WBCS(Executive) Prelims 2022 Official Paper

"I have done my duty." Which tense is this?

Find the synonym of 'Covert'.

What is the most appropriate passive form of "Who has done the work?"?

What part of speech is the word 'Adjective' itself?

Find the correctly spelt word.

'Philanthropist' means

Give the one word substitution of:
One who talks continuously or excessively

Instead of using the word 'tolerance', we can use the phrasal verb:

What type of sentence structure is 'Do or Die'?

What is the synonym of 'Atrocity'?

The antonym of 'Forgo' is

The idiomatic expression 'A slap on the wrist' means

Replace the underlined portion with an idiom from the list below:
They finally agreed on the business deal.

It has been established that
(P) Einstein was
(Q) although a great scientist
(R) weak in arithmetic
(S) right from his school days

To form a correct and meaningful sentence, the proper sequence should be:

Give the one word substitution of:
An organism or creature having both male and female reproductive organs

Fill in the blank with the correct word.
Ram and his brothers were four in ________.

Choose the appropriate antonym of 'Adore'.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate option:
She has no control ________ her temper.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate option:
What are you worrying ________?

An Obstetrician is a medical practitioner who deals with

Use a correct gerund in the blank space:
I like ________ pictures.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate option:
He spends hours ________ the phone everyday.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate option:
He works ________ an insurance company.

Which one is the plural number?

Insert the right preposition in the blank space:
He died ________ dengue.

The radioactive element used in heart pacemakers is

Which of the following isotopes is used in dating archaeological findings?

West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation Ltd. (WBIDC) was established in

Phytophthora palmivora is used as a:

acme : mace :: alga : ?

Which of the following pairs is NOT correctly matched?

Who among the following served as the Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) prior to the appointment of Preeti Sudan?

The Self-respect Movement was founded by

Chand Bibi ruled as a regent over which of the following Deccan Sultanates?

Pure water freezes at a temperature of:

According to international monitoring data, which country was the largest producer of illicit opium globally in the year 2022?

Who painted the iconic allegorical image of ‘Bharat Mata’?

Loktak lake is located in the state of

Who among the following Viceroys repealed the Vernacular Press Act of 1878?

Who was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director (MD) of Air India following its acquisition by the Tata Group?

'ELISA' test is employed to diagnose

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

Which one of the following states, Dulhasti Hydroelectric power project is located?

P is wife of Q and mother of R. R is grand-daughter of W. S is grandmother of T and mother of Q. Which of the following is true?

The Reserve Bank of India was established in the year

Match the following:
$$\begin{array}{ll}\text{(a) Kot Diji}& \text{1. Luigi Pio Tessitori}\\ \text{(b) Harappa}& \text{2. F.A. Khan, G.S. Ghurye}\\ \text{(c) Kalibangan}& \text{3. Daya Ram Sahani}\\ \text{(d) Mohenjodaro}& \text{4. Rakhal Das Bandyopadhyay}\end{array}$$

In a chess tournament each of six players will play every other player exactly once. How many matches will be played in the tournament?

If Water is called Black, Black is called Tree, Tree is called Blue, Blue is called Rain, Rain is called Pink and Pink is called Fish in a certain language, then what is the colour of sky?

Who is the current Chief of the Army Staff of India?

'Peaty' soils of Kerala is known as

What is the percentage of a cloth that should be excluded from $40\text{metre}$ cloth so that the remaining portion is $7\text{metre}$?

The Himalayas are formed of parallel fold ranges, of which the oldest range is

Fill in the blank:
Satyajit Ray's ________ birth anniversary is being celebrated this year, 2022.

Who pioneered 'Rakhi Bandhan' festival during partition of Bengal?

Who has been appointed as the Chief Election Commissioner of India?

Earliest evidence of settled agriculture in the subcontinent comes from

If CABLE is coded as XZYOV, then YZXP is code of

Who has become the second Indian to score 10,000 runs in T-20 cricket?

There are 15 chairs in a row. Position of P is at the middle. Q is at 12th position counting from the right. How many chairs are in between P and Q?

'The Constitution of India is neither purely federal nor purely unitary but is a combination of both'. - Who said so?

Which would come in place of '?' in the given series?
ACE, FGH, ?, PON

Who was felicitated by Aurobindo Ghosh as 'the Prophet of Great Political Creed'?

Which of the following is an aquatic fern?

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

Members of the State Public Service Commission are appointed by

Which state is known as the 'Molassis basin'?

For the purpose of legislation, education is enlisted in the

'Coringa' mangrove is located in

Who wrote Humayunnamah?

Who among the following Indians won solitary gold medal at the Asian Wrestling Championships, 2022?

The average of 6 consecutive odd numbers is 64. Greatest of them is

What is the minimum age required by a citizen to be qualified for being a member of the Lok Sabha?

'Curie' is unit of

Who was elected the President of India for the second time?

Kumari river is a tributary of

A number series is given with one wrong term. Identify the wrong term given:
53, 59, 63, 67, 71

The Act that gave enormous powers to the British Government to repress political activities was

Who has been appointed as the new Chief Minister of Tripura?

Who was the first Indian Governor General of free India?

Who was the founder of 'Anushilan samity'?

Which one of the following animals is known as a 'living fossil'?

Choose the correct chronological order of the following dynasties of the Delhi Sultanate:

The Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee is

The vitamin which helps in clotting of blood is

Koel is a tributary of which of the following rivers?

What is the chromosome number in a human ovum?

'Seahorse' belongs to which classification group?

Earliest fossil remains of archaic Homo sapiens (specifically the Narmada Human or Homo erectus/sapiens transitions) in India have been found in:

Which country was elected to replace Russia in the UN Human Rights Council following its suspension?

Who is the director of the film 'The Kashmir Files'?

Who enunciated his famous formula that 'Swaraj' must be for the 'masses' and not for the 'classes' alone?

Any money bill cannot be introduced in the Parliament without the prior recommendation/consent of the:

Xiomara Castro assumed office as the first-ever female President of which nation?

The earlier institutional framework that preceded the World Trade Organization (WTO) was:

In which of the following epigraphic inscriptions do we find the earliest clear archaeological reference to 'Sati'?

Among the given types of electromagnetic radiation, which carries the maximum energy per photon?

When was the repressive 'Carlyle Circular' issued by the British administration during the anti-partition agitation in Bengal?

Which of the following highway classifications or numbers is not correctly matched with its route description?

Who is designated as the 'Guardian of the Public Purse' in India?

SEBI stands for:

Who among the following was the contemporary ruler of Bengal during Chaitanyadeva's time?

Which country hosted the 5th BIMSTEC Summit in March, 2022?

Who wrote the book 'Hind Swaraj'?

Who ridiculed Gandhi as a 'seditious fakir'?

Which of the following is chiefly present in LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas)?

Which former Prime Minister was conferred with Netaji Award, 2022 by the Netaji Research Bureau?

Jawahar Rozgar Yojana for rural employment was started in the year

The Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms were announced in the year

Which will come next in the following series?
B2E, D5H, F12K, H27N, ?

Who was known as the 'Grand Old Man of India'?

Who was appointed as the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in May, 2022?

Legendary musician Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, who passed away in May 2022, was associated with which of the following instruments?

The 'powerhouse' of the cell is the:

Who served as the Ambassador of India to the United States from early 2020 to early 2024?

Who built Buland Darwaza?

Who used 'Tulghumah' as a military tactic for the first time in India?

Alakananda and Bhagirathi rivers make their confluence at:

'Pongal' is the main festival of:

Bills other than money bills are introduced for being passed by the Parliament in:

If the sequence of alphabets is reversed, which of the following will be the 14th letter?

The ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha is

In a group of cows and hens, the number of legs are $14$ more than twice the number of heads. How many cows are there?

The age of father is twice that of elder son. Ten years hence, the age of the father will be three times that of the younger son. If the difference of ages of the two sons is $15$ years, find the age of the father.

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

When Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed?

Who was the first president of the All India Kisan Sabha?

The western part of Teesta river in West Bengal is called

The Kasai and Keleghai rivers join to form

The Sariska Tiger Sanctuary is located at

Andaman & Nicobar islands are separated by

Fill in the gap:
3, 8, 6, 14, \text{________}, 20

Who is the protector of the Fundamental Rights of a citizen?

Which of the following are the right bank tributaries to Ganga?

The name of Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis is associated with

Which of the following fractions is greater than $\frac{3}{4}$ and less than $\frac{5}{6}$?

Which among the following refers to 'unpaid labour'?

Who was the author of 'The Philosophy of the Bomb'?

Which metal is present in haemoglobin?

Viktor Orban has registered a fourth consecutive win in which nation's General Election?

If CAT and BOAT are written as XZG and YLZG respectively in a code language, how is EGG to be written?

Which part of human eye has the maximum refractive index?

Which among the following is present in refrigerator?

The 'Radcliffe Line' lies between

Which of the following dynasties was designated as 'Balhar' by the Arab travellers?

Which one of the following is the highest peak of South Bengal?

Bronze is an alloy of

${\text{O}}^{2-}$ is isoelectronic with

Who founded Servants of India Society?

'Ornithology' is the science of

Among six persons A, B, C, D, E, F, there are 3 married couples of which A, C, E are husbands; B, C, D are cousins and B is not wife of A. Then husband of B is

Who founded 'Gadar Party' (1913) and where?

Mettur dam is built on ________ river.

Which one of the following animals is not 'warm-blooded'?

Ram Prasad Bismil's name is associated with

Which of the following constitutional amendments gives a constitutional status to the Panchayati Raj institutions?

Under which article of the Constitution the President can take over the administration of a State in his own hand?

The Gupta King who destroyed Sakas was

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

The first transgenic crop was

Corporate Lata Mangeshkar was awarded Bharat Ratna the year _______

The newspaper/journal 'Navjivan' was edited by:

Find the fourth term of the given alphabet series:
ZXYW, VTUS, RPQO, ________, JHIG

Notuburu iron ore mines are located in:

The Vice-President of India is:

Which electrical quantity is increased in a step-down transformer?

Who won the Best Director Award at the 94th Academy Awards (Oscars, 2022)?

Who won the Sahitya Akademi Award 2021 in the English language category?

In a military camp, there was sufficient food for $190$ days for a total of $4000$ men. After $30$ days, $800$ men left the camp. The remaining men will spend the remaining food provisions in how many days?

The minimum quorum requirement to transact business in the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) is:

A fruit seller after purchasing a basket of mangoes saw that some fruits are rotten. He incurred a loss of $5\%$ after selling the rest of the mangoes at $\text{Rs. }2,280$. How much money did he spend in purchasing the basket of mangoes?

Stammering is to Speech as Deafness is to:

According to the Census of 2011, which of the following districts of West Bengal recorded the highest child sex ratio (0–6 years)?

Who among the following Sultans organized the Iqta system, a regular standing army, official coinage, and consolidated the early administrative organs of the Delhi Sultanate?

On which date was the Constitution of India formally adopted by the Constituent Assembly?

Match List-I (Ancient Clans/Republics) with List-II (Capital/Regions) from ancient Indian history:



Which of the following given combinations represents only the properly matched pairs?

Who among the following leaders was primarily associated with leading the Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928?

Where is Chauri Chaura located?

How many administrative districts are currently there in the state of West Bengal?

Which among the Mughal princes instigated and ordered the assassination of Akbar's close court historian Abul Fazl in 1602?

The historical Poona Pact took place in which year?

A particle is moving in a uniform circular motion with constant speed $V$ along a circle of radius $r$. The acceleration of the particle is:

Who was the founder of Tattwabodhini Sabha in Bengal?

The Advocate General of a State is appointed by:

Which one of the following dams is NOT primarily meant for irrigation?

Arrange the given list of foreign travellers in the correct chronological order:
(a) Xuanzang (Hiuen Tsang)
(b) I-tsing (Itsing)
(c) Fa-Hien (Fa Tsien)
(d) Megasthenes

Who among the following historical accounts stated that there was no slavery in India?

Which of the following countries won the Thomas Cup International Badminton Championship, 2022?

Which region was originally selected by Australia to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games?

Who among the following was the Greek king of Syria mentioned in Ashokan edicts?

The fermentation ability of Yeast is primarily due to the enzyme complex known as:

The first sermon delivered by Gautama Buddha at Sarnath is historically called:

The comprehensive Non-Cooperation programme was formally ratified and adopted by the Indian National Congress in the:

Who among the following Mughal figures made arrangements for the translation of Upanishads into Persian (Farsi)?

Who won the Women's Badminton Singles title at the Swiss Open, 2022?

The Eastern Ghats and the Western Ghats meet at the:

Who is the first Law Officer of the Government of India?

Which Chola king was known as Arumolivarman before his coronation?

Who among the following put forward the famous Drain Theory?

Which Indian Architect was conferred the prestigious Royal Gold Medal, 2022?

Who is the composer of the Allahabad Prasasti?