21. Consider the following:
1. M.A. Ayyangar
2. G.S. Dhillon
3. Balram Jakhar
4. P.A. Sangma
How many of them were the Speaker of the Lok Sabha ?
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 4

22. Consider the following pairs of Schedule and Content of the Constitution of India :
1. First Schedule : Forms of Oaths or Affirmations
2. Third Schedule : Allocation of seats in the Council of States
3. Fifth Schedule : Provisions related to the administration of Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes
4. Ninth Schedule : Provisions related to the administration of tribal areas in certain States
How many of the above pairs is/are correctly matched ?
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 4

23. Which one of the following statements is correct?
(a) Under Article 21A of the Constitution of India, the State shall provide free and compulsory education to all children up to the age of eleven years.
(b) Every religious denomination has got absolute power under Article 26 of the Constitution of India to manage its own affairs in matters of religion.
(c) Only religious and linguistic minorities find mention in Article 30 of the Constitution of India in reference to the right to establish educational institutions of their choice.
(d) Parliament cannot empower, even by law, any court other than the Supreme Court of India the power to issue writs within local limits of its jurisdiction.

24. Which one of the following do not influence the ocean currents ?
(a) Heating by solar energy
(b) Wind
(c) Gravitational pull by Sun and Moon
(d) Coriolis force

25. Which one of the following sedimentary rocks has not been formed mechanically?
(a) Sandstone
(b) Conglomerate
(c) Loess
(d) Geyserites

26. Which of the following statements about inversion of temperature is/are correct ?
1. Temperature increases with increasing altitude.
2. Along winter night with clear skies is an ideal situation.
3. It is a short term phenomenon and is common all over the globe except at the poles.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3

27. In which one of the following States/UT, is the Lake Tsomgo located ?
(a) Ladakh
(b) Himachal Pradesh
(c) Sikkim
(d) Uttarakhand

28. Which of the following statements about the coasts of India is/are correct?
1. The We The West Coast of India is a high rocky, retreating coast.
2. The West Coast of India is dominated by erosional landforms.
3. The East Coast of India, however, is a low sedimentary coast exhibiting depositional forms.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3

29. Which one of the following States/UTs has the largest area under Coral Reefs in India ?
(a) Gujarat
(b) Tamil Nadu
(c) Andaman and Nicobar Islands
(d) Lakshadweep

30. Which one of the following is considered as an agency function of commercial banks. in India ?
(a) Acceptance of deposits
(b) Investment of surplus funds
(c) Acceptance of income tax payments
(d) Providing overdraft facilities

31. Which one of the following forms of money supply is considered as the most widely used in the Indian monetary system?
(a) M1
(b) M2
(c) M3
(a) M4

32. Which one of the following is the first State in India to have 100 percent households with tap water connection ?
(a) Gujarat
(b) Goa
(c) Delhi
(d) Andhra Pradesh

33. Which one of the following Labour Codes notified by the Government of India incorporated various provisions of the Central Labour Acts such as the factories Act, 1948 and Plantations Labour Act, 1951 ?
(a) The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020
(b) The Industrial Relations Code, 2020
(c) The Code on Wages, 2019
(d) The Code on Social Security, 2020

34. If you were to browse a table of a recent period showing life expectancy at birth for all categories of rural-urban and male-female divisions for all States of India, you are not likely to observe that
1. Urban life expectancy is higher than the rural one.
2. Male life expectancy is higher than the female one.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2

35. Consider the following statements :
The Government is promoting the ‘Kisan Drone’ for
1. Spraying weedicides.
2. Digitisation of land records.
3. Crop assessment.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 and 2
(b) 2 and 3
(c) 1 only
(d) 3 only

36. Recently launched ‘Jan Samarth’ portal
(a) provides single point access for authenticated health information to citizens.
(b) assists farmers to access links to useful farming-specific information.
(c) provides access to Pan India e-Government services.
(d) provides link to Government credit schemes.

37. Recently India commissioned its first liquid mirror telescope at
(a) Himachal Pradesh
(b) Uttarakhand
(c) Ladakh
(d)Arunachal Pradesh

38. National Tribal Research Institute is situated at
(a) Bilaspur
(b) Raipur
(c) Ranchi
(d) New Delhi

39. Avani Lekhara excels in which one of the following sports ?
(a) Table Tennis
(b) Cycling
(c) Shooting
(d) Boxing

40. The atmosphere of Planet Venus is made up of thick and yellowish clouds of
(a) Chlorine
(b) Sulphuric acid
(c) Nitric acid
(d) Bromine