IMPORTANT GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR KERALA PSC

KERALA PSC G K IMPORATANT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

1. The sun’s heat and light energy reaches earth by:
   (A) conduction
   (B) Radiation
   (C) refraction
   (D) convection


2. We are able to recognise different colours by the help of the ———— in retina
   (A) Photoreceptive cells
   (B) Rod cells
   (C) Yellow spot
   (D) Cone cells


3. The progressive street-play writer and actor who was murdered by reactionary forces in Delhi was ————
   (A) Safdar Hashimi
   (B) Salman Rushdie
   (C) Tasleema Nasreen
   (D) Qurratul Ain Hyder


4. Shivaji built his first fort at
   (A) Poona
   (B) Purandhar
   (C) Gopa
   (D) Raigarh


5. The last Buddhist empire in India was that of :
   (A) Ashoka
   (B) Harshavardhana
   (C) Kanishka - II
   (D) Chandragupta Maurya


6. The first woman judge of the Supreme Court belongs to ————
   (A) West Bengal
   (B) Kerala
   (C) Tamil Nadu
   (D) Andhra Pradesh


7. Who, amongst the following Italian travllers, left a very praiseworthy account of the Vijayanagar empire ?
   (A) E. Barbosa
   (B) Manucci
   (C) Nicolo Conti
   (D) Marco Polo


8. Choose the correctly spelt word
   (A) Lesure
   (B) Leasure
   (C) Leisure
   (D) Liesure


9. Which Bank serves as the Banker’s Bank in India?
   (A) Reserve Bank of India
   (B) State Bank of India
   (C) Central Bank of India
   (D) Bank of India


10. About 80 to 88 percent of milk consists of
    (A) water
    (B) vitamins
    (C) proteins
    (D) fat


11. Who regarded education alone as a means of national progress?
    (A) Vivekananda
    (B) Bala Gangadhara Tilak
    (C) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
    (D) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan


12. “Hydro Power” is the term used for electricity produced through:
    (A) atomic Power
    (B) water
    (C) mineral oil
    (D) coal


13. The United Nations has declared the year 1999 as the:
    (A) International Year of the Child
    (B) International Space Year
    (C) International Year of Peace
    (D) International Year of the Elderly


14. A creature with complete metamorphosis
    (A) Butterfly
    (B) Frog
    (C) Salamander
    (D) Newt


15. The author of Count of Monte Cristo is
    (A) Walter Scott
    (B) H.G. Wells
    (C) Alexander Dumas
    (D) Charles Dickens


16. Who, amongst the following, is regarded as the “Founder of the Muslim Rule” in India in the 12th century A.D. ?
    (A) Ghiyas-ud-din Balban
    (B) Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni
    (C) Muhammad of Ghor
    (D) Qutb-ud-din Aibak


17. Which of the following statements about the OPEC is not correct?
    (A) Its membership is open to all country
    (B) It was formed in 1960
    (C) It was formed to control production and pricing of crude oil
    (D) It has been successful in determining world oil prices to a large extent


18. Which of the following is regarded as an era of Brahmanic revival ?
    (A) Kushan age
    (B) Maurya age
    (C) Gupta age
    (D) None of these


19. The person who is said to be the “Iron man” of India is:
    (A) Subhash Chandra Bose
    (B) Bhagat Singh
    (C) V.K. Krishna Menon
    (D) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel


20. Who, among the following, is most famous for building a large number of canals for irrigation ?
    (A) Muhammad-bin tughluq
    (B) Akbar
    (C) Shahjahan
    (D) Firuz Shah Tughluq


21. The planet nearest to the Earth is
    (A) Venus
    (B) Mars
    (C) Pluto
    (D) Neptune


22. The relay station for the incoming and outgoing impulses to and from the cerebrum is called the
    (A) Thalamus
    (B) Hypothalamus
    (C) Spinal cord
    (D) Cerebellum


23. Who built the mausoleum of Jahangir and where ?
    (A) Nur Jahan at Lahore
    (B) Shahjahan at Agra
    (C) Nur Jahan at Fatehpur Sikri
    (D) Shajahan at Delhi


24. The instrument used to detect planes and other objects in the sky
    (A) Periscope
    (B) Radar
    (C) Telescope
    (D) None of these


25. Which one deals with the study of diseases?
    (A) pathology
    (B) Neurology
    (C) Cardiology
    (D) Etymology


26. Alezander fought Porus on the banks of the river
    (A) Indus
    (B) Jhelum
    (C) Chenab
    (D) Ravi


27. The Buddhist monk who converted Ashoka into Buddhism after the Kalinga war was
    (A) Udayana
    (B) Dharmapala
    (C) Upagupta
    (D) Prasenajith


28. Mughal art was known as Miniature paintings because
    (A) the pictures were small in size
    (B) the pictures coverd small themes
    (C) it followed the style known then by that name
    (D) they were mainly the small-sized reproductions of the normal sized originals.


29. Who amongst the following is most famous for the establishment of an elaborate system of municipal administration ?
    (A) Chandragupta Maurya
    (B) Chandragupta Vikramaditya
    (C) Harshavardhana
    (D) Kanishka


30. The national flower of India:
    (A) Rose
    (B) Lotus
    (C) Lilly
    (D) Sunflower


31. The abbreviation GDR stands for:
    (A) Gross Domestic Revenue
    (B) Gross Depository Receipts
    (C) Gross Domestic Receipts
    (D) GlobalDepository Receipts


32. Why is it that the colour of earth is red at certain places?
    (A) It contains more nitrogen
    (B) It contains oxides of iron
    (C) It contains sand formed out of red rocks
    (D) It does not contain alluvial soil


33. Who was the Captain of the Indian team which participated in the World Cup Tournament in 1998?
    (A) Mohammad Azharuddin
    (B) Sachin Tendulkar
    (C) Ajay Jadeja
    (D) Vinod Kambli


34. The World Food Programme is meant to:
    (A) keep a buffer stock of food grains
    (B) serve as a food bank for countries not able to meet their requirements of food
    (C) regulate the production of food grains
    (D) None of these


35. Which of the following rulers built some of the famous Dilwara temples at Mount Abu ?
    (A) Vimala
    (B) Tejpala
    (C) Sidharaja
    (D) Udayaditya


36. The term ‘Aryan’ denotes
    (A) An ethnic group
    (B) A nomadic people
    (C) A speech group
    (D) A superior race


37. The Konkan Railway connects Mumbai with ————
    (A) Bangalore
    (B) Vijayawada
    (C) Chennai
    (D) Mangalore


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39. A person cups his hand around the mouth when shouting because:
    (A) sound energy is then directed in one direction
    (B) sound increases in volume
    (C) pitch of the sound increases
    (D) the action has no bearing on sound


40. In which district is the Malampuzha gardens?
    (A) Idukki
    (B) Malappuram
    (C) Palakkad
    (D) Thrissur


41. In which of the following battles are the main opponents not correctly stated ?
    (A) First Battle of Panipat - Babur and Ibrahim Lodhi
    (B) Second Battle of Panipat - Akbar and Sher Shah
    (C) Third Battle of Panipat - Ahmed Shah Abdali and Marathas
    (D) Battle of Plassey - Sirajudaullah and Lord Clive


42. Which one of the following throws light on Harappan Culture ?
    (A) Rock Edicts
    (B) Writing in Terracotta seals
    (C) Archaeological excavations
    (D) All of these


43. The National Literacy Mission was launched by the Prime Minister in the year
    (A) 1985
    (B) 1967
    (C) 1986
    (D) 1988


44. The biggest airport in the world is in:
    (A) America
    (B) England
    (C) Saudi Arabia
    (D) Abu Dhabi


45. The British Governor-General who won the title Maker of Modern India:
    (A) Lord William Bentinck
    (B) Lord Dalhousie
    (C) Lord Ripon
    (D) Lord Cornwallis


46. Opposition to the construction of big dams has been mounting in India because
    (A) they displace big chunks of population
    (B) they are very costly
    (C) they do extensive ecological damage
    (D) they interfere with the flow of rivers