Kerala PSC Degree level Questions

 

1. Name the city built by Alauddin Khilji:

(a) Agra (b) Rai Pithora

(c) Jaunpur (d) Siri

2. Jehangir was buried in:

(a) Kabul (b) Delhi

(c) Agra (d) Lahore

3. The venue of the first conference of the

Indian National Congress in 1885:

(a) New Delhi (b) Mumbai

(c) Chennai (d) Kolkatta

4. Who was popularly called Rajaji?

(a) Rajendraprasad

(b) Rajagopalachari

(c) Raja Ram Mohun Roy

(d) Raj Guru

5. Gandhiji arrived India after his life in South

Africa in the year:

(a) 1914 (b) 1915

(c) 1916 (d) 1917

6. Whose birth day is observed as

‘Sadbhavana Divas’?

(a) Indira Gandhi (b) Morarji Desai

(c) Charan Singh (d) Rajiv Gandhi

7. Who wrote ‘Voice of Conscience’?

(a) Zakkir Hussain (b) Sanjiva Reddy

(c) KR Narayanan (d) VV Giri

8. The retiring age of the judge of Supreme

Court is ___ years:

(a) 58 (b) 60

(c) 62 (d) 65

9. Who decides on the holding of elections to

Panchyats?

(a) Parliament (b) State Government

(c) Speaker (d) District Collector

10. The first woman to get Nobel Prize in

literature:

(a) Elinor Ostrom (b) Bertha Von Suttner

(c) Selma Lagerlof (d) None of these

11. The first person of Indian origin to get

Booker Prize:

(a) Salman Rushdie (b) Arundhathy Roy

(c) VS Naipaul (d) None of these

12. The organ of UNO in which all members are

represented:

(a) ICJ (b) General Assembly

(c) Security Council (d) ECOSOC

13. The headquarters of Asian Development

Bank (ADB) :

(a) Jakarta (b) New Delhi

(c) Manila (d) Dhaka

14. Universal Children’s Day:

(a) November 20 (b) November 14

(c) January 12 (d) August 12

Degree Level Previous Questions

‘the last of the Victorians’

15. “Where wealth accumulates, men decay”

Whose words are these?

(a) Oliver Goldsmith (b) Churchill

(c) Adams Smith (d) J S Mill

16. Father of Indian Cinema:

(a) Satyajit Ray (b) Pritviraj Kapoor

(c) Raj Kapoor (d) Dadasaheb Phalke

17.Srinagar is on the banks of:

(a) Ravi (b) Beas

(c) Jhulum (d) Chenab

18.The city of Palaces:

(a) New Delhi (b) Mumbai

(c) Chennai (d) Kolkata

19. In which continent , the longest mountain

range above sea level is situated?

(a) South America (b) North America

(c) Asia (d) Europe

20. The only bachelor to become the US

president:

(a) John Adams (b) George

Washington (c) James Buchanan

(d) JF Kennedy

21. Which is known as ‘the queen of the

Arabian sea’?

(a) Alappuzha (b) Kannur

(c) Kozhikode (d) Kochi

22. PT Usha Coaching Centre is at:

(a) Payyoli (b) Koilandy

(c) Thiruvananthapuram(d) Kozhikode

23. The second speaker of Kerala Legislative

Assembly:

(a) AJ John (b) Seethi Sahib

(c) Alexander Parambithara

(d) VM Sudheeran

24. Doordarsha started programmes in

Malayalam from Thiruvananthapuram in:

(a) 1982 (b) 1983

(c) 1984 (d) 1985

25. The first hydro-electric project in Malabar:

(a) Vilangad (b) Senkulam

(c)Kuttyadi (d) None of these

Answers

1(d) 2(d) 3(b) 4(b) 5(b) 6(d) 7(d) 8(d) 9(b) 10(c)11(c)

12(b) 13(c)14(a) 15(a) 16(d) 17(c)18(d) 19(a)20(c)

21(d) 22(c) 23(b)24(d)25(c)