General Knowledge Questions to Prepare Kerala PSC Tests

1.      The World’s longest serving Ambasasor, from 1965 to 95

2.      The world’s largest grain producer

3.      The hilly areas of Punjab were transferred to ……….. in 1966.

4.      Tony awards is given for achievement in ……….

5.      In relation to copyrights, what is meant by ‘orphan works’?

6.      The first person to win an Oscar and a Razzie over the same weekend

7.      The World’s only race car run on biogas

8.      The motor show held every year at Palexpo arena.

9.      The first woman to win best director Oscar award

10.  India’s biggest iron ore producer

11.  The large Hadron Collider is the world’s biggest……………

12.  Disney has changed the name of much-loved fairy tale ‘Rapunzel’ to ……….

13.  Founder of the country’s first rural varsity in M.P. in 1991?

14.  What is Observed annually across major cities of the world on the last Saturday of March

15.  Who is the founder Director of the National Judicial Academy?

16.  The only known snake that builds nests to lay eggs

17.  In the ancient Greek story, the female sea creature was (Scylla/Charybdis/neither)

18.  Screenplay is the same as

19.  The animal that features on Australian coat of arms

20.  The big four snakes that kill thousands in India.

21.  World’s largest population of one –horned rhinos(2048) is in …………

22.  This is a world- famous symbol of the cold War: Charlie Chaplin/ Midsummer Night/Check point Charlie

23.  Aircraft typically make more noise while(landing/takeoff)

24.  The women in the top four positions in Forbe’s list of most powerful celebrities of 2009.

25.  India’s first National Security Advisor

26.  The IIT-Harvard graduate whom War ren Buffett described as a ‘superstar’

27.  The first country to be ousted from the UN

28.  The first country to hold an election on the internet

29.  How much of ots body length can a King Cobra keep vertical?

30.  The only sportsperson to have played in cricket and soccer world cup teams

31.  The country’s premier car export port

32.  The district in India that produces most Alphonso mangooes

33.  An equinox occurs once/twice/three times each year

34.  In Spanish bull- fighting, the winner is (the bull/ the bullfighter)

35.  ‘There never was a good war or bad peace’. Whose words?

36.  The youngest woman to climb Mount Everest.

37.  The diamond polishing capital of the world

38.  The world’s two top diamond markets

39.  Africa’s second most populous country

40.  What is popularly known as the ‘Big Bang Machine’?

41.  Australia Day falls on

42.  Expand LINC. It relates to Canada.

43.  The US and Russia between them possess what per cent of the world’s nuclear weapons?

44.  If one is wayworn, he is tired from

45.  The world’s most loved cat and mouse duo

46.  Indian Army is …………. Million personnel strong

47.  The first Indian to become Army Chief was Field Marshal K.M, Cariappa. He belonged to which regiment?

48.  The first Indian woman to be among the world’s top five badminton players

49.  Postage stamps caused a war between these South American countries in the 1930s.

50.  Who wrote ‘Nine Lives: In search of the Sacres in Modern India’?

Ans: 1. Jamsheed Marker of Pakistan; 2. China; 3. Himachal Pradesh; 4. Theatre; 5. Where copyright is unknown; 6. Sandra Bullock; 7. VW Scirocco Cop.; 8. Geneva Motor Show; 9. Kathryn Bigelow; 10. NMDC; 11. atom smasher; 12. Tangled; 13. Nanaji Deshmukh;

 14. Earth Hour; 15.Prof. N.R. Madhava Menon; 16. King Cobra; 17. Scylla; 18. Script; 19. Kangaroo; 20. the cobra, krait, Russel’s viper and saw-scaled viper; 21. Assam; 22. Checkpoint Charlie; 23. landing; 24. Angelina jolie, Oprah Winfrey, Madonna, Beyonce Knowles; 25. Brajesh Mishra; 26. Ajit Jain; 27. Taiwan; 28. Estonia; 29. one-third; 30. Vivian Richards; 31. Chennai; 32. Ratnagiri in Maharashtra; 33. twice; 34. bull-fighter; 35. Benjamin Franklin; 36. Krushnna Patil; 37. India; 38. USA & China; 39. Ethiopia; 40. The Large Hadron Collider; 41. January 26; 42. LAunguage Instruction for Newcomers to Canada; 43.95; 44. Traveling; 45. Tom and Jerry; 46. 1.13; 47. Rajput;48. Saina Nehwal; 49. Bolvia and Paraguay; 50. William Dalrymple.