TNPSC Group I 2007 Exam Paper-Part 1
1. Pituitary gland is situated in
a) the neck
b) the base of the heart
c) the
base of the brain
d) the
abdomen
Answer: c
2. Red colour to the blood is given by
a) haemoglobin
b) albumin
c) gamma globulin
d) myoglobin
Answer: a
3. Sexual characters in female are controlled by
a) Progesterone
b) Estrogen
c) Testosterone
d) Aldosterone
Answer: b
4. A cross between hybrid and either of any parent (dominant
) or recessive ) is called
a) Monohybrid
cross
b) Back cross
c) Test
cross
d) Dihybrid cross
Answer: b
5. Identical twins are produced when
a) one sperm is fertilized with two eggs
b) one egg is fertilized with two sperms
c) one fertilized egg is divided into two
blastomers and separated
d) two eggs are fertilized with two sperms.
Answer: c
6. In human 47 number of chromosomes (22A+XXY) is resulted in
a) Down's syndrome
b) Klinefelter's syndrome
c) Turner's syndrome
d) Edward's syndrome
Answer: b
7. Which vaccine should be given to the newborn within 15
days of birth?
a) 'O' Polio
b) DPT
c) MMR vaccine
d) Measles vaccine
Answer: a
8. Match List I with List II
correctly and select your answer using the codes given below:
List I List
II
a) A,B,O, blood group 1)
Example for point mutation
b) Bald head in man 2)
Dihybrid cross
c) Sickle cell anaemia 3)
Multiple alleles
d) Independent assortment 4) sex influenced genes
Codes:a b c d
a) 4 3 2 1
b) 3 4 1 2
c) 2 1 4 3
d) 1 2 3 4
Answer: b
9. Consider the following
statements:
i) ADH is secreted by adenohypophysis
ii) ADH is secreted by infundibulum
iii) ADH is secreted by neurohypophysis
iv) ADH is secreted by pineal gland
Of the statements:
a) (i)
and (ii) are correct
b) (ii) alone is correct
c) (iii) alone is correct
d) (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct
Answer: c
10. Consider the following statements:
Assertion (A): The sperm contains Acrosome in the neck
Reason (R): Centrioles are important for sperm count.
Now select your answer according to the coding scheme given
below:
a) Both
(A) and (R) are false.
b) (A)
is true, but (R) is false.
c) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
correct reason.
d) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not
the correct reason.
Answer: b
11. The Controller of Insurance is at present
a) Finance
secretary
b) Deputy Governor, RBI
c) Chairman, GIC
d) Chariman,
IRDA
Answer: d
12. At present the expenditure on Government (both central
and state) as as percentage of GDP is
a) 5%
b) 17%
c) 24%
d)30%
Answer: d
13. The sex ratio of India
a) 935
b) 929
c) 933
d) 930
Answer: c
14. The state which has the lowest record of Infant Mortality
Rate is
a) Tamil Nadu
b) Uttar
Pradesh
c) Kerala
d) Madhya Pradesh
Answer: c
15. ............. was Hindu religious leader
a) Vivekananda
b) Varahamitra
c) Valmiki
d) Tarabai
Answer: a
16. Which is the International Year of Rice?
a)2001
b) 2003
c) 2004
d)2005
Answer: c
17. The founder of the Newspaper, 'The Hindu' was
a) S. Subraminia lyer
b) Kasturi
Ranga Lyengar
c) S. Satyamurthy
d) T.K. Madhavan
Answer: a
18. Which of the following countries of the European Union
has not adopted the single currency Euro?
a) France
b) U.K.
c) Germany
d) Spain
Answer: b
19. Who has written the book"Big Egos, Small Men"?
a) Narasimba Rao
b) Ram Jethmalani
c) Soli Sorabjee
d) T.N. Seshan
Answer: b
20. 93rd constitutional Amendment deals with
a) size of the ministry
b) separate commission for SC
c) compulsory
education for the children
d) reservation in higher reducation
Answer: d
21. What were the animals found in the most of the ancient
forts for protection?
a) Lion
b) Tiger
c) Horse
d) Crocodile
Answer: d
22. Where is the Veterinary
University
a) Madurai
b) Coimbatore
c) Trichy
d) Chennai
Answer: d
23. Parambikulam project is located in ........ district
a) Periyar
b) Coimbatore
c) OOty
d) Karur
Answer: d
24. Tuticorin is famous for
a) Spice
Fertilizer Industry
b) Iron and Steel Industry
c) Aluminium
Industry
d) Machine Tool Industry
Answer: a
25. Gokula Krishnan Commission was appointed to probe into
a) caste
clashes in Tamil Nadu
b) Coimbatore
c) study the Dalit's situation in Tamil Nadu
d) none
of these
Answer: b
26. The first Tamil Nadu Chief Minister to be awarded Bharat
Ratna is
a) C.N.
Annadurai
b) M.G. Ramachandran
c) C. Rajagopalachari
d) Bakatavatchalam
Answer: c
27. The Pykara Scheme of Tamil Nadu is in.......... district
a) Salem
b) Periyar
c) Nilgiri
d) Kanniyakumari
Answer: c
28. Which Tamil nationalist published a literary magazien
called "Bala Bharathi"?
a) Subramanya Bharati
b) Subramanya sive
c) V.O.C
d) V.V.S.lyer
Answer: d
29. Match List I with List II
correctly and select your answer using the codes given below:
List I List
II
a) Pattinapakkam 1.
the morning bazar
b) Maruvurpakkam 2.
The residental area
c) Nalangadi 3.
The evening bazar
d) Allangadi 4.Coastal
area with its harbour
Codes: a b c d
a) 2 3 1 4
b) 2
4 1 3
c) 3 1 2 4
d) 4
3 2 1
Answer: b
30. Who assassinated Ashe, the District Collector of
Tirunelveli?
a) V.V.S.lyer
b) Vanchi lyer
c) V.S. Srinivasa Sastry
d) S. Srinivasa lyengar
Answer: b
31. Match List I with List Ii
correctly and select your anser using codes given below:
List I List II
a) Kant 1.
Climatic classification
b) Thornthwaite 2.
cycle of erosion
c) Whittlesey 3.
origin of the earth
d) Penck 4.
agricultural typology
Codes: a b c d
a) 3 1 4 2
b) 2
4 1 3
c) 3 1 2 4
d) 4
3 2 1
Answer: a
32. Consider the following statements:
Assertion (A): Tea and coffee are both grown in the Nilgiri
hills.
Reason (R): Both crops need similar condition for growthNow
select your answer according to the coding scheme given below
a) (A)
and (R) are True
b) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not
the correct explanation of (A)
c) (A) is true, but (R) is false
d) (A
) is false, but (R) is true
Answer: a
33. Which National
Highway Agra
a) NH 1
b) NH 7
c) NH 3
d) NH 5
Answer: c
34. International Literacy Day is celebrated on
a) October 8
b) September 8
c) August 8
d) December 8
Answer: b
35. The oldest oil refinery of India
a) Haldia
b) Digboi
c) Barauni
d) Cochin
Answer: b
36. Tidal
Park
a) Elcot
b) Sathyam
c) Polaris
d) TCS
Answer: a
37. Theni district was bifurcated from Madurai
a)1996
b) 1997
c) 1998
d)1999
Answer: b
38. Match List I with List II
correctly and select your answer using the codes given below:
List I Sanctuaries List II Districts
a) Vedanthangal 1)
Tanjore
b) Kalakadu 2)
Nilgiris
c) Mukurthi 3)
Tirunelveli
d) Vadur 4)
Kancheepuram
Codes: a b c d
a) 4 2 3 1
b) 2
4 1 3
c) 3 1 2 4
d) 4
3 2 1
Answer: a
39. Dharmapuri district is known for ...... in Tamil Nadu
a) Granite
b) Quartz
c) Limestone
d) Iron ore
Answer: a
40. Which is the south Indian Oxford
a) Salem
b) Kanniyakumari
c) Tirunelveli
d) Tuticorin
Answer: b
41. Semiconduction property of silicon is due to
a) its positive temperature coefficient of
resistance
b) its negative temperature coefficient of
resistance
c) wide band gap
d) narrow band gap
Answer: d
42. Light from the sun reaches the earth in
a) 45 minute
b) 8minute
c) 4 minute
d) 2 minute
Answer: b
43. Which of the following is used in electric heaters and
irons?
a) Tungsten
b) Steel
c) Copper
d) Nichrome
Answer: d
44. Which one of the following instruments is used to measure
the speed of water through a pipe?
a) McLeod
gauge
b) Pressure gauge
c) Screw
gauge
d) Venturimeter
Answer: d
45. Which one of stars is measured by the unit
a) Kilometre (km)
b) angstrom (Å) unit
c) light year
d) giga
meter
Answer: c
46. Theory of relativity was proposed by which one of the
following scientists in the year 1905?
a) Rutherford
b) Thomson
c) Bohr
d) Einstein
Answer: d
47. The moderator used in the nuclear reactor at Madras
a) water
(H2O)
b) graphite
c) heavy
water (D2O)
d) none of these
Answer: d
48. Radio carbon in nature is produced as a result of
a) the
action of UV rays on ordinary carbon
b) the action of IR rays on ordinary carbon
c) the
action of cosmic rays on earth's atmospheric nitrogen
d) the action of X-rays on ordinary carbon
Answer: c
49. The speed of sound is higher in which one of the
following mediums?
a) Liquids
b) solids
c) Gases
d) Same in all
Answer: b
50. The hung amount of energy released in nuclear fission and
fusion reactions is due to the conversion of
a) chemical energy into heat energy
b) protons into neutrons
c) mass into energy, according to Einstein's
equation
d) mechanical energy into heat energy
Answer: c
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