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1. The spherical shape of a drop is due to _______ ?
Answer: Surface tension


*2.  Who is the present RBI Governor ?
Answer:   Urjit Patel


3. Earth is protected from Ultra voilet radiation by _______ ?
Answer: Ozone


4. If we move from equator to pole the value of acceleration due to gravity "g"_______ ?
Answer:  Increases


5. Capital of VeneZuela ?
Answer: Karakkas


6. Solid carbon dioxide is known as ______?
Answer: Dry ice


7.  VAT was first introduced in which country ?
Answer: France


8. Which instrument is used to measure blood pressure ?
Answer: Sphygmomano meter


9. How many coastal states are in India ?
Answer: 9


10. The country which lost the largest number of people in the 2nd world war ?
Answer: Japan


11. How many fundamental duties are laid in the constitution of India ?
Answer: 11

11 a. How many fundamental rights are recognized in the constitution of India ?
Answer: 6

12. Which is the Biggest Museum ?
Answer:  British Museum, London


13. Shora is the parliament of  _______?
Answer: Afghanistan


14. Who is the first person to get Param vir chakra ?
Answer: Major Somnath Sharma


15. Which is the largest fresh water lake in India ?
Answer: Wular Lake

15 a. Wular Lake is in which state?
Answer: Jammu and Kashmir

16. Which is the longest river in peninsular India ?
Answer: Godavari River

16 a. River godavari originates from ?
Answer: Brahmagiri Mountain


17. What is the full form of SIM ?
Answer: Subscriber Identity Module


18. Who is the founder of Van Mahotsav ?
Answer: K.M. Munshi


19. What is the full form of https ?
Answer:  Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure



20. Where is Sardar Sarovar project situated ?
Answer: Gujarat


21. Which is the coldest planet in the solar system?
Answer: Neptune


22. Which is the Longest National Highway in India ?
Answer: NH 44 (old name NH 7)


23. Which is the smallest National Highway in India ?
Answer: NH 966B


24. How many bones are there in human skull ?
Answer: 22


25. Union public service commission  was established on ?
Answer: 1 October 1926


26. Kyoto protocol was adopted in which year ?
Answer: 11-Dec-1997

27. Kyoto protocol was came in to force from which year ?
Answer: 16-Feb-2005 

28.Kyoto is the city from which country?
Answer:japan 

29. Device used for measure radiation ?
Answer: geiger muller counter

Simple & Important GK Questions

30. Number of seats in Lok sabha?
Answer: 545 (543 elected+2 nominated)

31. Number of seats in Rajya  sabha?
Answer: 245 (233 elected+12 nominated) 

32. The second person who land on the moon?
Answer: Edwin Eugene Aldrin 

33. which country is known as land of white elephants?
Answer: Thailand

34. which country is known as land of cakes?
Answer: Scotland

35. which country is known as land of thousand lakes
Answer: Finland

36. which country is known as land of windmills
Answer: Netherland

37 . which country is known as land of lilies ?
Answer: Canada

38. Who are the founders of "Google"?
Answer: Larry Page, Sergey Brin

39. who is the author of  "Glimpses of World History" ?
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru

40. who wrote the book "India Divided"?
Answer: Rajendra Prasad

*41. Who is the father of indian space program?
answer: Vikram Sarabhai

*42. Where is ISRO headquarters?
Answer: Bengaluru

*43.  Which team won first Twenty-20 worldcup at 2007?
Answer: India

*44.Intensity of light is measured by?

Answer: Lux meter

*45. Instrument used for recording sound underwaterAnswer: hydrophone

46. william harvey discovered blood circulation

47. What is full form of GSTAnswer: goods & service tax


48. gst first introduced in which country ?
Answer: france

49. solid carbon dioxide is dry ice

50. VAT first introduced in which country?
Answer: France

51. What is the fullform for VAT?
Answer: Value Added Tax

52. which is the highest civilian award in India?
Answer:Bharat Ratna

53. which is the highest mountain in world?
Answer: Mount everest

54. origami was originated from which country?
Answer: japan

55. Green planet in solar system?
Answer: Uranus 

*56. Which acid is known as  Muriatic acid?
Answer: Hydrochloric acid

*57. Which acid is known as Aqua fortis?
Answer: Nitric acid 

*58. Aqua regia is a mixture of?
Answer: Nitric acid and Hydrochloric acid

*58. What is the full form for "VoIP"?
Answer: Voice over internet protocol

*59. What is the full form for "LISP"?
Answer: Large scale integrated Circuit



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1. Decibel is a unit of ?
Answer: Sound


2. Which of the following is used as rear view mirrors in vehicles ?
Answer: Convex mirror


3. Which of the following is not an ore of iron ?

a) Iron pyrites  b) Magnetite  c) Hematite  d) Magnesite
Answer: d) Magnesite


4. Which one of the following is known as the 'king of metal' ?

a) Iron  b) Gold  c) Platinum  d) Cobalt
Answer:


5. Which is the alkaloid that contains in cola drinks ?
Answer: Caffeine


6. Which alloy is used for the production of the body of aeroplanes ?
Answer: Duralumine


7. The compounds which are used to give colour to glasses and oil paintings ?
Answer: Transition metals


8. Name the person who invented lightning conductor ?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin


9. What is the voltage at which house hold AC (Alternating Current) equipments work ?
a) 220 v   b) 230 v    c) 400v   d) 110v

Answer: 230 v


10. Which of the following is a device that employs the principle of Mutual Induction ?

 a) Electric motor    b) Microphone   c) Transformer    d) Electronic choke
Answer: Transformer


11. Dengue fever is caused by ?
Answer: IGM Dengue Virus


12.  The work of famous poet 'AKKITHAM' which got VAYALAR award in 2012 ?
Answer: Anthimahakalam


13. Which is the highest national Environment award ?
Answer: Vriksha Mithra award


14. Who is the second Indian who is appointed as head of ICC Cricket Committee ?
Answer: Anil Kumble  (First > Sunil Gasvaskar)


15. Who got Nobel Prize for literature in 2012 ?
Answer: Mo yan


16. The programme launched by Kerala state Government to protect women and children from sexual abuse and sexual harassment ?
Answer: Nirbhaya


17. The present chief Justice of India ?
Answer:  P. Sathasivam


18. The new name of Big Ben Tower ?
answer: Elizabeth Tower


19. The 14th Vice President of India ?
answer: Hameed Ansari


20. Which was the statistical model used for India's second five year plan for attaining economic development?
answer: Mahalanobis Model


21. The Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) was established on ?
answer: 1992 April 12


22. Who was the first women Director General of Police in India?
answer:  Kanchan Chauduri


23. No child below the age of 14 can employed as per the Indian Constitution ?
answer:  Article 24


24. Who wrote the book 'Development as Freedom' ?
answer: Amartya Sen


25. The sex-ratio of Kerala (Females per 1000 Males) according to the Census of 2011 ?
answer: 1084


26. Untouchability is abolished under ?
Answer:  Article 17


27. Article 21 A deals with?
answer:  Right to Education



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Secretariat Assistant General knowledge questions (Asked on 5/1/2013 ) part 2


1. India is called a tropical country mainly on account of its ?
Answer: Latitudinal Extent


2. The marshy and forested land in northern part of Uttar Pradesh is ?
Answer: Terai


3. Which river is called a river between the two mountains ?
Answer: Narmada


4. Which state is called the agricultural epitome of India ?
Answer: Uttar Pradesh


5. Which region of India has a larger female population than the male population ?
a. west bengal           b. Mizoram         c. Nagaland           d. Puducherry
Answer: Puducherry
 

6. Who was the first propounder of the doctrine of 'Passive Resistance' ?
Answer: Aurobindo Ghosh


7. In which five year plan University Grants Commission was set up for promoting and strengthening higher education ?
Answer:  First Five Year Plan


8. Who is known as the father of Renaissance of Western India ?
Answer: M.G Ranade


9. The longest River in Peninsular India ?
Answer: Godavari


10. The largest producer of rice in India ?
a. Kerala       b. Andhara Pradesh       c. Tamil Nadu         d. Gujarat
Answer: Andhara Pradesh


11. The national animal of kerala ?
Answer: Elephant


12. The southern most river in Kerala ?
Answer: Neyyar


13. The largest national park in Kerala ?
Answer: Eravikulam


14. First dam in Kerala ?
Answer: Mullapperiyar


15. The most populated district in Kerala as per 2001 census ?
Answer: Malappuram

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Secretariat Assistant Previous General Knowledge questions

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1. Which lamp has the highest energy efficiency ?

a. Incandescent Lamp
b. LED
c. CFL
d. Arc Lamp




2. Yellow light is a combination of  _________ primary colors ?

a. Blue, Green
b. Red, Blue
c. Red, Green
d. Red, Blue and Green




3. Diverging lens produces __________ type of images ?

a. Small virtual image
b. Big real image
c. Small real image
d. Big virtual image




4. The process used to produce Ammonia is ?

a. Contact process
b. Haber process
c. Chlor-alkali process
d. Creighton process




5. The non-metal which exist in liquid state at room temperature is ?

a. Mercury
b. Sodium
c. Potassium
d. Bromine




6. 2007 Nobel prize for Chemistry was awarded to ?

a. Gerhard Ertl
b. Dan Shechtman
c. Richard Fred Heck
d. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan




7.The fifth state of matter is ?

a. Plasma
b. Magma
c. Bose-Einstein condensate
d. Fermionic condensate




8. Speed of blue color light in vacuum is ?

a. > 3x10⁸ m/s
b. = 3x10⁸ m/s
c. < 3x10⁸ m/s
d. > 300 m/s




9. Which fuel has the highest Calorific Value ?

a. Bio-gas
b. Methane
c. Petrol
d. Hydrogen




10. In which direction does rainbow appear in the morning ?

a. North
b. South
c. East
d. West




11. The Chief Minister of Uttatakhand is __________ ?

a. Manohar parrikar
b. Vijay Bahugunna
c. Khanduri
d. Arjun Munda




12. Who is the President of France ?

a. Nicolas Sarkozy
b. Jacques chirac
c. Francois Hollande
d. Joachim Gauck




13. The Booker prize winner of 2012 is  ______ ?

a. Jeet Thayil
b. Hilary Mantel
c. Julian Barnes
d. Mo Yan




14. ICC T20 World cup Winner of 2012 is ____________ ?

a. Sri Lanka
b. Australia
c. India
d. West Indies




15. Who won the women's 100 meter Gold in 2012 London Olympics ?

a. Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce
b. Carmelita Jeter
c. Ohuruogo
d. Felix Sanchez




16. The 59th National Film Award for Best Director was won by ?

a. Guruvinder Singh
b. Salim Ahamed
c. Suveeran
d. Vetrimaaran




17. God's particle is the pseudonym of  __________ ?

a. Large Hardon Collider
b. Quarks
c. Leptons
d. Higgs Boson




18. Which rocket was launched by ISRO during its 100 th Mission ?

a. ASLV-C21
b. GSLV-C21
c. PSLV-C21
d. INSAT-C21




19. The 2012 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to  ________ ?

a. Liu Xiaobo
b. European Union
c. Barack Obama
d. Inter governmental Panel on climate change




20. The Minister for Cooperation in Kerala is  ?

a. C.N Balakrishnan
b. K. Babu
c. Adoor Prakash
d. Ebrahim Kunju




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