WBCS 2017 Prelims Answer Key 2017
Answer Key WBCS 2017 Prelims Set B
Q No
Question
Answer
1 Listeners..delighted
D. Exited
2 The car was....
A. Rolling
3 A la mode...
A. Fashionable
4 Cinema...
D. Theatre
5 ...at sixes and sevens..
A. Disordered
6 The darkness....
C. Light
7 There was....rain
A. let up
8 Finish your task....
A. Manner
9 He was waiting....
A. In
10 "At daggers drawn"...
B. On bad terms with
11 You ...catch the train
D. Must
12 It is easy to....
D. To begin
13 ...he was late
B. Although
14 River was...
A. Overflowing
15 A...jewel was..
C. Shining
16 Made up his mind..
B. Resolved
17 He...dark horse
D. Possesing a secret ability
18 Sorrow...
D. Alas!
19 The man...briefcase
B. Whose
20 He saved her...
A. From
21 He wanted to...
C. Call
22 Epicurean..
C. Enjoys pleasure
23 Orthopaedist
C. Bones
24 An illnes...fatal
A. Mortal
25 Here is man...
A. Whom,about.
26 The 2022 Commonwealth Games
D. Durban
27 The name of Vikas Krishnan is..
C. Boxing
28 The International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone
Layer
C. Sept 16
29
The 2016 G-20 Summit.....
A. China
30
The UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award
C. Aqeela Asifi
31
A resolution to deploy U.N. monitors...
B. U.N. Security Council
32
In December 2016, China launched..
B. Nepal
33
George Yeo, who recently resigned ...
D. Singapore
34
Marceló Rebelo de Sousa...
B. Portugal
35
The Italian Prime Minister who resigned ...
A. Matteo Renzi
36
Who was appointed in November 2016 .
B. Qamar Javed Bajwa.
37
Which Bollywood personality was honoured ...
C. Rekha
38
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics ....
A. The 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics
39
Which of the following states does not have veto power ..
C. Canada
40
Which authority in India recently ordered ...
A. Supreme Court of India
41
Who is the author of the book ‘An Era of Darkness :.
C. Shashi Tharoor.
42 The 2016 World Internet Conference ..
B. China
43 The 103rd Session of the Indian Science Congress .....
A. Mysore
44 Who takes over as the Indian Airforce Chief ..
A. Briender Singh Dhanoa
45
The Mullaperiyar Dam is a cause.........
B. Tamil Nadu and Kerala
46
In November 2016, who resigned.
A. Arnab Goswami
47
Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award 2016..
A. Viswanathan Anand
48
The Headquarter of World Bank
B. Washington D.C.
49
Oscar Award 2016 for
D. Brie Larson
50
In which country was a lost city ...
C. Egypt
51 The material used for safety from....
D. Lead
52
The electric appliances in a house
B. In parallel
53
The immersed portion of a piece...
D. 11/12th of volume
54
‘Red’ is used as a danger........
B. Red light is scattered least
55
A shaving brush is dipped.......
A. Shaving brush is dipped
56
The strongest electropositive........
A. Cs
57
Geometry of SF4 is...
A. Seesaw planar
58
A reaction is spontaneous...
A. G = –ve
59
‘RADAR’ stands for....
A. Radio Detection and Ranging
60
A body is acted upon by two unequal forces.......
D. Rotational as well as translational motion
61
Conversion of CH3C =-CH
A. Lindlar catalyst.
62 Conversion of RBr to RMgBr requires
A. Mg/dry ether/N2
-atmosphere.
63
The fastest SN 1 reaction............
A. MeO – CH2 – Cl.
64
An example of modified underground....
B. Potato
65
Crossing over occurs........
C. Pachytene
66
A mammal that lays eggs :
B. Echidna
67
Which one of the following animal phylum..........
C. Loricifera
68
I nm is equivalent to
A. 10 A
69
Necton are
B. Swimming organisms in water
70
Which of the following processes.......
D. Electron transport
71
The wellknown antibiotic
B. Fungi
72
The nature of stele.......
A. Protostele
73
What is a bacteriophage?
A. A Virus
74
“Particulate theory of inheritance”.
B. Gregor Johann Mendel.
75
Which one of the following animal phylum....
C. Loricifera
76
‘Sulh-i-Kul’ was a policy....
A. Akbar
77
Rana Pratap belonged ........
B. Sisodiya
78
‘Razmnama’ was a Persian.....
D. Mahabharata
79
The auhor of ‘Ain-i-Akbari’ was
B. Abul Fazl
80
The Sikh Guru executed........
A. Tegh Bahadur
81
The Satnami rebellion took place.........
D. Aurangzeb
82
The title ‘Raja’ was conferred..
C. Akbar II
83
The author of ‘Neel Darpan’ was......
B. Dinabandhu Mitra
84
Dewan Velu Thampi’s rebellion......
C. Travancore
85
Who was the founder of the Harijan Sevak Sangh?
C. M K Gandhi
86
The Younghushand Mission
D. Curzon
87
The first session of the Indian National Congress....
B. Bombay
88
The nationalist organisation ‘Poona Sarvajanik Sabha’
A. 1870
89
The custom of ‘Sati’ was banned
C. 1829
90
The leader of the Munda rebellion....
B. Birsa
91
Which Mughal emperor wrote...
A. Babur
92
Which historian is famous...
B. Jadunath Sarkar
93
The Delhi Sultan who transferred the capital....
C. Muhammad-bin Tughlaq
94
The Chinese traveller Hiuen Tsang...
C. Harsavardhan
95
The Mauryan ruler who used the name....
B. Ashoka
96
The author of ‘Kadambari’ was..
D. Banabhatta
97
The famous physician during Buddha’s time....
D. Jivaka
98
Which of the following is a Harappan site...
C. Kalibangan
99
Which Magadha ruler was known as ‘Seniya’?
A. Bimbisara
100
‘Ashtadiggajas’ were patronised by
D. Krishna Deva Raya
101
The service sector of India.
D. 50% of GDP
102 In the wake of the Stockholm Conference,....
A.1972
103
The Human Development Index ....
B. 1990
104
The Second Five Year Plan of India...
C. The Mahalanobis Model
105
World Development Report....
C. The World Bank
106
The largest contributor to the gross.
A. the household sector (23.5%)
107
More than 50% of the working population...
A. The primary sector
108
The unorganised sector of India.......
C. More barter transactions.
109
The first railway line of India....
B. Bombay and Thane
110
In terms of population India ranks......
C. Seventh
111
In India non-agricultural income tax is
D. levied by the Centre and shared with the States.
112
In India the Repo rate.
C. The Reserve Bank of India
113
The Special Economic Zones Act.
A. 2005
114
‘Economic Reforms’ were introduced..
C. 1991
115
AGMARK is related to.
C. Agricultural goods
116
The SEBI was given statutory recognition........
D. The Narasimham Committee.
117
The Reserve Bank of India was established.....
B. 1935
118
Grants-in-aid are provided.....
D. 275 and 282
119
The Panchayati Raj system........
C. Three-tiers
120
The objective of the Fiscal Responsibility.
D. All of the above
121
Which of the following was not included.....
B. Fundamental Duties
122
To pass a Money Bill..
C. Approval of the Finance Minister
123
‘Law and Order’ is included in the.........
B. State List
124
The Chairman of the Rajya Sabha is.......
C. The Vice-President of India.
125
The first citizen of the Republic of India......
B. The President of India
126
Five boys are sitting in a row. Kajol is sitting in between..
A. Paresh
127
Five boys are so standing that they......
A. Tom
128
If a *b = ab + b – a,......
B. 7
129
If a
b means ‘a to be added to b’ and........
C. 23
130
Choose the odd one.......
D. Beriberi
131
Manipuri is to Dance as..
D. Language
132
The 6th term in the following series ab2 + bc2 +.....
C. fg2
133
If a X b = L.C.M. of a and b,...
C. 12
134
If BOY is coded as ZPC
B. MSJH
135 If MASON is coded as NBTPO,..
A. XPSME
136
A man starts from his office and goes 8 km East.....
D 3 Km
137
Due to some error in the weighing machine.....
C. 10%
138
A man won Rs. 60,000 in a lottery....
B. 39000
139
Due to rotten fish, a fish trader forces ......
A. 225
140
Number : Mathematics : : Notes : ?
C. Music
141
P is sister of Q. Q is the wife of R....
A. Sister-in-law
142
40% of A is 60% of B. A : B will be........
B. 3:2
143
Ratio of Bus and Train fare is 4 : 5.....
C. 11:15
144
A goes to a party hosted by his brother B.
B. Uncle
145 Hockey : India : : Baseball : ?
D. America
146
A box contains one red ball, one blue ball .....
A. 48g
147
The population of a district increases by 4%.....
B. 500000
148 A man deposited Rs. 3,000 in a Bank.......
C. 4%
149
A person, standing on a railway....
B. 60m
150
In an examination, 35% students fail......
A. 60%
151
The Western Ghats is an important mountain
D. Gap or pass
152
Name of the capital of the newly formed.
A. Amaravati
153
Pollavaram Project is associated.
D. Godavari
154
Which one of the following is not an administrative division
C. Kolkata
155
In West Bengal ‘Rarh’ is a physiographic region......
C. P Medinipur
156 India’s share of total land area
A. 2.4%
157
In terms of longitude the easternmost......
D. Arunachal Pradesh.
158
The summer monsoon normally arrives....
B. 5-10 June
159
Which state of India experiences the maximum
C. Rajasthan
160
In India the maximum area
D. Alluvial soils (40%)
161
Drought is occasionally experienced......
C. Excessive evapo-transpiration
162
Which one of the following is not mined.
A. Natural gas
163
‘Toto’ is a primitive tribal community
C. WB
164
What was the primary objective of construction......
B. Augmentation of water supply
165
Which district of West Bengal has.........
A. Kolkata
166
‘Shifting cultivation’ is not practiced........
B. WB
167
Which one of the following crops witnessed........
A. Wheat
168
In terms of value of agricultural production........
A. Cotton
169
In India petroleum oil was first....
B. Digboi...
170
Which state of India has the largest installation...........
D. Tamilnadu
171
As per Census of 2011 the share of population..........
D. 65%
172 Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC)......
A. A central government organization...
173
In terms of area and population the largest......
A. Mumbai
174
Which one of the following sea ports has natural harbor?
B.Vishakhapatnam.
175
Bhilai in the state of Chattishgarh is famous...
C. Iron and Steel.
176
In which year was the Indian National Congress......
B. 1885
177
“Swaraj is my birth right”—who said?
D. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
178
Which political party was founded in 1906?
B. Muslim League
179
With which Revolt names of Sidhu and Kanu
A. Santhal
180
Who was the Governer General of India....
C. Lord Canning
181
Who was the founder of the ‘Forward Bloc’?
A. Subhas Chandra Bose
182
On the eve of which movement Mahatma Gandhi.
C. Quit India movement
183
The Partition of Bengal was annulled in the year
C. 1911
184
Which phase is considered to be the liberal phase......
B. 1885–1905
185
Who was the President of the First Session ........
A. Womesh Chandra Bonerji
186
After which incident the Non-Cooperation...
A. Chauri Chaura incident
187
In which year was the Lucknow Pact signed...........
C. 1916
188
_______ was the centre of the Aligarh movement.
B. The Anglo-Oriental College
189
The Morley-Minto Reform was declared......
B. 1909.
190
When and where did the Jallianwala Bagh.
D. 1919, Amritsar
191 Which Party gave a call for ‘Direct Action’............
A. Muslim League; 16th August, 1946
192
Who considered the proposals of the Cripps’....
C. Mahatma Gandhi
193
Who was the founder of the ‘Azad Hind Fauz’?
B. Rashbehari Ghosh
194
In its Lahore Session (1929),........
A. Complete Independence
195
In which year the Pakistan resolution..
C. 1940, Lahore
196 Which Mission/Commission visited India in 1946?
B. Cabinet Mission.
197
When did the Chittagong Armoury Raid....
A.1930, Surya Sen
198
The Indian Independence Act was passed in...
A. July; 1947
199
Who was the First Governor General of independent India?
D. Lord Mountbatten
200
Who was the First Governer General of Pakistan?
B. Mohammad Ali Jinnah
