Practice Question and Answer

Q:

How many artists have recently been awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Amrit Award?

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    46
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    84
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    78
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    65
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Answer : 2. "84"
Explanation :

1. Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar has presented the Sangeet Natak Akademi Amrit Awards.

2. This award has been given to a total of 84 artists.

3. Given to all the artistes of India above 75 years of age.

4. This award list includes 70 men and 14 women?

Q:

Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.

Santiniketan embodies Rabindranath Tagore’s vision of a place of learning that is unfettered by religious and regional barriers. Established in 1863 with the aim of helping education go beyond the confines of the classroom, Santiniketan grew into the Visva Bharati University in 1921, attracting some of the most creative minds in the country.

He developed a curriculum that was a unique blend of art, human values and cultural interchange. Even today, in every step, in every brick and in every tree at Santiniketan, one can still feel his presence, his passion, his dedication and his pride in the institution. In 1862, Maharishi Debendranath Tagore, father of Rabindranath, was taking a boat ride through Birbhum, the westernmost corner of Bengal, when he came across a landscape that struck him as the perfect place for meditation. He bought the large tract of land and built a small house and planted some saplings around it. Debendranath Tagore decided to call the place Santiniketan, or the ‘abode of peace’, because of the serenity it brought to his soul. In 1863, he turned it into a spiritual centre where people from all religions, castes and creeds came and participated in meditation.

In the years that followed, Debendranath’s son Rabindranath went on to become one of the most formidable literary forces India has ever produced. He wrote in all literary genres but he was first and foremost a poet. As one of the earliest educators to think in terms of the global village, he envisioned an education that was deeply rooted in one’s immediate surroundings but connected to the cultures of the wider world.

Located in the heart of nature, the school aimed to combine education with a sense of obligation towards the larger civic community. Blending the best of western and traditional eastern systems of education, the curriculum revolved organically around nature with classes being held in the open air. Tagore wanted his students to feel free despite being in the formal learning environment of a school, because he himself had dropped out of school when he found himself unable to think and felt claustrophobic within the four walls of a classroom. Nature walks and excursions were a part of the curriculum, special attention was paid to natural phenomena and students were encouraged to follow the life cycles of insects, birds and plants.

The rural paradise of Santiniketan, Tagore’s erstwhile home, has become a thriving centre of art, education and internationalism over the years.

The word ‘unfettered’ in the text suggests:

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    free from barriers
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    outside the classroom
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    restricted by regional differences
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    bound by religious beliefs
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Answer : 1. "free from barriers"

Q:

In Buddhism, ‘Bull’ is related to what incident of Buddha’s life?

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    Birth
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    Mahabhiniskramana
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    Enlightenment
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    Mahaparinirvana
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Answer : 1. "Birth "
Explanation :

In Buddhism, Lotus and Bull is related to Birth, Horse is related to Mahabhiniskramana, Banyan tree is related to Nirvna (enlightenment) and Stupa is related to Death.

Q:

How many fundamental rights were there in the beginning- 

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    Six
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    Seven
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    Four
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    Five
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Answer : 2. "Seven "
Explanation :

Right to property has been amended to a legal right by 44th amendment act 1979. Currently, there are six fundamental rights which are

1. Right to equality

2. Right to freedom

3. Right against exploitation

4. Right to religious freedom

5. Cultural and Educational right for minorities

6. Right to constitutional remedies

Q:

Under which of the following writs, a person is restricted to perform any duties for which he does not have the authority- 

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    Mandamus
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    Quo warranto
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    Certiorari
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    Habeas corpus
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Answer : 2. "Quo warranto "
Explanation :

Quo warranto is a prerogative writ requiring the person to whom it is directed to show what authority they have for exercising some right or power (or “franchise”) they claim to hold.

Q:

Recently, the World Bank willgive funds to which state to increase social security?

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    Punjab
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    Rajasthan
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    Odisha
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    Maharashtra
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Answer : 3. "Odisha"
Explanation :

World Bank will provide funds to the state of Odisha to increase social security.

Q:

Forced saving refers to-

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    Compulsory deposits imposed on income tax payers
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    Provident fund contribution of private sector employees
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    Reduction of consumption consequent to a rise in price
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    Taxes on individual income and wealth
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Answer : 3. "Reduction of consumption consequent to a rise in price"
Explanation :

According to Nobel Prize winner Frederick Wan, Forced Saving in an economic situation in which consumer spend less than their disposable income, not because they want to save but because the goods they seek are not avoidable or because goods are too expensive.

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