UPSC Civil Services Prelims Exam Paper I (General Studies) 05 June 2022 (Answer Key)

Statement 1 is incorrect :- High, thin clouds primarily transmit incoming solar radiation; at the same time, they trap some of the outgoing infrared radiation emitted by the Earth and radiate it back downward, thereby warming the surface of the Earth.

Statement 2 is incorrect :- Low, thick clouds primarily reflect solar radiation and cool the surface of the Earth.

Statement 1 is incorrect :- Bidi Bidi Islands are located in Uganda.

Statement 2 is correct :- People who fled South Sudan civil war have taken refuge there.

Statement 3 is correct :- The Dadaab refugee complex has a population of 218,873 registered refugees and asylum seekers as at the end of July 2020. Dadaab refugee complex consists of three camps.
The first camp was established in 1991, when refugees fleeing the civil war in Somalia started to cross the border into Kenya.

The Organization of Turkic States, formerly called the Turkic Council or the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States, is an international organization comprising prominent independent Turkic countries: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey and Uzbekistan.

Statement 1 is incorrect :- India’s Bhadla Solar Park is the largest solar power park in the world. Bhadla Solar Park is located in Bhadla, a dry and sandy region in Rajasthan, and spans 14,000 acres.

Statement 2 is correct :- Kerala’s Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL) is the first airport in the world that would be running fully on solar power.

Statement 3 is incorrect :- The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC ) Ltd, has commissioned the largest floating solar PV project of 25MW on the reservoir of its Simhadri thermal station in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.

Statement 1 is correct :- SECTION 2. LIMITS OF THE TERRITORIAL SEA Article 3 Breadth of the territorial sea Every State has the right to establish the breadth of its territorial sea up to a limit not exceeding 12 nautical miles, measured from baselines determined in accordance with this Convention.

Statement 2 is correct :- Article 17 Right of innocent passage Subject to this Convention, ships of all States, whether coastal or land-locked, enjoy the right of innocent passage through the territorial sea.

Statement 3 is correct :- Article 57 Breadth of the exclusive economic zone The exclusive economic zone shall not extend beyond 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured.

Answer – (B)

Japan named five uninhabited small isles belonging to an island group in the centre of a dispute with China as part of efforts to reinforce its claim, a move likely to spark anger from Beijing and another claimant, Taiwan. The five islands, named after directions of the compass, are part of the group in the East China Sea known as the Senkaku in Japanese and the Diaoyu in Chinese. Five bigger islands in the group already have names. Chinese and Japanese coast guard ships have regularly confronted each other in surrounding waters.

Source : – https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world//article60422075.ece

Pair one is Correct :- Beijing opened its first foreign military base in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa in 2017. It is said to be building its second foreign military base at Ream, Cambodia.

Pair 2 is Correct :- The country’s borders were closed and its constitution was declared invalid in the announcement read aloud on state television by army Col. Mamadi Doumbouya.

Pair 3 is Correct : – Situation in Lebanon : Severe and prolonged economic depression.

Pair 4 is Correct : – Tunisia : President Kais Saied announces dissolution of parliament.

Pair 1 is correct :- The Anatolian Tigers — a new breed of pious businessmen who have risen from the grassroots to fire Turkey’s economic and political transformation — are targeting an entry into the hightechnology big league.

Pair 2 is correct :- Tigray’s woes: On the conflict in Ethiopia’s north

Pair 3 is incorrect :-  Mozambique’s military has said a “significant” number of militants were killed in fighting for the northern town and gas hub of Palma, seized by Islamic State-linked jihadists last month. Palma was taken in a coordinated attack on March 24, in a major escalation of an insurgency that has been raging in Cabo Delgado province for more than three years.

Pair 4 is incorrect :-  Mass protests broke out across Spain’s Catalonia region after its former separatist leader Carles Puigdemont was arrested in Germany.

Statement 1 is correct :- Wild animals, etc., to be Government property.
(1) Every— (a) wild animal, other than vermin.

Statement 2 is correct :- Among other reforms, the Act established schedules of protected plant and animal species; hunting or harvesting these species was largely outlawed. The Act provides for the protection of wild animals, birds, and plants; and for matters connected therewith or ancillary or incidental thereto. It extends to the whole of India. Wild Life Protection Act, 1972

Statement 3 is incorrect :- For wild animals in Schedule II, III or IV, chief wildlife warden or authorized officers can permit their hunting in a specified area if they have become dangerous to humans or property (including standing crops on any land).
Even after danger apprehension, killing can not be permitted.

The ant–fungus mutualism is a symbiosis seen between certain ant and fungal species, in which ants actively cultivate fungus much like humans farm crops as a food source. There is only evidence of two instances in which this form of agriculture evolved in ants resulting in a dependence on fungi for food.

Pairs 1 and 2 are correct :

Pairs 3 and 4 are incorrect :- Jaguda is in Odisha and Kalsi is in Uttrakhand
In India, Places where rock edicts were found are –
Kalsi – Uttarakhand;
Sopara – Maharashtra;
Mount Girnar – Gujarat;
Yerragudi – Andhra Pradesh;
Dhauli – Odisha;
Jaugada – Odisha

Pair 1 is correct :- As per A954 CE Khajuraho inscriptions, first king of Chandela dynasty i.e. Nannuka was descendant of sage Chandratreya who was son of famous Vedic sage Atri.

Pair 2 is incorrect :- Jayashakti was from Chandela Dynasty

Pair 3 is correct :- One prashasti, written in Sanskrit and found in. Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, describes the exploits of Nagabhata, a Pratihara king

Pair 4 is incorrect :- Bhoja (reigned c. 1010 – 1055 CE) was an Indian king from the Paramara dynasty.

During the Mughal Dynasty the text was translated into Persian several times, as ordered by Akbar, Jahangir and Darah Shikuh. One of these translations was undertaken by Nizam al-Din Panipati in the late sixteenth century AD.

Ramanuja is famous as the chief proponent of Vishishtadvaita subschool of Vedanta.
As per Ramanujs, best means of attaining salvation was intense devotion to Vishnu.

Vishishtadvaita is a non-dualistic school of Vedanta philosophy. It is nondualism of the qualified whole, in which Brahman alone exists, but is characterized by multiplicity. It can be described as qualified monism or qualified nondualism or attributive monism.

It is a school of Vedanta philosophy which believes in all diversity subsuming to an underlying unity.
2nd option belongs to Mimamsa philosophy.
3rd option belong to Nyaya Philosophy 4th Option belong to Yoga school [Patanjali]

Statement 1 is correct :- The large, black Shiva lingam at its heart is one of the 12 most sacred Shiva shrines, known as jyotirlinga.
Statement 2 is correct :- A description of the temple by Al-Biruni, an Arab traveller, was so glowing that it prompted a visit in 1024 by a most unwelcome tourist –the legendary looter Mahmud of Ghazni from Afghanistan
Statement 3 is incorrect :- The president of India Dr. Rajenrda Prasad did the Pran Pratistha on 11 May 1951.

B cells are essential components of the adaptive immune system, and they were first defined and distinguished from T cells almost 50 years ago1. Both B cells and T cells recognize pathogens with antigen-specific receptors, but they differ in their developmental pathways and functions during infections.

Statement 1 incorrect :- Indeed, nature itself is an excellent nanotechnologist. It provides us with a range of fine particles, from inorganic ash, soot, sulfur and mineral particles found in the air or in wells, to sulfur and selenium nanoparticles produced by many bacteria and yeasts. These nanomaterials are entirely natural, and, not surprisingly, there is a growing interest in the development of natural nanoproducts, for instance in the emerging fields of phyto- and phyconanotechnology.

Statement 2 is  Correct :- Some cosmetic products, such as sunscreens, use mineral-based materials and their performance depends on their particle size. In sunscreen products, titanium dioxide and zinc oxide, in the size range of 20 nm, are used as efficient UV filters. Their main advantage is that they provide broad UV protection and do not cause cutaneous adverse health effects.

Statement 3 is correct :- Its an established fact Exposure to manufactured nanoparticles. Hazardous materials will present risks to health only if people are exposed to them.

Statement 1 is incorrect :- Cant find any references to access the age.

Statement 2 is correct :- DNA barcodes can aid conservation and research by assisting field workers in identifying species, by helping taxonomists determine species groups needing more detailed analysis, and by facilitating the recognition of the appropriate units and scales for conservation planning.

Statement 3 is correct :- DNA barcoding: a modern age tool for detection of adulteration in food.

Acid rain results when sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOX) are emitted into the atmosphere and transported by wind and air currents.