Graduate Level Questions - 2

26. Malampuzha Dam is in the river system:

(a) Bharatappuzha                     (b) Periyar

(c) Pamba                                     (d) Chaliyar

Answer: (a)

27. The Dewan of Travancore who introduced public transport service in Travancore:

(a) P.Rajagopalachari                         (b) Habibullah

(c) P.G.N.Unnithan                              (d) C.P.Ramaswamy Iyer

Answer: (d)

28. The most famous king of the kingdom of Kochi:

(a) Marthanda Varma                     (b) Pazhassi Raja

(c) Sakthan Thampuran                    (d) Manavedan

Answer: (c)

29.The birthplace of Thacholi Othenan:

(a) Vadakara        (b) Thalassey         (c) Kannur        (d) Thirunavaya

Answer: (a)

30.‘Syanandooram’ is the Sanskrit name for:

(a) Kannur                       (b) Kozhikode

(c) Kochi                           (d) Thiruvananthapuram

Answer: (d)

 31. The Dutchman who shared the first Nobel Prize for Economics with Ragner Frisch of Norway:

(a) Jan Tinbergen                        (b) Gunnar Myrdal

(c) Nicholas Tinbergen              (d) Adamsmith

Answer: (a)

32.King  of minerals:

(a) Gold                     (b) Sulphuric acid

(c) Iron                      (d) Aluminium

Answer: (a)

33. Benito Mussolini was known as:

(a) Il Duce                          (b) Iron Duke

(c) Desert Fox                   (d) Little Corporal

Answer: (a)

34. The number of principal organs of the United Nations after the  Trusteeship

Council suspended operations

in 1994:

(a) 6        (b) 5            (c) 4          (d) 7

Answer: (b)

35. Birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda is observed as:

(a) National Youth Day           (b) Patriotism Day

(c) National Science Day         (d) None of these

Answer: (a)

36.“Let them eat cakes”- Who is related to this statement?

(a) Louis XIV              (b) Louis XV

(c) Louis XVI              (d) Mary Antoinette

Answer: (d)

37. Who founded the Maurya dynasty?

(a) Asoka                                      (b) Bindudara

(c) Chandragupta Maurya       (d) Brihadratha

Answer: (c)

38.The first Indian to go to space:

(a) Kalpana Chawla               (b) Ravish Malhotra

(c) Rakesh Sharma                (d) Sunitha Williams

Answer: (c)

39.The Portuguese Navigator who led the expedition which completed the first circumnavigation:

(a) Columbus                 (b) Magellan

(c) Cook                            (d) Cabral

Answer: (b)

40. Which cave is famous for ‘Trimurti’ statues?

(a) Ajanta      (b) Elephanta     (c) Ellora       (d) Amarnath

Answer: (b)

41.Madison Square Garden in the USA is related to:

(a) Baseball (b) Cricket   (c) Boxing (d) Polo

Answer: (c)

42.The Panama Canal was opened in:

(a) 1869        (b) 1914       (c) 1918     (d) 1920

Answer: (b)

43. The branch of biology related to the study of structure and organisation of living things:

(a) Alchemy            (b) Agronomy

(c) Anatomy           (d) Bionomy

Answer: (c)

44..The author of ‘Around the World in 80 Days’?

(a) Arthur C Clarke                  (b) Joules Verne

(c) Darwin                                 (d) Richard Rhodes

Answer: (b)

45.Intensity of sound is measured in:

(a) Curie         (b) Volt       (c) Watt        (d) Decibel

Answer: (d)

46 Which of the following plants helps nitrogen fixation?

(a) Beans        (b) Wheat       (c) Rice          (d) Tomato
Answer: (a)

47. Which element has the lowest melting point?

(a) Mercury              (b) Hydrogen

(c) Carbon                   (d) Helium

Answer: (d)

48. Which is known as ‘Chemical Sun’?

(a) Magnesium                  (b) Francium

(c) Gallium                         (d) Iridium

Answer: (a)

49. The term associated with the cultivation of grapes:

(a) Aviculture                   (b) Viticulture

(c) Floriculture                (d) Epiculture

Answer: (b)

50.The cloned wolf:

(a) Victoria                                             (b) Carbon Copy

(c) Snu Woolf and Snu Woolfi          (d) Dolly

Answer: (c)

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