TNPSC
GROUP-II EXAM - Original
Question Paper – April 2010
Exam
Date: 11-04-2010 Series
- B
General
Knowledge & General English - Part 1
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
1. Who is the Governor of Reserve Bank of India
A)
B.Y. Reddy
B)
C. Rangarajan
C)
Bimal Jalan
D)
D. Subbarao
Answer: D
2. Match List I with II correctly and select
your answer using the codes given below:
List I List
II
A)
Sirpi 1)
Thoni Varugiradhu
B)
Gnana Koothan 2)
Iduthan
C)
Erode Thamizh
Anban 3)
Anru Veru Kizhamai
D)
Puviyarasu 4)
Surya Nizhal
Codes:
a b c d
A) 2 3 1 4
B) 4 3 1 2
C) 1 2 4 3
D) 3 1 2 4
Answer: B
3. Which of the following is considered as
a non-economic activity?
A)
Teaching in a class
B)
Patient attended by a doctor
C)
Mother taking care of her child
D)
Travelling in a bus
Answer: C
4. Positron was discovered by
A)
Rutherford
B)
Dirac
C)
Madam Curie
D)
Chadwick
Answer: B
5. Floppy disk is a/an
A)
storage device
B)
input device
C)
output device
D)
input-output device
Answer: D
6. √0.169/0.00144
=
A)
130/12
B)
12/130
C)
0.13/12
D)
13/12
Answer: A
7. If the
actual value of an item is 415 and its estimated value is 400, the absolute
error is
A)
-15
B)
15
C)
00375
D)
-0.0361
Answer: B
8. Which
one of the following schedules of the constitution of India
A)
First
B)
Second
C)
Third
D)
Fourth
Answer: A
9. Where were the ancient paintings
discovered first in Tamil Nadu?
A)
Keelvalai
B)
Chittanavasal
C)
Mallapadi
D)
Panaimalai
Answer: C
10. The author ‘Iniyavai Narpadhu’ is
A)
Vilambi Naganar
B)
Boodhan sendhanar
C)
Kani Medhaviar
D)
Nalladhanar
Answer: B
11. Match
List I with II correctly and select your answer using the codes given below:
List I List
II
A)
Neethi Devan Mayakkam 1)
Na. Muthusamy
B)
Parasakthi 2)
Indira Parthasarathy
C)
Narkkalikarargal 3)
Arignar Anna
D)
Pasi 4)
Kalaignar
Codes:
a b c d
A) 3 4 1 2
B) 1 3 4 2
C) 2 1 3 4
D) 4 2 1 3
Answer: A
12. The expansion of HDI is
A)
Hindi Development Institute
B)
Human Development Index
C)
Human Development Investment
D)
None of these
Answer: B
13. Hydrogen bomb is based on the principle
of
A)
nuclear explosion
B)
nuclear fusion
C)
nuclear fission
D)
slow reaction
Answer: B
14. A source program is the program written
in language
A)
English
B)
Symbolic
C)
High level
D)
Machine
Answer: C
15. The
ratio of two number is 3:8 and their difference is 115 the larger number is
A)
66
B)
46
C)
184
D)
96
Answer: C
16. Conversion of information to data will be
in the form of
A)
integers
B)
rounded to 2 decimals
C)
fractions
D)
any of these
Answer: D
17. The Supreme Court decides the disputes
regarding the election of
A)
President alone
B)
Vice-President alone
C)
both President and Vice-President
D)
Prime Minister
Answer: C
18. Match
List I with List II correctly and select your answer using the codes given
below:
List
I List II
A)
Ka. Na Subramanyan 1)
Thanneer
B)
Ashoka Mithran 2)
Sayavanam
C)
Sa.Kandasamy 3)
Vadi Vasal
D)
Si.Su.Chellappa 4)
Poiththevu
Codes:
a b c d
A) 2 3 1 4
B) 1 2 4 3
C) 4 1 2 3
D) 3 4 1 2
Answer: C
19. “Onre Kulam; Oruvane Devan” was said by
A)
Vallalar
B)
Anna
C)
Thirumoolar
D)
Thayumanavar
Answer: C
20. What are the three eternals accepted in
Saiva siddhantan?
A)
Karma, Pati, Jnana
B)
Pati, Pasu, Pasa
C)
Pasa, Jnana, Jeeva
D)
Jeeva, Jnana, Pati
Answer: B
21. During
the Second Five-Year Plan period, the planners worked out the capital output
ratio at
A)
1.5 : 1
B)
5.4 : 1
C)
2.3 : 1
D)
4.3 : 7
Answer: C
22. The unit of
capacitance is
A)
Coulomb
B)
farad
C)
ohm
D)
gram
Answer: B
23. A
collection of related data, that is, having a similar purpose is called as
A)
database
B)
record
C)
structure
D)
all of these
Answer: A
24. The
arithmetic mean of the number 1,2,…………… , n is
A)
n(n+1) (2n+)/6
B)
n(n+1)2/4
C)
n+1/2
D)
n(n+1)/4
Answer: C
25. In which
year was Panchayat Raj system introduced in India
A)
1950
B)
1959
C)
1952
D)
1962
Answer: B
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