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UPSC 2008 Prelims Solution(General Studies)
Below is the solution for UPSC prelims general studies :

(General Studies) SET B:
  1.  c (BRIT - Isotope Tech)
  2. c (National Brain Research Centre - Gurgaon and fingerprinting centre - hyderabad)
  3. a (desalination plant - Kavaratti)
  4. b (Bretton Woods Conference)
  5. b (Directive principles of state Policy)
  6. b (Legislative assembly)
  7. c (Ninety Second amendment)
  8. d ( PSU of GoI - all 3)
  9. d ( million plus cities - all 4)
  10. a (CDM statement 1 only)
  11. c ( World summit on Sustainable Development - Johannesberg)
  12. d (K. P. Singh, Vikram Pandit.....)
  13. d (Amnesty International, CIS...)
  14. b (% rural population - himachal pradesh)
  15. b ( Dec order of population - USA & Indonesia)
  16. c ( Spoken max after hindi - Bengali)
  17. b (Heavy Water - H. C. Urey)
  18. c ( Kim Dae jung - South Korea)
  19. d (Ogaden region - Ethiopia and Somalia)
  20. a (Palitana Temple - Bhavnagar)
  21. c (2004 Euro - Greece)
  22. b (Jupiter and Saturn)
  23. b (Cristina Kirchner - Argentina)
  24. c (Rowlatt Act - Lord Chelmsford)
  25. c (radioactive water leakage - Japan)
  26. d (% of people over 65 years - 5-6%)
  27. b (Spacecraft - Cassini)
  28. b (ITER - Southern France)
  29. c (Themis Mission)
  30. b (Biosphere Reserve - Kanchenjunga)
  31. b (agent orange - weed killing)
  32. d (cabinet mission)
  33. c (Free Indian Legion - S. C. Bose)
  34. c (Prisoner's Dilemma - Game Theory)
  35. b (East India Company - Jahangir)
  36. c (refused knighthood - G. K. Gokhale)
  37. d (Irrigation project by state - all 3)
  38. b (Current power generation - installed and generation)
  39. b (International Date Line - Bering Strait)
  40. b (Waterfalls & Rivers)
  41. d (Nearest to equator - Singapore)
  42. b (Tehri Hydropower complex - Bhagirathi)
  43. d ( Minerals in Chhattisgarh - all 4)
  44. b (Theory/Law & Scientists - Albert Einstien)
  45. a (Baudhayan theorem = Pythogoras theorem)
  46. a (Sharing border with Moldova)
  47. a (Asian Development bank & Colombo Plan)
  48. c (Emirates of UAE - Ajman, Ras al-Khaimah(last))
  49. b (largest areawise Lok Sabha constituency - Ladakh)
  50. b (Median age of Population)
  51. b (Person-Area : Sabyasachi Mukherjee,...)
  52. b (Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer)
  53. c (Ebraham Alkazi - Theatre training)
  54. d (Chikmanglur/coffee, Mandya/sugar)
  55. a (Bimbavati Devi -Manipuri)
  56. c (Sarosh Zaiwalla - legal expert)
  57. c (Tapovan & Vishnugarh - Uttarakhand)
  58. c (Author/Work - Dinbandhu Mitra--Nil-darpan)
  59. a (New Lamps for Old - Aurobindo Ghosh)
  60. c (Un-British Rule in India - Dadabhai Naoroji)
  61. a (egg laying mammal - echidna)
  62. c (Mosquito - gambusia fish)
  63. b (Scheduled areas in several states - fifth schedule)
  64. b (Dept. of Border Management - Ministry of Home Affairs)
  65. d (Verappa Moily - Administrative Reforms)
  66. c (Elizabeth Hawley - Himalayan Expeditions)
  67. c (States of India sharing coastline - 9)
  68. d (James D Watson/Nobel Prize - Genetics)
  69. b (Board - Headquarters ---- Tobacco board/guntur....)
  70. a (max no. of national parks - Andaman & Nicobar)
  71. c (Not an Ape - Langur)
  72. d (5 identical balls - one in each row - 108)
  73. a (exactly 5 letters in 6 envelopes - zero)
  74. c (identical red, black and white balls in cells - 24)
  75. a (how many diff triangles - 28)
  76. d (Francis Collins)
  77. d (S & P 500)
  78. b (Rajiv Gandhi National flying institute)
  79. c (Saurav Ganguly)
  80. b (Faiz Ahmed Faiz)
  81. c (180*10^7)
  82. c (Equal to R)
  83. b (Narmada)
  84. d (Nuclear supplier's group)
  85. c (Advanced Light helicopter)
  86. a (hand-in-hand china)
  87. c (Liver)
  88. d (Visible spectrum)
  89. b (radio waves)
  90. a (congress ministries)
  91. b (french open)
  92. b (malta)
  93. c (mahendragiri)
  94. c (Service/Agency - country)
  95. b (C Rangarajan)
  96. c  (7.35-7.45)
  97. b (Vice-Precident)
  98. b (Kurnool)
  99. d (India semi-final)
  100. a (Namchik-namphuk)
  101. a (Norman Ernest Borlaug - UAE)
  102. c (Yom kippur War)
  103. c (probiotic food)
  104. c (Albedo)
  105. c (A.N.ray - CJI . Nagendra singh- cec)
  106. b (Pitcher plant)
  107. d (king cobra)
  108. c (Spider)
  109. b ( High courts-3)
  110. c (Livestock population - India)
  111. d (Crocodile)
  112. d (Tributary river-Main River)
  113. c ( Nilgiri)
  114. b (Mahogany)
  115. d (Number of spokes)
  116. d (source of methane)
  117. a (Barak - Israel)
  118. c (Selene-1)
  119. d (Rig-veda)
  120. a (Orange prize)
  121. b (I)
  122. b (Number of terms - 73)
  123. b (4 books-12)
  124. c (Carpenter)
  125. c (100 pens at discount of 10%-862.50)
  126. c (school teacher-10)
  127. a (600)
  128. c (Bisphenol)
  129. d (GDP)
  130. b (March 1 2008 friday)
  131. b (electrification policy)
  132. c (2045)
  133. d (Biodiesel mission)
  134. d (National old age pension)
  135. c (Swayamsiddha)
  136. c ( M D C L)
  137. c (William henry bragg)
  138. b (Lal bahadur shastri)
  139. d (Sikkim - minimum population Census of india 2001)
  140. c (jet engine and rocket)
  141. a (Dye laser printer)
  142. a (Musical scale sa ni)
  143. b (Rubies and sapphires - Aluminium oxide)
  144. c (Stranger gas-Xenon)
  145. c (Methane and air- explosion in mines)
  146. b (Lithium and osmium)
  147. b (one barrel of oil - 159 litres)
  148. c (J.B. Kriplani)
  149. a (Al-Hilal)
  150. b (Bombay-First Session of INC)

Posted by architp on 2008-05-20 14:15:11 | Rating: | Views: 1232


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mahendra
on 2008-05-21 05:37:06
 
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on 2008-06-05 08:22:39
 
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on 2008-06-05 08:24:41
 
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on 2008-06-05 08:24:43
 
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