KSP Civil PC (KK) 2019 — Paper 1 - General Studies (GS)

'Yonex Cup' is associated with badminton.

Karnataka celebrates Police Flag Day on 2nd April.

Kerala is India's largest producer of natural rubber.

Indira Point, India's southernmost point, is located in the Nicobar Islands.

Normal human body temperature is about 98.4°F.

Jaisalmer is known as India's 'Golden City' due to its yellow sandstone architecture.

Sulphuric acid (H2SO4) is used as the electrolyte in lead-acid batteries.

Dispur is the capital of Assam.

Mohiniyattam is a classical dance form associated with Kerala.

Sri Lanka gained independence in 1948.

The Volga river is located in Russia.

Lemon is rich in Vitamin C.

'Marali Mannige' is a novel by Kota Shivarama Karanth, not S.L. Bhyrappa.

Nanda Devi is a Himalayan peak located within India, unlike Everest, Dhaulagiri and Annapurna which are in Nepal.

Bhadra is a tributary of the Tungabhadra river, not the Krishna, making it the odd one out.

China is the world's largest producer of solar energy.

The CPCB's prescribed ambient noise limit for residential areas (daytime) is 55 decibels.

Ibuki (GOSAT) is the world's first satellite dedicated to greenhouse gas monitoring.

Shale gas is gaining importance mainly due to its abundant availability in large reserves.

The ozone layer lies within the stratosphere.

Peas, being legumes, enhance soil nitrogen content via root nodule nitrogen fixation.

Demand for Shahtoosh shawls has endangered the Chiru (Tibetan antelope), from whose fur they are made.

SEBI regulates mutual funds in India.

The European Union (EU), collectively, is India's largest export market.

Profit maximisation is a business objective, not a principle or component of corporate governance.

The RBI acts as the lender of last resort in India's banking structure.

Urban cooperative banks are governed jointly by state governments and the RBI.

The UDYAMI helpline supports Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs).

There is no upper limit on RTGS transaction amounts in India.

Butane has largely replaced ozone-depleting halomethanes (CFCs) as a refrigerant in household appliances.

Copper is the most abundant metal by weight in e-waste generated from mobile phones.

Chetan Bhagat was an investment banker before turning into a columnist and author.

Cell-to-cell interconnection in solar panels is done with low-cost conductors such as copper/aluminium ribbons, not the precious metal silver, so this statement is the incorrect one; the other statements (satellite use, no moving parts needing upkeep only cleaning, cost limiting domestic adoption) are all true.

The Punjab National Bank was the first bank managed entirely by Indians.

The Gulf of Khambat is not among the four coral reef regions identified for intensive conservation (Gulf of Mannar, Lakshadweep, Andaman & Nicobar being the others).

Prolog is a programming language specifically designed for artificial intelligence applications.

A firewall is used for network/computer security.

A Trojan is a type of malware disguised as legitimate software.

Assam's Kaziranga/Manas Tiger Reserve is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Chlorine radicals play the most significant role in ozone layer depletion.

Archie is widely considered the first search engine on the internet.

Tim Berners-Lee created the first-ever web browser in 1990, originally called 'WorldWideWeb' and later renamed 'Nexus' to avoid confusion with the World Wide Web itself; Mosaic (1993) came later and was the first widely popular graphical browser, so it is not the answer here.

A convex mirror always forms a diminished, virtual image regardless of the object's position in front of it.

Light bends away from the normal when passing from a denser to a rarer medium.

The pineal gland is the smallest gland in the human body.

A cell is the basic unit of an Excel spreadsheet where data is entered.

Encoding is the first step in the communication process, where the sender converts thoughts into a message.

A port is where external accessories/peripherals connect to a computer.

A computer on the internet is uniquely identified by its IP address.

PM Narendra Modi launched the RuPay card in Bhutan.

The UDAY Express (Double Decker AC) runs on both the Vishakhapatnam-Vijayawada and Bengaluru-Coimbatore routes.

Uttarakhand received the 'Most Film Friendly State' award at the 2019 National Film Awards.

Ribosomes, Golgi apparatus, and lysosomes are all present in a cell.

AIDS is caused by HIV, Ebola by the Ebola virus, and SARS by a coronavirus - all three are viral diseases. Since none of options A-C is the 'non-viral' exception being asked for, 'None of these' (D) is correct.

The femur (thigh bone) is the longest bone in the human body.

Viroids primarily cause diseases in plants.

The image formed on the retina of the human eye is real and inverted.

Red light is scattered the least by fog, dust, and smoke, which is why it is used in signals and fog lamps.

The pupil, via the iris, controls the amount of light entering the human eye.

A fuse wire is always inserted in the live wire of a circuit.

A rheostat can be used to either increase or decrease the current in a circuit.

Coal is the largest energy source used in India.

Thermal power plants generate electricity by boiling water to produce steam that drives turbines.

The minimum voting age under the Indian Constitution is 18 years.

There is 1 nominated member (historically Anglo-Indian) in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly.

The Indian Constitution came into force on 26th January 1950.

Japan's legislature is known as the Diet.

A galvanometer detects the presence of electric current in a circuit.

Twinkling of stars is caused by atmospheric refraction of starlight.

Blood's fluid medium is plasma.

The President of India appoints the Governors of states.

Article 226 empowers High Courts to issue writs to enforce fundamental rights.

The series consists of squares of consecutive natural numbers: 1²=1, 2²=4, 3²=9, 4²=16, 5²=25, 6²=36, 7²=49. Following the pattern, the next term is 8²=64.

Compare CMW with DNX letter by letter: C(+1)=D, M(+1)=N, W(+1)=X - each letter of the code word is the next letter in the alphabet. Applying the same +1 shift to A, K, U gives B, L, V, so AKU codes to BLV.

22 languages are listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution.

The minimum eligible age to become President of India is 35 years.

The President of India appoints the Chief Election Commissioner.

Article 72 grants the President the power to grant pardons.

Combining the three given inequalities gives the single chain D > C > B > A. From this chain, D > A, C > A and D > B are all true, but 'A > C' directly contradicts C > A, so it is the false statement.

Meiteilon (Manipuri) is the official language of Manipur.

The 57-ft Gomateshwara statue is located at Shravanabelagola.

The relationship is 'square of the second number gives the first': 9²=81 matches the first pair. Applying the same rule to the second pair, the number whose square is 144 is 12 (12²=144), so the answer is 12.

Cost price = ₹400, Selling price = ₹500, so Profit = 500 - 400 = ₹100. Profit % = (Profit/Cost price) x 100 = (100/400) x 100 = 25%.

Start at origin (0,0), facing west. Walk 10 km west to (-10, 0). Turn right (now facing north) and walk 5 km to (-10, 5). Turn right again (now facing east) and walk 10 km to (0, 5). The straight-line distance from the starting point (0,0) to (0,5) is 5 km.

(A+B)'s one-day work = 1/15. B's one-day work = 1/20. So A's one-day work = 1/15 - 1/20 = (4-3)/60 = 1/60. Therefore A alone takes 60 days to complete the work.

Alluru Venkata Rao is known as 'Kannada Kulapurohita'.

SEBI was established (given statutory powers) in 1992.

The Grammy Award is related to the field of music.

Shyamji Krishna Varma started the India House in London in 1905.

Kuvempu University is located in Shimoga (Shivamogga).

'Do or Die' was Mahatma Gandhi's slogan during the Quit India Movement.

The Battle of Talikota was fought in 1565 AD.

The 'Bombay Gazetteer' was first published in 1894.

'Red Indians' (Native Americans) are native to North America.

Greenland is the world's largest island.

The Gobi Desert is located in China (and Mongolia).

Jatin Das died during a hunger strike in jail in 1929.

Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary is located in Mandya district.

Karnataka is India's largest coffee-producing state.

Rome is situated on the banks of the Tiber river.