SOLVED PAPER 2023 (CDS) (I) (General Studies)

Total Questions: 120

71. India is the first country in the world to deploy an all-women contingent to a UN Peacekeeping Mission. In which country did this mission operate?

Correct Answer: (a) Liberia
Solution:India is the first country in the world to deploy an all-women contingent to a UN Peacekeeping Mission. It was deployed in Liberia in 2007. Women officers have carried out challenging assignments performed medical duties and served as military observers as part of UN mission in several conflict-turn countries.

72. Which one among the following is not a part of the SWAYAM programme?

Correct Answer: (b) Classroom lectures
Solution:Classroom lectures are not part of SWAYAM. It is a free online education programmes started by the Government of India. SWAYAM is a Government of India's Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) platform. It has been offering online courses in discipline such as science, engineering and technology. Humanities and social science etc. It is under Ministry of Education under Digital India programme.

73. Which one among the following Departments/Authorities is not under the Ministry of Home Affairs?

Correct Answer: (c) The National Authority Chemical Weapons Convention
Solution:The National Authority Chemical Weapon Convention. It comes under Ministry of Defence. It fulfills the obligation under chemical weapon convention. The of states, the department of depart official language. The department of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh Affairs comes under the Ministry of Home Affairs. There six departments under Home Ministry.

74. Who among the following is given discretionary powers under the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution of India to set up a Tribes Advisory Council in a State which has Scheduled Tribes but not Scheduled Areas?

Correct Answer: (b) The President of India
Solution:If the President so directs, there will be established a tribes Advisory Council in a state which has scheduled Tribes but no Schedule Areas therein, consisting of not more than twenty members of whom, three fourths shall be the representatives of the Schedule Tribes in the legislative assembly of the state.

75. Which of the following States/UTs are included in the Northern Zonal Council?

Correct Answer: (b) Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and NCT of Delhi.
Solution:Northern Zonal Council comprises Chandigarh, Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Ladakh. It's headquarter situated in Delhi. The States Reorganisation Act of 1956 led to the establishment of five Zonal Council. The Zonal Council is regarded as the consultative body. Union Home Minister is the ex-officio chairman of the Zonal Council.

76. The notion of kingship projected by the Kushana rulers in best evidenced through which of the following?

Correct Answer: (d) Coins and sculpture.
Solution:The notions of kingship they wished to project are perhaps best evidenced in their coins and sculpture. Colossal statues of Kushana rulers have been found installed in a shrine at Mat near Mathura (Uttar Pradesh). Similar statues have been found in a shrine in Afghanistan as well.

77. Who among the following were referred to as the Theris' in ancient India?

Correct Answer: (b) Elder nuns in Buddhism.
Solution:Elder nuns in Buddhism were referred to as the Theris' in ancient India.

Thero (commonly appearing in the masculine and feminine forms thera and theri respectively) is an honorific term in Pali for senior bhikkhus and bhikkhunis (Buddhist monks and nuns) in the Buddhist monastic order. The word literally means "elder".

78. Which member of the servants of India Society founded the Seva Samiti at Allahabad in 1914?

Correct Answer: (b) Hriday Nath Kunzru
Solution:Hriday Nath Kunzru founded the Seva Samiti at Allahabad in 1914. The Seva Samiti had as its objective to organise social service during natural disasters like floods and epidemics, to promote the spread of education, cooperation, sanitation, to uplift depressed classes, reform criminals and rescue the fallen. Hriday Nath Kunzru was also a member of the Constituent Assembly of India.

79. The first Anglo-Maratha War was concluded by which one of the following?

Correct Answer: (d) The Treaty of Salbai
Solution:The first Anglo Maratha War was concluded by The Treaty of Salbai.

This treaty, was signed on 17th May, 1782, and was ratified by Hastings in June 1782 and by Nana Phadnavis in February 1783. The treaty ended the First Anglo-Maratha War, restored the status quo, and established peace between the two parties for 20 years.

80. Name the battle in which the Travancore king defeated the Dutch in 1741.

Correct Answer: (b) The Battle of Colachel
Solution:In the Battle of Colachel, the Travancore king Marthanda Varma defeated the Dutch in 1741.

The Dutch never recovered from the defeat and no longer posed a large colonial threat to India. Travancore won the war with the notable military service of the fishermen community at the sea and seashore while Anantha Padmanabhan Nadar commander in chief of the army at the land.