Secretariat Assistant Question No 3

1. Choose synonymous word -' To surprise somebody greatly'

 Appraise

Antonyms

Astonish

 Reveal

2. Choose synonymous word-'To make something more important that it really'

Excess

 Elaborate

Stress upon

 Exaggerate

3. Express one's opinion without evidence or full knowledge

Specify

 Speculate

 Concede

 Sensing

4. An event that will happen soon

 Imminent

 Damnsure

 Immense

Immutable

5. Choose Synonymous word- To lead somebody to do something

 Persuade

 Placate

 Persecute

 Perpend

6. Find the word does not belong to the group

 Violet

 Blue

 Magenda

 Green

7. Find the word does not belong to  the group

 Cucumber

 Carrot

 Brinjal

 Ladies Finger

8. Find the word does not belong to the group

 Yaswanth Sinha

 Jaswant Singh

 Shatrugnan Sinha

 Manmohan Singh

9. Find the word does not belong to the group

 Cancel

 Nullify

 Void

 Confirm

10. Find the word does not belong to the group

 G Sankarakuruppu

 O.N.V. Kuruppu

 S. K. Pottakkadu

 Thakazhi Sivasankarapillai

11. Pather Panjali: Sathyajith Ray ;Athithi : .................

 K . P. Kumaran

 M . T Vasudevan Nair

 T. V. Chandran

 P. A . Backer

12. Pareekkutty: Madhu; Chemban Kunju : ........... 

 P . J. Antony

 Jose Prakash

 Govindankutty

 Kottarakara Sreedharan Nair

13. Bangladesh : Dhaka ; Austria : ...........

 Canberra

 Lapaz

 Santiago

 Vienna

14. Fill the blank space - A, E, J, O, ........., .........

 M,Q

 S,X

 T,Y

 U,Z

15. Fill the blank space - ADH, BEI, CFJ, ..........

 DGL

 DHK

 EHL

 FIM

FIM also comes in the same manner

16. Fill the blank space - Veluthampi Dalawa ........... a  brave fight against British Army

 Put up

 Put off

 Put in

 Put down

17. Fill the blank space - The train was coming , the supervisor ......... the workers to stop working on rail

 called off

 called in

 called away

 called out

18. It ........... rain this evening

 can

 may could

 is

19. choose correct answer from the alternative to fill the blank space;
.......... the suspected cause for earthquakes is the construction of dams

 Most of

 Only

 One of

 None of these

20. Fill in the blanks : There were ........... telephone booths around, so that the old one is closed

 few

 a little

 a few

  little

21. Adolf Hitler committed suicide in

 1943

 1944

 1945

 1946

22. Congress Socialist Party was formed in

 1934

 1935 1936

 1938

23. IMF/ World Bank was formed in

 1942

 1944 1946

 1947

IMF was established in 1945 and started functioning in 1947.World Bank was set up in 1944 and began operation in 1946

24. Kyoto Conference was held in

 1992

 1993

 1996

 1997

25. Indian Patent Act was formed in

 1970

 1975

 1977

 1980

26. 'One  Life' is written by

 Dr. B. Iqbal

 Bergnan

 Kurozowa

 Dr. Christiann Bernard

27. 'The Interpretation of Dreams' is written by

 Eric Erikson

 Sigmund Freud

 A. Beck

 Kraeplin

28. 'Kesavante Vilapangal'  is written by

 M. Mukundan

 O. V. Vijayan

 Anand

 Perumbadavam Sreedharan

29. First Malayalam Cinema is

 Balan

 News paper Boy

 Harishchandra

 Vigatha Kumaran

30. The director of the film 'Susanna' is

 T. V. Chandran

 Priyadarsan

 Adoor Gopalakrishnan

 Lenin Rajendran

  31. The Nigerian Novelist who won the Nobel prize

 Clod Seamong

 Vol Soyinga

 Joseph Brodskey

 None of these

32. World AIDS Day

 April 17th

 June 5th

 December 1st

 February 14th

33. The famous film song 'Easwaran Hinduvalla,Islamalla, Christianiyalla,Indranum Chandranumalla' was written by

 O.N.V. Kuruppu

 S. L. Puram Sadanandan

 Vayalar

 None of these

34. FIFA President

 Sep Blatter

 Urz Linzy

 H.K. Dua

 None of these

35. Erethrean sea is

 Bay of Bengal

 Indian Ocean

 Red sea

 Arabian sea

36. Find out the values of x and y if x+ y = 7; 3x-2y =11

 4,3

 5,2

 3,4

 2,5

37. Five years ago I was thrice as old as my son and ten years laterI shall be twice as old as my son.How old are we now

 30 & 40

 50 & 20

 40 & 15

 35 & 15

Let x be the age of son,
3x + 15 = 2( x  + 15)
3x + 15 = 2x + 30
x = 15
Present age of son = x + 5 = 20
Father = 3x + 5 = 50

38. 3 chairs and 2 tables cost Rs 700 and 5 chairs and 3 tables cost Rs 1100. What is the cost of 2 chairs and 2 tables

 Rs 400

 Rs 500

 Rs 600

 Rs 900

39. Find two consecutive natural numbers whose squares have been the sum 221

 10,11

 9,10

 12,13

13,15

40. Find out the values of x & y if 2x + 3y = 31; 17x - 11y = 8

 4,7

 5,7

 6,8

 5,8

41. The sum of two numbers is 15. If the sum of their reciprocals is 3/10, find out the numbers

 9,6

 8,7

 5,10

 4,11

42. The length of a rectangular plot is 8 metres greater than its breadth. If the area of the plot is 308 m.find the length and breadth of the plot in metre

L-16, B-8

 L-18, B- 10

 L-20,B-12

 L-22, B-14

43. A lawn is in the shape of a rectangle of length 60 metres and width 40 meters.Outside the lawn there is a foot path of uniform width 1 metre broadening the lawn. Find out the area of the path.

 4 m2

 204 m2

 204 m

 184 m2

44. A chess board contain 64 equal squares and the area of each square is 6.25 cm².A border round the board is 2 cm wide.Find the length of the side of the chess board.

64 cm²

 60 cm

 42 cm

 24 cm

45. The area of a triangle is 48cm².The base is 12 cm.What is its altitude.

 4 cm

 6cm

 8cm

 12 cm

46. The minute hand of a clock is 10 cm long. Find the area on the face of the clock described by the minute hand between 9.00 am and 9.35 am.

183 cm²

 160cm²

 100cm²

314 cm²

47. The number of children in 10 families in a locality are listed:3,1,4,0,2,1,1,2,3,3.Find out the mean number of children

 1

 2

 3

 4

48. The mean of a set of 40 values is 6. Each of the values is increased by 5. What will be the mean of the set of new values

 11

 45

 60

 70

49. Find out the median of the values 5,10,3,7,2,9,6,2,11 

 2

 6

 11

 9

 50. 5:6, 7:8, 13:16 - Which of the following is correct, if the above values are arranged in descending order of magnitude

 5:6 > 7:8 > 13:16

 13:16 > 7:8 > 5:6

 7:8 > 5:6 >13:16

 7:8 >13:16 >5:6

51. What must be added to the numbers 6, 10, 14 and 22 so that they became successive proportional

 1

 2

 3

 4

 52. Which one of the following is having greater value

 5:3

 6:4

 7:6

 9:7

53. Nalini purchases a cycle for Rs. 660 including sales tax.If the rate of sales tax is 10 % find out the sale price of the cycle

Rs 500

Rs 550

 Rs 560

 Rs 600

54. What will be the next number in the following series of numbers 2,4,16,......

 32

 64

 256

 300 

 55. What will be the next number if the series of numbers is as follows 3, 11, 27, 59,..........

 70

 86

 100

 123

56. Who proposed the atomic theory

 John Dalton

 Neils Bohr

 Chadwick

 Rutherford

57. Father of electricity

 Michal Faraday

 J .J. Thompson

 Edison

 Ampere

58. Who is related to Green Revolution in India

 Varghese Kurian

 Anand

 Dr. M. S Swaminathan

 Medha Padkar

59. Dengue fever is caused by ............

 Bacteria

 Virus

 Fungi

 Not produced by infective agent

60. Temporary hardness of water is due to

 Calcium chloride

 Sodium Carbonate

 Sodium chloride

 Magnesium bicarbonate

61. Global warming is due to the increased production of all the following Except

 carbon di oxide

 Ethane

 Methane

 Sulpher dioxide

62. The concept that all plants are made of cells was put forward by

 Theodor Schwan

 R Virchow

 Louis Pasteur

 M J Schleiden

63. All the following are noble metals except 

 Mercury

 Gold

 Silver

 Platinum

64. EEG is used to study the function of

 Heart

 Muscle

 Brain

 Nerve

65. DNA model is put forward by 

 Ian Wilmut

 Dr. Henri Becquirel

 Robert Hook

 None of these

Watson and Crick

66. World Heavy weight Champion of 2003

 Clistsco

 Muhammed Ali

 Linnex Lewis

None of these

67. Second Kerala Chief Minister is

Pattom Thanu Pillai

E.M.S

 C Achutha Menon

 R Sankar

68. The slogan 'Inquilab Zindabad' was first used by

 Bhagat Singh

 Subhash Chandra Bose

 Lenin

 Ajay Ghosh

69. Sadhu Jana Paripalana Sangam is founded by

 A. K. Gopalan

 Ayyankali

 Sree Narayana Guru

 Vakkom Maulavi

70. All of the following are Dravidian language EXCEPT

 Malayalam

Telungu

 Thulu

 Marathi

71. First Internal Affairs Minister of independent India

 Jawaharlal Nehru

 Lal Bahadur Shastri

 Sardar Vallabhai Patel

 V Krishna Menon

72. Capital of Kenya

 Aman

 Nairobi

Cairo

 Beirut

73. First Computer Virus

 Gappi

 Meleesa

Norton

 Apple

74. Who declared that 'Swaraj is my birth right and I must have it'

 Bhagat Singh

 Balagangadhara Tilak

 Gandhiji

 Subhash Chandra Bose

75. All of the following persons are extremists of Independence movement EXCEPT

 Lala Lajpat Rai

 Bipin Chandrapal

 Gopalakrishna Gokhale

 Aurobindo Ghosh

76. Which of the following event is related to General Dyer

 Jalianwala Bagh Massacre

 Wagon Tragedy

 Chittagong Riot

 Punnapra Vayalar struggle

77. First battle of Panipat was between

 Hemu and Akbar

 Marathas and East India Company

 Babur and Ibrahim Lodi

 East India Company and Portuguese

 78. Where did Gandhiji launched his first struggle

 Navaghaly

 Dandi

 Kappad

 Champaran

79. Who presided the first session of All India Trade Union Congress

 Subhash Chandra Bose

 Lala Lajpat Rai

 C .R. Das

 Jawaharlal Nehru

 80. Volunteer captain of Guruvayoor Temple Sathyagraha

 A. K. Gopalan

 K. Kelappan

 Pattom Thanu Pillai

 Ayyankali

 81. The East India Company established its first factory at

 Surat

 Pune

 Calcutta

 Bombay

82. Formation of the INA was the result of the great efforts made by

 Captain Lakshmi Bai

 Rash Behari Bose

 Subhash Chandra Bose

 Aurobindo Ghosh

83. In which conference did Subhash Chandra bose was elected as the president of Indian National Congress

 Avadi

 Pune

 Tripuri

 Bombay

84. RSS was banned in 1948 in relation with

 India Pak division

 Hindu Muslim War

 Bengal division

 Assassination of Gandhiji

85. Bhruhaspathi is related with

 Arya Samajam

 Medicine

 Indus civilization

 Charvakamatham

86. The slogan American Model Arabikadalil is related with

 Telungana struggle

 Punnapra vayalar sruggle

 Kayyur struggle

 Vaikom Sathyagraha

 87. 'Keralam Malayalikalude Mathrubhoomi' was written by

 Kumaranasan

 Thakazhi

 E.M.S

 Vallathol

88. Male female sex ratio of India in 2001 census is

 1000 :933

 1000: 1040

 1000:939

 1000:1046

89. The Prime Minister who started privatization in Brittain

 Margarat Thacher

 John Major

 Tony Blair

 Winston Churchill

 90. The smallest state in the world

 Russia

 Vatican

 Sri Lanka

 Cuba

91. The person who became the Chief Minister for the longest period in India

 E. K. Nayanar

 Vasantha Sate

 Jyothi Basu

K. Karunakaran

  92. Who was the first speaker of Lok Sabha

 Sivaraj Patel

 Jagjeevan Ram

 Lal Bahadur Shastri

 G. V Mavlankar

 93. Panchayathi Raj instructions came into effect with the amendment of the constitution

 70th

 73rd

 76th

 79th

94. Who is the President of newly declared independent country East Timor

 xanana Gusmao

 Hugo Chavez

 Lula da Zilva

 Nuster Kitchnarre

95. The Chairman of Constitution committee

 Kuldip Nayyar

 Justice Kbare

 Justice Varma

 Justice Venkita Chellaiya

 96. Monthly salary of Chief Justice of India

Rs 30,000

 Rs 31,000

 Rs. 33,000

 Rs. 50,000

 97. What is B.O.D

 Biological Oxygen Demand

 Biochemistry of Diseases

 Biochemical Oxygen Demand

 None of these

98. Meenamatha disease is related with

 Cadmium

 Mercury

 Lead

 Iron

99. National party is one which could secure not less than ........... % of the total valid votes in the previous general election

 4%

 6%

8%

 9%

100. The theory that the Continents will travel was first put forward by

 Antonio Sneider

 F J Wine

 D. H. Mathews

 Alfred Wegner