APPSC Group 1 Prelims Exam 2011 Solved Paper | APPSC Group I Prelim Exam 2011 Answer Key | APPSC Group I Prelims Exam Paper 2011

APPSC Group 1 Prelims Exam 2011 Solved Paper | APPSC Group I Prelim Exam 2011 Answer Key | APPSC Group I Prelims Exam Paper 2011



1. The total Solar eclipse of the 21st Century occurred on:

1) 20th July, 2009

2) 21st July, 2009

3) 22nd July, 2009

4) 23rd July, 2009



2. The following is the outline map of a country. Identify it:

1) Brazil

2) Mexico

3) Iran

4) Canada



3. The following is the outline map of a State in India. Identify it :



1) Orissa

2) Uttar Pradesh

3) Tamil Nadu

4) Karnataka



4. The following is the outline map of a District in Andhra Pradesh.

Identify

1) Karimnagar

2) Khammam

3) Guntur

4) Anantapur



5. The outer layer of the earth is known as :

1) Mantle

2) Core

3) Cirrus

4) Crust



6. Which one of the following is the major Ocean of the world?

1) Indian Ocean

2) Atlantic Ocean

3) Pacific Ocean

4) Arctic Ocean



7. Latitudes are imaginary lines drawn parallel to the Equator and run

from :

1) North to South

2) East to West

3) Arctic circle to North pole

4) South pole to Tropic of cancer



8. Bandipur National Park/Wildlife sanctuary is in :

1) Assam

2) Gujarat

3) Karnataka

4) Tamil Nadu



9. On 21st March and 21st September the Sun’s rays fall directly on :

1) Exosphere

2) Equator

3) Stratosphere

4) Tropic of Capricorn



10. In Andhra Pradesh among the following lead deposits are found in:

1) Kurnool District

2) Nizamabad District

3) Vijayanagaram District

4) Chittoor District



11. The first Coalition Government formed at the Centre was :

1) Janata Government

2) United Front Government

3) National Democratic Government

4) National Front Government



12. The Article 243-G of the Indian Constitution contains :

1) The financial resources of Panchayat Raj Bodies

2) The functions of the Nyaya Panchayats

3) The powers and functions of Village Panchayats

4) The powers of chairpersons of Zilla Parishads and Mandal

Parishads



13. Gandhiji launched his first Satyagraha is South Africa in the year :

1) 1905

2) 1906

3) 1915

4) 1916



14. The 97th Constitutional Amendment Act resulted in the :

1) Readjustment of Lok Sabha Constituencies

2) Prohibition of Members of Parliament to hold offices of profit

3) Increase in the number of languages in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution

4) Limiting the size of the cabinet at the centre and state levels to 10 percent of the total strength of the respective lower houses



15. The method which became popular in recent past for employing persons for various jobs in the public as well as private sectors is :

1) Contract appointments

2) Emergency recruitment

3) Outsourcing

4) On-line recruitment



16. Sustainable development exactly means :

1) Improving the conditions of present generation without affecting the needs of future generation

2) Development that percoloates to the bottom level sections in the society

3) Development with social justice

4) Development that lasts for a long time



17. President Rule was imposed in Andhra Pradesh in 1973 because of:

1) Telangana agitation

2) Jai Andhra Movement

3) Political instability

4) Failure of Constitutional Machinery



18. The lowest number of seats won by the Congress Party in the

Andhra Pradesh State Assembly Elections held in the year :

1) 1983

2) 1985

3) 1994

4) 1999



19. The name of the Programme recently introduced by Government of Andhra Pradesh to merge all the anti-poverty programmes into a single integrated scheme is :

1) Velugu

2) Indira Prabha

3) Rajiv Gandhi Pragathi Patham

4) Indira Kranthi Pathakam



20. Providing microfinance arrangements to the poor women for extension of credit along with thrift-type of saving schemes is through :

1) Jawahar Rozgar Yojana

2) Self-Help Groups

3) National Rural Employment Programme

4) Indira Prabha



21. Minimum support prices for food crops to the Union Government is recommended by :

1) Agricultural Commission

2) Ministry of Agriculture

3) Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices

4) Food Corporation of India



22. The duration of medium term agricultural credit is :

1) 15 months to 5 years

2) 5 years to 10 years

3) less than 3 months

4) 3 months to 6 months



23. Karl Pearson’s coefficient of correlation lies between :

1) –1 to +1

2) –1 to 0

3) 0 to 1

4) 1 to 100



24. Saving is :

1) the major determinant of growth

2) the only determinant of growth

3) one of the determinants of growth

4) not concerned with growth



25. Which of the following descriptions does not explain VAT as per its conceptualisation?

1) It will diminish revenue buoyancy

2) It is a harmonised commodity taxation regime

3) Its effects are non-cascading

4) It is a self-enforcing system



26. Heavy Sector Strategy is associated with the name of :

1) Brahmananda

2) Mahalanobis

3) Bhagwati

4) Chakravarti



27. A stable macroeconomy contributes to global integration through the :

1) Ability to withstand shocks

2) Use of prices as signals

3) High returns from education

4) Creation of financial discipline



28. One of the key elements of India’s market based developmental strategy is :

1) No Government intervention

2) Investment in physical capital

3) Integration with the global economy

4) A rapidly changing macroeconomy



29. The Comptroller and Auditor General submits his Annual Report regarding the Centre to :

1) The Prime Minister

2) The President

3) The Parliament

4) The Chairman of the Planning Commission



30. The Regional Rural Bank is a bank sponsored by :

1) Reserve Bank of India

2) Ministry of Finance

3) NABARD

4) Scheduled Commercial Bank



31. Alfred Noble is associated with the invention of :

1) Cosmic rays

2) Dynamite

3) Dynamo

4) Penicillin



32. The period of revolution of a geostationary satellite is :

1) 365 days

2) 30 days

3) 1 day

4) 12 hours



33. Permanent hardness of water is due to the presence of :

1) Calcium sulphate

2) Calcium bicarbonate

3) Sodium bicarbonate

4) Magnesium bicarbonate



34. The Greenhouse effect deals with :

1) Cooling of lower atmosphere

2) Warming of upper atmosphere

3) Cooling of upper atmosphere

4) Warming of lower atmosphere



35. Pace-maker is related to :

1) heart

2) lung

3) liver

4) kidney



36. Inertia is the property of :

1) force

2) strength

3) mass

4) volume



37. Tea will cool most easily in :

1) glass cup

2) metal cup

3) clay cup

4) porcelain cup



38. When there is no external force acts on a system of particles, the

velocity of centre of mass of the system will be :

1) increased

2) decreased

3) zero

4) constant



39. If the momentum of a body is increased by 100%, th kinetic energy will be increased by :

1) 300%

2) 200%

3) 100%

4) 50%



40. The colour given by excess Lithium in Lithium Chloride solid is :

1) Violet

2) Green

3) Pink

4) Yellow



41. Sodium benzoate is used as a :

1) flavouring agent

2) preservative

3) colouring agent

4) antacid



42. The element used in Integrated circuits of computers is :

1) Iron

2) Magnesium

3) Aluminium

4) Silicon



43. Brass is an alloy of :

1) Copper and Aluminium

2) Copper and Tin

3) Copper and Zinc

4) Copper and Nickel



44. Blood is a :

1) Solution

2) Colloid

3) Emulsion

4) Gel



45. Mosquito repellents contain mainly :

1) calcium dihydrogen phosphate

2) potassium hydrogen phosphate

3) sodium hydrogen sulphate

4) ammonium bicarbonate



46. The economically useful part in Ginger is :

1) Bulb

2) Fruit

3) Rhizome

4) Root



47. The edible part of coffee seed is :

1) Tapetum

2) Mace

3) Caruncle

4) Perisperm



48. Lutein is a/an :

1) Blue coloured pigment

2) Yellow coloured pigment

3) Brown coloured pigment

4) Orange coloured pigment



49. In the area of Biotechnology enzyme that is produced commercially both from plants and microbes is :

1) Papain

2) Trypsin

3) Protease

4) Amylase



50. Plants that grow in seashores are called as :

1) Halophytes

2) Hydrophytes

3) Xerophytes

4) Psammophytes



51. The study of animal behaviour is called as :

1) Etymology

2) Ethology

3) Ecology

4) Euphenics



52. Vitamin related with production of antibodies is :

1) B6

2) B12

3) B1

4) B2



53. Serological tests have enormous value in the process of :

1) Classification

2) Identification

3) Diversity

4) Code of nomenclature



54. Pearls are the products from :

1) Annelids

2) Arthropods

3) Poriferans

4) Molluscs



55. Siphoning type of mouth parts are present in :

1) Mosquito

2) Cockroach

3) Butterfly

4) Housefly



56. The space shuttle launched by NASA in November, 2009 was :

1) Atlantis

2) Challenger

3) Columbia

4) Discovery



57. The United Nations Climate Change Conference, 2009 was concluded in :

1) Poland

2) Denmark

3) China

4) Japan



58. Recently, the manuscripts of which one of the following has been included in the UNESCO’s Memory of World Register?

1) Mahabharata

2) Ramayana

3) Rigveda

4) Abhidhamma Pitaka



59. In February, 2009, the first model e-COurt in India was launched by the :

1) High Court of Gujarat

2) High Court of Tamil Nadu

3) High Court of Himachal Pradesh

4) High Court of Andhra Pradesh



60. Global Campaign ’350′ was observed as an International Day for Climate Action on :

1) 25th October, 2009

2) 30th October, 2009

3) 14th October, 2009

4) 24th October, 2009



61. The Liberalisation, Privatisation and Globalisation Model of Economic Development assigns a key role to the :

1) Foreign Direct Investment

2) Information Technology

3) Private Sector

4) Public-Private partnership



62. The bulk of the business relating to the Indian Stock Market is handled by the :

1) Reserve Bank of India

2) Bombay Stock Exchange

3) National Stock Exchange

4) International Stock Exchange



63. Achievement of the growth rate of 9.5% is/was the target of :

1) Ministry of Finance

2) Eleventh Five Year Plan

3) Tenth Five Year Plan

4) Planning Commission



64. The recent statement made by the Indian Prime Minister that the Higher Education in India can be developed through adopting approach of :

1) Privatisation

2) Involvement of Foreign Providers

3) Earmaking 60% of the national income for higher education

4) Public-Private partnership



65. The crisis of which impelled the Central Government to introduce far reaching reforms in the country’s economy in 1990-1991 was :

1) Balance of payments crisis

2) Crisis in Public Sector

3) Financial crisis

4) Foreign exchange



66. Introducing a man, a woman said, “He is the only son of my mother’s mother.” How is the woman related to the man?

1) Sister

2) Niece

3) Aunt

4) Mother



67. Five girls are sitting in a row. Rashi is not adjacent to Sulekha or Abha. Anuradha is not adjacent to Sulekha. Rashi is adjacent to Monika. Monika is at the middle in the row. Then Anuradha is adjacent to whom out of the following?

1) Rashi

2) Monika

3) Abha

4) Sulekha



68. Which two months in a year have the same calendar?

1) April, June

2) January, December

3) April, July

4) June, October



69. Rahul ranks tenth from the top and thirty-fourth from the bottom in

a class. How many students are there in the class?

1) 45

2) 43

3) 46

4) 44



70. Arrange the following items from general to particular :

a) Animal

b) Feline

c) Leopard

d) Mammal

e) Vertebrate

f) Cat

1) adcbef

2) acedbf

3) abcdef

4) aedbcf



71. In a group of 15 people, 7 read French, 8 read English while 3 of them read none of these two. How many of them read both French and English?

1) 0

2) 3

3) 4

4) 5



72. Find the missing character from among the alternatives



1) 9

2) 12

3) 18

4) 6



73. What is always in worry?

1) Non-Cooperation

2) Unrest

3) Poignancy

4) Difficulty



74. Identify the odd one in the following :

1) Hinduism

2) Christianity

3) Zoroastrianism

4) Islam



75. What does the following sign indicate?



1) Hospital

2) First Aid

3) Cross Road

4) No Parking



76. If these letters RIDANI DINAGM rearranged, it would be the name of a :

1) Political leader

2) President

3) Governor

4) Actor



77. If KNOWLEDGE is coded as ’256535475′ the ‘GENERAL’ is coded as :

1) 7545993

2) 7969393

3) 7555912

4) 7555913



78. ‘Gas’ is to ‘Pipe’ as ‘Electricity’ is to :

1) Current

2) Switch

3) Wire

4) Regulator



79. Mention the sport/game with which the term Mashie is most

closely associated :

1) High Jump

2) Golf

3) Volleyball

4) Kho-Kho



80. Mention the term with which the game Chess is closely associated:

1) Castle

2) Home Run

3) Mashie

4) Raider



81. Identify the name of the creator of the popular fictional character

Lord Voldemort :

1) Eoin Coulfer

2) J.K. Rowling

3) Salman Rushdie

4) Edgar Rice Burroughs



82. Identify the name of the popular fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs :

1) Feluda

2) Hercule Poirot

3) Tarzan

4) Gandalf



83. The slogan of State Bank of India is :

1) With you all the way

2) A tradition of trust

3) Trusted family Bank

4) Care at every stage of life



84. Identify the following Emblem :



1) Union Public Service Commission

2) Government of Andhra Pradesh

3) University Grants Commission

4) National Council of Educational Research and Training



85. The following Emblem indicates :



1) Indian Bank

2) Canara Bank

3) Syndicate Bank

4) Andhra Bank



87. ‘Body’ includes ‘limb’ as ‘tree’ includes :

1) Seed

2) Wood

3) Branch

4) Soil



88. A train is travelling at a speed of 120 km per hour. How long will

it take to travel 10 kms?

1) 5 minutes

2) 10 minutes

3) 10 minutes

4) 15 minutes



89. A student got twice as many sums wrong as he got right. If he attempted 36 sums in all, how many did he solve correctly?

1) 18

2) 24

3) 9

4) 12



90. Rearrange the letters SESTA to make meaningful word :

1) Sets

2) Asset

3) Tests

4) Tseas



91. Who known as the Plato of the Jat tribe?

1) Churaman

2) Raja Ram

3) Surajmal

4) Badan Singh



92. After Bengal, the English secured the rights of duty free trade in the dominions of :

1) Nawab of Awadh

2) The Nizam of Hyderabad

3) Raja of Banaras

4) The Jats of Bharatpur



93. ‘Madhura Vijayam’ was composed by :

1) Molla

2) Gangadevi

3) Ramabhadramba

4) Madhuravani



94. The Vernacular Press Act was passed during the tenure of :

1) Warren Hastings

2) Bentinck

3) Lytton

4) Curzon



95. The founder of the Servants of India Society was :

1) Dadabhai Naoroji

2) Gopalkrishna Gokhale

3) M.G. Ranade

4) Balgangadhar Tilak



96. Who was popularly called as Andhra Shivaji?

1) Duggirala Gopala Krishnaiah

2) Kanneganti Hanumanthu

3) Konda Venkatappaiah

4) P. Veerayya Chowdary



97. The first Indian King who abdicated his throne, was :

1) Chandragupta I

2) Asoka

3) Chandragupta Maurya

4) Samudragupta



98. The founder of Nalanda University was :

1) Kumaragupta

2) Samudragupta

3) Asoka

4) Nalanda



99. Who defeated Harsha and assumed the title ‘Parameshwar’?

1) Pulakesin I

2) Pulakesin II

3) Mahendravarman I

4) Mahendravarman II



100.Jahangir’s Court was visited by the English trader, namely :

1) Daniel

2) Christofer

3) Sir William John

4) Sir Thomas Roe



101.What was the childhood name of Nur Jahan?

1) Bahu Begam

2) Bharagal Nisha

3) Maharul Nisa

4) Mumtaj



102.Which Governor-General is associated with the ‘Doctrine of Lapse’?

1) Cornwallis

2) Ripon

3) Curzon

4) Dalhousie



103. When was the Hyderabad State Congress formed?

1) 1938

2) 1935

3) 1932

4) 1929



104. The Direct Action Day observed by the Muslim League was on :

1) August 12, 1946

2) August 15, 1946

3) August 16, 1946

4) August 15, 1947



105. The ‘Kurnool Circular’ was issued by the State Congress leaders during :

1) Vandemataram Movement

2) Quit India Movement

3) Salt Satyagraha

4) Non-Cooperation Movement



106. On the Western end of Lake Ontario the chief iron and steel producer is :

1) Hamilton

2) Sydney

3) Trenton

4) Regina



107.The Tweed Valley is located in :

1) Bradford

2) Leeds

3) Scotland

4) Huddersfield



108.The highest peak in Australia is :

1) Mt. Ossa

2) Mt. Woodroppe

3) Mt. Bruce

4) Mt. Kosciuska



109. The largest bauxite field of Australia is located at :

1) Grove

2) Weipa

3) Orange

4) Victoria



110. Nikopol deposits of Ukraine consists of :

1) Manganese

2) Chromite

3) Copper

4) Nickel



111.The region between Kunlun mountains and the Alyn Tagh is called:

1) Mongolian plateau

2) Dzungarian Basin

3) Tsaidam Basin

4) Tarim Basin



112.The chief centre for tin smelting in South-east Asia is :

1) Java

2) Sumatra

3) Myanmar

4) Singapore



113.The name of highest mountain in Africa is :

1) Mt. Cameroon

2) Mt. Kilimanjaro

3) Mt. Elgon

4) Mt. Kenya



114. In India, the annual rainfall variability is above 60% in the State of :

1) Gujarat

2) Arunachal Pradesh

3) Assam

4) Manipur



115.In India among the given states below, in which state Manganese ore production is high?

1) Maharashtra

2) Andhra Pradesh

3) Orissa

4) Karnataka



116. In Andhra Pradesh, the Kesoram Cements is located in the district of :

1) Karimnagar

2) Vijayanagaram

3) Ranga Reddy

4) Kadapa



117.Among the given basins in India, in which basin the groundwater potential is found high?

1) Narmada

2) Krishna

3) Godavari

4) Cauvery



118.Maihan Dam has been constructed across the River :

1) Bokaro

2) Barakar

3) Damodar

4) Konar



119.Nicolaus Copernicus was the 16th Century :

1) Astronomer

2) Mathematician

3) Navigator

4) Philosopher



120.Annapurna, one of the highest mountains in the World is in :

1) India

2) Tibet

3) Bhutan

4) Nepal



121. The Indian girl, who got a rare honour to address World leaders at

the United Nations Summit on Climate Change was :

1) Anjana Sharma

2) Yugratna Srivastava

3) Soumya Bhattacharjee

4) Pratiksha Chakravarthy



122.Chandrayan II is designed jointly by India and :

1) Japan

2) Germany

3) Russia

4) France



123.Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India is :

1) S.H. Kapadia

2) A.R. Dave

3) D.S.R. Varma

4) K.G. Balakrishnan



124.India launched the Census, 2011 on :

1) 1st January, 2010

2) 1st February, 2010

3) 1st March, 2010

4) 1st April, 2010



125.The General Elections in Great Britain were held on :

1) 5th May, 2010

2) 6th May, 2010


3) 7th May, 2010

4) 8th May, 2010



126.The ICC World Women’s Twenty-20, Champion 2010 is :

1) India

2) Sri Lanka

3) Australia

4) New Zealand



127. Millennium’s longest Annular Solar eclipse occurred on :

1) 15th January, 2010

2) 16th January, 2010

3) 17th January, 2010

4) 18th January, 2010



128.Agni-I ballistic missile which was test-fired in March, 2010 has a

range of :

1) 300 km

2) 500 km

3) 700 km

4) 900 km



129.Viswanathan Anand won the FIDE World Chess Championship by defeating :

1) Boiko Borisov

2) Veselin Topalov

3) Dinara Safina

4) Ana Ivanovic



130.Shyam Saran of Kalpa village of Kinnaur district was honoured by Navin Chavla, Chief Election Commissioner of India in Himachal Pradesh on 12th June, 2010 as he happened to be :

1) One of the senior citizens of India

2) One of the voters casting his vote in all the elections

3) One of the first few voters of Pre-independent India

4) One of the first few voters of Independent India



131.Swayamsidha Scheme launched in the year 2002 was dedicated to:

1) Women’s Literacy

2) Women’s Health

3) Women’s Empowerment

40 Women’s Welfare



132.The winner of the Gold Medal at the Second World Sand Sculpture Championship is :

1) Sudarsan Pattnaik

2) Someswar Pathak

3) Goutham Prasad

4) Harischandra Mukharjee



133.The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2009 is awarded to :

1) Olivers Williamson

2) Herta Mueller

3) Elinor Ostrom

4) Thomas Steitz



134.The winner of the Spelling Bee Prize, 2010 in Washington held on

4th June 2010 is :

1) Sameer Mishra

2) Kavya Shivashankar

3) Anamika Veeramani

4) Shantanu Srivastav



135.The Sakshara Bharat Scheme introduced by Government of India will be in operation upto :

1) March, 2011

2) March, 2012

3) March, 2015

4) March, 2020



136.The first set of Identify Numbers as per the Unique Identification

Authority of India will be issued in :

1) February, 2011

2) July, 2011

3) January, 2012

4) June, 2012



137.The opening match of the FIFA 2010 World Cup was played

between :

1) South Africa and Mexico

2) South Africa and Nigeria

3) South Africa and America

4) South Africa and England



138.Earth Hour is a global event organised by :

1) Bureau of Energy Efficiency

2) United Nations

3) European Union

4) World Wide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund



139.The 15th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement was held in :

1) Cuba

2) Egypt

3) Sri Lanka

4) India



140.Smile Pinki, a documentary film won the :

1) Oscar award

2) Nobel award

3) Dada Saheb Phalke award

4) Bhatnagar award



141.In which of the following subjects were the Vedic Aryans not preficient?

1) Astronomy

2) Mathematics

3) Chemistry

4) Medicine



142.Which of the Pallava rulers is known as ‘Vichitrachitta’?

1) Mahendravarman

2) Parameswaravarman

3) Narasimhavarman I

4) Narasimhavarman II



143.Jayapa Senani composed ‘Nrittaratnavali’ during the reign of :

1) Rudradeva

2) Ganapatideva

3) Rudramadevi

4) Pratapa Rudra



144.Harappan people had close external contact with :

1) Iran

2) Egypt

3) Bahrain

4) Mesopotamia



145.Which Vedic text first refers to moneylending?

1) Atharvaveda

2) Yajurveda

3) Satapatha Brahmana

4) Gopatha Brahmana



146.In the Chola Kingdom, a very large village administered as a

single unit was called :

1) Kurram

2) Kottam

3) Nadu

4) Taniyur



147.The state-pormoted canal irrigation system was initiated by :

1) Alauddin Khalji

2) Ghyasuddin Tughlaq

3) Firuz Tughlaq

4) Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq



148.The Vijayanagar King who totally withdrew the marriage tax was:

1) Krishnadevaraya

2) Devaraya II

3) Achyutaraya

4) Sadasivaraya



149.The style of vocal Hindustani music which was non-Islamic in

character was :

1) Taraka

2) Khayal

3) Gawwalis

4) Dhrupad



150.At the time of his coronation at Kalanaur the age of Akbar was :

1) Fifteen

2) Fourteen

3) Twenty

4) Eighteen

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