Assistant Gade 2 /Clerck | Juniour Clerck |L D Clerck Cashier Junior.Assistant

Kerala PSC Solved Question Paper

Exam held on 23/02/2008

Post: Assistant Gade 2 /Clerck / Juniour Clerck /L D Clerck Cashier Junior Assistant

@Various Govt Owned Company / Corporations

Question Paper Code : 113/2008

1.Gautama Budha was born at:

Lumbini

2.The chera king known as Red Chera:

Senkuttuvan

3. Alexander the grate defeated by:

Porus

4. Indica was written by :

Megasthenes

5.The second Budhist council was held at :

Vailsali

6.Who is popularly known as Indian Napoleon:

Samudraguptha

7. Last king of the Kakatiya dynasty

Prataparudra II

8.In the second battle of Tarrain in 1192, Mohammed Gori defeated:

Prithviraj Chauhan

9.The king on the throne of vijayanagar at the time of the battle of Talikota:

Sadasivaraya

10.Qut-ub-din Aibek built the Quwaat ul-Islam mosque to commemorate his capture of:

Delhi

11.The wisest fool of medieval India is:

Mohammed Bin Tughlaq

12.Trikh I- Firoz Shahi was written by :

Ziaudin Barani

13.Ibn Batuta,the famous Scholar visited India during the reign of :

Mohammed bin Tughlaq.

14.Purana Qila in Delhi was bult by:

Shersha

15.Ashtapratan was the council of Ministers of:

Marathas

16.Zapti is the land revenue system introduced by:

Akbar

17.Jahangir the Mughal ruler murdered the Sikh Guru:

Guru Arjun Singh

18.The Mughul Gardens Shalimar and Nishad in Srinagar built by:

Jahangir

19.Ustad Isa was the Architect of:

Taj Mahal

20.Haritha and Bukha laid the foundatations of:

Vijayanar Empire

21.The author of Prithvii Raj Raso was:

Chandra Vardai

22.The first carnatic war came to an end with the :

Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle

23.Permanent Land Revenue Settlement was introduced in Bengal by:

Lord Cornwallis

24.Doctrine of Lapse was applied by :

Lord Dalhousie

25.Priciples of Panchasheel were framed in :

Bandung

26.The author of India Today :

R.P.Dutt

27.Local self Govt in India, for the the first time was introduced by:

Lord Rippon

28.The president of Pakistan who signed the Tashkent Agreement after the Indo-Pak Wat of 1965 was:

Ayub Khan

29.The war between India and China took place in :

1962

30.Tashkent Pact was signed between :

Lal Bahadur Sastri and Ayub Khan

31.Mamamkam,the great ancient regional festival was held at:

Thirunavai

32.Kollam Era began:

A. D. 825.

33.The longest river in Kerala:

Periyar

34.Mixed colony system introduced by :

Albuquarq

35.Sathujana Paripalana Yogam was started by :

Ayyankali

36.The fisrt chief Minister of Travancore popular ministry:

Pattam Thanuppillai

37.The temple entry proclamation was issued by :

Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma.

38.Malyalee Sabha was organized by:

C . Krishna Pillai

39.Cochin State prajamandal was formed in :

16 th Jan.1941

40.Electricity Agitation of cochin was against the decision of the Diwan:

Sir .R.K.Shanmugham Chetti

41.A Thermos flash is polished well:

to reflect all radiation from inside

42.Co-efficient of thermal conductivity depends on:

difference in temperature

43.A device used to detect heat radiation is known as :

Thermo couple

44. Which of the following is a compound?

(a) milk (b) 22 carat gold (c) steam (d )diamond

Ans :Steam

45. Hardest naturally occurring substance:

Black Diamond

46.A form of carbon used in Gas masks:

Activated Charcoal

47.The gas used in refrigerator is

Freon

48.Estimation of halogens in organic compound is done by:

Carrius method

49.The metal which does not react with dilute sulphuric acid:

Lead

50.In free state, hydrogen is present in:

Sun

51 The disease caused by the deficiency of vitamin A:

Xerophthalmia (Dry eye syndrome)

52.The insect which lays eggs in water is :

Dragonfly

53:The mosquito that spreads malaria in man is named:

Female anopheles

54.The function of the white blood corpuscles is :

to produce anti-toxin

55.Which of the following process liberates energy ?

Respiration

56. During the solar eclipse, which of the following represents the relative position of the sun, moon and earth correctly:

the moon in between the sun and the earth

57.A degree of Longitude has about the same length as a degree of Latitude at:

Equator

58. The supersonic air craft find it most convenient to fly in the:

Stratosphere.

59.Seismograph is used to measure:

Earthquake

60.Which Steel Plant is known as the “Pittsburgh of India :?

Jamshedpur

61.The first political leader who got Nobel Prize for the literature?

Winston Churchil

62. The winner of Women’s Wimbledon championship of 2011 ?

Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic)

[Men’s - Novak Djokovic (Serbia)]

63.Present sectary general of United Nations:

Banki -Moon

64.Jim Corbet National park is in:

Uttaranjal

65.The country used paper currency first in the world:

China

66. Father of cell phone :

Martin Cooper

67.The modern quantity of theory of money was developed by :

Milton Friedman

68. Consumer Protection Act was enacted in the year :

1986

69.National Flag of India designed by:

Pingili Venkayya

70: Human Rights day is observed all over the world every year on :

10th December

71: The government has decided to ---- all unauthorized buildings.

Pull down

72. -------- you opologize,he won’t forgive you

Unless

73. The mother as well as her three children________taken to the hospital

was

74. The old man was too weak to travel________himself

by

75. Roshan was so absorbed _______his work that he did’nt even raise this

head.

in

76. It ---------heavenly when I woke up yesterday

was raining

77. Mahatma Gandhi appealed to the people to _____________the cruelties of British authorities.

Putt off

78. Opposite of the word “rigid” :

Flexible

79. Few students knew the answer,___________?

Did they

80. The word which is nearest in meaning to the word ‘economical”

wealthy

81. If the driver______ the brake, the car would have hit the old man.

Had not applied

82. There weren’t any hotels near by,_____?

Were there

83. It was with great difficulty he gained entry to the auditorium, but he made a sudden _________

Departure

84. The thieves not only robbed the travelers_________,beat them up.

But also

85. I ________ him the truth, If I were you.

Would tell

86, would you mind _______the door?

to shut

87.I wish he __________ settle the issue soon.

may

88.The appropriate meaning of ‘run-of the-mill”

very important

89. Midhun said, Do you enjoy cricket? (change into indirect speech)

Midhun asked me if I enjoy cricket

90. One must always be careful in _________dealings with others.

His

91. Rahul is very rich .He can buy a car.(Combine using “enough”)

Rahul is enough rich to buy a car.

92.Meaning of the Phrase ‘Ad hoc’:

Formed for some special purpose

93.Everyone looked up to him(Change into positive voice)

He is being looked up to by everyone

94. The juice is made _____fresh oranges.

of

95.Our Chief minister is a person of long experience in politics (Use the one word for the words underlined)

Veteran

96.The mis-spelt word among the following words.

Synagogue.

97) When the police interrogated the thief, he made made a clean breast of everything (Meaning of the idiom underlined) :

denied

98) It is five years __________I retired

Since

99) The bundle is so heavy that I cannot lift it(Use “too” instead of ‘So that’)

The bundle is too heavy for me to lift

100 . The word which is nearest in meaning to the word ‘profound’:

Deep