Ans: Terai
2. In which state is the Bomdi La pass situated?
Ans: Arunachal Pradesh
3. Which group of islands is divided by the Eleventh Degree Channel?
Ans: Lakshadweep Islands
4. What was the total number of elected members in the first Kerala Assembly?
Ans: 126
5. Which finance minister of Kerala started lorterry
Ans: P K Kunju
6. Who is known as 'the Father of modern Malayalam prose' ?
Ans: Keralavarma Valiya Koyithampuran
7. Who first female recipient of Padma Awards from Kerala?
Ans: Lakshmi Nandan Menon
8. Kerala's first Community Reserve, Kadalundi Vallikunnu Community Reserve is situated on the banks of which river?
Ans: Kadalundi Puzha
9. The first firm to mass- market a microcomputer as a personal computer was:
(a) IBM (b) Sperry Univac
(c) Data General corporation (d) Radio Shack
Ans: c
10. A digital computer did not score over analog computer in terms of?
(a) Speed (b) Accuracy (c) Cost (d) Memory
Ans: b
11. In 1880, Charles Babbage designed a machine called the Analytical Engine which he showed at the Paris Exhibition. In which year was it exhibition?
Ans: 1855
12. Which was the world's fast minicomputer and when was it introduced?
(a) PDP-I, 1958 (b) IBM System/36, 1960
(c) PDP-11, 1961 (d) VAX 11/780, 1962
Ans: a
13. Where was India's first computer installed and when?
(a) Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, 1977
(b) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 1971
(c) Indian Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., 1968
(d) Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, 1955
Ans: d
14. Which of the following are the two main components of the CPU?
(a) Control unit and registers (b) Registers and main memory (c) Control Unit and ALU (d) ALU and bus
Ans: c
15. Which of the following file organization is most efficient for a file with a high degree of file activity?
(a) Sequential (b) ISAM (c) VSAM (d) B-Tree Index
Ans: a
16. The two basic types of record-access methods are:
(a) Sequential and random (b) Sequential and indexed
(c) Direct and immediate (d) On-line and real time
Ans: a
17. The advantage of COM are:
(a) Compact size; speed read-ability (b) Compact size, speed
(c) Readability; speed (c) Low cost; readability
Ans: b
18 & 19: In which part of the sentence is the error?
18. You may note (a)/that the Water (b)/is too hot (c)/to drink it (d).
Ans: d (Delete ‘it’)
19. The food is (a)/ sufficient enough (b)/for all (c)/who are present (d).
Ans: b (Delete ‘enough’)
20. He walks _____ too fast.
(a) fairly (b) rather (c) enough (d) ample
Ans: b
21. The books in the stall are _____ novels.
(a) mostly (b) most (c) fairly (d) neatly
Ans: a
22. I advise you to adopt a course which will benefit you _____.
(a) good (b) mostly (c) most (d) enough
Ans: c
23. _____ as she tried, she did not succeed.
(a) Hardly (b) Hard (c) Scarcely (d) Barely
Ans: b
24. They want the work _____ by Sunday.
(a) finish (b) finishes (c) finishing (d) finished
Ans: d
25. Remember, the price _____ on the quality.
(a) is depended (b) has depend (c) depends (d) depend
Ans: c
26. He drives _____ more carefully than he used to.
(a) much (b) very (c) fairly (d) too
Ans: a
27. He was too good to _____ gifts of any sort.
(a) deny (b) accept (c) love (d) reject
Ans: b
28. The proposal was accepted by _____ unanimous vote.
(a) an (b) a (c) the (d) some
Ans: b
29. A synonym for 'adept' is:
(a) fit (b) suitable (c) good (d) expert
Ans: d
30. The opposite of 'genuine is:
(a) true (b) real (c) spurious (d) natural
Ans: c
31. One word for 'a place for dogs' is:
(a) kennel (b) stable (c) hive (d) enclosure
Ans: a
32. Wings flap; leaves _____.
(a) ruffle (b) rustle (c) creak (d) drone
Ans: b
33. If she is wise, she _____ the proposal.
(a) accepts (b) would accept
(c) will accept (d) would have accepted
Ans: c
34. _____ when have you had the car?
(a) From (b) Until (c) For (d) Since
Ans: d
35. They are mentally as far apart as the _____.
(a) poles (b) moon (c) sky (d) sun
Ans: a
36. 'Tall talk' means:
(a) a very high lecture (b) exaggerating matters
(c) an inspiring talk (d) a boring lecture
Ans: b
37. 'Ex parte'
(a) former partner (b) a past event
(c) done not in the presence of other (d) arbitrarily
Ans: c
