1. Who among the following can participate in the proceedings of both the houses of parliament?
Correct : D. Attorney General
2. What can be the maximum interval between
two sessions of parliament?
Correct : C. 6 months
3. How are legislative excesses of parliament and state assemblies checked?
Correct : C. Judicial review
4. Which of the following non-member of Parliament has the right to address it?
Correct : A. Attorney General of India
5. In order to be recognized as an official Opposition Group in the parliament, how many seats should it have?
Correct : D. 1/10th of the total strength
6. Which functionary can be invited to give his
opinion in the parliament?
Correct : A. Attorney General of India
7. Age of a candidate to contest parliamentary
election should not be lesser than:
Correct : C. 25 years
8. The most important feature of the Indian
Parliament is that:
Correct : B. It also comprises of the President
9. Japan’s Parliament is known as –
Correct : A. Diet
10. Who said, Parliamentary system provides a daily as well as a periodic assessment of the Government?
Correct : A. B.R. Ambedkar
11. The vice-President is the ex-officio chairman of the–
Correct : A. Rajya Sabha
12. The Rajya Sabha is dissolved after –
Correct : D. None of these
13. The upper house of Indian Parliament is known as –
Correct : A. The Rajya Sabha
14. Who is the chairman of Rajya Sabha –
Correct : B. The Vice-President
15. Which is the House where the chair person is
not the member of that House?
Correct : A. Rajya Sabha
16. How many members are nominated by the
President in the Rajya Sabha?
Correct : C. 12
17. The speaker of Lok Sabha can resign his office by addressing his resignation to –
Correct : C. The Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha
18. A money bill passed by the Lok Sabha is deemed to have been passed by the Rajya Sabha also when no action is taken by the Upper House (Rajya Sabha ) within –
Correct : B. 14 days
19. What can be maximum interval between
two sessions of Parliament?
Correct : C. 6 months
20. Bill of which of the following categories can
be initiated only in Lok Sabha?
Correct : C. Money bill
21. Who decides whether a bill is a money bill
or not?
Correct : A. Speaker of the Lok Sabha
22. By which bill the Government propose
collection of revenues for a year?
Correct : B. Finance Bill
23. Who calls the joint session of the two Houses
of the Parliament?
Correct : A. The President
24. What is Zero Hour?
Correct : B. When matters of utmost importance are raised
25. Which of the following Ministries prepares its own budget and presents in the Parliament every year?
Correct : B. Railway Ministry
26. The Governor of a state in India is –
Correct : D. Appointed by the President
27. Which one of the following offices is held
during the pleasure of the President of India?
Correct : C. Governor of a State
28. The Chief Minister is appointed by –
Correct : A. The Governor
29. Who among the following was the first woman chief minister in independent India?
Correct : C. Sucheta Kriplani
30. Who was the first Chief Minister of Uttarakhand State?
Correct : B. Nityanand Swami
31. Which Indian State had the first woman chief Minister?
Correct : A. U.P.
32. The total number of members of the legislative council can in no case be less than:
Correct : A. 40
33. Who among the following recommendation to the parliament for the abolition of the legislative council in state?
Correct : D. The legislative assembly of the concerned state
34. Which is the upper chamber of state
legislature in India?
Correct : B. Legislative Council
35. The Maximum number of members that the legislative assembly of a state in India can have is:
Correct : C. 500
36. The Chief justice of a high court is appointed
by:
Correct : D. President and the chief Justice of India
37. To which of the following state the special Marriage Act 1954 does not apply?
Correct : D. Jammu and Kashmir
38. Which article of the constitution of India accords special status to the state of Jammu and Kashmir?
Correct : D. 370
39. Which one of the following states has a separate constitution?
Correct : C. Jammu and Kashmir
40. In Indian constitution, article 370 is related
with which?
Correct : A. Jammu and Kashmir
41. Who appoints the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir?
Correct : D. The President of India
42. Which of the following states can nominate two women members to the Legislative assembly?
Correct : C. Jammu and Kashmir
43. Where was the first Municipal Corporation in India set up?
Correct : D. Madras
44. The Constitutional (74th) Amendment act,
1993 mentions of the:
Correct : D. The Municipalities
45. Provisions regarding Municpalities and Panchayats was made in the Indian Constitution in which year?
Correct : B. 1993
46. All day-to-day functions of the Panchayat in which of the following states are being operated on electronic system and are webbased? (This is being done for the first time in India for a Panchayat)
Correct : A. Kerala
47. The Constitution of India mandates that the elections of the Panchayati Raj should be held regularly after a gap of:
Correct : D. 5 years
48. The first finance commission was constituted
in:
Correct : B. 1951
49. Which agency acts as co-ordinator between union government, Planning commission and
state Governments?
Correct : C. National Development Council
50. Fiscal Deficit is –
Correct : A. Total Expenditures – Total receipts
51. Which one of the following forms the largest share of deficit in Government of India budget:
Correct : B. Fiscal Deficit
52. Which is NOT a central service?
Correct : A. Indian Police Service (IPS)
53. The annual report of the UPSC is submitted to:
Correct : A. The President
54. Which of the following service is not part of the All India Services?
Correct : A. IAS (Indian Administrative Services)
55. Consider the following statements:
1. The number of the Members of Union Public service Commission is determined by the President of India
2. The Union Public Service Commission was constituted under the provisions in the Constitution of India
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Correct : C. Both 1 and 2
56. Who appoints the Chairman and the members of Union Public Service Commission?
Correct : B. President
57. In which schedule of the constitution will the new State of Telangana be mentioned as the 29th State of the India?
Correct : A. First Schedule
58. When was the mandate that a candidate at an election should file with his nomination papers an affidavit recording the particulars of the spouse and the dependents, enforced at a General Election for the first time?
Correct : C. Assembly elections held in Himachal Pradesh in 2003
59. A National political party is one which receives 6% of the total votes polled in:
Correct : D. In all states
60. What is the minimum age prescribed in India
for its citizens to cast their vote?
Correct : B. 18 Years
61. The election disputes regarding the election of President and Vice –President can be heard by:
Correct : C. Supreme Court
62. The Constitutional Amendment by which the age for voting has been revised from 21 years to 18 years is:
Correct : C. 61st
63. The right to vote in India is given to all people
on the basis of:
Correct : D. Age
64. Now-a-days the election commission of India uses EVM during the General Election in the country. What is the full form of EVM?
Correct : A. Electronic Voting Machine
65. NRI (Non-Resident Indian) Day is observed on which of the following day?
Correct : A. 9th January
66. English is the official language of which one of the following Indian States?
Correct : A. Nagaland
67. Which article of the constitution provides power to the parliament to make any provision with respect to acquisition and termination of citizenship and all other matters related to the citizenship:
Correct : A. Article 11
68. Andhra Pradesh was created as a linguistic state in:
Correct : B. 1953
69. The first Indian state which was created on a
linguistic basis following a long drawn agitation is:
Correct : A. Andhra Pradesh
70. How many types of emergencies are envisaged by the constitution?
Correct : C. 3
71. In India, within how much period, should the proclamation of emergency be approved by both houses of the Parliament?
Correct : B. 1 month
72. Under which of the following circumstances can the national emergency under Article 352 of the Indian constitution be proclaimed?
Correct : D. War, external aggression or armed rebellion
73. How many times has financial emergency been declared in India so far?
Correct : D. Never
74. How many spokes are there in the Dharma Chakra (Ashok Chakra) depicted on the national flag of India?
Correct : C. 24
75. What is the scientific name of National
Animal-tiger-of India?
Correct : B. Panthera tigris
76. Which is National Flower of India?
Correct : B. Lotus
77. India borrowed the concept of ‘sovereignty
of parliament’ from _________.
Correct : D. Britain
78. The Supreme Court of India was inaugurated on __________.
Correct : B. January 28, 1950
79. At present, how many members are there in Supreme Court of India?
Correct : B. 31 judges
80. In which case, the Supreme Court ruled that ‘the senior most judge of supreme court should alone be appointed to the office of the Chief justice of India’?
Correct : B. Second judges case
81. Which among the following act is not related
to the advisory jurisdiction of Supreme Court?
Correct : A. Coal Bearing Areas Act
82. In which year the Jammu and Kashmir
Resettlement Act was passed
Correct : C. 1982
83. The write-_______ literally means ‘we command’
Correct : D. Mandamus
84. Which among the following Articles of Directive Principles of State Policy deals with the promotion of international peace and security?
Correct : A. 51
85. Which among the following rights was described by Dr. BR. Ambedkar as the heart and soul of the constitution?
Correct : D. Right to Constitutional Remedies
86. Five year plan in India is finally approved by _
Correct : D. National Development Council
87. In the Indian Constitution, the Right to equality mentioned from…………………
Correct : C. Article 14 to Article 18
88. Which one of the following amendments to the Indian Constitution empowers the President to send back any matter for reconsideration by the Council of Ministers?
Correct : D. 44th
89. Which one of the following bills must be passed by each house of Indian parliament separately by special majority?
Correct : D. Constitution Amendment Bill
90. Which Amendment Act facilitated the appointment of the same person as a governor for two or more states?
Correct : A. 7th Constitutional Amendment Act of 1956
91. Increased salary of Governor from 2008 is _________.
Correct : B. 1.10 lakh
92. The salary and allowances of the Chief Minister is determined by ________.
Correct : D. State Legislature
93. Duty of the Chief Minister is described in the Article ________.
Correct : D. Article 167
94. Article 163 deals with _________.
Correct : B. Council of Ministers to aid and advise Governor
95. Which part of the constitution deals with composition and powers of State Legislature?
Correct : B. Part IV
96. Among the following states, which one has a bicameral system of state legislature?
Correct : C. Andhra Pradesh
97. The maximum strength of the Legislative Assembly is ________.
Correct : D. 500
98. In which year, the Supreme Court ruled that the decision of Chairman/speaker is subject to judicial review?
Correct : B. 1992
99. The adjournment power of state legislature lies with ________.
Correct : A. Presiding officer of the house
100. The Governor of a State is appointed by the President on the advice of the