(a) British (b) Portuguese (c) Tipu Sultan
Ans: b
2. District with highest per capita income is:
(a) Thiruvananthapuram (b) Kottayam
(c) Ernakulam (d) Malappuram
Ans: c
3. The first Transport minister of Kerala.
(a) K.C. George (b) T.V. Thomas
(c) K.P. Gopalan (d) T.A. Majeed
Ans: b
4. Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanical Garden and Research Institute is in?
(a) Alappuzha (b) Thiruvananthapuram
(c) Ernakulam (d) Thrissur
Ans: b
5. Which of the following is the first Cola free district in Kerala?
(a) Kannur (b) Kozhikode (c) Kasargod (d) Wayanad
Ans: b
6. Palakkad fort is built by ?
(a) Hyder Ali (b) Sivappa Naykar
(c) Tipu Sultan (d) None of these
Ans: a
7. The first editor of Swadeshabhimani:
(a) C.P. Govindapillai (b) Shanmukhampillai
(c) Paramupillai (d) Vakkom Maulavi
Ans: a
8. First Coastal Police Station in Kerala is at:
(a) Thottampally (b) Fort Kochi
(c) Neendakara (d) Azhikkode
Ans: c
9. The Keralite who became the vice chancellor of Jawahar Lal Nehru University.
(a) V.K. Krishna Menon (b) V.P. Menon
(c) K.R. Narayanan (d) K.P.S. Menon
Ans: c
10. Which of the following is the only Muslim Royal family in Kerala:
(a) Villuarvattom dynasty (b) Dounis dynasty
(c) Habibe dynasty (d) Arakkal dynasty
Ans: d
11. The material used in the manufacture of lead pencils:
(a) Lead (b) Graphite (c) Mica (d) Carbon
Ans: b
12. Which is treated as the 'King of Fruits'?
(a) Orange (b) Apple (c) Mango (d) Grapes
Ans: c
13. Anaemia is caused by the deficiency of all of these except:
(a) Iron (b) Vitamin B12 (c) Zinc (d) Folic acid
Ans: c
14. Which is not an alkali metal?
(a) Sodium (b) Potassium (c) Caesium (d) Gallium
Ans: d
15. Diamond is the purest form of:
(a) Igneous rock (b) Sedimentary rock
(c) Crystalline rock (d) Metamorphic rock
Ans: c
16. The gas which causes acid rain in industrial area:
(a) Carbon dioxide (b) Carbon, monoxide
(c) Sulphur dioxide (d) Methane
Ans: c
17. An object weighs minimum in:
(a) Air (b) Water (c) Hydrogen (d) Vacuum
Ans: d
18. Bacteria which causes food poison:
(a) Giardia (b) Salmonella (c) E.coli (d) None of these
Ans: b
19. A metal that occurs free in nature is:
(a) iron (b) Aluminum (c) Platinum (d) Sodium
Ans: c
20. Which fuel is mainly used to drive rockets?
(a) Hydrogen (b) Aviation spirit
(c) Oxygen (d) Liquid Hydrogen
Ans: d
21. Article 153 of Indian Constitution deals with?
(a) Speaker (b) Governor
(c) Finance Minister (d) Chief Minister
Ans: b
22. India borrowed the office of the C.A.G from?
(a) USA (b) Canada (c) United Kingdom (d) Ireland
Ans: c
23. Part IX-A of the Indian Constitution deals with:
(a) Panchayati Raj (b) Co-operative Societies
(c) Municipalities (d) Fundamental Duties
Ans: c
24. The most popular and effective platform for conducting social audit in India.
(a) Loksabha (b) Rajyasabha
(c) Legislative Assembly (d) Gram Sabha
Ans: d
25. The ex-officio chairman of the Rajyasabha?
(a) President (b) Deputy Chairman
(c) Vice-President (d) Speaker
Ans: c
26. According to the Constitution of India `to renounce practices derogatory to the dignity of women', is a
(a) Directive Principle of State Policy (b) Fundamental Duty
(c) Statutory Duty (d) Fundamental rights
Ans: b
27. The article that deals with educationally backward classes of citizens for the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes.
(a) Article 16 (2) (b) Article 16 (3)
(c) Article 14 (2) (d) Article 15 (4)
Ans: d
28. Unstarred question means:
(a) It requires an oral answer
(b) It requires a written answer
(c) Giving notice less than ten days
(d) Supplementary questions can follow
Ans: b
29. Who appoints the chairman of SC and ST Commission?
(a) Prime Minister (b) President
(c) Vice President (d) Defence Minister
Ans: b
30. Which of the following is known as third estate?
(a) Legislative (b) Judiciary (c) Executive (d) Press
Ans: b
31. Longest existing nationalised bank in India.
(a) Punjab National Bank (b) Bank of Baroda
(c) Bank of India (d) State Bank of India
Ans: a
32. ‘Tatva Bodhinisabha' was founded by:
(a) Swami Vivekananda (b) Sree Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
(c) Devendra Nath Tagore (d) Jayaprakash Narayan
Ans: c
33. Gandhiji started Tolstoy farm at:
(a) Durban (b) Johannas Burg
(c) Sabarmathi Ashram (d) None of these
Ans: b
34. The Reserve Bank firstly introduced the Banking Ombudsman Scheme in India:
(a) 1994 (b) 1995 (c) 1996 (d) 1997
Ans: b
35. 'Me Nadhuram Godse Boltoy' is a play written by:
(a) Pradeep Dalvi (b) N.K. Krishna Varier
(c) Raja Gopalachari (d) Uma Dupfeli Mistri
Ans: a
36. In which year, stock exchange established in India?
(a) 1870 (b) 1875 (c) 1885 (d) 1873
Ans: b
37. The first agricultural census was conducted in the country in?
(a) 1970 (b) 1883 (c) 1988 (d) 1993
Ans: a
38. Who introduced the concept of Rolling Plan?
(a) Mahalanobis (b) M.Visweswarayya
(c) Jagadish Bhagwati (d) Gunnar Myrdal
Ans: d
39, `Karmayogi' is a newspaper published by:
(a) Balagangadhara Tilak (b) Gandhiji
(c) Annie Basent (d) Aurobindo Ghosh
Ans: d
40. The city of Calcutta was founded by?
(a) Asansol Bose (b) Job charnock
(c) Ajatashatru (d) None of these
Ans: b
41. The first Vice Chancellor of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University:
(a) K.P. Isaac (b) Babu Sebastian
(c) M.K.C. Nair (d) G. Gopakumar
Ans: a
42. First state in India to launch 'Agro-Solar Policy' to encourage the farmers to tap the solar energy:
(a) Rajasthan (b) Punjab (c) Gujarat (d) Kerala
Ans: c
43. The venue of Kerala School Youth Festival 2016.
(a) Kozhikode (b) Thiruvananthapuram
(c) Palakkad (d) Thrissur
Ans: b
44. The person honoured with Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2014:
(a) Gulzar (b) Manoj Kumar (c) Pran (d) Shashi Kapoor
Ans: d
45. The winner of Chess World Cup 2015:
(a) Magnus Carlsen (b) Viswanathan Anand
(c) Sergey Karjakin (d) Vladimir Kramnik
Ans: c
46. Mitra Shakti 2015 was the joint Military Exercise between:
(a) India and Nepal (b) India and Sri Lanka
(c) India and Maldives (d) India and Russia
Ans: b
47. The present Chief Information Commissioner of India:
(a) K.V. Chowdary (b) R.K. Mathur
(c) Deepak Gupta (d) R.M. Lodha
Ans: b
48. "And Then One Day" is the autobiography of:
(a) Anupam Kher (b) Manoj Kumar
(c) Naseeruddin Shah (d) Om Puri
Ans: c
49. The Chief guest of the 67th Republic Day Parade of India:
(a) Barack Obama (b) Francoise Hollande
(c) Mauricio Macri (d) Xi Jinping
Ans: b
50. The Mascot of 2016 Olympics is:
(a) Vinicius and Tom (b) Wenlock and Mandeville
(c) Fuwa (d) Athena and Phevos
Ans: a
51. Clean India campaign aims to attain 100% open defecation free India by?
(a) 2025 (b) 2019 (c) 2022 (d) 2018
Ans: b
52. Which of the following is the main objective of AAY?
(a) It aims to develop housing facilities for the poor
(b) To assist the girl to undertake income generating activities
(c) To provide gainful employment in rural areas
(d) To create a hunger free India in the next five years
Ans: d
53. Which among the following is necessary to be built along with every Indira Awaas Yojana home?
(a) Sanitary latrine (b) Smokeless kitchen
(c) both (a) and (b) (d) Windows
Ans: c
54. PMAGY was launched in 2010 at 18B.B Village in Sri Ganganagar district of:
(a) Gujarat (b) Maharashtra (c) Rajasthan (d) Kerala
Ans: c
55. The maximum contribution allowed per financial year under Sukanya Samridhi Account is:
(a) Rs. 1,50,000 (b) 1,25,000
(c) upto 5 lakhs (d) upto 1 lakh
Ans: a
56. `Valmiki Ambedkar Awaas Yojana (VAMBAY) shceme is to provide or upgrade:
(a) Shelter for people living below the poverty line
(b) Shelter for people living in rural areas
(c) Shelter for people living below poverty line in urban slums
(d) SC/ST only
Ans: c
57. Which of these institution provide credit for ICDS projects?
(a) IMF (b) World Bank (c) SBI (d) Asian Development Bank
Ans: b
58. BSY was launched during which five year plan?
(a) 8th Five year plan (b) 9th Five year Plan
(c) 7th Five year plan (d) 10th Five year Plan
Ans: b
(a) 18-26 (b) 16-26 (c) 18-30 (d) 18-35
Ans: d
60. Kudumbasree was launched on:
(a) 17th May 1998 (b) 16th May 1998
(c) 17th May 1999 (d) 1st April 1999
Ans: a
61. VISUAL BASIC (VB) is an example for _____ language.
(a) Assembly (b) Programming
(c) Machine (d) None of these
Ans: b
62. Computer Programs are covered under _____.
(a) Patent (b) Infringement of personal information
(c) Geographical Indications (d) Copyright
Ans: d
63. Instructions and memory address are represented by:
(a) Character code (b) Binary codes
(c) Binary word (d) Parity bit
Ans: b
64. Section _____ of the Act deals with legal recognition of digital signatures.
(a) 3 (b) 5 (c) 7 (d) 8
Ans: b
65. Viruses, Trojan horses and Worms are:
(a) able to harm computer system
(b) unable to detect if affected on computer
(c) user-friendly applications
(d) harmless applications resident on computer
Ans: a
66. Data security threats include:
(a) Software failure (b) Privacy invasion
(c) Fraudulent manipulation of data (d) All of the above
Ans: d
67. Fastest component of a computer system is:
(a) Flash ROM (b) Cache memory (c) DDR RAM (d) CPU
Ans: b
68. Punishment for publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act, etc. in electronic form is provided in Section _____ of Information Technology Act 2000.
(a) 67 A (b) 68 A (c) 69 A (d) 68 B
Ans: a
69. Phishing is typically carried out by _____ or instant messaging.
(a) vishing (b) telephone call
(c) email spoofing (d) none of these
Ans: c
70. EBCDIC can code upto how many different characters.
(a) 16 (b) 256 (c) 32 (d) 64
Ans: b
71. I _____ nothing in front of me.
(a) am seeing (b) see (c) have been seeing (d) have see
Ans: b
72. If I had time, I _____ the exhibition
(a) shall visit (b) will visit
(c) should have visited (d) should visit
Ans: d
73. The passive form of "The secretary garlanded the chief guest" is:
(a) The chief guest was garlanded by the secretary
(b) The chief guest is garlanded by the secretary
(c) The chief guest has been garlanded by the secretary
(d) The chief guest will be garlanded the secretary
Ans: a
74. "Don't sleep late and miss the bus', said Mr. Vanua (Choose the correct reported speech)
(a) Mr. Varma advised us not to sleep late and miss the bus
(b) Mr Varma advises us don't sleep late and miss the bus
(c) Mr. Varma advised us to sleep late and miss the bus
(d) Mr. Varma advised us not to sleep late and missed the bus
Ans: a
75. They made the payment _____ cheque
(a) by (b) at (c) in (d) of
Ans: a
76. The idiom 'A white elephant' means _____.
(a) A useless one (b) A strong person
(c) Intelligent (d) None of these
Ans: a
77. We will cancel the trip if the weather is bad. Replace the word underlined with correct phrasal verb
(a) call at (b) call off (c) call in (d) call upon
Ans: b
78. The poor boy is _____ orphan
(a) an (b) a (c) the (d) None of these
Ans: a
79. The word 'imbibe' means:
(a) ejects (b) discharge (c) assimilate (d) amass
Ans: c
80. When a person falls from 'prosperity', he is in _____.
(a) serendipity (b) audacity (c) adversity (d) stupidity
Ans: c
