UPSC EPFO (AO/EO) Exam Paper 05 Sep 2021 (Answer Key)

PART – B

21. Which one of the following is the average of all prime numbers between 21 and 55 ?
(a) 35.85
(b) 36.71
(c) 38.00
(d) 39.00

22. If the ratio of speeds of ‘A’ and ‘B’ is 5 : 6 and ‘B’ allows ‘A’a start of 70 metres in a 1.2 km race, who will win the race and by what distance ?
(a) ‘A’ wins by 30 m.
(b) ‘B’ wins by 200 m.
(c) ‘B’ wins by 130 m.
(d) The race finishes in a dead heat.

23. ‘M’ is 60 years old. ‘R’ is 5 years junior to ‘M’ and 4 years senior to ‘V’. The youngest brother of ‘V’ is ‘B’ and he is 6 years junior to ‘V’. What is the age difference between ‘M’ and ‘B’?
(a) 18 years
(b) 15 years
(c) 13 years
(d) 11 years

24. The English alphabet is reordered in the following manner :
The first 6 letters are written in opposite order, the next 6 letters are written in opposite order and so on. At the end, Y is interchanged with ‘Z’. Which one of the following is the fourth letter to the right of the 13th letter?
(a) N
(b) O
(c) M
(d) I

25. If ‘a’ varies as ‘b’, then which of the following statements is/are correct ?
1. n^th root of a²b varies as (2n)^th root of a⁴b².
2. a/b² varies inversely as b.
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

26. Which one of the following statements about Trial Balance is correct ?
(a) It is a book containing different accounts of an entity.
(b) It is a statement containing balances of debtors of an entity.
(c) It is a statement containing balances of debtors and creditors of an entity.
(d) It is a statement containing the various ledger balances of an entity on a particular date.

27. Wages paid for installation of machinery is debited to which one of the following accounts ?
(a) Wages Account
(b) Machinery Account
(c) Installation Account
(d) Profit and Loss Account

28. When are current liabilities payable ?
(a) Within a year
(b) After one year but within five years
(c) Within five years
(d) Subject to a contingency

29. Is the total of Debit and Credit side of Trial Balance the same ?
(a) No, there are some times good reason why they differ.
(b) Yes, always.
(c) Yes, except where the Trial Balance is extracted at the year end.
(d) No, because it is not a Balance Sheet.

30. Which one of the following is the first book in which the transactions of a business unit are recorded ?
(a) Balance Sheet
(b) Cash Book
(c) Ledger
(d) Journal

31. Who among the following did not represent the militant nationalist school of thought in India ?
(a) Ashwini Kumar Dutt
(b) Vishnushastri Chiplunkar
(c) Krishna Kumar Mitra
(d) Lala Lajpat Rai

32. Which one of the following statements about the situation in the Ryotwari areas is correct ?
(a) A large amount of land passed into the hands of the money lenders, merchants and rich peasants, who usually utilised the services of the tenants.
(b) Landless labourers became the land owners.
(c) It stopped the practice of leasing out land to tenants at high prices.
(d) Landlordism was totally destroyed.

33. In the year 1911, who among the following formed the Social Service League in Bombay ?
(a) G.K. Gokhale
(b) S.A. Dange
(c) N.M. Joshi
(d) M.R. Jayakar

34. Who among the following was not part of the group of ‘no-changers’ in the Congress Party ?
Set Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
(b) Dr. Ansari
(c) Babu Rajendra Prasad
(d) Motilal Nehru

35. Who among the following was not a member of the Cabinet Mission ?
(a) Pethick-Lawrence
(b) Stafford Cripps
(c) A.V. Alexander
(d) Lord Wavell

36. Who among the following is the first player in the history of Test Cricket to take 200 wickets against left-handed batsmen ?
(a) Muttiah Muralitharan
(b) James Michael Anderson
(c) Stuart Broad
(d) Ravichandran Ashwin

37. Who among the following Speakers of Lok Sabha formally disassociated from the political party after his election as the Speaker ?
(a) G.V. Mavalankar
(b) Sardar Hukam Singh
(c) Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
(d) P.A. Sangma

38. UNESCO has been observing February 21 as the International Mother Language Day since 2000. The idea to celebrate the International Mother Language Day was the initiative of which of the following nations ?
(a) Sri Lanka
(b) Bangladesh
(c) India
(d) Nepal

39. Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was recently selected as the first woman Director-General of WTO. She hails from which one of the following countries?
(a) Japan
(b) Ethiopia
(c) Nigeria
(d) Egypt

40. The Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project will connect India with which one of the following countries ?
(a) Nepal
(b) Myanmar
(c) Bhutan
(d) Afghanistan