Kerala PSC Secretariat Assistant Exam 2015 GK Solved Questions: Part 1

Friends.. Here is the Solved General Knowledge Questions Part-1 of today's (16 May 2015) Kerala PSC Secretariat Assistant Exam 2015. Answers have been highlighted. In case you find any error please bring it to our notice. Special thanks to Anoop Kumar for sharing the questions with us. 

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1) Which is the hardest material ever known in the Universe?

(A) Platinum

(B) Graphite

(C) Diamond

(D) Marble

2) Which instrument regulates the resistance or current in a circuit?

(A) Volta cell

(B) Rheostat

(C) Generator

(D) Sonometre

3) The scientist who formulated the "Germ theory of disease" is:

(A) Louis Pasteur

(B) Lamarck

(C) Hugo Denies

(D) Griger Mandel

4) In which atmospheric level ozone gas is seen?

(A) Mesosphere

(B) Lithosphere

(C) Stratosphere

(D) Ionosphere

5) Which is the relay centre in our brain?

(A) Pituitary gland

(B) Thalamus

(C) Spinal cord 

(D) Meninges

6) Methane gas is invented by the scientist:

(A) Alexandro Volta

(B) Alexander Fleming

(C) John Dalton 

(D) Thomas Alwa Edison

7) Which of the following units is usually used to denote the intensity of pollution?

(A) Milligrams

(B) Nanograms

(C) Parts per million

(D) Kilogram

8) Nitrogen fixing bacteria lives in the root tumours of pea plants is called:

(A) Rhizome

(B) Rhizobium

(C) E.coli

(D) Streptoencrus

9) Which of the following chemicals is used in fire extinguishers?

(A) Sodium bicarbonate

(B) Sodium nitrate

(C) Potassium bicarbonate

(D) Sodium chloride

10) Which phenomenon of light is behind the rainbow?

(A) Diffraction

(B) Scattering

(C) Reflection

(D) Radiation (Note: No Answer)

11) What is the full form of 'NITI’ in NITI Aayog?

(A) National Integration and Transforming India

(B) National Institution for Transforming India

(C) National Institution for Transporting India

(D) National Institute for Technology of India

12) Who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2014?

(A) Alice Munro

(B) Herta Muller

(C) Patrick Modiano 

(D) Mo Yan

13) Who is the new President of Sri Lanka?

(A) Mahindra Rajapaksa

(B) Chandrika Kumaratunga

(C) Ranil Wickremasinghe

(D) Maithripala Sirisena

14) In which year 'Bharat Ratna’, the highest civilian award in India was instituted?

(A) 1952

(B) 1954

(C) 1956

(D) 1964

15) Who is the present Governor of Kerala?

(A) P. Sadasivam

(B) R.L. Bhatia

(C) Nikhil Kumar

(D) Sheela Dikshit

16)  Which work of Subhash Chandra won Kendra Sahitya Academy Award 2014?

(A) Ghatikarangal Nilaykunna Samayam

(B) Bloody Mary

(C) Parudeesa Nashtam

(D) Manushyanu Oru Aamukham

17) On which day 'Mangalyan' was launched from Sriharikotta?

(A) 5 November 2012

(B) 5 November 2013

(C) 24 January 2014

(D) 24 September 2014

18) Who is the Chief Election Commissioner of India?

(A) H.S. Brahma

(B) V.S. Sambath

(C) S.Y. Quraishi

(D) Navin Chawla (Note: No Answer)

19) Headquarters of KILA is at:

(A) Kozhiltode

(B) Kottayam

(C) Thrissur

(D) Ernakulam

20) The final match of FIFA World Cup 2014 was between:

(A) Germany and Argentina

(B) Argentina and Brazil

(C) Germany and Netherland

(D) Germany and Brazil

21) Which is the oldest mountain range in India?

(A) Aravalli

(B) Western Ghats

(C) Eastern Ghats

(D) Himalayas

22) Which river was considered as sacred by the Vedic Aryans?

(A) Sindhu

(B) Ganga

(C) Saraswathi

(D) Brahmaputra

23) Who wrote the famous book Poverty and Un-British Rule in India?

(A) R.P. butt

(B) Dadabhai Naoroji

(C) M.G. Ranade

(D) Gopalakrishna Gokhale

24) What was the original name of Swami Dayananda Saraswathi?

(A) Kesab Chandra Sen

(B) Narendranath Dutta

(C) Mulshankar

(D) Mohan Roy

25) Who among the following English men described the 1857 Revolt was a 'National Rising?

(A) T.R. Holmes

(B) James Mill

(C) Benjamin Disraeli

(D) Sir James Outram

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Indian Constitution Quiz - Part 2

Friends.. Here is the Part of Constitution of India Quiz. 

21) The Indian constitution borrowed the concept of a five-year plan from the constitution of? - Russia

22) Maximum number of Members of Rajya Sabha is? - 250

23) How many languages initially recognised by Indian Constitution as National Languages? - 12

24) When was the 42nd Amendment of the Constitution adopted? - 1976

25) Which article of the Indian Constitution provides special safeguards for the welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes? - Article 339

26) Under which constitutional amendment 30% seats in village panchyats have been reserved for women in India? - 73

27) How many schedules were there in original Constitution? - 8

28) Article 32 of constitution is related to? - Fundamental Rights

29) In the Indian Constitution, opportunities for the development of scientific temper, humanism and spirit of inquiry and reform are found in the? - Fundamental Duties

30) With the enactment of 92nd Constitution Amendment) Act, 2003, how many Indian languages figure in the 8th schedule of the Constitution of India? - 22

31) Which constitutional Amendment provides for reservation in admissions in private unaided institutions for members of scheduled castes/tribes and other backward classes? - 93rd Constitutional Amendment

32) An Inter-state council was set up in 1990 under Article 263 of the constitution by the recommendation of? - Sarkaria Commison

33) In which part of the constitution are Emergency Provisions provided? - Part XVIII

34) Holding of elections in the Panchayats is decided by? - the State Government

35) Who was Chairman the Drafting Committee of the Indian Constitution in set up on 27th August 1947? - Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar

36) When was the Protection of Human Rights Act passed? - 1993

37) Which is the largest Committee of the Parliament? - The Estimates Committee

38) The maximum limit for members of assembly in a state is? - 350

39) Imposing President's rule in case of emergency is given in which article of the Constitution? - Article 356

40) The constitution Bill regarding delinking of Religion from politics was? - 80th Amendment Bill

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Social Welfare Schemes(Yojana) for Secretariat Assistant Exam 2015 - Part 1

1) Antyodaya Anna Yojana

When launched? - December 25, 2000 by NDA government

Aim? - It contemplated providing 25 kg. of foodgrains per month at highly subsidized rates of Rs. 2 per kg. for wheat and Rs. 3 per kg. for rice to each Antodaya family. The total number of families to be covered under this scheme was placed at one crore. It contemplated providing 25 kg. of foodgrains per month at highly subsidized rates of Rs. 2 per kg. for wheat and Rs. 3 per kg. for rice to each Antodaya family. The total number of families to be covered under this scheme was placed at one crore.

2) Balika Samriddhi Yojana

When launched? - August 15, 1997

Aim? - To change negative family and community attitudes towards the girl child at birth and towards her mother, To improve enrolment and retention of girl children in schools, To raise the age at marriage of girls, To assist the girl to undertake income generating activities.

Note: During 1999-2000, Govt. of India recast the scheme and the benefits and means of delivery have been redesigned to ensure that financial benefits accrue to the girl child. Balika Samridhi Yojna is being implemented in both rural and urban areas.

3) Bharat Nirman

When launched? - May 16, 2005 by the then Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh as part of successful completion of one year of the UPA government.

Aim? - Ambitious scheme of Rs 175 crore for rural infrastructure development. There were namely six areas under Bharat Nirman viz. - irrigation, road development, water supply, housing, rural electrification and rural telecom connectivity.Villages with a population of 1,000 (500 in tribal areas) would be connected with a road.. Construction of 60 lakh additional houses for the homeless rural poor.. An additional 1 crore hectare area in the rural areas would be brought under irrigation,. An additional 74,000 habitations would be provided with drinking water.

5) Indira Awaas Yojana

When launched? - 1985

Aim? - Provides financial assistance to rural poor for constructing their houses themselves. Under the scheme, financial assistance worth Rs.70,000/- in plain areas and Rs.75,000/- in difficult areas (high land area) is provided for construction of houses. The houses are allotted in the name of the woman or jointly between husband and wife.

Note: Started in 1985 as part of the Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme (RLEGP), Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY) was subsumed in Jawahar rojgar Yojana (JRY) in 1989 and has been operating as an independent scheme since 1996.

6) Integrated Child Development Scheme

When launched? - 1975

Aim? -  Provides food, preschool education, and primary healthcare to children under 6 years of age and their mothers. These services are provided from Anganwadi centres established mainly in rural areas and staffed with frontline workers. 

7) Jawahar Rozgar Yojana

When launched? - April, 1, 1989

Note: By merging the two erstwhile wage employment programme – National Rural Employment programme (NREP) and Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme (RLEGP). 80:20 cost sharing basis between the centre and the States.

Aim? - The main objective of the yojana was additional gainful employment for the unemployed and under-employed persons in rural areas.

Important: Since April 1, 1999 this Yojna was replaced by Jawahar Gram samridhi Yojna. Later from September 25, 2001, Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojna was merged with Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojna.

8) Kudumbasree

When launched? - May 17, 1998 by the then Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee in Malappuram.

Note: Kudumbashree, a female-oriented, community-based, poverty reduction project of Government of Kerala.

Aim? - Empowerment of women, through forming self-help groups and encouraging their entrepreneurial or other wide range of activities. The purpose of the mission is to ensure that the women should no longer remain as passive recipients of public assistance, but active leaders in women-involved development initiatives.

9) Mahila Samriddhi Yojana

When launched? - 2nd October, 1993

Aim? - Empowering rural women through development of thrift habit and building confidence and self-reliance. Under the scheme any adult rural woman could open the MSY account in the post office with a minimum deposit of Rs 4/- or in multiples of Rs.4/- subject to a maximum of Rs.300/-.

10) National Food for Work Programme

When launched? - 14 November 2004

Aim? - Launched in 150 of the most backward districts of India with the objective of generating supplementary wage employment. The programme is open to all rural poor who are prepared to do manual, unskilled labour. It is implemented as a centrally-sponsored scheme.

Important: This program was merged with the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in February 2006.

Please note: This article has been prepared based on the online materials about schemes available in various websites. In case you find any error please bring it to our notice. We will correct it.

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General Knowledge for Secretariat Assistant Exam 2015

Useful for all competitive Exams…

1) Name the only Union Territory which has a High Court of its own? - Delhi

2) Who was the founder of the Slave dynasty in India? - Qutub-ud-din Aibak

3) Pradhanmantri Bharat Jodo Pariyojna is related to? - Development of Roads

4) Combustion is the process in which? - heat and light are produced 

5) Great Barrier Reef is situated in? - Australia

6) In India, the longest day occurs on? - June 21

7) The expansion of D.D.T. is? - Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloroethane

8) The book ‘Friends and Foes’ was written by? - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

9) The aeroplane that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima was? - Enola Gay

10) Ajanta-Ellora Caves are situated near? - Aurangabad

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GK for KPSC Secretariat Assistant Exam 2015

Friends.. Here are some useful General Knowledge Questions for Kerala PSC Secretariat Assistant Exam 2015. Equally these questions are useful for other competitive Exams also.

1) Manav Seva Award has been instituted in the memory of? - Rajiv Gandhi

2) In which year Aam Aadmi Bima Yojna was launched? - 2007 (Exact Date 02-10-2007)

3) What was the pen name of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhaye? - Kamla Kant

4) Name the government scheme launched in 1985 for providing financial assistance to rural and urban poor for construction of houses? - Indira Awaaz Yojna

5) The total number of judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is? - 15

6) Jawaharlal Nehru award is given for? - International Understanding

7) What is the aim of Janani Suraksha Yojana launched in 2005? -  Reducing maternal deaths by promoting deliveries in public and private health institutions.

8) 15th August is the Independence Day of India and? - South Korea

9) Who is the author of the book ‘We Indians’? - Kushwant Singh

10) Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was launched in which year? - 2005

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Kerala PSC Secretariat Assistant Exam 2015 Notification

Friends.. Kerala Public Service Commission has invited applications from qualified candidates for appointment in the under mentioned post in Kerala Government Service. Before applying for the post candidates should register as per One Time Registration through the official website of Kerala Public Service Commission. Candidates who have already registered can apply through their Profile.

Department: Government Secretariat/Kerala Public Service Commission/ Advocate General’s Office (Ernakulam)/Local Fund Audit Department

Category No: 638 /2014

Important Dates

Gazette Notification Date: 31/12/2014

Last Date to apply: 04/02/2015 (Wednesday) up to 12 midnight.

Tentative Date for OMR Test: 16/05/2015

Name of Post: Assistant /Auditor

Scale of pay: `13900-24040/-

Number of vacancies: Not estimated

Age limit: 18-36. Only candidates born between 02.01.1978 and 01.01.1996 (both dates included) are eligible to apply for this post. Age Relaxations are applicable as per the rules.

Educational Qualifications: A Degree in any faculty from a recognised University or its equivalent.

Application Fee: Nil

Mode of submitting applications:-

Before applying for the post, candidates shall register as per 'ONE TIME REGISTRATION' with through the Official Website of Kerala Public Service Commission 'www.keralapsc.gov.in' . Those who have registered shall apply by logging in to their profile using his/her User- ID and password. No application fee is required.

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List of ICC Cricket World Cup Finals| Winners

List of ICC Cricket World Cup Finals

History

The ICC Cricket World Cup is the showpiece event of the cricket calendar and takes place every four years, with matches contested in a 50 overs per side format. There have been ten events so far, with the first tournament taking place in England in 1975. The last ICC Cricket World Cup took place in 2011 in which was won by India, who hosted the tournament along with Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Other winners of the event include Australia (1987, 1999, 2003, 2007), West Indies (1975, 1979), India (1983), Pakistan (1992) and Sri Lanka (1996). The next ICC Cricket World Cup will be staged in Australia and New Zealand in 2015.

Winners List & Other Details

Year	Winner	Runner Up	Host Nation	Final Venue
1975	West Indies	Australia	England	Lord's, London
1979	West Indies	England	England	Lord's, London
1983	India	West Indies	England	Lord's, London
1987	Australia	England	India, Pakistan	Eden Gardens, Kolkata, India
1992	Pakistan	England	Australia, New Zealand	MCG, Melbourne, Australia
1996	Sri Lanka	Australia	India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, Pakistan
1999	Australia	Pakistan	England	Lord's, London
2003	Australia	India	Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe	Wanderers, Johannesburg, South Africa
2007	Australia	Sri Lanka	West Indies	Kensington Oval, Bridgetown
2011	India	Sri Lanka	Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, India

Result by Country

National Team	Final appearances	Winners	Runners up	Years Won
Australia	6	4	2	1987, 1999, 2003, 2007
India	3	2	1	1983, 2011
West Indies	3	2	1	1975, 1979
Sri Lanka	3	1	2	1996
Pakistan	2	1	1	1992
England	3	0	3	--

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