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1)Who was the first President of 6)Who was the last Viceroy of
America ? India?
(a)George Washington (a)Lord Louis Mountbatten
(b)Martin Luther king (b)Lord Wavell
(c) Thomas Jefferson (c) Lord Linlithgow
(d)George Bush (d)Lord Willingdon

2)Who reached the southern tip of 7)Which Act authorised the

Africa in the hope of finding a new Government to arrest any Indian
sea route to India?
without inquiry?
(a)Vasco-da-Gama
(b)Amerigo (a)Rowlatt Act
(c) Bartolomeu Dias (b)Black Act
(d)Columbus
(c) Martial Law

3)What was the name of the (d)None of these

devastating plague that swept
through Europe in the 14th 8)Who wrote the book Hind
century? Swaraj?
(a)The Great Famine (a)Ambedkar
(b)The Hundred Years' War (b)Savarkar
(c) The Great Schism (c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d)The Black Death (d)Subhas Chandra Bose

4)Which global organisation was 9)Which British Prime Minister

formed after World War II to made the declaration about Indian
promote international cooperation Independence in the British
and peace? Parliament?
(a)United Nations (a)Churchill
(b)World Health Organisation (b)Thatcher
(c) League of Nations (c) Atlee
(d)North Atlantic Treaty (d)Roosevelt
Organisation (NATO)
10)Who among the following took
5)Where did the Industrial greater interest in laying out
Revolution first start? gardens than others?
(a)Great Britain.
(a)Humayun
(b)France.
(b)Babur
(c) Rome.
(d)America. (c) Jahangir
(d)Akbar
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 16)Battle of Colachel was fought
11)Who founded the Asiatic Society between
of Bengal? (a)marthanda Varma and the
(a)Max Muller dutch
(b)Lord Bentinck (b)dharmaraja and the dutch
(c) William Jones (c) marthanda Varma and the
(d)Lord Dalhousie Portuguese
(d)marthanda Varma and the
12)Which one is the longest epic in
British
the world?
(a)Ramayana
(b)Ramcharitmanas 17)Vasco da Gama first landed at
(c) Mahabharata Calicut in the Year
(d)Hanuman Chalisa (a)1453
(b)1498
13)From where the Great Indian (c) 1503
Mutiny of 1857 started? (d)1524
(a)Meerut
(b)Kanpur 18)Who is known as Kerala Gandhi
(c) Delhi ?
(d)Lucknow (a)K. Kelappan
(b)K. P. Kesava menon
14)Who among the following is (c) Vakkom maulavi
known as the ‘Napoleon of India’? (d)K. madhavan
(a)Samudragupta
(b)Harshavardhana
(c) Chandragupta Maurya 19)Who started
(d)Ashoka ‘‘Panthibhojanam’’ in Kerala ?
(a)Vaikunda Swamikal
15)Tolkappiyam was written by
which of the following? (b)Chattambi Swamikal
(a)Tiruvalluvar (c) Sree Narayana Guru
(b)Tolkappiyar
(d)Thycaud Ayya
(c) Senguttuvan
(d)Sattanar
20)What is the current name of the
ancient port Muziris?
(a)Cochin
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 (b)Kodungallur 26)Blue Revolution is related to
(c) Kollam ______:
(a)Oil production
(d)Calicut
(b)Fish production
(c) Milk production
21)Where is Kaziranga National (d)Food production
Park situated?
(a)West Bengal
27)Which latitude passes through
(b)Assam
(c) Mizoram the middle of India?
(d)Karnataka (a)Equator
(b)Arctic Circle
22)Which of the following is the (c) Tropic of Capricorn
highest peak of south India? (d)Tropic of Cancer
(a)Anaimudi
(b)Dodabeta
28)India lies in the hemisphere
(c) Mahendragiri
(a)Northern and eastern
(d)Gurushikhar
(b)Southern and eastern
23)Which of the following is not an (c) Northern and western
east-flowing river in Kerala ? (d)Southern and western
(a)Periyar
(b)Bhavani 29)Which state has the longest
(c) Pambar
coastline in India?
(d)Kabini

(a)Andhra Pradesh
24)Which of the following Indian
States does not share International (b)Maharashtra
land border?
(a)Bihar (c) Gujarat
(b)Uttar Pradesh
(d)West Bengal
(c) Madhya Pradesh
(d)Jammu and Kashmir
30) Dal lake is situated in
25)Kanchenjunga is situated in (a)Delhi
which state? (b)Kashmir
(a)Himachal Pradesh (c) Himachal
(b)West Bengal (d)Punjab
(c) Assam
(d)Sikkim
31)Which among the following
words was added to the Preamble

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of the Indian Constitution by the 36)Which of the following cities is
42nd Amendment ? known as the Manchester of South
(a)Sovereign India?
(b)Socialist (a)Coimbatore
(c) Democratic (b)Chennai
(d)Republic (c) Madurai
(d)Mysuru
32)Fundamental rights are given
in which part of the Indian 37)Construction is part of
constitution? (a)Primary Sector
(a)Part II (b)Secondary Sector
(b)Part III (c) Service Sector
(c) Part IV (d)None of these
(d)Part V
38)Who among the following
33)How many languages are regulates the banks in India?
covered under the 8th schedule of (a)Reserve Bank of India
(b)SEBI
the Indian Constitution?
(c) SBI
(a) 12
(d)None of the above
(b)22
(c) 18 39)The Union Budget of India is
(d)21 presented by whom ?
(a)Finance Minister of India
34) The number of Lok Sabha seats (b)Prime Minister of India
in kerala (c) Cabinet Secretary
(a)17 (d)President of India
(b)20
(c) 21 40)Who is called the father of
(d)18 Operation Flood in India?
(a) Verghese Kurien
35) The Parliament of India (b) M.S. Swaminathan
consists (c) Norman Borlaug
(a)President, Lok Sabha, Rajya (d) Vinoba Bhave
Sabha
(b)Prime minister, Lok Sabha, 41)What is the name of the acid
Rajya Sabha found in lemons?
(c) Vice President, Lok Sabha, (a)Lactic acid
Rajya Sabha (b)Sulfuric acid
(d)President, Vidhan Sabha (c) Carbonic acid
(d)Citric acid
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42)Which vitamins help in the 45)Which of the following carries
clotting of blood? the process of cell respiration?
(a)Vitamin A (a)Nucleus
(b)Vitamin C (b)Golgi Body
(c) Vitamin K (c) Mitochondria
(d)Vitamin E (d)None

43)Which of the following is a root 46)When is National Science Day

vegetable? Observed?
(a)Carrot
(a)20 February
(b)Cassava
(c) Onion (b)28 February
(d)All the above (c) 3 March
(d)21 March
44)Consider the following

statements regarding the 47)Which of the following diseases

is caused by a virus ?
pancreas.
(a)Plague
(b)Polio
1. It is an organ present in the
(c) Tetanus
back of the abdomen (belly). (d)Leprosy

2. It is not a part of the 48)The force acting on unit area of

a surface is
digestive system.
(a)Pressure
(b)Velocity
Which of the following
(c) Force
statement(s) given above is/are (d)Displacement

correct? 49)In human beings the sound is

produced by
(a)Only 1 (a)Diaphragm
(b)Oesophagus
(b)Only 2 (c) Larynx
(d)Trachea
(c) Both 1 and 2
50)The grease is used between the
(d)Neither 1 nor 2 moving parts of the machine to
(a)increase the friction
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 (b)reduce the friction (d)sugar
(c) the friction
(d)to maintain the friction 56) Seema was conducting an
experiment with sodium
51)The device used to detect a hydroxide and Aluminum metal.
charge on the body is She brought a burning matchstick
(a)Microscope near the mouth of the test tube
(b)Telescope and the gas escaping out of the test
(c) Electroscope tube started burning by making a
(d)stethoscope pop sound. This means that gas is
(a)Oxygen
52)The largest planet of our solar (b)Carbondioxide
(c) Nitrogen
system is
(d)Hydrogen
(a)Jupiter
(b)Mercury
57) Which of the following is not a
(c) Mars web browser ?
(d)Venus (a)Safari
(b)Google
53)Which of the following is not a (c) Opera
(d)Internet Explorer
chemical change?
(a)Electrolysis of water 58)Who is known as the father of
computers?
(b)Rusting of Iron (a)James Gosling
(c) Melting of ice (b)Charles Babbage
(c) Dennis Ritchie
(d)Burning of wood (d)Bjarne Stroustrup

54)An element forms a gaseous 59)Which of the following is the

oxide, which on dissolving in smallest unit of data in a
water gives a solution in which computer?
blue litmus paper turns red. The (a)Bit
element is (b)KB
(a)Sodium (c) Nibble
(b)Sulphur (d)Byte
(c) Calcium
(d)magnesium 60)Which of the following is the
brain of the computer?
55)The substance which sublimes (a)Central Processing Unit
on heating is (b)Memory
(a)common salt (c) Arithmetic and Logic unit
(b)Iodine (d)Control unit
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61)In a library there are 4 books on (b)15.15
different subjects lying on a table
(c) 21.34
one over the other. In how many
ways can they be arranged one (d)26.25
over the other?
(a)16
66)Raju is the son of Ravi's
(b)4
(c) 24 brother Shyam. Then Ravi is___
(d)20
of Raju

62)If Ahmad cycles at a speed of 20 (a)Brother

kmph instead of 15 kmph, he (b)Nephew
would be able to cover a distance of
30 km more. What is the actual (c) uncle
distance covered by him? (d)father
(a)70 kms
(b)110 kms
(c) 90 kms 67)In a certain code language, if
(d)50 kms
YIELDER is coded as RIDLEEY,
63)What will be the next term of then how is ENGLAND coded in
the series 13,17,27,49,89,...
that language?
(a)153 (a)GENLDNA
(b)142
(c) 169 (b)DNLAGNE
(d)129 (c) DNALGNE

64)The price of a Door frame has (d)GNELDAN

increased from Rs. 1040 to Rs.
1196. Find the percentage increase 68)A man is standing on a lawn
in the price. facing North. If the man turns 45
(a)25 degrees in anti-clockwise
(b)10 direction and 135 degrees in
(c) 20 clockwise direction, which
(d)15 direction will he face now?
(a)South
65)The average of 50 numbers in (b)West
(c) East
20. If two numbers 37 and 43 are
(d)North
discarded, find the average of the
remaining numbers.
(a)19.17
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69) Statement: Every Australian 73)Who wrote Panchatantra?
speaks 6 languages. Antony speaks (a)Kalidas
(b)Tulsidas
6 languages.
(c) Vishnu Sharma
Conclusion: (d)Banabhatta

74)Which of the following is not a

1. Antony is an Australian
novel written by M T Vasudevan
2. People from other countries
Nair
do not speak 6 languages.
(a) Naalukettu
(a)Only conclusion 1 follows
(b)Randamoozham
(b)Only conclusion 2 follows
(c) Manju
(c) Either 1 or 2 follows
(d)Nellu
(d)Neither 1 nor 2 follows

75)Appukkili is a famous character

70) If Ist October is a Sunday, then
in the novel
what day will it be on Ist
November? (a)Kaalam
(a)Tuesday
(b)Balyakalasakhi
(b)Wednesday
(c) Friday (c) Khasakkinte Ithihasam
(d)Sunday
(d)Francis Ittikkora

71)Who is the author of the book 76) Julius Caesar and Othello are
'The white tiger?
famous works by
(a)Vikram Seth
(b)Rabindranath Tagore (a)Charles Dickens
(c) Aravind Adiga
(d)None of the above (b)Jane Austen

72)In which year, the famous poet (c) William Shakespeare

Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri
(d)Agatha Christie
won the Jnanpith award ?
(a)2020
(b)2019 77) Which of the following is not a
(c) 2018 character of The Thousand and
(d)2017 One Nights
(a)Aladdin
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 (b)Ali Baba 83)Who won the golden boots in
(c) Sindbad the Sailor Qatar World Cup Football 2022 ?
(d)Gulliver (a)Neymar
(b)Kylian mbappé
78)Which Nobel laureate is best (c) Ronaldo
known for his novel "The Old Man (d)lionel messi
and the Sea"?
(a)Gabriel Garcia Marquez 84)The Chief Guest of India’s
(b)Ernest Hemingway
(c) Toni Morrison Republic day celebrations in 2024
(d)Salman Rushdie
(a)mr. Pushpa Kamal dahal,

79)Sherlock Holmes is a fictional Prime minister Nepal

detective created by
(a)Edgar Allan Poe (b)mr. Abdel Fattah EI-Sisi,
(b)Agatha Christie
(c) Dashiell Hammett President of Egypt
(d)Arthur Conan Doyle
(c) mr. Antony Blinken, U.S.

80)Who wrote the epic Odyssey? Secretary of State

(a)Homer
(b)Virgil (d)Emmanuel Macron,
(c) Kafka
(d)Sophocles President of France

85)Who is known as the father of

81)Which of the following
languages is not an official Indian missile technology ?
language of the UNO ?
(a)German (a)Dr Homi Bhabha
(b)English
(c) Arabic (b)Dr Chidambaram
(d)French
(c) Dr U.R. Rao
82)“Kerala Kalamandalam” is
situated in (d)Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
(a)Palakkad
(b)Malappuram
86)Najeeb is the protagonist of
(c) Thrissur
which Famous novel ?
(d)Ernakulam
(a)Dharmapurāṇaṃ

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 (b)Aadujeevitham (d)Parker solar probe
(c) Al arabian novel factory
(d)Nireeshwaran 92)Which famous poet is believed
to be the founder of Thullal?
87) The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize (a)Cherussery Namboodiri
was awarded to (b)Kunjan Nambiar
(a)Abiy Ahmed (c) Cheeraman
(b)Ales Bialiatski (d)Poonthanam Namboodiri
(c) Narges Mohammadi
(d)Maria Ressa 93)Who won the first Olympic
medal in wrestling for India ?
(a)Sushil Kumar
88) Which of the given cities is (b)Karnam malleshwari
located on the bank of river Ganga? (c) Bajrang Punia
(a)Patna (d)Khashaba dadasaheb Jadhav
(b)Gwalior
(c) Bhopal 94)Who among the following
(d)Mathura
nations is not a member of BRICS?
(a)India
89)The current secretary-general
(b)China
of the United Nations is
(c) Russia
(a)Ban Ki-moon
(d)Japan
(b)Audrey Azoulay
(c) António Guterres
95)Shore temple is situated in
(d)Dr. Tendros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus which state of India ?
(a)Odisha
90)Gibraltar straits links which of
(b)Tamil Nadu
the following?
(a)The Pacific Ocean and the (c) Maharashtra
Mediterranean Sea (d)Kerala
(b)The Mediterranean Sea and
the Red Sea
96)In which state of India did the
(c) The Red Sea and the Atlantic Kuchipudi dance originate ?
Ocean (a)Gujarat
(d)The Atlantic Ocean and the (b)Karnataka
Mediterranean Sea (c) Andhra pradesh
(d)Maharashtra
91)India's manned mission to the
space is named as 97)The capital of France, known
(a)Samudrayaan for the Eiffel Tower and Louvre
(b)Mangalyaan Museum, is ?
(c) Gaganyaan (a)Paris
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 (b)Rome
(c) Berlin
(d)Madrid

98)Which of the following is the

highest civilian award of India ?
(a)Padma Bhushan
(b)Bharat Ratna
(c) Padam Shri
(d)Jnanpith Award

99)Book ‘A brief history of time’ is

written by: ?
(a)John Green
(b)J K Rowling
(c) Suzame Colling
(d)Stephen Hawking

100) ______ is the founder of

Facebook ?
(a)Mark Zuckerberg
(b)Brian Acton
(c) Jimmy Wales
(d)Larry Page

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