NASA’s Deep Impact space mission was employed to take detailed pictures of which comet nucleus?
- (a)Halley’s comet
- (b)Hale-Bopp
- (c)Hyakutake
- (d)Temple 1
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Official answer(d) Temple 1
UPSC Prelims 2007
150 questions, in the order they were asked.
MCA-21 is a major initiative taken up by the Government of India in which one of the following areas?
- (a)Foreign Direct Investment in India
- (b)Attracting international tourism
- (c)e-governance
- (d)Modernization of Airports
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Official answer(c) e-governance
Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists: List-I (Person) A. John C. Mather B. Michael Griffin C. Paul G. Allen D. Piers Sellers List-II (Known as) 1. Co-founder of Microsoft 2. Space walker 3. Administrator of NASA 4. Nobel Prize winner, 2006 in Physics Codes:
- (a)A-4 B-1 C-3 D-2
- (b)A-2 B-3 C-1 D-4
- (c)A-4 B-3 C-1 D-2
- (d)A-2 B-1 C-3 D-4
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Official answer(c) A-4 B-3 C-1 D-2
Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
- (a)Cosmic Background : Satellite Programme Explorer (COBE)
- (b)Falcon : Under-sea cable system
- (c)Discovery : Space shuttle
- (d)Atlantis : Space station
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Official answer(d) Atlantis : Space station
Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists: List-I (Company) A. Chevron B. AT&T C. AMD D. Enercon GmbH List-II (Major Area/Product) 1. Wind Energy 2. Oil 3. Telephone, Internet 4. Micro-processor Codes:
- (a)A-2 B-1 C-4 D-3
- (b)A-4 B-3 C-2 D-1
- (c)A-2 B-3 C-4 D-1
- (d)A-4 B-1 C-2 D-3
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Official answer(c) A-2 B-3 C-4 D-1
Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
- (a)Williams Dickson : Motion Picture Film
- (b)Charles Babbage : Programmable Computer
- (c)Nicholas Stern : Construction Technology
- (d)Brian Greene : String Theory
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Official answer(c) Nicholas Stern : Construction Technology
What is the Galileo project which has been in news recently?
- (a)An inter-country programme of missile shield developed by the United States of America
- (b)A project developed by India with assistance from Canada
- (c)An environmental protection project being developed by Japan
- (d)A multi-satellite navigation project being developed by the European Union
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Official answer(d) A multi-satellite navigation project being developed by the European Union
(Each small circle represents a different station) Refer to the figure showing a network between station A and station B. What is the maximum number of different paths that exist between station A and station B?
- (a)28
- (b)31
- (c)33
- (d)35
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Official answer(b) 31
In how many maximum different ways can 3 identical balls be placed in 12 squares (each ball is placed in the exact centre of a square) shown in the figure above such that they do not lie along the same straight line? The original figure is not available for this question.
- (a)144
- (b)200
- (c)204
- (d)216
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Official answer(b) 200
In the figure shown above, what is the maximum number of different ways in which 8 identical balls can be placed in small triangles 1, 2, 3 and 4 such that each triangle contains at least one ball?
- (a)32
- (b)35
- (c)44
- (d)56
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Official answer(b) 35
Amit has five friends: 3 girls and 2 boys. Amit’s wife also has five friends: 3 boys and 2 girls. In how many maximum different ways can they invite 2 boys and 2 girls such that two of them are Amit’s friends and two are his wife’s friends?
- (a)24
- (b)38
- (c)46
- (d)48
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Official answer(c) 46
Five balls of different colours are to be placed in three different boxes such that any box contains at least one ball. What is the maximum number of different ways in which this can be done?
- (a)90
- (b)120
- (c)150
- (d)180
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Official answer(c) 150
All six letters of the name SACHIN are arranged to form different words without repeating any letter in any one word. The words so formed are then arranged as a dictionary. What will be the position of the word SACHIN in that sequence?
- (a)436
- (b)590
- (c)601
- (d)751
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Official answer(c) 601
Three dice (each having six faces with each face showing one number from 1 to 6) are rolled. What is the number of possible outcomes such that at least one die shows the number 2?
- (a)36
- (b)81
- (c)91
- (d)116
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Official answer(c) 91
Groups, each containing 3 boys, are to be formed out of 5 boys – A, B, C, D and E – such that no one group contains both C and D together. What is the maximum number of different groups?
- (a)5
- (b)6
- (c)7
- (d)8
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Official answer(c) 7
Six faces of a cube are numbered from 1 to 6, each face carrying one different number. Further, 1. The face 2 is opposite to the face 6. 2. The face 1 is opposite to the face 5. 3. The face 3 is between the face 1 and face 5. 4. The face 4 is adjacent to the face 2. Which one of the following is correct?
- (a)The face 2 is adjacent to the face 3
- (b)The face 6 is between the face 2 and the face 4
- (c)The face 1 is between the face 5 and the face 6
- (d)None of the above
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Official answer(a) The face 2 is adjacent to the face 3
Each of the 3 persons is to be given some identical items such that the product of the numbers of items received by each of the three persons is equal to 30. In how many maximum different ways can this distribution be done?
- (a)21
- (b)24
- (c)27
- (d)33
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Official answer(c) 27
Six equidistant vertical lines are drawn on a board. Six equidistant horizontal lines are also drawn on the board cutting the six vertical lines and the distance between any two consecutive horizontal lines is equal to that between any two consecutive vertical lines. What is the maximum number of squares thus formed?
- (a)37
- (b)55
- (c)126
- (d)225
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Official answer(b) 55
A person has to completely put each of three liquids – 403 litres of petrol, 465 litres of diesel and 496 litres of mobile oil – in bottles of equal size without mixing any of the three types of liquids such that each bottle is completely filled. What is the least possible number of bottles required?
- (a)34
- (b)44
- (c)46
- (d)None of the above
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Official answer(b) 44
A and B can complete work together in 5 days. If A works at twice his speed and B at half of his speed, this work can be finished in 4 days. How many days would it take for A alone to complete the job?
- (a)10
- (b)12
- (c)15
- (d)18
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Official answer(a) 10
If all the numbers from 501 to 700 are written, what is the total number of times the digit 6 appears?
- (a)138
- (b)139
- (c)140
- (d)141
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Official answer(c) 140
Amit starts from a point A, walks to another point B and then returns from B to A by his car, taking a total time of 6 hours 45 minutes. If he had driven both ways in his car, he would have taken 2 hours less. How long would it take for him to walk both ways?
- (a)7 hours 45 minutes
- (b)8 hours 45 minutes
- (c)8 hours 30 minutes
- (d)8 hours 45 minutes
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Official answer(d) 8 hours 45 minutes
A train completes a journey with a few stoppages in between at an average speed of 40 km per hour. If the train had not stopped anywhere, it would have completed the journey at an average speed of 60 km per hour. On an average, how many minutes per hour does the train stop during the journey?
- (a)20 minutes per hour
- (b)18 minutes per hour
- (c)15 minutes per hour
- (d)10 minutes per hour
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Official answer(a) 20 minutes per hour
The average salary of 100 employees in an office is Rs 16,000 per month. The management decided to raise salary of every employee by 5% but stopped a transport allowance of Rs 800 per month which was paid earlier to every employee. What will be the new average monthly salary?
- (a)Rs 16,000
- (b)Rs 16,500
- (c)Rs 16,800
- (d)Cannot be known since data are insufficient
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Official answer(a) Rs 16,000
Who among the following was chosen as the FIFA World Player of the Year for the year 2006?
- (a)Zinedine Zidane
- (b)Fabio Cannavaro
- (c)Ronaldinho
- (d)Thierry Henry
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Official answer(b) Fabio Cannavaro