Intelligence Bureau ACIO Exam 2011 Previous Paper with Key: (Held On: 10-07-2011)
1. How many languages and dialects are spoken by people all over the world?
A. 6,000
B. 9,000
C. 4,000
D. 1,000
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- Answer: B
2. Approximately, how many people speak Chinese language?
A. 1 billion
B. 1 million
C. 1 lakh
D. 1 thousand
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- Answer: A
3. The language with the richest vocabulary is:
A. Hindi
B. French
C. English
D. German
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- Answer: C
4. English Language has more than __ words:
A. 4,50,000
B. 45,000
C. 4,500
D. 450
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- Answer: A
5. The oldest Indian language is:
A. Telugu
B. Hindu
C. Tamil
D. Punjabi
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- Answer: C
6. Which book has been printed in the maximum number of languages and these scripts?
A. The Bible
B. Hiraka Sutra
C. The Super Book
D. None of these
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- Answer: A
7. The only religious book ever printed in a shorthand scripts is:
A. The Ramayana
B. The Mahabharata
C. The bible
D. Guru Granth Sahib
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- Answer: C
8. The oldest printed work in the world, which dates back to AD 868, is:
A. The Bible
B. The Hiraka Sutra
C. The Ramayana
D. The Mahabharata
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- Answer: B
9. The largest book, the super book, is and weight is?
A. 270 cm, 300 cm, 252 kg.
B. 100 cm, 110 cm, 100 kg.
C. 200 cm, 100 cm, 60 kg.
D. None of these
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- Answer: A
10. Les Hommes de bonne volonte is the:
A. Longest novel ever published
B. Shortest novel every published
C. The oldest novel
D. None of these
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- Answer: A
11. The author of the play/book Ratnawali is:
A. Tulsidas
B. Kalidas
C. Harsha Vardhan
D. Prem Chand
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- Answer: C
12. Which of the following in the book/play written by Maithili Sharan Gupt?
A. Saket
B. Satyartha Prakash
C. Shakuntala
D. Savitri
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- Answer: A
13. The book “Satyartha Prakash” was written by:
A. Swami Dayananda
B. Swami Vivekananda
C. Sarojini Naidu
D. Kalidas
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- Answer: A
14. The play/book Shakuntala was written by:
A. Maithili Sharan gupt
B. Swami Dayanand
C. Kalidas
D. Tulsidas
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- Answer: C
15. Which of the following is the author of The Song of India?
A. Firdausi
B. Sarojini Naidu
C. Lala Lajpat Rai
D. Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
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- Answer: B
16. The author of the book ‘Time machine’ is:
A. Lewis Carroll
B. Robert Louis Stevenson
C. Charles Lamb
D. H.G. Wells
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- Answer: D
17. Which of the following book was written by Tulsidas?
A. Vinay Patrika
B. Ramcharitmanas
C. Both (a) and (b)
D. Yashodhara
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- Answer: C
18. The book ‘Vish Vriksha’ was written by:
A. Bankimchandra Chatterjee
B. Annie Besant
C. Tulsidas
D. Kalidas
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- Answer: A
19. The book ‘We Indians’ was written by:
A. H.G. Wells
B. Khushwant Singh
C. James Jeans
D. Thomas Moore
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- Answer: B
20. Which of the following is the author of play/book ‘Yashodhara’:
A. Maithili Sharan Gupt
B. Khushwant Singh
C. Bankimchandra Chatterjee
D. Sarojini Naidu
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- Answer: A
21. Dhyan Chand was:
A. A great hockey player
B. Captained the Indian hockey team which won a gold medal in 1936 Berlin Olympics
C. Scored 101 goals at the Olympic Games and 300 goals in the international matches.
D. All the statements are correct
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- Answer: D
22. Who developed the small pox vaccination?
A. Eduard Jenner
B. Alexander Fleming
C. Albert Einstein
D. None of these
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- Answer: A
23. Euclid was:
A. Greek mathematician
B. Contributor to the use of deductive principles of logic as the basis of geometry
C. Propounded the geometrical theorems
D. All the statements are correct
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- Answer: D
24. Fa-hien was:
A. The first Buddhist pilgrim of China to visit India during the reign of Chandragupta Vikramaditya
B. The discoverer of Puerto Rico and Jamaica
C. The first Buddhist pilgrim of India to visit China
D. None of these
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- Answer: A
25. Firdausi was:
A. A person poet
B. Well known for his epic ‘Sharnama’
C. Both are correct
D. None of these
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- Answer: C
26. Who is also known as the ‘Lady with the Lamp’?
A. Florence Nightingale
B. Sarojini Naidu
C. Rani Laxmibai
D. Bachendri Pal
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- Answer: A
27. Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit was:
A. A German Physicist
B. Developed the mercury thermometer in 1714
C. Devised temperature scale
D. All are correct
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- Answer: D
28. Galileo was an Italian astronomer who:
A. Developed the telescope
B. Discovered 4 satellites of Jupiter
C. Discovered that the movement of the pendulum produces a regular time measurement.
D. All are correct
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- Answer: D
29. Who is known as the father of English poetry?
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. John Milton
C. John Keats
D. None of these
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- Answer: A
30. The American General who led the revolt against the British & declared American independence was:
A. George Washington
B. Bill Clinton
C. George Bush
D. None of these
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- Answer: A
31. Marco Polo
A. Discovered Greenland
B. Traveled three China, India and other parts of Asia
C. Traveled round the Cape of Good Hope
D. Discovered Canada
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- Answer: B
32. Who landed on the mainland of South America for the First time?
A. Discovered Greenland
B. Landed on the mainland of South America
C. Discovered the sea route from Europe to India.
D. None of these
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- Answer: B
33. Who was first to sail sound the strait reached the Philippines and named the Pacific Ocean?
A. Ferdinand Magellan
B. Jacques Carter
C. William Janszoon
D. Vasco da Gama
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- Answer: A
34. Who discovered Australia?
A. Eric the Red
B. Leif Ericsson
C. William Janszoon
D. None of these
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- Answer: C
35. Who located the magnetic pole?
A. Sir James Clark
B. Rear Admiral
C. Sir John Ross
D. All the above
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- Answer: D
36. Who was first to reach the South Pole?
A. Rear Admiral
B. Capt. Amundsen
C. Capt. R. E. Scott
D. Sir Edmund Hillary
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- Answer: B
37. Who was the first to cross the Antarctic?
A. Sir Vivian Fuchs & Sir Edmund Hillary
B. Maj. Yuri Gagarin and Maj. Gherman Titor
C. Capt. R. E. Scott
D. All of these
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- Answer: A
38. Who were the first to journey into space?
A. Maj. Yuri Gagarin and Maj. Gherman Titor from Russia
B. Comm. Grissom and Col john Glenn from America
C. Both are correct
D. None of these
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- Answer: C
39. Who was the first man to ‘Walk’ in space?
A. Col. Leonor from Russia
B. Major White from America
C. Both of these
D. None of these
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- Answer: C
40. Who were the first to circle the moon?
A. Frank Borman, Bill Anders and Jim Lovell
B. Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin
C. Charles Conrad and Alan Bean
D. None of these
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- Answer: A
41. ‘Arena’ is the special name for playground of:
A. Cricket
B. Lawn Tennis
C. Wrestling
D. Skating
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- Answer: C
42. The national sport of Canada is:
A. Tennis and cricket
B. Lacrosse
C. Judo
D. Rugby and Football
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- Answer: B
43. Badminton is the national sport at:
A. Malaysia
B. Scotland
C. China
D. Former Soviet Union
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- Answer: A
44. Where is the Vallabhbhai Patel stadium located?
A. Kolkata
B. Mumbai
C. Chennai
D. Delhi
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- Answer: B
45. Where is the sports stadium, Green Park, located?
A. Kanpur
B. Jamshedpur
C. Cuttack
D. Patiala
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- Answer: A
46. For which of the following disciplines in Nobel Prize awarded?
A. Physics and chemistry
B. Physiology or Medicine
C. Literature, Peace and Economics
D. All the above
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- Answer: D
47. On which date is Nobel Prize awarded?
A. December 10
B. January 10
C. April 10
D. July 10
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- Answer: A
48. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, awarded the Noble Prize in:
A. Physics
B. Economics
C. Chemistry
D. (a) and (c)
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- Answer: D
49. The committee of the Norwegian Parliament awards the prize for:
A. Economics
B. Peace
C. Medicine
D. Literature
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- Answer: B
50. Dr. Linus Carl Pauling is the only person to have won two Nobel Prizes individually for:
A. Chemistry in 1954, peace prize in 1962
B. Peace prize in 1954, Chemistry in 1962
C. Physics in 154, Medicine in 1962
D. Medicine in 1954, Physics in 1962
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- Answer: A
Maximum Marks – 50
Write an essay in English language only on any one of the following topics in not more than 400 words.
(i) Emergency Trends in India
(ii) Security threats in India
(iii) Cultural Diversity in India