GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ - TNPSC

1.The Cauvery River Water Tribunal and Cauvery River Water Commision were established respectively in

1990 & 1996 1990 & 1997 1992 & 1997 1990 & 2000

2.Which among the following is called as Ecological Paradise?

Sunderbans 

Gulf of Mannar 

Gulf of Khambat 

Lakshadweep

3.Consider the following statements 

I. Lokayukta was first established in Maharastra in 1971

II. Odissha passed the Act in 1970 but Lokayukta came into force in 1983 

Choose the correct code:

I only correct II only correct Both are correct None of these

4.Consider the following statements

I. CVC was established in 1964 by executive resolution of Government of India

 II. CVC got statutory status in 2004 

III. CVC was recommended by Santhanam Committee 

Choose the correct code:

I alone is correct I, III are correct II, III are correct All are correct

5.Consider the following Statements

 I. Human Rights Act was enacted in 1993

II. National Human Rights Commission is a Constitutional body III. Human Rights Act was amended in 2005

 Choose the correct code:

I alone is correct I, II are correct I, III are correct All are correct

Group 1 Old QP

1.In which of the following subjects were the Vedic Aryans not proficient?
1) Astronomy
2) Mathematics
3) Chemistry
4) Medicine

2.Which of the Pallava rulers is known as 'Vichitrachitta'?
1) Mahendravarman
2) Parameswaravarman
3) Narasimhavarman I
4) Narasimhavarman II

3.Jayapa Senani composed 'Nrittaratnavali' during the reign of :
1) Rudradeva
2) Ganapatideva
3) Rudramadevi
4) Pratapa Rudra

4.Harappan people had close external contact with :
1) Iran
2) Egypt
3) Bahrain
4) Mesopotamia

5.Which Vedic text first refers to moneylending?
1) Atharvaveda
2) Yajurveda
3) Satapatha Brahmana
4) Gopatha Brahman

Group 1 old QP

1.Swayamsidha Scheme launched in the year 2002 was dedicated to:
1) Women's Literacy
2) Women's Health
3) Women's Empowerment
40 Women's Welfare

2.The winner of the Gold Medal at the Second World Sand Sculpture Championship is :
1) Sudarsan Pattnaik
2) Someswar Pathak
3) Goutham Prasad
4) Harischandra Mukharjee

3.The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2009 is awarded to :
1) Olivers Williamson
2) Herta Mueller
3) Elinor Ostrom
4) Thomas Steitz

4.The winner of the Spelling Bee Prize, 2010 in Washington held on 4th June 2010 is :
1) Sameer Mishra
2) Kavya Shivashankar
3) Anamika Veeramani
4) Shantanu Srivastav

5.The Sakshara Bharat Scheme introduced by Government of India will be in operation upto :
1) March, 2011
2) March, 2012
3) March, 2015
4) March, 2020

Group 1 old QP

1. The Indian girl, who got a rare honour to address World leaders at the United Nations Summit on Climate Change was :
1) Anjana Sharma
2) Yugratna Srivastava
3) Soumya Bhattacharjee
4) Pratiksha Chakravarthy

2.Chandrayan II is designed jointly by India and :
1) Japan
2) Germany
3) Russia
4) France

3.Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India is :
1) S.H. Kapadia
2) A.R. Dave
3) D.S.R. Varma
4) K.G. Balakrishnan

4.India launched the Census, 2011 on :
1) 1st January, 2010
2) 1st February, 2010
3) 1st March, 2010
4) 1st April, 2010

5.The General Elections in Great Britain were held on :
1) 5th May, 2010
2) 6th May, 2010
3) 7th May, 2010
4) 8th May, 2010

6.126.The ICC World Women's Twenty-20, Champion 2010 is :

1) India

2) Sri Lanka

3) Australia

4) New Zealand

7. Millennium's longest Annular Solar eclipse occurred on :

1) 15th January, 2010

2) 16th January, 2010

3) 17th January, 2010

4) 18th January, 2010

8.Agni-I ballistic missile which was test-fired in March, 2010 has a range of :

1) 300 km

2) 500 km

3) 700 km

4) 900 km

9.Viswanathan Anand won the FIDE World Chess Championship by defeating :

1) Boiko Borisov

2) Veselin Topalov

3) Dinara Safina

4) Ana Ivanovic

10.Shyam Saran of Kalpa village of Kinnaur district was honoured by Navin Chavla, Chief Election Commissioner of India in Himachal

Pradesh on 12th June, 2010 as he happened to be :

1) One of the senior citizens of India

2) One of the voters casting his vote in all the elections

3) One of the first few voters of Pre-independent India

4) One of the first few voters of Independent India

Group 1 old QP

1.The region between Kunlun mountains and the Alyn Tagh is called:
1) Mongolian plateau
2) Dzungarian Basin
3) Tsaidam Basin
4) Tarim Basin

2.The chief centre for tin smelting in South-east Asia is :
1) Java
2) Sumatra
3) Myanmar
4) Singapore

3.The name of highest mountain in Africa is :
1) Mt. Cameroon
2) Mt. Kilimanjaro
3) Mt. Elgon
4) Mt. Kenya

4. In India, the annual rainfall variability is above 60% in the State of :
1) Gujarat
2) Arunachal Pradesh
3) Assam
4) Manipur

5.In India among the given states below, in which state Manganese ore production is high?
1) Maharashtra
2) Andhra Pradesh
3) Orissa
4) Karnataka

Group 1 old QP

1.Who defeated Harsha and assumed the title 'Parameshwar'?
1) Pulakesin I
2) Pulakesin II
3) Mahendravarman I
4) Mahendravarman II

2.Jahangir's Court was visited by the English trader, namely :
1) Daniel
2) Christofer
3) Sir William John
4) Sir Thomas Roe

3.What was the childhood name of Nur Jahan?
1) Bahu Begam
2) Bharagal Nisha
3) Maharul Nisa
4) Mumtaj

4.Which Governor-General is associated with the 'Doctrine of Lapse'?
1) Cornwallis
2) Ripon
3) Curzon
4) Dalhousie

103. When was the Hyderabad State Congress formed?
1) 1938
2) 1935
3) 1932
4) 1929

4. The Direct Action Day observed by the Muslim League was on :
1) August 12, 1946
2) August 15, 1946
3) August 16, 1946
4) August 15, 1947

5. The 'Kurnool Circular' was issued by the State Congress leaders during :
1) Vandemataram Movement
2) Quit India Movement
3) Salt Satyagraha
4) Non-Cooperation Movement

Group 1 old QP

1.A student got twice as many sums wrong as he got right. If he attempted 36 sums in all, how many did he solve correctly?
1) 18
2) 24
3) 9
4) 12

2. Rearrange the letters SESTA to make meaningful word :
1) Sets
2) Asset
3) Tests
4) Tseas

3. Who known as the Plato of the Jat tribe?
1) Churaman
2) Raja Ram
3) Surajmal
4) Badan Singh

4.After Bengal, the English secured the rights of duty free trade in the dominions of :
1) Nawab of Awadh
2) The Nizam of Hyderabad
3) Raja of Banaras
4) The Jats of Bharatpur

5. 'Madhura Vijayam' was composed by :
1) Molla
2) Gangadevi
3) Ramabhadramba
4) Madhuravani

Group 1 old QP

1.If these letters RIDANI DINAGM rearranged, it would be the name of a :
1) Political leader
2) President
3) Governor
4) Actor

2. If KNOWLEDGE is coded as '256535475' the 'GENERAL' is coded as :
1) 7545993
2) 7969393
3) 7555912
4) 7555913

3. 'Gas' is to 'Pipe' as 'Electricity' is to :
1) Current
2) Switch
3) Wire
4) Regulator

4. Mention the sport/game with which the term Mashie is most closely associated :
1) High Jump
2) Golf
3) Volleyball
4) Kho-Kho

5. Mention the term with which the game Chess is closely associated:
1) Castle
2) Home Run
3) Mashie
4) Raider

Group 1 old QP

1.The recent statement made by the Indian Prime Minister that the Higher Education in India can be developed through adopting approach of :
1) Privatisation
2) Involvement of Foreign Providers
3) Earmaking 60% of the national income for higher education
4) Public-Private partnership

2. The crisis of which impelled the Central Government to introduce far reaching reforms in the country's economy in 1990-1991 was :
1) Balance of payments crisis
2) Crisis in Public Sector
3) Financial crisis
4) Foreign exchange

3. Introducing a man, a woman said, "He is the only son of my mother's mother." How is the woman related to the man?
1) Sister
2) Niece
3) Aunt
4) Mother

4. Five girls are sitting in a row. Rashi is not adjacent to Sulekha or Abha. Anuradha is not adjacent to Sulekha. Rashi is adjacent toMonika. Monika is at the middle in the row. Then Anuradha is adjacent to whom out of the following?
1) Rashi
2) Monika
3) Abha
4) Sulekha

5. Which two months in a year have the same calendar?
1) April, June
2) January, December
3) April, July
4) June, October

Group 1 old QP

1.Pearls are the products from :
1) Annelids
2) Arthropods
3) Poriferans
4) Molluscs

2. Siphoning type of mouth parts are present in :
1) Mosquito
2) Cockroach
3) Butterfly
4) Housefly

3. The space shuttle launched by NASA in November, 2009 was :
1) Atlantis
2) Challenger
3) Columbia
4) Discovery

4. The United Nations Climate Change Conference, 2009 was concluded in :
1) Poland
2) Denmark
3) China
4) Japan

5. Recently, the manuscripts of which one of the following has been included in the UNESCO's Memory of World Register?
1) Mahabharata
2) Ramayana
3) Rigveda
4) Abhidhamma Pitaka

Group 1 old QP

1.Blood is a :
1) Solution
2) Colloid
3) Emulsion
4) Gel

2. Mosquito repellents contain mainly :
1) calcium dihydrogen phosphate
2) potassium hydrogen phosphate
3) sodium hydrogen sulphate
4) ammonium bicarbonate

3. The economically useful part in Ginger is :
1) Bulb
2) Fruit
3) Rhizome
4) Root

4. The edible part of coffee seed is :
1) Tapetum
2) Mace
3) Caruncle
4) Perisperm

5.Lutein is a/an :
1) Blue coloured pigment
2) Yellow coloured pigment
3) Brown coloured pigment
4) Orange coloured pigment

Group 1 old QP

1.The Greenhouse effect deals with :
1) Cooling of lower atmosphere
2) Warming of upper atmosphere
3) Cooling of upper atmosphere
4) Warming of lower atmosphere

2.Pace-maker is related to :
1) heart
2) lung
3) liver
4) kidney

3.Inertia is the property of :
1) force
2) strength
3) mass
4) volume

4.Tea will cool most easily in :
1) glass cup
2) metal cup
3) clay cup
4) porcelain cup

5.When there is no external force acts on a system of particles, the velocity of centre of mass of the system will be :
1) increased
2) decreased
3) zero
4) constant

Group 1 Old QP

1.Saving is :
1) the major determinant of growth
2) the only determinant of growth
3) one of the determinants of growth
4) not concerned with growth

2.Which of the following descriptions does not explain VAT as per its conceptualisation?
1) It will diminish revenue buoyancy
2) It is a harmonised commodity taxation regime
3) Its effects are non-cascading
4) It is a self-enforcing system

3. Heavy Sector Strategy is associated with the name of :
1) Brahmananda
2) Mahalanobis
3) Bhagwati
4) Chakravarti

4.A stable macroeconomy contributes to global integration through the :
1) Ability to withstand shocks
2) Use of prices as signals
3) High returns from education
4) Creation of financial discipline

5.One of the key elements of India's market based developmental strategy is :
1) No Government intervention
2) Investment in physical capital
3) Integration with the global economy
4) A rapidly changing macroeconomy

Group 1 old QP

1.The 97th Constitutional Amendment Act resulted in the :
1) Readjustment of Lok Sabha Constituencies
2) Prohibition of Members of Parliament to hold offices of profit
3) Increase in the number of languages in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution
4)Limiting the size of the cabinet at the centre and state levels to 10 percent of the total strength of the respective lower houses

2.The method which became popular in recent past for employing persons for various jobs in the public as well as private sectors is :
1) Contract appointments
2) Emergency recruitment
3) Outsourcing
4) On-line recruitment

3.Sustainable development exactly means :
1) Improving the conditions of present generation without affecting the needs of future generation
2) Development that percoloates to the bottom level sections in the society
3) Development with social justice
4) Development that lasts for a long time

4.President Rule was imposed in Andhra Pradesh in 1973 because of:
1) Telangana agitation
2) Jai Andhra Movement
3) Political instability
4) Failure of Constitutional Machinery

5.The lowest number of seats won by the Congress Party in the Andhra Pradesh State Assembly Elections held in the year :
1) 1983
2) 1985
3) 1994
4) 1999

Group 1 old QP

1.The total Solar eclipse of the 21st Century occurred on:
1) 20th July, 2009
2) 21st July, 2009
3) 22nd July, 2009
4) 23rd July, 2009

2. The outer layer of the earth is known as :
1) Mantle
2) Core
3) Cirrus
4) Crust

3. Which one of the following is the major Ocean of the world?
1) Indian Ocean
2) Atlantic Ocean
3) Pacific Ocean
4) Arctic Ocean

4.Latitudes are imaginary lines drawn parallel to the Equator and run from :
1) North to South
2)East to West
3) Arctic circle to North pole
4) South pole to Tropic of cancer