Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) Patna Enquiry-cum-Reservation Clerk Examination Held on 08-01-2006 Question Paper With Answer Key

Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) Patna Enquiry-cum-Reservation Clerk Examination Held on 08-01-2006

 

1. Find two signs which should be interchanged to get the equality

9 + 5 ÷ 4 × 3 – 6 = 12

(a)  +, ÷

(b)  −, ÷

(c)  ×, ÷

(d)  +, −

Answer: (b)

2. The children’s Day is celebrated on

(a)  November 14

(b)  November 20

(c)  December 1

(d)  December 16

Answer: (a)

3. What number will come opposite to 1 in the following dice?

(a)  4

(b)  5

(c)  3

(d)  2

Answer: (a)

4. What is the cause for no atmosphere on the moon?

(a)  Less gravitational force

(b)  It is situated in space

(c)  The mobility of air is large

(d)  None of the above

Answer: (a)

5. Who is benefitted most by inflation?

(a)  Borrower

(b)  Debtor

(c)  Banks

(d)  None of these

Answer: (b)

6. Who was Miss Universe 2004?

(a)  Lara Dutta

(b)  Jennifer Hawkins

(c)  Shandi Finnessey

(d)  Maria Julia Mantilla

Answer: (b)

7. Coins are manufactured in

(a)  Delhi

(b)  Hoshangabad

(c)  Nasik

(d)  Kolkata

Answer: (d)

8. On chewing bread, a man tastes sweet due to

(a)  conversion of carbohydrate into sugar

(b)  conversion of fat into sugar

(c)  conversion of protein into sugar

(d)  None of the above

Answer: (a)

9. What is the geographical area of India?

(a)  32.19 lakh sq km

(b)  37 lakh sq km

(c)  32.87 lakh sq km

(d)  35 lakh sq km

Answer: (c)

10. World No Tobacco Day is observed on

(a)  May 31

(b)  October 31

(c)  June 30

(d)  July 31

Answer: (a)

11. What is the retirement age of the justice of High Court?

(a)  65 Yr

(b)  62 Yr

(c)  60 Yr

(d)  58 Yr

Answer: (b)

12. What is the number of judges in addition to the Chief Justice in the Supreme Court of India?

(a)  18

(b)  28

(c)  25

(d)  30

Answer: (c)

13. When did the Aryans come to India?

(a)  2500-1800 BC

(b)  2000-1500 BC

(c)  2500 BC

(d)  1500-1000 BC

Answer: (b)

14. Beri-Beri is caused due to deficiency of

(a)  Vitamin B-1

(b)  Vitamin B-12

(c)  Vitamin A

(d)  Vitamin D

Answer: (a)

15. Who invented the electric battery?

(a)  Volta

(b)  Davy

(c)  Faraday

(d)  Newton

Answer: (a)

16. What is the period of onset of South-West monsoon?

(a)  Mid January-Mid February

(b)  March-Mid April

(c)  December-March

(d)  Mid June-September

Answer: (d)

17. SIDO is related to

(a)  Small industries

(b)  Major industries

(c)  Industrial Bank

(d)  None of the above

Answer: (a)

18. Which of the following is a vector quantity?

(a)  Temperature

(b)  Energy

(c)  Momentum

(d)  Force

Answer: (d)

19. A and B are married couples. X and Y are brothers and X is the brother of A. How Y is related to B?

(a)  Brother

(b)  Cousin

(c)  Brother-in-law

(d)  None of the above

Answer: (c)

20. Which of the following is fastest storing input/output device in a computer?

(a)  Tele-typewriter

(b)  Visual display unit

(c)  Magnetic floppy disc

(d)  None of the above

Answer: (c)

21. Nimo is 23 yr 1 month old. Shyam is 18 yr 7 months old and Bano is as much older than Shyam is younger than Nimo. The age of Bano is

(a)  18 yr 6 months

(b)  21 yr 11 months

(c)  20 yr 9 months

(d)  20 yr 10 months

Answer: (d)

22. In your bookshelf, you have five favourite books. If you decide to arrange these five books in every possible combination and moved just one book in every half a minute. How much time it will take you to arrange?

(a)  3 h

(b)  1 h

(c)  2 h

(d)  30 min

Answer: (a)

23. Ram remembers that his brother’s birthday is after 15th but before 18th of February whereas his sister Kali remembers that her brother’s birthday is after 16th but before 19th of February. On which day is their brothers birthday?

(a)  17th

(b)  18th

(c)  16th

(d)  15th

Answer: (a)

24. If the number, X 78 Y is divisible by 55, then value of X and Y are

(a)  1, 0

(b)  4, 5

(c)  6, 5

(d)  None of these

Answer: (b)

25. Statement Should smoking be prohibited.

Argument

(I) Yes, it is wrong to smoke away millions of money.

(II) No, it will throw thousands of workers in tobacco industry out of employment. Indicate whether.

(a)  Argument I is strong to decide

(b)  Argument II is strong to decide

(c)  Argument I and II both are strong

(d)  None of the argument is strong

Answer: (b)

26. Which of the following is used in beauty parlours for hair setting?

(a)  Sulphur

(b)  Silicon

(c)  Phosphorous

(d)  Chlorine

Answer: (a)

27. Which of the following is the largest living mammals?

(a)  Blue whale

(b)  Giraffe

(c)  White elephant

(d)  Rhinoceros

Answer: (a)

28. A fisherman on the bank of the pond is attempting to spear a fish. He should

(a)  Aim below the fish

(b)  Aim directly at fish

(c)  Aim above the fish

(d)  None of the above

Answer: (a)

29. Three bells toll at the intervals of 10, 15 and 24 min. All the three begin to toll together at 8 am. At what time they will again toll together?

(a)  10.45 am

(b)  10 am

(c)  9.25 am

(d)  8.50 am

Answer: (b)

30. Pouring of kerosene oil over stagnant water reduces mosquito problems because

(a)  It repels mosquitoes

(b)  It interrupts the breathing of larvae

(c)  It interrupts the mating of adults

(d)  It is highly toxic to mosquitoes

Answer: (b)

31. What is the minimum number of colours required to paint the given figure so that no two adjacent sides have the same colours?

(a)  5

(b)  4

(c)  3

(d)  2

Answer: (b)

32. Which of the following venn diagrams correctly represent Elephants, Wolves, Animals?

Answer: (c)

33. A man always has

(a)  Heart

(b)  Hands

(c)  Eyes

(d)  Feet

Answer: (a)

34. Fill in the blank

4, 6, 12, 147, 28, 30, (?).

(a)  60

(b)  62

(c)  64

(d)  32

Answer: (a)

35. When an iron nail gets rusted, Iron oxide is formed

(a)  with reduction of weight

(b)  without any change in weight

(c)  without any change in colour

(d)  with increase in weight

Answer: (d)

36. National Dairy Research centre is situated at

(a)  Karnal

(b)  Bhopal

(c)  Mumbai

(d)  Chandigarh

Answer: (a)

37. ECO mark is related to

(a)  Environment

(b)  Gold

(c)  Quality of food stuffs

(d)  None of the above

Answer: (a)

38. Any dispute related to the election of the President is settled by the

(a)  Supreme Court

(b)  Parliament

(c)  Council of Ministers

(d)  Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha

Answer: (a)

39. Who contributed most in the integration of India after independence?

(a)  Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

(b)  Rajendra Prasad

(c)  Mahatma Gandhi

(d)  LB Shashtri

Answer: (a)

40. Neil Armstrong put foot on the moon on July 21, 1969. Who accompanied him?

(a)  Aldrin

(b)  Alexi Lenov

(c)  Bladimir Titov

(d)  Edward White

Answer: (a)

41. Asiatic Society, Calcutta was founded in

(a)  1784

(b)  1782

(c)  1786

(d)  1790

Answer: (a)

42. Four metallic balls have been kept in sunlight. Which will be hottest?

(a)  Black

(b)  White

(c)  Red

(d)  Blue

Answer: (a)

43. The Sagar University has been renamed as

(a)  Goud University

(b)  Rajiv Gandhi University

(c)  Dakshineshwar University

(d)  None of the above

Answer: (a)

44. What is MOD VAT?

(a)  Excise duty

(b)  Income tax

(c)  Sales tax

(d)  None of these

Answer: (c)

45. What is Oral-B?

(a)  A model of Car

(b)  Fashion design

(c)  Mobile handset

(d)  Tooth brush

Answer: (d)

46. What is Bijli and Bikram?

(a)  Three wheeler

(b)  Four wheeler

(c)  Two wheeler

(d)  None of the above

Answer: (a)

47. In the railway, fish plates are used

(a)  To join two rails

(b)  To adjust due to heat

(c)  To provide safety from accident

(d)  To save from linear expansion

Answer: (a)

48. Who put forward ‘Drain of Wealth Theory’?

(a)  Dadabhai Naoroji

(b)  Swami Vivekanand

(c)  Mahatma Gandhi

(d)  Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Answer: (a)

49. An air bubble in water behaves as

(a)  Convex lens

(b)  Concave lens

(c)  Convex mirror

(d)  Concave mirror

Answer: (b)

50. The world bank gives loan to poor countries for

(a)  Long period

(b)  Short period

(c)  No period

(d)  None of the above

Answer: (a)

51. Who ordered firing in Jallianwala Bagh?

(a)  Michael ‘O’ Dwyer

(b)  General R E H Dyer

(c)  Chelmsford

(d)  None of the above

Answer: (b)

52. Arrange the following in a suitable sequence of their happening?

(A) Key         (B) Door

(C) Lock        (D) Room

(E) Switch on

(a)  ACBDE

(b)  ECBAD

(c)  CEBAD

(d)  BCAED

Answer: (a)

53. The content of pure gold in 18 carat gold is

(a)  60%

(b)  75%

(c)  80%

(d)  89%

Answer: (b)

54. The roof of the world is

(a)  Pamir plateau

(b)  Hindukush Mountain

(c)  The Himalayas

(d)  None of the above

Answer: (a)

55. The first woman Prime Minister in the world was

(a)  S. Bhandarnayake

(b)  Indira Gandhi

(c)  Margret Thatcher

(d)  None of the above

Answer: (a)

56. An unknown quantity of type-A tea priced at Rs 9 per kg is mixed with 25 kg of type-B tea priced at Rs 32 per kg. The mixture is sold at Rs 33 per kg to gain 10%. Find the quantity of type-A tea.

(a)  50 kg

(b)  45 kg

(c)  33 kg

(d)  25 kg

Answer: (a)

57. A man transfers his stock from  to the 5% at  Brokerage 1/8% is allowed on each transaction and hereby increases his annual income by Rs 21. Find the original stock held by him.

(a)  Rs 2500

(b)  Rs 3000

(c)  Rs 3100

(d)  Rs 3200

Answer: (b)

58. What is the meaning of the word ‘secular’?

(a)  Protection of religion by State

(b)  No particular religion

(c)  To realize the importance of all religions

(d)  None of the above

Answer: (b)

59. Who succeeded Linlithgow as viceroy in 1943?

(a)  Lord Wavell

(b)  Mountbaten

(c)  William Bentinck

(d)  None of the above

Answer: (a)

60. Which of the following rivers falls into the Arabian sea?

(a)  Godavari

(b)  Mahanadi

(c)  Mahi

(d)  Krishna

Answer: (c)

61. Which of the following factors takes part in atmospheric change?

(a)  CO2, vapour

(b)  Vapour, dust particles

(c)  Storm

(d)  Sun, storm, dust particles

Answer: (a)

62. What is condensation?

(a)  Change from vapour to water

(b)  Change from water to vapour

(c)  Change from solid to liquid

(d)  Change from liquid to solid

Answer: (a)

63. A fuse wire is made of

(a)  Copper and iron

(b)  Lead and tin

(c)  Copper and tin

(d)  Copper and lead

Answer: (b)

64. Two persons A and B are standing between two mountains. If A fires a gun with the velocity of sound, B listens its echo after 2 seconds; when B fires, A listens the echo after 4. Both fire in opposite directions. What is the distance between the mountains?

(a)  990 m

(b)  1920 m

(c)  1620 m

(d)  1720 m

Answer: (a)

65. Which of the following pollutants are inhaled by a traffic constable?

(a)  CO, PBO2, SO2

(b)  lead

(c)  SO2, Pb

(d)  CO2, SO2

Answer: (a)

66. Hargobind Khurana was honoured with Nobel Prize of Medicine for

(a)  Genetic code deciphering

(b)  Reading essay on genes

(c)  Discovering DNA composition

(d)  None of the above

Answer: (a)

67. Which organ of human body has the largest number of bones ?

(a)  Fingers

(b)  Brain

(c)  Chest

(d)  None of the above

Answer: (a)

68. The sticks of a match box are arranged to form different figures. Which of the following figures cannot be formed?

Answer: (d)

69. The shape of red blood corpuscles is

(a)  Spherical

(b)  Double convex

(c)  Double concave

(d)  None of the above

Answer: (c)

70. A man is affected by malaria. He will feel deficiency of

(a)  Platelets

(b)  RBC

(c)  WBC

(d)  Plasma

Answer: (b)

Directions (Q. Nos. 71-75) In the following bar diagram the production of wheat, rice and other food grains in four States P, Q, R and S has been represented. Study the following diagram carefully and answer the questions.

71. What percentage of rice is produced by State S out of total production of rice?

(a)  31%

(b)  37%

(c)  33.3%

(d)  37.5%

Answer: (c)

72. Which State is the largest producer of wheat?

(a)  Q

(b)  S

(c)  R

(d)  P

Answer: (a)

73. What is average production of wheat in all States taken together? (in tones)

(a)  150

(b)  78.75

(c)  152.45

(d)  162.45

Answer: (b)

74. What per cent of total production of wheat is produced by State R?

(a)  25.4%

(b)  26.4%

(c)  24.5%

(d)  30.5%

Answer: (a)

75. What per cent of total production of wheat is produced by State R?

(a)  30.4%

(b)  20.4%

(c)  25.4%

(d)  31.4%

Answer: (a)

76. Each edge of cube is increased by 50%. What will be per cent increase in its volume?

(a)  50%

(b)  150%

(c) 

(d) 

Answer: (d)

77. Ramesh has some cows and hens. If the number of total heads be 48 and that of legs be 140, then find the number of hens.

(a)  22

(b)  23

(c)  24

(d)  26

Answer: (d)

78. The diagonals of a rhombus are 30 cm and 40 cm long. Find its side

(a)  25 cm

(b)  120 cm

(c)  100 cm

(d)  200 cm

Answer: (a)

79. Statement

(I) No permission is guaranteed for discussion on any secret proposal.

(II) There was no secret proposal last week.

Conclusion It was discussed by the concerned parties.

(a)  It is definitely true

(b)  It is probably true

(c)  It is definitely wrong

(d)  It cannot be said

Answer: (a)

80. The voice of a woman is sharper than man because

(a)  The pitch of woman’s voice is more

(b)  The pitch of woman’s voice is less

(c)  The pitch of man’s voice is more

(d)  None of the above

Answer: (a)

81. What is Garoj?

(a)  Tribe of Jharkhand

(b)  Tribe of Nagaland

(c)  Tribe of Himachal Pradesh

(d)  None of the above

Answer: (b)

82. Choose the odd man

(a)  Raipur

(b)  Ranchi

(c)  Chennai

(d)  Resin

Answer: (d)

83. The weight (in gram) of human brain is

(a)  1350

(b)  1230

(c)  1400

(d)  1500

Answer: (c)

84. The tropic of cancer passes through

(a)  Madhya Pradesh

(b)  Maharashtra

(c)  Manipur

(d)  Mizoram

Answer: (a)

85. What will come in place of question mark (?) in the following question?

(a)  6

(b)  13

(c)  10

(d)  9

Answer: (a)

86. Who built the Tajmahal?

(a)  Akbar

(b)  Ustad Usman

(c)  Sohrab

(d)  Shahjahan

Answer: (d)

87. Which of the following dams is not on the river Narmada?

(a)  Koyana

(b)  Indira Sagar

(c)  Sardar Sarovar

(d)  Gandhi Sagar

Answer: (a)

88. What is lagoon?

(a)  Karnataka

(b)  Gujarat

(c)  Goa

(d)  Kerala

Answer: (b)

89. Bhatkal port is situated in

(a)  Karnataka

(b)  Gujarat

(c)  Goa

(d)  Kerala

Answer: (a)

90. What are comets?

(a)  Celestial bodies with long tail that revolve around the sun

(b)  Small stone like objects

(c)  Planets between mars and Jupiter

(d)  None of the above

Answer: (a)

91. Who represents the State government at Panchayat level?

(a)  VLW

(b)  Mukhiya

(c)  Sarpanch

(d)  Panchayat Samiti

Answer: (a)

Directions (Q. Nos. 92 and 93) In the following questions, choose the word which is most opposite to the given word.

92. ANXIETY

(a)  Anguish

(b)  Apathy

(c)  Examine

(d)  Repose

Answer: (d)

93. ACQUITTED

(a)  Freed

(b)  Burdened

(c)  Convicted

(d)  Entrusted

Answer: (c)

Directions (Q. Nos. 94 and 95) In the following questions choose the word which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

94. MANIFOLD

(a)  Few

(b)  Scanty

(c)  Plenty

(d)  Deform

Answer: (c)

95. CANTANKEROUS

(a)  Quarrelsome

(b)  Rash

(c)  Disrespectful

(d)  Noisy

Answer: (a)

Directions (Q. Nos. 96-98) Find out the grammatical error in the following sentences.

96. He bought (a) / the dress before (b) / he met the girl friend. (c) / No error (d)

Answer: (a)

97. The customer handed over (a)/ a hundred rupees note (b) / to the shopkeeper. (c)/ No error (d)

Answer: (b)

98. If I were him (a)/ I would have taught (b) / those cheats a lesson. (c)/ No error (d)

Answer: (a)

Directions (Q. Nos. 99 and 100) Fill up the blanks with appropriate words.

99. No sooner did he go in ……… he came out.

(a)  and

(b)  then

(c)  when

(d)  than

Answer: (c)

100. I have great respect ……. your qualities.

(a)  in

(b)  for

(c)  towards

(d)  into

Answer: (b)

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