Answer Key- UPSC CSE Prelims 2013 Paper 1

Paper code C

1) Parliamentary Committee on public accounts- b) 2 and 3 only

2) Bhakti Saints during Babur- Guru Nanak, B) 2 only

3) Food Chains – decomposers- b) Fungi and bacteria

4) Fishing grounds occur where- c) Cold and warm currents meet.

5) UNIQUE characteristic of Equitorial forests- c) 2 and 3 only (large number of species is not unique to equitorial forests)

6) Capital Accounts constitute- b) 1, 2, 4

7) Historical places with mural paintings: b) 1 and 2 only

8) Sankhya Philosophy- b) 2 only

9) parliamentary government- a) 1 and 2 only

10) Annual Range of temperature is more in continental interiors because- a) 1 only

11) Indian Coal- c) 1 and 3 only

12) laterite soil- c) 1 and 4

13) b) 2 only Mica in Koderma

14) kharif crops- c) 1,2 and 3

15) Climate extreme, scanty rainfall- b) Central Asian Steppe

16) inflation benefits- a) Debtors

17) Disguised unemployment means- d) Low productivity and c) Marginal productivity is zero.

18) c) 1 and 3 only

19) d) 1,2 and 3 only or b) 2 and 3 only

20) b) 2 only

21) c) both 1 and 2

22) Thunderstorm is produced by-c) 1 and 3

23) tribal pairs- a) 1 and 3 only

24) liquidity – d) 4,1,3,2

25) Open Market operations- c) Sale and Purchase of securities by RBI

26) d) all of the above

27) d) thermal power

28) Demographic dividend- a) Skill development

29) Tribhanga- a) Three bends

30) Annie besant- c) 1 and 3 only

31) Ilbert Bill- c) Indian magistrates try Europeans

32) Rise in prices caused by – d)1,2, and 3

33) FOREX reserves- b) Foreign Currency, Gold, SDR

34) Most inflationary- d) Create new money to finance budget deficit

35) Supply of money same, increased demand- b) Increased rate of interest.

36) Fruits in cold storage- c) Decreased rate of inspiration.

37) endangered- either a) or c) depending on whether swamp deer is included.

38) Ball bearing- c) Reduce effective contact area

39) optical illusions- c) 1,2, and 4

40) Rainbow- d) 1,2 and 3

41) transplanted seedlings don’t grow because: c) Root hair are lost

42) Economic growth will occur if- c) Capital formation occurs

43) Correct statement- a) 1 only

44) Leaf modification in deserts- d) 1, 2 and 3

45) a) Gravity is strongest

46) Higgs Boson- ?

47) Mycorrhiza in degraded soil- d) 1,2 3

48)  National development Council- 1,3,4

49) National Income- a) Total goods and services produced by nationals

50) Credit assistance to rural households- c) 1 and 3

51) Money bill-a) Lok Sabha may reject the recommendations of Rajya Sabha.

52) Correct statement- c) no process for removal of governor mentioned in the constitution

53) Correctly matched- b) Atlas mountains

54) Rock cut cave architecture- c) 3 only (by Asoka, not Chandragupta)

55) Recombinant DNA technology- d) 1,2,3

56) Hiuen Tsang- b) 2 and 3 only

57) naturally found in India- 1, 2, 3 only

58) Pollutants in Drinking water- c) 1,3 and 5

59) Constituent assembly- c) elected by Provincial Assemblies.

60) mammals- b) 1 and 3

61) Amendment bill- d) Neither 1 nor 2

62) Attorney general- c) 1,2 and 3

63) Sugar Industry- c) 1 and 3

64) Seasons due to- d) tilted axis

65) narmada flows East to West due to- a) 1 only

66) c) Exists as groundwater

67) a) 1 only

68) Dynamic changes are caused by- ? (c- 2,4,5,6)

69) d) 1,2,3

70) Tebhaga Movement-a) land revenue half to one third

71) d) without state’s consent

72) Grasslands- c) water limits and fire

73) Decreasing productivity- c) mangroves, grasslands, lakes, oceans.

74) Contour bunding- d) none

75) PESA- c) Autonomous regions in tribal areas

76)  d) Gram Sabha

77) Aflatoxin- c) Moulds

78) Economic Justice- b) Preambe and directive principles

79) E waste- b)

80) acid rain- d

81) food chain- a) 1 only

82) d) NOne

83) c) Nostoc and spirogyra

84) c)

85) a

86) b

87) a

88) c

89) c

90) b

91) a

 

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