UPSC Examination Test Paper 2007

71. A train completes a journey with few stoppages in between at an average speed of 40 km per hour. If the train had not stopped anywhere, it would have completed th~-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
72. Who among the following
Finance Ministers of India?
1. V.P. Singh
3. Y.B. Chavan
have been the Union
2. 4.
R. Venkataraman Pranab Mukhe~ee
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1, 3 and 4
(c) 2 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
73. Which one of the following is the correct sequence in the decreasing order of production (in million tonnes) of the given foodgrains in India?
(a) Wheat - Rice - Pulses - Coarse cereals (b) Rice - Wheat - Pulses - Coarse cereals (c) Wheat - Rice - Coarse ce~eals - Pulses (d) Rice - Wheat - Coarse cereals - Pulses
74. Which one of the following pairs of countries joined
the European Union in January 20077
(a) Bulgaria and Romania
(b) Bulgaria and Belgium
(c) Romania and Slovenia
(d) Hungary and Croatia .
75. What is the average distance (approximate) between
the Sun and the Earth?
(a) 70 x 105 km
(c) 110 x 66 km
(b) 100 x 105 km Cd) 150 x 106 km
76. Consider the following statements:
1. If magenta and yellow coloured circles intersect,
the intersected area will have red colour.
2. If cyan and magenta coloured circles intersect, the
intersected area will have blue colour.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2
77. Consider the following statements:
1. A flute of smaller length produces waves of lower
frequency.
2. Sound travels in rocks in the form of longitudinal
elastic waves only.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2
78. Four wires of same material and of dimensions as under are stretched by a load of same magnitude separately. Which one of them will be elongated maximum?
(a) Wire of 1 m length and (b) Wire of 2 m length and (c) Wire of 3 m length and (d) Wire of 1 m length and
2 mm diameter 2 mm diameter
1.5 mm diameter 1 mm diameter
79. 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 is insufficient
80. Raghu Rai is well-known for
following areas?
(a) Research in Mathematics
(b) Photography
(c) Water harvesting
(d) Pollution control
81. Which one of the following organisation won the CSIR Award for Science and Technology (S & T) Innova¬tions for Rural Development 2006?
(a) CLRI (b) IARI
(c) NDDB (d) NDRI
which one of the
82. Which one of the following cities does not have the same clock time as that of the other three cities at any given instant?
(a) London (UX)
(b) Lisbon (Portugal)
(c) Accra (Ghana)
(d) Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
83. Which one of the following parts of the pitcher plant
becomes modified into a pitcher?
(a) Stem (b) Leaf
(c) Stipule (d) Petiole
Directions: The following 5 (Five) items consist of two statements: one labelled as the' Assertion (A)' and the other as 'Reason (R)'. You are to examine these two statements carefully and select the answers to these items using the
codes given below:
Codes:
(a) Both A and R are individually true and R is the
correct explanation of A
(b) Both'A and R are individually true but R is not
the correct explanation of A (c) A is true but R is false (d) A is false but R is true

Ans: 71. (a) 72. (d) 73. (d) 74. (a) 75. (d) 76. (d) 77. (b) 78. (c) 79. (a) 80. (b)
81. (a) 82. (d) 83. (b)