Free UPSC 2008 Prelims Solution SET-B

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UPSC 2008 Prelims General Studies Solution 
 
SET B:

1c (BRIT – Isotope Tech)

2c (National Brain Research Centre – Gurgaon and fingerprinting centre – hyderabad)

3a (desalination plant – Kavaratti)

4b (Bretton Woods Conference)

5b (Directive principles of state Policy)

6b (Legislative assembly)

7c (Ninety Second amendment)

8d ( PSU of GoI – all 3)

9d ( million plus cities – all 4)

10a (CDM statement 1 only)

11c ( World summit on Sustainable Development – Johannesberg)

12d (K. P. Singh, Vikram Pandit…..)

13d (Amnesty International, CIS…)

14b (% rural population – himachal pradesh)

15b ( Dec order of population – USA & Indonesia)

16c ( Spoken max after hindi – Bengali)

17b (Heavy Water – H. C. Urey)

18c ( Kim Dae jung – South Korea)

19d (Ogaden region – Ethiopia and Somalia)

20a (Palitana Temple – Bhavnagar)

21c (2004 Euro – Greece)

22b (Jupiter and Saturn)

23b (Cristina Kirchner – Argentina)

24c (Rowlatt Act – Lord Chelmsford)

25c (radioactive water leakage – Japan)

26d (% of people over 65 years – 5-6%)

27b (Spacecraft – Cassini)

28b (ITER – Southern France)

29c (Themis Mission)

30b (Biosphere Reserve – Kanchenjunga)

31b (agent orange – weed killing)

32d (cabinet mission)

33c (Free Indian Legion – S. C. Bose)

34c (Prisoner’s Dilemma – Game Theory)

35b (East India Company – Jahangir)

36c (refused knighthood – G. K. Gokhale)

37d (Irrigation project by state – all 3)

38b (Current power generation – installed and generation)

39b (International Date Line – Bering Strait)

40b (Waterfalls & Rivers)

41d (Nearest to equator – Singapore)

42b (Tehri Hydropower complex – Bhagirathi)

43d ( Minerals in Chhattisgarh – all 4)

44b (Theory/Law & Scientists – Albert Einstien)

45a (Baudhayan theorem = Pythogoras theorem)

46a (Sharing border with Moldova)

47a (Asian Development bank & Colombo Plan)

48c (Emirates of UAE – Ajman, Ras al-Khaimah(last))

49b (largest areawise Lok Sabha constituency – Ladakh)

50b (Median age of Population)

51b (Person-Area : Sabyasachi Mukherjee,…)

52b (Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer)

53c (Ebraham Alkazi – Theatre training)

54d (Chikmanglur/coffee, Mandya/sugar)

55a (Bimbavati Devi -Manipuri)

56c (Sarosh Zaiwalla – legal expert)

57c (Tapovan & Vishnugarh – Uttarakhand)

58c (Author/Work – Dinbandhu Mitra–Nil-darpan)

59a (New Lamps for Old – Aurobindo Ghosh)

60c (Un-British Rule in India – Dadabhai Naoroji)

61a (egg laying mammal – echidna)

62c (Mosquito – gambusia fish)

63b (Scheduled areas in several states – fifth schedule)

64b (Dept. of Border Management – Ministry of Home Affairs)

65d (Verappa Moily – Administrative Reforms)

66c (Elizabeth Hawley – Himalayan Expeditions)

67c (States of India sharing coastline – 9)

68d (James D Watson/Nobel Prize – Genetics)

69b (Board – Headquarters —- Tobacco board/guntur….)

70a (max no. of national parks – Andaman & Nicobar)

71c (Not an Ape – Langur)

72d (5 identical balls – one in each row – 108)

73a (exactly 5 letters in 6 envelopes – zero)

74c (identical red, black and white balls in cells – 24)

75a (how many diff triangles – 28)

76d (Francis Collins)

77d (S & P 500)

78b (Rajiv Gandhi National flying institute)

79c (Saurav Ganguly)

80b (Faiz Ahmed Faiz)

81c (180*10^7)

82c (Equal to R)

83b (Narmada)

84d (Nuclear supplier’s group)

85c (Advanced Light helicopter)

86a (hand-in-hand china)

87c (Liver)

88d (Visible spectrum)

89b (radio waves)

90a (congress ministries)

91b (french open)

92b (malta)

93c (mahendragiri)

94c (Service/Agency – country)

95b (C Rangarajan)

96c  (7.35-7.45)

97b (Vice-Precident)

98b (Kurnool)

99d (India semi-final)

100a (Namchik-namphuk)

101a (Norman Ernest Borlaug – UAE)

102c (Yom kippur War)

103c (probiotic food)

104c (Albedo)

105c (A.N.ray – CJI . Nagendra singh- cec)

106b (Pitcher plant)

107d (king cobra)

108c (Spider)

109b ( High courts-3)

110c (Livestock population – India)

111d (Crocodile)

112d (Tributary river-Main River)

113c ( Nilgiri)

114b (Mahogany)

115d (Number of spokes)

116d (source of methane)

117a (Barak – Israel)

118c (Selene-1)

119d (Rig-veda)

120a (Orange prize)

121b (I)

122b (Number of terms – 73)

1123b (4 books-12)

124c (Carpenter)

125c (100 pens at discount of 10%-862.50)

126c (school teacher-10)

127a (600)

128c (Bisphenol)

129d (GDP)

130b (March 1 2008 friday)

131b (electrification policy)

132c (2045)

133d (Biodiesel mission)

134d (National old age pension)

135c (Swayamsiddha)

136c ( M D C L)

137c (William henry bragg)

138b (Lal bahadur shastri)

139d (Sikkim – minimum population Census of india 2001)

140c (jet engine and rocket)

141a (Dye laser printer)

142a (Musical scale sa ni)

143b (Rubies and sapphires – Aluminium oxide)

144c (Stranger gas-Xenon)

145c (Methane and air- explosion in mines)

146b (Lithium and osmium)

147b (one barrel of oil – 159 litres)

148c (J.B. Kriplani)

149a (Al-Hilal)

150b (Bombay-First Session of INC)

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