APPSC Group 2 exam 2017 - paper 1 (List of questions)

 

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Question Number	Question	Concerned with the subject/ topic of
1	Who is the first Prime Minister of India to Visit Israel?	Current Affairs
2	Which of the following persons is designated as global terrorist by US State Department at the time of recent visit of Prime Minister Modi to the USA?	Current Affairs
3	What was the annual theme of the annual meeting of the World Economic forum held in January 2017 at Davos?	Current Affairs
4	What is the name of the place of recent border standoff between India and China?	Current Affairs
5	Who is the present director general of World Health Organisation	Current Affairs
6	Which carmaker company recently announced that it would make only electric or hybrid cars from 2019?	Current Affairs
7	The International Ayurveda Congress 2017 was held at	Current Affairs
8	World Meterological Day is celebrated every year on	GK
9	What was the theme of the New Delhi world Book fair 2017 held in January 2017?	Current Affairs
10	By what name Makar Sanranti festival celebrated in Assam?	GK
11	What is the aim of Mission 4k of the Indian Railways?	Current Affairs
12	Which of the following states did not join the GST regime before 1st July 2017	Current Affairs
13	As part of Green Initiative, Indian Navy installed solar power panels on board on?	Current Affairs
14	What is Bharat QR	GK
15	What is chicken’s neck of India	Current Affairs
16	What was the theme of Indian seed congress 2017 held at kolkatta?	Current Affairs
17	What is Mission XI million?	Current Affairs
18	Who is the present chairman of National commission for scheduled Tribes?	Current Affairs
19	Who won the French open 2017 in Mixed doubles category?	Current Affairs
20	Which country won the Azlan Shah Hockey cup 2017?	Current Affairs
21	Who was the head of the Government of India Panel constituted to the review of the FRBM Act?	Current Affairs
22	What is GSTN	GK
23	Apart from Iron and nickel, which of the following element is an important constituent of Inner core of the earth	Geography
24	Which organization brokered the Indus water treaty between India and Pakistan	GK
25	The theme of world wetlands Day 2017 celebrated in February 2017 is	Current Affairs
26	From which country power is imported by India?	GK
27	Which is the basic building block/ unit of all living things	General Science
28	Few days ago, DDT was used to kill Mosquitoes. Later in the recent years, it became very difficult to kill mosquitoes using DDT. Which principle explains the immunity of Mosquitoes from DDT?	General Science
29	Which of the following is a viral disease?	General Science
30	What is hydroponics	General Science
31	Which of the following are generally formed in combustion of saturated hydrocarbons?	General Science
32	Which of the following is used as a Lubricant	General Science
33	Why a bird standing on a high voltage cable does not get electronic shock?	General Science
34	What is the angle of vision for a normal healthy individual?	General Science
35	Which of the following is attracted to the north pole of a permanent magnet?	General Science
36	Tooth decay occurs when PH of the mouth is	General Science
37	Why sodium normally kept immersed in Kerosene oil?	General Science
38	A man posing as goldsmith went to a house and informed the lady of the house that he will polish her gold ornaments for a normal amount. He dipped the ornaments given by her in a solution called Royal water and they sparkled like new. After he left, the lady weighed the ornaments and found that they reduced in weight. What could be the solution?	General Science
39	High Biological Oxygen Demand indicate	General Science
40	Kigali  Agreement modifies which of these previous multi lateral agreements	Environment
41	Which of the following has the least mangrove cover?	Environment
42	Which of the first carbon neutral international airport in Asia – pacific	Environment
43	Which of these national parks of India is not recognized as world Heritage site by UNESCO	Environment
44	Who is the first Indian to receive the Lue Hoffman Award by International Union for the conservation of nature and natural resources (IUCN)	Environment
45	In which country is the Svalbard Global vault located	GK
46	Choose the correct Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) in carbon emissions under the Paris Ultimate Agreement set by India	Environment
47	Which of the following is not an example of an Ecotone	Environment
48	The Presence of high coliform counts in water indicate	Environment
49	Puga valley identified by the Geological survey of India has as the most promising field for geothermal power generation is located in the following region	Geography
50	Coral Bleaching is associated with the removal of	Environment
51	Which one is not a major port on the west coast	Geography
52	Which of these is an active volcano	Geography
53	Which of these storms is land based	Geography
54	Which organisation regularly conducts mock exercises of disaster management in various parts of the country?	Disaster management
55	India’s first Earthquake early warning system is installed in	Disaster management
56	What is the name of disaster management exercise hold at Visakhapatnam for preparedness in case of a super cyclone	Disaster management
57	Which of these is not a flood prevention and mitigation strategy?	Disaster management
58	In a cyclone in northern hemisphere air circulation swiftly inward in	Disaster management
59	How much percentage of the geographical area of India is flood prone	Disaster management
60	Which type of disaster is Avalanche	Disaster management
61	The first ever disaster management exercise on forest fires was held in April 2017 at	Current Affairs
62	In North India, heat waves normally occur in the following period	Disaster management
63	What is the name of the operation in which the blockage due to the snow landslide debris in a river in Kargil area is removed using explosives to prevent flash floods	Disaster management
64	Which rock system in India has most of the coral reserves	Geography
65	Old Alluvial soil on slightly elevated locations called as	Geography
66	Largest Mica producing state is	Geography
67	The variety of Iron ore with the highest quality is	Geography
68	A leaf of a tree adapted to a warm dry climate is	General science
69	The famous pass in Sikkim which is used by Pilgrim going to Manasarovar till recently before China suspended tourist travel in the route	Current Affairs
70	Which of these products does not have geographical indicator status	GK
71	Which of these is not a tributary of River Godavari	Geography
72	Select the correct colour – commodity option related to rainbow revolution	GK
73	National waterway 1 connects	GK
74	Which of these waterfalls is located in Andhra Pradesh	Geography
75	Which of these is not part of the Eastern Ghats	Geography
76	Panchmarhi Biosphere Reserve is located in	Geography
77	Biodiversity hotspots are characterised on the basis of	Geography
78	In which type of community, the number of species per unit area will be more	Geography
79	The junction of North – South and East – west corridor highways is at	Geography
80	As per the Government specifications, what is the desirable range of PH value for drinking water in India?	General science
81	Which is the most exploited river in India in terms of abstraction of available water/	Geography
82	Which of the following is the correct descending order of coffee producing states in India	Geography
83	Uranium deposits in India were first discovered at	Geography
84	In 1767, the British Parliament passed an act obtaining the East India company to pay to the British Government per year a sum of	History of Modern India
85	After 1813, the British policy towards trade in India was	History of Modern India
86	In which year East India company acquired the Diwani rights	History of Modern India
87	In which of the following areas, Mahalwari Revenue settlement was introduced	History of Modern India
88	Who among the following attacked Brahmanical orthodoxy and tried to reform the Hinduism in Bombay	History of Modern India
89	In which of the following places Warren Hastings set up a madrasa in 1781	History of Modern India
90	Rahanumai Mazdayasan sabha was started to reform	History of Modern India
91	At which place in 1863 Mohammadan Literary Society was founded to encourage reform, modern Ideas and western education in Muslims	History of Modern India
92	The deccan agriculturalists Relief act of 1879 provided protection for the peasants against the exploitation by the	History of Modern India
93	Bengal United is power, Bengal divided, will pull several different ways who of the following made the statement?	History of Modern India
94	Identity below the cause of the dispute between mill owners and workers, which led to the mill workers strike in 1917 at Ahmedabad	History of Modern India
95	Who among the following wrote the Philosophy of Bomb?	History of Modern India
96	An American journalist, Webb Miller gave a detailed account of the salt satyagraha of which one of the dplaces	History of Modern India
97	Judicial review is a symbol of	Polity
98	In India a person can be a member of cabinet without being a member of parliament for a maximum period of	Polity
99	Whose previous consent is required under the Article 224 – A of the constitution to request a person who held the office of a judge of the same or any other high court to sit and act as a Judge of the high court for that state?	Polity
100	Which one of the following parliamentary committee in India acts as a watchdog on departmental expenditures and irregularities	Polity
101	The doctrine of the Basic structure of the constitution as a Principle of Judicial Review	Polity
102	The 73rd constitutional amendment act is not applicable to which of the states given below	Polity
103	What would be the consequence if the state governments fail to comply with the directions of the central government with regard to the exercise of their administrative power?	Polity
104	The supreme court of India is different from its counterpart in the USA	Polity
105	Some of the fundamental rights guaranteed in the Indian constitution can be suspended only by	Polity
106	Where there is conflict between the concurrent list and the state list	Polity
107	What is not true about rights of minorities	Polity
108	Justice P.N.Bhagwati is a pioneer of	Polity
109	Who used the term Hindu rate of growth with reference to Indian economy and why?	Economy
110	Which of the following was constituted to deal with taxation of agricultural wealth and income in India	Economy
111	Which committee suggested to establishment of an Insurance Regulatory Authority in India?	Economy
112	In which city of Andhra Pradesh, the Rashtriya vayoshree yojana was launched on 1st April 2017	Current Affairs
113	Who fixes the benchmark policy rate (repo rate) in India	Economy
114	What is the target inflation rate notified by the Government of India in August 2016 for the period till 31st March 2021	Current Affairs
115	What is the present installed nuclear power capacity in India	Geography
116	In which year, the construction of the Nagarjuna sagar dam was completed	Geography
117	Which state is the largest producer of Bt.Cotton in India	Geography
118	The inclusive India Initiative launched by the ministry of social justice and empowerment is aimed at	Economy
119	Under the Bringing Green revolution to Eastern India scheme, improvement in productivity of which crop is achieved?	Economy
120	How much percent of the total outstanding debt of DISCOMs is covered till date under the UDAY scheme?	Current affairs
121	What is the share of AP in Krishna waters as per the allocation of Krishna water tribunal	AP Reorganization Act
122	At how many places telemetry meters would be installed by the Krishna river water management board to monitor the usage of water by both the state of AP and Telangana.	AP Reorganization Act
123	As per AP vision 2029, what is the expected per capita income in Andhra Pradesh by 2029?	AP Economy
124	What is the maximum amount of relief available to a farmer in AP on account of Raithu Runa Mafi scheme implemented by the government of AP.	AP Economy
125	In which city of AP, urdu university is recently started?	Current Affairs
126	Which section of the AP reorganization, 2014 permits continuance of officers in the same post in which they were working earlier, even after reorganization.	AP Reorganization Act
127	Which section of the AP reorganization act, 2014 determines the manner of division of assets of public sector undertakings.	AP Reorganization Act
128	How the treasury and bank balances are to be distributed between both the states as per the AP Reorganization Act, 2014	AP Reorganization Act
129	Delimitation of the constituencies as proposed in the AP Reorganization Act 2014 can be effected through	AP Reorganization Act
130	What is the amount determined by the 14th Finance commission to AP as grant under the state disaster response fund?	Economy
131	Kamala leaves home at 11 AM on bicycle. She goes at 12km per hour and reaches the house of Amala at 11:30 AM. She leaves the bicycle there and immediately walks back and reaches her home at 1:00 PM. At what speed she walked back to home?	Mental Ability and Logical Reasoning
132	Rahim get 91, 88, 86 and 78 marks in four out of the five subjects. How many marks, he should get in the fifth subject to attain an average of 85 marks	Mental Ability and Logical Reasoning
133	What is the relation of Ram’s mother’s brother’s only sibling’s daughter with Ram	Mental Ability and Logical Reasoning
134	If BARK become YZIP, the SHOUT is	Mental Ability and Logical Reasoning
135	One evening just before sunset, David was standing facing a pole. The shadow of the pole fell exactly to his left side (Perpendicular to the line between him and the pole) which direction was he facing?	Mental Ability and Logical Reasoning
136	Find the odd number of the given numbers 13, 23, 33, 43, 53	Mental Ability and Logical Reasoning
137	If today is Monday, What day will it to be 348 days from today (excluding today)?	Mental Ability and Logical Reasoning
138	If India is called Bangladesh, Bangladesh is called China, China is called Tanzania, Tanzania is called Pakistan and Pakistan is called Sri Lank. , then which country is not our neighbouring country?	Mental Ability and Logical Reasoning
139	Find the mean of the given numbers	Mental Ability and Logical Reasoning
140	Find the mode of the given distribution	Mental Ability and Logical Reasoning
141	Find the median of the given data?	Mental Ability and Logical Reasoning
142	Find the notal numbers in the square 3,6,30, 870	Mental Ability and Logical Reasoning
143	Find the Odd Man out	Mental Ability and Logical Reasoning
144	If smart is to clever, stupid is to?	Mental Ability and Logical Reasoning
145	Find the missing direction in the series?	Mental Ability and Logical Reasoning
146	Observe the table and answer the question	Mental Ability and Logical Reasoning
147	Observe the table and answer the question	Mental Ability and Logical Reasoning
148	Observe the table and answer the question	Mental Ability and Logical Reasoning
149	Observe the table and answer the question	Mental Ability and Logical Reasoning
150	Observe the table and answer the question	Mental Ability and Logical Reasoning