Assistant Port Conservator (Department of Port)/ Female Matron (Technical Education Department) 1. Vegetarian is related to meat as..... is related to liquor. (a) Drunkard (b) Patient (c) Teetotaler (d) Sportsman 2. A person who sacrifices his life for a cause is called a .... (a) Victim (b) Martyr (c) Terrorist (d) Revolutionary 3. A person who is facing trail before a criminal court is called .... (a) A culprit (b) An accomplice (c) An accused (d) A prisoner 4. Find the odd one out: (a) Dignity (b) Wisdom (c) Intelligence (d) Honesty 5. Which of the following words cannot be formed from the letters used in the word EXAMINATION ? (a) MAINTAIN (b) MAXIMUM (c) NOMINATION (d) TAXATION 6. In a certain code language “lim suk ta” means ‘boys are clever’, “din lim pu” means “girls are tall” and “pu ne ta” means “boys and girls”. Which word in that language means “and” ? (a) lim (b) din (c) ta (d) ne 7. Which of the following series obeys the rule, “Number of letters skipped in between adjacent letter is two”? (a) MPSVY (b) EHKMP (c) DGJLO (d) XVRQOP 8. Which of the following series starts with a vowel and then has consonants appearing alternately with vowels? (a) Emulsion (b) Iteration (c) Alemot (d) Violence 9. Coconut : Shell : : Letter : ...............? (a) Envelope (b) Mail (c) Stamp (d) Letterbox 10. If a “rectangle” is called a “circle”; a “circle” is called a “point”; a “point” is called a “triangle”; a “triangle” is called a “square”; then, a “wheel” is to be called (a) Rectangle (b) Circle (c) Point (d) Triangle 11. Which of the following has the maximum concentration of alcohol? (a) Rum (b) Vodka (c) Brandy (d) Whisky 12. A mixture of water, and alcohol can be separated by ....... (a) Fermentation (b) Distillation (c) Chlorination (d) Dissociation 13. pH of water is ....... (a) 1 (b) 0 (c) 7 (d) 5 14. Pencil is made from ..... (a) Carbon (b) Lead (c) Zinc (d) Graphite 15. Which of the following is known as “Blue Planet”? (a) Saturn (b) Earth (c) Venus (d) Neptune 16. Which part of the brain is mainly affected by alcohol? (a) Cerebellum (b) Cerebrum (c) Thalamus (d) Epithalamus 17. Light year is a unit of ..... (a) Time (b) Intensity of light (c) Speed (d) Distance 18. The purest form of water is obtained from ..... (a) Wells (b) Heavy rains (c) Lakes (d) Rivers 19. Iodised salt is used to prevent which of the following diseases? (a) Goitre (b) Filaria (c) Tuberculosis (d) Diabetes 20. Which of the following elements is present in all acids? (a) Oxygen (b) Chlorine (c) Hydrogen (d) Nitrogen 21. Who among the following held the office of the Chief Minister of Kerala for the longest total period? (a) K. Karunakaran (b) C.AchuthaMenon (c) E.K. Nayanar (d) A.K. Antony 22. What is the total strength of the Kerala State Legislative Assembly? (a) 120 (b) 140 (c) 144 (d) 141 23. The venue of the Nehru Trophy Boat Race is..... (a) Ashtamudi Lake (b) Punnamada Lake (c) Sasthamkotta Lake (d) River Pamba 24. Who won the Ezhuthachan Award of 2003? (a) T. Padmanabhan (b) M. Mukundan (c) Sugathakumari (d) M.T. Vasudevan Nair 25. How many rivers of Kerala flows eastward? (a) 4 (b) 3 (c) 14 (d) 44 26. In which of the following districts is the Eravikulam National Park situated? (a) Wayanad (b) Palakkad (c) Idukki (d) Kottayam 27. The story of the Malayalam film “Kaliyattam” is based on Shakespear’s (a) Macbeth (b) Hamlet (c) King Lear (d) Othello 28. The first woman judge of the Kerala High Court: (a) Anna Chandy (b) Lakshmikutty(c) K.K. Usha (d) Fathima Beevi 29. How many Municipal Corporations are there in Kerala? (a) 3 (b) 7 (c) 5 (d) 4 30. The first Speaker of the Kerala Legislative Assembly: (a) C.H. Mohammed Koya (b) R. Sankaranarayanan Thampi (c) Varkala Radhakrishnan (d) Vakkom Purushothaman 31. Which of the following is India’s first climate Satellite? (a) INSAT 1-D (b) Metsat (c) Aryabhatta (d) APPLE 32. The height of Mount Everest is .....metres. (a) 9498 (b) 8488 (c) 7848 (d) 8848 33. Where was the first atom bomb dropped by America? (a) Nagasaki (b) Hiroshima (c) Tokyo (d) Osaka 34. Change of seasons on the earth occurs due to ..... ‘ (a) The moon revolving round the earth. (b) The melting of polar ice. (c) The comets falling on the earth. (d) The earth revolving round the sun. 35. The first fully literate district in Kerala is..... (a) Kottayam (b) Alappuzha (c) Emakulam (d) Pathanamthitta 36. Which district of Kerala is most abundant in spices? (a) Wayanad (b) Idukki (c) Kottayam (d) Palakkad 37. The minimum age required by a person to contest an election to the Lok Sabha: (a) 18 (b) 25 (c) 21 (d) 35 38. The Lok Sabha constituted after the General Elections, 2004 is the ..... (a) 10th (b) 12th (c)8th (d) 14th 39. The Fundamental Rights of an Indian citizen are enumerated in the..... chapter of the constitution, (a) First (b) Third (c) Fourth (d) Seventh 40. The river Kaveri originates from which State? (a) Karnataka (b) Tamil Nadu (c) Kerala (d) Andhra Pradesh 41. The Akshardham Temple is situated in the State of..... (a) Gujarat (b) Rajasthan (c) Madhya Pradesh (d) Orissa 42. Which of the following species is being protected at the Kaziranga National Park? (a) Indian Rhinoceros (b) The Great Indian Bustard (c) Elephant (d) Tiger 43. Which one of the following sports persons has not received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award? (a) Geeth Sethi (b) Mahesh Bhupathi (c) Viswanathan Anand (d) Anjali Bhagawath 44. The World Environment Day is on (a) 7th April (b) 24th October (c) 11th September (d) 5th June 45. The capital of Jharkhand: (a) Aizwal (b) Shimla (c) Ranchi (d) Dehra Dun 46. The World Trade Center in New York was destroyed by terrorists on ..... (a) 9th November, 2002 (b) 11th September, 2001 (c) 11th October, 2001 (d) ITth September, 2000 47. Which of the following film makers is popularly known as “Master of Suspense”? (a) Alfred Hitchkock (b) Steven Spielberg (c) Clint Eastwood (d) Manoj Night Shyamalan 48. Who among the following is the first space tourist? (a) Neil Armstrong (b) Yuri Gagarin (c) Michael Collins (d) Dennis Tito 49. The Chairman of the Central Planning Commission is ..... (a) The Prime Minister (b) The Finance Minister (c) The Home Minster (d) The President of India 50. Who wrote the novel, “Kesavante Vilapangal”? (a) O.V. Vijayan (b) M. Mukundan (c) Anand (d) Kakkanadan 51. The French Open Tennis Woman Champion of the year 2004: (a) Serena Williams (b) Elena Dementiova (c) Anastasia Myskina (d) Lindsay Davenport 52. The only Indian Cricketer to score a triple century in Test Cricket: (a) Tendulkar (b) Gavaskar (c) Ravi Sasthri (d) Virender Sehwag 53. The first person belonging to the Leftist parties to be elected as Speaker of the Lok Sabha? (a) Rabi Ray (b) Somnath Chatterjee (c) Gurudas Das Gupta (d) Indrajit Gupta 54. Wall Street is situated in.............. (a) London (b) Germany (c) New York (d) Chicago 55. The disputed territory which China has recognised as Indian territory (a) Sikkim (b) Bhutan (c) Tibet (d) Meghalaya 56. The creator of fictional school boy wizard “Harry Potter” (a) Arthur Conan Doyle (b) R. L. Stevenson (c) Joseph Conrad (d) J. K. Rowling 57. Diethyl Dicarbamazine Citrate (DEC) is a drug for treatment / prevention of ............. (a) Tuberculosis (b) Hepatitis (c) AIDS (d) Filariasis 58. The controversial Coca Cola plant in Kerala is situated in ..........district. (a) Thrissur (b) Malappuram (c) Palakkad (d) Idukki 59. ‘‘Make running water walk’’ is a slogan for spreading the message of (a) Need for food control (b) Conservation of rain water (c) Need for reducing use of pipe water (d) Need for constructing big dams 60. The name of India’s first indigenously made civilian aircraft is: (a) Saras (b) Agni (c) Kiran (d) Chetak 61. Huien Tsang visited India during the reign of............. (a) Kanishka (b) Chandragupta Maurya (c) Ashoka (d) Harshavardhana 62. The muslim woman ruler who ruled Delhi in the 13th century is....... (a) Noorjahan (b) Anarkali (c) Razia Sultana (d) Mumtaz 63. Who among the British rulers is considered the Father of Local Self Government in India? (a) Lord Rippon (b) Lord Wellesley (c) William Bentick (d) Lord Curzon 64. Who said: ‘Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it? (a) Dadabhai Naoroji (b) Balagangadhar Tilak (c) Gopalakrishna Gokhale (d) Subhash Chandra Bose 65. Who wrote the book “The Wings of Fire’’ (a) P. V. Narasimha Rao (b) Arundhathi Roy (c) Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Salman Rushdie 66. The first Indian State to introduce Panchayati Raj System? (a) Kerala (b) Rajasthan (c) Gujarat (d) Maharashtra 67. The banks of the Hoogli are famous for............ (a) Jute (b) Sugarcane (c) Rice (d) Wheat 68. The main centre of the Salt Satyagraha led in Kerala by Sri K. Kelappan was.......... (a) Vaikom (b) Kayyur (c) Payyoli (d) Payyannur 69. Who among the following contested the Parliamentary Elections 2004? (a) Pandit Ravi Shankar (b) Pandit Jasraj (c) Bhupen Hazarika (d) Hari Prasad Chaurasia 70. Who is the first Indian woman to win a medal in the World Athletic Meet? (a) P. T. Usha (b) K. M. Beenamol (c) Jyothirmayi Sikdar (d) Anju Bobby George 71. The Central Drug Research Institute of India is located at.......... (a) Lucknow (b) Pune (c) Delhi (d) Bangalore 72. India is a leading producer of............ (a) Iron (b) Mica (c) Gold (d) Aluminium 73.