General awareness / studies questions and answers - Dec 16, 2014
1. Which of the following is the largest area-wise Lok Sabha constituency?a. Ladakh.
b. Barmer.
c. Chandni Chowk.
d. Arunachal West.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: a. Ladakh.
Each state is divided into constituencies for the Lok Sabha elections. The largest area-wise constituency is Ladakh and the smallest is Chandni Chowk.
a. Chief Election Commissioner.
b. Election Commissioner.
c. Chief Electoral Officer.
d. Regional Election Commissioner.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: c. Chief Electoral Officer.
The Election in the State or the Union Territory will be supervised by the Chief Electoral Officer and he will be working under the overall superintendence of the Election Commission.
a. Rajya Sabha.
b. Lok Sabha.
c. Legislative Assemblies.
d. None of these.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: d. None of these.
The Election Commission of India has to conduct elections for the Parliament, State Legislature, Office of President and Office of Vice-President. This is mentioned in Article 324 of Indian Constitution.
a. The Schedules of the election will be decided by the Election Commission of India.
b. India follows First past the post system as well as Proportional representation.
c. Media is not allowed inside the polling booth and counting areas.
d. President of India can vote from his official residence.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: c. Media is not allowed inside the polling booth and counting areas.
In India schedules are prepared by ECI, India has both the system of proportional representation and the first past the post system and Indian President can vote from his residence and Media is allowed inside the polling booth and counting area for transparency.
a. Constitution has mentioned the qualification for the chairman and members.
b. Chairman and members cannot be appointed for more than once.
c. Chairman and the Members are debarred from taking other government office after retirement.
d. Chairman and Members are appointed by the President.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: d. Chairman and Members are appointed by the President.
The Chairman and members are appointed by the President. There is no qualification mentioned in Constitution, they can be appointed any number of times and they can work in government office after retirement.
a. Trade monopoly over India.
b. Collecting Revenues.
c. Appointing higher officials.
d. None of these.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: a. Trade monopoly over India.
The Charter Act of 1813 took away the Trade monopoly of EIC in India and it was opened to all British subjects. But EIC still had trade monopoly over tea and China.
a. East India Company didn’t let Indians to export.
b. High Import duties were imposed on Indian products.
c. Indians were not able to produce due to lack of raw materials.
d. None of these.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: b. High Import duties were imposed on Indian products.
India lost its foreign markets in 18th Century because of the high import duties that were imposed on the Indian products by the European countries. They did this because they wanted to help their merchants.
a. Warren Hasting.
b. Lord Cornwallis.
c. William Bentick.
d. Lord Dalhousie.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: d. Lord Dalhousie.
The postal stamp was introduced in India in 1853 by Lord Dalhousie and the postal rates were reduced and it was made uniform all over India and it was half anna for a letter.
A. Permanent Settlement.
B. Mahalwari System.
C. Auctioning the right to collect revenue.
D. Ryotwari System.
a. D, C, B, A.
b. C, D, A, B.
c. C, A, D, B.
d. A, B, C, D.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: c. C, A, D, B.
The Land Revenue systems followed by the British exploited peasants. Auctioning the right to collect was introduced by Warren Hasting, then it was Permanent Settlement followed by Ryotwari and later it was Mahalwari.
a. Charter Act of 1813.
b. Charter Act of 1833.
c. Charter Act of 1853.
d. Queen’s Proclamation of 1858.
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: c. Charter Act of 1853.
The Charter Act of 1853 made the appointment of the Civil Servants by the competitive exams before that the Directors of the company were appointing the civil servants.
