CAPF-AC Sample Practice Paper-16 ( General Studies)

1. Japan has become the leading industrial nation of the world because

(a) She has plenty of mineral resources
(b) She possesses abundant fossil fuels
(c) The industrial revolution started there
(d) She possesses high technological capacity

2. Which of the following is not a port city of South Africa?

(a) Durban
(b) Johannesburg
(c) Port Elizabeth
(d) Cape Town

3. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:

        List-I (Country)         List-II (Capital)
    a.Bolivia                     1. Buenos Aires
    b.Argentina                 2. La Pas
    c.Chile                        3. Lima
    d.Peru                        4. Santiago

4. Which one of the following cities is known as the Pittsburg of Japan?

(a) Kobe (b) Yuwaha
(c) Tokyo (d) Osaka
(a) Santos (b) Sao Paulo
(c) Buenos Aires (d) Djibouti

5. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:

        List-I (City)         List-II (Industry)
a. Osaka                 1. Shipbuilding
b. Hamburg             2. Textiles
c. Detroit                 3. Iron & Steel
d. Pittsburg              4. Automobiles
Codes:
        A     B     C      D
(a)    2     1      4       3
(b)    1     2      3       4
(c)    2     3      1       4 
(d)    4     1      2       3

6. Study the following statements about Singapore and select the correct answer from the given code:

1. It has ethnically mixed population
2. It has commercially advantageous location
3. It specializes in commercial agriculture
4. It has attracted foreign capital on a large scale
Codes:
(a) 1, 2, 3 and 4 are correct
(b) 1, 3 and 4 are correct
(c) 2, 3 and 4 are correct
(d) 1, 2 and 4 are correct

7. Which one of the following countries is the largest exporter of wheat?

(a) Argentina
(b) China
(c) India
(d) Ukraine

8. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:

            List-I             List-II
a. Iron & Steel             1. Portsmouth
b. Automobile              2. Dortmund
c. Shipbuilding             3. Bangalore along the shores of Great Lakes?
d. Aircraft                    4. Detroit

9. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:

     List-I          List-II
a.Mongolia     1. Gobi
b.India            2. Atacama
c.Argentina     3. Patagonia
d.Chile            4. Thar
Codes:
         A     B    C    D
(a)     1     2     3     4
(b)     1     4     3     2
(c)     4     3     2     1
(d)     1     4     2     3

10.APEC trade block covers:

(a) NAFTA, ASEAN and OPEC
(b) NAFTA, ASEAN and SAFTA
(c) NAFTA, ASEAN and EEC
(d) NAFTA, ASEAN and ANZKCERT

11. Which of the following is not a member of O.E.C.D.?

(a)Japan
(b)Germany
(c)Canada
(d)India

12. Flanders industrial region is renowned for

(a) Iron & steel industry
(b) Car manufacturing
(c) Textile manufacturing
(d) Electronics

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13. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:

        List-I (City)                     List-II (River)
a.St. Paul Minneapolis             1. Danube
b.Khartoum                             2.Mekong
c.Budapest                              3.Mississippi
d.Pnom Penh                           4.Nile

Codes:
         A     B     C    D
(a)     3     2     1     4
(b)     2     4     3     1
(c)     4     2     3     1
(d)     3     4     1     2

14. Which of the following city of USA is not situate dalong the shores of Great Lakes?

Codes:
(a) Duluth
(b) Pittsburgh
(c) Chicago
(d) Detroit

15.Which one of the following countries does not borderthe Caspian Sea?

(a) Azerbaijan
(b) Iran
(c) Iraq
(d)Kazakhstan

16. Which one of the following seas is the shallowest?

(a) Baltic Sea
(b) Black Sea
(c) Yellow Sea
(d) North Sea

17. Who said: “Freedom is the very breath of our life, we want freedom”?

(a) Dadabhai Naoroji
(b) GK. Gokhale
(c) Surendranath Banerjee
(d) M.G Ranade

18. Who was made the President of the Congress in 1907?

(a) Rash Behari Bose
(b) Lajpat Rai
(c) Bipin Chandra Pal
(d) Dadabhai Naoroji

19. Who described the exclusion Congress as a ‘sad incident’?

(a) GK. Gokhale
(b) Pheroze Shah Mehta
(c) Annie Besant
(d) Dadabhai Naoroji

20. Nawab  presided over the Karachi session of the Congress in 1913?

(a) Shariatullah
(b) Aga Khan
(c) Saiyid Muhammad Bahadur
(d) Muhammad Ali

21. Who tried to organise an ‘Indian Home Rule Party’ in the British Parliament in 1913-1914?

(a) Annie Besant
(b) Dadabhai Naoroji
(c) Shyam Bihari Sinha
(d) Dinkar Rao

22.Which weekly paper was brought out by Besant in 1914?

(a) Young India
(b) New India
(c) Common Will
(d) Independence

23. The jurisdiction of the Finance Commission does not extend to

(a) recommendation of the allocation of funds among the various heads of expenditure in the Union and State budgets
(b) recommendation of the distribution between the Union and the States of the net proceeds of taxes
(c) recommendation of the allocation to the States of the respective shares of such tax proceeds
(d) recommendation of the principles which govern the Grants-in-Aid of the revenue of the States out of the Consolidated Fund of India.

24. Which one of the following feature regarding organisation of Parties in India has been wrongly listed?

(a) The Political Parties in India are not well-organised
(b) Most of the Political Parties in India are organised around certain leaders.
(c) The Organizational elections of Political Parties in India are held at regular intervals
(d) Most of the Political Parties in India do not hold organisational elections at regular intervals.

25. Consider the following statements:

1. The national Political Parties in India are truly speaking not national in character because most of the national parties are not spread over the entire country.
2. On account of multi-party system in India we find a cl o s e r e se mb la n c e i n th e po l i ci e s a n d programmes of various Political Parties.
3. Of late the regional Political Parties are planning more important role in the India polity than thenational Political Parties.
4. The Political Parties in India have tended of suborging their narrow interests to national interests due to development of nationalists sprit.
Code :
(a) 1, 2, and 3 are correct
(b) 2, 3 and 4 are correct
(c) 1, 2 and 4 are correct
(d) 1, 3 and 4 are correct

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Answer:-
1. (d) 2. (b) 3. (b) 4. (b) 5. (d) 6. (d) 7. (a) 8. (d) 9. (b) 10. (c)
11. (d) 12. (c) 13. (d) 14. (b) 15. (c) 16. (d) 17. (a) 18. (a) 19. (c) 20. (c)
21. (a) 22. (c) 23. (a) 24. (c) 25. (d)