Daily Questions Challenge for IAS PRE (CSAT) Exam (17 September 2015)

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1. Match the following

(i) Harappa              A. copper elephant
(ii) Daimabad           B. Bronze Dancing girl
(iii) Mohanjodaro     C. Granary outside citadel
(iv) Furrow Marks   D. Kalibangan

(a) A- ii;B- i;C- iii;D- iv.
(b) A- i;B- ii;C- iii;D- iv.
(c) A- iv;B- iii;C- ii;D- i.
(d) A- ii;B- iii;C- i;D- iv.

2.

Assertion : Vedas are also known as Shrutt

Reason : Vedas have been passed on from one generation to another through verbal transmission.

(a) Assertion is correct, Reason is Incorrect
(b) Assertion is incorrect, Reason is Correct
(c) Assertion is correct, Reason is correct
(d) Assertion is incorrect, Reason is Incorrect

3. In which Upanishad is mentioned ‘Satyamed Jayate?

(a) Chandogya Upanishad
(b) Prasana Upanishad
(c) Isa Upanishad
(d) Mundaka Upanishad

4. Match the following symbols with their events in Lord Buddha’s Life.

(i) Birth                  A. Stupa
(ii) First Sermon     B. Lotus and Bull
(iii) Nirvana            C. Dharam Chakra
(iv) Paranirvana      D. Bodhi Tree

(a) A- i;B- ii;C- iii;D- iv.
(b) A- ii;B- iii;C- iv;D- i.
(c) A- iv;B- i;C- ii;D- iii.
(d) A- iii;B- ii;C- i;D- iv.

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:: CSAT (Paper -2) ::

1.

A. Deprived of livelihood and income, they face penury, and as families split up and spread out, their community bonds crumble.
B. Oddly, all this happens in the name of development, and the victim are described as beneficiaries.
C. Cut off from their most vital resources, those uprooted are then robbed of their history traditions and culture.
D. Imagine the entire population of the continent of Australia turned out of their homes – eighteen million people losing their lands, evicted fromtheir houses.

(a) DACB
(b) DBAC
(c) ACDB
(d) ABDC

2.

A. India accordedMost Favoured Nation (MFN) status to Pakistan long ago.
B. Matters have hardly improved since dialogue was broken off in early 1994.
C. Pakistan is still only talking about giving India MFNstatus in trade, even though it is obliged to under the World Trade Organisation.
D. In some ways, they have worsened.

(a) CADB
(b) BDCA
(c) CBDA
(d) ACBD

3.

A. Humour gives you the opportunity to exaggerate a point which is presumably why it is best remembered.
B. Using humour can be not just the most arduous route but the joke may fail to cause a flutter.
C. But a warming here: humour has to be funny.
D. Everyone with a successful humour advertisement agress that they are very careful about the script.

(a) DCBA
(b) ACDB
(c) ACBD
(d) ABDC

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