UPSC CSE Prelims · Previous Year Questions

UPSC Prelims PYQs 2002

All 114 questions from the UPSC Prelims 2002 paper, tagged by subject and topic.

1. Q1

   Choose only such friends that you can trust.
2. Q2

   While he was digging sand, a large mass fell and buried him completely.
3. Q3

   The book is well printed and attractively bound, making together an attractive volume.
4. Q4

   A little younger to myself we, both were devoted to cricket and boating.
5. Q5

   He had no sooner arrived than he was asked to leave again.
6. Q6

   The Rajputs always fought _____________ the last man.
7. Q7

   I have been surfing internet _________ the last two hours.
8. Q8

   You should be considerate __________ your employees and I assure you of your success in every walk of life.
9. Q9

   Match words in List-I with the words/group of words in List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists: List-I: A. Obsequious, B. Obstreperous, C. Inveterate, D. Impecunious. List-II:

   1. 1Dishonest,
   2. 2Having little or no money,
   3. 3T…
10. Q10

    Match words in List-I with the words/group of words in List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists: List-I: A. Cadaverous, B. Prodigal, C. Decadence, D. Gratuitous. List-II:

    1. 1Falling to lower moral level,
    2. 2Jubilation,
    3. 3Som…
11. Q11

    Match words in List-I with the words/group of words in List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists: List-I: A. Dilettante, B. Profligate, C. Prescient, D. Parochial. List-II:

    1. 1A person with futuristic vision,
    2. 2Miserly,
    3. 3A…
12. Q12

    Match words in List-I with the words/group of words in List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists: List-I: A. Iconoclast, B. Humdinger, C. Martinet, D. Callow. List-II:

    1. 1Immature and inexperienced,
    2. 2Person who attacks estab…
13. Q13

    Match words in List-I with the words/group of words in List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists: List-I: A. Adjunct, B. Contiguous, C. Consanguine, D. Recluse. List-II:

    1. 1Same family relationship,
    2. 2Diametrically opposite p…
14. Q14

    The world is one's oyster
15. Q15

    To go for the jugular?
16. Q16

    To follow the primrose path
17. Q17

    A bee in one's bonnet
18. Q18

    To take a rain-check
19. Q19

    Read the following passage and answer the question. Passage: When you buy a car, examine carefully the important features of the model you are considering. Many a buyer of the latest models has got into trouble by buying a car too broad or too long for his gar…
20. Q20

    Read the following passage and answer the question. Passage: When you buy a car, examine carefully the important features of the model you are considering. Many a buyer of the latest models has got into trouble by buying a car too broad or too long for his gar…
21. Q21

    Read the following passage and answer the question. Passage: When you buy a car, examine carefully the important features of the model you are considering. Many a buyer of the latest models has got into trouble by buying a car too broad or too long for his gar…
22. Q22

    Read the following passage and answer the question. Passage: When you buy a car, examine carefully the important features of the model you are considering. Many a buyer of the latest models has got into trouble by buying a car too broad or too long for his gar…
23. Q23

    Read the following passage and answer the question. Passage: When you buy a car, examine carefully the important features of the model you are considering. Many a buyer of the latest models has got into trouble by buying a car too broad or too long for his gar…
24. Q24

    I rather like the quaint little house at the end of the street.
25. Q25

    If she continues to spend her time in such a frivolous manner, she will fail in her examinations.
26. Q26

    Sanguine as he is in his attitude to life and its problems, he cannot but be noticed wherever he goes.
27. Q27

    One's remonstration against social ills has to be consistent to be fruitful.
28. Q28

    The advice rendered to him sounded to be quite sagacious.
29. Q29

    The Indian cultural fair was held at Rome in a grandiose manner.
30. Q30

    His voice sounded haughty when I spoke to him over the telephone.
31. Q31

    The device to convert alternating current into direct current is
32. Q32

    Combustion of a candle is a
33. Q33

    Which of the following is a chemical compound?
34. Q34

    A and B ran over a distance starting from the same place. The distance-time graph is shown (not reproduced here). Consider the following statements:

    1. 1A ran throughout the given period of time with uniform velocity.
    2. 2A ran throughout the given period of tim…
35. Q35

    Consider the following statements regarding the Nuclear Power Programme of India:

    1. 1Pressurised heavy water reactors have been set up at Kaiga (Karnataka) and Rawatbhata (Rajasthan).
    2. 2Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata is one of the five Research Cen…
36. Q36

    Carbohydrates are stored in the body as
37. Q37

    Bacteria and viruses cause
38. Q38

    Substances which are obtained from micro organisms but used to destroy micro organisms are
39. Q39

    Assertion (A): A bus and a car (with lower weight than that of the bus) moving at the same velocity, are brought to rest on a level road by applying brakes which exert same retarding force. The car will travel lesser distance before coming to rest. Reason (R):…
40. Q40

    Assertion (A): A train has come out of the platform and is accelerating. If a person sitting in the train and facing engine, throws up a coin, it will fall ahead of him. Reason (R): A force acts on the coin whose magnitude is equal to the product of the mass o…
41. Q41

    Consider the following statements:

    1. 1Intel's Pentium IV is an operating system used in PCs.
    2. 2During booting period of a PC, the operating system is first loaded.
    3. 3Analogue computers are useful only in scientific field while digital computers have applicat…
42. Q42

    Which positional value divides the series into equal parts?
43. Q43

    A town 'P' is located in a particular district. The town 'A' is west of 'P'. Town 'T' is east of 'P'. Town 'K' is east of 'B' but west of 'T' and 'A'. They are all in the same district. Which town is the farthest west?
44. Q44

    A factory has three belt conveyors fitted in its loading station. Conveyors 'A' and 'B' operating simultaneously lift all the goods in the same time during which the goods can be lifted by the conveyor 'C' operating alone. Conveyor 'B' lifts all the goods five…
45. Q45

    According to a certain code * means 'greater than', + means 'less than', ÷ means 'equal to', % means 'plus'. If A * X, B ÷ Z, Y + C; then the relation between ABC and XYZ is
46. Q46

    What is the maximum number of pieces 1 cm in diameter and 20 cm long that can be cut out of a cylindrical wooden block 20 cm in length and 3 cm in diameter?
47. Q47

    A group of boys decided to buy a few cassettes whose price was between Rs. 200 and Rs. 250. But at the time of purchase, two of the boys declined to contribute as a result of which the remaining boys had to pay Re. 1 more than they had originally planned. What…
48. Q48

    Directions for Q48-Q52: Sumeet, Philips, Wasim, Bishan and Chetan are five players of the College Cricket team and their home towns are Surat, Pune, Warangal, Bangalore and Chandigarh, but not in that order. The five specialist slots of spinner, pace bowler, w…
49. Q49

    Directions for Q48-Q52: Sumeet, Philips, Wasim, Bishan and Chetan are five players of the College Cricket team and their home towns are Surat, Pune, Warangal, Bangalore and Chandigarh, but not in that order. The five specialist slots of spinner, pace bowler, w…
50. Q50

    Directions for Q48-Q52: Sumeet, Philips, Wasim, Bishan and Chetan are five players of the College Cricket team and their home towns are Surat, Pune, Warangal, Bangalore and Chandigarh, but not in that order. The five specialist slots of spinner, pace bowler, w…
51. Q51

    Directions for Q48-Q52: Sumeet, Philips, Wasim, Bishan and Chetan are five players of the College Cricket team and their home towns are Surat, Pune, Warangal, Bangalore and Chandigarh, but not in that order. The five specialist slots of spinner, pace bowler, w…
52. Q52

    Directions for Q48-Q52: Sumeet, Philips, Wasim, Bishan and Chetan are five players of the College Cricket team and their home towns are Surat, Pune, Warangal, Bangalore and Chandigarh, but not in that order. The five specialist slots of spinner, pace bowler, w…
53. Q53

    A and B stand in a circular ring with 10 other persons. If the arrangement of 12 persons is randomly done, the chance that there are exactly 3 persons between A and B is
54. Q54

    15 men can complete a work in 280 days. They started the work and after every 10 days, 15 additional men were employed. In how many days the work was completed?
55. Q55

    Bag 'A' contains 5 white and 2 black balls. Bag 'B' contains 2 white and 3 black balls. If any one bag is chosen and a ball is taken out of it at random, what is the probability that the ball is black?
56. Q56

    Three containers have their volumes in the ratio 3 : 4 : 5. They are full of mixtures of milk and water. The mixtures contain milk and water in the ratio of 4 : 1, 3 : 1 and 5 : 2 respectively. The contents of all these three containers are poured into a fourt…
57. Q57

    Two dice are thrown simultaneously. The probability that the product of the two numbers on the two dice is an even number is
58. Q58

    The flowers in a basket become double every minute and the basket gets full in one hour. In how much time, the basket was 1/32 full?
59. Q59

    If X is mortal, Y is wise. If Z is not good, A will suffer. Y is not wise, if A suffers. If B is a slave, X is immortal. If A suffers, what follows?
60. Q60

    In a group of 36 persons, a total of 16 take tea while 9 take tea but not coffee. How many persons in this group take coffee but not tea?
61. Q61

    How many lines other than those shown in the figure are required to join each corner with another? (The figure shows an octagon.)
62. Q62

    Two pipes 'A' and 'B' can fill a tank in 15 minutes and 20 minutes respectively. Both the pipes are opened together but after 4 minutes, pipe 'A' is turned off. What is the total time required to fill the tank?
63. Q63

    Directions for Q63-Q64: A cube has six faces, each of a different colour. The red face is opposite to black. The green face is between red and black. The blue face is adjacent to white. The brown face is adjacent to blue. The red face is the bottommost face. T…
64. Q64

    Directions for Q63-Q64: A cube has six faces, each of a different colour. The red face is opposite to black. The green face is between red and black. The blue face is adjacent to white. The brown face is adjacent to blue. The red face is the bottommost face. T…
65. Q65

    Which of the following statements is not correct?
66. Q67

    Consider the following statements:

    1. 1Part 'B' of the Budget speech of the finance minister includes description of the initiatives on economic front to be taken up by the Government for the coming year in addition to direct and indirect tax proposals.
    2. 2The…
67. Q68

    The Comptroller and Auditor General of India is appointed by the
68. Q69

    Assertion (A): Point of order is raised to criticize a policy of the government. Reason (R): It is an important tool of legislative control. Select the correct answer using the codes given below: Codes:
69. Q70

    Who of the following is the Chairman of Planning Commission in India?
70. Q71

    Who among the following became the President of India without having been the Vice-President?
71. Q72

    Nalanda University flourished during the reign of which of the following rulers?
72. Q73

    The foreign traveller who visited India during Vijayanagar period was
73. Q74

    Who among the following was a great protagonist of the 'Doctrine of Lapse'?
74. Q75

    Chauri Chaura is known in the history of India's struggle for freedom because
75. Q76

    The 'Grand Trunk Road' connects
76. Q77

    The Civil Disobedience Movement of 1930 culminated in the signing of a pact in 1931 by Gandhiji and
77. Q78

    Dhanvantari was
78. Q79

    Which leader is called the 'father' of India's social reform movement?
79. Q80

    Match List-I (Classical Dance Form) with List-II (State) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists: List-I: A. Bharat Natyam, B. Kathakali, C. Kuchipudi. List-II:

    1. 1Odisha,
    2. 2Tamil Nadu,
    3. 3Manipur,
    4. 4Andhra Pradesh,
    5. 5Kerala.
80. Q81

    Consider the following statements:

    1. 1Bermuda situated in Western Atlantic Ocean is a United Kingdom Overseas Territory.
    2. 238th Parallel divided boundary between North and South Vietnam before unification.
    3. 3Bahamas situated near Florida is one of the states…
81. Q82

    Consider the following statements:

    1. 1Falkland Islands are situated in Pacific Ocean.
    2. 2Red Sea separates Sudan from Egypt.
    3. 3England, Norway, Denmark surround North Sea.

    Which of these statements is/are correct?
82. Q83

    Which is the correct sequence of the given American cities from West to East?
83. Q84

    Latitude of a place is indicative of its
84. Q85

    Consider the following statements:

    1. 1Alluvial soil is rich in chemical properties and is capable of yielding Rabi and Kharif crops.
    2. 2Black soil is suitable for cotton, groundnut.
    3. 3Rabi crops are reaped in autumn after sowing in June.

    Which of these statem…
85. Q86

    Consider the following statements: While it is 6:30 AM (Sunday) in London, it is around

    1. 12:30 AM (Sunday) in Honolulu (Hawaii)
    2. 28:30 PM (Saturday) in Honolulu (Hawaii)
    3. 33:30 PM (Sunday) in Tokyo
    4. 41:30 AM (Sunday) in Tokyo.

    Which of these statements is/…
86. Q87

    Consider the following statements:

    1. 1Prime Meridian passes through Greenwich and is at 0° Longitude.
    2. 2International Date Line on the map appears as a straight line along 180° Longitude.
    3. 3While crossing International Date Line from east to west, one gains…
87. Q88

    Consider the following statements: According to Census 2001

    1. 1The literacy rate increase for males is more than that of the females during last one decade.
    2. 2Amongst the States and Union Territories, Delhi has the highest population density while Sikkim has…
88. Q89

    Match List-I (Park/Sanctuary) with List-II (State) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists: List-I: A. Keoladeo National Park, B. Corbett National Park, C. Kaziranga Sanctuary, D. Periyar Sanctuary. List-II:

    1. 1Assam,
    2. 2Kerala, 3.…
89. Q90

    Match List-I (Multi-purpose river valley projects) with List-II (State) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists: List-I: A. Purna Project, B. Bhima Project, C. Kakrapara Project, D. Tehri Dam Project. List-II:

    1. 1Gujarat,
    2. 2Maharas…
90. Q91

    Match List-I (City) with List-II (River passing through the city) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists: List-I: A. Nasik, B. Surat, C. Ujjain, D. Vijayawada. List-II:

    1. 1Krishna,
    2. 2Cauvery,
    3. 3Godavari,
    4. 4Shipra,
    5. 5Tapi.
91. Q92

    Recently, Cannes Film Festival was held in
92. Q93

    Shri Kiran Karnik is the
93. Q94

    Knesset is the name of the Parliament of
94. Q95

    Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists: List-I: A. Dennis Tito, B. Colin Powell, C. Jacques Chirac, D. Donald H. Rumsfeld. List-II:

    1. 1President of France,
    2. 2Defence Secretary, USA,
    3. 3Secretary of State,…
95. Q96

    Match List-I (Football World Cup/Year) with List-II (Host Country) and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists: List-I: A. 1986, B. 1990, C. 1994, D. 1998. List-II:

    1. 1Italy,
    2. 2Mexico,
    3. 3France,
    4. 4USA,
    5. 5Spain.
96. Q97

    Match List-I (Person) with List-II (Organisation) and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists: List-I: A. Rajendra S. Pawar, B. Ashok Soota, C. R.S. Lodha, D. R.K. Pachauri. List-II:

    1. 1CII,
    2. 2TERI,
    3. 3NIIT,
    4. 4FICCI.
97. Q98

    'Raksha Kavach' is
98. Q99

    Consider the following statements in respect of Soccer World Cup:

    1. 1Prior to FIFA-2002 Cup, Brazil had won the World Cup four times.
    2. 2'Indomitable Lions' is the nickname for Cameroon team.
    3. 3'Azzurri' is the nickname for the Italian team.
    4. 4Senegal, Slove…
99. Q100

    Recently, Government disinvested stake in VSNL, IBP and IPCL to
100. Q101

     Stockholm Syndrome is a mental condition experienced by
101. Q102

     Match List-I (Prominent Football Player) with List-II (Country) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists: List-I: A. Michael Owen, B. Luis Figo, C. Gabriel Batistuta, D. Raul Gonzalez. List-II:

     1. 1Italy,
     2. 2Spain,
     3. 3Portugal,
     4. 4Arg…
102. Q103

     Match List-I (City) with List-II (Establishment) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists: List-I: A. Arkonam, B. Allahabad, C. Kamptee, D. Mhow. List-II:

     1. 1Central Air Command HQ,
     2. 2Naval Air Base,
     3. 3Institute of Military Law, 4.…
103. Q104

     Match List-I (Library) with List-II (City) and select the correct answer: List-I: A. National Library, B. State Central Library, C. Connemara Public Library. List-II:

     1. 1New Delhi,
     2. 2Kolkata,
     3. 3Mumbai,
     4. 4Chennai.
104. Q105

     Crop Yield Formulation Unit which has developed statistical models to forecast crop yield works under the control of
105. Q106

     East Timor, the latest independent nation in the world was ruled by
106. Q107

     Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
107. Q108

     'Sagar Samrat' is the name of
108. Q109

     Which tourist destination from amongst the following will be developed as an international destination for tourism according to the Budget 2002-03?
109. Q110

     Shri Rajender Singh won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for
110. Q111

     Which among the following became the first woman Prime Minister in the world?
111. Q112

     Who among the following wrote the book 'Algebra of Infinite Justice'?
112. Q113

     Consider the following statements:

     1. 1The demand for commodities having a large number of close substitutes is less elastic than the commodities having a smaller number of substitutes.
     2. 2Luxury items have a highly elastic demand.
     3. 3The commodities whose cons…
113. Q114

     Consider the following statements:

     1. 1Launching of Fourth five-year plan was postponed and three annual plans had to be resorted to between 1966 to 1969.
     2. 2Fifth five-year plan was terminated a year earlier.
     3. 3Eighth five-year plan commenced in 1992 instead…
114. Q115

     Assertion (A): Macro-economic deals with the study of aggregates and averages. Reason (R): Central problem of macro-economics is the determination of income and employment. Codes: