
(B) Iminger Curent-North Pacific (A) 2am
(C) Peru Current- South Pacific (B) 2 pm
(D) Mozambique Current- Indian (C) 4 am
Ocean
(D) 4 pm

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 41. Which of the following is a
38. What is the significance of Dakshin

Gangotri ? predominant species of the

(A) It is a
research station near
deciduous forests of Odisha?
South Gangotri glacier over (A) Mahogany
(B) Red wood
Himalayas
(B) Itis a research station south of (C) Sal

river Ganga near Rishikesh (D) Teak

(C) tis a scientific base station in

42. Slash and burn cultivation relates to
Antarctica which ofthe following?
(D) Itis a scientificbase station at
(A) Intensive cutivation
South Pole
(B) Extensive cultivation
39. In India, El Nino is very often (C) Subsistence agriculture
associated with (D) Commercial agriculture
(A) Agood monsoon weather with
heavy rain and good yield of (43) The ldeal of Welfare State in the lIndian
Consttution is enshrined in its:
crops
(A) Preamble
(B) A bad monsoon weather with
low rain and crop failure
(B) Directive Principle's of State

(C) A bad monsoon weather with

Policy
no rain and crop failure
(C) Fundamental Rights
(D) A normal monsoon weather
(D) Seventh Schedule
with no adverse effect on crops 44. Who, as per the provisions of the
40. In the atmosphere which of the
Constitution, declares an area asa
Scheduled Area ?
following carries the ozone layer?
(A) Prime Minister
(A) Exosphere
(B) President of India
(B) lonosphere
(c) Stratosphere (C) Govemor
(D) Speaker of the
(D) Troposphere Legislative
Assembly
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49 The Concurrent List in the 48. Anymoney bill cannot be introduced
in the Parliament without the consent
Constitution of India was adopted

from of the
(A) Prime Minister of India
(A) Switzerland
(B) Union Finance Minister
(B) Australia
(C) The Speaker of the Lok Sabha
(C) Canada
(D) The Chairman of the Rajya
(D) France
Sabha
46. Which Schedule of the Constitution
49. The first state in India which was
of India distributes power between created on linguistic basis :
the Union and the States?
(A) Andhra Pradesh
(A) First Schedule
(B) Haryana
(B) Second Schedule
(C) Gujarat
(C) Sixth Schedule (D) Kerala
(D) Seventh Schedule
50. The Right to Education for all

47. Mandamus is a writ issued by the between 6 and 14 years of age has

been included as a Fundamental

Apex Court:
Right in the year
(A) Asking a public official or any
A) 1998
authority to perfom legal duties
(B) 2001
(B) Enquiring into the legality of
(C) 2002
claim of any person to public
(D) 2000
office

(C) Asking a person who has (51 One of the following now is not a
detained any other persons to
Department of Finance Ministry:

appear before a court (A) Department of Economic Afairs

(D) Against any lower court not to (B) Department of Expenditure

do any act excess of their (C) Department of Revenue

jurisdiction (D) Department of Banking Affairs

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 The All India Whips Conference is (B) Chief Ministers and Experts
organised by: and Specialists
(A) Ministry of Pariamentary Affairs (C) All Chief Ministers and

(B) Chief Ministers of States Lieutenant Governors

(D) Chief Ministers and .Union
(C) Speaker of Lok Sabha
(D) Vice-President of India
Finance Minister
57. The Chairman of Zonal Council in
53 The pupose of Uniform Civil Code
Indiais:
incorporated in Article 44 of Indian
(A) Finance Minister
Constitution is for:
(B) Chaiman of Rajya Sabha .

(A) National Security

(C)Union HomeMinister
(B) Cultural Integration (D) Speaker of Lok Sabha
(C) National Unity
58 For each country, Global Hunger
(D) Welfare of Minorities
Index Values are determined byy
54) Policy as Rational choice in which of the following indicators ?
competitive situation is: (1) Under nourishment
(A) Game Theory Child Mortality
(2
(B) Rational Theory (3) Child Stunting
(C) Group Theory (4) Child Wasting
The corect answer is
(D) Systems Theory
(A) (1).(2) and (4)
Keeping control over delegated
(8) (2). (3) and (4)
legislation is the power of
(C) (3) and (4)
(A) Rajya Sabha
(D) (1).(2). (3) and (4)
(B) Lok Sabha
59) The reserve held by commercial
(C) Prime Minister
banks over and above
(D) Supreme Court the statutory
minimum with the RBI are called
K56 The Goveming Councl of NITIAayog (A) Cash Reserve
comprises of:
(B) Deposit Reserve
(A) Prime Minister and all Chief (C) Monetary Reserve
Ministers
(D) Excess Reserve

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60. Which of the C) Life Expectancy
following promoted the
concept of Self Help Groups (SHGs) (D) Social Inequality
for financing the poor? 64. Which of the following Committees
(A) NITIAayog recommended a poverty line based
on nutritional requirements
(B) RBI
exclusively?
(C) NABARD
(A) Lakdawala Committee
(D) Union Ministry of Labour
(B) Rangarajan Committee
Which of the following is not aa (C) Alagh Committee
financial inclusion scheme? (D) Tendulkar Committee

(A) Pradhan Mantri Jandhan Yojana 65. The first sustainable development
goal aims to eradicate extreme
(B) Suraksha Bandhan Scheme
poverty. How does the U. N. currently
(C) Atal Pension Yojana measure extreme poverty?
(D) HRIDAY (A) People who are unemployed
and unable to access welfare
62.Sishu, Kishore and Tarun are the
benefits from the state
schemes of
(B) People who live on less than
(A) Industrial Development Bank of $5 a day.
J India
(C) People who claim to be living
(B) Micro Units Development and in poverty
CReferenceAgency Ltd. (D) People who live on less than
(C) Small Industries Development $A.25 a day
Bank of India
66 Which is the highest allocation
(D) Regional Rural Banks
Ministry in Budget 2021-22?
Which of the following indicators is
(A) Ministry of Defencea
not used to calculate Human
(8) Ministry of Education
Development Index ?
(C) Ministry of Railway
(A) Education
(D) Ministry of Health and Family
(B) Per Capita Income
Welfare
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 Central Government has unveild a (C) Monly
new series of Consumer Price Index (D) M and M, only
for Industrial Workers (CPI-/W) with 71. The lnsurance Regulatory and
-as the base year.
Development Authority (RDA) is
(A) 2011 which type of body ?

(B) 2016 (A) Constitutional Body

(C) 2017 (B) Statutoy Body

(D) 2018 (C) Advisony Body
68. The contribution of the primary sector (D) Non-governmental Body
to GDP of lndia is 72. Deforestation is not a direct cause
(A) Increasing over the years of
(B) Remaining the same over the (A) Loss of biodiversity
years (B) Top soil erosion
(C) Decreasing over the years (C) Global climate change
(D) Attimes increasing and at times (D) Species invasion
decreasing over the years
73. The succession where the community
69.Robinhood effect is relatedto which increases its diversity and complexity
of the following ? with time is called

(A) Income and consumption (A) Primary succession

(B) Income generation B) Progressive succession
(C) Income redistribution (C) Retrogressive succession
(D) Income taxation (D) Denuded succe_sion

70. Out of the four concepts

of money. Biochemical oxygen demand of
Supply used in India, M, M, M, and water is a measure of:

M. the Post Office Savings are (A) Water nirate level

includedin: (B) Water phosphate level
(A) M,ony (C) Water
organic load
(B) M and M, only (D) Water pesticide load
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75. (B) Kaziranga- Lion
Which of the following does not
belong to natural air pollutant? (C) Bharatpur-Tigers

buck
(A) Hydrocarbon (D) Balukhanda-Black
(B) SOx
80. Which of the following is expected to
(C) NOx
be a cause of the rise in sea level?
(D) Peroxyacetyl nitrate Ozone layer depletion
(A)
76. Exsitu conservation includes: (B) Monsoon rain

(A) National parks (C) Melting of polar ice cap

(B) Botanic gardens (D) Continental drift

(C) Biosphere resenves 81. The solar energy is a

(D) Wildlife sanctuaries
(A) Conventional energy source
77. The database generated by ENVIS (B) Non-Conventional energy source
is used for the management of (C) Non-renewable energy source
(A) Biodiversity (D) Exhaustible energy sourcee
(B) Freshwater recharge
82) Bats use - to navigate and
(C) Ocean Temperature
find food.
(D) Popular Growth
(A) Resonance
78. CBD is expanded as (B) Magneto-reception
(A) Convention on Bio-Diversity
(C) Electroreception
(B) Conservation of Bio-Diversity
(D) Echolocation
(C) Conservation of Biological
83. Nucleic acid present in corona virus
Diversity is
(D) Centre of Biological Diversity
(A) Deoxyribonucleic acid
79. Which of the following is a correct (B) Oxyribonucleic acid
combination ?
(C) Ribonucleic acid
(A) Sundarban- Rhinoceros
(D) Chromatin

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 88. The main component of biogas i
84!) Television signals are:
A) Frequency modulated (A) Butane

(B) Amplitude modulated (B) Ethylene

(C) Both frequency and amplitude (C) Methane
modulated (D) Propane
(D) Phase modulated
89. Subatomic particles are
85. Electrical energy is converted into
(A) Electrons
mechanical energy in:
(B) Protons
(A) Dynamo
(C) Neutrons
(B) Microphone
(D) All of these
(c) Electric motor
(D) Heater 90. Carbon monoxide is a poisonous
gas because it:
86. One light year is:
(A) Binds to digestive hormones
(A) The distance travelled by light
in free space in one year
(B) Damages lungs

(B) The light emitted by sun in one (C) Destroys RBCs

(D) Binds to haemoglobin
year
The time taken by light to travel 91. Which is NOT a synthetic polymer?
from sun to earth
(A) PVC
(D) Intensity of light emitted by sun
(B) Nylon
in one year
(C) Polystyrene
87. Bleeding from nose is caused when
(D) Resin
a personis there at:
92. Bee sting causes severe pain and
(A) Higher altitudes where
atmospheric pressure is low burning sensation due to the
(B) Lower altitudes
presence of:
where
atmospheric pressure is high (A) Acetic acid
(C) Normal altitudes where (B) Sulfuric acid
atmospheric pressure is high (C) Citric acid
(D) No effect of altitude (D) Methanoic acid

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93. Albinism is caused due to the 97. Spirogyra is a kind of:
deficiency of alan:
(A) Algae
(A) Homone
(B) Fungi
(B) Enzyme
(C) Vitamin (C) Bacteria
(D) Metal (D) Virus
94. 98. Which of the following substances is
In
ballpoint pens, dyes used are:
(A) Water based not synthetic?
((B) Alcohol based (A) Fibroin
(C) Glycerine based (B) Lexan
(D) Qilbased (C) Neoprene
(D) Teflon
9s Which one of the following colours is
least deviated by the glass prism ?
99. Change in the base sequence within
(A) Green a gene is called
(B) Red (A) Mutation
(C) Violet
(B) Cloning
(D) Orange
C) Fusion
96. 'Ficus
benghalensis' is the scientific (D) Breeding
name of:

(A) Brinjal
(100) Hypsometer is used to measure
(B) Banana (A) The pressure of gas
(C) Peepal B) The boiling point of liquids
(C) The leel of
humidity
OBanyan
(D) The depth of ocean

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