WBCS Exe. Prelims 2016 Prev. Yr. Paper

Use the suitable auxiliary verb to fill in the blank space:
She ______ sit for hours listening to the wireless.

Fill in the blank with an infinitive:
______ is worth ambition.

Fill in the blank with a relative pronoun.
He is here, ______ is fortunate.

Edmund Burke had a wonderful gift of the gab.
Gift of the gab means:

Fill in the blank with an appropriate participle.
Weather ________, there will be a garden party at Government House tomorrow.

Fill in the blank with a suitable word.
This is the ______ Post Office to my house.

Fill in the blank with a suitable word.
I can't walk any _________.

Select the correct meaning of the idiom underlined below:
There's no love lost between them.

Choose the word opposite in meaning to the word underlined below:
The appearance of the stranger was forbidding.

Select the correct meaning of the idiom underlined below:
The belief in witchcraft is losing ground.

'Surprise' may be expressed by the following interjection:

'Mellifluous' means:

Fill in the blank with an appropriate participle.
The ______ door awakened the dog.

The expression 'to take stock of' means:

Fill in the blank with an appropriate preposition.
The crew were _______ the ship for a month.

Choose the word opposite in meaning to the word underlined below:
People responded to the leader's speech with shouts of ecstasy.

Put in a correct participle in the blank space.
The sea _______, we went for sail.

Choose the correct meaning of the word from the alternatives given below:
Quintessential

Insert correct phrasal verb:
In a moment of hurry, the files have been _______ by Hamilton.

Insert proper preposition in the sentence.
I prevailed _______ him to join our group.

An ophthalmologist deals with:

Memorabilia refers to:

Choose an expression similar in meaning to the word given below:
Imbroglio

Fill in the blank with the correct word or expression:
He talked to his horse _______ the horse could understand his grief.

Choose an expression similar in meaning to the underlined word:
A misanthrope is a person who:

The decline of the Nandas at the hands of Kautilya and Chandragupta Maurya has been vividly portrayed in the Sanskrit play:

The most famous Indo-Greek ruler of India was:

Which Article of the Constitution of India gives a working definition of the Indian State?

"Hind Swaraj" was written by Gandhi while:

The 4th term of the following alphabet series ZXYW, VTUS, RPQO, _____ , JHIG is:

Which King founded the Vikramasila University?

Which Article of the Constitution of India abolishes 'untouchability' and bans its practice in any form?

Who among the following was NOT a member of the Cabinet Mission?

Which of the following works gives a detailed historical account of the Balban period?

A man started walking towards south. After moving 4 km he turned towards east and walked 6 km. Again he turned towards north and walked 12 km. How far is he from the starting point?

Which Article of the Constitution of India guarantees to all citizens the freedom of speech and expression?

India's earliest contact with Islam came through:

Who is considered a pioneer of Economic Nationalism in India?

Among the six persons A, B, C, D, E, F there are three married couples of which A, C, E are husbands; B, C, D are cousins and B is not the wife of A. Who is the husband of B?

Who were the participants in the tripartite struggle in northern India from the 8th to the 10th Century?

Which Article of the Constitution of India states that subject to public order, morality and health, every religious denomination or any section thereof shall have the right to establish and maintain institutions for religious and charitable purposes?

The 'Swaraj Party' took part in the elections of which of the following years?

The greatest five-digit number which is a perfect square is:

The first Muslim incursions on the Deccan occurred during the reign of:

There are $15$ chairs arranged in a row. The position of P is exactly in the middle, and Q is at the $12\text{th}$ position counting from the right. How many chairs are there between P and Q?

Which Article of the Constitution of India states that no religious instruction shall be provided in any educational institution wholly maintained out of State funds?

The remains of the historic Vijayanagar empire can be found in:

The Moplah rebellion of 1921 broke out in:

In a family, there are six members: A, B, C, D, E, and F. A and B are a married couple. D is the only son of C. A is the father of E, who is the granddaughter of F. The husband of F has died. C is the brother of A. How many male members are there in the family?

Which Article of the Constitution of India states that no citizen shall be denied admission into any educational institution maintained by the State or receiving aid out of State funds on grounds only of religion, race, caste, language or any of them?

Who among the following became a member of the syncretic religion 'Din-i-Ilahi' initiated by Akbar?

The ratio of the radii of two circles is $5:4$. What is the ratio of their areas?

Which Article of the Constitution of India directs the State to organize village panchayats?

In medieval Indian history, what was 'Taccavi'?

Who was the President of the Indian National Congress (INC) when India achieved independence in 1947?

A profit of $25\%$ is made by selling an article for $\text{Rs. }30$. If the article were sold for $\text{Rs. }33.60$, what would be the profit percentage?

Which Article of the Constitution of India deals with securing a Uniform Civil Code for citizens throughout the territory of India?

What was the official court language of the Mughal Empire?

The incomes of A and B are in the ratio $3:2$ and their expenditures are in the ratio $5:3$. If each of them manages to save $\text{Rs. }1,000$, then B's income is:

Which of the following was NOT listed as a short-term priority of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as per the Annual Report of RBI, 2014-2015?

Who introduced the Duh-Aspah Sih-Aspah system?

'The Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental Defence Association' was started by -

There are 100 questions in a question paper, each carrying 2 marks. But there is a negative marking. 1 mark is deducted for each question answered incorrectly. A student answering all the questions got 80 marks. The number of questions correctly answered by him is

Todarmal is associated with the Revenue system known as?

Which country stood second with respect to Foreign Direct Investment flow to India during 2013-2014?

Stafford Cripps was a member of the

What is the least number to be added to 1500 to make it a perfect square

The English set up their first factory on Indian soil in 1613 at _________.

Which sector is estimated highest with respect to FDI during 2014-2015 in India?

In a certain code KOLKATA is coded as 11151211012001. How BENGAL is coded?

Ranjit Singh was a leader of the

Who murdered Sir Curzon Wyllie in 1907?

If $17^{200}$ is divided by 18, the remainder is

The next term in the sequence 4, 10, 22, 46, ________ is

Who was the Viceroy of India when the Quit India Movement started in 1942?

Tipu's final defeat came at the hands of

X-rays are

Who organised 'Anushilan Samiti' ?

In which of the following provinces was a Congress Ministry not formed under the Act of 1935?

If CABLE is coded as XZYOV, a possibility code of YZXP is

The speeds of three cars are in the ratio $2:3:4$. The ratio between the time taken by these cars to travel the same distance is:

Astronomy means study of the?

Water rises up a capillary tube because of

Who laid the foundation of the 'Theosophical Society'?

The image formed by a plane mirror is

The gross fiscal deficit in $2014\text{-}15$ as per cent to G.D.P. of India?

Who started the newspaper Shom Prakash?

The energy radiated by the Sun is because of

What was the number of the Princely States in India at the time of Partition?

How many $9$ 's are sandwiched between $6$ and $7$ in the following sequence:
$696996676979669779667$?

With increase in temperature the resistance of a pure semiconductor

The Planning Commission of India had introduced the decentralized planning in the country for the first time in India during ________ Five Year Plan.

Who organised the 'Council of Barabhais'?

Which of the following is not a conservative force?

In collaboration with David Hare and Alexander Duff who of the following established Hindu College at Calcutta?

A sum of money kept in a bank amounts to $\text{Rs.}1,240$ in $4$ years and $\text{Rs.}1,600$ in $10$ years at same rate of simple interest. Find the sum.

Which among the following is called 'Laughing Gas' popularly?

India took Annual Plans from

Who declared the Communal Award in $1932$?

If $3$ mangoes are sold for the cost price of $4$ mangoes, then the profit is

Which among the following gas was leaked during the Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984?

What is the digit in the unit place of $(232{)}^{33}$?

How many ways a captain and a vice-captain can be selected from a team of 11 players?

A clock strikes once at 1 o'clock, twice at 2 o'clock, ..., twelve times at 12 o'clock. How many times will the bell strike in course of 2 days?

The heat of the sun reaches us by:

Which one of the following is the junction point of the Eastern Ghats and the Western Ghats?

Which one of the following began with Dandi March?

Which metal is present in chlorophyll?

A number $X$ lies between $0$ and $1$. Which of the following is true?

The greatest potential for the generation of tidal power in India is available in the:

In the manufacture of Vanaspati ghee from vegetable oils, which among the following gas is used?

During the first Five-Year Plan, the national income was increased by _________.

Who characterized the partition of India as "a surrender of nationalism in favor of communalism"?

The largest area under wasteland in India is in:

Which among the following is responsible for depletion of Ozone layer?

The salary of Anup is 30% more than that of Barun. Find what percentage is the salary of Barun less than that of Anup?

Nagaland mountains are becoming increasingly barren mountains, mainly due to which of the following reasons?

Which religious reform movements of the following influenced nationalism in India?

The term PVC used in the plastic industry stands for:

The Union Government has introduced Atomic Energy (Amendment) Bill, 2015 to facilitate the fast track setting up of new nuclear projects in the country. The Bill seeks to amend the:

For his model of industrial location, Weber makes use of:

A pure red flower bearing plant is crossed with a pure white flower and the ${\text{F}}_1$ plant bears pink flowers. This is an example of

In its which session did the Indian National Congress pass the Social Democratic Resolution?

Which one of the following states in India has higher percentage of tank irrigation?

A short day plant has a critical day length of 14 hours. It will flower when the day length is

During whose Governor-Generalship, Indian Civil Service (I.C.S.) was introduced?

Growth rate of population during 1911-21, as West Bengal experienced, is:

Who wrote the book- 'Drain of Wealth'?

An endobiotic fungus is?

Largest tobacco producer district of West Bengal is

Tropopause is :

Gynobasic style is present in which family?

Who replaced Sujatha Singh as India's Foreign Secretary?

The tropic of Cancer passes through which district of West Bengal?

'Globule' and 'Nucule' is found in :

Union Cabinet in the year 2015 approved the Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation between India and United Kingdom in which sector?

Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the first two Indian territories liberated in 1944 under Provisional Govt. of Azad Hind renamed as ________.

Which of the following types of climate on West Bengal experiences ?

Spindle fibres are made up of:

World Consumer Rights day is on?

When and under whose leadership was the Indian National Army (I.N.A.) officially organized for the first time?

GAIL (India) Limited in the last week of November, 2015 launched which portal for monitoring the pipeline Right of Use (ROU) through Space Technology?

A carcinoma is a type of cancer originating from:

Who among the following was appointed as the first Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog?

In July, 2015 India and Tajikistan exchanged a Note Verbale specifically focused on cooperation in which field?

In which year did the 'Great Escape' of Subhas Chandra Bose from house arrest in Calcutta to Germany take place?

A muscle that can be consciously controlled by an individual is classified as:

A person flying over India observed the natural vegetation below changing in the specific sequential order of tropical evergreen forest, savanna, dry deciduous, and deciduous. This flight path corresponds to a journey from:

What was NOT a provision under the Hon'ble Supreme Court's ruling on $16\text{th}$ December, 2015 to check pollution in Delhi?

According to Reserve Bank of India data, India's total export of IT, ITES, and BPO services grew by how much during the financial year 2014-15?

Which one of the following mountain ranges features two distinctly dissimilar types of vegetation on its two opposing slopes due to the rain-shadow effect?

NITI Aayog was established in India via which of the following mechanisms?

The Amarkantak Hill is the origin point of two major rivers that flow in completely different directions (West and East). These two rivers are:

Which of the following rivers of India is an antecedent river that is older than the Himalayas?

Zaine Erhaim, a prominent media figure, came into global news for which of the following achievements?

The National Development Council (NDC) of India was set up in which year?

The Shillong Plateau is widely known as 'Meghalaya'. Who among the following geographers coined this term?

The planning and structural model of the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) was designed following which foreign water resource project?

What was the primary direct trigger cause for the sudden rise of Extremism in the Indian National Movement during the early 20th century?

The Union Cabinet of India provided its official clearance for which crucial regulatory bill on $9\text{th}$ December, 2015?

Highest peak of West Bengal belongs to which of the following mountain ranges?

What is the number of members in the Public Accounts Committee of the Lok Sabha?

Which is not a fact a Paris Agreement on climate change in December, 2015?

What is the length of international boundary with Bangladesh shared by West Bengal in Km.

Forest Cover in which State (s) have shown an increase in the last two years, according to Forest Survey of India?

Which one is incorrect about Actor Dilip Kumar?

The longest river of Western West Bengal is

How many Finance Commissions have submitted Reports so far?

NIIT has entered into an educational partnership with which IT Company in December, 2015?

What is not true about New Suez Canal Project?

Singalila National park located in which of the districts of West Bengal ?

On December 10, 2015 Human Rights Day was observed with which theme?

The number of subjects enumerated in the concurrent list for purpose of Legislation?

Which Article of the Constitution of India defines the name and the territory of India?

Which State was provisionally selected as venue for FIFA-U-17 World Cup 2017?

"The Constitution of India is neither purely federal nor purely unitary but is a combination of both" ______ who said so?

Grub is the larva of

Xerophytic vegetation is a characteristic feature of

Which part of the Constitution deals with citizenship?

According to the competitive exclusion principle, two species cannot continue to occupy the same

Any money bill cannot be introduced in the Parliament without the consent of the

The biggest ship-building yard of India is

Darwin and Wallace were both strongly influenced by the book "An Essay on the Principle of Population" written by

$2015$ Mailer Prize for Lifetime Achievement Prize recognising freedom of creativity has been conferred upon which of the following author?

Pakistan has successfully test-fired the medium range Shaheen-III ballistic missile. What is the launch mode of Shaheen-III?

Target tissue of insulin is

Which of the following taxes is within the Jurisdiction of the Central Government?

Which of the following states has least population density, as per census $2011$?

Who is considered as the father of Indian Archaeology?

MOU has been recently signed among Ministry of Textiles and Ministry of MSME for establishing a Technology Centre at which place?

Which IT company has won $2015$ Aegis Graham Bell Award for innovation in Internet of Things (IOT)?

Highest urbanize state, as per census $2011$, is

Rice cultivation is associated with the Harappan site of

Servants of India Society was founded by

Who has won the $2015$ the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Award in the engineering category?

The Upanishads were compiled around:

Which two Indian Cities for the first time have been designated as members of UNESCO's Creative Cities Network (UCCN)?

Which of the following states has recorded negative population growth during $2001\text{-}11$?

According to Buddhism the cause of all sorrow is

Hind Mazdoor Sangh was founded by