MPPSC Paper 1 (GS) Mock Test - 10 - MPPSC (Madhya Pradesh) MCQ

• J.S. Verma was the 10th Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court. 
• He served from 14th June 1986 to 27th August 1986.
• He was the 27th Chief Justice of India (1997-1998).
• He also became the Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (1999 - 2003).
• He also headed the Justice Verma Committee related to Amendments to Criminal Law.

Articles 36-51 of Part-IV of the Indian Constitution deals with Directive Principles of State Policy (DPSP). They are borrowed from the constitution of Ireland. DPSP's are non-justiciable and are enforceable in the court of law. 

The features of the constitution that are taken from the Australian Constitution in the Indian Constitution are:

• Concurrent list
• Freedom of trade and commerce
• Commerce and Intercourse
• The joint sitting of the two houses of Parliament
• The language used in the Preamble

• Kanha Kisli National Park has the highest Tiger population. It has 83 Tigers and 42 Cubs.
• Bandhavgarh National Park has the maximum density of Tigers. It has 60 Tigers and 35 Cubs.
• Pench National Park has the 3rd largest Tiger population in the state. It has 51 Tigers and 35 Cubs.
• Panna National Park has the 4th largest Tiger population in the state. It has 21 Tigers and 11 Cubs.

Second President Rule:

• Held from 17th February 1980 to 9th June 1980.
• At that time, Sundarlal Patwa was the Chief Minister.
• When President Rule was proclaimed the governor was Cheppudira Muthana (till March 1980) and it was continued in the tenure of Bhagwat Dayal Sharma (from March 1980 to May 1981).
• It was done when the 6th Legislative Assembly was in session.

• Vaishali was the capital of Vajji Mahajanapada.
• The kingdom was situated in Bihar to the north of the river Ganga.
• It covered the districts of Vaishali and Muzaffarpur in Bihar.

JSP stands for Java Server Pages.

Java Server Pages helps software developers to create dynamically generated web pages

It was released in 1999 by Sun Microsystems.

JSP is similar to PHP and ASP.r.

• Captain Roop Singh Stadium is a cricket stadium in Gwalior district of Madhya Pradesh.
• It was established in 1978.
• The first ODI on this ground was played in 1988.

• The Gandhi Sagar Dam is one of the four major Dams built on India's Chambal River. 
• The Dam is located in the Mandsaur, Neemuch Districts of the state of Madhya Pradesh.
• The Dam's foundation laid by Prime Minister of India Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on 7 March 1954.
• Other Dams in Madhya Pradesh are:-
  • Tawa Reservoir at Hoshangabad District
  • Indira Sagar Dam at Narmada Nagar.

Kumbh Mela, also called Kumbha Mela, in Hinduism, religious festival that is celebrated four times over the course of 12 years, the site of the observance rotating between four pilgrimage places on four sacred rivers—at Haridwar on the Ganges River, at Ujjain on the Shipra, at Nashik on the Godavari, and at Prayagraj.

"Vidisha" was made its capital by Pushyamitra, the ruler of the Sunga dynasty.

The Sunga dynasty was founded by Pushyamitra Sunga in 185 BC.

The information about the Satavahana dynasty is found in the "Article of Sanchi".

The Satavahana dynasty was founded by "Simuk" and coins of Gautamiputra Shatakarni are obtained from "Ujjain".

Gautamiputra Shatkarni ruled from Malwa to Maheshwar after defeating Saka King 'Nahapan'.

In the first-century BC 'Ujjain' was the major commercial center of North India.

Kanishka was the greatest ruler of the Kushan dynasty.

The President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind laid the foundation stone for the conservation works of Singorgarh Fort in Singrampur village of Damoh district in Madhya Pradesh. The President also inaugurated the newly carved Jabalpur Circle of Archaeological Survey of India. He also addressed the State Level Tribal Conference at Singrampur village in Damoh. The program was organized by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, and the Tribal Affairs Department of Madhya Pradesh.

• An embedded system is a microprocessor-based computer hardware system with software that is designed to perform a dedicated function, either as an independent system or as a part of a large system.
• At the core is an integrated circuit designed to carry out computation for real-time operations.
• Embedded systems are managed by microcontrollers or digital signal processors (DSP), application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA), GPU technology, and gate arrays.
• These processing systems are integrated with components dedicated to handling electric and/or mechanical interfacing.
• Some examples of embedded systems are MP3 players, mobile phones, video game consoles, digital cameras, DVD players, and GPS.

The Great Indian Desert lies to the western part of India and is a dry, hot, and sandy stretch of land. This is also called the Thar Desert. It has very little vegetation.

The correct answer is UNESCO.

Key Points

• UNESCO launched a list of 50 iconic Indian heritage textiles
• The list was titled "Handmade for the 21st Century: Safeguarding Traditional Indian Textiles​​.
• The list includes 50 exclusive and iconic heritage textile crafts of India. Some of these include Toda embroidery and Sungadi from Tamil Nadu, Himroo weaves from Hyderabad, and Bandha tie and dye weaving from Sambalpur in Odisha.
• The list documents various aspects of the textiles, including the histories and legends behind them, the complicated and secret processes behind their creation, the causes for their dwindling popularity, and strategies for their preservation​.
• The publication aims to address one of the major challenges to the safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in South Asia, which is the lack of proper inventory and documentation. It brings together years of research on the selected textiles​.
• Some of the iconic handcrafted textiles documented from north India include Khes from Panipat, Chamba rumors from Himachal Pradesh, Thigma or wool tie and dye from Ladakh, and Awadh Jamdani from Varanasi​.
• From the south, textiles like Ilkal and Lambadi or Banjara embroidery from Karnataka, and Sikalnayakanpet Kalamkari from Thanjavur are included​.
• Textiles from other regions like Kunbi weaves from Goa, Mashru weaves and Patola from Gujarat, Himroo from Maharashtra, and Garad-Koirial from West Bengal also find a place in the list​.
• The UNESCO publication also functions as a sample of endangered textile crafts and includes recommendations for the protection and revitalization of these textile crafts, covering issues ranging from policy to grass-root-based micro-interventions.

Additional Information

UNESCO Sites

The correct answer is ciliary muscles.

Key Points

• The ability to alter the curvature of the eye's lens, a feature known as accommodation, is controlled by the ciliary muscles that are part of the eye's structure.
• Ciliary muscles in the eye help change the shape of the eye's lens to allow our vision to focus on objects at various distances. 
• When the muscles are relaxed, the curvature decreases making the lens thin and the focal length increases.
• Similarly when the ciliary muscles contract the curvature of the eye lens increases making them thicker, this decreases the focal length of the eye.

Additional Information

• The retina, pupil, and iris are critical parts of the eye, each featuring unique functions, but they do not influence the curvature of the lens.
• The retina is a layer at the back of the eyeball that contains cells sensitive to light. These cells trigger nerve impulses that pass via the optic nerve to the brain, where a visual image is formed.
• The pupil is the opening in the iris that allows light to enter the retina. It changes size according to light conditions, but it doesn't affect the curvature of the lens.
• The iris is the colored portion of the eye that controls the amount of light that reaches the retina through the pupil. It doesn't change the lens's curvature.

​The correct answer is Common Business Oriented Language.

Key Points

• The full form of COBOL is Common Business Oriented Language.
• COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) is a high-level programming language for business applications.
• COBOL was the first popular language designed to be operating system-agnostic and is still in use in many financial and business applications today.
• COBOL is primarily used in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments.
• Today many federal government agencies local banks, COBOL is still in use.
• For example, an estimated 43% of banking systems and 95% of ATM swipes utilize COBOL code.

Additional Information 

• COBOL was designed in 1959 by CODASYL and was partly based on the programming language FLOW-MATIC designed by Grace Hopper.
• It was standardized in 1968 and has since been revised four times.
•  The current standard is ISO/IEC 1989:2014.
• COBOL is a great candidate because it uses fixed-point decimal calculations as opposed to floating-point.
• A lot of modern languages like Java use floating-point, which means that their calculations are only accurate out to a certain “point”.
• Corporations use mainframes for applications that depend on scalability and reliability.
• For example, a banking institution could use a mainframe to host the database of its customer accounts, for which transactions can be submitted from any of thousands of ATM locations worldwide.

The correct answer is Ujjain.

Key Points 

• Malwa Utsav is held in Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh.
  • It is one of the biggest festivals in Madhya Pradesh.
  • It is celebrated for 2 days in Ujjain and 5 days in Indore.
  • The festival is celebrated to honor the Natya Shastra developed by Bharatha between the 2 BC and 2 AD centuries.
  • Dance, music, art, etc. are part of the festival.
  • The festival is also known to celebrate the spirit of dance in India.​

Additional Information 

• Malwa is located in west-central India occupying a plateau of volcanic origin.
• The plateau is located in the Vidisha Range.
• Rivers like Kshipra, Ken, Dhasan, etc. are located here.

The correct answer is Coal Washeries - Katni.​Key Points

• Mineral Based Industries in Madhya Pradesh:

The correct answer is 1896.

Key Points

• 'Vande Mataram' song was sung for the first time at the Indian National Congress session at Calcutta in 1896.
• The president of the Calcutta session was Rahmatullah M. Sayani.
• Vande Mataram song:
  • The song was Sung by Rabindranath Tagore.
  • The song was written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in 1874.
  • The song was published in the Bengali novel Anandamath in 1882.​​

Important Points

• Indian National Congress(INC):
  • Indian National Congress was founded on 28 December 1885.
  • Father of INC: Allan Octavian Hume
  • First President: W.C Bonnerjee

Additional Information

The correct answer is Albert Einstein.

Key Points

• Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist.
• He is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time.
• Einstein is best known for developing the theory of relativity.
• He also made important contributions to the development of the theory of quantum mechanics. 

Additional Information

• Ernest Rutherford postulated the nuclear structure of the atom discovered alpha and beta rays and proposed the laws of radioactive decay.
  • He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908.
• In 1932 James Chadwick made a fundamental discovery in the domain of nuclear science.
  • He proved the existence of neutrons – elementary particles devoid of any electrical charge.
• WC Röntgen is chiefly associated with his discovery of the rays that he called c-rays.
  • In 1901 he won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of the photoelectric effect.

The correct answer is NNP = GNP - Depreciation.

Key Points 

• Net national product or NNP is the market value of all the finished goods and services that are produced by citizens of a nation living domestically and internationally during a year.
• It is also referred to as the value that is obtained by subtracting depreciation from the gross national product (GNP).
• The net national product can be calculated by the following formula:
  • NNP = GNP – Depreciation
  • NNP = GDP + income from abroad - Depreciation
• NNP is one of the important metrics for determining the actual growth of a nation.

Additional Information 

• Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the total money value of final goods and services produced in the economic territories of a country in a given year.
  • It can be defined as Gross Value Added (GVA) at basic prices + Product taxes - Product subsidies. 

The correct matches the answer is: Option 2) A - IV B - I C - II D - III

Key Points 

Here's the correct match of List I (Type of Industry) with List II (Place) along with explanations:

The correct answer is Lord Dalhousie.

• Lord Dalhousie devised the policy of Doctrine of Lapse.

Key Points 

• The doctrine of Lapse:
  • The policy was devised by Lord Dalhousie.
    • He was the Governor-General of India from 1848 to 1856.
  • It was an annexation policy applied by the East India Company in India which was implemented in 1848.
  • The provinces that came under the Doctrine of Lapse are Satara (1848 AD) Jaitpur and Sambalpur (1849 AD) Baghat (1850 AD) Udaipur (1852 AD) Jhansi (1853 AD) and Nagpur (1854 AD).

Additional Information 

• Lord Dalhousie:
  • Abolished Titles and pensions Widow Remarriage Act (1856 AD).
  • He annexed the whole Punjab.
  • Santhal uprisings took place during his tenure.
  • Wood’s Educational Despatch of 1854 AD.
  • He established an Engineering College at Roorkee.
  • Started the first railway line in 1853 AD.
  • Started electric telegraph service.
  • Laid the basis of the modern Postal System (1854 AD).
  • A separate public works department was set up for the first time.