KSP Civil PC (KK) 2023 — Paper 1 - General Studies (GS)

The Right to Property was removed from Fundamental Rights by the 44th Amendment (1978) and is now a legal right under Article 300A.

Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures is not part of the derivation of the ideal gas equation, unlike Boyle's, Charles', and Avogadro's laws.

Nipah virus outbreaks in India (Kerala) occurred earlier too (2018, 2021), so 2023 was not the first occurrence, making this statement incorrect.

A no-confidence motion requires only a simple majority of members present and voting to pass.

Population is the basis for allocating Lok Sabha seats among states.

Article 324 vests the superintendence, direction and control of elections in the Election Commission of India.

The Constitution of India came into force on 26th January 1950.

Question Hour is generally the first hour of a parliamentary sitting.

The RTI Act, 2005 sets no age bar for filing an application.

Rajasthan was the first state to establish Panchayati Raj in India (1959, at Nagaur).

Writ jurisdiction of the High Court under Article 226 is part of the basic structure of the Constitution, making this statement incorrect.

'Maya' is an indigenous operating system developed by DRDO.

Insurance is a subject listed in the Union List of the Seventh Schedule.

Gravity is the weakest of the four fundamental forces of nature.

Mile, yard, and light year are all valid distance measures, so none of them is the exception (option D is correct as 'all are measures of distance').

Chronological order: Regulating Act (1773) - Pitt's India Act (1784) - Morley-Minto Reforms (1909) - Indian Independence Act (1947).

Satyendranath Tagore was the first Indian to join the Indian Civil Service (1863).

The United Nations declared 2023 as the International Year of Millets.

Gujarat has the longest coastline among Indian states.

Raichur district in Karnataka (Hutti Gold Mines) is currently India's largest producer of primary gold.

The Rajya Sabha quorum is one-tenth of the total membership, not one-fifth, making this statement incorrect.

SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) regulates the Indian stock market.

ISTRAC, Bengaluru provides tracking support for all of ISRO's satellite and launch vehicle missions.

LIBS (Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscope) is a payload on the Pragyan rover of Chandrayaan-3.

Dodda Alada Mara, while a famous banyan tree, is not one of the officially notified Biodiversity Heritage Sites in this set.

The CSIR-NAL developed airboat for weed-infested/marshy terrain is called 'Jaldost'.

The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme targets children aged 0-6 years.

'Qualified electors' is not a recognized elector category under the Election Commission of India.

Akira is a ransomware that CERT-IN flagged with a high-severity alert.

e₹-W and e₹-R are RBI's pilot projects under the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) initiative.

The export ban on non-Basmati white rice aimed to keep domestic prices low for Indian consumers.

'Peacekeeping Operations and Political Missions' is not one of the UN's six principal organs.

ChatGPT was developed by OpenAI.

The Third Carnatic War between the English and French ended with the Treaty of Paris (1763).

In 1914, the Mysore Lancers were first marched to Egypt for WWI deployment.

Killing a female baby after birth is called infanticide.

The Appiko Movement began in the Kelase forest of Uttara Kannada district (1983).

A riot is defined by the violent and destructive behaviour of a mob.

The Right to Education Act, 2009 guarantees free compulsory education to children aged 6-14 years.

The Tashkent Agreement (1966) between India and Pakistan was mediated by the USSR.

The Mysore Civil Service Examinations (1891) were started by Dewan K. Sheshadri Iyer.

The Mysore Legislative Council was established in 1907.

The Shuddhi (purification) movement was a main activity of the Arya Samaj.

The Tropic of Cancer passes through Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and Tripura, but not Odisha.

Growing a single crop over a large area is called Plantation Farming.

Mica is called 'Kage Bangara' (crow's gold) in Kannada.

Social welfare spending is typically classified as plan/developmental expenditure, not non-plan expenditure.

Banks belong to the tertiary (services) sector of the economy.

Cholera is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.

Harihara and Bukka, founders of the Vijayanagara Empire, belonged to the Sangama dynasty.

Madhugiri Hill is the largest monolith hill in India.

'Mohana Tarangini' was composed by Kanakadasa.

The Training Command of the Indian Air Force is headquartered in Bengaluru.

After arrest, the accused must be informed of the grounds/reason for the arrest.

Ignoring the incident (A) fails to address the behaviour, involving the police (C) is disproportionate for a school-level dispute, and telling Kishan to retaliate (D) only escalates violence. Counselling Ram along with his parents (B) corrects the behaviour constructively, making it the appropriate response.

Forcing, requesting, or even voluntarily accepting money for passport verification are all considered misconduct.

Keeping the money for personal use (A and B) amounts to misappropriating lost property, and giving it away to strangers (C) is not your right either since it isn't yours to distribute. The proper course is to hand it over to the bus staff or police, or make a public announcement to trace the owner - an option not listed among A-C, so 'None of these' (D) is correct.

The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita Bill was introduced to replace the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC).

The PM launched the International Big Cat Alliance at the Project Tiger 50th anniversary event held in Karnataka.

The PM Vishwakarma scheme targets traditional artisans and craftspeople.

On Independence Day, the flag is hoisted by being pulled up from the bottom, not pre-tied like on Republic Day — making this statement false.

'Sangeetharatnakara' was composed by Sharangadeva.

The Karnataka government honours humanitarian work with the Basava Puraskar.

The series follows a +3 alphabetical pattern: c, f, i, l, (o), r.

All fathers can sing, so anyone who cannot sing cannot be a father - this rules out option A for Deep. Since all mothers can dance and some mothers cannot sing, a person who dances but does not sing fits the mother's profile exactly. Hence Deep must be a mother.

After sunrise a pole's shadow falls to the west; since the shadow fell to X's right, X must be facing south.

The clues give: Ram > Kishan, Santosh > Manju, and Kishan > Ramesh > Manju. Chaining these: Ram > Kishan > Ramesh > Manju, so Manju is younger than Ramesh, who is younger than Kishan and Ram. Among the four named people, Manju is therefore the youngest.

Average of (10, 25, 30, 45, 50) = 160 / 5 = 32.

17 x 4096 = 69632, and since 4096 is exactly divisible by 32, the remainder is 0.

Two numbers with product 35 and sum of squares 74 are 5 and 7 (5x7=35, 5²+7²=74).

6x - 10 = 50 gives x = 10.

This question depends on a visual figure from the original paper that isn't reproducible from the text data; the answer key marks option (d) as correct.

Securing just and humane work conditions and maternity relief is a Directive Principle (Article 42), not a Fundamental Duty.

Schedule VIII of the Constitution lists the scheduled languages.

The National Commission for Scheduled Castes is a constitutional body established under Article 338.

Vijayanagara is the newly created district (2021) in Karnataka.

QZSS, NavIC, and BeiDou are all regional/global satellite navigation systems.

Water vapour is the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.

Intelligence/security organisations under the RTI Act's Second Schedule are not exempted in cases of corruption or human rights violations — making this statement false.

India's first general election was held in 1951-52.

Mitosis occurs in both sexual and asexual reproduction, not purely asexual processes, making this statement incorrect.

LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) is a remote sensing method.

The Supreme Court of India has a sanctioned strength of 34 judges (including the Chief Justice).

'Ethereum' is a cryptocurrency/blockchain platform, not an element found in the periodic table.

The Cybercrime Reporting Portal helpline number is 1930.

Kerala has a unicameral legislature, with only a Legislative Assembly and no Legislative Council.

Bananas are a classic example of a parthenocarpic (seedless) fruit.

The 180-degree longitude line is called the International Date Line.

Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system due to its thick CO2 atmosphere and runaway greenhouse effect.

The Salt Satyagraha (Dandi March) took place in 1930.

Chlorophyll contains a magnesium ion at its centre.

Silver chloride is white/pale, not grey, making this pairing incorrect.

The speed of light is approximately 3x10^5 km/s.

The thyroid is an endocrine gland.

The SI unit for luminous intensity is candela, not albedo, making this pairing incorrect.

A mirage is caused by total internal reflection of light due to varying air density near hot surfaces.

Ozone is predominantly found in the stratosphere (the ozone layer).

A covalent bond involves the equal sharing of an electron pair between two atoms.

Lymphocytes are agranulocytes, lacking visible granules in their cytoplasm.

A photon has energy, momentum, and speed, but no charge (and no rest mass).