Solved questions of Kerala psc Clerical Attender Examination Conducted On 2005.
1. Ram is 16 years old now and his brother is 4 years younger to him. The ratio of ages of Ram and his brother after 4 years is:
(a) 5 : 4
(b) 4 : 5
(c) 4 : 1
(d) 4 : 3
(e) 3 : 4
2. Y/27 = 3/9, then Y = ?
(a) 7
(b) 8
(c) 9
(d) 3
(e) None of these
3. 9.6 × 3.5 – 2.4 = ?
(a) 14
(b) 6.4
(c) 4
(d) 3
(e) None of these
4. 12.5% of ‘x’ is 20, What is ‘x’?
(a) 120
(b) 160
(c) 201
(c) 12.
(d) 60
(e) 180
5. 11232 is divisible by:
(a) 5
(b) 7
(c) 12
(c) 15
(d) 15
(e) 20
6. A can finish a work in 20 days and B can do the same in 30 days. How long will it take together to finish the work?
(a) 10
(b) 15
(c) 6
(d) 12
(e) 18
7. The breadth of a rectangle is one half of its length. If the perimeter is 30m. What is the length?
(a) 5m
(b) 8m
(c) 4m
(d) 12m
(e) 10m
8. The place value of 5 in 654789:
(a) 2
(b) 700
(c) 4000
(d) 50000
(e) None of these
9. Every morning father ........... the dog for a walk.
(a) takes
(b) took
(c) taken
(d) taking
(e) has taken
10. It was ........... cats and dogs.
(a) rained
(b) raining
(c) will rain
(d) had rain
(e) none of these
26. Which city has emerged as the biggest IT job provider?
11. Mohan has visited all the cities in Kerala since he........working in the road transport.
(a) had
(b) has been
(c) having
(d) had been
(e) none of the above
12. I believe, you are just eighteen years old, .........?
(a) don’t you
(b) are you
(c) aren’t you
(d) didn’t you
13. The man has been accused ......... murder.
(a) by
(b) of
(c) in
(d) for
(e) with
14. Candidates advised not to talk ........ each other.
(a) by
(b) for
(c) with
(d) to
(e) of
15. Can you tell me what is ......... at paradise theatre tonight?
(a) telecasting
(b) on
(c) going to show
(d) showing
(e) none of these
16. The tanks are full ...... black oil.
(a) with
(b) of
(c) in
(d) by
(e) for
17. Which atom has only one electron?
(a) no atom
(b) helium
(c) proton
(d) hydrogen
(e) none of these
18. In which country is Copenhagen?
(a) India
(b) Hanoi
(c) USA
(d) Denmark
(e) Nigeria
19. Which of the following is associated with Football?
(a) Davis Cup
(b) Ranji Trophy
(c) Santhosh Trophy
(d) Grand Prix
(e) None of these
20. The only liquid metal is:
(a) Water
(b) Chlorine
(c) Hydrogen
(d) Ether
(e) Mercury
21. Which is the capital of South Africa?
(a) Kabul
(b) Johannesburg
(c) Pretoria
(d) Lusaka
(e) Boulder
22. Which is the closest Planet to Sun?
(a) Mercury
(b) Moon
(c) Earth
(d) Venus
(e) Pluto
23. Name the first Indian who won Nobel Prize in Physics.
(a) S. Chandrasekhar
(b) C.V. Raman
(c) H. Khorana
(d) K.S. Krishnan
(e) None of these
24. The major share of passenger traffic in India is done by:
(a) Road Transport
(b) Railways
(c) Airlines
(d) Water Transport
(e) None of these
25. Who is the First Indian to join the Formula One league?
(a) Prakash Padukone
(b) Geeth Sethi
(c) Narain Karthikeyan
(d) Kasam Khan
(e) None of these
26. Which city has emerged as the biggest IT job provider?
(a) Mumbai
(b) Chennai
(c) Cochin
(d) Bangalore
(e) Kolkata
27. Arteries supplying blood to the heart are called:
(a) Hepatic arteries
(b) Pulmonary arteries
(c) Coronary arteries
(d) Carotid arteries
(e) None of these
28. Current Defence Minister of India is:
(a) Manmohan Singh
(b) Renuka Choudhary
(c) Ajith Singh
(d) Pranab Mukherjee
(e) Natwar Singh
29. Who sent Vasco da Gama to India?
(a) King of Egypt
(b) King of Jordan
(c) Queen of England
(d) King of Portuguese
(e) None of these
30. The first Governor of Kerala is:
(a) E.M.S. Namboodiripad
(b) C. Rajagopalachari
(c) C.P. Rama Swamy Iyer
(d) P.S. Rao
(e) V.V.Giri
31. Taj Mahal was built by:
(a) Shah Jahan
(b) Akbar
(c) Sikhandar Lodi
(d) Babar
(e) Ashoka
32. The highest civilian award given by Government of India is:
(a) Padma Vibhushan
(b) Padmasri
(c) Ashok Chakra
(d) Bharat Ratna
(e) None of these
33. The Father of Indian Journalism is:
(a) Chalapathi Rao
(b) Rajaji
(c) M.V. Kammat
(d) Kesari
(e) M.N. Roy
34. Who was the first elected President of INC?
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Subhash Chandra Bose
(c) Sarojini Naidu
(d) Sardar Patel
(e) None of these
35. On whose death in Andhra Pradesh the Government of India decided to recognize the state on the linguistic basis?
(a) A. Kaleswara Rao
(b) S. Radhakrishnan
(c) Potti Sriramulu
(d) Sarojini Naidu
(e) None of these
36. Who is known as the Morning Star of Modern Social reform movement in India?
(a) Sardar Patel
(b) M.M. Malavya
(c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(d) Khan Abdul Gafar Khan
(e) Ranjith Singh
37. Who organized the Harijan Sevak Sangh?
(a) Gandhiji
(b) Pandit Nehru
(c) C. Rajagopalachari
(d) Gopala Krishna Gokhale
(e) None of these
38. Who is considered to be Father of Gazals in the Indian music?
(a) Tansen
(b) Mirza Ghalib
(c) Swathi Thirunal
(d) Parveen Sultana
(e) None of these
39. The only Hindu Kingdom in the world is:
(a) Nepal
(b) Malaysia
(c) Myanmar
(d) Bhutan
(e) None of these
40. The ‘Godof Small Things’ is written by:
(a) Madhavikutty
(b) Arundhati Roy
(c) Sarojini Naidu
(d) Manjulla Padmanabhan
(e) Sugathakumari
41. National Sports Day is observed on:
(a) February 28
(b) August 29
(c) September 5
(d) November 14
(e) None of these
42. Dronacharya Award is given to:
(a) The Best Sportsman
(b) The Best Film Director
(c) The Best Sports Coach
(d) The Best Singer
(e) The Best Actor
43. The first Indian to score a century in test cricket was:
(a) Lala Amarnath
(b) Nawab of Patuadi
(c) Vinu Mankad
(d) Sunil Gavaskar
(e) Ajith Wadekar
44. Who is known as Flying Sikh of India?
(a) Ranjith Singh
(b) Harbhajan Singh
(c) Milika Singh
(d) Harkishan Singh
(e) None of these
45. How much time it takes light to reach us from Sun?
(a) 1 day
(b) 1 hour
(c) 8 minutes
(d) 1 sec.
(e) 1 minute
46. The intensity of earthquake is measured by:
(a) Temperature Scale
(b) Time Scale
(c) Mass Scale
(d) Richter Scale
(e) None of these
47. Which river is known as ‘Dakshin Ganga’ or ‘Vridha Ganga’?
(a) Kaveri
(b) Krishna
(c) Pennar
(d) Godavari
(e) Yamuna
48. The largest river in the world is:
(a) Amazon
(b) Nile
(c) Brahmaputra
(d) Ganga
(e) None of these
49. National Bird of India is:
(a) Peacock
(b) Crow
(c) Eagle
(d) Parrot
(e) Owl
50. The continent without a desert is:
(a) Asia
(b) Australia
(c) Europe
(d) America
(e) Africa
51. At the equator, days and nights of earth occur ......... through out the year.
(a) with day larger than night
(b) equally
(c) with night larger than day
(d) none of these
52. The most industrialized state in India is:
(a) Karnataka
(b) Gujarat
(c) Maharashtra
(d) Bihar
(e) Tamil Nadu
53. The city which is known as ‘City of Lakes’ is:
(a) Lucknow
(b) Amritsar
(c) Jaipur
(d) Udaipur
(e) Srinagar
54. Second largest linguistic group in India is:
(a) Telugu
(b) Marathi
(c) Tamil
(d) Urdu
(e) None of these
55. The interval of Halley’s comet is:
(a) 107 years
(b) 177 years
(c) 76 years
(d) 60 years
(e) 17 years
56. Silicon valley of India is:
(a) Cochin
(b) Chandigarh
(c) Hyderabad
(d) Bangalore
(e) Pune
57. ‘Light’ is to ‘blind’ as ......... is to ‘deaf’.
(a) speech
(b) hearing
(c) sound
(d) tongue
(e) none of these
58. Who invented electric bulb?
(a) Franklin
(b) Graham Bell
(c) Thomas Edison
(d) Maxwell
(e) None of these
59. Earth’s natural satellite is:
(a) Sun
(b) Moon
(c) Jupiter
(d) Mars
(e) Venus
60. The imaginary place created by R.K. Narayan is:
(a) Udupi
(b) Malgudi
(c) Mahabaleswar
(d) Madurai
(e) None of these
61. Land of Kangaroos is:
(a) New Zealand
(b) Malaysia
(c) Australia
(d) Brazil
(e) South Africa
62. ‘‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel’’. Who said this?
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Tennyson
(c) Keats
(d) Goldsmith
(e) Dr. Johnson
63. ‘The Post Office’ was written by:
(a) Rabindranath Tagore
(b) Madhavikutty
(c) Arundhathi Roy
(d) R.K. Narayan
(e) None of these
64. ‘Wings of Fire’ was written by:
(a) Dr. Varghese Kurian
(b) A.P.J. Kalam
(c) J. Nehru
(d) Salim Ali
(e) Leo Tolstoy
65. The first Indian woman to win a medal in the Olympics is:
(a) Shiny Abraham
(b) Anju Bobby George
(c) P.T. Usha
(d) Karnam Malleswari
(e) None of these
66. The opposite of ‘Cowardice’ is:
(a) Hatred
(b) Bravery
(c) Courageous
(d) Innocence
67. Many areas of the city were .......... into the darkness for several hour.
(a) merged
(b) drowned
(c) plunged
(d) spread
(e) deep
68. Pick the odd one out:
(a) Terramycin
(b) Anacin
(c) Pencillin
(d) Marjuana
(e) Crocin
69. Omnivorous animals are:
(a) Only vegetarians
(b) Only meat eaters
(c) Eat both meat and vegetables
(d) Takes only liquid food
(e) None of these
70. The murder of a human being is known as:
(a) Suicide
(b) infanticide
(c) genocide
(d) homicide
71. The unit of ‘Frequency’ is:
(a) second
(b) degree
(c) gram
(d) hertz
(e) metre
72. Dynamo was invented by:
(a) Michael Faraday
(b) Alfred Nobel
(c) Karl Benz
(d) Alexander Flemming
(e) None of these
73. White light essentially consists of:
(a) 5 colours
(b) 7 colours
(c) single colour
(d) 9 colours
(e) None of these
74. Who discovered X-rays?
(a) Karel Capek
(b) W.Rontgen
(c) Robert Watson
(d) Boltzmann
(e) A. Einstein
75. Instrument that is used to convert AC to DC:
(a) Oscillator
(b) Inverter
(c) Rectifier
(d) Dynamo
(e) Battery
76. The nuclear fuel that is immensely available on the coastal belt of Kerala is:
(a) Barium
(b) Uranium
(c) Lead
(d) Thorium
(e) Copper
77. The structure of atom discovered by:
(a) J.J. Thomson
(b) Neils Bohr
(c) James Chadwick
(d) Lord Rutherford
(e) G.P. Thomson
78. Hygrometer is used for measuring:
(a) Temperature
(b) Humidity
(c) Rainfall
(d) Water level
(e) None of these
79. Chemical name of ‘washing soda’ is:
(a) Sodium Carbonate
(b) Alumina
(c) Sodium Bicarbonate
(d) Sodium Chloride
(e) None of these
80. The lightest metal is :
(a) Lead
(b) Gold
(c) Copper
(d) Sodium
(e) Lithium
Answers
1. (a) 2. (c) 3. (e) 4. (b) 5. (c) 6. (d)
7. (e) 8. (d) 9. (a) 10. (b) 11. (b) 12. (c)
13. (b) 14. (d) 15. (d) 16. (b) 17. (d) 18. (d)
19. (c) 20. (e) 21. (c) 22. (a) 23. (b) 24. (b)
25. (c) 26. (d) 27. (b) 28. (No correct Answer)
29. (d) 30. (d) 31. (a) 32. (d) 33. (a) 34. (b)
35. (c) 36. (c) 37. (a) 38. (b) 39. (a) 40. (b)
41. (b) 42. (c) 43. (a) 44. (c) 45. (c) 46. (d)
47. (d) 48. (a) 49. (a) 50. (c) 51. (b) 52. (c)
53. (d) 54. (a) 55. (c) 56. (d) 57. (c) 58. (c)
59. (b) 60. (b) 61. (c) 62. (e) 63. (a) 64. (b)
65. (d) 66. (c) 67. (c) 68. (d) 69. (c) 70. (d)
71. (d) 72. (a) 73 (b) 74. (b) 75. (c) 76. (d)
77. (b) 78. (b) 79. (a) 80. (e)
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