SOLVED PAPER OF ASSISTANT GRADE II EXAM OF KERALA STATE BEVERAGES CORPORATION

SOLVED PAPER OF ASSISTANT GRADE II EXAM OF KERALA STATE BEVERAGES CORPORATION (CATEGORY NUMBER: 369/2008) HELD ON 29/08/09


1. I will complete the course in ------------- year.
a

2. While walking -------------the small door I hurt my head.
Through

3. Which of these chairs did you sit------------?
In

4. If DONKEY: BRAYS then WOLF:
Howls

5. The thief was caught----------. The suitable idiom is:
Red handed

6. The idiom it’s all Greek and Latin to me means:
Something I don’t understand

7. I was all eyes to see what he would do. The words italicized mean:
Eagerly watching

8. Beware of that wolf in sheep’s skin. The closest meaning to this idiom is:
Hypocrite

9. The phrase black sheep means:
Misfit

10. Just now my hands are full. My hands are full closely means:
I am very busy

11. ‘KIMONO’ is the dress style of:
Japan

12. Madam Curie :
Isolated Radium

13. The author of the book “The Wonder That was India” is:
A.L. Basham

14. The First Chief Minister of Kerala was:
E.M.S.Namboothiripad

15. The state of Kerala was formed on:
1 November 1956

16. The Navel Academy is situated in Kerala at:
Ezhimala

17. Edakkal Cave is in:
Wyanad

18. The largest Taluk in Kerala is:
Ernad

19. The Head Quarters of Kerala High Court is at:
Kochi

20. The First Woman Supreme Court Judge was:
C.Fatima Beevi

21. The first Governor of Kerala was:
Ramakrishna Rao

22. The First Arts and Science College in Kerala is :
CMS College, Kottayam

23. The Sabarigiri Hydro Electric Project is built in the river:
Pampa

24. The Hydro Electric Project in Kerala is:
Pallivasal

25. The HQ(Head Quarters) of Wyanad district is:
Kalpetta

26. The District which has no forests in Kerala is:
Alappuzha

27. The Architect of Cochin sea Port was:
Robert Bristo

28. ---------- city is alled “Venice of East”
Alappuzha

29. Malabar Cement Factory is in:
Walayar

30. The place where getting highest rainfall in Kerala is:
Lakkidi

31. ISOBARS connect points of equal:
Pressure
32. LOTI is the currency of:
Lesotho

33. Copper is produced in:
Rajasthan and Bihar

34. Rana Pratap Sagar is located in:
Rajasthan

35. The Chairman of the Planning Commission of India is:
Prime Minister

36. Five Year Plans in India are approved by
National Development Council

37. The Raj Committee (1972) probed:
Agricultural holding Tax

38. Panchayat Raj has got constitutional status with the ---------Amendment Act:
73rd

39. Fundemental Rights are enshrined in PART---------------- of Constitution of India
III

40. How many members can be nominated to Loksabha by President?
2

41. Acharya Vinoba Bhave’s Paunar Ashram is in:
Maharashtra

42. A rocket works on the principle of conservation of:
Linear momentum

43. The best conductor of electricity is :
Silver

44. Glass is a good:
Insulator

45. A catalyst:
Alters the velocity of reaction

46. Carbon occurs in nature in the purest form as:
Diamond

47. The Newspaper “DAWN” is published in :
Karachi

48. International Women’s Day is observed on:
March 8

49. IBERIAN AIRLINES is the official airlines of:
Spain

50. The Head Quarters of World Health Organisation (WHO) is in:
Geneva

51. The largest slum in India is in :
Mumbai

52. ---------- is the author of ‘Ain-i-Akbari’:
Abul fazal

53. Hopman Cup is associated with:
Tennis

54. Who is called ‘Deshabandhu’?
C.R. Das

55. ---------- got Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913
Rabindranath Tagore

56. Tarapore Committee was associated with :
Fuller Capital Account Convertibility

57. Arundathi Roy is well known:
Writer-Social activist

58. ------------ is called ‘Forbidden city’:
Lahsa

59. ------------ is the leading producer of Uranium:
Canada

60. Aspirin was invented in 1899 by:
Felix Hoffman (Germany)

61. Entomology is the study of:
Insects

62. “An Area of Darkness” is written by:
V.S. Nai Paul
63. Which of the following was the First Indian Institute of Technology?
IIT Kharagpur

64. Who became the first Miss India?
Rieta Faria

65. ---------- has the highest population density as per 2001 Census
West Bengal

66. From which of the following stations that India launched its first successful multipurpose communication and meteorology satellite, INSAT I B on 30 August 1983?
Cape Canaveral (USA)

67. The Head Office of Kerala Civil Supplies Corporation is at:
Ernakulam

68. Under whose patronage Kutabminar was built?
Kutabdeen Ibek

69. The First Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu was :
C.N Annadurai

70. Spherometer is:
An instrument used for measuring the curvature of spherical objects

71. The largest shipyard in India is:
Kochi

72. PNEUMOCONIOSIS afflicts the workers who works mainly in:
Coalmining industries

73. ---------------- is a well known flute exponent
Ronu Mazumdar

74. ------------- was the First Chief Justice of India
Harilal J Kania

75. “EMPLOYMENT NEWS” is published by:
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

76. “YAKSHAGANA” is a popular folk art of:
Karnataka

77. The NREP (National Rural Employment Programme) was launched in:
October 1980

78. ANGSTROM is the unit of :
Wavelength of light

79. The Thermal Power Plant at Bokaro is located in:
Jharkhand

80. Disease caused by deficiency of Vitamin C is :
Scurvy

81. The bus pass is ---------- for a year:
Valid

82. A philatelist collects ---------------
Stamps

83. No one could understand ------------
What he was saying

84. We have been trying to solve the problem -------------
For two days

85. The fear of high places ----------- quite common
Is

86. If she were selected, she ------------------ a good secretary
Would make

87. Either the pen or the paper ------------------- defective
Is

88. Find the word that is rightly spelt:
(a)moskitoes (b)mosqwitoes (c)mosquitose (d)mosquitoes

Mosquitoes

89. Choose the correctly spelt word:
(a) Refrigerator (b)refrigarator (c)refregerator (d)rafrigerator

Refrigerator

90. Choose the word that is closest in meaning to the word plead
(a)set out (b)conclude (c)intend (d)beg for
Beg for

91. The closest meaning of the word ulcer is :
Open sore

92. Find the word that is opposite in meaning to the word permit
Forbid

93. Choose the wrongly spelt word
(a)permenant (b)affection (c)affectation (d)conscientious
Permenant

94. Select the word opposite meaning to ever
Never

95. Comatose best means:
Deeply unconscious

96. Choose the correct preposition for the sentence:
I admit I am very fond ----------him
of

97. The suitcase is made ---------- leather
Of

98. You won’t tell them what has happened, ----------------?
Will you

99. Change into indirect speech: He said, “I have passed the examination.”
He said that he had passed the examination

100. They have bought a new car, ----------?
Haven’t they