KPSC FDA 2019 — Paper 3 - General Studies (GS)

The Sarkaria Commission (1983) was constituted to examine and recommend on Centre-State relations in India.

The Indus Valley Civilization (c. 2600-1900 BCE) was contemporaneous with Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations, not the much later Greek Civilization.

Dadabhai Naoroji authored 'Poverty and Un-British Rule in India', articulating his 'Drain of Wealth' theory.

The Swaraj Party was formed by C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru after the Non-Cooperation Movement was suspended following the Chauri Chaura incident.

The Gandhi-Irwin Pact, ending the Civil Disobedience Movement's first phase, was signed in 1931.

'Young India', Gandhi's own journal advocating non-violent constitutional methods, was not associated with revolutionary terrorism, unlike journals such as Yugantar or Sandhya.

Madurai, under Pandya patronage, was the traditional centre of Sangam literary assemblies.

Sir Thomas Munro introduced the Ryotwari System of land revenue settlement, mainly in Madras Presidency.

Each letter is coded as its complement in the alphabet (position n becomes position 27-n): so LIMIT (12,9,13,9,20) codes to O,R,N,R,G (15,18,14,18,7).

Each term is multiplied by an increasing integer (x2, x3, x4, x5, x6): 2,4,12,48,240, so the next term is 240*6 = 1440.

A's one-day work is 1/10; combined work of A and B is 1/6; so B's one-day work is 1/6-1/10 = 1/15, meaning B alone takes 15 days.

He spends 40% of his salary (30%+10%) and is left with 60%; 60% of salary = Rs. 12,000, so salary = Rs. 20,000.

'Some camels are ships' directly gives 'Some ships are camels' (conversion); and since no ship is a boat, camels that are ships cannot be boats either, giving 'Some camels are not boats' — both conclusions follow.

Ordering the heights: Manish > Nageena > Pushpa > Reena > Namita, so Manish is the tallest.

New mean = (20*31.5 + 35 + 39) / 22 = (630+74)/22 = 704/22 = 32.

1250 increased by 20% gives 1500; 1500 increased by 10% gives 1650.

Probability of drawing a red ball = 4 red balls / 10 total balls = 0.4.

Biomethanation is a technology that generates biogas (energy) from the anaerobic digestion of organic waste.

Vermicomposting is the process of composting organic waste using earthworms to produce nutrient-rich manure.

The Chalukya army was known as 'Karnatabala'.

During the Hoysala period, educational institutions/centres of learning attached to temples were called Ghatikas.

The Seuna (Yadava) rulers of Devagiri patronised the Hemadpanthi architectural style, using interlocking stone construction without mortar.

Diwan C. Rangacharlu of Mysore State established the Mysore Oriental Library.

Prakrit was the language of administration and Ashokan inscriptions during the Mauryan period.

The Khajuraho temples were built by the Chandela dynasty.

'Harsha Charita', a biography of Emperor Harshavardhana, was written by Banabhatta, his court poet.

The Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur was built by Mohammed Adil Shah of the Adil Shahi dynasty as his mausoleum.

As per the 2010-11 Agricultural Census, Scheduled Castes accounted for about 11.7% of Karnataka's total operational land holdings.

As per the 2011 Census, Kodagu district recorded the highest percentage of rural population in Karnataka.

As per the 2011 Census, Karnataka's rural literacy rate was recorded at 68.86%.

Raichur district has been ranked lowest among Karnataka's districts in the District Human Development Report.

Terms such as evolution, progress, diffusion and acculturation are all used to describe the direction/nature of social change.

The Kharif cropping season in Karnataka is generally reckoned from April to September.

Sri M.R. Sreenivasa Murthy chaired the Sixth Pay Commission of the Karnataka State Government.

The Upper Krishna Project supplies irrigation water to the Bijapur, Gulbarga and Raichur districts of Karnataka.

'Bhagya Jyothi' is a Karnataka government scheme providing free/subsidised electricity connections to BPL households from SC/ST communities.

Entertainment tax, before GST subsumed much of it, was levied by State Governments.

Rural populations, engaged more in strenuous physical/agricultural labour, generally require higher calorie intake than urban populations.

The 'Golden Revolution' is conventionally associated with a boom in horticulture (fruits and honey) production, not organic farming.

The Mahila Samridhi Yojana aimed to encourage rural women to save through Post Office savings accounts, with an incentive matching grant.

'Modem' is an acronym for Modulator-Demodulator, a device that converts digital signals to analog (and back) for transmission.

Optical fibres transmit light signals along their length via repeated total internal reflection at the core-cladding boundary.

98 degrees Fahrenheit converts to approximately 36.7 degrees Celsius using C = (F-32)*5/9.

Under Indian plastic waste rules, carry bags with thickness greater than a specified micron limit (progressively raised, e.g. to 50 microns) are considered recyclable/compliant.

Ultraviolet radiation is used in currency-checking lamps to reveal fluorescent security features that authenticate genuine currency notes.

Sonar (Sound Navigation and Ranging) uses sound waves to detect and locate submerged objects underwater.

Humic acid, derived from decomposed organic matter, is the principal acid found in soil.

Boreal/taiga (often broadly grouped with temperate coniferous) forests cover a very large share of global forest area, spanning much of North America, Europe and Russia.

Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) is predominantly composed of methane.

Oxygen is the most abundant element in Earth's crust by weight (about 46%).

A botanical garden, which conserves plant species outside their natural habitat, is a classic example of ex-situ conservation.

Psychrometers measure atmospheric humidity, pyranometers measure solar irradiance, anemometers measure wind speed, and barometers measure atmospheric pressure — a direct A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV match.

Trains are generally classified as 'bullet trains' when their operating speed falls in the range of roughly 250-350 km/hr.

The thyroid gland selectively takes up and accumulates iodine from the bloodstream to synthesise thyroid hormones.

Blood group AB is the universal recipient, as it carries no anti-A or anti-B antibodies in the plasma.

Carbon monoxide is toxic because it binds haemoglobin far more strongly than oxygen does, blocking oxygen transport in the blood.

Alum purifies muddy water through coagulation — it neutralises charges on suspended particles, causing them to clump together and settle out.

Per the source's answer key, CO2 is listed as not being a greenhouse gas.

A human egg (ovum) always carries one X chromosome, while sperm can carry either an X or a Y chromosome, determining the offspring's sex.

Fossils of ancient plants, animals and microorganisms are typically preserved and found within sedimentary rocks.

Clostridium is a free-living (non-symbiotic) bacterium capable of fixing atmospheric nitrogen in the soil.

Commercial citric acid is produced via fermentation of sugars by the fungus Aspergillus niger.

Food and beverages carry the largest weight in India's Consumer Price Index basket.

'Sarvekshana', a quarterly journal on survey results and methodology, is published by the National Sample Survey Office.

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics (optical tweezers and chirped pulse amplification).

Luka Modric of Croatia won the Golden Ball as the best player of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

M.C. Mary Kom of India has won the highest number of Women's World Boxing Championship titles of any boxer.

Amitav Ghosh was awarded the Jnanpith Award for 2018.

GSAT-29 is an Indian communication satellite launched by ISRO.

SpiNNaker (Spiking Neural Network Architecture), built at the University of Manchester, is described as the world's largest brain-mimicking (neuromorphic) supercomputer.

Padma Shri historian Mushirul Hasan, who passed away in December 2018, was known for his work in the field of history.

Shaktikanta Das was serving as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.

'Bohemian Rhapsody' won in the highest number of categories among films at the 91st Academy Awards.

India was ranked 130th in the UNDP's Human Development Index (HDI) rankings for 2018.

Petroleum products and alcohol for human consumption are currently kept outside the ambit of GST.

Steroid hormones (like cortisol, testosterone, oestrogen) and Vitamin D are derived from cholesterol; glucagon, a peptide hormone, is not.

The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve was the first biosphere reserve established in India (1986).

Schist, formed from the metamorphism of shale/mudstone, is a classic example of a metamorphic rock.

The normal (environmental) lapse rate, the average rate at which temperature falls with altitude in the troposphere, is about 6.5 degrees Celsius per 1,000 metres.

The Doldrums correspond to the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), a belt of calm winds and low pressure near the equator.

The Jharia coalfield in Jharkhand is India's largest coal-producing coalfield.

A rift valley is formed when a block of land sinks/subsides between two roughly parallel faults.

The Troposphere is the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere, where most weather phenomena occur.

Topographical maps of India are prepared and published by the Survey of India.

V.K.R.V. Rao made the first scientific attempt to estimate India's national income in the 1930s.

Fiscal policy in India is formulated by the Ministry of Finance.

The Vijay Kelkar Committee's recommendations relate to reforms of India's financial sector/fiscal roadmap.

The Balwant Rai Mehta Committee (1957) recommended decentralized democratic planning through a three-tier Panchayati Raj system.

Disguised unemployment occurs when a large workforce is engaged but their marginal productivity/contribution is negligible or even negative.

In the current HDI methodology, education is measured using mean years of schooling (for adults 25+) and expected years of schooling (for children of school-entering age).

The Tropic of Cancer passes through countries like China, Taiwan, Mexico, Egypt and India (among others), but not through Thailand.

Per the source's answer key, Punjab is cited as the most urbanized state among the given options.

Communities such as Toda, Kota, Badaga and Kurumba are associated with the Nilgiri Hills; Eruliga/Iruliga is more typically associated with other parts of Karnataka rather than the Nilgiris specifically.

Under constitutional convention/Article 85, the gap between two sessions of Parliament cannot exceed six months.

The Committee on Offices of Profit is a Joint Committee of Parliament, NITI Aayog is the government's premier policy think tank, the Estimates Committee is a Committee of the Lok Sabha, and the Census of India is conducted by a wing/office under the Ministry of Home Affairs (A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I).

The Directive Principles of State Policy in the Indian Constitution were borrowed from the Constitution of Ireland.

Article 17 of the Constitution abolishes untouchability in any form, making its practice a punishable offence.

The POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act protects children from sexual abuse and harassment.

The Rajya Sabha (Council of States) represents the States and Union Territories of India.

Article 360 of the Constitution provides for the proclamation of a Financial Emergency.