NTSE Civics MCQs Set 02

Question: When did the first labour law form ?

• a) 1857
• b) 1923
• c) 1948
• d) 1961

Answer: 1923

Question: How many countries are the members of SAARC.

• a) Five
• b) Three
• c) Seven
• d) Eight

Answer: Seven

Question: At what level does a Panchayat Samiti operate in a Panchayati Raj structure ?

• a) Village level
• b) Gram Panchayat level
• c) Block level
• d) District level

Answer: Block level

Question: Panchayati Raj is based on the ideology of

• a) Democratic decentralization
• b) Community cooperation and development
• c) People’s participation in government
• d) Cultivating political awareness in the rural masses

Answer: Democratic decentralization

Question: The Gram Panchayats are elected by Gram Sabha consisting of

• a) Every citizen living in a village
• b) Entire male and female population of the village
• c) Every adult male living in a village
• d) Every farmer of the village

Answer: Every citizen living in a village

Question: Every Village Panchayat is headed by a Sarpanch who is elected by

• a) Gram Sabha
• b) Members of village Panchayat from amount citizens of the village
• c) Members of village Panchayat from among themselves
• d) Not elected but nominated by Collector.

Answer: Members of village Panchayat from among themselves

Question: Mayor of a Municipal Corporation holds the office for a period of

• a) 1 year
• b) 3 years
• c) 5 years
• d) 4 years

Answer: 5 years

Question: A Municipal Corporation is set up in a city with a population of not less than

• a) 1 lakh
• b) 12 lakhs
• c) 10 lakhs
• d) 5 lakhs

Answer: 10 lakhs

Question: Which is the highest local body in the Rural Local Self-Government ?

• a) Gram Sabha
• b) Circle Panchayat
• c) Zila Parishad
• d) Panchayat Samiti

Answer: Zila Parishad

Question: It seeks to attain political power within the government by contesting the elections.

• a) Pressure groups
• b) Public interest group
• c) Political party
• d) Political agent

Answer: Political party

Question: The ordinance issued by the Governor is valid for a maximum period of -

• a) 1 year
• b) 2 years
• c) 3 years
• d) 6 months

Answer: 6 months

Question: The Union council of minister is collectively responsible to -

• a) Prime minister
• b) Rajya Sabha
• c) President
• d) House of the people

Answer: House of the people

Question: Who are the members of the Electoral college of president ?

• a) All the members of parliament
• b) Elected members of Lok Sabha
• c) Elected members of Vidhan Sabha
• d) Elected members of Parliament and state legislatures

Answer: Elected members of Parliament and state legislatures

Question: The impeachment motion against present can be introduced in -

• a) State assembly
• b) Rajya Sabha
• c) Lok Sabha
• d) Any house of Parliament

Answer: Any house of Parliament

Question: The _____ automatically became the chairman of Rajya Sabha.

• a) President
• b) Prime Ministers
• c) Vice President
• d) Comparator General of India

Answer: Vice President

Question: Monthly salary of President -

• a) 25,000
• b) 10000
• c) 35,000
• d) 30,000

Answer: 30,000

Question: What is the term of Vice President ?

• a) 3 years
• b) 4 years
• c) 6 years
• d) 5 years

Answer: 5 years

Question: The permanent house of Indian parliament -

• a) Lok Sabha
• b) Rajya Sabha
• c) State assembly
• d) All of the above

Answer: Rajya Sabha

Question: Rajya Sabha can delay the money bill maximum for -

• a) One mouth
• b) Two month
• c) Six month
• d) 14 days

Answer: 14 days

Question: Which state of the following has both set of legislature ?

• a) Assam
• b) Rajasthan
• c) Gujarat
• d) Bihar

Answer: Bihar

Question: Who decided whether the bill is money or ordinary bill ?

• a) President
• b) Governor
• c) Speaker of these house
• d) Deputy speaker of state assembly

Answer: Speaker of these house

Question: Which of the following institution is not the part of rural local administration ?

• a) District
• b) Urban council
• c) Village Panchayat
• d) Panchayat samiti

Answer: Urban council

Question: Which is the maximum limit of members if Lok-Sabha ?

• a) 550
• b) 545
• c) 538
• d) 547

Answer: 550

Question: Who has the powers to forgive the capital punishment ?

• a) President
• b) Governor
• c) Chief Minister
• d) Prime Minister

Answer: President

Question: Sovereignty means -

• a) Free form British Empire
• b) Freedom from legal bindings
• c) Freedom to take decision
• d) Freedom from Army

Answer: Freedom to take decision

Question: In which part of constitution fundamental rights are described

• a) Part I
• b) Part II
• c) Part III
• d) All

Answer: Part III

Question: Which fundamental right is the soul of constitution ?

• a) Right of religious freedom
• b) Right of culture and freedom
• c) Right of equality
• d) Right of constitutional remedies

Answer: Right of constitutional remedies

Question: The places Mahe, Karaikal and Yanam comprise which union territory ?

• a) Chandigarh
• b) Pondicherry
• c) Diu and Daman
• d) Dadra Nagar Haveli

Answer: Pondicherry

Question: Protective discrimination means a special provision for the reservation of posts in favour of :

• a) Soldiers of the army
• b) Forward classes
• c) SC/ST
• d) Engineers and doctors

Answer: SC/ST

Question: It seeks to attain political power within the government by contesting the elections.

• a) Pressure groups
• b) Public interest group
• c) Political party
• d) Political agent

Answer: Political party

Question: Non-Aligned Movement aimed at

• a) liquidation of colonialism
• b) Promoting world peace
• c) A world free from was and tension
• d) All of the above

Answer: All of the above

Question: Which of the following do not aim at the welfare of human beings ?

• a) Human rights
• b) Disarmament
• c) NIEO
• d) Nuclear war

Answer: Nuclear war

Question: The demarcation line between India and Pakistan in called -

• a) Red cliff line
• b) Mac Mohan line
• c) 33rd Parallel
• d) None of these

Answer: Red cliff line

Question: Who signed Simla Agreement ?

• a) Indira GAndhi and Jawahar Lal Nehru
• b) Jawahar Lal Nehru and Bhutto
• c) Bhutto and Indira Gandhi
• d) None of these

Answer: Bhutto and Indira Gandhi

Question: India’s population has increased from 1947 to 200 A.D.

• a) Three times
• b) Two times
• c) Two & half times
• d) Three & half times

Answer: Three times

Question: Competition of having more and more deadly weapons is known as

• a) Death Race
• b) Human Race
• c) Arms RAce
• d) Terrorism

Answer: Arms RAce

Question: The old and disabled problems is related with -

• a) Anti social activities
• b) Social security
• c) Social security and empowerment
• d) None

Answer: Social security and empowerment

Question: Who signed the U.N charter on behalf of India in 1945 ?

• a) Smt. Vijay Laxmi Pandit
• b) Shri B.N. Rao
• c) Pandit Jawahar lal Nehru
• d) Rama Swami Mudaliar

Answer: Rama Swami Mudaliar

Question: How many organs are there in UNO ?

• a) Five
• b) Six
• c) Four
• d) Seven

Answer: Six

Question: The Non-aligned movement played an important role in

• a) Increasing the tension
• b) Increasing insecurity
• c) Reducing cold war
• d) Reducing peace prospects

Answer: Reducing cold war