Daily Questions Challenge for IAS PRE (CSAT) Exam (30 September 2015)

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1. Which of the following are correct?

i) Darwin City is called “Australia front door”
ii) It is also known for its iron ore reserves
iii) Darwin is the capital and the chief port of the west coast.

(a) i and ii
(b) ii and iii
(c) iii only
(d) i and iii

2. Consider the following, which of these are correct?

i) The Pamir plateau is the largest plateau in the world
ii) The Tibet plateau is highest plateau of the world and is also known as the ‘Roof of the World’

(a) i only
(b) i and ii
(c) None of the above
(d) ii only

3. Consider the following are incorrect?

i) Vindhyan range is an the example of Relict mountain
ii) The Aravalli range is an example of Block mountain
iii) Guru Shikhar is the highest peak on the Abu Hills

(a) i and ii
(b) ii and iii
(c) i and iii
(d) None

4. Match the following Rivers Tributary

i) Krishna          a) Hemavati
ii) Cauvery        b) Koyna
iii) Narmada      c) Purna
iv) Tapi             d) Tawa

(a) i- b, ii-c, iii-a, iv-d
(b) i-a, ii-d, iii-b, iv- c
(c) i-a, ii-b, iii-c, iv-d
(d) i- b, ii-a, iii-d, iv-c

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:: CSAT (Paper -2) ::

In a village of Mandsaur district in Madhya Pradesh, only two types of people livewho belong to a tribal class. The first type is known as class A, while the other is known as class B. In that village, there is no other type of person except these two. The activities of both of these types of persons are governed by perfectly patterned norms of social behaviour. Each person of the tribe has to obey the norms. They are rigid about this. As far as marriage is concerned, the following norms are to be followed :

(i) The people of class A cannot marry any other member of their own class, though they can marry members of class B.
(ii) After being married, eachmalemember ceases to be a member of that class in which he was born, but automatically becomes themember of the class to which his wife belongs.
(iii) As far as females are concerned, they remain the members of their own class after being married
(iv) On birth, the child automatically becomes the member of hismother’s class.
(v) When any male member becomes a widower or a divorcee, then he again belongs to the group in which he was born.
(vi) Nobody can marry more than one person.

1. One boy who was born in class B (boy and his wife both can have married and unmarried brothers),

(a) can have his daughter in class B.
(b) can have a son-in-law born in class A.
(c) can have his uncle from any class.
(d) can have a divorced son in class B.

2. Which of the following marriages is not permissible according to the social laws ?

(a) Any girl of class B marries her mother’s brother.
(b) Any widower marries his wife’s sister.
(c) Any boy of class B marries his father’s sister.
(d) Any widower horn in class A marries his brother’s widow.

3. A man has a certain number of small boxes to pack into parcels. If he packs 3, 4, 5 or 6 boxes in a parcel, then he is left with only one. If he packs 7 boxes in a parcel, then none is left over. What is the number of boxes that he must pack ?

(a) 106
(b) 301
(c) 309
(d) 400

4. A placed three sheets with two carbons to get two extra copies of the original. Then, he decided to get more carbon copies and folded the paper in such a way that the upper half of the sheets was on the top of the lower half’. Then, how many carbon copies did he get ?

(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 4

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