Previous yr question papers

Qns Ans Description
1 C The total number of districts of Tamil Nadu in
2010 is 32
2 D 96 Indian Science Congress was held in
Shillong
3 A Chandrayaan-I was successfully launched in the
year 2008
4 C The confirmatory test for AIDS is Western blot
5 B An instrument used for enlargement and
reduction of maps with accuracy is Pantograph
6 A Viswanathan Anand – Chess
Sania Mirza – Tennis
S. Chandrasekhar – Astrophysics
Garba Dance – Punjab
7 A On June 28, 2010 India signed a civil nuclear
agreement with Canada
8 A IAF proposed honorary post for the cricketer on
June 22, 2010 which was conferred on Sachin
Tendulkar
9 B The 11 Five-Year plan period is 2007 – 2012
10 A Which day is called as the Indian Census Day?
9 February
11 C The world famous wall paintings of the Guptas
are found at Ajanta
12 C The volume of cone with radius 7 cm and height
24 cm is 392p cm
13 C The early Vedic period is known from the Rig
Veda
14 D Find the meaning of the underlined word Mudhu
Mozhi Kanchi Jewel
15 B ‘Garibi Hato’ means removal of poverty
16 A A cheque in circulation for more than six months
is called stale cheque
17 A During the period of Kaniskha, Buddhism had
split into two branches
18 D The sum of two numbers is 60 and their
difference is 8. The numbers are 34, 26
19 A Dowry prohibition Act was passed in the year
1961
20 D The breaking waves are called white caps
21 C Electrovalent bonding – Polar bond
Co-ordinance bonding – NH , BF
Ca – 2, 8, 8
Mg – 2, 8
22 C The G.C.D of 3 and 6 is 3
23 A The District Judges are appointed by Governor
24 C The earth inclined at an angle of 23½
25 B Special locomotory organ is absent in Corals
26 A Mukkurthi National Park in Nilgiri Hills is the
sanctuary for Tiger
27 A In 1995 World Women’s Conference was held at
Beijing
28 A The mode of 7, 4, 5, 1, 7, 3, 4, 6, 7 is 7
29 C The black cotton soils are found extensively in
the district of Coimbatore
30 C Reserve Bank of India acts as the banker and the
agent of the Government of India
31 A Example for Killed vaccines is Cholera vaccine
32 B The least count of vernier callipers is 0.01 cm
33 A What are the constituents of bronze? Copper and
tin
34 B The value of 1 + tan q is sec q
35 A India is following Parliamentary Democracy
36 C The first railway line was laid between Bombay
and Thane in 1953
37 C The Danish founded a factory in Tranquebar
38 A Khilafat movement was started against the
British Government
39 D The author of ‘Kuil’ magazine was Bharathidasan
40 B Which is called the Manchester of India? Mumbai
41 C Cell theory was propounded by Schwann
42 B Circular extra genome DNA is called Plasmid
43 A What force would be needed to produce an
acceleration of 1 ms on a ball of mass 1 kg?
1N
44 C X-rays were invented by Roentgen
45 D Gain of electron is Reduction
46 B Bromine – Liquid
Sulphur – Polyatomic element
Gases – Compressible
Mineral water – Calcium
47 A The perimeter of the circle is 2pr units
48 D The 42 Constitutional Amendment Act was
enacted in the
year 1976
49 B The river that flows through Salem, Namakkal,
Dharmapuri, Nagapattinam and Thanjavur is
Kaveri
50 B The first battle of Tarain took place in the year
1191 A.D
51 D Who bagged two Oscar awards for the film
‘Slumdog Millionaire’? A.R Rehman
52 B Who received the Padma Bhushan award for
social work in 2009? Sarojini Varadappan
53 A Who was the president of India during the year
2002 – 2007? A.P.J Abdul Kalam
54 B Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment
Scheme was introduced in the year 2009
55 B The first totally literate district in India is
Ernakulam in Kerala
56 C The first Indian women who traveled in American
space shuttle, Columbia was Kalpana Chawla
57 B The first woman DGP in Tamil Nadu is Lathika
Saran
58 D World’s fifth most popular woman in business is
Indira Nooyi
59 A 20 Commonwealth Speakers Conference was
held at New
Delhi
60 B Branches of which tree appear on the UN flag?
Olive
61 B Insulin is a Therapeutic product
62 B The first known metal to man is Copper
63 C Formation of red blood cells in a normal human
adult occurs in bone marrow
64 C The melting point of silver is 961 C
65 B 18 ct contains 75% weight of gold
66 B The cube root of 512 is 8
67 A The first President of India was Dr. Rajendra
Prasad
68 D The main aim of non-co-operation movement was
to attain Swaraj
69 A Bauxite is an ore of Aluminium
70 B The headquarters of World Trade Organisation is
at Geneva
71 A The Operation Flood Programme relates to milk
production development
72 C The Andes mountain range is located in South
America
73 C The state which ranks first in per capita income
is Punjab
74 A Incidence of “Yeasu Kaviyam” was held at
Jerusalem
75 A Vellore Sepoy Mutiny was fought in 1806 A.D
76 C Which equation has y=4 as solution y+3=7
77 C Two prominent leaders of Punjab were arrested
in connection with the hartal against Rowlatt Act.
They are Sathyapal and Saifuddin Kichloo
78 B Large number of jute mills are found on the
banks of the Hoogly river
79 B The Samarasa Suttha Sanmarga Sangam was
founded by Vallalar
80 D Rajya Sabha members are elected for a period of
six years
81 C Who was praised as “Minnanar Vanangum
Deivam”? Wife of Krishna
82 B The construction of Quitb-Minar was started by
Qutb-ub-din-Aibak
83 C In Tamil Nadu there is a three tier system of
Rural local government
84 A Tamil Nadu is Eleventh in geographical area
among the states of the Indian Union
85 A According to 2001 Census, India’s population
was 1.027 billion
86 A The stepping stone for the progress of the
society is School
87 B Simple interest for Rs. 5,000 at the rate of 5% for
2 years is Rs. 500
88 A The ultraviolet rays from the sunlight cause skin
cancer
89 A Which is not a simple fruit? Polyalthia
90 C One a.m.u is equal to 931 MeV
91 A Azad Hind Fauj was Indian National Army
92 A Planning Commission of India was set up in the
year 1950
93 B The State Governor must have completed 35
years of age
94 D The solution set of X +10X+21 = 0 is {-7, -3}
95 C The Election Commission of India is a body of 3
members
96 A The Pandiyan king who put an end to the
Kalabhra rule is Kadungon
97 C “Narai mudithu sollal murai seidha cholan” is
Karikalan
98 D The plan launched on the fiftieth year of
Independence was Ninth Five-Year Plan
99 A The north-eastern parts of Himalayas receive
more than 300 cm rainfall by Bay of Bengal
branch
100 C The name of scales in Mullet fish is Ctenoid