TNPSC - PREVIOUS YEAR QUESTIONS CURRENT AFFAIRS SI.NO CONTENTS PAGE.NO CURRENT AFFAIRS 1. GROUP - I 3 – 15 2. GROUP – II 16-20 3. GROUP – IIA 21-26 4. GROUP – IV 27 – 35 www.chennaiiasacademy.com Vellore – 9043211311, Tiruvannamalai - 9043211411 Page 2 TNPSC - GROUP - I PRELIMS – 2011 8. The longest solar eclipse of the 21st Century PREVIOUS YEARS QUESTIONS occurred on. CURRENT AFFAIRS A) July 29,2009 B) July 18,2009 C) July 22,2009 D) June 22,2009 1. National Remote Sensing Centre is located 9. Shri Sundarlal Bahuguna received at. ________ award. A) Hyderabad B) Chennai A) Padma Bhushan C) Bangalore D) New Delhi. B) Padma Vibhushan 2. Which one of the Assembly by- elections C) Padma shri saw the highest voter turnout 2010 in Tamil D) Oscar Nadu? 10. Reservation was provided to women in A)Thirumangalam B) Thirupatthur Government services by. C) Pennagaram D) Ponneri A) Jayalalitha 3. The world classical Tamil Conference held B) M.G. Ramachandran on July,2010 is C) Rajaji A) Sixth world Tamil Conference D) M.Karunanidhi B) Seventh world Tamil conference. 11. Delhi High court allowed plea of gay rights C) Ninth world Tamil Conference activists and legalized gay sex in. D) Tenth world Tamil conference. A) 2006 B) 2007 4. Which one of the following is not correctly C) 2008 D) 2009 matched? 12. „Bhuvan‟ the new web based mapping of A) Surjit Singh Barnala -Chancellor of earth was developed by. Universities of Tamil Nadu. A) NASA B) ISRO B) Fakruddin Ali Ahmed C) ESA D) Russia. - Former president of India. 13. Cricketer Brian Lara belongs to which C) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam - Wings of fire. country? D) Medha patikar A) India B) west Indies - Indian representative in the UNO. C) England D) Australia 5. Under public Distribution system, rice is 14. What is the name of the famous Indian distributed at the rate of Re.1 per kg in . Painter who went on self-exile? A) Orissa B) West Bengal A) Gurcharan Das B) Bhagwan Das C) Kerala D) Tamil Nadu. C) Shyamala D) M.F. Hussain. 6. The National Rural Employment 15. India is a member of which of the following? Guaranteed Programme came into force to A) Asian Development Bank. provide 100 days of employment in. B) Asia – Pacific Economic Corporation. A) 2003 B) 2004 C) Colombo Plan C) 2006 D) 2002 D) Organisation for Economic co-operation 7. What is/are the recent tension between and Development. India and China highlighted in newspaper? 16. The institution(s) which is/are set up to A) China‟s proposed dam on Brahmaputra. promote funding of voluntary organization B) PM‟s visit to Arunachal Pradesh. is/ are. C) China recently tried to block and ADB A) Khadi and Village Industries loan Corporation. D) All of these. www.chennaiiasacademy.com Vellore – 9043211311, Tiruvannamalai - 9043211411 Page 3 B) People‟s Action Development India. A) Kaveri B) Vaigai C) Council for Advancement of people‟s C) Palar D) Thenpennai Action and Rural Technology. 25. Which one of the following is correctly D) All of these matched? 17. IRDP was introduced in the year. A) 2004 A) 1978-79 B) 1979 – 80 - International year of fresh water. C) 1980 – 81 D) 1981 – 82 B) 2005 18. Botanical survey of India is located in Tamil - International year of Rice. Nadu at. C) 2007 – 09 A) Chennai B) Madurai - International year of planet Earth. C) Coimbatore D) Salem D) 2008 19. The first State in India to introduce - International year of Dolphin. insurance scheme for state Government 26. The National population Register is Employees was. undertaken under A) Andhra Pradesh B) Maharashtra A) Census Act,1948 & Citizen Rules, 2003 C) Tamil Nadu D) Kerala. B) Citizenship Act of 1955 & Citizen Rules, 20. Who is the Chairman of National 2003 Biodiversity Authority? C) Census Act, 1948 & Citizenship Act of A) R.L. Joshi B) A. Ganguly 1955 C) P.L.Gautam D) None of them. D) Citizen Rules, 2003 & IB Act, 1954. 21. Who among the following scientists got the 27. World water Day is observed on. Nobel prize for discovering the concept of A) March 22 B) June 5 Jumping genes (or) transposons? C) September 10 D) December 22. A) Jacob and Monad 28. The UPA Government appointed National B) Beadle and Tatum Commission on Farmers in 2004 under the C) Hargobind Khorana chairmanship of. D) Barbara McClintock A) Dr. C.H. Hanumantha Rao 22. Recently Bicentenary birth anniversary was B) Dr.G.S. Bhalla. carried out for. C) Dr.A.M. Khusro A) Gregor Johann Mendel D) Dr.M.S. Swaminathan. B) Charles Darwin. 29. Which one of the following countries is not a C) Louis Pasteur member in ASEAN? D) Alexander Flemming. A) Cambodia B) China 23. Who among the following recommended the C) Laos D) Vietnam establishment of the National Commission 30. Who is the winner of the Nobel Prize for for Higher Education and Research Peace – 2009? (NCHER) ? A) Barack obama B) Bill Clinton A) Prof. Yash pal C) Jimmy Carter D) George Bush. B) Minister Kapil sibal 31. The Director of Tamil origin who sent C) Prime Minister Manmohan singh Chandrayan to space is. D) Minister Pranab Mukherjee. A) Dr. Abdul kalam 24. Sathanur Dam is constructed across which B) Dr. Sivadhanupillai river? www.chennaiiasacademy.com Vellore – 9043211311, Tiruvannamalai - 9043211411 Page 4 C) Dr. Mayilsamy Annadurai (C) Sai kumar D) Dr. Kasthuri Rangan (D) Sujatha. 32. Who is the current Chairman of the Prime 40. Name the scientist/organization who Minister of India‟s Economic Advisory successfully converted plastic shopping bag Council (PMEAC) ? into diesel natural gas and other useful A) Nandan Nilekani B) C.Rangarajan petroleum products. C) Nirupama Rao D) P.Chidambaram (A) Ahmed Khan (B) Prof. Angela Vincet GROUP – I PRELIMS – 2014 (C) Birendra kumar Sharma (D) Bose Institute. 33. How many printing characters are there in 41. Who received Dada sahib phalke Award ASCII? 2013 ? A) 90 (B) 65 (A) Sampooran Singh Kalra (C) 94 (D) 62 (B) Vijay Seshadri 34. Which of the following year is considered as (C) Pran Sikand one of the worst drought year in the last one (D) Ramesh Agarwal hundred years of India? 42. Match the following (A) 2000 (B) 2001 Paintings States. (C) 2002 (D) 2006 a) Kalam kari 1. Andhra Pradesh. 35. The enzyme discovered by CSIR to b) Madhu bani 2. Bihar. increase shelf life of fruits and vegetables is. c) Phad 3. Rajasthan. (A) Kinase super oxidase d) Warli 4. Maharashtra. (B) Ethyl gluconase. (a) (b) (c) (d) (C) Phenyl aldolase (A) 1 3 2 4 (D) Super oxide dismutase (B) 1 2 3 4 th 36. Who is the 40 Chief Justice of India? (C) 1 2 4 3 (A) Justice Sathasivam (D) 2 1 4 3 (B) Justice Altamas Kabir. 43. Which is incorrect pair? (C) Justice Markandey Katju (A) Saurav Ghosal – Squash (D) Justice Lodha. (B) Malavath Purna – Archery. 37. Which of the following countries in late 2013 (C) Heena Sidhu – Shooting gave approval to commercial release of Bt- (D) Chhanda Gayen – Mountain Brinjal? 44. Sumitra Mahajan is associated with the poet (A) Bangladesh (B) Mexico of as on June 2014 (C) France (D) Sweden (A) Lok Sabha Deputy speaker 38. How many times has Rafeal Nadal of Spain (B) Rajya Sabha speaker. won the French Open Tennis tournament to (C) Lok Sabha Speaker break the record? (D) Minister of External affairs (A) 7 times (B) 8 times 45. Match the following and choose the correct (C) 9 times (D) 10 times. answer: 39. Who among the following have won the Books Authors. National M.S. Subbulakshmi Award 2014? a) Gold Finch 1. Daniel pinto. (A) Mathangi Sathyamurthy b) 3 sections 2. Vijay Seshadri. (B) KPAC Lalitha. www.chennaiiasacademy.com Vellore – 9043211311, Tiruvannamalai - 9043211411 Page 5 c) Anticipating India 3. Shekar Gupta. (D) Lifted off from sriharikota. d) Capital Wars 4. Donna Tartt. 51. Which of the following states do not have a b c d tiger reserves in India? (A) 1 2 3 4 (A) Kerala (B) 1 3 4 2 (B) West Bengal (C) 4 2 3 1 (C) Uttarakhand (D) 1 2 4 3 (D) Jammu and Kashmir 46. Who was the chief Guest at the 45th 52. Transgenders were granted the status of Independence Day celebration of Mauritius? third gender by the supreme court on. (A) Mr.Najib Mikati (A) March 20,2014 (B) April 15,2014 (B) Mr. Pranab Mukherjee (C) June 15,2014 (D) January 20,2014 (C) Mr. Shinzo Abe 53. Which of the following pairs is NOT correctly (D) Mr. Gabriel Costa. matched? 47. Who is the winner of 2013 Pritzker Indian Scientists Architecture prize? Field of work / Research. (A) Toyo Ito (B) Jessica Ennis (A) C.K.N.Patel : (C) Seth Macfarlane (D) Simon Hayes. Photonics and Laser. 48. The world oldest lady Koto Okubo, belongs (B) Meghnad Saha : to which country? Astrophysics. (A) Japan (B) China (C) Benjamin Peary Pal : (C) England (D) Russia. Disease resistant varieties of wheat. 49. Match the following awards with the (D) Autar singh paintal : respective fields. Cosmology and relativity. a) Borlaug Award 1. Science. 54. Which is the National Sanctuary/park that b) Nehru literary Award houses pygmy Hog, a critically endangered 2. Adult education. species? c) Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award (A) Gir (B) Kazi ranga 3. Agriculture. (C) Manas (D) Periyar. d) Hari om Ashram Award 55. Name the proposed new district of west 4. Various facilities Bengal state in 2014? /eminent teachers. (A) Nalhati (B) Alipurduar (C) Silda (D) Adra a b c d 56.