Lower Division Clerk Examination 2013 – 2014 Model Questions

Model Questions and answers for preparing Kerala PSC LDC 2013 - 2014 Examination.

1. Who is the Father of Chemistry?

Answer: Jabir Ibn Hayyan

2. Give the name of the physicist who discovered Nucleus?

Answer: Ernest Rutherford

3. Who Discovered Carbon Dioxide?

Answer: Joseph Black

4. Who is the inventor of the first battery?

Answer: Alexandro Volta

5. Who is the inventor of Mercury Barometer?

Answer: Evangelista Torricelli

6. Expand the following:

(a) CAD

(b) LASER

Answers:

(a) CAD – Computer Aided Design

(b) LASER – Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

7. Name the author of “Mankind and Mother Earth”?

Answer: Arnold Toynbee

8. Name the author of “Moby Dick”?

Answer: Herman Melville

9. Name the author of “Life Divine”?

Answer: Aurobindo Ghosh

10. Name the author of “Crossing the Threshold of Hope”?

Answer: John Paul II

11. Name the author of “Far from the Madding Crowd”?

Answer: Thomas Hardy

12. How long is a marathon?

Answer: 42.195 kilometres (26 miles and 385 yards)

13. Explain what is absolute zero?

Answer: The lowest temperature that is theoretically possible, at which the motion of particles that constitutes heat would be minimal. It is zero on the Kelvin scale, equivalent to –273.15^°C or –459.67^°F.

14. What are alveoli?

Answer: It is a part of the lung where the transfusion of Carbon dioxide and Oxygen takes place in the blood.

15. What is “Big Bang”?

Answer: It is a theory relating to the formation of Universe by a big blast.

16. What is CFC?

Answer: Chloro Fluro Carbon, chemical compounds responsible for depletion of ozone layer.

17. What is ‘decibel’?

Answer: Unit of the intensity of sound.