Q1. Present Lok Sabha is the
(a) 15th
(b) 17th
(c) 13th
(d) 14th
Answer: (a) 15th
Q2. Who is the first Woman Governor in India?
(a) FathimaBeevi
(b) VijayalakshmiPandit
(c) Sarojini Naidu
(d) Padmaja Naidu
Answer: (c) Sarojini Naidu
Q3. Who is the first Woman Chief Minister in India?
(a) Janaki Ramachandran
(b) Sucheta Kriplani
(c) Shashikala Kakodkar
(d) Nandini Satpathy
Answer: (b) Sucheta Kriplani
Q4. Where the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration is located
(a) Shimla
(b) Delhi
(c) Ooty
(d) Mussoorie
Answer: (d) Mussoorie
Q5. What is the intermediate tier of the Panchayati Raj system is called?
(a) Zila Parishad
(b) Taluka Pachayat
(c) Pachayat Samiti
(d) Gram Sabha
Answer: (c) Pachayat Samiti
Q6. Which state first adopted the Pachayati Raj in India in 1959?
(a) Rajasthan
(b) Karnataka
(c) Gujrat
(d) Punjab
Answer: (a) Rajasthan
Q7. If both the office of President and Vice-President vacant, who has been empowered the President function?
(a) Prime Minister
(b) Chief Justice
(c) Speaker of Loksabha
(d) Chief of Army Staff
Answer: (b) Chief Justice
Q8. Who was the president of India at the time of emergency in 1975?
(a) Zail Singh
(b) VV Giri
(c) Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
(d) Shankar Dayal Sharma
Answer: (c) Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
Q9. The Second largest judicial complex in the World
(a) Gauhati High Court
(b) Delhi High Court
(c) Madras High Court
(d) Bombay High Court
Answer: (c) Madras High Court
Q10. When the first General Election held in India
(a) 1950
(b) 1951
(c) 1952
(d) 1955
Answer: (b) 1951
Q11. Under what circumstances can the President declare a National Emergency under Article 352 all over the country or in any part of it:
(a) external attack
(b) Armed Rebellion
(c) internal disturbance
(d) Both 1 and 2
Answer: (d) Both 1 and 2
Q12. Which High Court has the largest judicial area?
(a) Bombay High Court
(b) Guwahati High Court
(c) Allahabad High Court
(d) Calcutta High Court
Answer: (b) Guwahati High Court
Q13. For which of the following bills, there is no constitutional provision to resolve the deadlock by holding a joint sitting of the two houses of Parliament?
(a) Ordinary Bill
(b) Money Bill
(c) Constitution Amendment Bill
(d) 2 and 3
Answer: (b) Money Bill
Q14. Which statement about Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) is untrue?
(a) It is a constitutional body
(b) It is a staffing agency for the Prime Minister
(c) It has been given the status of a department
(d) There is no attached and subordinate office under it
Answer: (a) It is a constitutional body
Q15. Many key features of the constitution such as federal structure, provincial autonomy, a bicameral central legislature and the principle of separation of powers are derived from where?
(a) Nehru Report of 1928
(b) Government of India Act 1919
(c) Government of India Act 1935
(d) India Independence Act 1947
Answer: (d) India Independence Act 1947
Q16. Which of the following languages is not in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution?
(a) Persian
(b) Sanskrit
(c) Kashmiri
(d) Nepali
Answer: (a) Persian
Q17. Which was the first meeting of the Constituent Assembly held?
(a) 9 December, 1946
(b) 26 January 1950
(c) 20 July 1950
(d) 26 January 1950
Answer: (a) 9 December, 1946
Q18. A result of the reorganization, what was the number of members of the Constituent Assembly in the year 1947?
(a) 450
(b) 572
(c) 299
(d) 272
Answer: (c) 299
Q19. Number of standing committees in the Indian Parliament
(a) 12
(b) 17
(c) 38
(d) 45
Answer: (d) 45
Q20. Number of Constituencies in Uttar Pradesh for Lok Sabha election
(a) 66
(b) 55
(c) 80
(d) 92
Answer: (c) 80