GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - KERALA PSC 2017 FOR ALL EXAMS

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - KERALA PSC 2017 FOR ALL EXAMS

1. Indira Gandhi was assassinated in the month of:
   (A) December
   (B) September
   (C) November
   (D) October


2. Organ in our body that produces the largest quantity of enzyme
   (A) Lungs
   (B) Heart
   (C) Liver
   (D) Kidney


3. The Konkan railway has been constructed between:
   (A) Thiruvananthapuram and Mumbai
   (B) Mangalore and Chennai
   (C) Thiruvananthapuram and Goa
   (D) Mangalore and Mumbai


4. Bengal led in most of the reform movements because:
   (A) the British rule was established in Calcutta first
   (B) the Christian Missionaries were active there
   (C) common man was more oppressed is Bengal
   (D) the people were educated and enlightened


5. Rhodesia is the old name of:
   (A) Zambia
   (B) Ethiopia
   (C) Zimbabwe
   (D) Ghana


6. World cup cricket championship 1999 was conducted in:
   (A) England
   (B) West Indies
   (C) Australia
   (D) India


7. Sher Shah Suri encouraged Trade and Commerce in the country by:
   (A) renovating the Grand Trunk Road
   (B) building Sarais for the travellers and merchants to stay
   (C) making the provincial governors and other officials responsible for the protection of merchants going through their territory
   (D) All the above


8. The tropical deciduous forests are also known as
   (A) evergreen forests
   (B) monsoon forests
   (C) tidal forests
   (D) thorn forests


9. The sugar present in milk is called
   (A) sucrose
   (B) milkose
   (C) lactose
   (D) fructose


10. First Satellite launched by India was
    (A) Bhaskara
    (B) Aryabhatta
    (C) INSAT
    (D) APPLE


11. Who amongst the following brothers of Aurangazeb was condemnded to death, and his body was parded in Delhi ?
    (A) Dara Shikoh
    (B) Murad Baksh
    (C) Shah Shuja
    (D) None of these


12. International Literacy Day:
    (A) July 11
    (B) December 10
    (C) September 5
    (D) September 8


13. Who, amongst the following after marriage, became known as Nur Jahan, wife of Emperor Jahangir ?
    (A) Razia Sultana
    (B) Asmat Begam
    (C) Ladli Begam
    (D) Mehr-un-Nisa


14. The first President of the Indian National Congress was:
    (A) Mahatma Gandhi
    (B) Jawaharlal Nehru
    (C) W.C. Bannerjee
    (D) A.O. Hume


15. An animal which conserves water for a very long time:
    (A) Rat
    (B) Kangaroo rat
    (C) Rhinoceros
    (D) Cat


16. The longest night in the northern hemisphere is on ————
    (A) 21 March
    (B) 21 June
    (C) 22 December
    (D) 23 September


17. The minister who resinged from Central Cabinet during the wake off Chinese aggression
    (A) H.K.L Bhagat
    (B) V.C Shukla
    (C) V.K Krishna Menon
    (D) Jaffer Sheriff


18. Choose the correctly spelt word
    (A) Releive
    (B) Relieve
    (C) Releave
    (D) Rilieve


19. Taxila was the famous site of
    (A) Early Vedic art
    (B) Gandhara art
    (C) gupta art
    (D) Mauryan art


20. Which of the following Buddhist councils was held during the reign of Kanishka ?
    (A) First
    (B) Second
    (C) Third
    (D) Fourth


21. Who is the recipient of Nobel Prize 1998 for Literature?
    (A) Seamus Heaney
    (B) Salman Rushdie
    (C) Promodya Antora Toer
    (D) Saramago


22. The biggest back water in Kerala is ————
    (A) Vembanad lake
    (B) Ashtamudi lake
    (C) Sasthamkota lake
    (D) Kayamkulam lake


23. India’s first tactical surface-to-surface missile was ————
    (A) Agni
    (B) Trishul
    (C) Prithvi
    (D) Insat-1B


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


25. who, amongst the following Generals of Ala-ud-din Khilji, was known as the Rustam of the age and the hero of the time ?
    (A) Ghazi Malik
    (B) Malik Kafur
    (C) Zafar Khan
    (D) None of these

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