Rajasthan PSC Public Relation Officer Examination Held on 22-10-2019
General Knowledge & Other
1. The author of ‘Vanshabhaskar’is-
(A) Suryamal Sisodiya
(B) Sutan Medatia
(C) Surjan Hada
(D) Suryamal Missan
2. Consider the following statements :
(i) Under the provisions of Article-368(2) of the Constitution of India, certain Constitutional amendments are required to ratify by the Legislatures of not less than one-half of the States.
(ii) In the category of above States, Legislatures of the National Capital Territory of Delhi and the Union Territory of Puducherry were incorporated by Constitution (Seventieth Amendment) Act, 1992.
From the above, identify the correct statement/s.
(A) Only (i) is correct
(B) Only (ii) is correct
(C) Both (i) and (ii) are correct
(D) Neither (i) nor (ii) is correct
3. In the XXX world Universiade Games held at Naples in Italy, the winner of Gold Medal in 100 metre race in woman category is-
(A) Dina Chand
(B) Dolly
(C) Dulee Chand
(D) Dutee Chand
4. Which one of the following Commissions/Committees in its report, recommended in incorporate ‘Duty of Industrial organizations to provide education to ‘Children of their employees’ as Fundamental Duty in Article-51A of the Constitution of India?
(A) National Commission to review the working of the Constitution
(B) Committee to operationalise the suggestions to teach Fundamental Duties of the citizens of the country
(C) 259th Report of the Law Commission of Indi
(D) Sardar Swarn Singh Committee
5. Which of the following was the first Vice-President of India, who delivered the Presidential address to members of the both houses of Parliament assembled together while discharging the functions of the President?
(A) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
(B) Zakir Hussain
(C) Varahgiri Venkata Giri
(D) Basappa Danappa Jatti
6. Which of the following cases are interrelated with freedom of speech and privileges of Legislature in India?
(a) Search Light Case
(b) Keshav Singh Case
(c) Stainislaus Case
Correct answer is-
(A) Only (a)
(B) (a) and (b)
(C) (a), (b), (c)
(D) (a) and (c)
7. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
List-I
(Name of the State Legislative Council)
(A) Telagana
(B) Andhra Pradesh
(C) Maharashtra
(D) Bihar
List-II
(Total Number of Seats)
(A) 40
(B) 52
(C) 78
(D) 75
8. In which of its following report, the Law Commission of India had recommended that the ‘Paid news’ in election to be considered as electoral offence and corrupt practice?
(A) 252nd report
(B) 255th report
(C) 258th report
(D) 260th report
9. Which one of the following committees was constituted in year 1986 by Government of India to study the problems faced by Panchayati Raj Institutions?
(A) Ashoka Mehta Committee
(B) K. Santhanam Committee
(C) Hanumant Rao Committee
(D) L.M. Singhvi Committee
10. In which one of the following State/Union Territory, the State/Central Government may nominate not more than three persons, not being persons in the service of the Government, to be members of the Legislative Assembly of the State/Union Territory?
(A) National Capital Territory of Delhi
(B) Puduchery
(C) Sikkim
(D) Tripura
11. Which of the following are ‘Competent authority’, according to Section-2(e) of the Right to Information Act, 2005?
Select the correct answer using codes given below :
(a) Speaker of the House of the People
(b) President
(c) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India
(d) Chief Justice of the High Court
Correct answer is-
(A) (a) and (b)
(B) (a), (b) and (c)
(C) (a) and (c)
(D) (a), (b), (c) and (d)
12. ‘Block’ as per MGNREGA, 2005 means-
(A) A community development area within a Gram Panchayat.
(B) A set of seven (07) districts.
(C) A community development area within a district comprising of Gram Panchayats.
(D) A set of five (05) Gram Panchayats.
13. What per cent of members of the School Management Committee shall be women, according to the Section 21 of Right off Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009?
(A) Twenty per cent
(B) Twenty five per cent
(C) Thirty three per cent
(D) Fifty per cent
14. The focus of the MGNREGA Scheme shall be on the following works in their order of priority :
(i) Water conservation and water harvesting.
(ii) Land development
(iii)_ Renovation of traditional water bodies including desilting of tanks.
(iv) Drought proofing (including) afforestation and tree plantation.)
(v) Provision of irrigation facility to land owned by households belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes or land of beneficiaries of land reforms or that of the beneficiaries under the Indira Awas Yojana of the Government of India.
(vi) Irrigation canals including micro and minor irrigation works.
Which order of priority is correct?
(A) (i), (ii), (iv), (v), (iii), (vi)
(B) (i), (iv), (vi), (v), (iii), (ii)
(C) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
(D) (i), (iv), (ii), (iii), (v), (vi)
15. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme is under the Ministry of Rural Development, t4hrough which it is implemented?
(A) Central Government
(B) State Government
(C) Both Central and State Government
(D) Neither Central Government nor State Government
16. NREGA 2005 did not come into force in which of the following district of Rajasthan on 2nd day of February 2006?
(A) Ajmer
(B) Karauli
(C) Sirohi
(D) Udaipur
17. When was the third phase of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme started?
(A) April 1, 2008
(B) April 1, 2009
(C) April 1, 2010
(D) April 1, 2011
18. Government of Rajasthan has launched a new higher educational model R.A.C.E. in August 2019, R.A.C.E. stands for-
(A) Resource Assistance for Colleges with Excellence.
(B) Resource Assistance for Colleges Education.
(C) Resource Allocation for Colleges with Excellence.
(D) Resource Allotment for College Education.
19. Under ‘Mukhyamantri Rajshri Yojana, the beneficiary is a female child born on or after-
(A) June 1, 2014
(B) June 1, 2015
(C) June 1, 2016
(D) June 1, 2017
20. ‘Sambal Gram’ as per Sambal Village Development Scheme, is a village having-
(A) Schedule Tribe population of 15% in proportion of total population of that village.
(B) Schedule Tribe population of 20% in proportion of total population of that village.
(C) Schedule Tribe population of 25% in proportion of total population of that village.
(D) Schedule Tribe population of 40% or more in proportion of total population of that village.
21. Out of the following districts, where did the first phase of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme begin?
(A) Raipur
(B) Indore
(C) Bikaner
(D) Bidar
22. A journalist as a member in the Media Certification and Monitoring Committee set up at the state level is nominated by-
(A) Chief Election Commissioner
(B) Press Council of India
(C) Political Party
(D) Election Commission
23. “yash vebhav kee chaah nahin, paravaah nahin jeevan na rahe, yadi ichchhaa hai to yah hai, jag mein sveechchhaachaar daman na rahe.” It is the motto of-
(A) Naveen Rajasthan
(B) Rajasthan Kesari
(C) Navjeevan
(D) Tarun Rajasthan
24. One of the big difference between traditional and social media-
(A) The traditional media can work in only one format but social media is a truly convergent media.
(B) Social media reaches only a few people at a time
(C) The management structure of the companies
(D) Traditional media offers no way for audience to communicate with media producers.
25. Creating a website that looks like it originated from concerned grassroots
(A) Lurking
(B) Trolling
(C) Phishing
(D) Astroturfing
26. One of the following communities is not a beneficiary of Navjivan Scheme as per Navjivan Scheme Guidelines 2015-
(A) Bedia
(B) Babaria
(C) Bhishti
(D) Bagria
27. Title registration of newspaper is done by-
(A) Registrar of the Newspapers for India
(B) Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity
(C) Press Information Bureau
(D) Information and Public Relations Department
28. Another name for Banner headline is-
(A) Kicker head
(B) Line head
(C) Cross line
(D) Hammer head
29. The news which appears in the papers two or three days before an important event is called-
(A) Curtain Raiser
(B) Backgrounder
(C) Follow up
(D) News Brief
30. A series of digital media files that are released episodically is known-
(A) Vodcast
(B) Podcast
(C) Sound forge
(D) Voice-over Internet Protocol
31. The major objective of a community radio is-
(A) Infotainment
(B) Entertainment
(C) Economic profit
(D) Community participation
32. What is SITE?
(A) Television experiment
(B) Indian satellite
(C) Radio experiment
(D) Entertainment experiment
33. Who coined the term ‘fourth estate’?
(A) Charles Marrian
(B) James Bryce
(C) Thomas Carlyle
(D) Thomas Jefferson
34. Social Media Campaign ‘MyBO’ is related to the following-
(A) My Boston
(B) My Bolivia
(C) Barak Obama
(D) My Boden
35. Who is the Web Inventor?
(A) Tim Berners-Lee
(B) Bill Gates
(C) Stallman
(D) Charles Babbage
36. In which a news story writer provides external links within the story to reporting on the web is called-
(A) Link Journalism
(B) Citizen Journalism
(C) Web Journalism
(D) Data Journalism
37. Twitter is an example of what type of service?
(A) Blogging
(B) Programming
(C) Gaming
(D) Microblogging
38. What is the hashtag (#), used for when posting Tweets to Twitter?
(A) It is used to mark keywords. This helps when searching for Tweets on particular topics.
(B) It is used to indicate the username of the account from which the Tweet is being made.
(C) It is used for replies or mentions, to indicate the name of another user.
(D) It is used to indicate anger or annoyance.
39. Global village concept was put forward by-
(A) Robert Merton
(B) Seon McBride
(C) Marshall McLuhan
(D) Wilbur Schram
40. ‘Yuva Vani’ programme were started by AIR in which year?
(A) 1969
(B) 1967
(C) 1966
(D) 1972
41. Digitization is-
(A) Thin flexible fibers of glass capable of transmitting light signals
(B) The process in which media is made into computer-readable form.
(C) Media’s focus on narrower audience segments.
(D) Photography of the news content.
42. The model of communication that is expressed as who says “What in Which Channel To Whom With What Effect” was developed by-
(A) Harold Lasswell
(B) James Carey
(C) Marshall McLuhan
(D) Wilbur Schram
43. A large size headline across the entire page is called-
(A) Deck
(B) Banner
(C) Lead
(D) Blurb
44. In journalism, ‘convergence’ means-
(A) Sharing facilities, newsgathering resources, content.
(B) Different news media all cover the same story in the same way.
(C) The content of one newspaper is indistinguishable from that of any other newspaper.
(D) News organizations are all striving to put the same ideological slant on news stories.
45. Who among these started Bombay Samachar?
(A) Fardaoonji Murzban
(B) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(C) James Silk Buckingham
(D) Shishir Kumar Ghosh
46. The nodal agency of the Government to disseminate the Government policies to media-
(A) Press Information Bureau
(B) Doordarshan
(C) Akashvani
(D) Films Division
47. Which was the first Internet Service in India?
(A) Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
(B) Education and Research Network
(C) INDNET
(D) HINDNET
48. Which newspaper first launched an internet edition in India?
(A) The Times of India
(B) The Hindu
(C) The Telegraph
(D) Hindustan Times
49. New media have facilitated the type of communication which is-
(A) Interactive
(B) Abstract
(C) Conceptual
(D) Public
50. Tilak is connected with the newspaper-
(A) Bande Matram
(B) Maratha
(C) India
(D) Hindustan
51. Which among the following news agencies does not belong to India?
(A) Press Trust of India
(B) United News of India
(C) Samachar Bharti
(D) Associated Press
52. Photographers who follow celebrities is called-
(A) Page 3
(B) Paparazzi
(C) Sting
(D) Freelance
53. Continuation of a story on another page is called-
(A) Carried
(B) Jump
(C) Bouncer
(D) Forward
54. The reporter’s name usually at the beginning of a story is termed as-
(A) Byline
(B) Header
(C) Start line
(D) Index
55. The inventor of printing press was-
(A) Marshall McLuhan
(B) Ts’ ai Lun
(C) Johann Guttenberg
(D) Frederic Barbier
56. ‘Taxonomy of News Values’ is written by-
(A) Paul Lazarsfeld
(B) David M. White
(C) Stanley Cohen
(D) Galtung and Ruge
57. The central point of a news story is-
(A) A justification for running the story on the front page.
(B) The identity of the most important figure of the story.
(C) To get readers to read the rest of the newspaper or viewers to.
(D) A one or two-sentence summary of what the story is.
58. Personality Journalism is the other name of-
(A) Political Journalism
(B) Development Journalism
(C) Parachute Journalism
(D) Celebrity Journalism
59. The inverted pyramid style in newspaper content is normally used for-
(A) News Features
(B) Society news
(C) Editorial
(D) Article
60. Morgue is-
(A) Photo archive
(B) News library
(C) Back volume stock
(D) Printing machine stand
61. Removing unwanted area of picture is called-
(A) Cropping
(B) Creeping
(C) Crossing
(D) Crawling
62. …….. is not a principle of page make-up.
(A) Proportion
(B) Balance
(C) Contrast
(D) Five Ws
63. Sensation is the main feature of ………. journalism.
(A) Black
(B) Yellow
(C) Red
(D) Blue
64. Which phrase describes a feature?
(A) Hard news
(B) Any story that informs the reader
(C) Soft news
(D) Any short newspaper article
65. The purpose of a slugline on a news story is to-
(A) Enable reporters to write the headlines for their stories.
(B) Help editors identify and track news stories.
(C) Hit a news organization’s enemies with an insult.
(D) Identify the political orientation of news story.
66. The First paragraph of a news story is called-
(A) Beat
(B) Lead
(C) Anchor
(D) Slug
67. Lobbying is-
(A) The enhancement of communication between investor-owned companies and their shareholders.
(B) Exercise of persuasion-cum-pressure.
(C) Protesting about a particular cause.
(D) Publishing advertisement.
68. For effective media relations it is essential that Public Relations Department should be-
(A) Proactive
(B) Reactive
(C) Centralized
(D) Decentralized
69. Attempt to accept a certain view or persuade a specific action-
(A) Propaganda
(B) Lobbying
(C) Feature
(D) Advertisement
70. Periodical publication addressed largely to the internal public of an organization is called is-
(A) House journal
(B) Information sheets
(C) Brochures
(D) Posters
71. The model which uses press released and other one way communication techniques to disseminate information is called-
(A) Publicity Model
(B) Public Information Model
(C) One Way Asymmetrical Model
(D) Two Way Symmetrical Model
72. What is meant by balance in a news?
(A) Having several authors write a story.
(B) Getting a lawyer’s opinion before writing an article.
(C) Giving the same amount of space to every paragraph.
(D) Covering all sides of an issue as faily as possible.
74. A meeting which is organized for journalists knowledge on a specific sector is known as-
(A) Press Release
(B) Press Interface
(C) Press Briefing
(D) Meet the Press
75. The Code of Ethics in public relations was originally known as-
(A) Code of Conduct
(B) Code of Athens
(C) Right to Information
(D) Right to Privacy
75. According to Parsons (1993) the modern public relations practitioner has four loyalities towards-
(A) Self, Organisation, Profession, Society.
(B) Self, Organisation, Political Parties, Society.
(C) Management, Organisation, Profession, Society.
(D) Self, Organisation, Profession, Religion.
76. The four models of public relations describe the different forms of communication between an organization and its stakeholders were developed by-
(A) Edward Bernays
(B) Ivy Lee
(C) Waitr Lippman
(D) James Gruing & Todd Hunt
77. Press advertisements which dominates on the newspaper and their location and size is not fixed is called-
(A) Classified Advertisement
(B) Display Advertisement
(C) Outdoor Advertisement
(D) Online Advertisement
78. ‘Public relations’ can be defined as-
(A) A collection of techniques for persuading people to buy products they don’t need.
(B) A collection of techniques for persuading news organizations to give space or time to people or products that are not inherently newsworthy.
(C) Planned and continuous communication to provide information about an organization, issue or product to the public.
(D) Planned and continuous communication to obscure the inadequacies of an organization or product.
79. Effective public relations introduces the management functions dealing with-
(A) Putting a positive ‘spin’ on bad news.
(B) Altering perceptions and manufacturing consent.
(C) Professional subterfuge and deception.
(D) Relationships between organizations and stakeholders
80. Which practitioner is credited with coining the term “public relations counsel”?
(A) Carl Byoir
(B) Edward Bernays
(C) Ivy Lee
(D) John W. Hill
81. Public relations is “the management of communication between an organization and its publics”. It is defined by-
(A) Joseph Dominick
(B) Grunig and Hunt
(C) Lionel Fielden
(D) John Beird
82. Name the advertising and publicity agency of the Central Government.
(A) Press Information Bureau
(B) Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity
(C) Information and Public Relations Department
(D) Information and Broadcasting Media
83. The highest peak of peninsular India is-
(A) Anaimudi
(B) Doddabetta
(C) Kolaribetta
(D) Kanchenjunga
84. Which one of the following was the far western settlement of Harappan Culture?
(A) Nal
(B) Sutkagendor
(C) Rangpur
(D) Kotdiji
85. In which field, very recently the Union Cabinet has given ex-post facto approval for MoUs between India and Foreign Broadcasters?
(A) Radio
(B) Television
(C) Radio and Television
(D) None of these
86. Government of India has been implementing Ethanol blended petrol programme. In this context, which of the following statements is true?
(A) Government of India has notified administrative price of Ethanol since 2016
(B) Differential price of Ethanol based on raw material utilized for ethanol production was announced in 2016
(C) The Ethanol procurement by oil manufacturing companies is estimated over 200 crore litre in 2018-19
(D) Consistent surplus of sugar production is increasing sugar prices
87. In this year which of the following institutions are taking part for spreading social harmony through ‘Kabir Yatra’ in Rajasthan?
(A) Rajasthan Police and Tourism Department
(B) Tourism Department and Lokayan Institution
(C) Sahitya Academy and Rajasthan Police
(D) Rajasthan Police, Tourism Department and Lokayan Institution
88. With reference to Phosphatic and Potassic (P & K) fertilizers, which one of the following statements is false?
(A) Recently the Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs (Government of India) has approved the proposal of Department of Agriculture for fixing of nutrient based subsidy rates for Phosphatic and Potassic (P&K) fertilizers for 2019-20.
(B) It will enable manufacturers and importers to formalize supply contract for fertilizers and ferlitizers inputs for the benefit of farmers in the year 2019-20.
(C) The subsidy on P&K fertilizers is being governed by NBS Scheme from 1-4-10.
(D) It shows the commitment of the government to ensure availability of P&K fertilizers to the farmers at the affordable prices.
89. Barli Inscription of pre-Ashoka period is located at-
(A) Ajmer
(B) Jaipur
(C) Tonk
(D) Bhilwara
90. Which State of India has sold most electric cars’ in the year 2018-19?
(A) Maharashtra
(B) Gujarat
(C) Haryana
(D) Uttar Pradesh
91. Akshat Yojana in Rajasthan is associated with the helping financial assistance to-
(A) Unemployed youths
(B) Senior citizens
(C) Differently abled persons
(D) Widow women
92. The Jammu & Kashmir Reorganisation Bill 2019 was signed by President of India on-
(A) August 5, 2019
(B) August 9, 2019
(C) September 1, 2019
(D) September 9, 2019
93. Dumhal is Folk dance of-
(A) Rajasthan
(B) Punjab
(C) Kashmir
(D) Himachal Pradesh
94. Qutub Minar was not repaired by which ruler?
(A) Muhammad Tughlaq
(B) Feroz Shah Tughlaq
(C) Sikandar Lodhi
(D) Ibrahim Lodhi
95. What is the correct sequence of Buddhist councils performed in the following four places?
(a) Kundalavana
(b) Rajagriha
(c) Vaishali
(c) Patliputra
Select the correct answer from the codes given below
(A) (a), (b), (c), (d)
(B) (d), (c), (b), (a)
(C) (b), (a), (c), (d)
(D) (b), (c), (d), (a)
96. The Fort of Gagaron is situated in between the rivers-
(A) Chambal and Bedach
(B) Banas and Luni
(C) Sukadi and Khari
(D) Kalisindh and Aahu
97. From where the ruins of the Sunari Civilization have been found?
(A) Jhunjhunu
(B) Churu
(C) Bikaner
(D) Sikar
98. The book written by Gulbadan Begum is-
(A) Akbar Nama
(B) Babar Nama
(C) Humayun Nama
(D) Jahangir Nama
99. The country that topped the Medal tally of Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship held in Apia, Samoa from July 9-14, 2019 was-
(A) Iran
(B) United States of America
(C) China
(D) India
100. Arrange in the descending order the scheduled languages spoken in India according to the data of Census 2011.
(a) Tamil (b) Urdu
(c) Marathi (d) Bengali
(A) (d), (c), (a), (b)
(B) (a), (b), (c), (d)
(C) (d), (b), (c), (a)
(D) (a), (d), (b), (c)
Directions-(101 and 102) Complete the following sentences using the correct form of the verb from the given options.
101. She …… dinner when the doorbell rang.
(A) was cooked
(B) cooking
(C) was cooking
(D) is cooking
102. Whenever I….. to see him, he is out.
(A) was going
(B) am going
(C) went
(D) go
Directions-(Q. 103 and 104) From the given options, choose the correct determiner to complete the following sentences.
103. Don’t forget to turn off ……… light when you go out.
(A) the
(B) a
(C) both
(D) some
104. Can you lend me ….. money?
(A) a few
(B) the
(C) some
(D) little
Directions-(Q. 105-108) Pick out the correct translation.
Directions-(Q. 109 and 110) Choose from the given options to complete the sentences given below.
109. He broke into the house and ….. with all the silver.
(A) made out
(B) made off
(C) made over
(D) made up
110. My brother…….smoking last year.
(A) gave up
(B) gave into
(C) gave over
(D) gave in
