Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) has changed it's gear in last few months and within two months it has successfully conducted Preliminary as well as Mains examination scheduled in 2015.
Mains Part of the Examination started on 29th June, 2015 with General Studies papers. Notably this year UPPSC has inducted QCAB (Question-cum-Answer Booklets) for Mains Examination which is a welcome change.
As far as GS paper 1 is concerned, Paper 1 in soft copy format can be accessed at
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Solutions to the questions are written in the format as the questions appear in Set A.
1. Who coined the word 'Satyagraha'?
b. Mahatma Gandhi
2. Mahatma Gandhi was thrown out of the train at ...
b. PIETERMARITZBURG
3. Head of 1946 Cabinet Commission?
c. Sir Pethic Lawrence
4. First Chairman of Ghadar Party?
b. Sohan Singh Bhakna
5. President of INC on 15 August, 1947?
c. JB Kriplani
6. American who was with Mahatma Gandhi during Dandi March?
b. Webb Miller
7. Leader of 1857 uprising at Allahabad?
d. Maulvi Liyaqat Ali
8. Jinnah's 14-point proposal in which session of Muslim League?
c. 1929
9. President of All Parties Muslim Conference at Delhi on 31st December, 1928?
a. Aga Khan
10. In which session of INC, Nehru spoke of Socialism as key to solutions of India's problems?
b. Lucknow in 1936
11. Head of Boundary Commission appointed in 1947 in context of India's Partition?
b. Radcliffe
12*. Editor of Revolutionary paper 'Bande Mataram'?
NONE (Aurobindo Ghosh or Bipin Chandra Pal)
13. Not correctly Matched
d. Se la - Uttarakhand
(Se la pass is in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh)
14. Not correctly Matched
b. Chhota Nagpur Region - Shivkashi
15. correct height of Kunchikal Waterfall.
d. 455 m
16. Mystery lake?
c. Roopkund Lake
17. decade with lowest % change in population of India
d. 2001-11
18. Temple of Lord Rangnatha is located in?
a. Biligiri Ranga Hills
19. Kuttanad of Kerala is famous for?
b. Region with lowest altitude of India
20. Decade with highest population growth rate in India?
b. 1961-71
21. Urban centres in Descending order of population
b. Ghaziabad, Agra, Varanasi, Meerut
22. Which hill lies at junction of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamilnadu?
d. Nilgiri Hills
23. State with highest % of total cropped area under irrigatio (2011)
d. Haryana
24. Groups of States bordering Telangana?
a. Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh
25. State that does not lie along Patkori Hills?
b. Tripura
26. Not correctly Matched?
d. Mundra - Andhra Pradesh
27. Confluence of Eastern and Western Ghats
c. Biligiri Ranga Hills
28. Location sequence of hills proceeding from South to North.
b. Kaimur, Satmala, Naga, Pir panjal Range
29. Ramsar site?
c. Sundarbans
30. Districts in ascending order of geographical area.
c. Gautam Buddha Nagar (1269 sqkm), Barabanki (3825), Mirzapur (4532), Sonbhadra (6786)
31. Sequence of Rail Tunnels by length in descending order
A. Pir panjal, Karbude, Nathuwadi, Berdewadi
32. Not correctly Matched
d. Ennore - Meghalaya
(Ennore is in Tamilnadu)
33. Sonbhadra district is touched by
c. Boundaries of four states
34. Area in descending order
d. Africa, South America, Europe, Australia
35. Not Correctly Matched
d. Hindenburg Line - Belgium and Germany
36. Scheduled Tribe that observes Deepawali as a sad day
d. Tharu
37. Who suggested that shifting earth on axis is a factor of climate change
a. Robert Hooke
38. Matching of Mountains with countries
d. 2413
39. Largest in area
c. New Zealand South Island
40. Deepest sea amongst options
a. South China Sea
41. Largest population according to UN statistics among following countries?
b. Dominica
42. Sugar Bowl of world
c. Cuba
43. Continent with largest number of countries
a. Africa
44. Glacial Lake Itasca is source of river
b. Missisippi
45. ONLY State of USA that grows coffee
c. Hawaii
46. Lake that lies entirely in USA
a. lake Michigan
47. Dasht-e-Lut is located in
a. Iran
48. Not Correctly Matched
d. Veld - Australia
49. El Nino develops in
a. pacific ocean
50. Not Correctly Matched
d. Sidney - Siene
51. Deepest oceanic trench
b. Mariana
52. Land of One Thousand Lakes
a. Finland
53. 'Sea of Mountains'
b. British Columbia (by Lord Dufferin)
54. Mumbai Indians crowned as IPL Champions?
b. 2 times
55. Epicentre of nepal earthquake on 25 april 2015
a. lamjung
56. Agreement in 2015 to supply 110 fighter jets to Pakistan
c. China
57. UN World happiness report 2015- Country with highest happiness
d. Switzerland
58. Rank of India in World Happiness Report
a. 117
59. First Women Judge of Sikkim High Court
a. Meenakshi Madan Rai
60. Whom did Carolina Marin defeated in Women's singles final of Malaysian Open 2015
c. Li Xuerui
61. Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi
c. president of Yemen
62. Maglev
b. Fastest commercial train presently running in the world
63. First ranked country in Environmental Democracy Index by WRA in 2015
c. Lithuania
64. First state to issue Soil health card to farmers?
b. Punjab
65. ICICI Bank first branch in China
c. Shanghai
66. Rome Master's 2015 Womens' Singles Title
b. Maria Sharapova
67. World first referendum on Same sex marriage
b. Ireland
68. Book ' The Lives of Others'
d. Neel Mukherjee
69. First woman of Asian origin elected as Mayor of UK
d. Harbhajan Kaur Dheer
70*. Who was given Yash Bharti Award 2014-15
C & D. Alka Tomar (Wrestler) and Poonam Yadav (Weight Lifter)
71. Director General of DRDO in May 2015
c. Selvin Christopher
72. State that launched Aahar Yojna in April 2015
d. Odisha
73. Dr B R Ambedkar 125th Birth Anniversary
a. 2016
74. Dadri, Chunar, Churk, Dalla
a. Cement
75. Recently declared Tiger Reserve
b. Rajaji National Park
76. Book 'Gods of Corruption'
a. Promila Shankar
77. 'Visit India year in China' started at
c. Beijing
78. Indian Grass and Fodder Research Institute
d. Jhansi
79. Rainfed Area Development Programme was launched in
c. 2010-11
80. Highest export share from India amongst given options
b. Engineering Goods
81. Central Research Institute for Dry-Land Agriculture
a. Hyderabad
82. 'Mahi Sugandha' is a variety of
a. Rice
83. Hybrid variety of Basmati rice
c. Pusa Basmati-1
84. 'Ganga Varanasi' is a variety of
85. Present Director General of ICAR New Delhi
b. Dr S Ayyappan
86. Raj 3077 is a variety of
d. Wheat
87. Indian Institute of Pulses Research
a. Kanpur
88. Highest rice productivity state
a. Punjab
89. Rice originated in
d. None of the above
(Rice originated in China is a general opinion, though some also attribute it to India)
90. Most popular fertilizer for foliar application
a. Sodium Nitrate
91. Most suitable crop for green manuring
c. Sunhemp
92. 2011-12 value of India's external trade was more than
d. 101000 crore
93. Book ' The History of Indian Agriculture'
d. M S Randhawa
94. First president of BRICS BANK
c. K V Kamath
95. WTO is located
b. Geneva
96. Highest productivity of Rice
Debatable. a. China or c. Japan
97. Plan period of 11th five year plan
d. 2007-12
98*. First state which adopted training and visit system of agricultural expansion
None of the given
Satara, Solapur and Jalgaon in Maharashtra adopted the system first in April, 1981.
99. Policy of SEZ
a. April, 2000
100. Wheat variety developed through induced mutation
c. Sharbati Sonara
101. UP Council of Sugarcane Research
d. Shahjahanpur
102. National Botanical Research Institute
d. Lucknow
103. Women Chief Ministers of UP
c. 2
104. UP does not share border with
b. Punjab
105. Biggest source of Irrigation in UP
c. Tubewell
106. Headquarter of Gautam Buddha Nagar District
a. Greater Noida
107. First speaker of UP Legislative Assembly
c. Atmaram Govind Kheir
108. North Central Zonal Council Centre
a. Allahabad
109. Shakambhari Devi Mela
d. Saharanpur
110. Alfred Park at Allahabad renamed
b. Chandra Shekhar Azad
111. Bharatmata Mandir
b. Varanasi
112. Classical dance form associated with UP
a. Kathak
113. Uttar Pradesh Urdu Academy established in
d. 1972
114. Universities in Up named after BR Ambedkar
b. Two
115. Kalyan Magazine published from
b. Gorakhpur
116. Uttar Pradesh Khadi Gramodyog Board established in
b. 1960
117. Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar Planetorium
a. Rampur
118. Kisan Bahi Yojana introduced in UP
b. 1992
119. Institute of Paper Technology located at
a. Saharanpur
120. Which of the following has Science City
c. Lucknow
121. Dynasty of King Kharvela of kalinga
a. Chedi
122. Where Buddha resided in his last rainy season
b. Vaishali
123. Town of city is on the bank of
b. yamuna
124. Ashokaram Monastry was situated at
125. No. of tarangas in Rajtarangini of Kalhana
a. Eight
126. Founder of pala Dynasty
c. Gopala
127. Seven Ratha Temple of Mahabalipuram was built by
b. Narsimhan Verman
128. Sher Shah was buried at
b. Sasaram
129. Babar assumed title of 'padshah' first at
b. Kabul
130. Famous diamond Kohinoor was presented to Shahjahan by
c. Mir Jumla
131. Translated Ramayana into persian Language
d. Abdul Qadir Badayuni
132. who composed poems with pen name 'Gulrukhi'
c. Sikandar Lodi
133. Who was not a member of Noorjahan's Junta
a. Jahangir
134*. Poet Laureate of Shahjahan's reign
A. Kalim and C. Qudsi both
135. Battle of Wandiwash 1760
c. British defeated French
136. Shivaji birth and assuming title of Chhatrapati
d. 1627, 1674
137. Peshwaship was abolished in
b. 1818
138. By which act, Board of Control came into existence?
d. Pitt's India Act 1784
139. Author of Play 'Nil Darpan'
c. Dinbandhu Mitra
140. Who termed uprising of 1857 as first war of independence
c. V D Savarkar
141. Who emerged victorious in first Anglo-Mysore War (1766-69)
b. Haider Ali
142. Monopoly of East India Company in India's trade was abolished in
c. 1813
143. Sindh annexed by British in
a. 1843
144. Indian Famine Code 1883 was prepared by
c. Strachey Commission
145*. Which centre of uprising of 1857 was recaptured by English?
Ideally it was not clearly written in English, should not be counted.
c. Delhi
146. Government Advocate in Kakori conspiracy
b. Jagat Narain Mulla
147. Mahatma Gandhi first public speech
d. Varanasi in BHU in Feb, 1916
148. Not Correctly Matched
c. Koli Revolt - Gujarat
149. Prison where Bismil was hanged?
c. Gorakhpur
150. Who said ' Swaraj is our birth right'?
c. B G Tilak
26. Not correctly Matched?
d. Mundra - Andhra Pradesh
27. Confluence of Eastern and Western Ghats
c. Biligiri Ranga Hills
28. Location sequence of hills proceeding from South to North.
b. Kaimur, Satmala, Naga, Pir panjal Range
29. Ramsar site?
c. Sundarbans
30. Districts in ascending order of geographical area.
c. Gautam Buddha Nagar (1269 sqkm), Barabanki (3825), Mirzapur (4532), Sonbhadra (6786)
31. Sequence of Rail Tunnels by length in descending order
A. Pir panjal, Karbude, Nathuwadi, Berdewadi
32. Not correctly Matched
d. Ennore - Meghalaya
(Ennore is in Tamilnadu)
33. Sonbhadra district is touched by
c. Boundaries of four states
34. Area in descending order
d. Africa, South America, Europe, Australia
35. Not Correctly Matched
d. Hindenburg Line - Belgium and Germany
36. Scheduled Tribe that observes Deepawali as a sad day
d. Tharu
37. Who suggested that shifting earth on axis is a factor of climate change
a. Robert Hooke
38. Matching of Mountains with countries
d. 2413
39. Largest in area
c. New Zealand South Island
40. Deepest sea amongst options
a. South China Sea
41. Largest population according to UN statistics among following countries?
b. Dominica
42. Sugar Bowl of world
c. Cuba
43. Continent with largest number of countries
a. Africa
44. Glacial Lake Itasca is source of river
b. Missisippi
45. ONLY State of USA that grows coffee
c. Hawaii
46. Lake that lies entirely in USA
a. lake Michigan
47. Dasht-e-Lut is located in
a. Iran
48. Not Correctly Matched
d. Veld - Australia
49. El Nino develops in
a. pacific ocean
50. Not Correctly Matched
d. Sidney - Siene
51. Deepest oceanic trench
b. Mariana
52. Land of One Thousand Lakes
a. Finland
53. 'Sea of Mountains'
b. British Columbia (by Lord Dufferin)
54. Mumbai Indians crowned as IPL Champions?
b. 2 times
55. Epicentre of nepal earthquake on 25 april 2015
a. lamjung
56. Agreement in 2015 to supply 110 fighter jets to Pakistan
c. China
57. UN World happiness report 2015- Country with highest happiness
d. Switzerland
58. Rank of India in World Happiness Report
a. 117
59. First Women Judge of Sikkim High Court
a. Meenakshi Madan Rai
60. Whom did Carolina Marin defeated in Women's singles final of Malaysian Open 2015
c. Li Xuerui
61. Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi
c. president of Yemen
62. Maglev
b. Fastest commercial train presently running in the world
63. First ranked country in Environmental Democracy Index by WRA in 2015
c. Lithuania
64. First state to issue Soil health card to farmers?
b. Punjab
65. ICICI Bank first branch in China
c. Shanghai
66. Rome Master's 2015 Womens' Singles Title
b. Maria Sharapova
67. World first referendum on Same sex marriage
b. Ireland
68. Book ' The Lives of Others'
d. Neel Mukherjee
69. First woman of Asian origin elected as Mayor of UK
d. Harbhajan Kaur Dheer
70*. Who was given Yash Bharti Award 2014-15
C & D. Alka Tomar (Wrestler) and Poonam Yadav (Weight Lifter)
71. Director General of DRDO in May 2015
c. Selvin Christopher
72. State that launched Aahar Yojna in April 2015
d. Odisha
73. Dr B R Ambedkar 125th Birth Anniversary
a. 2016
74. Dadri, Chunar, Churk, Dalla
a. Cement
75. Recently declared Tiger Reserve
b. Rajaji National Park
76. Book 'Gods of Corruption'
a. Promila Shankar
77. 'Visit India year in China' started at
c. Beijing
78. Indian Grass and Fodder Research Institute
d. Jhansi
79. Rainfed Area Development Programme was launched in
c. 2010-11
80. Highest export share from India amongst given options
b. Engineering Goods
81. Central Research Institute for Dry-Land Agriculture
a. Hyderabad
82. 'Mahi Sugandha' is a variety of
a. Rice
83. Hybrid variety of Basmati rice
c. Pusa Basmati-1
84. 'Ganga Varanasi' is a variety of
85. Present Director General of ICAR New Delhi
b. Dr S Ayyappan
86. Raj 3077 is a variety of
d. Wheat
87. Indian Institute of Pulses Research
a. Kanpur
88. Highest rice productivity state
a. Punjab
89. Rice originated in
d. None of the above
(Rice originated in China is a general opinion, though some also attribute it to India)
90. Most popular fertilizer for foliar application
a. Sodium Nitrate
91. Most suitable crop for green manuring
c. Sunhemp
92. 2011-12 value of India's external trade was more than
d. 101000 crore
93. Book ' The History of Indian Agriculture'
d. M S Randhawa
94. First president of BRICS BANK
c. K V Kamath
95. WTO is located
b. Geneva
96. Highest productivity of Rice
Debatable. a. China or c. Japan
97. Plan period of 11th five year plan
d. 2007-12
98*. First state which adopted training and visit system of agricultural expansion
None of the given
Satara, Solapur and Jalgaon in Maharashtra adopted the system first in April, 1981.
99. Policy of SEZ
a. April, 2000
100. Wheat variety developed through induced mutation
c. Sharbati Sonara
101. UP Council of Sugarcane Research
d. Shahjahanpur
102. National Botanical Research Institute
d. Lucknow
103. Women Chief Ministers of UP
c. 2
104. UP does not share border with
b. Punjab
105. Biggest source of Irrigation in UP
c. Tubewell
106. Headquarter of Gautam Buddha Nagar District
a. Greater Noida
107. First speaker of UP Legislative Assembly
c. Atmaram Govind Kheir
108. North Central Zonal Council Centre
a. Allahabad
109. Shakambhari Devi Mela
d. Saharanpur
110. Alfred Park at Allahabad renamed
b. Chandra Shekhar Azad
111. Bharatmata Mandir
b. Varanasi
112. Classical dance form associated with UP
a. Kathak
113. Uttar Pradesh Urdu Academy established in
d. 1972
114. Universities in Up named after BR Ambedkar
b. Two
115. Kalyan Magazine published from
b. Gorakhpur
116. Uttar Pradesh Khadi Gramodyog Board established in
b. 1960
117. Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar Planetorium
a. Rampur
118. Kisan Bahi Yojana introduced in UP
b. 1992
119. Institute of Paper Technology located at
a. Saharanpur
120. Which of the following has Science City
c. Lucknow
121. Dynasty of King Kharvela of kalinga
a. Chedi
122. Where Buddha resided in his last rainy season
b. Vaishali
123. Town of city is on the bank of
b. yamuna
124. Ashokaram Monastry was situated at
125. No. of tarangas in Rajtarangini of Kalhana
a. Eight
126. Founder of pala Dynasty
c. Gopala
127. Seven Ratha Temple of Mahabalipuram was built by
b. Narsimhan Verman
128. Sher Shah was buried at
b. Sasaram
129. Babar assumed title of 'padshah' first at
b. Kabul
130. Famous diamond Kohinoor was presented to Shahjahan by
c. Mir Jumla
131. Translated Ramayana into persian Language
d. Abdul Qadir Badayuni
132. who composed poems with pen name 'Gulrukhi'
c. Sikandar Lodi
133. Who was not a member of Noorjahan's Junta
a. Jahangir
134*. Poet Laureate of Shahjahan's reign
A. Kalim and C. Qudsi both
135. Battle of Wandiwash 1760
c. British defeated French
136. Shivaji birth and assuming title of Chhatrapati
d. 1627, 1674
137. Peshwaship was abolished in
b. 1818
138. By which act, Board of Control came into existence?
d. Pitt's India Act 1784
139. Author of Play 'Nil Darpan'
c. Dinbandhu Mitra
140. Who termed uprising of 1857 as first war of independence
c. V D Savarkar
141. Who emerged victorious in first Anglo-Mysore War (1766-69)
b. Haider Ali
142. Monopoly of East India Company in India's trade was abolished in
c. 1813
143. Sindh annexed by British in
a. 1843
144. Indian Famine Code 1883 was prepared by
c. Strachey Commission
145*. Which centre of uprising of 1857 was recaptured by English?
Ideally it was not clearly written in English, should not be counted.
c. Delhi
146. Government Advocate in Kakori conspiracy
b. Jagat Narain Mulla
147. Mahatma Gandhi first public speech
d. Varanasi in BHU in Feb, 1916
148. Not Correctly Matched
c. Koli Revolt - Gujarat
149. Prison where Bismil was hanged?
c. Gorakhpur
150. Who said ' Swaraj is our birth right'?
c. B G Tilak
