Correct Answer : Option (D) - White paper

Note : White papers are policy documents produced by the Government that set out their proposals for future legislation. White Papers are often published as Command Papers and may include a draft version of a Bill that is being planned.

Correct Answer : Option (D) - Speaker of the Lok Sabha

Note : Though this is essentiallly a Committee of the House of the people (having 15 members from that house) , by an agreement between the two houses , 7 members from the other Houses are also associated with this Committee, in order to strengthen it.

Correct Answer : Option (A) - 9th December,1946

Note : The Constituent Assembly met for the first time on 9 December 1946, reassembling on 14 August 1947 as a sovereign body and successor to the British parliament's authority in India.

Correct Answer : Option (B) - Democratic values

Note : Peace, discipline, freedom and equality are all examples of human values or democratic values which all the people want to be in them for society.

Correct Answer : Option (C) - the 42nd Amendment Act, 1976

Note : The 42nd Amendment changed the description of India from a "sovereign democratic republic" to a "sovereign, socialist secular democratic republic", and also changed the words "unity of the nation" to "unity and integrity of the nation".

Correct Answer : Option (A) - Rajya Sabha

Correct Answer : Option (D) - Assembly elections held in Himachal Pradesh in 2003

Correct Answer : Option (C) - Weimar Constitution of Germany

Note : The Emergency provisions of the Indian constitution has been borrowed from the German constitution. The Emergency provisions are contained in Part XVIII of the Constitution, from Articles 352 to 360. These provisions enable the Central government to meet any abnormal situation effectively.

Correct Answer : Option (C) - 16.66%

Correct Answer : Option (A) - Government of India Act, 1919

Note : The Government of India Act 1919 provided for the establishment of a Public Service Commission in India for the first time. The Royal Commission under the chairmanship of Lord Lee was constituted on the superior civil services. Later the first Public Service Commission was constituted on 1 October 1926 under the chairmanship of Sir Ross Barker.