The Uttar pradesh public service commission conducted a state level written examination for the recruitment of combined state upper subordinate service.

The UPPSC mains Examination was started from 20 September 2016.

First of all UP lok sewa ayog conducted the written examination for general study GS question paper.

U.P.P.C.S. (Main) Examination:
General Studies

1. Which one of the following countries ranked first in the environmental democracy index development by WRA in 2015?
(a) Colombia
(b) Latvia
(c) Lithuania
(d) Hungary
Answer: (c)
2. Which one of the following is the first state to issue Soil Health Card to farmers?
(a) Rajasthan
(b) Punjab
(c) Haryana
(d) Maharashtra
Answer: (b)
3. In which of the following cities did ICICI open its first branch of China?
(a) Shenzhen
(b) Beijing
(c) Shanghai
(d) Guangzhou
Answer: (c)
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4. Who won the Rome Master’s (2015) women’s singles title?
(a) Carla Suarez Navarro
(b) Maria Sharapova
(c) Serena Williams
(d) D. Gavrilova
Answer: (b)
5. The world’s first referendum on same sex marriage was held in
(a) Scotland
(b) Ireland
(c) England
(d) U.S.A.
Answer: (b)
6. The book “The Lives of Others” has been written by
(a) Arvind Adiga
(b) Shayantani Ghose
(c) Amitav Ghose
(d) Neel Mukherjee
Answer: (d)
7. Who amongst the following is the first woman of Asian origin to be elected as a Mayor in U.K?
(a) Vanita Agrawal
(b) Shakila Kasu
(c) Violet Robinson
(d) Harbhajan Kaur Dheer
Answer: (d)
8. Who amongst the following has been given the Yash Bharti Award 2014-15 by U.P. Government for women’s wrestling?
(a) Shital Tomar
(b) Gargi yadav
(c) Alka Tomar
(d) Poonam Yadav
Answer: (c)
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9. Who among the following has been appointed as the Director General of DRDO in May 2015?
(a) G.S. Reddy
(b) Arvind Subrumaniam
(c) Selvin Christopher
(d) K N. Shankara
Answer: (c)
10. Which of the following states has launched ‘Aahar Yojana’ in April 2015 for provide food at cheap rates to city poor?
(a) Bihar
(b) Utter Pradesh
(c) Madhya Pradesh
(d) Odisha
Answer: (d)
11. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s 125th birth anniversary will be observed in
(a) 2016
(b) 2015
(c) 2020
(d) 2018
Answer: (a)
12. Dadri, Chunar, Churk and Dalla, all have factories producing:
(a) Cement
(b) Sugar.
(c) Paper
(d) Fertilizer
Answer: (a)
13. Which of the following has recently been declared as: ‘Tiger Reserve’?
(a) Balphakram National Park
(b) Rajaji National Park
(c) Betla National park
(d) Kaziranga National Park
Answer: (b)
14. Who has written the book ‘Gods of Corruption’ published recently’?
(a) Promila Shankar
(b) Chitra Mudgal
(c) Manjulika Guatam
(d) Sudha Pai
Answer: (a)
15. From which of the following cities has the programme ‘Visit India Year in China’ started?
(a) Shanghai
(b) Guangzhou
(c) Beijing
(d) Xi’an
Answer: (c)
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16. Indian Grass and Fodder Research Institute is located at
(a) Bikaner
(b) Jabalpur
(c) Bhopal
(d) Jhansi
Answer: (d)
17. Rainfed Area Development Programme (RADP) was launched by the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation Government of India in the year
(a) 2008-09
(b) 2009-10
(c) 2010-11
(d) 2011-12
Answer: (d)
18. Which of the following has the highest export from India?
(a) Agriculture and allied products
(b) Engineering goods
(c) Textiles
(d) Chemical and related product
Answer: (b)
19. Where is Central Research Institute for Dry-land Agriculture (CRIDA) is located?
(a) Hyderabad
(b) Hissar
(c) New Delhi
(d) Rajkot
Answer: (a)
20. ‘Mahi Sugandha’ is a variety of
(a) Rice
(b) Wheat
(c) Sunflower
(d) Mustard
Answer: (a)
21. Which one of the following is a hybrid variety of Basmati rice?
(a) Pusa RH-10
(b) Pusa Sugandh-3
(c) Pusa Basmati-1
(d) Pusa Sugandh-5
Answer: (a)
22. “Ganga Varanasi” is a variety of
(a) Guava
(b) Aonla
(c) Mango
(d) Muskmelon
Answer: (b)
23. The present Director General of ICAR, New Delhi is
(a) Dr. R.S. Paroda
(b) Dr. S. Ayyappan
(c) Dr. V.L. Chopra
(d) Dr. Mangla Rai
Answer: (b)
24. Raj 3077 is a variety of
(a) Maize
(b) Jowar
(c) Rice
(d) Wheat
Answer: (d)
25. Indian Institute of Pulses Research is located at
(a) Kanpur
(b) Jabalpur
(c) Jaipur
(d) Hissar
Answer: (a)
26. In which of the following states, the productivity of rice is the highest?
(a) Punjab
(b) U.P.
(c) Haryana
(d) None of the above
Answer: (a)
27. Rice originated in
(a) Europe
(b) South-East Asia
(c) South America
(d) None of the above
Answer: (b)
28. The most popular fertilizer for foliar application is
(a) Sodium Nitrate
(b) Ammonium Chloride
(c) Urea
(d) D.A.P.
Answer: (c)
29. The most suitable crop for green manuring is
(a) Potato
(b) Sugarcane
(c) Sunhemp
(d) Gram
Answer: (c)
30. During 2011-12 the value of India’s external trade was more than
(a) 10,200 crore
(b) 10,300 crore
(c) 91,000 crore
(d) 1, 01,000 crore
Answer: (d)
31. Who has written ‘The History of Indian Agriculture’?
(a) M.S. Swaminathan
(b) S. Ayyapan
(c) K.B. Thomas
(d) M.S. Randhawa
Answer: (d)
32. Who has been appointed as the first President of The New Development Bank (BRICS Bank)?
(a) Jiji Menon
(b) Deepak Parikh
(c) K.V. Kamath
(d) Chanda Kochar
Answer: (c)
33. The World Trade Organization (WTO) is located at
(a) New York
(b) Geneva
(c) Washington
(d) London
Answer: (b)
34. Which of the following countries has the highest productivity of rice?
(a) China
(b) India
(c) Japan
(d) Germany
Answer: (a)
35. The plan period of Eleventh Five Year Plan was
(a) 2004-09
(b) 2005-10
(c) 2006- 11
(d) 2007- 12
Answer: (d)
36. The first state which adopted the training and visit system of agricultural expansion was
(a) Rajasthan
(b) Uttar Pradesh
(c) Punjab
(d) Andhra Pradesh
Answer: (d)
37. The policy regarding Special Economic Zones (SEZ) was announced in
(a) April, 2000
(b) April, 2001
(c) April, 2002
(d) April, 2003
Answer: (a)
38. Which of the following wheat varieties has been developed through induced mutation?
(a) Kalyan Sona
(b) Sonara-64
(c) Sharbati Sonara
(d) Sonalika
Answer: (c)
39. U.P. Council of Sugarcane Research is located at
(a) Meerut
(b) Kanpur
(c) Lucknow
(d) Shahjahanpur
Answer: (d)
40. National Botanical Research Institute is located at
(a) Kanpur
(b) Dhampur
(c) Rampur
(d) Lucknow
Answer: (d)
41. As on date, how many women have been the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh?
(a) 0
(b) 1
(c) 2
(d) 3
Answer: (c)
42. With which one of the following states, Uttar Pradesh does not share its border?
(a) Rajasthan
(b) Punjab
(c) Haryana
(d) None of the above
Answer: (b)
43. The biggest source of irrigation in U.P. is
(a) Canal
(b) Pond
(c) Tubewell
(d) Well
Answer: (c)
44. The headquarters of Gautam Buddha Nagar district is at
(a) Greater Noida
(b) Ghaziabad
(c) Ramabai Nagar
(d) Noida

Answer: (d)
45. The first Speaker of U.P. Legislative Assembly was
(a) Madan Mohan Verma
(b) Purshottam Das Tandon
(c) Atmaram Govind Kheir
(d) Nafisul Hasan
Answer: (b)
46. North-Central Zonal Cultural Centre is located at
(a) Allahabad
(b) Varanasi
(c) Agra
(d) Lucknow
Answer: (a)
47. In which of the following places, Shakambhari Devi Mela is organized?
(a) Varanasi
(b) Vindhyachal
(c) Meerut
(d) Saharanpur
Answer: (d)
48. Alfred Park at Allahabad has been renamed after
(a) Bhagat Singh
(b) Chandra Shekhar Azad
(c) Subhash Chandra Bose
(d) Motilal Nehru
Answer: (b)
49. The famous Bharatmata Mandir is located at
(a) Lucknow
(b) Varanasi
(c) Allahabad
(d) Meerut
Answer: (b)
50. Which one of the following classical dance forms is associated with Uttar Pradesh?
(a) Kathak
(b) Bharatnatyam
(c) Odisi
(d) Kuchipudi
Answer: (a)
51. Uttar Pradesh Urdu Akademi was established in the year
(a) 1947
(b) 1950
(c) 1962
(d) 1972
Answer: (d)
52. How many Universities in Uttar Pradesh have been named after Dr. B.R. Ambedkar?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) Four
Answer: (b)
53. ‘Kalyan’ magazine is published from
(a) Varanasi
(b) Gorakhpur
(c) Allahabad
(d) Mathura
Answer: (b)
54. In which year ‘Uttar Pradesh Khadi Gramodyog Board’ was established?
(a) 1950
(b) 1960
(c) 1965
(d) 1970
Answer: (b)
55. The Planetarium, named after Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar, is located at
(a) Rampur
(b) Lucknow
(c) Allahabad
(d) Gorakhpur
Answer: (a)
56. ‘The Kisan Bahi Yojana’ was introduced in UP. in the year
(a) 2002
(b) 1992
(c) 1982
(d) 1972
Answer: (b)
57. The Institute of Paper Technology is located at
(a) Saharanpur
(b) Meerut
(c) Kanpur
(d) Gorakhpur
Answer: (a)
58. Which of the following has a Science City?
(a) Kanpur
(b) Allahabad
(c) Lucknow
(d) Noida
Answer: (c)
59. King Kharvela of Kalinga belonged to which dynasty?
(a) Chedi
(b) Kadamba
(c) Haryanka
(d) Kalinga

Answer: (a)
60. Where did Buddha reside during the last rainy season of his life?
(a) Shravasti
(b) Vashali
(c) Kushinagar
(d) Sarnath
Answer: (b)
61. The town of Kalpi is situated on the bank of river
(a) Ganga
(b) Yamuna
(c) Narmada
(d) Krishna
Answer: (b)
62. Ashokaram monastery was situated at
(a) Vaishali
(b) Patliputra
(c) Kausambi
(d) Shravasti
Answer: (b)
63. How many Tarangas are in Rajtarangini of Kalhana?
(a) Eight
(b) Nine
(c) Ten
(d) Eleven
Answer: (a)
64. Who was the founder of Pala dynasty?
(a) Dharmapala
(b) Deopola
(c) Gopala
(d) Rampala
Answer: (c)
65. The seven Ratha Temple of Mahabalipuram was built by
(a) MahendraVarman
(b) Narsimhan Varman
(c) Parmeshwar Varman
(d) Nandi Varman
Answer: (b)
66. Sher Shah was buried at
(a) Kalinjar
(b) Sasaram
(c) Jaunpur
(d) Patna
Answer: (b)
67. Babar assumed the title of ‘Padshah’ first at
(a) Farghana
(b) Kabul
(c) Delhi
(d) Samarkand
Answer: (b)
68. The famous diamond ‘Kohinoor’ was presented to Shahjahan by
(a) Aurangzeb
(b) Murad
(c) Mir Jumla
(d) Abul Hasan Qutubshah
Answer: (c)
69. Who among the following translated Ramayana into Persian language?
(a) Mulla Sheri
(b) Abul Fazl
(c) Faizi
(d) Abdul Qadir Badayuni
Answer: (d)
70. Who among the following composed poems with the pen-name ‘Gulrukhi’?
(a) Firoz Shah Tughlaq
(b) Bahlol Lodi
(c) Sikandar Lodi
(d) Ibrahim Lodi
Answer: (c)
71. Who of the following was not a member of Noorjahan’s junhi?
(a) Jahangir
(b) Ghiyas Beg
(c) Asaf Khan
(d) Khurram
Answer: (a)
72. Who was the ‘Poet-laureate’ of Shahjahan’s reign?
(a) Kalim
(b) Kashi
(c) Qudsi
(d) Munir
Answer: (a)
73. In the battle of Wandhiwash (1760)
(a) French defeated British
(b) British defeated Dutch
(c) British defeated French
(d) Dutch defeated British
Answer: (c)
74. When was Shivaji born and when did he assume the title of Chhatrapati?
(a) 1626, 1675
(b) 1625, 1671
(c) 1627, 1661
(d) 1627, 1674

Answer: (d)
75. When was Peshwaship abolished?
(a) In 1858
(b) In 1818
(c) In 1861
(d) In 1802
Answer: (b)
76. By which Act the Board of Control came into existence?
(a) Regulating Act, 1773
(b) Act of Settlement, 1781
(c) Charter Act, 1813
(d) Pitt’s India Act, 1784
Answer: (d)
77. Who was the author of the play ‘Nil Darpan’?
(a) Tara Nath Bandopadhyay
(b) Tara Nath Ghosh
(c) Dinabandhu Mitra
(d) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Answer: (c)
78. Who termed the uprising of 1857 as the first war of independence?
(a) V.A. Smith
(b) P.E. Roberts
(c) V. D. Savarkar
(d) All of the above
Answer: (c)
79. Who emerged victorious in the first Anglo-Mysore War (1766-69)?
(a) English
(b) Haider Ali
(c) Maratha
(d) Nizam of Hyderabad
Answer: (b)
80. The monopoly of the East India Company in India’s trade was abolished in
(a) 1793
(b) 1803
(c) 1813
(d) 1833
Answer: (c)
81. Sindh was annexed by the British in
(a) 1843
(b) 1845
(c) 1849
(d) 1854
Answer: (a)
82. The Indian Famine Code, 1883 was prepared by
(a) Hunter Commission
(b) Hartog Commission
(c) Strachey Commission
(d) Indigo Commission
Answer: (c)
83. Which one of the following centres of the uprising of 1857 was recaptured by the English?
(a) Jhansi
(b) Meerut
(c) Delhi
(d) Kanpur
Answer: (c)
84. Who among the following was government advocate in Kakori Conspiracy Case?
(a) Mohan Lai Saxena
(b) Jagat Narain Mulla
(c) Krishna Bahadur
(d) Prabhat Chandra
Answer: (b)
85. Mahatma Gandhi delivered his first public speech in India at
(a) Bombay
(b) Lucknow
(c) Champaran
(d) Varanasi
Answer: (d)
86. Which of the following is not correctly matched?
(a) Moplah revolt - Kerala
(b) Kuka revolt - Punjab
(c) Koli revolt - Gujarat
(d) Chuar revolt - Madhya Pradesh
Answer: (d)
87. In which of the following prison Pt. Ram Prasad Bismal was hanged?
(a) Gonda
(b) Faizabad
(c) Gorakhpur
(d) Varanasi
Answer: (c)
88. Who among the following said “Swaraj is our birth right”?
(a) M. K. Gandhi
(b) G K. Gokhale
(c) B. G. Tilak
(d) Dada Bhai Naoroji
Answer: (c)
89. Who amongst the following coined the word ‘Satyagraha’?
(a) Harilal Gandhi
(b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Ramdas Gandhi
(d) Manilal Gandhi

Answer: (b)
90. On which of the following railway stations of South Africa, Mahatma Gandhi was thrown out of the train?
(a) Johannesburg
(b) Pietermaritzburg
(c) Durban
(d) Pretoria
Answer: (b)
91. Who amongst the following headed the 1946 Cabinet Mission?
(a) Hugh Gaitskell
(b) Sir John Simon
(c) Sir Pethic Lawrence
(d) None of the above
Answer: (c)
92. Who amongst the following was the first Chairman of the Gadar Party?
(a) Lala Herdayal
(b) Sohan Singh Bhakna
(c) Keshar Singh
(d) Pandit Kashi Ram
Answer: (b)
93. Who among the following was the President of the Indian National Congress on 15th August, 1947?
(a) Rajendra Prasad
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) J. B. Kripalani
(d) Sardar Patel
Answer: (c)
94. Who amongst the following American was with Mahatma Gandhi during his ‘Dandi March’?
(a) H. N. Brailsford
(b) Webb Miller
(c) G Slocomba
(d) James Patterson
Answer: (b)
95. Who amongst the following was the leader of the 1857 uprising at Allahabad?
(a) Nana Saheb
(b) Azimullah
(c) Tantia Tope
(d) Maulvi Liyaqat Ali
Answer: (d)
96. In which of the following sessions of Muslim League, M. A. Jinnah putforth his 14 point proposal?
(a) 1927
(b) 1928
(c) 1929
(d) 1930

Answer: (c)
97. Who amongst the following presided over the All parties Muslim Conference held at Delhi on 31th December, 1928?
(a) Aga Khan
(b) M. A. Jinnah
(c) Faizli Hussain
(d) Karim Jalal
Answer: (a)
98. In which of the following sessions of Indian National Congress, Jawaharlal Nehru spoke of socialism as the key to the solution of India’s problems?
(a) Lahore
(b) Lucknow
(c) Allahabad
(d) Ramgarh
Answer: (a)
99. Who headed the Boundary Commission appointed in 1947 in the context of India’s partition?
(a) Mountbatten
(b) Radcliffe
(c) James Bolt
(d) Richardson
Answer: (b)
100. Who was the editor of the revolutionary paper ‘Bande Mataram’?
(a) Shyamji Krishna Verma
(b) Bhikaji Cama
(c) V. D. Savarkar
(d) G. D. Savarkar
Answer: (b)