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