COMPETITIVE EXAM QUESTIONS PART 15

1. India's intermediate range ballistic missile is known as

• AGNI
• PRITHVI

2. Power to extend functions of Public Service Commissions. has been provided in 

    Ans: Article-321 of the Constitution

3. Nirav Modi, is alleged to have defrauded which nationalised bank of India of Rs 11,400 crore?

    Ans: Punjab National Bank

4. India is the..........WTO member to ratify the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA)?

• 75th
• 76th

5. Aspartame is an artificial sweetener sold in the market. It consist of amino acids and provides calories like other amino acids. Yet, it is used as a low-calorie sweetening agent in food items. What is the basis of this use ?

• Aspartame is as sweet as table sugar, but unlike table sugar, it is not readily oxidized in human body due to lack of requisite enzymes.
• When aspartame is used in food processing, the sweet taste remains, but it becomes resistant to oxidation.
• Aspartame is as sweet as sugar, but after ingestion into the body, it is converted into metabolites that yield no calories.
• Aspartame is several times sweeter than table sugar, hence food items made with small quantities of aspartame yield fewer calories on oxidation.

6. Consider the following statements: 

   i. Raja Rammohun Roy was an advocate of ethical social reform, and political liberalism in India

    ii. He was the founder of Banaras Hindu University

   iii. He attacked the practice of Sati

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

•  1 only
•  2 only
•  only 1 and 3
•  1, 2 and 3

7. Father of civil service in India

     Ans: Lord Cornwallis

8. Consider the following statements 

1. B G Tilak founded the Home Rule League in April 1916, in Maharashtra.
2. N C Kelkar was not associated with Home Rule Movement.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

• Only 1
• Only 2

9. Why did the Indian ministers in all the provinces resign in the year 1939?

• The Governor-General converted Indian administration from federal to unitary one because of the beginning of the Second World War
• India was declared a party to the Second World War without the consent of the provincial governments

10. The dockyard at lothal is connected through a channel to which one of the following rivers?

• bharavi
• bhogavo