UPPCS Mains Question Paper 2013 was conducted by Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC). Here, I’m sharing the main exam paper (2013) of UPPCS. I hope, it will help you to understand the main exam paper (General Study -I) of UPPCS.
UPPCS Mains Question Paper 2013 (1-50)
1. Name of the person who was not a member of ‘Board of Three to administer the State of Punjab after its annexation?
(a) H.M. Elliot
(b) Sir Henry Lawrence
(c) John Lawrence
(d) Robert Montgomery
2. Who among the given below Governor Generals of Bengal was associated with third Anglo-Mysore War?
(a) Warren Hastings
(b) Lord Cornwallis
(c) Sir John Shore
(d) Lord William Cavendish Bentinck
3. Which one of the given below is correctly matched?
(a) Lord Ellenborough – Annexation of Avadh
(b) Lord Dalhousie – Annexation of Sindh
(c) Lord Wellesley – Fourth Anglo MysoreWar
(d) Sir John Shore – Anglo Maratha War
4. Third Ashtapradhan’ was related to the whose counsel of a minister in the
(a) Gupta administration
(b) Maratha administration
(c) Vijaynagar administration
(d) Chola administration
5. Who among the given below has launched the paper ‘Qaumi Awaz’?
(a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Shaukat Ali
(d) Khaliquzzaman
6. Which one of the given below correctly matched?
(a) Bhagat Singh – An Introduction to the Dreamland
(b) Subhas Chandra Bose – Incarcerated Life
(c) Sachindranath Sanyal – Indian Struggle
(d) Bhagawati Charan Vohra – Why I am an Atheist?
7. Name of the person who is the President of Indian National Congress at the Lucknow Session (1916) was
(a) Annie Besant
(b) R.B. Ghose
(c) G.K. Gokhale
(d) Ambika Charan Majumdar
8. Which one of the given below statements is not right about Rabindranath Tagore?
(a) For ancient India and its culture, he sang the glorious and its culture.
(b) He assumed Shivaji and Gurugovind Singh as a nation builder.
(c) His many songs refute the Maratha’s heroism
(d) The economic aspects are favored by him of the Swadeshi Movement.
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9. Ghadar Party’s journal ‘Ghadar’ was a
(a) Monthly journal
(b) Fornightly journal
(c) Weekly journal
(d) Daily journal
10. Who among the given below members of the Simon Commission belonged to a liberal party?
(a) Sir John Simon
(b) Major Attlee
(c) Stephen Walsh
(d) Viscount Burnham
11. In which of the given below districts of Uttar Pradesh, the Parallel government was established during Quit India Movement?
(a) Jaunpur
(b) Azamgarh
(c) Ballia
(d) Ghazipur
12. Which option has the relation with the statement: “I want world sympathy in this battle of Right against Might”.
(a) Non-Cooperation Movement
(b) Gandhi’s Dandi March
(c) Individual Satyagraha
(d) Quit India Movement
13. Consider the given below events and choose the right chronological order of the events from the given below codes:
1. Gandhi-Irwin Pact
2. Execution of Bhagat Singh
3. Karachi Session of Indian National Congress (1931)
4. Second Round Table Conference
Codes :
(a) 1,2.3,4
(b) 4,3,2,1
(c) 4,2,3,1
(d) 2,4,3,1
14. Which one of the given below statements is not right about the Non-Cooperation Movement?
(a) The movement period was from 1920 to 1922.
(b) Swaraj attainment within a year was its motto.
(c) It comprised the program of a boycott.
(d) M.A. Jinnah has supported this movement.
15. Who among the given below had presided over the all India Trade Union Congress held at Nagpur in 1929?
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) Acharya Narendra Dev
(c) Subhas Chandra Bose
(d) Yusuf Meherally
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16. For Muslims, a separate homeland found for the first time a definite expression.
(a) In the Speech of presidential of Iqbal at the Allahabad Session of Muslim League (1930).
(b) in the Cambridge Pamphlet.
(c) In the Session of Lahore of Muslim League in 1940.
(d) None of the above
17. When the ‘Azad Hind Fauj Day’ was observed?
(a) 12 November 1945
(b) 11 November 1945
(c) 5 November 1945
(d) 10 November 1945
18. Name of the commander-in-chief of the Indian army during the Quit India Movement was
(a) Lord Wavell
(b) Lord Linlithgow
(c) Lord Mountbatten
(d) None of the above
19. Bhagat Singh’s memorial is situated at
(a) Ferozpur
(b) Amritsar
(c) Ludhiana
(d) Gurdaspur
20. Who among the given below had been described as the high priest of Communism in India?
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) Acharya Narendra Dev
(c) M.R. Masani
(d) Ashok Mehta
21. Who among the given below had opposed the burning of the foreign cloths during the Non-Cooperation Movement?
(a) Rabindranath Tagore
(b) Subhas ChandraBose
(c) Shaukat Ali
(d) C.R. Das
22. Who among the given below had translated ‘Hitopdesh’ into Persian?
(a) DaraShikoh
(b) Faizi
(c) Abdul Qadir Badauni
(d) Tajul Mali
23. In which of the given below Sufi orders music is prohibited?
(a) Christian
(b) Qadiriya
(c) Suharawardiya
(d) Naqshbandiya
24. Who among the given below social reformers was known for proficiency in the Sanskrit language?
(a) Dayanand Saraswati
(b) Iswar Chandra Vidhyasagar
(c) Raja Rammohan Roy
(d) All the above
25. Who among the given below called himself the ‘Parrot’ of India?
(a) Kutuban
(b) Usman
(c) Amir Khusrau
(d) Amir Hasan
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26. Where is Borobudur Stupa situated?
(a) Cambodia
(b) Java
(c) Sumatra
(d) Borneo
27. Consider the given below events and choose the right chronological order of the events from the given below codes:
1. Khilafat Movement
2. Jallianwalabagh Massacre
3. Amritsar Session of Indian National Congress(1919)
4. Rowlatt Satyagraha
Codes:
(a) 4,2,3,1
(b) 1,2,3,4
(c) 4,3,2,1
(d) 4,3,1,2
28. Which person provinces had the highest number of Satyagrahis in, Mahatma Gandhi’s Dandi March?
(a) Bihar
(b) Gujarat
(c) Maharashtra
(d) Bengal
29. The writer of memoir entitled ‘Bapu: My Mother’s was?
(a) B.R. Nanda
(b) Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
(c) Mahadev Desai
(d) Manubehn
30. In which language “Hind Swaraj” was written by Mahatma Gandhi?
(a) Hindi
(b) Gujarati
(c) English
(d) Urdu
31. Who among the given below journalists is the biographer of Mahatma Gandhi?
(a) Louis Fischer
(b) Richard Gregg
(c) Webb Miller
(d) None of the above
32. Which one of the given below sessions of Indian National Congress was presided over by Jawaharlal Nehru for the first time?
(a) Lahor Session, 1929
(b) Calcutta Session, 1928
(c) Lucknow Session, 1936
(d) Ramgarh Session, 1940
33. Which one of the given below pairs is not correctly matched?
(a) Cleveland – Iron and Steel
(b) Detroit – Motor Vehicle
(c) Mesabi Range – Coal field
(d) Philadelphia – Ship building
34. Which one of the given below is known as City of the Golden Gate?
(a) Paris
(b) Amsterdam
(c) Mumbai
(d) San Francisco
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35. Which one of the given below is called the ‘Sugar Bowl’ of the world?
(a) Hawaii Islands
(b) Cuba
(c) India
(d) Philippines
36. Which one of the given below is not a landlocked country?
(a) Uzbekistan
(b) Kyrgyzstan
(c) Tajikistan
(d) Azerbaijan
37. Which one of the given below continents has the highest percentage of plains in its total area?
(a) Asia
(b) Europe
(c) North America
(d) South America
38. Consider the given below pairs:
(Name of the country) (Related local winds)
1. Sirocco 1. France
2. Bora 2. Italy
3. Blizzard 3. Canada
Which one of the above-given pairs is not correctly matched?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 3 only
39. The highest per acre yield of cotton among the given below countries is recorded in
(a) U.S.A
(b) China
(c) Pakistan
(d) India
40. Which one of the given below countries produces sugar from sugar-beet only?
(a) France
(b) Ukraine
(c) Germany
(d) Italy
41. Which is the most visited country in the world according to the report of the U.N. World Tourism Organization (2010)?
(a) U.S.A
(b) Spain
(c) France
(d) Italy
42. Which one of the given below countries ranks second in the production of Corn in the world?
(a) Brazil
(b) Mexico
(c) Argentina
(d) China
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43. Match List-I with List-II and choose the right answer from given below codes:
List-I List-II
(Coal fields) (Location)
A. Kuzbas 1. United Kingdom
B. Red Basin 2. Russia
C. Bristal 3. Australia
D. New South Wales 4. China
Codes:
A B C D
(a) 1 3 2 4
(b) 2 4 1 3
(c) 3 2 4 1
(d) 4 3 1 2
44. Which of the given below the States of India is the largest producer of Silk Textiles?
(a) Karnataka
(b) Tamil Nadu
(c) Andhra Pradesh
(d) West Bengal
45. India’s Oceanic National Park is located in
(a) Kutchcha
(b) Sundarban
(c) Chilka Lake
(d) Nicobar Islands
46. Which of the given below pairs is not right?
(a) Ruhr Industrial Region – Germany
(b) Flanders Industrial Region – Belgium and France
(c) Scotland Industrial Region- Sweden
(d) New England Industrial Region – U.S.A.
47. Which one of the given below is not located along the Mandakini River?
(a) Gaurikund
(b) Rambara
(c) Govindghat
(d) Gupta Kashi
48. The right sequence of the formation of the given below States in descending order is:
(a) Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Haryana
(b) Haryana, Rajasthan, Maharashtra
(c) Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Haryana
(d) Haryana, Maharashtra, Rajasthan
49. Rajasthan has near monopoly in
(a) Copper
(b) Mica
(c) Zinc
(d) Dolomite
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50. Match List-I with List-II and choose the right answer from the given below codes:
List-I List-II
(Indian Institute of Crops) (Location)
A. IIVR 1. Kanpur
B. IIPR 2. Bangaluru
C. IISR 3. Varanasi
D. IIHR 4. Lucknow
Codes:
A B C D
(a) 1 3 3 4
(b) 2 4 1 3
(c) 3 4 2 1
(d) 3 1 4 2