Time: 1 hour and 15 minutes Maximum marks : 100 marks
1 Who is the recipient of the Gyanpeeth award for 2003?
(a) U.R. Ananthamoorthy (b) Thara Shankar Banerji (c) Vinda Karandikar (d) Arundhati
Roy
2 Central Food Technological Institute is at:
(a) Pune (b) Dehra Dun (c) New Delhi (d) Mysore
3 'Straight from the heart' is the autobiography of:
(a) Mulk Raj Anand (b) Kapil Dev (c) Christian Bernard (d) M.S. Swaminathan
4 New York City is on the banks of the river:
(a) Danube (b) Delaware (c) Hudson (d) Tagus
5 A diseases caused by a virus
(a) Rabies (b) Cholera (c) Typhoid (d) Malaria
6 How many vertebrae are there in a giraffe's neck?
(a) 23 (b) 26 (c) 7 (d) 11
7 The wall of a plant cell is made of
(a) Cellulose (b) Calcium phosphate (c) Protein (d) Starch
8 The pen name of M.P. Bhattathirippad is
(a) Uroob (b) Vilasini (c) Mali (d) Premji
9 The first Keralite actor to win the 'Bharath award'
(a) Satyan (b) Prem Nazeer (c) Bharath Gopi (d) P.J. Antony
10 The year in which Gandhiji visited Kerala for the first time
(a) 1930 (b) 1920 (c) 1942 (d) 1912
11 Who is the founder of the Khilji dynasty
(a) Jalaludheen Khilji (b) Alavudheen Khilji (c) Mohamed Bin Thuglak (d) Aurangazeb
12 When did television transmission begin in India?
(a) 1960 (b) 1965 (c) 1959 (d) 1982
13 The first battle of Panipat was in
(a) 1526 (b) 1556 (c) 1615 (d) 1661
14 Uttarayan is
(a) The house of Tagore inside Viswa Bharathi University (b) The official residence of
the Chief Minister of U.P
(c) The official residence of the Chief Minister of Utharancha (d) U.P. Government's
liaison office in Delhi
15 Who was the first woman Governor of Kerala?
(a) Ram Dulari Sinha (b) Jyothi Venkitachalam (c) Padmaja Naidu (d) Sharada
Mukherjee
16 Where is Ramoji film city situated?
(a) Chennai (b) Vijayawada (c) Hyderabad (d) Mumbai
