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CATEGORY NUMBER 115/2009
Date of Test: 17.01.2009




1. India has the world’s largest deposits of :

Mica
2. The first Indian state to introduce the Panchayth Raj System?

Rajasthan

3. The tenure of Rajya Sabha Member is :

6 Years

4. Who has won the Global Diversity Award November 2005?

Aiswarya Rai

5. International Literacy Day is observed on :

September 8

6. The centenary of Olympic Games was celebrated at :

Atlanta

7. When was ISRO setup?

1969

8. Which Maharaja of Travancore was an eminent composer of Carnatic Music?

Swathi Thirunal

9. The basic regulatory authority for mutual fund and stock markets ?

Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)

10. Which seashore in Kerala is famous for deposit of mineral sand ?

Chavara

11. Which one of the following is a great circle?
(a) The Equator
(b) The Tropic of Cancer
(c) The Tropic of Capricorn
(d) The Arctic Circle

The Equator

12. The Odakkuzhal Award is given in the memory of ?

G.Sankarakurup

13. The first Indian woman to get Nobel Prize?

Mother Teresa

14. Which of the following is the river valley civilization?
(a)Iranian
(b)Greek
(c) Mesopotamian
(d) Roman

Mesopotamian

15. The exact difference between Greenwich and Indian Standard time is?

Five and a half hours

16. Pallava dynasty was established in 300 A.D. The capital city of Pallavas was:

Kanchi

17. The Netaji subhash National Institute of Sports is located at :

Patiala

18. The total length of Konkan Railway is :

760 Km

19. The Chairman of the Planning Commission is :

Prime Minister

20. The practice of keeping more than one crop in a field is called :

Mixed cropping

21. The type of rear view mirror in a car is :

Convex

22. Credit of starting space research in India goes to :

Vikram Sarabhai

23. The highest percentage in the atmosphere is of:

Nitrogen

24. The medicine used to fight against Plague :

Streptomycin

25. Which among the following is an astronomical unit of distance?
(a) Angstrom (b) Femometer (c) Light Year (d) Mach

Light Year


26. Television stations cannot transmit their regional programme to far off places because:

They are not reflected by the ionosphere as radio waves.

27. Which is the name of the instrument used for measuring the blood pressure?

Sphygmomanometer

28. Which of the following is an egg laying mammal?

(a) Platypus (b) Kangaroo (c) Mouse (d) Fish

Platypus

29. A ligament connects :

Bone and bone

30. Halley’s comet appears once in :

76 Years

31. Sheep herding is most common in :

Steppe grasslands

32. Samuel. L. Clemens was popularly known as :

Mark Twain

33. The two predominant gases that constitute the sun as fire ball are?

Hydrogen and Helium

34. The two best paintings ‘Mono Lisa’ and ‘The Last Supper’ were painted by ?

Leonardo da Vinci

35. Open Sky policy means :

Permission of foreign airlines.

36. ‘Kolla Varsham’ began in ?

A.D.825

37. When was the practice of “Sati” abolished in India?

1829

38. What is the study of coins is called?

Numismatics

39. The words “Sathymeva Jayate” is taken from?

Mundaka Upanishad

40. Which of the following cities has the modest temperature throughout the year ?

(a) Allahabad (b) Dehradun (c)Bangalore (d) Delhi


41. Under whose advice the president of India declares emergency under article 352?

The Prime Minister

42. The longest highway in India is from Varanasi to Kanyakumari . Which is that ?

N.H.7

43. The highest Indian Peak is: ?

Godwin Austin

44. What does UNESCO deal with?

International Educational, Scientific and Cultural matters

45. Which organization is popularly called the “World Bank”?

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

46. Temporary tax levied to obtain revenue is called?

Cess

47. Bordeaux Mixture, one of the best known fungicides is a mixture of?

Copper Sulphate and Lime

48. Which is concerned with the study of ancient skeletal remains?

Anthropological Survey of India

49. Kundara Proclamation in 1809 was made by?

Veluthampi Dalawa

50. First Governor of Kerala was?

B.Ramakrishnan Rao

51. The “Hollerith” Code is used with?

Punched Card

52. Volatile memory means :

Content will lose if power fails

53. A “T” State means?

Portion of operation in a cycle

54. Memory interleaving means?

Concurrency of operation of several independent memories

55. Which of the following flip-flop has only one input ?

(a) D flip-flop (b) JK flip-flop (c) Master slave flip-flop (d)All of the above

D flip-flop

56. Computer’s processing speed is measured in ?

MIPS( Millions of Instructions Per Second)

57. Cache memory will be available :

In between processor and RAM

58. Kernal is the program which interact with :

User Programs and Computer hardware

59. The function of the DOS commands DIR/OD/S is :

List all files in the directory including sub directories in date wise

60. GUI stands for :

Graphical User Interface.

61. Alt+F4 is the short cut key used in windows for:

Terminate the current application

62. Which type of Operating System reads and react in terms of actual time?
Real time system

63. Which of the following contains a list of files in UNIX?
(a) Special File (b) Ordinary File (c) Directory File (d) Batch File

Directory file

64. In Unix ‘grep’ command is used for:

Search a word in a file

65. Which of the following is a DOS based word processing package?
(a) MS Word (b) Notepad (c) WordPad (d)Word star

WordPad

66. Which is the short cut key for search a word in a document is:

Ctrl + F

67. In a word document, grammatical errors are marked with :

Green Line

68. To select multiple words but not continuous in a document the key combination used is :

Ctrl + mouse button

69. “Line space” in a word document means :

Vertical spacing of lines

70. Auto text features

Generate the text just by typing a few letters

71. When the text in a document exceeds the length of a page, word insert :

Soft Page Break

72. The feature available in MS Word to type data in row and column form :

Tables

73. A Template is :

A collection of formatting options

74. Which of the following feature of word processor has a document and a data source?

(a) Spelling Check (b) Grammar Check (c) Mail merge (d) Tables

Mail merge

75. A book mark is :

A location in a table for quick reference

76. The short cut key used to make all caps :

Ctrl + Shift +A

77. When dates are placed in a main document in a mail merge operation, data are placed in the symbols?

Double angular Bracket

78. A hierarchical listing of heading within a document is called?

Outline View

79. Which tool is used to copy the formatting from one place to another?

Format Painter

80. Which of the following lists the term and topics of a document?

Index

81. Duplex printing means :

Printing in both sides of a page

82. A file with ‘.dot’ extension is associated with :

Template

83. In Lotus 1-2-3, 1-2-3 indicates :

Spreadsheets database and graphs

84. When a new Excel worksheet is opened, generally the number of worksheets available will be :

3

85. A ‘range’ in MS Excel means?

Set of Cells

86. If a word in cell A1 is “kerala” and when type ‘k’ in the cell A2, MS Excel will display ‘kerala’ because of the feature

Auto complete

87. In which of the number format, the number is represented in exponential notation?
Scientific

88. A line drawn around a cell or group of cell is :?

Border

89. Orientation in printing means :

Direction of print in the paper.

90. Excel functions can be grouped into : ?

10 categories

91. The cell reference address $E$1 is:

Absolute Mode

92. Which of the following chart requires only one data range?

(a) Bar Chart (b) Stacked 3D Chart (c) Pie Chart (d) Line chart

Pie Chart

93. Which of the following number format code will display insignificant digits also ?

(a) # (b) 0 (c)% (d) /

0
94. Which of the following feature of Excel selects record with a specified condition ?

(a) Filter (b)Range (c)Template (d) Sort

Filter

95. What feature of Excel is used to type in error free values for an application?

Data Validation

96. What is the short cut key for selecting format cells dialog box?

Ctrl + 1

97. Which of the following error message will style with three options: Yes, No & Cancel?

Warning

98. A series of worksheet rows that contain related data is ?

List

99. Which option of Alignment, in Format cell dialog, make the data type in cell, divides into more than one row ?

Wrap Text

100. Which of the following date format is used to display day names as Sunday, Monday…etc?

(a)d (b)dd (c)ddd (d)dddd


dddd

Current Affairs Questions & Answers- January -2009

CURRENT AFFAIRS JANUARY 2009


1. The new federal agency approved by the Indian Government to combat terror in India which will be empowered to deal with terror related crimes across states without special permission from the state ?

National Investigation Agency.

2. Who is appointed as Director General of the newly established National Investigation Agency (NIA).?

Radha Vinod Raju, Special Director General of Police in Jammu and Kashmir

3. “Man of the series” of recently held One Day series between Australia & South Africa?

Albie Morkel

4. Who became the country’s youngest international referee, after passing the world body FIBA’s exam ?

Zanim Mohammed Hashim from Thalassery, Kerala

5. The first Indian to win the prestigious Golden Globe Award for Best Original Music Score ?

A.R.Rahman for Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire.
Rahman’s song ‘Jai Ho,’ penned by lyricist Gulzar, was nominated for Best Original Music Score.

6. Which Malayalam Writer won the “Odakkuzhal Award ” ?

K.G.Sankara Pillai

7. Who became the fastest bowler to take 50 wickets in one-day internationals ?

Ajantha Mendis , completed his 50-wicket haul in his 19th one-day international. He surpassed the record of India's Ajit Agarkar who took 23 matches to reach the milestone.

8. Who has been appointed as the General Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Management and Budget in the upcoming administration of U.S.President Barack Obama?




Preeta Bansal, Leading Indian-American lawyer

9. Name the Indo-Russian supersonic cruise missile with speeds of Mach 2.5 to 2.8, which is world's fastest cruise missile and is about three and a half times faster than the U.S.A's subsonic Harpoon cruise missile?

Brahmos, The acronym 'BrahMos' is perceived as the confluence of the two nations represented by two great rivers, the Brahmaputra of India and the Moskva of Russia.

10. Who is the Man of the Series in the recently held Zimbabwe –Bangladesh One Day Series held in Bangladesh?

Shakib Al Hasan

11. The first Bangladesh player to top one of the International Cricket Council's player rankings?

Shakib Al Hasan He tops the ICC ODI Rankings for all-rounders

12. Jharkhand Chief Minister who resigned from his post following his defeat in the Tamar assembly by-poll?

Shibu Soren

13. Music Sensation A.R.Rahman won how many Oscar nominations for the film “Slumdog Millionaire” ?

Three nominations (Music, Songs (Jai Ho, O Saya))

14. Indian sound engineer from Mumbai, born in Kerala, nominated for the Oscars for Best sound mixing in 'Slumdog Millionaire’?



Rasool Pookutty

15. Which film won most number of Oscar Nominations in 2008?

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” with 13 Oscar nominations.

16. Name the founder and Chairman of Satyam Computers until January 7, 2009 when he resigned from the Satyam board after admitting to corporate fraud of 7000 crore rupees ?



Ramalinga Raju
17. The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor Sr., who was sentenced to 97 years in prison for charges including torture and conspiracy, according to a federal court in Florida. ?

Charles McArthur Emmanuel
He also known as Charles "Chuckie" Taylor Jr.

18. Who is BBC African Footballer of the Year 2008



Egyptian footballer Mohamed Aboutrika

19. The new model car launched by Fiat India Automobiles Ltd in India during fist quarter of 2009.



Fiat Linea




20. Who is the Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab?

Sukhbir Singh Badal

21. The 50th anniversary of the Triumph of a country’s Revolution is observed on this year January? Which revolution?

Cuban Revolution

22. The Three Indian cricketing legends, who figured among the 55 former players named in the ICC`s inaugural Hall of Fame list as part of its centenary celebrations ?

Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar and Bishan Singh Bedi

23. The Chief Financial Officer of Satyam Computers, who was remanded to judicial custody charged with criminal conspiracy, cheating and forgery of accounts.

Srinivas Vadlamani

24. Who is the new President of Ghana?

John Atta Mills

25. Name of the Bacteria developed by Australian Scientists to prevent Dengue Fever by infecting the dengue mosquito with that bacterium which halves its lifespan?

Wolbachia bacterium

26. Who became the youngest chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir?

Omar Abdulla

27. Who is the deputy chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir?

Tara Chand

28. Which team won the Ranji Trophy for the season 2008-2009?

Mumbai, they beat Utharpradesh to clinch the title.

29. Who is the fifth New Zealand Cricket player to score a century in his debut?

Martin Guptill, he scored 122 runs (not out) against West Indies in his debut match

30. Prem Nazir Award is won by?

Malayalam Actor, Jayaram

31. The fourth Thikkurissi Foundation Award is won by?

Malayalam Actor, Balachandra Menon

32. Dadasaheb Phalke award winner and noted film-maker who died recently at a hospital in Kolkata after a prolonged illness?

Tapan Sinha

33. The Australian Cricketer who retired recently from international cricket?

Mathew Hayden

34. Which player’s performance is counted as the best ever Test Innings of 2008 selected by Cricinfo?

Virender Sehwag, his double century against Sri Lanka

Best Bowling performance : Dale Steyn against Australia in Melbourne , he took 5 wicket s for 67 runs.

35. The first player in the history of cricket to score 10,000 runs and 250wickets in both tests and One Day internationals?

Jacques Kallis