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WorksheetsQuiz -2
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 17mins
Which is the capital city of Belgium?
Brussels
Amsterdam
Antwerp
Vienna
What do you mean by the French word La Patria?
Motherland
Community land
Reserved land
Fatherland
The principle of majoritarianism led to a civil war in:
Britain
Belgium
Sri Lanka
Tamil Nadu
The main characteristic of commercial farming is the use of ________ seeds.
tissue cultured
high yielding variety (HYV)
organic
traditional seeds
Resource planning is a complex process which involves:
Evolving a planning structure endowed with appropriate technology, skill and institutional set up for implementing resource development plans
Matching the resource development plans with overall national development plans.
identification and inventory of resources across the regions of the country
all of these
In revolutionary France, who were granted exclusive rights to vote?
All men
Property-owning men
All women
Property-owning women
What kind of societies sprang up in many European states to train revolutionaries and spread their ideas?
Noble
Linguistic
Ethnic
Secret
Modern democracies maintain a check and balance system. Identify the correct option based on the horizontal power-sharing arrangement
Legislature, executive, judiciary
Among different pressure groups
The central government, state government, local bodies
Among different social groups
Which of these is a feature of the organised sector?
Job insecurity
No provision for paid leave
Jobs are low paid and often not regular
Fixed number of working hours
Which unit was used to measure the cloth in Germany?
Pound
Elle
Livre
Meters
The term absolutist is referred to
A vision
Monarchical government
Abstract theory
None of these
________ is also a type of commercial farming. In this type of farming, a single crop is grown on a large area
Plantation
Irrigated cultivation
Beverage crops
Food grains cultivation
The oceanic resources beyond ________ of the Exclusive Economic Zone belong to open ocean.
200 miles
200 meters
200 km
20 nautical miles
The distinguishing feature of a federal government is:
National government gives some powers to the provincial governments
Governmental power is divided between different levels of government.
Elected officials exercise supreme power in the government.
Power is distributed among the legislature, executive and judiciary
Equal treatment, freedom, security, and respect for others are the examples of:
Income
Growth
Material things
Non material things
Which one of the following is a major caste/social group of Sri Lanka?
Christian and Tamil
Buddhist and Hindu
Sinhala and Christian
Sinhala and Tamil
Which sector has grown the most between 1973-74 and 2013-14?
Secondary sector
Primary sector
Agriculture
Tertiary sector
Which of the following state in India has the lowest infant mortality rate?
Andhra Pradesh
Tamil Nadu
Kerala
Karnataka
Name the region that was ruled by the Habsburg Empire.
Russia - Prussia
Austria - Hungary
Belgium - Holland
Belgium - Brussels
Which one of the following is not the benefit of power-sharing?
Ensures political stability in the long run
It upholds the spirit of democracy
All political parties get their expected share
Reduces the possibility of conflicts between social group
________ is the staple food crop of a majority of the people in India
maize
jowar
wheat
rice
Identify the personality from the given information.
i. He led the movement to unify the regions of Italy was neither a revolutionary nor a democrat.
ii. Through his tactful diplomatic alliance with France, Sardinia-Piedmont succeeded in defeating the Austrian forces in 1859.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Victor Emmanuel II
Cavour
Otto von Bismarck
While calculating GDP, we do not add the value of
Final goods
Final services
Final goods and services
Intermediate goods
Which of the following is a private enterprise?
Indian Postal department
Indian Railways
MTNL
WIPRO
It is the law-making organ of the government.
Defence
Legislature
Executive
Judiciary
Everything available in our environment which can be used to satisfy our needs, provided, it is technologically accessible, economically feasible and culturally acceptable can be termed as:
Services
Commodities
Resource
Goods
Identify this famous personality from the information given below.
i. He became a member of the secret society of the Carbonari.
ii. As a young man of 24, he was sent into exile in 1831 for attempting
a revolution in Liguria.
Friedrich Wilhelm IV
Karol Kurpinski
Louis Philippe
Giuseppe Mazzini
Which one of the following terms is used to identify the old and new alluvial respectively?
Tarai and Bangar
Tarai and Dvars
Bangar and Khadar
Khadar and Tarai
What is a coalition government?
Alliance of two or more parties
Alliance of different social groups
Power shared among different organs of government
Power shared among different levels of government
________ ensured that the spirit of federalism, respect for diversity, and desire for living together became shared ideals in our country
Judiciary
Democratic politics
Constitutional provisions
Federal nature
Which language is spoken by 80 percent people of Brussels?
Latin
German
Dutch
French
When and who prepared a series of four prints visualising a world of democratic and social Republics?
None of these
1815, Duke Metternich
1848, Frederic Sorrieu
1804, Napoleon
Public facility includes:
Tourist places
Air
Hill stations
Public toilet
The Constitution declared India as a ________ of States
federation
union
community
departments
Assertion: Different persons have different notions of development.
Reason: Each person seeks similar things. All persons seek things that are least important for them.
Assertion and reason both are correct statements and reason is correct explanation for assertion
Assertion and reason both are correct statements but reason is not correct explanation for assertion
Assertion is correct statement but reason is wrong statement
Assertion is wrong statement but reason is correct statement
Which of the following activity is of the secondary sector?
Providing loans to the farmer
Manufacturing clothes
Cultivating cotton
Providing a storage facility for the cultivated cotton
What concept of Mahatma Gandhi did Vinobha Bhave spread?
Gram swarajya
Nagara swarajya
Bhoomi swarajya
Sacrifice land
Which of these sectors are classified on the basis of ownership of enterprises?
Primary and secondary sectors
Public and Private sectors
Organized and unorganized sectors
Primary and tertiary sectors
Which community had the feeling of alienation in Sri Lanka?
Indian Tamils
Sri Lankan Tamils
Sinhalas
Christians
Which of the following activity is not from the primary sector?
Fishing
Animal husbandry
Making sugar from sugarcane
Bee-keeping
Panch, a president or sarpanch are ________ elected by all the adult population living in that ward.
indirectly
hierarchy
directly
forcefully
Which one of the following is not a measure of development in the Human Development Report of the UNDP?
Body mass index
Per capita income in US$
Life expectancy at birth
Education Levels of the people
Who said, "When France sneezes, the rest of Europe catches cold"?
Metternich
Giuseppe
Lord Byron
T S Eliot
Choose the correct example from the following for Biotic Resource:
Human beings
Iron ore
Book
Table
Who criticised the glorification of reason and science and focused instead on emotions, intuition, and mystical feelings?
Romantic artists and poets
The Liberals
The Political Radicals
The Large Landowners
India has got the right to mine _____ from the bed of the Indian Ocean from that area which lies beyond the exclusive economic zone.
manganese nodules
mineral salts
pearls
fish remains
Name the religious composition of Ireland.
Catholics and Protestants
Buddhists and French
Protestants and Buddhists
Catholics and French
Identify the schemes introduced by the government for the benefit of the farmers:
Kissan Credit Card (KCC), Personal Accident Insurance Scheme (PAIS)
kisan arogya card , kisan identity card
kisan arogya card , kisan identity card
IAYP, JGSY
Which of the following statements is true regarding ‘Zollverein’
It was created to restore democracy.
It was created to unify Germany
It was created to abolish tariff barriers
It was created to abolish autocracy
Which of the following aspect best signifies this image of The courier of Rhineland’?
Victories of Napolean
Difficulties faced by Napolean
Loses of Napolean
Journey of Napolean
