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Madhya Pradesh Previous Year GK Questions

Previous-year questions show what the Madhya Pradesh exams actually ask. The syllabus of the MPPSC State Service Examination is long, and the MPESB rulebook names its subjects without a topic list, so past papers are the best guide to the level and the weight of each area. They show how often MPPSC asks about Madhya Pradesh's dynasties, tribes, rivers and schemes, how national Polity, History and Geography are framed, and how current events are tied to static facts. Many questions repeat in substance with new options. This page collects previous-year questions for the exams under this heading, in English and Hindi, each with the correct answer, an explanation and the topic it belongs to, so a question leads you to the GK note that covers it. MPPSC also publishes past question papers on mppsc.mp.gov.in, and MPESB has an old question paper page on esb.mp.gov.in; use them for the Madhya Pradesh questions that GK24 does not cover. Solve a set untimed to learn, then a set timed to build speed, and revisit your wrong answers a week later. With GK24's daily current affairs and quizzes, previous-year questions make the General Studies paper far more predictable.

Previous Year Questions

Q61.Indian EconomyAsked in: Madhya Pradesh · 4 Aug 2018, Shift 2Medium

The budgeting method under which the budget is prepared from the scratch is known as:

  1. A.Incremental budgeting
  2. B.Flexible budgeting
  3. C.Static budgeting
  4. D.Zero-Based Budgeting
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Correct answer: D. Zero-Based Budgeting

In zero based budgeting every item of expenditure starts from a zero base and has to be justified afresh for the coming period, instead of being carried over because it existed last year.

Q62.Computer AwarenessAsked in: Madhya Pradesh · 6 April 2016, Shift 2Medium

Daisy wheel printer is what type a printer?

  1. A.Non impact
  2. B.Impact
  3. C.Laser
  4. D.Line printer
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Correct answer: B. Impact

A daisy wheel printer prints by striking the paper, so it is an impact printer. It carries a flat wheel with spokes, each spoke ending in a moulded letter or figure, and the wheel looks like the petals of a daisy, which gives it its name.

Q64.General ScienceAsked in: Madhya Pradesh · MPPSC General Studies 2017 Official PapeMedium

What is the botanical name of opium?

  1. A.Emblica Officinalis
  2. B.Papaver Somniferum
  3. C.Rauvolfia Serpentina
  4. D.Cinchona Species
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Correct answer: B. Papaver Somniferum

Opium is the dried latex of the opium poppy, whose botanical name is Papaver somniferum; the second word means sleep bringing.

Q65.Science & TechnologyAsked in: Madhya Pradesh · 21 May 2023Medium

Which of the following is not a source of Artificial Intelligence bias?

  1. A.Data
  2. B.Algorithms
  3. C.People
  4. D.Ability
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Correct answer: D. Ability

Bias in an artificial intelligence system is traced to three sources, the data it learns from, the algorithm that learns, and the people who build and use it; ability is not one of them, because the skill of a model is a measure of how well it performs, not a…

Q66.GeographyAsked in: Madhya Pradesh · MPPSC General Studies 2016 Official PapeEasy

Among the following, which one is related to Blue Revolution in India?

  1. A.Floriculture
  2. B.Scriculture
  3. C.Pisciculture
  4. D.Horticulture
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Correct answer: C. Pisciculture

The Blue Revolution means the rapid rise in fish production, so it belongs to pisciculture, the rearing of fish. In India it began with the Fish Farmers Development Agency set up in the early 1970s, and Dr Hiralal Chaudhuri, who worked out induced breeding in carp, is called its father.

Q70.Indian EconomyAsked in: Madhya Pradesh · 1 Jun 2025Easy

Which system came to an end with the introduction of economic reforms focused on liberalisation in India?

  1. A.Licence-Permit-Quota Raj
  2. B.Nationalisation of banks
  3. C.Agricultural subsidy system
  4. D.Cooperative banking system
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Correct answer: A. Licence-Permit-Quota Raj

The New Industrial Policy of 24 July 1991 abolished industrial licensing for all but a short list of industries, so a firm no longer needed a government permit to start production, to expand or to import.

Q71.Art & CultureAsked in: Madhya Pradesh · 3 July 2022Medium

Amritlal Vegad is related to

  1. A.Sculpture
  2. B.Painting
  3. C.Singing
  4. D.Music
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Correct answer: B. Painting

Amritlal Vegad, born in Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh in 1928, was a painter and collage artist who trained at Kala Bhavan in Santiniketan under Nandalal Bose, and later taught art in Jabalpur.

Q74.Computer AwarenessAsked in: Madhya Pradesh · 16 July, 2023, Shift 1Easy

What is Cache memory?

  1. A.Buffer memory situated between the CPU and RAM
  2. B.Buffer memory situated between the CPU and ROM
  3. C.Buffer memory situated between the ROM and RAM
  4. D.Buffer memory situated between the CPU and MOS
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Correct answer: A. Buffer memory situated between the CPU and RAM

Cache is a small, very fast memory that sits between the processor and the main memory and holds the instructions and data the processor has used most recently.

Q77.Indian EconomyAsked in: Madhya Pradesh · MPPSC General Studies 2019 Official PapeEasy

Programme The Make in India was started on

  1. A.November 2012
  2. B.September 2014
  3. C.January 2014
  4. D.September 2016
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Correct answer: B. September 2014

Make in India was launched on 25 September 2014 at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, on the birth anniversary of Deendayal Upadhyaya.

Q79.Environment & EcologyAsked in: Madhya Pradesh · MPPSC Forest Service Previous Year MainsEasy

The chipko movement was initiated from which place?

  1. A.Patna
  2. B.Trishur
  3. C.Garhwal Himalayas
  4. D.Jammu
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Correct answer: C. Garhwal Himalayas

The Chipko movement began in 1973 in the Garhwal Himalayas, in Chamoli district of what is now Uttarakhand, when villagers hugged trees to stop contractors from felling them.

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