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1)Who was the first President of (d)Lord Willingdon
America ?
(a)George Washington 7)Which Act authorised the
(b)Martin Luther king
Government to arrest any Indian without
(c)Thomas Je erson
(d)George Bush inquiry?
(a)Rowlatt Act
2)Who reached the southern tip of Africa (b)Black Act
in the hope of finding a new sea route to
India? (c)Martial Law
(a)Vasco-da-Gama (b)Amerigo (d)None of these
(c)Bartolomeu Dias
(d)Columbus
8)Who wrote the book Hind
Swaraj?
3)What was the name of the devastating (a)Ambedkar
plague that swept through Europe in the
(b)Savarkar
14th century?
(c)Mahatma Gandhi
(a)The Great Famine
(d)Subhas Chandra Bose
(b)The Hundred Years' War
(c)The Great Schism
9)Which British Prime Minister made the
(d)The Black Death
declaration about Indian Independence in
the British
4)Which global organisation was formed Parliament?
after World War II to promote (a)Churchill (b)Thatcher
international cooperation and peace? (c)Atlee
(a)United Nations (d)Roosevelt
(b)World Health Organisation
(c)League of Nations
10)Who among the following took greater
(d)North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
interestin laying out gardens than
(NATO)
others?
(a)Humayun
5)Where did the Industrial
(b)Babur
Revolution first start?
(c)Jahangir
(a)Great Britain.
(d)Akbar
(b)France.
11)Who founded the Asiatic Society of
(c)Rome.
(d)America. Bengal?
6)Who was the last Viceroy of (a)Max Muller
India?
(b)Lord Bentinck
(a)Lord Louis Mountbatten
(b)Lord Wavell (c)William Jones
(c)Lord Linlithgow (d)Lord Dalhousie
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12)Which one is the longest epic in the 18)Who is known as Kerala Gandhi
world? ?
(a)Ramayana (a) K. Kelappan
(b)Ramcharitmanas (b) K. P. Kesava menon
(c)Mahabharata (c)Vakkom maulavi
(d)Hanuman Chalisa (d)K. madhavan

13)From where the Great Indian Mutiny of

1857 started? (a)Meerut 19)Who started
(b)Kanpur
‘‘Panthibhojanam’’ in Kerala ?
(c)Delhi
(d)Lucknow (a)Vaikunda Swamikal
(b)Chattambi Swamikal
14)Who among the following is known as
(c)Sree Narayana Guru
the ‘Napoleon of India’?
(a)Samudragupta (d)Thycaud Ayya
(b)Harshavardhana
(c)Chandragupta Maurya 20)What is the current name of the ancient
(d)Ashoka
port Muziris?

15)Tolkappiyam was written by (a)Cochin

which of the following? (b)Kodungallur
(a)Tiruvalluvar (c)Kollam
(b)Tolkappiyar
(d)Calicut
(c)Senguttuvan
(d)Sattanar
16)Battle of Colachel was fought between 21)Where is Kaziranga
National Park situated?
(a)marthanda Varma and the dutch
(a)West Bengal
(b)dharmaraja and the dutch (b)Assam
(c)marthanda Varma and the (c)Mizoram
(d)Karnataka
Portuguese
(d)marthanda Varma and the 22)Which of the following is the highest
peak of south India?
British
(a)Anaimudi
(b)Dodabeta
17)Vasco da Gama first landed at (c)Mahendragiri
Calicut in the Year (d)Gurushikhar
(a) 1453
(b) 1498 23)Which of the following is not an east-
(c) 1503 flowing river in Kerala ?
(d) 1524 (a)Periyar

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 (b)Bhavani (c)Gujarat
(c)Pambar
(d)Kabini (d)West Bengal

24)Which of the following Indian States

does not share International land border? 30) Dal lake is situated in
(a)Bihar (a)Delhi
(b)Uttar Pradesh (b)Kashmir
(c)Madhya Pradesh (c)Himachal
(d)Jammu and Kashmir (d)Punjab

31)Which among the following words was

25)Kanchenjunga is situated
added to the Preamble of the Indian
in which state?
Constitution by the 42nd Amendment ?
(a)Himachal Pradesh
(a)Sovereign
(b)West Bengal
(b)Socialist
(c)Assam
(c)Democratic
(d)Sikkim
(d)Republic
26)Blue Revolution is related to ______:
(a)Oil production
32)Fundamental rights are given in
(b)Fish production
which part of the Indian
(c)Milk production
constitution? (a)Part II
(d)Food production
(b)Part III
(c)Part IV
27)Which latitude passes through the
(d)Part V
middle of India?
(a)Equator
33)How many languages are
(b)Arctic Circle
covered under the 8th schedule of the
(c)Tropic of Capricorn
Indian Constitution?
(d)Tropic of Cancer
(a) 12 (b)22
(c) 18
28)India lies in the hemisphere
(d) 21
(a)Northern and eastern (b)Southern
and eastern
(c)Northern and western 34) The number of Lok Sabha seats
(d)Southern and western in kerala (a)17
(b) 20
(c) 21
29)Which state has the longest
(d) 18
coastline in India?
35) The Parliament of India
(a)Andhra Pradesh consists
(a)President, Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha
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 (b)Prime minister, Lok Sabha, Rajya (c)Carbonic acid
Sabha (d)Citric acid
(c)Vice President, Lok Sabha, Rajya 42)Which vitamins help in
Sabha the clotting of blood?
(d)President, Vidhan Sabha 36)Which (a)Vitamin A (b)Vitamin C
of the following cities is known as the (c)Vitamin K
Manchester of South (d)Vitamin E
India?
(a)Coimbatore 43)Which of the following is a root
(b)Chennai (c)Madurai vegetable?
(d)Mysuru (a)Carrot
(b)Cassava
37)Construction is part of (c)Onion
(a)Primary Sector (d)All the above
(b)Secondary Sector
(c)Service Sector 44)Consider the following statements
(d)None of these
regarding the
38)Who among the following
pancreas.
regulates the banks in India?
(a)Reserve Bank of India 1. It is an organ present in the back of
(b)SEBI
(c)SBI the abdomen (belly).
(d)None of the above
2. It is not a part
39)The Union Budget of India is presented of the
by whom ?
(a)Finance Minister of India digestive system.
(b)Prime Minister of India
Which of the following
(c)Cabinet Secretary
(d)President of India statement(s) given above is/are

40)Who is called the father of correct?

Operation Flood in India? (a) Verghese
Kurien (a)Only 1
(b) M.S. Swaminathan
(c) Norman Borlaug (d) Vinoba (b)Only 2
Bhave
(c)Both 1 and 2

41)What is the name of the acid found in (d)Neither 1 nor 2

lemons? 45)Which of the following carries the
(a)Lactic acid process of cell respiration?
(b)Sulfuric acid (a)Nucleus
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 (b)Golgi Body (a)Microscope
(c)Mitochondria (b)Telescope
(d)None (c)Electroscope
(d)stethoscope
46)When is National Science Day
52)The largest planet of our solar system
Observed? is
(a)20 February (b)28 (a)Jupiter
February (b)Mercury
(c)Mars
(c) 3 March
(d)Venus
(d) 21 March
53)Which of the following is not a
47)Which of the following diseases is chemical change?
caused by a virus ?
(a)Electrolysis of water
(a)Plague
(b)Polio (b)Rusting of Iron
(c)Tetanus (c)Melting of ice
(d)Leprosy
(d)Burning of wood

48)The force acting on unit area of a

surface is 54)An element forms a gaseous oxide,
which on dissolving in water gives a
(a)Pressure
solution in which blue litmus paper turns
(b)Velocity
red. The element is
(c)Force
(a)Sodium
(d)Displacement
(b)Sulphur
(c)Calcium
49)In human beings the sound is produced
(d)magnesium
by
(a)Diaphragm
55)The substance which sublimes on
(b)Oesophagus
heating is
(c)Larynx
(a)common salt
(d)Trachea
(b)Iodine
(c)Aluminium
50)The grease is used between the moving
(d)sugar
parts of the machine to
(a)increase the friction
(b)reduce the friction 56) Seema was conducting an
(c)the friction experiment with sodium hydroxide and
(d)to maintain the friction Aluminum metal. She brought a burning
matchstick near the mouth of the test tube
and the gas escaping out of the test tube
51)The device used to detect a charge on
started burning by making a pop sound.
the body is
This means that gas is
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 (a)Oxygen What is the actual distance covered by
(b)Carbondioxide him?
(c)Nitrogen (a) 70 kms
(d)Hydrogen (b) 110 kms
(c) 90 kms
57) Which of the following is not a (d) 50 kms
web browser ?
(a)Safari 63)What will be the next term of the series
(b)Google 13,17,27,49,89,...
(c)Opera
(d)Internet Explorer (a) 153
(b) 142
58)Who is known as the father of (c) 169
computers? (d) 129
(a)James Gosling
(b)Charles Babbage 64)The price of a Door frame has
(c)Dennis Ritchie increased from Rs. 1040 to Rs. 1196. Find
(d)Bjarne Stroustrup the percentage increase in the price.
(a) 25
59)Which of the following is the smallest (b) 10
unit of data in a computer? (c) 20
(a)Bit (b)KB (d) 15
(c)Nibble
(d)Byte
65)The average of 50 numbers in 20. If
60)Which of the following is the brain of two numbers 37 and 43 are discarded, find
the computer? the average of the remaining numbers.
(a)Central Processing Unit
(a) 19.17
(b)Memory
(b) 15.15
(c)Arithmetic and Logic unit
(d)Control unit (c) 21.34
61)In a library there are 4 books on di (d) 26.25
erent subjects lying on a table one over the
other. In how many ways can they be
arranged one over the other? 66)Raju is the son of
(a) 16 Ravi's brother Shyam. Then Ravi is___ of
(b) 4 Raju
(c) 24
(a)Brother
(d) 20
(b)Nephew
62)If Ahmad cycles at a speed of 20 kmph (c)uncle
instead of 15 kmph, he would be
able to cover a distance of 30 km more. (d)father

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67)In a certain code language, if (c)Friday
YIELDER is coded as RIDLEEY, then (d)Sunday

how is ENGLAND coded in that 71)Who is the author of the book 'The
language? white tiger?
(a)GENLDNA (a)Vikram Seth
(b)Rabindranath Tagore
(b)DNLAGNE (c)Aravind Adiga
(c)DNALGNE (d)None of the above
(d)GNELDAN
72)In which year, the famous poet
Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri won the
68) A man is standing on a lawn facing Jnanpith award ?
North. If the man turns 45 degrees in anti- (a) 2020
clockwise direction and 135 degrees in (b) 2019 (c)2018
clockwise direction, which direction will (d)2017
he face now?
73)Who wrote Panchatantra?
(a)South
(a)Kalidas
(b)West
(b)Tulsidas
(c)East
(c)Vishnu Sharma
(d)North
(d)Banabhatta
69) Statement: Every Australian
speaks 6 languages. Antony speaks 6 74)Which of the following is not a novel
languages. written by M T Vasudevan
Conclusion: Nair
(a) Naalukettu
1. Antony is an Australian (b)Randamoozham
2. People from other countries do not (c)Manju
speak 6 languages. (a)Only (d)Nellu
conclusion 1 follows
(b)Only conclusion 2 follows 75)Appukkili is a famous character in the
(c)Either 1 or 2 follows novel
(d)Neither 1 nor 2 follows (a)Kaalam
(b)Balyakalasakhi

70) If Ist October is a Sunday, then (c)Khasakkinte Ithihasam

what day will it be on Ist (d)Francis Ittikkora
November? 76) Julius Caesar and Othello are
(a)Tuesday
(b)Wednesday famous works by
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 (a)Charles Dickens (c)Arabic
(d)French
(b)Jane Austen
82)“Kerala Kalamandalam” is
(c)William Shakespeare situated in
(a)Palakkad
(d)Agatha Christie
(b)Malappuram
(c)Thrissur
(d)Ernakulam
77) Which of the following is not a
character of The Thousand and 83)Who won the golden boots in Qatar
World Cup Football 2022 ? (a)Neymar
One Nights
(b)Kylian mbappé
(a)Aladdin
(c)Ronaldo
(b)Ali Baba
(d)lionel messi
(c)Sindbad the Sailor
(d)Gulliver
84)The Chief Guest of India’s Republic
78)Which Nobel laureate is best known day celebrations in 2024
for his novel "The Old Man and the Sea"?
(a)Gabriel Garcia Marquez (a)mr. Pushpa Kamal dahal, Prime
(b)Ernest Hemingway
(c)Toni Morrison minister Nepal
(d)Salman Rushdie
(b)mr. Abdel Fattah EI-Sisi, President
79)Sherlock Holmes is a fictional of Egypt
detective created by
(a)Edgar Allan Poe (c)mr. Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary
(b)Agatha Christie
(c)Dashiell Hammett (d)Arthur of State
Conan Doyle
(d)Emmanuel Macron,
80)Who wrote the epic Odyssey?
President of France
(a)Homer
(b)Virgil
(c)Kafka 85)Who is known as the father of
(d)Sophocles
Indian missile technology ?

(a)Dr Homi Bhabha

81)Which of the following
languages is not an o (b)Dr Chidambaram
cial language of the UNO ?
(a)German (c)Dr U.R. Rao
(b)English
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 (d)Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (a)Samudrayaan
(b)Mangalyaan
(c)Gaganyaan
86)Najeeb is the protagonist of which (d)Parker solar probe
Famous novel ?
(a)Dharmapurāṇaṃ (b)Aadujeevitham 92)Which famous poet is believed to be
(c)Al arabian novel factory the founder of Thullal?
(d)Nireeshwaran (a)Cherussery Namboodiri
(b)Kunjan Nambiar
87) The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize was (c)Cheeraman
awarded to (d)Poonthanam Namboodiri
(a)Abiy Ahmed
(b)Ales Bialiatski 93)Who won the first
(c)Narges Mohammadi Olympic medal in wrestling for
(d)Maria Ressa India ?
(a)Sushil Kumar
(b)Karnam malleshwari
88) Which of the given cities is located
(c)Bajrang Punia
on the bank of river Ganga?
(d)Khashaba dadasaheb Jadhav
(a)Patna
(b)Gwalior 94)Who among the following nations is
(c)Bhopal not a member of BRICS?
(d)Mathura (a)India
(b)China
89)The current secretary-general of the
(c)Russia
United Nations is
(d)Japan
(a)Ban Ki-moon
(b)Audrey Azoulay
95)Shore temple is situated
(c)António Guterres
(d)Dr. Tendros Adhanom in which state of India ?
Ghebreyesus (a)Odisha
(b)Tamil Nadu
90)Gibraltar straits links which of the
following? (c)Maharashtra
(a)The Pacific Ocean and the (d)Kerala
Mediterranean Sea
(b)The Mediterranean Sea and the Red
96)In which state of India did the
Sea
Kuchipudi dance originate ?
(c)The Red Sea and the Atlantic 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
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97)The capital of France, known for the Ei
el Tower and Louvre Museum, is ?
(a)Paris
(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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